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10,135,659 | 10,135,679 | 1 | 3 | 10,135,626 | train | <story><title>Ashley Madison founder steps down</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/34090372</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seren</author><text>It seems the revelation there are no women on AM is far worse business-wise than the security breach (Maybe not legally). How can you go on as a business if your business model has been exposed as totally fake ?<p>I would also add, that by extension, there is no reason than competitors like gleeden.com have a different men&#x2F;women split.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ashley Madison founder steps down</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/34090372</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chatmasta</author><text>I wonder how many new signups they&#x27;ve gotten in the past 2 weeks. Does &quot;any press is good press&quot; apply in this case?</text></comment> |
41,067,063 | 41,065,140 | 1 | 3 | 41,042,929 | train | <story><title>Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/tech/amazon-alexa-devices-echo-losses-strategy-25f2581a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dsclough</author><text>The crazy thing to me is that you’re confused about this. These companies make huge margin fooling consumers who aren’t paying attention. Nearly all the consumers I know are barely conscious, the first promoted link on Amazon is the one they buy. Losing customers like you who actually inspect the listed price is a pittance to the Amazon machine.<p>How much time have you spent in physical stores observing the physically listed price per volume labels? These things are all labeled specifically to fool people who are alive but not conscious. Again, we are just a rounding error to these monoliths</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>This a million times.<p>I swear I will never understand why Amazon&#x27;s supply, organization, and pricing for household goods is such a disaster.<p>Because their experience for mainstream books is mostly perfectly fine -- there&#x27;s a single listing for each book, and the price doesn&#x27;t change much, just some discount from list. It works.<p>But for things like paper towels or Tide or whatever, it&#x27;s utter chaos. Multiple listings for the same item, sizes and quantities that mysteriously move from one listing to another, prices that vary 10x or more...<p>It&#x27;s utterly baffling to me why Amazon created this consumer-hostile nightmare. I buy a lot of stuff from Amazon, but everything home and toiletries I buy from Target online, simply because the listings and prices are totally consistent. Even though I have Prime! I don&#x27;t understand why Amazon doesn&#x27;t figure out that Prime consumers like me <i>buy from Target instead</i> because Amazon&#x27;s household supplies listings are such utter unpredictable garbage, while Target just works like a normal store.</text></item><item><author>swatcoder</author><text>&gt; I always want to see a page with the product details and price before I click &quot;buy&quot;. Reducing the number of clicks is not going to make me change my decision.<p>This is compounded by the multi-headed monster that large orgs like theirs have no choice but to become. If customers could trust that every day essentials had a relatively stable price and availability pattern like they trust from their local grocery store (rightly or wrongly), blind ordering might be more tenable.<p>But some other head on the beast wants to keep Amazon shaped like an unmonitored digital marketplace where orders are fulfilled dynamically by bidders and algorithms, so your Tide Pods could be anywhere from $6.99 to $64.99, and you might get anywhere between 10 and 100, and they might arrive tomorrow or next week, and they might come in retail packaging or as a bag of tide-pod-resembling-mystery-objects, etc.<p>Of course blind ordering won&#x27;t work when you can&#x27;t give your customers any assurances (let alone guarantees) about price, quality, volume, etc</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>The core issue is that Amazon envisioned Alexa as a product that would help it increase sales. Smart home features were always an afterthought. How convenient would it be if people could shout &quot;Alexa order me Tide Pods&quot; from wherever they were in their home and the order got magically processed? That demo definitely got applause from a boardroom full of execs.<p>The problem is that consumers don&#x27;t behave like that. This is also why Amazon&#x27;s Dash buttons failed. I always want to see a page with the product details and price before I click &quot;buy&quot;. Reducing the number of clicks is not going to make me change my decision and suddenly order more things.<p>If they want to salvage Alexa, they need to forget shopping and start doubling down on the smart home and assistant experience. The tech is still pretty much where it was in 2014. Alexa can set timers and tell me the weather, and...that&#x27;s basically it. Make it a value add in my life and I wouldn&#x27;t mind paying a subscription fee for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rkachowski</author><text>It&#x27;s absurd that you have to become a being of continuous price comparison in order to be considered conscious. This is predatory behaviour loaded with decades of psychological research around manipulation strategies to increase purchases (e.g. price anchoring, physical positioning on shelves, store layout).<p>These things only work because of innate human biases and cognitive defects. The idea that anyone less than a pure rational being lacks consciousness is just silly. There&#x27;s a huge power imbalance which is systemically leveraged against the consumer and it&#x27;s more useful to see this as a designed aspect of the system rather than the collective individual failures of &quot;nearly all the consumers&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/tech/amazon-alexa-devices-echo-losses-strategy-25f2581a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dsclough</author><text>The crazy thing to me is that you’re confused about this. These companies make huge margin fooling consumers who aren’t paying attention. Nearly all the consumers I know are barely conscious, the first promoted link on Amazon is the one they buy. Losing customers like you who actually inspect the listed price is a pittance to the Amazon machine.<p>How much time have you spent in physical stores observing the physically listed price per volume labels? These things are all labeled specifically to fool people who are alive but not conscious. Again, we are just a rounding error to these monoliths</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>This a million times.<p>I swear I will never understand why Amazon&#x27;s supply, organization, and pricing for household goods is such a disaster.<p>Because their experience for mainstream books is mostly perfectly fine -- there&#x27;s a single listing for each book, and the price doesn&#x27;t change much, just some discount from list. It works.<p>But for things like paper towels or Tide or whatever, it&#x27;s utter chaos. Multiple listings for the same item, sizes and quantities that mysteriously move from one listing to another, prices that vary 10x or more...<p>It&#x27;s utterly baffling to me why Amazon created this consumer-hostile nightmare. I buy a lot of stuff from Amazon, but everything home and toiletries I buy from Target online, simply because the listings and prices are totally consistent. Even though I have Prime! I don&#x27;t understand why Amazon doesn&#x27;t figure out that Prime consumers like me <i>buy from Target instead</i> because Amazon&#x27;s household supplies listings are such utter unpredictable garbage, while Target just works like a normal store.</text></item><item><author>swatcoder</author><text>&gt; I always want to see a page with the product details and price before I click &quot;buy&quot;. Reducing the number of clicks is not going to make me change my decision.<p>This is compounded by the multi-headed monster that large orgs like theirs have no choice but to become. If customers could trust that every day essentials had a relatively stable price and availability pattern like they trust from their local grocery store (rightly or wrongly), blind ordering might be more tenable.<p>But some other head on the beast wants to keep Amazon shaped like an unmonitored digital marketplace where orders are fulfilled dynamically by bidders and algorithms, so your Tide Pods could be anywhere from $6.99 to $64.99, and you might get anywhere between 10 and 100, and they might arrive tomorrow or next week, and they might come in retail packaging or as a bag of tide-pod-resembling-mystery-objects, etc.<p>Of course blind ordering won&#x27;t work when you can&#x27;t give your customers any assurances (let alone guarantees) about price, quality, volume, etc</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>The core issue is that Amazon envisioned Alexa as a product that would help it increase sales. Smart home features were always an afterthought. How convenient would it be if people could shout &quot;Alexa order me Tide Pods&quot; from wherever they were in their home and the order got magically processed? That demo definitely got applause from a boardroom full of execs.<p>The problem is that consumers don&#x27;t behave like that. This is also why Amazon&#x27;s Dash buttons failed. I always want to see a page with the product details and price before I click &quot;buy&quot;. Reducing the number of clicks is not going to make me change my decision and suddenly order more things.<p>If they want to salvage Alexa, they need to forget shopping and start doubling down on the smart home and assistant experience. The tech is still pretty much where it was in 2014. Alexa can set timers and tell me the weather, and...that&#x27;s basically it. Make it a value add in my life and I wouldn&#x27;t mind paying a subscription fee for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Phiwise_</author><text>If by &quot;these companies&quot; you mean the third party suppliers, then sure, but Amazon obviously loses business when a customer can&#x27;t trust the branded microphone cylinder they bought to place the desired order for them and make the program profitable. This is especially evident in the failure of Amazon&#x27;s bid over the past decade to replace the big box supermarkets and grocers: clearly customers aren&#x27;t pleased enough with the service quality to select it over physically picking their &quot;essential goods&quot; themselves, even when their probable prime subscription partially went to setting the system up. What good does Amazon get in hamstringing its own ability to acquire new markets in exchange for enriching someone else? The argument that they&#x27;ve arrived here out of some rational, intentional economic calculation that they can but choose not to change is clearly penny wise but pound foolish.</text></comment> |
29,264,624 | 29,264,534 | 1 | 3 | 29,264,455 | train | <story><title>Various ways to include comments on a static site (2018)</title><url>https://darekkay.com/blog/static-site-comments/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rockbruno</author><text>I&#x27;m more of the opinion that if you&#x27;re sharing something, especially in a blog, then you should never add a comment section. People don&#x27;t comment unless they have a point that they want to put across, which in 99% of the cases will be something negative. Just look at HN and (ugh) Twitter -- almost every discussion revolves around people trying to find things to complain about.<p>I instead share a contact e-mail. This works as a good deterrent to filter the pointless complainers, while still allowing those who truly need to contact me to have a way to do so.<p>EDIT: Just might need to clarify that I don&#x27;t mean that HN is overwhelmingly negative, just that the comments usually revolve about nitpicking terms and concepts which would fall into the concept of something &quot;negative&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Various ways to include comments on a static site (2018)</title><url>https://darekkay.com/blog/static-site-comments/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>foxhop</author><text>I&#x27;m the founder of Remarkbox. I want to make it clear why I went to a pay-what-you-can model, including free: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.remarkbox.com&#x2F;remarkbox-is-now-pay-what-you-can.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.remarkbox.com&#x2F;remarkbox-is-now-pay-what-you-can....</a></text></comment> |
15,918,252 | 15,918,028 | 1 | 3 | 15,913,250 | train | <story><title>Universities spend millions on accessing results of publicly funded research</title><url>https://theconversation.com/universities-spend-millions-on-accessing-results-of-publicly-funded-research-88392</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avar</author><text>The most relevant quote in the article:<p><pre><code> &gt; the research community uses historical journal reputation to
&gt; evaluate researchers, making it harder for new, better run
&gt; journals to enter the market.
</code></pre>
This problem would be solved tomorrow if those allocating public money
to science made funding contingent on the research being published in
open access journals.<p>Scientists can&#x27;t have their cake and eat it too. Either they fund
their own research and publish in prestigious expensive journals that
cost the public money, or they take public money and make the research
available for all.<p>But it&#x27;s not easy to migrate to that because scientist aren&#x27;t just
using journals as a publication platform, but as a reputation platform
as a function of their exclusivity and reputation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dm319</author><text>I think you&#x27;re misplacing the blame here. Researchers need to publish in high impact journals, or they lose their funding.<p>Some funding already comes with the requirement to publish open access.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;intranet.birmingham.ac.uk&#x2F;as&#x2F;libraryservices&#x2F;library&#x2F;research&#x2F;open-access&#x2F;how-can-i-publish-my-work-as-oa.aspx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;intranet.birmingham.ac.uk&#x2F;as&#x2F;libraryservices&#x2F;library...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Universities spend millions on accessing results of publicly funded research</title><url>https://theconversation.com/universities-spend-millions-on-accessing-results-of-publicly-funded-research-88392</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avar</author><text>The most relevant quote in the article:<p><pre><code> &gt; the research community uses historical journal reputation to
&gt; evaluate researchers, making it harder for new, better run
&gt; journals to enter the market.
</code></pre>
This problem would be solved tomorrow if those allocating public money
to science made funding contingent on the research being published in
open access journals.<p>Scientists can&#x27;t have their cake and eat it too. Either they fund
their own research and publish in prestigious expensive journals that
cost the public money, or they take public money and make the research
available for all.<p>But it&#x27;s not easy to migrate to that because scientist aren&#x27;t just
using journals as a publication platform, but as a reputation platform
as a function of their exclusivity and reputation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aaavl2821</author><text>I second others that blaming scientists isn&#x27;t the right thing, and punishing them certainly isn&#x27;t. The life of a scientist is incredibly stressful and poorly paid. The average salary for a postdoc is like $45,000. These people have graduate degrees from the top schools in the nation, are often in their early to mid thirties, are doing research that can lead to blockbuster drugs that massively improve human health, are incredibly passionate about and good at their work, yet make little more than minimum wage<p>A better solution, counterintuitive as it sounds, is to increas public funding for more research. If scientists can make a reasonable wage that doesn&#x27;t force them to pursue tenure by living and dying by the whim of a few top journals, it will be much easier for them to stomach the financial, and possibly career, hit of publishing open source<p>I wonder how robust the open source movement would be if engineers only made $45k &#x2F; year</text></comment> |
36,889,003 | 36,887,059 | 1 | 3 | 36,875,940 | train | <story><title>Unpacking Google’s Web Environment Integrity specification</title><url>https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environment-integrity-spec/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lern_too_spel</author><text>Not the same thing. Attestation doesn&#x27;t mean you can&#x27;t run software you want on your own phone, which Android allows despite having build attestation APIs.</text></item><item><author>dcposch</author><text>And speaking of user-hostile, locked-down phones...<p>a galactic irony that Ben Wiser, the Googler who posted this proposal, has a blog where his <i>most recent post</i> is a rant about how he&#x27;s being unfairly restricted and can&#x27;t freely run the software he wants on his own device.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;benwiser.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;I-just-spent-%C2%A3700-to-have-my-own-app-on-my-iPhone.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;benwiser.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;I-just-spent-%C2%A3700-to-have-my-...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RupertBenWiser&#x2F;Web-Environment-Integrity">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RupertBenWiser&#x2F;Web-Environment-Integrity</a></text></item><item><author>rcxdude</author><text>This is especially rich coming from google&#x27;s, who&#x27;s &#x27;safetynet&#x27; for android results in a significant reduction in security (contrary to its stated purpose): it locks out 3rd-party up-to-date and secure ROMs while allowing horrificly insecure manufacturer-provided ROMs to still pass, because to disable those would cause a massive user outcry. So it functions as a vendor lock-in but no meaningful increase in security for the average user, while preventing more advanced users from improving their security without needing to buy more hardware. This needs to be called out more to push back against the claim that this kind of attestation somehow has a legitimate benefit for the users.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tehbeard</author><text>&gt; Attestation doesn&#x27;t mean you can&#x27;t run software you want on your own phone,<p>I couldn&#x27;t run my bank&#x27;s app on an up to date and security patched lineageOS ROM Thanks to safetynet, even trying the hack around approaches.<p>They&#x27;d happily accept the out of date, CVE riddled official ROM however as it had the &quot;popes blessing&quot; from Google.</text></comment> | <story><title>Unpacking Google’s Web Environment Integrity specification</title><url>https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environment-integrity-spec/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lern_too_spel</author><text>Not the same thing. Attestation doesn&#x27;t mean you can&#x27;t run software you want on your own phone, which Android allows despite having build attestation APIs.</text></item><item><author>dcposch</author><text>And speaking of user-hostile, locked-down phones...<p>a galactic irony that Ben Wiser, the Googler who posted this proposal, has a blog where his <i>most recent post</i> is a rant about how he&#x27;s being unfairly restricted and can&#x27;t freely run the software he wants on his own device.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;benwiser.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;I-just-spent-%C2%A3700-to-have-my-own-app-on-my-iPhone.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;benwiser.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;I-just-spent-%C2%A3700-to-have-my-...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RupertBenWiser&#x2F;Web-Environment-Integrity">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RupertBenWiser&#x2F;Web-Environment-Integrity</a></text></item><item><author>rcxdude</author><text>This is especially rich coming from google&#x27;s, who&#x27;s &#x27;safetynet&#x27; for android results in a significant reduction in security (contrary to its stated purpose): it locks out 3rd-party up-to-date and secure ROMs while allowing horrificly insecure manufacturer-provided ROMs to still pass, because to disable those would cause a massive user outcry. So it functions as a vendor lock-in but no meaningful increase in security for the average user, while preventing more advanced users from improving their security without needing to buy more hardware. This needs to be called out more to push back against the claim that this kind of attestation somehow has a legitimate benefit for the users.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simbolit</author><text>Not the same thing.
Still close enough to trigger irony detectors.</text></comment> |
26,262,438 | 26,261,559 | 1 | 3 | 26,248,603 | train | <story><title>FPGA Developer Tutorials</title><url>https://www.fpgatutorial.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>abetlen</author><text>If you&#x27;re getting into this stuff a great resource I found is the ZipCPU Tutorial [0] by Dan Gisselquist. The tutorial covers both Verilog design and Formal Verification methods. It uses open source tools like Verilator and SymbiYosys so getting started is pretty easy.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zipcpu.com&#x2F;tutorial&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zipcpu.com&#x2F;tutorial&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>FPGA Developer Tutorials</title><url>https://www.fpgatutorial.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WillFlux</author><text>I’ve written an introduction to FPGA development with a couple of Xilinx-based boards:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projectf.io&#x2F;posts&#x2F;hello-arty-1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projectf.io&#x2F;posts&#x2F;hello-arty-1&#x2F;</a><p>It’s hands-on rather that theoretical.</text></comment> |
32,122,669 | 32,121,676 | 1 | 2 | 32,120,478 | train | <story><title>U.S. transition to 988 suicide and crisis lifeline begins Saturday</title><url>https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2022/07/15/us-transition-988-suicide-crisis-lifeline-begins-saturday.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>$500 for a specialized vehicle on demand 24&#x2F;7 with somewhat trained workers who have to deal with undesirable work seems pretty good.<p>Assuming that was under the deductible, so the ambulance provider did not get paid anything else, and $500 was the negotiated pricing for members of your insurance plan.</text></item><item><author>morelisp</author><text>My last ambulance trip in the US was billed at $12000. With my (good!) insurance I still had to pay $500.</text></item><item><author>pigtailgirl</author><text>-- An ambulance in Ontario is $40 if you have OHIP - I know plenty of non-OHIP folks who have gotten hit with $200+ ambulance bills - myself included --</text></item><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>I don’t disagree. But I’m not sure what alternative I have to hoping this might be the start of something.<p>In Ontario an ambulance trip is about $40. But in the US it can be crippling.</text></item><item><author>nimbius</author><text>call me a cynnic but as an american...this is theater.<p>people already avoid a call to 911 because the subsequent ambulance service is unaffordable and can land you in collections. they avoid the ER for the same reason. 988 assumes anyone who needs crisis care will be able to get it, or even afford it and the ecosystem of services and medications that may ensue.<p>988 gives, as amber alert did, a can for politicians to kick down the road and cheerlead.</text></item><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>Policing is in such a horrible state in America that an emergency number that excludes police involvement seems increasingly necessary. I wonder if you can get paramedics through this route or if it just rings and you eventually get a counsellor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yellowapple</author><text>&gt; Assuming that was under the deductible, so the ambulance provider did not get paid anything else<p>Hm? The insurer would&#x27;ve paid the difference (minus some additional discounts depending on the size of the insurer and its bargaining power). That the patient paid $500 does not in the slightest bit indicate that the insurer negotiated the rate down to that pricepoint.<p>Even at $500 (and let&#x27;s assume that was an hour-long ride, for easy math that&#x27;s maximally generous to your argument), EMTs on average make around $20&#x2F;hour at best, and maybe double that for a nurse - so a fully staffed ambulance would run around $80&#x2F;hour for labor. Round it up to $100 to be generous and that still leaves $400 for the ambulance itself. Ambulance itself costs up to $150,000, so earmarking another $100 would pay it off after 1,500 hours of service - so less than a year, even if it&#x27;s only running for 40 hours a week. Maybe it&#x27;s <i>really</i> fuel-inefficient and breaks down frequently, so we&#x27;ll say another $100 for fuel and maintenance. Throw in another $100 to pay off $150,000 worth of equipment and medical supplies.<p>So of that $500 price the patient pays, we&#x27;re left with $100. At the price billed to the insurer, that&#x27;s an eye-watering $11,600 of what appears to be pure profit. Maybe there&#x27;s some excuse for that, but to me it&#x27;s pretty obvious that something&#x27;s way out of whack. $500 or even a bit more than that would be reasonable if EMTs and nurses were being paid better, but they largely ain&#x27;t.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. transition to 988 suicide and crisis lifeline begins Saturday</title><url>https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2022/07/15/us-transition-988-suicide-crisis-lifeline-begins-saturday.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>$500 for a specialized vehicle on demand 24&#x2F;7 with somewhat trained workers who have to deal with undesirable work seems pretty good.<p>Assuming that was under the deductible, so the ambulance provider did not get paid anything else, and $500 was the negotiated pricing for members of your insurance plan.</text></item><item><author>morelisp</author><text>My last ambulance trip in the US was billed at $12000. With my (good!) insurance I still had to pay $500.</text></item><item><author>pigtailgirl</author><text>-- An ambulance in Ontario is $40 if you have OHIP - I know plenty of non-OHIP folks who have gotten hit with $200+ ambulance bills - myself included --</text></item><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>I don’t disagree. But I’m not sure what alternative I have to hoping this might be the start of something.<p>In Ontario an ambulance trip is about $40. But in the US it can be crippling.</text></item><item><author>nimbius</author><text>call me a cynnic but as an american...this is theater.<p>people already avoid a call to 911 because the subsequent ambulance service is unaffordable and can land you in collections. they avoid the ER for the same reason. 988 assumes anyone who needs crisis care will be able to get it, or even afford it and the ecosystem of services and medications that may ensue.<p>988 gives, as amber alert did, a can for politicians to kick down the road and cheerlead.</text></item><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>Policing is in such a horrible state in America that an emergency number that excludes police involvement seems increasingly necessary. I wonder if you can get paramedics through this route or if it just rings and you eventually get a counsellor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oops</author><text>The $40 in Ontario sounds even better tho right? Just as the billed imaginary $12k figure that only exists to make “$500 seem pretty good” sounds absurd.</text></comment> |
36,228,127 | 36,228,157 | 1 | 2 | 36,227,411 | train | <story><title>uBlock Origin 1.50.0</title><url>https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.50.0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danielwmayer</author><text>Ublock is without a doubt the most valuabe chrome extension. Most people underutilize it as a way of filtering “legitimate portions” of websites as well.<p>For example, I used it to filer out all recommended content from youtube, as well as comments. My youtube is merely a search bar and the video I wanted to watch, nothing more.</text></comment> | <story><title>uBlock Origin 1.50.0</title><url>https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.50.0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>EscapeFromNY</author><text>I understand why gorhill doesn&#x27;t ask for donations, but I still wish there was some sneaky way I could send him some money anyway.</text></comment> |
14,207,374 | 14,205,343 | 1 | 3 | 14,202,994 | train | <story><title>Hanging up my spurs</title><url>https://lowercasecapital.com/2017/04/26/hanging-up-my-spurs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>luhn</author><text>I just started listening to the Startup podcast, which features Chris in the first episode. He seems to be a very intelligent and talented guy while still remaining grounded. I wish him well with his future endeavors.<p>Also, ten minutes after reading the article, I just realized the pun in the name &quot;Lowercase Capital.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leftnode</author><text>I just started listening to StartUp as well (I like several other Gimlet shows) and he seems incredibly smart. StartUp is also a great podcast if anyone is looking for something to listen to (start from the first season).</text></comment> | <story><title>Hanging up my spurs</title><url>https://lowercasecapital.com/2017/04/26/hanging-up-my-spurs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>luhn</author><text>I just started listening to the Startup podcast, which features Chris in the first episode. He seems to be a very intelligent and talented guy while still remaining grounded. I wish him well with his future endeavors.<p>Also, ten minutes after reading the article, I just realized the pun in the name &quot;Lowercase Capital.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asciimo</author><text>I just made this connection when I was looking at their portfolio [<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lowercasecapital.com&#x2F;posse&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lowercasecapital.com&#x2F;posse&#x2F;</a>], and saw Gimlet Media. Lot of interesting stuff on that page.</text></comment> |
28,912,740 | 28,912,618 | 1 | 3 | 28,908,383 | train | <story><title>MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch</title><url>https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-14-and-16/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cactus2093</author><text>It&#x27;s weird to sell the machine with a super high resolution 120hz mini LED screen though and then optimize the ports for the cheap $400 monitor market.<p>You&#x27;re right though the HDMI port might come in handy in random situations, better to include it than not. The SD port is the one I really don&#x27;t get. And I still maintain that the continued lack of USB-A ports is a much bigger dongle problem than the lack of HDMI port was.</text></item><item><author>sintaxi</author><text>Every monitor and TV manufactured within the last decade without exception has an HDMI input and monitors that support thunderbolt are nearly double the cost. Even if money is no object that HDMI port will prove to be useful.</text></item><item><author>atourgates</author><text>For all the times Apple seems to be willing to &quot;stick to its guns&quot; and ignore consumer complaining, this seems like a weird time to give in.<p>They basically made a line-in-the-sand on USB-C adoption, and it pretty much worked. I&#x27;d argue that an HDMI and SD card readers are less useful, and certainly far less versatile than additional USB-C ports.<p>For all the dongle jokes of a few years ago, I don&#x27;t really see a reason to go back to less versatile ports in laptops.</text></item><item><author>cactus2093</author><text>&gt; All the ports you could ever want<p>I agree with everything else you said and I think overall these machines will be awesome.<p>I would disagree with you on the ports though, I think this is kind of a miss for Apple. They caved into some of the loudest complaints from several years ago which were already coming from a loud minority and that minority is now smaller than ever.<p>And if they were set on changing the ports these certainly aren&#x27;t all that you could ever want. A few USB-A ports as well as keeping at least the 4 USB-C ports from last year (instead of reducing to 3) would have been more useful for more people than the HDMI and especially the SD ports are.<p>(HDMI used to be useful for plugging into a projector for presentations, that use-case is now nearly non-existent now that all meetings tend to happen over zoom, webex, teams, hangouts, etc. even when in-person. HDMI used to be useful for monitors but increasingly displayport over usb-c is supported by everything except the lowest end monitors. SD used to be important for stills and video footage, but increasingly cameras use CFExpress, CFast, output over hdmi to an atmos-style recorder, or even micro-SD for small GoPro style cameras, all of which will still need dongles. Devices like Raspberry Pis require micro SD not standard SD).<p>They also could have added the nifty ethernet-over-magsafe via the powerbrick that the iMac has and they didn&#x27;t do that.<p>Edit: One additional thought - I&#x27;m seeing from the comments some reasonable situations where HDMI still comes in handy - cheap monitors, plugging into a tv to watch something, and I guess there are still lots of people physically plugging in at work for presentations. Fair enough, but in that case it&#x27;s weird that this is a &quot;Pro&quot; feature. These are all very non-pro usecases and you&#x27;ll still need dongles around for anybody with a non-pro machine (like a macbook air).</text></item><item><author>d3nj4l</author><text>These look positively <i>insane</i>. 120Hz HDR displays. Can be specced with up to 64 GB of RAM and a GPU that (apparently) matches a 3070. All the ports you could ever want <i>and</i> magsafe. I can&#x27;t wait to get my hands on one.<p>The notch doesn&#x27;t bother me because it&#x27;s literally more room on the screen. Laptops with the camera below the screen tend to have an uncomfortable angle that look sup your nose, and the design suggests that they may be adding Face ID in a future iteration.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Bud</author><text>They didn&#x27;t optimize the ports for the cheap monitor market, at all. These machines support Apple&#x27;s extremely expensive display and all the various 4K and 5K displays out there, admirably.<p>And they ALSO have the single most needed and bitched about port if it&#x27;s absent, by far, for nearly all business users, which is HDMI. Far and away the best thing they could have added.<p>I personally will not use it often, but when I do, it will be invaluable, and for the users I support, it will be a tremendous increase in convenience and ease-of-use.<p>If you need a lot of USB-A ports, get a CalDigit dock and be done with it. If you need just 1, there are extraordinarily tiny adapters.<p>It&#x27;s time to get over USB-A.</text></comment> | <story><title>MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch</title><url>https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-14-and-16/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cactus2093</author><text>It&#x27;s weird to sell the machine with a super high resolution 120hz mini LED screen though and then optimize the ports for the cheap $400 monitor market.<p>You&#x27;re right though the HDMI port might come in handy in random situations, better to include it than not. The SD port is the one I really don&#x27;t get. And I still maintain that the continued lack of USB-A ports is a much bigger dongle problem than the lack of HDMI port was.</text></item><item><author>sintaxi</author><text>Every monitor and TV manufactured within the last decade without exception has an HDMI input and monitors that support thunderbolt are nearly double the cost. Even if money is no object that HDMI port will prove to be useful.</text></item><item><author>atourgates</author><text>For all the times Apple seems to be willing to &quot;stick to its guns&quot; and ignore consumer complaining, this seems like a weird time to give in.<p>They basically made a line-in-the-sand on USB-C adoption, and it pretty much worked. I&#x27;d argue that an HDMI and SD card readers are less useful, and certainly far less versatile than additional USB-C ports.<p>For all the dongle jokes of a few years ago, I don&#x27;t really see a reason to go back to less versatile ports in laptops.</text></item><item><author>cactus2093</author><text>&gt; All the ports you could ever want<p>I agree with everything else you said and I think overall these machines will be awesome.<p>I would disagree with you on the ports though, I think this is kind of a miss for Apple. They caved into some of the loudest complaints from several years ago which were already coming from a loud minority and that minority is now smaller than ever.<p>And if they were set on changing the ports these certainly aren&#x27;t all that you could ever want. A few USB-A ports as well as keeping at least the 4 USB-C ports from last year (instead of reducing to 3) would have been more useful for more people than the HDMI and especially the SD ports are.<p>(HDMI used to be useful for plugging into a projector for presentations, that use-case is now nearly non-existent now that all meetings tend to happen over zoom, webex, teams, hangouts, etc. even when in-person. HDMI used to be useful for monitors but increasingly displayport over usb-c is supported by everything except the lowest end monitors. SD used to be important for stills and video footage, but increasingly cameras use CFExpress, CFast, output over hdmi to an atmos-style recorder, or even micro-SD for small GoPro style cameras, all of which will still need dongles. Devices like Raspberry Pis require micro SD not standard SD).<p>They also could have added the nifty ethernet-over-magsafe via the powerbrick that the iMac has and they didn&#x27;t do that.<p>Edit: One additional thought - I&#x27;m seeing from the comments some reasonable situations where HDMI still comes in handy - cheap monitors, plugging into a tv to watch something, and I guess there are still lots of people physically plugging in at work for presentations. Fair enough, but in that case it&#x27;s weird that this is a &quot;Pro&quot; feature. These are all very non-pro usecases and you&#x27;ll still need dongles around for anybody with a non-pro machine (like a macbook air).</text></item><item><author>d3nj4l</author><text>These look positively <i>insane</i>. 120Hz HDR displays. Can be specced with up to 64 GB of RAM and a GPU that (apparently) matches a 3070. All the ports you could ever want <i>and</i> magsafe. I can&#x27;t wait to get my hands on one.<p>The notch doesn&#x27;t bother me because it&#x27;s literally more room on the screen. Laptops with the camera below the screen tend to have an uncomfortable angle that look sup your nose, and the design suggests that they may be adding Face ID in a future iteration.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toyg</author><text>SD is absolutely massive in Asia, on a level that I think cannot be gauged properly from the West. I reckon these ports have been added with an eye to the Asian market rather than California.</text></comment> |
35,688,299 | 35,688,477 | 1 | 2 | 35,686,450 | train | <story><title>UK Threatens End-to-End Encryption</title><url>https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/04/uk-threatens-end-to-end-encryption.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>afavour</author><text>I’m sorry but this is a very simplistic take. The King has no meaningful power at all, MPs have power over the Lords and they are democratically elected.<p>I’m not for a second saying the system is wonderful and beyond reproach. But suggesting it’s equivalent to an autocracy or something is just flat out wrong. If you want to complain about the U.K. political system complain about first past the post or the creeping anti-democratic forces pushing things like voter ID laws. The House of Lords and the King aren’t anything comparatively.</text></item><item><author>ly3xqhl8g9</author><text>The fact that we regard as &quot;democratic&quot; (because they are good guys, or so we&#x27;d wish) a country with king and lords (even a House of Lords, or even &quot;Lords Spiritual&quot; [1]), is the greater joke.<p>[1] Just a random click <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_members_of_the_House_of_Lords" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_members_of_the_House_o...</a> on the Bishop of Chichester <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bishop_of_Chichester#List_of_bishops" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bishop_of_Chichester#List_of_b...</a> reveals a list of bishops going back as far as 681, the year 681. Particularly funny is how the majority of the bishops seem to have &quot;died in office&quot;. To call a land with 1,300+ years of hegemony &quot;democratic&quot; is beyond satire.</text></item><item><author>derelicta</author><text>The fact that every &quot;democratic&quot; superpower seeks to criminalize or prohibit E2EE at the same time gives the impression there is some sorta coordination between state actors to do so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ly3xqhl8g9</author><text>It was just a quick quip how we regard as &quot;democratic&quot; a country (?) called &quot;United Kingdom&quot;, language is funny like that.<p>Sure, UK is a great place to live for many of their citizens, and a great country overall, culture and so forth. It&#x27;s not for nothing we are speaking their language and not Esperanto or something. But it&#x27;s not a democracy, and that is fine.<p>If you ask me (I know you didn&#x27;t, but just in case), not even the Nordic countries or Switzerland pass the main test of democracy: not being able to vote for everything, but being able to vote &quot;No&quot; to anything and everything. That should probably be the hallmark of a democracy. Even the toga-wearing Greeks did not have democracy to such an extent.<p>In an ideal world, every ballot would have as a first option the option &quot;No&quot;. I said in some other HN comment [1], a second point would be to tie the duration of the mandate to the voter turnout, if 30% vote, then the mandate is not 100%, but 30% also of the 4&#x2F;5 years mandate.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35300083" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35300083</a></text></comment> | <story><title>UK Threatens End-to-End Encryption</title><url>https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/04/uk-threatens-end-to-end-encryption.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>afavour</author><text>I’m sorry but this is a very simplistic take. The King has no meaningful power at all, MPs have power over the Lords and they are democratically elected.<p>I’m not for a second saying the system is wonderful and beyond reproach. But suggesting it’s equivalent to an autocracy or something is just flat out wrong. If you want to complain about the U.K. political system complain about first past the post or the creeping anti-democratic forces pushing things like voter ID laws. The House of Lords and the King aren’t anything comparatively.</text></item><item><author>ly3xqhl8g9</author><text>The fact that we regard as &quot;democratic&quot; (because they are good guys, or so we&#x27;d wish) a country with king and lords (even a House of Lords, or even &quot;Lords Spiritual&quot; [1]), is the greater joke.<p>[1] Just a random click <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_members_of_the_House_of_Lords" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_members_of_the_House_o...</a> on the Bishop of Chichester <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bishop_of_Chichester#List_of_bishops" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bishop_of_Chichester#List_of_b...</a> reveals a list of bishops going back as far as 681, the year 681. Particularly funny is how the majority of the bishops seem to have &quot;died in office&quot;. To call a land with 1,300+ years of hegemony &quot;democratic&quot; is beyond satire.</text></item><item><author>derelicta</author><text>The fact that every &quot;democratic&quot; superpower seeks to criminalize or prohibit E2EE at the same time gives the impression there is some sorta coordination between state actors to do so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>monocasa</author><text>The king has veto power over any acts he believes affects him, and him and the queen have apparently used the threat of this many times in order to shape UK legislation before it&#x27;s argued on. Apparently almost all legislation is passed by the royal family&#x27;s office for edits before it goes up for debate.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;uk-news&#x2F;2021&#x2F;feb&#x2F;08&#x2F;royals-vetted-more-than-1000-laws-via-queens-consent" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;uk-news&#x2F;2021&#x2F;feb&#x2F;08&#x2F;royals-vette...</a><p>This idea that the royal family has no meaningful political power is not congruent with how the British political system works.</text></comment> |
22,508,538 | 22,507,659 | 1 | 2 | 22,506,722 | train | <story><title>Cloud Storage for $2 per TB per month</title><url>https://blog.sia.tech/cloud-storage-for-2-tb-mo-8a34043e93bb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway9878</author><text>Everybody with more money than you can always undercut you in anything you ever do so why bother ever trying to do anything</text></item><item><author>arcticbull</author><text>Here&#x27;s the issue. We know that due to economy of scale and domain experience, AWS will always have the lowest cost (to Amazon) for storage -- whether that&#x27;s totally-reliable storage, or sorta-reliable. If there was a demand for sorta-reliable, they&#x27;d build a sorta-reliable S3 and undercut you. Then, blockchain adds inefficiency. Therefore, it&#x27;s basically impossible for any blockchain solution to have a lower total cost to provide storage.</text></item><item><author>Taek</author><text>Author here. A lot of these numbers are drawn from experience in the mining world, where people realized that when cost is the ultimate bottom line, a lot of corners can be cut.<p>Sia systems don&#x27;t need a ton of networking. I ran the networking buildout costs by some networking people, and again it comes down to cutting corners. If you only need 10 gbps per rack, if you don&#x27;t mind having extra milliseconds added, etc, you can get away with very scrappy setups. The whole point is that it&#x27;s not a highly reliable facility.</text></item><item><author>kmod</author><text>I worked on the design of Dropbox&#x27;s exabyte-scale storage system, and from that experience I can say that these numbers are all extremely optimistic, even with their &quot;you can do it cheaper if you only target 95% uptime&quot; caveat. Networking is much more expensive, labor is much more expensive, space is much more expensive, depreciation is faster than they say, etc etc. I don&#x27;t think the authors have ever done any actual hardware provisioning before.<p>I didn&#x27;t read all their math but I expect their final result to be off by a factor of 2-5x. Hard drives are a surprisingly low percentage of the cost of a storage system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>enaaem</author><text>Very good point! Let&#x27;s say you move into a new market, trying to undercut the status quo. The status quo, with their power of scale and experience can just undercut you back. Who is benefitting from this? The customers! So if the customers want more competition they have to pay you to play. Which means they have to co-invest with you and promise to buy your service later.<p>A good is example are the Apple iPhone screens. If Apple wants a new competing supplier, they have to invest in new competitors.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cloud Storage for $2 per TB per month</title><url>https://blog.sia.tech/cloud-storage-for-2-tb-mo-8a34043e93bb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway9878</author><text>Everybody with more money than you can always undercut you in anything you ever do so why bother ever trying to do anything</text></item><item><author>arcticbull</author><text>Here&#x27;s the issue. We know that due to economy of scale and domain experience, AWS will always have the lowest cost (to Amazon) for storage -- whether that&#x27;s totally-reliable storage, or sorta-reliable. If there was a demand for sorta-reliable, they&#x27;d build a sorta-reliable S3 and undercut you. Then, blockchain adds inefficiency. Therefore, it&#x27;s basically impossible for any blockchain solution to have a lower total cost to provide storage.</text></item><item><author>Taek</author><text>Author here. A lot of these numbers are drawn from experience in the mining world, where people realized that when cost is the ultimate bottom line, a lot of corners can be cut.<p>Sia systems don&#x27;t need a ton of networking. I ran the networking buildout costs by some networking people, and again it comes down to cutting corners. If you only need 10 gbps per rack, if you don&#x27;t mind having extra milliseconds added, etc, you can get away with very scrappy setups. The whole point is that it&#x27;s not a highly reliable facility.</text></item><item><author>kmod</author><text>I worked on the design of Dropbox&#x27;s exabyte-scale storage system, and from that experience I can say that these numbers are all extremely optimistic, even with their &quot;you can do it cheaper if you only target 95% uptime&quot; caveat. Networking is much more expensive, labor is much more expensive, space is much more expensive, depreciation is faster than they say, etc etc. I don&#x27;t think the authors have ever done any actual hardware provisioning before.<p>I didn&#x27;t read all their math but I expect their final result to be off by a factor of 2-5x. Hard drives are a surprisingly low percentage of the cost of a storage system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nemonemo</author><text>I think the point is that the cost should not be the main motivator. I would agree that there needs to be other differentiators in addition to cost, which could provide sufficient moat against other competitors, big or small.</text></comment> |
25,912,780 | 25,912,442 | 1 | 3 | 25,911,809 | train | <story><title>The Battle Inside Signal</title><url>https://www.platformer.news/p/-the-battle-inside-signal</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dannyw</author><text>Dear Signal: please don’t moderate speech. You should never see my speech, or be in a position to enforce any content policy.<p>The same way USPS doesn’t go around opening letters and getting rid of whatever they don’t like.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ac29</author><text>The CEO agrees, per the article: &quot;Marlinspike’s response, he told me in a conversation last week, was rooted in the idea that because Signal employees cannot see the content on their network, the app does not need a robust content policy.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>The Battle Inside Signal</title><url>https://www.platformer.news/p/-the-battle-inside-signal</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dannyw</author><text>Dear Signal: please don’t moderate speech. You should never see my speech, or be in a position to enforce any content policy.<p>The same way USPS doesn’t go around opening letters and getting rid of whatever they don’t like.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swirepe</author><text>&gt;The same way USPS doesn’t go around opening letters and getting rid of whatever they don’t like.<p>Bad news...</text></comment> |
676,923 | 676,890 | 1 | 2 | 676,856 | train | <story><title>PHP Team Responds to Google's PHP Tips</title><url>http://groups.google.com/group/make-the-web-faster/browse_thread/thread/ddfbe82dd80408cc</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CalmQuiet</author><text>Despite google dropping ball on this one, some good may come from it having spurred Gwynne Raskind's reply: Anyone out there writing PHP might find real optimization value from Alex Songe comments, concluding with (following Gwynne's article):<p>Good resources (written by the guys who actually work on the php engine):<p><a href="http://ilia.ws/files/phptek2007_performance.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://ilia.ws/files/phptek2007_performance.pdf</a>
(13 MB)<p><a href="http://ilia.ws/files/phpquebec_2009.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://ilia.ws/files/phpquebec_2009.pdf</a> ( 1.1 MB )<p>edit: added file size</text></comment> | <story><title>PHP Team Responds to Google's PHP Tips</title><url>http://groups.google.com/group/make-the-web-faster/browse_thread/thread/ddfbe82dd80408cc</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>patio11</author><text>I was waiting for that. The history of micro-optimization is replete with myths and legends which sound juuuuuuust plausible enough to be true (or were true a decade ago) and endure to this day.<p>I'm currently involved in a project at work which requires translating a (Java) coding standards document. I have filed probably two dozen bugs against the document that sound like "The rationale for standard 2.4.3 is translated correctly from the Japanese but contrary to technical fact." They include my personal favorite Java performance tip "Don't use the nice readable str + str syntax to concatenate, instead, use StringBuilder."</text></comment> |
2,967,550 | 2,967,514 | 1 | 2 | 2,966,854 | train | <story><title>Book Conan's TV studio on AirBnB</title><url>http://www.airbnb.com/rooms/200419</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>citricsquid</author><text>For the curious:<p>&#62; Hi there, we're TeamCoco, the digital team behind "Conan". We're looking for a few people to stay in our studio while they visit Los Angeles. You'll be filmed and be featured on our show. (MUST be okay with being filmed.) Message us for more details.</text></comment> | <story><title>Book Conan's TV studio on AirBnB</title><url>http://www.airbnb.com/rooms/200419</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>guylhem</author><text>Not sure it's such a great idea to rent the studio as a place to crash : I've been told it gets noisy in the afternoon, and that one may hear voices saying "oh it's goooood".</text></comment> |
10,820,638 | 10,819,742 | 1 | 3 | 10,819,355 | train | <story><title>Concepts for Your Cognitive Toolkit</title><url>http://mcntyr.com/52-concepts-cognitive-toolkit/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ACow_Adonis</author><text>Actually a kind of cool little article. However, a few little errors&#x2F;improvements I think could improve it:<p>14. Time value of money: Its actually the opposite of whats stated. We value money today MORE than money tomorrow, not less. The discount rate is how much more money&#x2F;return you&#x27;d need in the future to compensate.<p>21. Bikeshedding phenomenon is not really substituting an easy problem for a hard one: its more a comment on how people will focus on the problems that they are cognitively able to understand. Or more flippantly, the time spent on a problem is directly proportional to its triviality.<p>32. Hawthorne effect: This one is close to my heart, because my mother mis-stated this one when I was little. Its that people act different when they are AWARE they are being observed, not just that they act differently when observed.<p>34. Flynn effect: I feel its important to recognise the subtlety that the flynn effect is about the observed increase in INTELLIGENCE TEST SCORES over several decades. Indeed, the whole point of learning about the flynn effect is to learn about the ambiguity and controversy between tests, test scores, and general intelligence, and the general investigation into why this apparent increase is happening. I feel to simplify this to &quot;IQ has been increasing&quot; is to miss the entire point&#x2F;controversy&#x2F;investigation of the flynn effect.<p>46. Cognitive dissonance: Is i think a mis-statement&#x2F;erroneous. Cognitive dissonance is indeed the uncomfortableness experienced by humans holding conflicting beliefs, but it does not imply that one of the conflicting beliefs have to be discarded. Rather, it is the interesting ways that human beings deal with conflicting beliefs that don&#x27;t involve discarding them which I think the real-value&#x2F;most interesting point of the concept of cognitive dissonance.<p>47. Coeffcient of determination: Just to save space in this comment, read the wikipedia article if you&#x27;re into this kind of thing: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Coefficient_of_determination" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Coefficient_of_determination</a>. Personally, I&#x27;d barely call this a concept...its more of a model specific stats metric really, but i&#x27;m not really in the mood to argue it...</text></comment> | <story><title>Concepts for Your Cognitive Toolkit</title><url>http://mcntyr.com/52-concepts-cognitive-toolkit/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aggerdy</author><text>Found the article to be a good summary of a lot of concepts I had encountered on their own, but hadn&#x27;t seen together in list form before. If you enjoyed this, you might find Daniel Dennett&#x27;s &quot;Intuition Pumps and Tools for Thinking&quot; interesting [1]. I would highly recommend &quot;The Philosopher&#x27;s Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts Methods&quot; by Julian Baggini and Peter Fosl as well [2].<p>- [1] Link to Talk at Google By Dennett: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;4Q_mY54hjM0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;4Q_mY54hjM0</a><p>- [2] Link to pdf: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mohamedrabeea.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;book1_10474.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mohamedrabeea.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;book1_10474.pdf</a></text></comment> |
30,127,148 | 30,127,061 | 1 | 2 | 30,126,171 | train | <story><title>Over 10% of Tesla Model S EVs Fail Germany’s Strict Inspection After 3 Years</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/44068/over-10-percent-of-tesla-model-s-evs-fail-germanys-strict-inspection-after-3-years</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brianwawok</author><text>Been waiting for 10 years for the legacy manufacturers to flood the market with BEV. As recently as a year ago, Toyota was still betting in hydrogen.<p>Basically, I’ll believe it when you see it. Right now the BEV market is basically Tesla or sacrifices.</text></item><item><author>lkrubner</author><text>Tesla, the stock, is currently priced as if it will never face competition. Even with the big correction of recent weeks, it is still priced at more than several of its competitors combined. This is not a rational price. The fact is that the market will soon be flooded with excellent electric cars from Toyota, Mercedes, BMW and more. This article certainly should worry anyone holding Tesla stock: less than 4% of the BMW Smart Fortwo Electric Drive showed defects, compared to 10% of the Teslas. And this is in the year 2022. It&#x27;s only going to get worse and worse from here on out, as the big companies bring their whole networks to bear. Even worse, whereas Toyota, Mercedes, and BMW have international networks of dealerships, Tesla has only a very small base of institutional support to work with. It simply isn&#x27;t rational to hold Tesla stock. The preponderance of evidence favors the idea that Tesla will shrink and the other companies will grow, in the electric market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>littlestymaar</author><text>It&#x27;s not as if Tesla “flooded the market” either in that period. The EV market was just niche so far, and if it&#x27;s changing recently, it&#x27;s benefiting historic manufacturers at least as much as Tesla.<p>Right now, you can find EV for every price tag and since a Tesla gets you the quality of a cheap one for the price of a high end one, its main value is as a status symbol.</text></comment> | <story><title>Over 10% of Tesla Model S EVs Fail Germany’s Strict Inspection After 3 Years</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/44068/over-10-percent-of-tesla-model-s-evs-fail-germanys-strict-inspection-after-3-years</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brianwawok</author><text>Been waiting for 10 years for the legacy manufacturers to flood the market with BEV. As recently as a year ago, Toyota was still betting in hydrogen.<p>Basically, I’ll believe it when you see it. Right now the BEV market is basically Tesla or sacrifices.</text></item><item><author>lkrubner</author><text>Tesla, the stock, is currently priced as if it will never face competition. Even with the big correction of recent weeks, it is still priced at more than several of its competitors combined. This is not a rational price. The fact is that the market will soon be flooded with excellent electric cars from Toyota, Mercedes, BMW and more. This article certainly should worry anyone holding Tesla stock: less than 4% of the BMW Smart Fortwo Electric Drive showed defects, compared to 10% of the Teslas. And this is in the year 2022. It&#x27;s only going to get worse and worse from here on out, as the big companies bring their whole networks to bear. Even worse, whereas Toyota, Mercedes, and BMW have international networks of dealerships, Tesla has only a very small base of institutional support to work with. It simply isn&#x27;t rational to hold Tesla stock. The preponderance of evidence favors the idea that Tesla will shrink and the other companies will grow, in the electric market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steveBK123</author><text>Re: Volumes
Yeah it&#x27;s really something.
The supply chain issues probably pushed the convergence out 3-5 years.
It doesn&#x27;t help that most of them haven&#x27;t secured a fixed battery supply the way Tesla has.<p>Just this year between recalls &amp; battery delays in new product rollouts, GM shipped something like 400 (not 400K, literally 400) BEVs in Q4. Ford is targeting to ship ~300K BEVs in 2023 which is only an aspiration and would bring them to 2018-2019 Tesla volumes. With the doubling of Tesla production rates annually and new factories about to open, Tesla could be at 2M&#x2F;year by 2023.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t mind some other makers at least coming closer so I can make my 2nd vehicle a non-Tesla BEV. Tesla is fun but it&#x27;s a very opinionated car (like Apple) with design choices that cannot be optioned away (yoke, falcon wing doors, gear stalk removal, touch screen UI dependence, etc).<p>Re: production quality
It shouldn&#x27;t be a huge surprised that ~2018 era Teslas are doing poorly on inspections now. Watch Munro tear downs and the evolution of the build quality over time has gone from early 90s Hyundai to actually impressing him.</text></comment> |
20,638,544 | 20,638,648 | 1 | 2 | 20,636,152 | train | <story><title>MoviePass Worked Out Great</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-07/moviepass-worked-out-great</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sjcsjc</author><text>I really like this writer&#x27;s style. This Dickens reference is hilarious:<p><i>Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure three hundred million pounds, result unicorn.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nlh</author><text>He&#x27;s hilarious and has a column in the same style every day! Subscribe and enjoy life a little more every morning:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com&#x2F;join&#x2F;4wm&#x2F;moneystuff-signup&amp;hash=54223001ca3ffcf40f2629c25acea67a" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com&#x2F;join&#x2F;4wm&#x2F;moneystuff-s...</a><p>(no affiliation, just a Matt Levine fan)</text></comment> | <story><title>MoviePass Worked Out Great</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-07/moviepass-worked-out-great</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sjcsjc</author><text>I really like this writer&#x27;s style. This Dickens reference is hilarious:<p><i>Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure three hundred million pounds, result unicorn.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hammock</author><text>Clever and it takes the format of an old quote: &quot;If you owe the bank $100 that&#x27;s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that&#x27;s the bank&#x27;s problem.&quot;</text></comment> |
19,399,431 | 19,398,923 | 1 | 3 | 19,389,693 | train | <story><title>Amazon Lobbied More Government Entities Than Any Other US Company Last Year</title><url>https://www.axios.com/amazon-lobbying-washington-wide-reach-0f7253e4-234e-462a-aca1-ca19705b9c39.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>afarrell</author><text>Lobbying in some form is explicitly protected by the 1st amendment. The question is: If you form a contract for someone else to petition for a redress of greivances on you behalf, is that contract void?</text></item><item><author>vicpara</author><text>You either allow lobbying or ban it. Amazon used a legal process to tip the balance in their favour. The entire lobbying thing does sound to me like a hack in the entire democratic process.<p>People should vote not companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>badpun</author><text>My limited (understanding) of the state of things in the US is that the lobbying itself is a problem mostly because the whole political system is driven by donations, which of course disproportionally come from the rich actors. Here in Poland the parties are sponsored by the state itself and donations are a very limited factor, which makes the lobbying not very effective and hence not a real factor.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon Lobbied More Government Entities Than Any Other US Company Last Year</title><url>https://www.axios.com/amazon-lobbying-washington-wide-reach-0f7253e4-234e-462a-aca1-ca19705b9c39.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>afarrell</author><text>Lobbying in some form is explicitly protected by the 1st amendment. The question is: If you form a contract for someone else to petition for a redress of greivances on you behalf, is that contract void?</text></item><item><author>vicpara</author><text>You either allow lobbying or ban it. Amazon used a legal process to tip the balance in their favour. The entire lobbying thing does sound to me like a hack in the entire democratic process.<p>People should vote not companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snarfy</author><text>1st amendment rights apply to people. They should not apply to corporations.</text></comment> |
14,941,066 | 14,939,564 | 1 | 2 | 14,939,284 | train | <story><title>The NOVA filesystem</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/729812/1557fcd18e4dd96f/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ecma</author><text>This is super interesting but<p><pre><code> due to the per-CPU inode table
structure, it is impossible to
move a NOVA filesystem from one
system to another if the two
machines do not have the same
number of CPUs.
</code></pre>
seems like a dealbreaker. What use is a FS if it isn&#x27;t portable? At least it sounds like they&#x27;re very aware of this issue.<p>I&#x27;d be very interested to see what they end up doing to make this behave better prior to upstream consideration. I wonder if a linked list journal of inode table changes (with space drawn from per-CPU freelists) would be safe&#x2F;fast enough. That could be periodically coalesced and remapped to the NOVA device&#x27;s non-CPU aware inode table.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kalmi10</author><text>It&#x27;s not so grim.<p>&quot;The origin of the CPU-count dependence is that NOVA divides PMEM into per-CPU allocation regions. We use the current CPU ID as a hint about which region to use and avoid contention on the locks that protect it.
So moving from a smaller number of CPUs to a larger number of CPUs just means more contention for the locks. Moving from a larger number to a smaller number is no problem at all. So, our current plan is to set the CPU count very high (like 256) when the file system is created.&quot; - comment under the post by one of the designers of the fs</text></comment> | <story><title>The NOVA filesystem</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/729812/1557fcd18e4dd96f/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ecma</author><text>This is super interesting but<p><pre><code> due to the per-CPU inode table
structure, it is impossible to
move a NOVA filesystem from one
system to another if the two
machines do not have the same
number of CPUs.
</code></pre>
seems like a dealbreaker. What use is a FS if it isn&#x27;t portable? At least it sounds like they&#x27;re very aware of this issue.<p>I&#x27;d be very interested to see what they end up doing to make this behave better prior to upstream consideration. I wonder if a linked list journal of inode table changes (with space drawn from per-CPU freelists) would be safe&#x2F;fast enough. That could be periodically coalesced and remapped to the NOVA device&#x27;s non-CPU aware inode table.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>microcolonel</author><text>I don&#x27;t see it as such a big problem. Most filesystem images aren&#x27;t intended to be ported directly between machines in general. As long as they have a tool to read the filesystem on a different configuration, a filesystem with this restriction could still be very useful for generic bulk storage on a single node.</text></comment> |
6,015,322 | 6,015,515 | 1 | 2 | 6,014,976 | train | <story><title>Why HTTP/2.0 does not seem interesting (2012)</title><url>https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/http20.html?re</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>exceptione</author><text><p><pre><code> In my view, HTTP&#x2F;2.0 should kill Cookies as a concept,
and replace it with a session&#x2F;identity facility, which makes
it easier to do things right with HTTP&#x2F;2.0 than with HTTP&#x2F;1.1.
</code></pre>
count me in. Cookies are a huge waste of bandwidth and freaking annoying here in Europe as you cannot visit a site anymore without being warned you are about to receive yet even more cookies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yahelc</author><text>&gt; Cookies are...freaking annoying here in Europe as you cannot visit a site anymore without being warned you are about to receive yet even more cookies.<p>Seems like the blame for that lies not with cookies themselves, but with the EU&#x27;s cookie law.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why HTTP/2.0 does not seem interesting (2012)</title><url>https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/http20.html?re</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>exceptione</author><text><p><pre><code> In my view, HTTP&#x2F;2.0 should kill Cookies as a concept,
and replace it with a session&#x2F;identity facility, which makes
it easier to do things right with HTTP&#x2F;2.0 than with HTTP&#x2F;1.1.
</code></pre>
count me in. Cookies are a huge waste of bandwidth and freaking annoying here in Europe as you cannot visit a site anymore without being warned you are about to receive yet even more cookies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>solox3</author><text>The EU &quot;Cookie law&quot; is not limited to cookies. The term used in regulation 6 is &quot;storage&quot;, which includes at least localStorage, headers, and remotely hosted solutions (off the top of my head).</text></comment> |
4,727,002 | 4,726,855 | 1 | 2 | 4,726,157 | train | <story><title>Show HN: UChicago admissions asked me to find Waldo. I did.</title><url>https://github.com/jacobsevart/waldo_uchicago</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonkester</author><text>Awesome. And I feel for this guy, knowing what the next four years is going to be like for him. Sitting in classes listening to an instructor spend a whole week explaining how a "for" loop works to students who for the most part won't be able to successfully write their own "for" loop by the time they graduate (with a 3.5 GPA in CS).<p>I wish there was a degree path in "software" rather than "computer science", since that's what a kid like this needs. Turning algorithms into code is clearly solved for him. But I bet a few years of turning "nothing" into "shipping software" would be a lot more useful (or at least a lot less of a waste of time).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>larsberg</author><text>&#62; Sitting in classes listening to an instructor spend a whole week explaining how a "for" loop works to students who for the most part won't be able to successfully write their own "for" loop by the time they graduate (with a 3.5 GPA in CS).<p>That may be true at some places, but certainly not in the intro curriculum at the UofC. The intro course for majors with no background uses the Scheme-based How to Design Programs curriculum, which doesn't even _have_ a for loop :-)<p>The honors intro, which I assume this student would enroll in, is a quite challenging curriculum, expecting students to learn scheme, haskell, perl, bash, and some basic parsing tools over the course of a quarter. And do reasonable things with them.<p>So, while I'm certainly biased as a grad student here at the UofC, I could promise the student they won't be getting slowly spoon-fed language features. Even if they took the intro CS curriculum for non-majors in the sciences.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: UChicago admissions asked me to find Waldo. I did.</title><url>https://github.com/jacobsevart/waldo_uchicago</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonkester</author><text>Awesome. And I feel for this guy, knowing what the next four years is going to be like for him. Sitting in classes listening to an instructor spend a whole week explaining how a "for" loop works to students who for the most part won't be able to successfully write their own "for" loop by the time they graduate (with a 3.5 GPA in CS).<p>I wish there was a degree path in "software" rather than "computer science", since that's what a kid like this needs. Turning algorithms into code is clearly solved for him. But I bet a few years of turning "nothing" into "shipping software" would be a lot more useful (or at least a lot less of a waste of time).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>borplk</author><text>It is difficult to say this without sounding arrogant but my god did I suffer during my college years because of this.<p>Every class, every project, every assignment I felt damn I already know all this.<p>It also makes team work a torture. I didn't want to ruin other people's experience by being the know it all guy.
So I just avoided teamwork as much as I could because pretending that I'm challenged by the question/project
got even more depressing.<p>Having to pay thousands of dollars for it makes it even harder (I simply <i>had</i> to do it as I'm not a citizen).
I'd think man there's so much more that I could do with this money I'm paying for something I already know.<p>That's not to say I think I know a lot, in fact I think I know very little but just that the college wasn't providing anything new for me (and yes it was one of the top ones).<p>I'm learning more by reading books and posts on the internet, hacker news, etc... and by doing actual work in the industry.</text></comment> |
7,194,313 | 7,194,076 | 1 | 2 | 7,193,857 | train | <story><title>Google shows support for LGBT Olympians</title><url>https://www.google.com/webhp?tab=ww&authuser=0&ei=rCT0UvnANsH_igLy2IDQCw&ved=0CBgQ1S4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boyter</author><text>The LGBT Russia thing is totally blown out of proportion.<p><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/203382931/Russian-Lgbt-Law-White-Paper" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;doc&#x2F;203382931&#x2F;Russian-Lgbt-Law-White-P...</a><p>Before you decide to down-vote me into oblivion and accuse me of hating minority groups please read the white paper linked above. Note I am not affiliated with the person who wrote it or scribd. I just want people to see both sides of the argument.<p>EDIT - And what a surprise down-voted. Seriously did anyone clicking the down arrow actually read the paper? Considering how long it is and that this post is 5 minutes old I seriously doubt it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magicalist</author><text>Still reading, but impressions on the intro and first chapter: what a totally bizarre paper. It&#x27;s a &quot;white paper&quot;, but it&#x27;s written as an autobiographical narrative of his research process. And usually &quot;Executive Summary&quot; does not refer to a top 10 list.<p>It&#x27;s very obviously written for the purposes of advocacy, despite protestations that it&#x27;s not. The defense of this law seems to be:<p>1) It&#x27;s not that bad. It doesn&#x27;t target the LGBT community, it just bans any sort of public acknowledgement of a class of people that just <i>happens</i> to include LGBT folks.<p>2) The media has blown this way out of proportion by saying what the law only implies. Also by not mentioning that the law was enacted to protect the children. Why don&#x27;t they mention the children?<p>3) Even if the law is that bad, it hasn&#x27;t been enforced much yet.<p>4) Even if the law is bad, those guys over there are just as bed.<p>Oh yeah, definitely want to consider both sides of this argument.<p>Just out of curiosity, boyter. When you refer to &quot;both sides&quot;, how would you sum up the other side in one sentence? &quot;It&#x27;s not that bad&quot; is not, in fact, a defense of anything.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google shows support for LGBT Olympians</title><url>https://www.google.com/webhp?tab=ww&authuser=0&ei=rCT0UvnANsH_igLy2IDQCw&ved=0CBgQ1S4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boyter</author><text>The LGBT Russia thing is totally blown out of proportion.<p><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/203382931/Russian-Lgbt-Law-White-Paper" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;doc&#x2F;203382931&#x2F;Russian-Lgbt-Law-White-P...</a><p>Before you decide to down-vote me into oblivion and accuse me of hating minority groups please read the white paper linked above. Note I am not affiliated with the person who wrote it or scribd. I just want people to see both sides of the argument.<p>EDIT - And what a surprise down-voted. Seriously did anyone clicking the down arrow actually read the paper? Considering how long it is and that this post is 5 minutes old I seriously doubt it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>devilshaircut</author><text>&quot;Both sides of the argument.&quot;<p>That Russia has a reasonable political platform regarding its LGBT citizens? I am not sure that it is possible to &#x27;blow out of proportion&#x27; what is most certainly a human rights issue. This was your own assertion, not that of the paper&#x27;s.<p>The topic was the Google Doodle showing support for LGBT people and your first impulse is to imply that the situation in Russia is in fact a non-issue.<p>That is why you were downvoted, man.</text></comment> |
18,838,878 | 18,838,572 | 1 | 2 | 18,837,699 | train | <story><title>Why Telegram is insecure (2015)</title><url>https://medium.com/@thegrugq/operational-telegram-cbbaadb9013a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yogthos</author><text>So, here&#x27;s the thing I&#x27;d like somebody to explain to me. Telegram encryption spec is published, and the client is open source. This means you can verify that the server is following the spec by creating a clean room client implementation. You could even create a green field server implementation if you wanted.<p>Telegram regularly has contests to break its encryption with a reward of 300K USD <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;telegram.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;cryptocontest" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;telegram.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;cryptocontest</a><p>If it&#x27;s not secure, then surely people would be cashing in on that sweet money. So, why is it that we constantly see articles talking about how insecure Telegram encryption is, but nobody is showing a proof of concept attack or collecting the prize?<p>Unless somebody puts their money where their mouth is and shows an actual exploit with code, it seems like pure FUD to me. On top of that, it appears that attacks on Telegram often come from people associated with Signal in some way. Signal is endorsed by NSA who have a history of promoting weak encryption that they have found backdoors into. I hope everybody still remembers this debacle <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;golem.ph.utexas.edu&#x2F;category&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;new_evidence_of_nsa_weakening.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;golem.ph.utexas.edu&#x2F;category&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;new_evidence_of...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saagarjha</author><text>&gt; the client is open source<p>Uh, no it’s not. The client (which happens to seemingly violate a bunch of open-source licenses) and the code posted to GitHub do not match; occasionally a source dump is posted online but there’s no indication how this relates to what they are shipping, as the released binaries differ and update much more frequently. The author is quite unresponsive about this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;overtake&#x2F;TelegramSwift&#x2F;issues&#x2F;163" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;overtake&#x2F;TelegramSwift&#x2F;issues&#x2F;163</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Why Telegram is insecure (2015)</title><url>https://medium.com/@thegrugq/operational-telegram-cbbaadb9013a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yogthos</author><text>So, here&#x27;s the thing I&#x27;d like somebody to explain to me. Telegram encryption spec is published, and the client is open source. This means you can verify that the server is following the spec by creating a clean room client implementation. You could even create a green field server implementation if you wanted.<p>Telegram regularly has contests to break its encryption with a reward of 300K USD <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;telegram.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;cryptocontest" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;telegram.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;cryptocontest</a><p>If it&#x27;s not secure, then surely people would be cashing in on that sweet money. So, why is it that we constantly see articles talking about how insecure Telegram encryption is, but nobody is showing a proof of concept attack or collecting the prize?<p>Unless somebody puts their money where their mouth is and shows an actual exploit with code, it seems like pure FUD to me. On top of that, it appears that attacks on Telegram often come from people associated with Signal in some way. Signal is endorsed by NSA who have a history of promoting weak encryption that they have found backdoors into. I hope everybody still remembers this debacle <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;golem.ph.utexas.edu&#x2F;category&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;new_evidence_of_nsa_weakening.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;golem.ph.utexas.edu&#x2F;category&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;new_evidence_of...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xashor</author><text>&gt;Telegram regularly has contests to break its encryption with a reward of 300K USD <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;telegram.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;cryptocontest" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;telegram.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;cryptocontest</a><p>&gt;If it&#x27;s not secure, then surely people would be cashing in on that sweet money. So, why is it that we constantly see articles talking about how insecure Telegram encryption is, but nobody is showing a proof of concept attack or collecting the prize?<p>regulary != 2 times with limited time. Also, E2EE is not only about decrypting a message. E.g. signing messages as someone else isn&#x27;t awarded. Also, you might need a lot of computation power. SHA-1 used in MTProto 1.0 for example is practically pretty secure, but not against a well funded attack.<p>But that aside, Telegram&#x27;s encryption <i>is probably</i> good enough. But we already have standards that <i>are</i> good enough. Why risk it?<p>For example, from On the CCA (in)Security of MTProto[0]:<p>&gt;Telegram is a popular messaging app which supports end-to-end encrypted communication. In Spring 2015 we performed an audit of Telegram&#x27;s Android source code. This short paper summarizes our findings. Our main discovery is that the symmetric encryption scheme used in Telegram -- known as MTProto -- is not IND-CCA secure, since it is possible to turn any ciphertext into a different ciphertext that decrypts to the same message.<p>&gt;We stress that this is a theoretical attack on the definition of security and we do not see any way of turning the attack into a full plaintext-recovery attack. At the same time, we see no reason why one should use a less secure encryption scheme when more secure (and at least as efficient) solutions exist.<p>&gt;The take-home message (once again) is that well-studied, provably secure encryption schemes that achieve strong definitions of security (e.g., authenticated-encryption) are to be preferred to home-brewed encryption schemes.<p>And that aside, E2EE is not default and neither E2E group chats or E2E video calls are supported. This is the biggest security problem.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dl.acm.org&#x2F;citation.cfm?id=2994468" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dl.acm.org&#x2F;citation.cfm?id=2994468</a></text></comment> |
20,368,378 | 20,368,373 | 1 | 2 | 20,366,940 | train | <story><title>So you think you know C? (2016)</title><url>https://wordsandbuttons.online/so_you_think_you_know_c.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>Having written a conforming C compiler, at one point I knew everything there was to know about C (I forget details now and then, or confusing them with C++ and D).<p>But knowing every engineering detail is not the same thing as knowing how to program in C effectively. It&#x27;s like being the engineer who designs a Grand Prix car. It does not mean you can drive it faster around the track than anyone else. Not even close.<p>For example, the C preprocessor is surprisingly complicated. I had to scrap it and rewrite it completely 3 times. If you try to make use of all those oddities, my advice is don&#x27;t waste your time. Over time I removed all the C preprocessor tricks from my own code and just wrote ordinary C in its place. Much better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pcwalton</author><text>I couldn&#x27;t agree more. After spending many years working with LLVM, which is at its heart a C compiler, and understanding why it has to do the sometimes-terrifying things it has to do to get C to run well, I&#x27;ve become very paranoid when writing C or C++. My C&#x2F;C++ code is as boring as possible.<p>(In fact I try to avoid writing C or C++ whenever possible these days; undefined behavior in the language is too pernicious and unfixable without breaking compatibility. I think both languages are approaching obsolescence.)</text></comment> | <story><title>So you think you know C? (2016)</title><url>https://wordsandbuttons.online/so_you_think_you_know_c.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>Having written a conforming C compiler, at one point I knew everything there was to know about C (I forget details now and then, or confusing them with C++ and D).<p>But knowing every engineering detail is not the same thing as knowing how to program in C effectively. It&#x27;s like being the engineer who designs a Grand Prix car. It does not mean you can drive it faster around the track than anyone else. Not even close.<p>For example, the C preprocessor is surprisingly complicated. I had to scrap it and rewrite it completely 3 times. If you try to make use of all those oddities, my advice is don&#x27;t waste your time. Over time I removed all the C preprocessor tricks from my own code and just wrote ordinary C in its place. Much better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ogoffart</author><text>And that&#x27;s why people claiming that C++ is more complicated than C because it has an even bigger specification miss the point.<p>What counts is how easy to use in practice. You can get along just fine in C++ without knowing the exact aliasing rules from C or or how to specialize a template.
What matters is that the extra features of C++ makes actual programming simpler, not harder. (for example destructor (RAII), standard library, classes, ...)</text></comment> |
31,556,787 | 31,556,807 | 1 | 2 | 31,555,629 | train | <story><title>I disabled WiFi on the new Samsung fridge</title><url>https://eattherich.club/@swaggboi/108382897807037127</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IshKebab</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked in a big consumer electronics company and 2. is just a conspiracy theory. Nobody <i>wants</i> their products to be unreliable or difficult to repair. They want them to be <i>cheap to manufacture</i> and <i>unlikely to fail during the warranty period</i>. Everything else stems from that.<p>Your other two points are broadly correct though. Also data collection is helpful for seeing how customers use products, which genuinely does influence development.</text></item><item><author>somenameforme</author><text>In my ever-cynical view, I imagine in most cases manufacturers don&#x27;t, themselves, especially care about the data from their devices. I see various other motivations:<p>1) Price increases. It&#x27;s &quot;smart&quot;. Pay us more.<p>2) Planned obsolescence. You have numerous new points of failure in your product + make repairing vastly more difficult.<p>3) Monetize collected data by selling it to interested parties. The data quality, or lack thereof, is a secondary concern.</text></item><item><author>thn-gap</author><text>Has anyone worked on fighting back this kind of telemetry&#x2F;spyware of essential consumer appliances?<p>I&#x27;m thinking something similar to what <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adnauseam.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adnauseam.io&#x2F;</a> does, but but amplified:<p>1. Someone reverse engineer what does the device send to which address.
2. Block the particular device to access internet (and make it easy for others too).
3. Constantly send bogus data to the manufacturer so the personal data they get overall loses value or is unusable. Make it easy for a lot of people to do it as well, or even just rent a bot farm.<p>There&#x27;s too many legit and good services that end up being turned down due to abuse and DDos, and they don&#x27;t even bring anything good to the attackers. Why not using these techniques for something actually good to consumers privacy?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alpaca128</author><text>&gt; Nobody wants their products to be unreliable or difficult to repair.<p>Hard to believe when a printer manufacturer moves a commonly failing part from cartridges to the printer itself, then makes it impossible to repair that specific part without taking apart the whole thing and buying a replacement part for 160 bucks.<p>&gt; Also data collection is helpful for seeing how customers use products, which genuinely does influence development.<p>I&#x27;ll start calling it helpful once it actually improves product quality and usability.</text></comment> | <story><title>I disabled WiFi on the new Samsung fridge</title><url>https://eattherich.club/@swaggboi/108382897807037127</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IshKebab</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked in a big consumer electronics company and 2. is just a conspiracy theory. Nobody <i>wants</i> their products to be unreliable or difficult to repair. They want them to be <i>cheap to manufacture</i> and <i>unlikely to fail during the warranty period</i>. Everything else stems from that.<p>Your other two points are broadly correct though. Also data collection is helpful for seeing how customers use products, which genuinely does influence development.</text></item><item><author>somenameforme</author><text>In my ever-cynical view, I imagine in most cases manufacturers don&#x27;t, themselves, especially care about the data from their devices. I see various other motivations:<p>1) Price increases. It&#x27;s &quot;smart&quot;. Pay us more.<p>2) Planned obsolescence. You have numerous new points of failure in your product + make repairing vastly more difficult.<p>3) Monetize collected data by selling it to interested parties. The data quality, or lack thereof, is a secondary concern.</text></item><item><author>thn-gap</author><text>Has anyone worked on fighting back this kind of telemetry&#x2F;spyware of essential consumer appliances?<p>I&#x27;m thinking something similar to what <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adnauseam.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adnauseam.io&#x2F;</a> does, but but amplified:<p>1. Someone reverse engineer what does the device send to which address.
2. Block the particular device to access internet (and make it easy for others too).
3. Constantly send bogus data to the manufacturer so the personal data they get overall loses value or is unusable. Make it easy for a lot of people to do it as well, or even just rent a bot farm.<p>There&#x27;s too many legit and good services that end up being turned down due to abuse and DDos, and they don&#x27;t even bring anything good to the attackers. Why not using these techniques for something actually good to consumers privacy?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mjburgess</author><text>Well calling it &quot;planned&quot; adds a conspiratorial element, maybe there&#x27;s a better word.<p>The effect comes from many sources. When the engineering science is new, tech tends to be way overbuilt because the creators don&#x27;t know what tolerances are. There&#x27;s also the ratio of product cost to disposable income of the users. And to their wish for devices over time.<p>In any case, the natural tendency of a profit-optimizing system of competition is to throw away values (eg., repairability) that consumers at-purchase dont value. In this case, no biz is going to spend extra to include long-life features <i>at a loss</i> to competitors who don&#x27;t.<p>The remedy here is regulation, which is the mechanism which sets a floor on competition: since consumers at-purchase are at an extreme informational disadvantage, the gov. should require all biz to build in long-life features <i>given consumers do want them, long after purchase</i>.<p>It&#x27;s not a conspiracy, more of a market failure. The market doesnt produce optimal outcomes in cases where these extreme information asymmetries are built in, ie., by the time the product is around for 10yr to be reivewed, it&#x27;s retired. There isn&#x27;t a way of getting that information to the consumer.</text></comment> |
23,348,004 | 23,347,478 | 1 | 3 | 23,346,479 | train | <story><title>Western Digital Lawsuit for Shipping Slower SMR Hard Drives Including WD Red NAS</title><url>https://www.hattislaw.com/cases/investigations/western-digital-lawsuit-for-shipping-slower-smr-hard-drives-including-wd-red-nas/?shh</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PeterStuer</author><text>The Red series was originally marketed and positioned specifically for Home&#x2F;SMB NAS use. I have 4 of these (the old versions from before the SMR switch) running in my Synology NAS for years, and a 5th lying spare in its original sealed packaging just in case.<p>When WD stealthily swapped to using device managed SMR technology in the series, they hoped that typical users wouldn&#x27;t notice the change in behavior of the drives, as they assumed a small NAS would have enough downtime for the drive to manage the data being behind the scenes rearranged towards the slow shingled sections.<p>This assumption is not always true, but specifically it doesn&#x27;t hold at all when an array has to be rebuild e.g. because of a drive failure in a raid array, as that requires writing data continuously and for a long time.<p>WD was caught not just using a technology that made their drives unsuited for the advertised purpose, but initially even denying that they had done so.</text></comment> | <story><title>Western Digital Lawsuit for Shipping Slower SMR Hard Drives Including WD Red NAS</title><url>https://www.hattislaw.com/cases/investigations/western-digital-lawsuit-for-shipping-slower-smr-hard-drives-including-wd-red-nas/?shh</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>Nothing wrong with shipping slow SMR drives, the issue is, it was never explicitly disclosed to the customers&#x2F;end users.<p>For that, they deserve the lawsuit.</text></comment> |
14,514,525 | 14,512,605 | 1 | 2 | 14,511,777 | train | <story><title>Google Cloud Public Datasets now hosts EPA and OpenAQ air quality data</title><url>https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/06/us-epa-and-openaq-air-quality-data-now-available-in-bigquery</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>panarky</author><text>Important context:<p>1) US federal government has removed vast troves of public data produced by the EPA, OSHA and the Interior Department.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;under-trump-inconvenient-data-is-being-sidelined&#x2F;2017&#x2F;05&#x2F;14&#x2F;3ae22c28-3106-11e7-8674-437ddb6e813e_story.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;under-trump-inconven...</a><p>2) Google has now equipped Street View cars with air pollution sensors.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;environment.google&#x2F;projects&#x2F;airview&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;environment.google&#x2F;projects&#x2F;airview&#x2F;</a><p>Conclusion: If we can no longer rely on getting accurate data from federal agencies, private companies with a public mission will need to gather the data and make it available.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Cloud Public Datasets now hosts EPA and OpenAQ air quality data</title><url>https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/06/us-epa-and-openaq-air-quality-data-now-available-in-bigquery</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adorable</author><text>Important note: so-called &quot;live&quot; air quality measurements are in reality never &quot;live&quot; due to the nature of the measuring stations (taking measures takes time) and the way data is compiled and shared by the monitoring agencies. As a result typical delays range from 1 to 6 hours, which means you end up using &quot;old&quot; data or signaling a peak when in reality the pollution peak is already over.<p>This is solved by using models that predict air quality levels down to the hour. One option is to use <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plume.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plume.io</a></text></comment> |
9,507,869 | 9,507,701 | 1 | 2 | 9,506,587 | train | <story><title>Bringing Asm.js to Chakra and Microsoft Edge</title><url>https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/05/07/bringing-asm-js-to-chakra-microsoft-edge/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dicroce</author><text>Come on Google! Support asm.js in Chrome.... Give up on Native Client.... Even Microsoft is doing Asm.js now....</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tracker1</author><text>Google has done a number of optimizations that enhance asm.js performance while not specifically targeting asm.js. This results in real time performance that sometimes beats Firefox, which has asm.js built in. While I would like to see more effort to the areas of asm.js that are slow, I can&#x27;t discount the Chrome&#x2F;v8 team&#x27;s approach.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bringing Asm.js to Chakra and Microsoft Edge</title><url>https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/05/07/bringing-asm-js-to-chakra-microsoft-edge/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dicroce</author><text>Come on Google! Support asm.js in Chrome.... Give up on Native Client.... Even Microsoft is doing Asm.js now....</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flohofwoe</author><text>I would really love to see Native Client on Android as alternative to the dreaded Android NDK, and I really don&#x27;t understand why this hasn&#x27;t already happened, it&#x27;s so incredibly obvious. Just give us the ability to deploy and run a PNaCl executable directly as normal Android application, and without all the Java and JNI shenanigans. The Pepper API has a lot more to offer than what&#x27;s exposed through the NDK headers, and the SDK itself is much easier to get up and running then the NDK.</text></comment> |
14,258,781 | 14,258,326 | 1 | 2 | 14,257,982 | train | <story><title>How to ship production-grade Go</title><url>https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/how-to-ship-production-grade-go</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tedsuo</author><text>Oh god, there is some terrible advice in that article.<p>1. Don’t wrap errors, log.<p>Errors have two purposes - control flow for your application, and information for the developer and operator. If you are already logging the flow of your program, there is no need to wrap an error and create a call stack - you already have the call stack. If you cannot follow the control flow from your logs, you need to improve your logging, because you will also need to debug production problems that do not produce a literal error object.<p>And if you want more causality than you can get out of your logging, consider upgrading from logging to tracing. I contribute to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;opentracing.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;opentracing.io</a> so naturally that’s the tracing API I would suggest you look at.<p>2. Do not do anything with panics except recover from them or exit.<p>If you have a panic that you cannot recover from (and in general, that should be all of them), then it means your application is in a unknowable state. While Go is not as unsafe as C, any and all state in your program could be bad, and it is completely unclear what is still working and what is not. Nothing you do at this point is safe. For the love of god, do not hang your application and prevent it from exiting by trying to send a Slack message. Your goal should be to restart your program from a fresh clean state as quickly as possible, not to tie it up on the way out. Let the program exit and have an external monitoring program, whose state is NOT corrupted because its in a separate process, do all of the triage and reporting.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to ship production-grade Go</title><url>https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/how-to-ship-production-grade-go</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>I&#x27;d add another, something like &quot;Be Aware of the Ramifications of Partial HTTP&#x2F;S Implementations&quot;.<p>Because it&#x27;s so easy to expose http&#x2F;https in golang, I see a fair amount of code that takes the easy path of handling GETS and not doing much else. No support for HEAD, or compression, proper mime types in Content-type, or lacking Cache-Control headers, Etags, 304 responses, etc. Go can do all these, of course, but I see them missing often.<p>I&#x27;ve seen, for example, blogs, that (probably not on purpose) defeat browser caching. Not great for performance, or your egress bill.</text></comment> |
18,854,386 | 18,853,938 | 1 | 3 | 18,853,189 | train | <story><title>Alibaba acquires Berlin-based data Artisans for $103M</title><url>https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/alibaba-acquires-berlin-based-data-artisans-for-103m-report-116452/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamesblonde</author><text>What is it about European Enterprise Data software companies that they never make it past this stage without either being bought up or moving to the States?<p>MySQL, JBoss, Elastic. The list is much longer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>devdimi</author><text>There are lot of reasons:<p>-Europe is fragmented market. It is not given that German software will be gladly accepted and used in France, Italy or UK and vice versa. There are barriers there that does not exist in the US.<p>-The capital market and the stock market are not as developed as in USA in terms of market participants and available funds. Going public is unlikely event. If it happens, it would not get a lot of publicity and it would not raise as much money. Some European companies prefer to go public in the US.<p>-There is public mistrust about big software companies. Many people are afraid that big software companies will steal and abuse their personal data.<p>-There is also mistrust about venture capital and generally big finance institutions that they somehow &quot;control&quot; the economy, exploit small family businesses, and just make money on mistreating normal people.<p>I know that some of this sounds ridiculous, but it is true for astonishing number of people in Germany, France, Austria, and Italy. UK is a little better, but they mistrust everything about the rest of Europe.</text></comment> | <story><title>Alibaba acquires Berlin-based data Artisans for $103M</title><url>https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/alibaba-acquires-berlin-based-data-artisans-for-103m-report-116452/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamesblonde</author><text>What is it about European Enterprise Data software companies that they never make it past this stage without either being bought up or moving to the States?<p>MySQL, JBoss, Elastic. The list is much longer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rapsey</author><text>The funding options in Europe are abysmal compared to US or even UK. EU response to this is various EU funding programs that are mostly throwing money away for little to no benefit. At least in the tech sector.</text></comment> |
14,297,543 | 14,294,466 | 1 | 3 | 14,292,651 | train | <story><title>Google’s “Fuchsia” smartphone OS dumps Linux, has a wild new UI</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/googles-fuchsia-smartphone-os-dumps-linux-has-a-wild-new-ui/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>remir</author><text>Right now, if you want to order concert tickets or pay your parking meter, you need specific dedicated apps. The result of this is rows and rows of single-purpose apps &quot;silos&quot; on you phone, having to create an account and entering your credit card for each of them. I think some folks at Google got bored of that and wondered &quot;what&#x27;s next?&quot;.<p>Ultimately, what we want is not the app itself (the silo), but what the app enables (what&#x27;s inside). I don&#x27;t want to download a parking meter app, I just want to pay for parking. I don&#x27;t want to download LiveNation&#x27;s app. I just want to order concert tickets. The system should be able to generate an interface that allows me to do x,y,z depending on context, without having to manage credit cards, adresse and accounts.<p>Chatbots are here, personal assistant, too. You can use your messaging app to order stuff, find answers or send money to your friends. The writing is on the wall: single-purpose apps are not the future and chatbots and AI assistant potentially means less Google search and ad click.<p>So Google figured that re-purposing Android to fit this new paradigm would be an impossible task so they just said fuck it! Let&#x27;s start from scratch with a solid base. Let&#x27;s design a platform that will be everywhere, runs on everything, update silently like Chrome, and is made with AI in mind.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google’s “Fuchsia” smartphone OS dumps Linux, has a wild new UI</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/googles-fuchsia-smartphone-os-dumps-linux-has-a-wild-new-ui/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>type0</author><text>The best part of Fuchsias UI is their Armadillo logo.</text></comment> |
13,568,794 | 13,568,649 | 1 | 2 | 13,568,366 | train | <story><title>Software vendor argues that it has copyright in output of its CAD software</title><url>http://www.maw-law.com/copyright/output-copyright-protected-software-program-protected-copyright/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zokier</author><text>This is actually surprisingly interesting case. While I think most would agree that when software does purely &quot;algorithmic processing&quot; then the output would not be considered derivative work. But increasingly software suites include various templates and content libraries. When the output is then a composition of those templates and library content then I&#x27;d agree that there is an argument to be made that such output could be considered derivative work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Software vendor argues that it has copyright in output of its CAD software</title><url>http://www.maw-law.com/copyright/output-copyright-protected-software-program-protected-copyright/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>macmac</author><text>This case is with the Ninth Circuit on appeal. If you are interested in how courts conduct oral arguments in cases like this, there is a video recording available at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ca9.uscourts.gov&#x2F;media&#x2F;view_video.php?pk_vid=0000010345" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ca9.uscourts.gov&#x2F;media&#x2F;view_video.php?pk_vid=0000...</a></text></comment> |
30,455,790 | 30,455,307 | 1 | 2 | 30,454,043 | train | <story><title>Rails adds support for Fiber-safe ActiveRecord ConnectionPools</title><url>https://blog.saeloun.com/2022/02/23/rails-fiber-safe-connection-pools.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>midrus</author><text>I really hope some sanity comes back to this industry. Rails and Laravel are the best tools by far to build like... 90% of what we build on the internet (Other 10% being offline first apps and stuff like figma, etc).<p>It just hurts to see how my team, and previous teams I worked with struggle with all the SPAs and microservices, and Go backends and GraphQL nonsense when what we&#x27;re doing are just fancy crud forms with maybe one or two really interactive widgets overall.<p>So much time and money wasted just for following fashion.</text></item><item><author>nickjj</author><text>This is really exciting news. Lots of folks slam Rails for being slow and inefficient despite there being massive sites using it at scale (Shopify, GitHub, etc.) with very commendable response times and uptime.<p>At the same time you can still run a single $20 &#x2F; month server for &quot;smaller&quot; apps even with Rails + Sidekiq + Action Cable + Postgres + Redis all running on the same server to power your solo developed SAAS app with thousands of customers while having a p95+ response time of &lt;= 100ms.<p>PRs like this just mean things are going to get even better than they already are and is probably a precursor to converting a bunch of Rails internals to use Fibers over time. The best part about it is I as an end user don&#x27;t need to know the details, I just know my CPU and memory usage will go down over time while runtime performance continues to get better than it already is.<p>I wonder how long it&#x27;ll take before the pendulum swings so hard back into the direction of Rails that it shatters even the original growth spikes of Rails from all those years ago. With Hotwire Turbo being a thing now it&#x27;s very possible to build very nice feeling apps without writing a ton of JS while leveraging good old HTML and HTTP with sprinkles of Stimulus and WebSockets.<p>The more I think about it, the more I talk myself into believing Ruby &#x2F; Rails really are a once in a generation combination. It&#x27;s truly that good for getting real shit done in a pleasant way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>berkes</author><text>There is no &quot;sanity&quot; lost, nor are the masses &quot;following fashion&quot;. That is unfair to those who put real thought, time and effort in their software.<p>Rails has its strong sides. And its weak sides. Trade-offs are to be investigated. An extremely weak side of Rails, is how it is very tightly coupled to the database. Which -its strong side- is perfect for <i>simple</i> CRUD applications. But it falls down quickly when you have much more event-driven or domain-logic heavy applications.<p>And yes, I <i>know</i> Rails can be used for this. But just like I can, potentially write a web-app in Bash, it&#x27;s not where it shines and it will bring you pain.<p>For Rails, the pain quickly becomes evident when a lot of business-rules are spread out through &quot;Validators&quot;. Or when migrations become a pain to manage. Or when you have more and more complexity moved into async jobs. All of these are signs that the CRUD-nature and&#x2F;or the tight database-coupling is harming you more than helping you.<p>Choosing some other architecture that better fits your domain is not &quot;following the latest fashion&quot;. It&#x27;s sane, proper due-diligence.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rails adds support for Fiber-safe ActiveRecord ConnectionPools</title><url>https://blog.saeloun.com/2022/02/23/rails-fiber-safe-connection-pools.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>midrus</author><text>I really hope some sanity comes back to this industry. Rails and Laravel are the best tools by far to build like... 90% of what we build on the internet (Other 10% being offline first apps and stuff like figma, etc).<p>It just hurts to see how my team, and previous teams I worked with struggle with all the SPAs and microservices, and Go backends and GraphQL nonsense when what we&#x27;re doing are just fancy crud forms with maybe one or two really interactive widgets overall.<p>So much time and money wasted just for following fashion.</text></item><item><author>nickjj</author><text>This is really exciting news. Lots of folks slam Rails for being slow and inefficient despite there being massive sites using it at scale (Shopify, GitHub, etc.) with very commendable response times and uptime.<p>At the same time you can still run a single $20 &#x2F; month server for &quot;smaller&quot; apps even with Rails + Sidekiq + Action Cable + Postgres + Redis all running on the same server to power your solo developed SAAS app with thousands of customers while having a p95+ response time of &lt;= 100ms.<p>PRs like this just mean things are going to get even better than they already are and is probably a precursor to converting a bunch of Rails internals to use Fibers over time. The best part about it is I as an end user don&#x27;t need to know the details, I just know my CPU and memory usage will go down over time while runtime performance continues to get better than it already is.<p>I wonder how long it&#x27;ll take before the pendulum swings so hard back into the direction of Rails that it shatters even the original growth spikes of Rails from all those years ago. With Hotwire Turbo being a thing now it&#x27;s very possible to build very nice feeling apps without writing a ton of JS while leveraging good old HTML and HTTP with sprinkles of Stimulus and WebSockets.<p>The more I think about it, the more I talk myself into believing Ruby &#x2F; Rails really are a once in a generation combination. It&#x27;s truly that good for getting real shit done in a pleasant way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hellcow</author><text>Calling it &quot;fashion&quot; is disingenuous.<p>I ran Rails in production years back and swore it off then. We had constant memory leaks that seemingly came from Rails itself, and the only solution we had was &quot;just restart the server.&quot; We also had no typing then, so every bug was a runtime bug. Hopefully it&#x27;s improved in the years since...<p>I&#x27;ve been happily running Go backends for the past 7 years now, and they&#x27;re stable and fast and easy to refactor.</text></comment> |
20,632,636 | 20,632,595 | 1 | 2 | 20,631,969 | train | <story><title>Divers Find Remains of Ancient Temple in Sunken Egyptian City</title><url>https://www.livescience.com/66045-underwater-ancient-egypt-city-temple.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>LifeIsBio</author><text>Visiting Egypt, particularly as an American, is an amazing experience. I tend to think of the American Revolution as “a long time ago”. After all, that’s when the country began.<p>Egypt, on the other hand, is a whole different ball game. It’s easy to recognize this on an intellectual level by reading on Wikipedia. But to see the history laid out like geological stratum is something else: layers on layers of civilization after civilization. Sometimes quite literally, like cases of hieroglyphics covered in multiple layers of graffiti, each layer in a different language.<p>It’s also enjoyable to see how enthusiastic Egyptians are about this history, and about new discoveries like this one. If you ever get the chance to go, go.</text></comment> | <story><title>Divers Find Remains of Ancient Temple in Sunken Egyptian City</title><url>https://www.livescience.com/66045-underwater-ancient-egypt-city-temple.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adam0c</author><text>this is old news, even the article is from 29th July there is actually more photos in this article about it by the sun of all newspapers! actual real factual news in the sun! (for those of you that are unfamiliar the sun is a tabloid paper in the uk that basically does boobs on page 3 and sports that&#x27;s about it)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thesun.co.uk&#x2F;tech&#x2F;9571371&#x2F;heracleion-ancient-egypt-temple-ship&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thesun.co.uk&#x2F;tech&#x2F;9571371&#x2F;heracleion-ancient-egy...</a></text></comment> |
7,121,893 | 7,121,742 | 1 | 2 | 7,121,144 | train | <story><title>Nvidia marketing manager killed during train rescue attempt</title><url>http://www.polygon.com/2014/1/25/5344390/nvidia-marketing-manager-killed-during-train-rescue-attempt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Karunamon</author><text>Would it would really be that expensive to install what amounts to a row of automatic glass doors like you have at the supermarket?</text></item><item><author>ZanyProgrammer</author><text>Its too expensive to do that to all Caltrain stations. The reality is there are better things to spend money on for Caltrain (like electrification).</text></item><item><author>jakobe</author><text>Most subway stations in Singapore have walls with doors between the train and the platform. The doors open only after the train arrived and stopped. (It&#x27;s similar to elevator doors.)<p>Makes it impossible to fall or jump on the tracks.</text></item><item><author>GuiA</author><text>Those Caltrain accidents seem to happen all the frigging time [1]. I&#x27;m not sure much can be done about them, but every time I hear about one my heart sinks a little lower.
Is there any obvious thing that I&#x27;m missing that could be done?<p>[1]: 12 a year on average apparently: <a href="http://kalw.org/post/caltrain-engineer-talks-about-coping-track-deaths" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kalw.org&#x2F;post&#x2F;caltrain-engineer-talks-about-coping-tr...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>potatolicious</author><text>Yes. For a few reason:<p>- The train doors need to line up closely with the glass doors, for obvious reasons. Commuter trains in the US are not capable of stopping so precisely. Usually the trains would have to support some kind of computerized stop-assist in order to be precise enough to pull this off.<p>- Said stop-assist wouldn&#x27;t just be a train feature, it would involve communication with the track, and therefore upgrades to the entire signaling system. Many systems have this &quot;for free&quot; by virtue of being built later. The actual track Caltrain runs on pre-dates Caltrain itself by a wide margin.<p>- You need to run a unified, homogeneous vehicle fleet so the doors are in the same places on all trains. This is the problem with safety doors in large legacy train systems (see: NYC, Chicago) where due to legacy factors there are many vastly different trains all running on the same track.<p>A lot of non-trivial problems where the only solution is vast capital spending.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nvidia marketing manager killed during train rescue attempt</title><url>http://www.polygon.com/2014/1/25/5344390/nvidia-marketing-manager-killed-during-train-rescue-attempt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Karunamon</author><text>Would it would really be that expensive to install what amounts to a row of automatic glass doors like you have at the supermarket?</text></item><item><author>ZanyProgrammer</author><text>Its too expensive to do that to all Caltrain stations. The reality is there are better things to spend money on for Caltrain (like electrification).</text></item><item><author>jakobe</author><text>Most subway stations in Singapore have walls with doors between the train and the platform. The doors open only after the train arrived and stopped. (It&#x27;s similar to elevator doors.)<p>Makes it impossible to fall or jump on the tracks.</text></item><item><author>GuiA</author><text>Those Caltrain accidents seem to happen all the frigging time [1]. I&#x27;m not sure much can be done about them, but every time I hear about one my heart sinks a little lower.
Is there any obvious thing that I&#x27;m missing that could be done?<p>[1]: 12 a year on average apparently: <a href="http://kalw.org/post/caltrain-engineer-talks-about-coping-track-deaths" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kalw.org&#x2F;post&#x2F;caltrain-engineer-talks-about-coping-tr...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>archgoon</author><text>Yes.<p><a href="http://www.caltrain.com/stations/systemmap.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.caltrain.com&#x2F;stations&#x2F;systemmap.html</a><p>This isn&#x27;t a subway, where the entry points are clearly defined. Look at this station, for example<p><a href="http://goo.gl/maps/vmYxx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;maps&#x2F;vmYxx</a><p>The tracks keep going, with basically nothing protecting them. Putting up walls around the entire thing would be a significant undertaking.</text></comment> |
31,137,709 | 31,136,793 | 1 | 2 | 31,136,285 | train | <story><title>The digital ranging system that measured the distance to the Apollo spacecraft</title><url>https://www.righto.com/2022/04/the-digital-ranging-system-that.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CaliforniaKarl</author><text>As a companion piece to this post, I suggest watching CuriousMarc&#x27;s still-in-progress series &quot;Apollo S-Band Communications&quot; at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PL-_93BVApb58SXL-BCv4rVHL-8GuC2WGb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PL-_93BVApb58SXL-BCv4r...</a><p>You can see the equipment from this post being tested and used!</text></comment> | <story><title>The digital ranging system that measured the distance to the Apollo spacecraft</title><url>https://www.righto.com/2022/04/the-digital-ranging-system-that.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kens</author><text>Author here if anyone has questions. I encourage you to try out the interactive page that shows how the ranging system worked: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;righto.com&#x2F;apollo&#x2F;ranging.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;righto.com&#x2F;apollo&#x2F;ranging.html</a></text></comment> |
1,097,581 | 1,097,516 | 1 | 3 | 1,097,188 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Propaganda for creative salary manipulation?</title><text>Every once and a while (at least once a week) I stumble upon some essay heralding the euphoria of working in a good team, or on a good project, or of spending your life solving projects. They all seem to have the same underlying tone, that engineers don't care about money, they care about the work they do. Sometimes I wonder if these articles are some creative, subtle, under-handed manipulation to convince young engineers to feel guilty for demanding to get paid a fair wage for the value of their services.<p>Am I the only engineer out here that wants to scream, "fuck you, pay me" whenever somebody rambels on and on about how wonderful it is to drink the kool-aid at flickr, google, twitter, or zynga? (and for the record, all of my friends at these 4 companies feel very under-paid).</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>"Am I the only engineer out here that wants to scream, "fuck you, pay me" whenever somebody rambels on and on about how wonderful it is to drink the kool-aid at flickr, google, twitter, or zynga? (and for the record, all of my friends at these 4 companies feel very under-paid)."<p>I'm one of those engineers that drank the kool-aid. Yeah, I could probably make more elsewhere. However, I'm at the stage of my career where I'm optimizing for experience, not for earnings. I'd rather trade salary for skills now, so that those skills can bring more salary later. That's capitalism.<p>Besides, I honestly don't see the point of going from $100K to $200K (made-up numbers, but presumably the ballpark we're talking about). I save half my take-home pay anyway; I can't really think of what else I'd like to buy with it. When I choose to optimize for earnings, I'd rather be in the tens of millions, i.e. found a company and grow it - which also happens to be quite satisfying, although lots of hard work. There's a material difference between "never has to work again" and "still a wage slave". There isn't one (to me) between "can afford a Beemer" and "can afford a Honda Civic."</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gorbachev</author><text>I went from $100K to $200K and to $300K and then to $150K in a relatively short period of time. There's a HUGE difference in lifestyle even with a $100K difference. Obviously it didn't make me independently wealthy, but the difference was still night and day.<p>The $200K+ allowed me to invest in a house in NYC for my family. At $100K I couldn't afford one. Before the house purchase the $200K+ allowed me to vacation abroad 2-3 times a year. The experiences I gained doing that can not be measured in money.<p>But most importantly it allowed me to completely avoid worrying about money. I knew that whatever happened, I wouldn't be in a financial hole. That type of financial freedom is priceless.<p>Obviously if my life situation was different...if I was single or living in less expensive part of the country, I could probably achieve the same financial freedom at $100K.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Propaganda for creative salary manipulation?</title><text>Every once and a while (at least once a week) I stumble upon some essay heralding the euphoria of working in a good team, or on a good project, or of spending your life solving projects. They all seem to have the same underlying tone, that engineers don't care about money, they care about the work they do. Sometimes I wonder if these articles are some creative, subtle, under-handed manipulation to convince young engineers to feel guilty for demanding to get paid a fair wage for the value of their services.<p>Am I the only engineer out here that wants to scream, "fuck you, pay me" whenever somebody rambels on and on about how wonderful it is to drink the kool-aid at flickr, google, twitter, or zynga? (and for the record, all of my friends at these 4 companies feel very under-paid).</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>"Am I the only engineer out here that wants to scream, "fuck you, pay me" whenever somebody rambels on and on about how wonderful it is to drink the kool-aid at flickr, google, twitter, or zynga? (and for the record, all of my friends at these 4 companies feel very under-paid)."<p>I'm one of those engineers that drank the kool-aid. Yeah, I could probably make more elsewhere. However, I'm at the stage of my career where I'm optimizing for experience, not for earnings. I'd rather trade salary for skills now, so that those skills can bring more salary later. That's capitalism.<p>Besides, I honestly don't see the point of going from $100K to $200K (made-up numbers, but presumably the ballpark we're talking about). I save half my take-home pay anyway; I can't really think of what else I'd like to buy with it. When I choose to optimize for earnings, I'd rather be in the tens of millions, i.e. found a company and grow it - which also happens to be quite satisfying, although lots of hard work. There's a material difference between "never has to work again" and "still a wage slave". There isn't one (to me) between "can afford a Beemer" and "can afford a Honda Civic."</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>olalonde</author><text>I totally agree. "How cash in the bank affects your lifestyle: it's not linear." (<a href="http://blog.asmartbear.com/rich-vs-king-sold-company.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.asmartbear.com/rich-vs-king-sold-company.html</a>)</text></comment> |
5,074,765 | 5,074,344 | 1 | 3 | 5,073,918 | train | <story><title>Still More About The Death Of Aaron Swartz</title><url>http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/aaron-swartz-case-011713</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cbs</author><text>I think this article speaks to why the case is getting so much attention. Lets presume for the sake of argument the trial didn't contribute to the suicide in the slightest. But it did cause us to look at the case, and you can't just un-see the fact that maybe you're not entirely comfortable with the way justice is being carried out in your name.<p>We tend to trust in our legal system, one way or another. Even if that way is by ignoring it and assuming everything will sort itself out. Events like Aaron's suicide put it on your radar in a way that makes some of the public sit up and reexamine whether or not the power we have entrusted in others, to carry out our buisness, is being exercised as we would like it to be.<p>Something smells like bullshit about the case, and just because a prosecutor with political ambition can issue a cover-your-ass statement isn't entirely comforting when faced with the convoluted web that extends beyond her to the entire nature of justice in the country.<p>Welcome to being a citizen in a democracy, please stay engaged beyond this single case.<p>edited: speeling</text></comment> | <story><title>Still More About The Death Of Aaron Swartz</title><url>http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/aaron-swartz-case-011713</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dasht</author><text>A focus on the prosecutor helps distract attention from the question of whether and how Swartz was mistreated by being made a (somewhat artificial) "tech celebrity" at a very young age only to become a kind of semi-outcast in some tech circles just a few years later.</text></comment> |
22,638,425 | 22,638,428 | 1 | 3 | 22,636,553 | train | <story><title>Formula 1 launches Virtual Grand Prix Series to replace postponed races</title><url>https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.formula-1-launches-virtual-grand-prix-series-to-replace-postponed-races.1znLAbPzBbCQPj1IDMeiOi.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gil</author><text>This will be entertaining due to the well known driver names BUT not high level by any means:<p>&quot;Due to the wide variety of gaming skill levels amongst the drivers, game settings will be configured in such a way to encourage competitive and entertaining racing. This includes running equal car performance with fixed setups, reduced vehicle damage, and optional anti-lock brakes and traction control for those less familiar with the game.&quot;<p>More like a &quot;So You Think You Can Dance&quot; celebrity edition than anything else.<p>A much higher level event which also includes some IRL drivers from multiple series is: The Race All-Star Esports Battle (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_a_RV5UY8mk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_a_RV5UY8mk</a>)
Higher level mostly because they race in rFactor2 which is a better simulator than F1 2019 and there are no driver aids. Also because everyone on the grid are long-ish time sim racers, even if some of them also happen to be IRL drivers (Max Verstappen, Felix Rosenqvist, Antonio Felix da Costa, a few others)<p>Here&#x27;s a good list of motorsports eSports events for the next few days: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;the-race.com&#x2F;esports&#x2F;the-complete-motorsport-esports-schedule&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;the-race.com&#x2F;esports&#x2F;the-complete-motorsport-esports...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Formula 1 launches Virtual Grand Prix Series to replace postponed races</title><url>https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.formula-1-launches-virtual-grand-prix-series-to-replace-postponed-races.1znLAbPzBbCQPj1IDMeiOi.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oopsies49</author><text>Nascar is doing something similar. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.enascar.com&#x2F;news-media&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;19&#x2F;fox-sports-to-deliver-sundays-enascar-iracing-pro-invitational-series-on-fs1&#x2F;?linkId=100000011277236" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.enascar.com&#x2F;news-media&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;19&#x2F;fox-sports-to-...</a></text></comment> |
22,832,555 | 22,829,811 | 1 | 2 | 22,828,932 | train | <story><title>The software industry's greatest sin: hiring</title><url>https://www.neilwithdata.com/developer-hiring</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>josephg</author><text>I&#x27;m a software engineer working at a company in the hiring space. I&#x27;ve done over 400 technical interviews in the last year alone, and ... this is a hot take, and not the view of my employer, but I think developer hiring processes are fine (At least, at most mature companies.)<p>There&#x27;s a problem at the moment in the market that there&#x27;s a huge amount of pent up demand for senior developers. The market has responded with bootcamps and the like, and we have a ton of junior devs with very little knowledge and experience pouring into the workforce. The sad truth is that most devs fresh out of collage or a bootcamp aren&#x27;t valuable enough to be worth hiring at large tech companies like Google. Most people who apply to any hiring role you advertise won&#x27;t really be able to program effectively. (And if they can, they won&#x27;t know the conventions of the language they use, they won&#x27;t know anything about security, they won&#x27;t be able to read code others write in order to debug it, etc etc.).<p>Programming is hard. It probably takes about a decade of practice to become good at it, and I don&#x27;t think schools have figured out a replicable way to take someone off the street and teach them programming yet. (For example, most fresh grads have never had to read the code another programmer wrote. Imagine teaching people how to write without teaching them how to read!)<p>I think there&#x27;s lots of angry junior folks out there saying &quot;Hey, I can write a simple for() loop in python, and lots of people are hiring - but I apply to lots of jobs and keep getting knocked back! The hiring process must be broken!&quot;. And a few angry senior engineers out there saying &quot;Why do I have to keep writing fizzbuzz? Its like I have to prove over and over again that I can program at all!&quot;.<p>Of course, nobody wants to admit that the reason they failed their 6th whiteboard interview in a row is because they aren&#x27;t very good at system design. And the reason for that is that their collage didn&#x27;t teach them any system design skills, and they have no experience, and they never learned how to use words to communicate technical ideas. And ArbitraryProductCo doesn&#x27;t have the runway to train you up.<p>Of course there&#x27;s the occasional person who is really skilled and somehow still manages to fail programming interviews all the time. But if the goal of a technical interview is &quot;make sure we don&#x27;t hire anyone who wouldn&#x27;t be effective at the job&quot;, I think they&#x27;re fit for purpose. I think the real sin is that we&#x27;re afraid to tell people they aren&#x27;t very good at programming yet, and we use technical interviews as a scape goat.</text></item><item><author>dahart</author><text>&gt; Developer hiring is broken<p>This seems to be a pretty popular opinion. It totally might be right, but it’s not my own experience, so I have a serious question because maybe I don’t know what’s happening out there with most hiring today - what are the broad-stroke outcomes that demonstrate that hiring isn’t working? Are there statistics that show that hiring has problems? All of the reasons given in the article are claims without evidence, nor objective comparison to hiring for other industries. When looking for jobs, I’ve never been evaluated on IQ or code alone, it has always come with communication and personality and culture fit evaluations, among many other things. When hiring, my own team does everything this article claims isn’t being done. So I might be completely unaware of the major trends out there... how can I see those trends from where I sit? Are people not getting jobs who should, has there been high unemployment? Are companies not able to hire people? If hiring is broken, what are the problems it’s causing?<p>&gt; It&#x27;s a disguised IQ test<p>It is amusing to me that many blog posts and comments around here argue for exactly that under the same banner ‘hiring is broken’. Lots of developers are frustrated about being evaluated by how well they communicate and not by their code. Lots of people here complain about in-person interviews and tests and argue that take-home coding should be the norm, or that coding tests should not used at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clarry</author><text>&gt; The sad truth is that most devs fresh out of collage or a bootcamp aren&#x27;t valuable enough to be worth hiring at large tech companies like Google.<p>.. which is really unfortunate, because those big companies are the ones that have the most resources to hire, train, and mentor juniors. At the opposite end we have small companies that can literally go bankrupt when their hire doesn&#x27;t work out and is unable to deliver working software. Even if the hire works out well enough, they&#x27;re not learning as much as they could in a well resourced team with enough serious talent &amp; seniors to mentor them.<p>&gt; I think the real sin is that we&#x27;re afraid to tell people they aren&#x27;t very good at programming yet, and we use technical interviews as a scape goat.<p>I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s useful to tell people that they aren&#x27;t very good. It&#x27;s a serious chicken &amp; egg problem because everybody wants to hire seniors that can hit the road running and nobody wants to train the juniors. The juniors really don&#x27;t need to be told that they aren&#x27;t good enough, they need a place where they can get good!</text></comment> | <story><title>The software industry's greatest sin: hiring</title><url>https://www.neilwithdata.com/developer-hiring</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>josephg</author><text>I&#x27;m a software engineer working at a company in the hiring space. I&#x27;ve done over 400 technical interviews in the last year alone, and ... this is a hot take, and not the view of my employer, but I think developer hiring processes are fine (At least, at most mature companies.)<p>There&#x27;s a problem at the moment in the market that there&#x27;s a huge amount of pent up demand for senior developers. The market has responded with bootcamps and the like, and we have a ton of junior devs with very little knowledge and experience pouring into the workforce. The sad truth is that most devs fresh out of collage or a bootcamp aren&#x27;t valuable enough to be worth hiring at large tech companies like Google. Most people who apply to any hiring role you advertise won&#x27;t really be able to program effectively. (And if they can, they won&#x27;t know the conventions of the language they use, they won&#x27;t know anything about security, they won&#x27;t be able to read code others write in order to debug it, etc etc.).<p>Programming is hard. It probably takes about a decade of practice to become good at it, and I don&#x27;t think schools have figured out a replicable way to take someone off the street and teach them programming yet. (For example, most fresh grads have never had to read the code another programmer wrote. Imagine teaching people how to write without teaching them how to read!)<p>I think there&#x27;s lots of angry junior folks out there saying &quot;Hey, I can write a simple for() loop in python, and lots of people are hiring - but I apply to lots of jobs and keep getting knocked back! The hiring process must be broken!&quot;. And a few angry senior engineers out there saying &quot;Why do I have to keep writing fizzbuzz? Its like I have to prove over and over again that I can program at all!&quot;.<p>Of course, nobody wants to admit that the reason they failed their 6th whiteboard interview in a row is because they aren&#x27;t very good at system design. And the reason for that is that their collage didn&#x27;t teach them any system design skills, and they have no experience, and they never learned how to use words to communicate technical ideas. And ArbitraryProductCo doesn&#x27;t have the runway to train you up.<p>Of course there&#x27;s the occasional person who is really skilled and somehow still manages to fail programming interviews all the time. But if the goal of a technical interview is &quot;make sure we don&#x27;t hire anyone who wouldn&#x27;t be effective at the job&quot;, I think they&#x27;re fit for purpose. I think the real sin is that we&#x27;re afraid to tell people they aren&#x27;t very good at programming yet, and we use technical interviews as a scape goat.</text></item><item><author>dahart</author><text>&gt; Developer hiring is broken<p>This seems to be a pretty popular opinion. It totally might be right, but it’s not my own experience, so I have a serious question because maybe I don’t know what’s happening out there with most hiring today - what are the broad-stroke outcomes that demonstrate that hiring isn’t working? Are there statistics that show that hiring has problems? All of the reasons given in the article are claims without evidence, nor objective comparison to hiring for other industries. When looking for jobs, I’ve never been evaluated on IQ or code alone, it has always come with communication and personality and culture fit evaluations, among many other things. When hiring, my own team does everything this article claims isn’t being done. So I might be completely unaware of the major trends out there... how can I see those trends from where I sit? Are people not getting jobs who should, has there been high unemployment? Are companies not able to hire people? If hiring is broken, what are the problems it’s causing?<p>&gt; It&#x27;s a disguised IQ test<p>It is amusing to me that many blog posts and comments around here argue for exactly that under the same banner ‘hiring is broken’. Lots of developers are frustrated about being evaluated by how well they communicate and not by their code. Lots of people here complain about in-person interviews and tests and argue that take-home coding should be the norm, or that coding tests should not used at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Apocryphon</author><text>&gt; I think the real sin is that we&#x27;re afraid to tell people they aren&#x27;t very good at programming yet, and we use technical interviews as a scape goat.<p>So does this mean that programming education is broken? That companies should invest more in training? That bootcamps should revamp what they teach? That there should be industry standards for what programmers at different levels should be expected to know?<p>The most maddening thing about interviews imo is the opacity. There&#x27;s always uncertainty about where exactly things went wrong, and how it should be fixed next time. It&#x27;s almost a meta-engineering problem of its own. And it&#x27;s a metaphor for the lack of software engineering standards.</text></comment> |
8,885,832 | 8,884,968 | 1 | 3 | 8,879,927 | train | <story><title>The Rise and Fall of the Lone Game Developer</title><url>http://www.jeffwofford.com/?p=1579</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ekianjo</author><text>&gt; I feel like we are in a golden age of PC gaming right now.<p>Not really. Its golden Age was in the late 80s, early 90s, where games were still made by educated people FOR educated people, before the whole thing went mainstream and any sign of complexity went progressively down the drain so that Everyone could start playing games. I miss Falcon&#x27;s 300 pages manual, or even Colonization&#x27;s fantastic booklet that went far above describing how to just play the game.<p>The early 90s were dominated by AAA titles from Origin, pushing both the boundaries of what was technically possible on PC as well as driving genres forward by developing non-linear game structures and exploring 3D environments. Nowadays AAA blockbusters jsut rehash the same formula over and over again (care to take another Assassin&#x27;s Creed?).</text></item><item><author>MrMember</author><text>I feel like we are in a golden age of PC gaming right now.<p>Genres completely abandoned by AAA developers ages ago are seeing a resurgence thanks to crowdsourcing. Space sims have been all but dead since Freelancer in 2003 but now there are several to play and look forward to.<p>Formerly obscure genres like roguelikes are seeing mainstream success thanks to high quality &quot;roguelike-like&quot; games like FTL.<p>Hell, even the impenetrable Dwarf Fortress brings in enough money from donations to support future development.</text></item><item><author>gavanwoolery</author><text>:) Yes, pretty much. DotA was created as a small mod, and now look at the commercial explosion it has spawned, with tournaments containing $2+ million in prizes and everyone wanting to make MOBAs.<p>I think in the past 20 years, we actually have not made as many breakthroughs in game mechanics (of course, this was easier in the early days). Games are still fairly similar to those of the 90s, only technically more complex. I think we are beginning to maybe get a better handle on game design, which I am seeing creep in with more appreciation of more obscure (now less obscure) game types like roguelikes and CCGs. Little known fact is that Plants vs Zombies was largely inspired by deck building mechanics found in Magic the Gathering, so you are beginning to see some more obscure mechanics like that get mainstreamed.</text></item><item><author>CodeCube</author><text>&gt; There is so much unexplored space in the medium. We might have stripped the surface, but there is gold down there somewhere.<p>And so the cycle continues :P</text></item><item><author>gavanwoolery</author><text>The gold rush was almost over before it started on mobile - it did not take more than a year for things to become extremely competitive. Flash games suffered a similar fate. Consoles have not generally been indie-friendly but Playstation is now making a better effort on that front, although they are still mainly catering to indie devs who have already &quot;made it.&quot; Greenlight is becoming quite competitive (there were 17,000+ active games when I was on there). Kickstarter seems to have lost a great deal of its enthusiasm (perhaps rightfully so).<p>And yet...<p>There is so much unexplored space in the medium. We might have stripped the surface, but there is gold down there somewhere. :)</text></item><item><author>ANTSANTS</author><text>More like, the iOS app store gold rush ended. The indie dev scene is thriving on PC. Stop throwing your time and money away developing for a platform overwhelmingly used by people that don&#x27;t really care about your games, that are looking for brief distractions while they wait in the checkout line, and by and large refuse to pay even a dollar for the privilege. Don&#x27;t blame the industry because you avoided the platform used by people that actually buy games, play them for hours a day, tirelessly promote the good ones on message boards and amongst their friends, and will actually appreciate the effort you put into your work.<p>Also, Donkey Kong was not created by a &quot;lone game developer.&quot; Miyamoto may have designed Donkey Kong by himself, but he had entire team of contract developers at his disposal.<p><a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/134790/the_secret_history_of_donkey_kong.php?print=1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gamasutra.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;feature&#x2F;134790&#x2F;the_secret_hist...</a><p><a href="http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Company:Ikegami_Tsushinki" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gdri.smspower.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;Company:Ikegami_Tsus...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>exDM69</author><text>This is a perfectly valid opinion and seems to be downvoted because of disagreement. (albeit you could have clearly stated it&#x27;s <i>your</i> opinion).<p>I kind of agree. A lot of AAA games these days are just unoriginal. They follow the genre they exist in without much creativity or original ideas. Perhaps the storyline in the game is what people are after these days, but gameplay-wise, I don&#x27;t remember when I&#x27;ve seen a big production game that I would have wanted to play.<p>Not to underestimate the value of nostalgia, of course. Some of the old games have not stood up to the test of time. E.g. I played the original Dungeon Keeper recently and I was a bit underwhelmed because I remember when I played that game when it was new and how great it felt.<p>Good thing that there are still interesting indie games. Even 15-20 years ago when I played more games, I spent more time playing small indie titles I found from BBS&#x27;es and computer magazines than I did playing big titles.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Rise and Fall of the Lone Game Developer</title><url>http://www.jeffwofford.com/?p=1579</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ekianjo</author><text>&gt; I feel like we are in a golden age of PC gaming right now.<p>Not really. Its golden Age was in the late 80s, early 90s, where games were still made by educated people FOR educated people, before the whole thing went mainstream and any sign of complexity went progressively down the drain so that Everyone could start playing games. I miss Falcon&#x27;s 300 pages manual, or even Colonization&#x27;s fantastic booklet that went far above describing how to just play the game.<p>The early 90s were dominated by AAA titles from Origin, pushing both the boundaries of what was technically possible on PC as well as driving genres forward by developing non-linear game structures and exploring 3D environments. Nowadays AAA blockbusters jsut rehash the same formula over and over again (care to take another Assassin&#x27;s Creed?).</text></item><item><author>MrMember</author><text>I feel like we are in a golden age of PC gaming right now.<p>Genres completely abandoned by AAA developers ages ago are seeing a resurgence thanks to crowdsourcing. Space sims have been all but dead since Freelancer in 2003 but now there are several to play and look forward to.<p>Formerly obscure genres like roguelikes are seeing mainstream success thanks to high quality &quot;roguelike-like&quot; games like FTL.<p>Hell, even the impenetrable Dwarf Fortress brings in enough money from donations to support future development.</text></item><item><author>gavanwoolery</author><text>:) Yes, pretty much. DotA was created as a small mod, and now look at the commercial explosion it has spawned, with tournaments containing $2+ million in prizes and everyone wanting to make MOBAs.<p>I think in the past 20 years, we actually have not made as many breakthroughs in game mechanics (of course, this was easier in the early days). Games are still fairly similar to those of the 90s, only technically more complex. I think we are beginning to maybe get a better handle on game design, which I am seeing creep in with more appreciation of more obscure (now less obscure) game types like roguelikes and CCGs. Little known fact is that Plants vs Zombies was largely inspired by deck building mechanics found in Magic the Gathering, so you are beginning to see some more obscure mechanics like that get mainstreamed.</text></item><item><author>CodeCube</author><text>&gt; There is so much unexplored space in the medium. We might have stripped the surface, but there is gold down there somewhere.<p>And so the cycle continues :P</text></item><item><author>gavanwoolery</author><text>The gold rush was almost over before it started on mobile - it did not take more than a year for things to become extremely competitive. Flash games suffered a similar fate. Consoles have not generally been indie-friendly but Playstation is now making a better effort on that front, although they are still mainly catering to indie devs who have already &quot;made it.&quot; Greenlight is becoming quite competitive (there were 17,000+ active games when I was on there). Kickstarter seems to have lost a great deal of its enthusiasm (perhaps rightfully so).<p>And yet...<p>There is so much unexplored space in the medium. We might have stripped the surface, but there is gold down there somewhere. :)</text></item><item><author>ANTSANTS</author><text>More like, the iOS app store gold rush ended. The indie dev scene is thriving on PC. Stop throwing your time and money away developing for a platform overwhelmingly used by people that don&#x27;t really care about your games, that are looking for brief distractions while they wait in the checkout line, and by and large refuse to pay even a dollar for the privilege. Don&#x27;t blame the industry because you avoided the platform used by people that actually buy games, play them for hours a day, tirelessly promote the good ones on message boards and amongst their friends, and will actually appreciate the effort you put into your work.<p>Also, Donkey Kong was not created by a &quot;lone game developer.&quot; Miyamoto may have designed Donkey Kong by himself, but he had entire team of contract developers at his disposal.<p><a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/134790/the_secret_history_of_donkey_kong.php?print=1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gamasutra.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;feature&#x2F;134790&#x2F;the_secret_hist...</a><p><a href="http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Company:Ikegami_Tsushinki" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gdri.smspower.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;Company:Ikegami_Tsus...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sergiosgc</author><text>It&#x27;s hard to make the case for the early 90s being the peak of game quality, use Origin as an example, and completely miss out a reference to Roberts Space Industries and Star Citizen.<p>The golden age is in the future, and the future is already here (just not evenly distributed).</text></comment> |
30,951,423 | 30,947,766 | 1 | 3 | 30,947,680 | train | <story><title>TypeScript as fast as Rust: TypeScript++</title><url>https://zaplib.com/docs/blog_ts++.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xixixao</author><text>Related but more high level, I think we should have language sets instead of single languages with simpler interop and shared infra: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;xixixao&#x2F;8e363dbd3663b6729cd5b6d74dbbf9d4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;xixixao&#x2F;8e363dbd3663b6729cd5b6d74dbb...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>TypeScript as fast as Rust: TypeScript++</title><url>https://zaplib.com/docs/blog_ts++.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>janpaul123</author><text>Hi! Author here. Really curious what you all think. It&#x27;s a pretty crazy idea but maybe there&#x27;s something to it! Hacker News is always a special place for ideas like this — you never know what you&#x27;re gonna get ;) — so I&#x27;m looking forward to discussing this with y&#x27;all!</text></comment> |
4,268,202 | 4,268,254 | 1 | 2 | 4,267,946 | train | <story><title>Microsoft reports first quarterly loss ever</title><url>http://marketday.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/19/12837611-microsoft-reports-first-quarterly-loss-ever?lite</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>forgottenpaswrd</author><text>Microsoft has been pouring money onto everything until they monopolize it. It worked really well and annihilated a lot of competitors by the way.<p>I remember the times Microsoft will literally buy you to develop for the xBox or DirectX. I was there and then I saw the people that got bought to say that they felt "trapped" and could not get out from MS tech.<p>But as new companies with big pockets got into the game, first Google, then the new Apple and then Facebook, the last one with so much money and not really knowing what to do with it, the game did not worked as well as before.<p>The Microsoft Zune did not work out, Life, Bing and now Lumia are not working out as expected, even after pouring billions from their desktop and Office monopoly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft reports first quarterly loss ever</title><url>http://marketday.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/19/12837611-microsoft-reports-first-quarterly-loss-ever?lite</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xfax</author><text>Sensationalist title much?<p>From TFA: "Analysts were expecting a $5.3 billion profit for the quarter, but that was canceled out by an even bigger loss on a five-year-old acquisition."<p>No, analysts were not expecting a $5.3B profit before the report; if they were they should probably not be in their jobs anymore. The after-hours price of MSFT shows that this news was already priced in and the loss was actually <i>smaller</i> that what was expected.<p>Geez.</text></comment> |
22,381,876 | 22,381,699 | 1 | 2 | 22,378,554 | train | <story><title>Why Germans won’t heat their homes even with free electricity?</title><url>https://kaikenhuippu.com/2020/02/18/why-germans-wont-heat-their-homes-even-with-free-electricity/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcosscriven</author><text>We called it storm Ciara in the UK. I wonder why we don’t unify names.</text></item><item><author>probably_wrong</author><text>&gt; <i>On Monday 10th February 2020 something historical happened. For the first time, the market price of electricity fell below zero in Finland.(...) While this single day was a very windy one...</i><p>I feel I should point out that &quot;a very windy day&quot; is a <i>big</i> understatement. February 10, 2020 was the day when storm Sabine arrived in northern Europe. In Germany, all medium and long distance trains stopped (electric trains, btw), and plenty of people stayed inside. Lots of closed schools, too.<p>I don&#x27;t necessarily disagree with the article&#x27;s central points. But picking up the <i>one</i> outlier in which there&#x27;s ridiculous amounts of wind and entire countries are working at half capacity seems naive at best.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Freak_NL</author><text>Names are being unified actually. The Dutch meteorological institute now cooperates with the British and Irish institutes for naming via the EUMETNET system.<p>There are now two regions in Europe where names are decided in cooperation: West, and Southwest.<p>West is Ireland, United Kingdom, Netherlands, and Belgium, where storms tend to originate in the West.<p>Southwest is the Iberian peninsula and France.<p>A third region (Southeast) is being set up for the Mediterranean.<p>Every region has its own list of names, but when a storm is first named in one region, the other regions will use that name instead of assigning their own (if the storm crosses regions).<p>This means that everyone called this storm Ciara, except for the Germans. Germany is an exception, and has its own (commercial) naming system at the moment.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.knmi.nl&#x2F;kennis-en-datacentrum&#x2F;uitleg&#x2F;naamgeving-van-stormen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.knmi.nl&#x2F;kennis-en-datacentrum&#x2F;uitleg&#x2F;naamgeving-...</a> (Dutch)</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Germans won’t heat their homes even with free electricity?</title><url>https://kaikenhuippu.com/2020/02/18/why-germans-wont-heat-their-homes-even-with-free-electricity/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcosscriven</author><text>We called it storm Ciara in the UK. I wonder why we don’t unify names.</text></item><item><author>probably_wrong</author><text>&gt; <i>On Monday 10th February 2020 something historical happened. For the first time, the market price of electricity fell below zero in Finland.(...) While this single day was a very windy one...</i><p>I feel I should point out that &quot;a very windy day&quot; is a <i>big</i> understatement. February 10, 2020 was the day when storm Sabine arrived in northern Europe. In Germany, all medium and long distance trains stopped (electric trains, btw), and plenty of people stayed inside. Lots of closed schools, too.<p>I don&#x27;t necessarily disagree with the article&#x27;s central points. But picking up the <i>one</i> outlier in which there&#x27;s ridiculous amounts of wind and entire countries are working at half capacity seems naive at best.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ysr23</author><text>brexit means brexit &#x2F;s<p>In seriousness, wasn&#x27;t Storm Ciara named by Met Éireann ? that was certainly my impression, given that most people in the UK struggled to pronounce it. So there is some unification between The Met offices of Ireland and the UK with regard to naming.</text></comment> |
25,456,833 | 25,456,495 | 1 | 2 | 25,455,638 | train | <story><title>Stripe’s payments APIs: the first ten years</title><url>https://stripe.com/blog/payment-api-design</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>louisvgchi</author><text>I&#x27;m very happy with Stripe&#x27;s API; it&#x27;s one of their best selling points.<p>I&#x27;m very unhappy with their support, which is automated by bots and I&#x27;ve gone around in circles with such a bot.<p>Unfortunately their support plans are between a rock and a hard place. It&#x27;s either[1]:<p>(1) Free, but garbage. (2) Starting at £1,400 per month.<p>The reason I chose Azure for my cloud provider was because Microsoft are obsessed with support, and I can get[2]:<p>Free, £21.62 per month, £74.54 per month, £745.31 per month for different levels of availability, response times, and assistance type.<p>I wish I could pay Stripe some amount per month to talk to a human who speaks English when I need it.<p>Or else, the first competitor to Stripe that offers this and I will jump ship. I already took a look at Paddle, but their approach with customers is equally appalling.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stripe.com&#x2F;en-gb&#x2F;support-and-services#compare-plans" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stripe.com&#x2F;en-gb&#x2F;support-and-services#compare-plans</a>
[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;azure.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-gb&#x2F;support&#x2F;plans&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;azure.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-gb&#x2F;support&#x2F;plans&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edwinwee</author><text>Edwin from Stripe here. I&#x27;m sorry this happened. We have one bot&#x2F;automated reponse, which is our first reply to say, &quot;we&#x27;ve received your message and we&#x27;ll get back to you soon.&quot; Beyond that, every interaction with Stripe Support is with a human. We&#x27;ve invested quite a lot in support this year—the team itself is larger, and each week, we now survey tens of thousands of Stripe users who&#x27;ve talked with our support team recently, and 4&#x2F;5 say they&#x27;re satisified. But it sounds like we&#x27;ve dropped the ball in your case, and I&#x27;d love to learn why. Would you be able to forward those emails to me at [email protected]? (And if anyone else reading this had a similar time with us, please email me. I&#x27;d really like to help dig into each one and see what went wrong.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Stripe’s payments APIs: the first ten years</title><url>https://stripe.com/blog/payment-api-design</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>louisvgchi</author><text>I&#x27;m very happy with Stripe&#x27;s API; it&#x27;s one of their best selling points.<p>I&#x27;m very unhappy with their support, which is automated by bots and I&#x27;ve gone around in circles with such a bot.<p>Unfortunately their support plans are between a rock and a hard place. It&#x27;s either[1]:<p>(1) Free, but garbage. (2) Starting at £1,400 per month.<p>The reason I chose Azure for my cloud provider was because Microsoft are obsessed with support, and I can get[2]:<p>Free, £21.62 per month, £74.54 per month, £745.31 per month for different levels of availability, response times, and assistance type.<p>I wish I could pay Stripe some amount per month to talk to a human who speaks English when I need it.<p>Or else, the first competitor to Stripe that offers this and I will jump ship. I already took a look at Paddle, but their approach with customers is equally appalling.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stripe.com&#x2F;en-gb&#x2F;support-and-services#compare-plans" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stripe.com&#x2F;en-gb&#x2F;support-and-services#compare-plans</a>
[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;azure.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-gb&#x2F;support&#x2F;plans&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;azure.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-gb&#x2F;support&#x2F;plans&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ruffrey</author><text>Another data point. I have not used phone support, but been a customer since 2013 and have used the live chat quite a bit. It has always been extremely good. Never gone around with a bot. Last chat was maybe 1 month ago.</text></comment> |
37,675,980 | 37,675,973 | 1 | 3 | 37,675,422 | train | <story><title>Unions work</title><url>https://werd.io/2023/unions-work</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>timbit42</author><text>They do but an even better option is worker cooperatives which bring democracy and fair profit sharing to the workplace.</text></comment> | <story><title>Unions work</title><url>https://werd.io/2023/unions-work</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dleslie</author><text>By AI guardrails they mean: AI cannot be used to write or rewrite scripts, and cannot be source material; but writers are free to use it if they wish.<p>Reminds me of how elevators originally had operators, until everyone realized how wasteful and silly it is to have someone whose sole job is to press elevator buttons. As AI improves, we will come to feel the same about writers.</text></comment> |
18,776,600 | 18,775,997 | 1 | 3 | 18,775,091 | train | <story><title>Great Wall Motor unveils $9k electric urban car with nearly 200-mile range</title><url>https://electrek.co/2018/12/27/great-wall-motor-ora-r1-all-electric-urban-car/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alkonaut</author><text>I have a second car just for doing school runs. Never does more than 5km in a day, never goes over 40km&#x2F;h. Still it requires expensive maintenance. I have long said I should replace it with something more like a golf-cart or electric bike with kids in a trailer or something. This kind of car could be that. I’m happy with a 20km range but it has to be <i>cheap</i>. The current car I use is worth less than the cost of its overdue timing belt change.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FigBug</author><text>Not sure what your definition of cheap is. You can get a used Nissan Leaf for under $5k. Expect 40 - 50 miles of range on a worn battery.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.autotrader.com&#x2F;cars-for-sale&#x2F;vehicledetails.xhtml?listingId=495650238&amp;zip=90210&amp;referrer=%2Fcars-for-sale%2Fsearchresults.xhtml%3Fzip%3D90210%26startYear%3D1981%26sortBy%3DderivedpriceASC%26incremental%3Dall%26firstRecord%3D0%26marketExtension%3Don%26endYear%3D2019%26modelCodeList%3DLEAF%26makeCodeList%3DNISSAN%26searchRadius%3D0&amp;startYear=1981&amp;numRecords=25&amp;firstRecord=0&amp;endYear=2019&amp;modelCodeList=LEAF&amp;makeCodeList=NISSAN&amp;searchRadius=0&amp;makeCode1=NISSAN&amp;modelCode1=LEAF&amp;clickType=listing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.autotrader.com&#x2F;cars-for-sale&#x2F;vehicledetails.xhtm...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Great Wall Motor unveils $9k electric urban car with nearly 200-mile range</title><url>https://electrek.co/2018/12/27/great-wall-motor-ora-r1-all-electric-urban-car/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alkonaut</author><text>I have a second car just for doing school runs. Never does more than 5km in a day, never goes over 40km&#x2F;h. Still it requires expensive maintenance. I have long said I should replace it with something more like a golf-cart or electric bike with kids in a trailer or something. This kind of car could be that. I’m happy with a 20km range but it has to be <i>cheap</i>. The current car I use is worth less than the cost of its overdue timing belt change.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forinti</author><text>I&#x27;ve long had the notion that we shouldn&#x27;t drive anything heavier than a golf cart in cities. It would be a lot safer for everyone and even teenagers could drive them.</text></comment> |
10,199,369 | 10,198,450 | 1 | 3 | 10,196,922 | train | <story><title>New human-like species discovered</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34192447</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kissickas</author><text>A species cannot be clearly defined until you try to mate it with something else and it fails to produce a viable offspring, as far as I&#x27;m aware. No DNA analysis is indisputable with what we currently know.</text></item><item><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>Do we still depend on bone structure to define species? DNA analysis is indisputable. Its all speculation until that is done.</text></item><item><author>mootothemax</author><text>The Guardian&#x27;s coverage of this contains a fair amount of scepticism:<p><i>Christoph Zollikofer, an anthropologist at the University of Zurich, said that many of the bone characteristics used to claim the creature as a new species are seen in more primitive animals, and by definition cannot be used to define a new species.</i><p><i>“The few ‘unique’ features that potentially define the new species need further scrutiny, as they may represent individual variation, or variation at the population level,” he said.</i><p><i>Tim White, a paleoanthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley, goes further. “From what is presented here, they belong to a primitive Homo erectus, a species named in the 1800s.”</i><p>--<p><i>“Intentional disposal of rotting corpses by fellow pinheads makes a nice headline, but seems like a stretch to me,” said Jungers. Zollikofer agrees. “The ‘new species’ and ‘dump-the-dead’ claims are clearly for the media. None of them is substantiated by the data presented in the publications,” he said. Hawks is open to other explanations, but said that disposal made sense. “The evidence really tends to exclude the idea that they entered the chamber one at a time, alive, over some time, because we have infants, small children, and very old adults who would almost certainly not have managed to get into this chamber without being deposited there.”</i><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;2015&#x2F;sep&#x2F;10&#x2F;new-species-of-ancient-human-discovered-claim-scientists" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;2015&#x2F;sep&#x2F;10&#x2F;new-species-o...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scarmig</author><text>There are multiple definitions of species, and we choose whichever abstraction is most useful for a given approach.<p>The concept of species exists purely as a human, scientific abstraction: evolution&#x2F;biology doesn&#x27;t give us absolute categories that you can unambiguously put any organism into.</text></comment> | <story><title>New human-like species discovered</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34192447</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kissickas</author><text>A species cannot be clearly defined until you try to mate it with something else and it fails to produce a viable offspring, as far as I&#x27;m aware. No DNA analysis is indisputable with what we currently know.</text></item><item><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>Do we still depend on bone structure to define species? DNA analysis is indisputable. Its all speculation until that is done.</text></item><item><author>mootothemax</author><text>The Guardian&#x27;s coverage of this contains a fair amount of scepticism:<p><i>Christoph Zollikofer, an anthropologist at the University of Zurich, said that many of the bone characteristics used to claim the creature as a new species are seen in more primitive animals, and by definition cannot be used to define a new species.</i><p><i>“The few ‘unique’ features that potentially define the new species need further scrutiny, as they may represent individual variation, or variation at the population level,” he said.</i><p><i>Tim White, a paleoanthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley, goes further. “From what is presented here, they belong to a primitive Homo erectus, a species named in the 1800s.”</i><p>--<p><i>“Intentional disposal of rotting corpses by fellow pinheads makes a nice headline, but seems like a stretch to me,” said Jungers. Zollikofer agrees. “The ‘new species’ and ‘dump-the-dead’ claims are clearly for the media. None of them is substantiated by the data presented in the publications,” he said. Hawks is open to other explanations, but said that disposal made sense. “The evidence really tends to exclude the idea that they entered the chamber one at a time, alive, over some time, because we have infants, small children, and very old adults who would almost certainly not have managed to get into this chamber without being deposited there.”</i><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;2015&#x2F;sep&#x2F;10&#x2F;new-species-of-ancient-human-discovered-claim-scientists" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;2015&#x2F;sep&#x2F;10&#x2F;new-species-o...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GFK_of_xmaspast</author><text>That&#x27;s a junior high level of explanation tho. &#x27;Species&#x27; is ultimately an attempt to impose a quantization of nature, and nature can&#x27;t always be quantized in a way we&#x27;d like.</text></comment> |
18,565,310 | 18,565,305 | 1 | 2 | 18,564,433 | train | <story><title>Tracking China's Muslim Gulag</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/muslims-camps-china/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avar</author><text>Some quotes that stood out:<p>&gt; In September, a Chinese official at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva said the West could learn from his country’s program of vocational training. “If you do not say it’s the best way, maybe it’s the necessary way to deal with Islamic or religious extremism, because the West has failed in doing so,” said Li Xiaojun, the director of publicity at the Bureau of Human Rights Affairs of the State Council Information Office.<p>&gt; The Chinese government has been trying to change the ethnic balance by shifting members of the majority Han Chinese into the region. [...]<p>&gt; Photos of ancestors and prayer mats usually on display in Kazakh homes were all gone. They were “burned,” the locals told him. “These items,” he said, “were replaced with photos of the Chinese president and Chinese flags.”<p>As someone unfamiliar with the situation, a question I still have is whether this is something unique or unusual for the Chinese government, or how they&#x27;d treat any other mass of people following some organized ideology or creed they saw as competing with their totalitarianism.<p>E.g. I&#x27;ve heard about their efforts to shift the ethnic balance in Tibet, has that been followed-up with similar indoctrination efforts?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavlov</author><text><i>&gt; ”... how they&#x27;d treat any other mass of people following some organized ideology or creed they saw as competing with their totalitarianism”</i><p>Falun Gong is the blueprint for this: a homegrown spiritual practice that gained too much popularity in the ‘90s and the authorities turned against it. Human rights groups estimate hundreds of thousands are still in “re-education” camps.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tracking China's Muslim Gulag</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/muslims-camps-china/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avar</author><text>Some quotes that stood out:<p>&gt; In September, a Chinese official at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva said the West could learn from his country’s program of vocational training. “If you do not say it’s the best way, maybe it’s the necessary way to deal with Islamic or religious extremism, because the West has failed in doing so,” said Li Xiaojun, the director of publicity at the Bureau of Human Rights Affairs of the State Council Information Office.<p>&gt; The Chinese government has been trying to change the ethnic balance by shifting members of the majority Han Chinese into the region. [...]<p>&gt; Photos of ancestors and prayer mats usually on display in Kazakh homes were all gone. They were “burned,” the locals told him. “These items,” he said, “were replaced with photos of the Chinese president and Chinese flags.”<p>As someone unfamiliar with the situation, a question I still have is whether this is something unique or unusual for the Chinese government, or how they&#x27;d treat any other mass of people following some organized ideology or creed they saw as competing with their totalitarianism.<p>E.g. I&#x27;ve heard about their efforts to shift the ethnic balance in Tibet, has that been followed-up with similar indoctrination efforts?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Leary</author><text>A good predictor of whether the Chinese government would react to a group is the threat that group poses on the national integrity of China. Any separatist&#x2F; independence movement will be harshly treated. You can find many examples of this. There is nothing the West that says or do that will change this policy.</text></comment> |
39,899,394 | 39,898,060 | 1 | 3 | 39,896,371 | train | <story><title>The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining</title><url>https://predr.ag/blog/wifi-only-works-when-its-raining/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jordigh</author><text>Let me see if I&#x27;m the first one to link to that classic story in the same series, &quot;I cannot send email further than 500 miles&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibiblio.org&#x2F;harris&#x2F;500milemail.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibiblio.org&#x2F;harris&#x2F;500milemail.html</a><p>Or the Magic&#x2F;More Magic switch<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.catb.org&#x2F;jargon&#x2F;html&#x2F;magic-story.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.catb.org&#x2F;jargon&#x2F;html&#x2F;magic-story.html</a><p>It&#x27;s fun when physical reality meets the abstract models that we have built in our heads of these machines.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freedomben</author><text>Oh man, this is one of my favorite lines of all time:<p>&gt; &quot;Anyway, I asked one of the geostatisticians to look into it--&quot;<p>&gt; &quot;Geostatisticians...&quot;<p>&gt; &quot;--yes, and she&#x27;s produced a map showing the radius within which we can send email to be slightly more than 500 miles. There are a number of destinations within that radius that we can&#x27;t reach, either, or reach sporadically, but we can never email farther than this radius.&quot;<p>I adore when experts use their expertise to analyze real-world things like this and provide ridiculously thorough explanations :-D</text></comment> | <story><title>The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining</title><url>https://predr.ag/blog/wifi-only-works-when-its-raining/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jordigh</author><text>Let me see if I&#x27;m the first one to link to that classic story in the same series, &quot;I cannot send email further than 500 miles&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibiblio.org&#x2F;harris&#x2F;500milemail.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibiblio.org&#x2F;harris&#x2F;500milemail.html</a><p>Or the Magic&#x2F;More Magic switch<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.catb.org&#x2F;jargon&#x2F;html&#x2F;magic-story.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.catb.org&#x2F;jargon&#x2F;html&#x2F;magic-story.html</a><p>It&#x27;s fun when physical reality meets the abstract models that we have built in our heads of these machines.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sebtron</author><text>Or the &quot;Car allergic to vanilla ice cream&quot; story [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37584399">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37584399</a></text></comment> |
11,202,875 | 11,199,800 | 1 | 2 | 11,197,103 | train | <story><title>Google says self-driving car hits municipal bus in minor crash</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/google-selfdrivingcar-idUSL2N1681DP</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Gratsby</author><text>I live in the area. The stinking buses around here ... They crowd the lanes regularly. Us human drivers I suppose are used to it, but it is a serious pain in the butt.<p>The buses will drive right next to the lane marker, with their mirrors hanging over into your lane. This makes it so everybody has to creep over a little bit into the drivers side lane and hopefully everybody in traffic has a small enough car to deal with it. Otherwise, you have to hang back behind the bus as if it&#x27;s in your lane and wait for it to get to a stop.<p>I&#x27;ve had my issues with Google autonomous cars (they drive slow and they used to be exceptionally slow at making right hand turns, causing traffic problems), but in this instance I&#x27;m happy to throw VTA under the bus, if you will, and lay blame 100% at their feet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DBNO</author><text>Here&#x27;s a link to a video showing the damage to the Google car: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;wBU9zsGQR5k" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;wBU9zsGQR5k</a><p>Here&#x27;s a link to the DMV Google traffic report: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dmv.ca.gov&#x2F;portal&#x2F;wcm&#x2F;connect&#x2F;3946fbb8-e04e-4d52-8f80-b33948df34b2&#x2F;Google+Auto+LLC+02.14.16.pdf?MOD=AJPERES" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dmv.ca.gov&#x2F;portal&#x2F;wcm&#x2F;connect&#x2F;3946fbb8-e04e-4d52...</a><p>From reading the above report, it seems it was officially only a one-lane road, but the road was big enough to handle two-streams of traffic. The google car could have just stayed in the middle of the road, but instead, was hugging the right side of the road in preparation for a right-hand turn. Due to sand bags next to a storm drain, the google car had to &quot;merge&quot; back into the one-land road to get around the sandbags. Considering it&#x27;s still a one-land road, the bus driver should have yielded to any car that was in front of it. I&#x27;d place a majority of the blame on the bus.<p>What I don&#x27;t understand: Why doesn&#x27;t the Google car have video of the accident? Or if they do, does anyone know if they will share a video of it?</text></comment> | <story><title>Google says self-driving car hits municipal bus in minor crash</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/google-selfdrivingcar-idUSL2N1681DP</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Gratsby</author><text>I live in the area. The stinking buses around here ... They crowd the lanes regularly. Us human drivers I suppose are used to it, but it is a serious pain in the butt.<p>The buses will drive right next to the lane marker, with their mirrors hanging over into your lane. This makes it so everybody has to creep over a little bit into the drivers side lane and hopefully everybody in traffic has a small enough car to deal with it. Otherwise, you have to hang back behind the bus as if it&#x27;s in your lane and wait for it to get to a stop.<p>I&#x27;ve had my issues with Google autonomous cars (they drive slow and they used to be exceptionally slow at making right hand turns, causing traffic problems), but in this instance I&#x27;m happy to throw VTA under the bus, if you will, and lay blame 100% at their feet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>megablast</author><text>I would rather a bus any day. Easier to see, move slowly, less dangerously, less off them, more predictable, and mostly pretty courteous. Completely unlike drivers.</text></comment> |
16,828,888 | 16,824,987 | 1 | 2 | 16,822,888 | train | <story><title>Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learning Material</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/40555712/duolingo-suddenly-has-over-twice-as-much-language-learning-material</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>No way will Duo Lingo get you anywhere close to A2 for writing or speaking. MAYBE A1 if you try hard at it for a long long time in a language it well supports.<p>To get to A2 you need a real tutor and real communication experience. I used Verbling to find a tutor and I traveled to Eastern Europe over the summer to practice and only after hundreds of hours of practice was I able to communicate in Russian to any degree even approaching A1.</text></item><item><author>rando444</author><text>I&#x27;ve been on duolingo since the beginning and am sure that I&#x27;ve spent more time with the site and app than 95% of the userbase.<p>I&#x27;ve learned languages with duolingo.. and by that I don&#x27;t mean duolingo will teach you a language.<p>There&#x27;s two things that I feel that almost everyone misses.<p>#1: Using duolingo alone will get you to about an A2-B1 level in comprehension and an A1-A2 level in writing and speaking.<p>This is just the basics of a language.. enough to understand basic expressions. You&#x27;re never going to learn a language without further practice and tools. Spending time in books, trying to form your own thoughts. Duolingo is a great start, but if you never progress beyond it, of course you&#x27;re not going to learn a language.<p>#2: and most important. When you complete a course you&#x27;re not done.<p>I see this all of the time, people just get to the last exercise and stop.<p>You&#x27;re not going to learn a language this way because most people can&#x27;t retain a 2000+ word vocabulary by only seeing a word a couple of times.<p>There&#x27;s a reason why your &quot;strength&quot; in categories decreases as time passes.. because it&#x27;s unlikely that you&#x27;ve actually remembered every single word you were taught.<p>I&#x27;ve participated in a large number of duolingo related discussion over the years and one thing stands out is that there is a strong correlation between people that think you can&#x27;t use it to learn a language and people that go straight through the course, reach the end, and stop.<p>Anyway, it has its flaws, and is far from perfect, but I can&#x27;t imagine having a better product that does not come with a fee.</text></item><item><author>firefoxd</author><text>I did Duolingo seriously for more than 370 days in a row.<p>Spanish: I speak french and English so Spanish is relatively easy to complete. After completing the course, I tried having conversations with people (with friends but mostly uber drivers) and I was surprised how many times i learned it all wrong. I had to read a lot or children book to remedy that.<p>French: As a french speaker, I went through it as a meta course just to see. It was very awkward. The correct answers are always cringe worthy. Some of them even wrong.<p>Japanese: This is very different from the languages I speak. But after completing the entire suite, I still can&#x27;t look at a japanese text and read it. I can&#x27;t form a sentence on my own because it never teaches you how. I can&#x27;t count to ten because it only gives you numbers randomly. I know a few colors. I know words, but those words make no sense on their own. I also had to follow youtube lessons to make any sense of what I learned.<p>Duolingo is cool at making it look fun to learn. I don&#x27;t think you&#x27;ll learn to speak any languages with it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>T-N-T</author><text>&gt;To get to A2 you need a real tutor<p>No you don&#x27;t.
I&#x27;m French, I dropped out of school at 16 and picked up English later in life without using any formal method of learning. I started by memorizing enough vocabulary to read simpler English, after which I began reading popular fiction and watched movies with subtitles (in English) until it clicked. My understanding of the language is more based on intuition (sheer memorization of exposure to it through cultural mediums) than on memorizing the grammar rules book. The brain makes the connections as to what seems correct or not based on patterns. I don&#x27;t think my skills are good enough to write literature but surely communication isn&#x27;t a problem.<p>Duolingo didn&#x27;t exist at the time, but I believe it would have helped me learn faster considering the way it introduces languages is quite similar to how I started learning and it does so in a more interactive, fun manner.</text></comment> | <story><title>Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learning Material</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/40555712/duolingo-suddenly-has-over-twice-as-much-language-learning-material</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>No way will Duo Lingo get you anywhere close to A2 for writing or speaking. MAYBE A1 if you try hard at it for a long long time in a language it well supports.<p>To get to A2 you need a real tutor and real communication experience. I used Verbling to find a tutor and I traveled to Eastern Europe over the summer to practice and only after hundreds of hours of practice was I able to communicate in Russian to any degree even approaching A1.</text></item><item><author>rando444</author><text>I&#x27;ve been on duolingo since the beginning and am sure that I&#x27;ve spent more time with the site and app than 95% of the userbase.<p>I&#x27;ve learned languages with duolingo.. and by that I don&#x27;t mean duolingo will teach you a language.<p>There&#x27;s two things that I feel that almost everyone misses.<p>#1: Using duolingo alone will get you to about an A2-B1 level in comprehension and an A1-A2 level in writing and speaking.<p>This is just the basics of a language.. enough to understand basic expressions. You&#x27;re never going to learn a language without further practice and tools. Spending time in books, trying to form your own thoughts. Duolingo is a great start, but if you never progress beyond it, of course you&#x27;re not going to learn a language.<p>#2: and most important. When you complete a course you&#x27;re not done.<p>I see this all of the time, people just get to the last exercise and stop.<p>You&#x27;re not going to learn a language this way because most people can&#x27;t retain a 2000+ word vocabulary by only seeing a word a couple of times.<p>There&#x27;s a reason why your &quot;strength&quot; in categories decreases as time passes.. because it&#x27;s unlikely that you&#x27;ve actually remembered every single word you were taught.<p>I&#x27;ve participated in a large number of duolingo related discussion over the years and one thing stands out is that there is a strong correlation between people that think you can&#x27;t use it to learn a language and people that go straight through the course, reach the end, and stop.<p>Anyway, it has its flaws, and is far from perfect, but I can&#x27;t imagine having a better product that does not come with a fee.</text></item><item><author>firefoxd</author><text>I did Duolingo seriously for more than 370 days in a row.<p>Spanish: I speak french and English so Spanish is relatively easy to complete. After completing the course, I tried having conversations with people (with friends but mostly uber drivers) and I was surprised how many times i learned it all wrong. I had to read a lot or children book to remedy that.<p>French: As a french speaker, I went through it as a meta course just to see. It was very awkward. The correct answers are always cringe worthy. Some of them even wrong.<p>Japanese: This is very different from the languages I speak. But after completing the entire suite, I still can&#x27;t look at a japanese text and read it. I can&#x27;t form a sentence on my own because it never teaches you how. I can&#x27;t count to ten because it only gives you numbers randomly. I know a few colors. I know words, but those words make no sense on their own. I also had to follow youtube lessons to make any sense of what I learned.<p>Duolingo is cool at making it look fun to learn. I don&#x27;t think you&#x27;ll learn to speak any languages with it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kiro</author><text>A2 is nothing and you definitely don&#x27;t need a tutor to get there.</text></comment> |
35,870,448 | 35,870,532 | 1 | 2 | 35,868,421 | train | <story><title>Ed Sheeran demonstrates how copyright is destroying musicians</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/08/ed-sheeran-once-again-demonstrates-how-modern-copyright-is-destroying-rather-than-helping-musicians/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gamblor956</author><text>Marvin Gaye&#x27;s estate is one of the most notorious copyright trolls in the music industry. We&#x27;ve only heard about the big songs (Sheeran, Blurred Lines) but they&#x27;ve gone after a number of indie musicians as well.</text></item><item><author>juliusdavies</author><text>I see Ed Sheeran&#x27;s (as well as Katy Perry&#x27;s) successful copyright defenses as evidence song writers are doing fine. Katy Perry&#x27;s earlier defeat (for Dark Horse) luckily reversed on appeal last year. Toni Basil also had an interesting copyright victory last year related to 1980&#x27;s &quot;Mickey&quot; - although her result seems very narrow and technical (related to copyright termination and works-for-hire) and only about the recording, since she never wrote the song in the first place.<p>Whereas Marvin Gaye&#x27;s heirs&#x27; successful litigation against Blurred Lines is very concerning (see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jonesday.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;insights&#x2F;2018&#x2F;07&#x2F;blurred-lines-between-inspiration-and-infringement" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jonesday.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;insights&#x2F;2018&#x2F;07&#x2F;blurred-lines-b...</a> ), although as has long been the case with copyright litigation in the USA - it really all depends on the jury !<p>Personally, when I listen to Marvin Gaye&#x27;s &quot;Got To Give It Up&quot; right next to &quot;Blurred Lines&quot; I really cannot comprehend the jury&#x27;s result. I guess they both employ a cowbell very prominently? But I wasn&#x27;t a member of the jury, so it wasn&#x27;t up to me. I find the Katy Perry result to be at least a little bit of a close call based on my own listening.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>I recently learned that the Eagles is also a big one: they will copyright-strike any cover, no ifs, no buts.<p>Not share earnings, not demonitize, straight to strike.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ed Sheeran demonstrates how copyright is destroying musicians</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/08/ed-sheeran-once-again-demonstrates-how-modern-copyright-is-destroying-rather-than-helping-musicians/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gamblor956</author><text>Marvin Gaye&#x27;s estate is one of the most notorious copyright trolls in the music industry. We&#x27;ve only heard about the big songs (Sheeran, Blurred Lines) but they&#x27;ve gone after a number of indie musicians as well.</text></item><item><author>juliusdavies</author><text>I see Ed Sheeran&#x27;s (as well as Katy Perry&#x27;s) successful copyright defenses as evidence song writers are doing fine. Katy Perry&#x27;s earlier defeat (for Dark Horse) luckily reversed on appeal last year. Toni Basil also had an interesting copyright victory last year related to 1980&#x27;s &quot;Mickey&quot; - although her result seems very narrow and technical (related to copyright termination and works-for-hire) and only about the recording, since she never wrote the song in the first place.<p>Whereas Marvin Gaye&#x27;s heirs&#x27; successful litigation against Blurred Lines is very concerning (see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jonesday.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;insights&#x2F;2018&#x2F;07&#x2F;blurred-lines-between-inspiration-and-infringement" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jonesday.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;insights&#x2F;2018&#x2F;07&#x2F;blurred-lines-b...</a> ), although as has long been the case with copyright litigation in the USA - it really all depends on the jury !<p>Personally, when I listen to Marvin Gaye&#x27;s &quot;Got To Give It Up&quot; right next to &quot;Blurred Lines&quot; I really cannot comprehend the jury&#x27;s result. I guess they both employ a cowbell very prominently? But I wasn&#x27;t a member of the jury, so it wasn&#x27;t up to me. I find the Katy Perry result to be at least a little bit of a close call based on my own listening.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>h0l0cube</author><text>&gt; Marvin Gaye&#x27;s estate<p>Not precisely (or at least not in this instance), from TFA:<p>&gt; The claim over Thinking Out Loud was originally lodged in 2018, not by Gaye’s family but by investment banker David Pullman and a company called Structured Asset Sales, which has acquired a portion of the estate of Let’s Get It On co-writer Ed Townsend.</text></comment> |
4,705,763 | 4,705,296 | 1 | 3 | 4,705,067 | train | <story><title>AWS outage summary</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/message/680342/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seldo</author><text>I dunno about you, but I could use a TL;DR for this:<p>1. They fucked up an internal DNS change and didn't notice<p>2. Internal systems on EBS hosts piled up with messages trying to get to the non-existent domain<p>3. Eventually the messages used up all the memory on the EBS hosts, and thousands of EBS hosts began to die simultaneously<p>4. Meanwhile, panicked operators trying to slow down this tidal wave hit the Throttle Everything button<p>5. The throttling was so aggressive the even normal levels of operation became impossible<p>6. The incident was a single AZ, but the throttling was across the whole region, which spread the pain further<p>[Everybody who got throttled gets a 3-hour refund]<p>7. Any single-AZ RDS instance on a dead EBS host was fucked<p>8. <i>Multi</i>-AZ RDS instances ran into two separate bugs, and either became stuck or hit a replication race condition and shut down<p>[Everybody whose multi-AZ RDS didn't fail over gets 10 days free credit]<p>9. Single-AZ ELB instances in the broken AZ failed because they use EBS too<p>10. Because everybody was freaking out and trying to fix their ELBs, the ELB service ran out of IP addresses and locked up<p>11. Multi-AZ ELB instances took too long to notice EBS was broken and then hit a bug and didn't fail over properly anyway<p>[ELB users get no refund, which seems harsh]<p>For those keeping score, that's 1 human error, 2 dependency chains, 3 design flaws, 3 instances of inadequate monitoring, and 5 brand-new internal bugs. From the length and groveling tone of the report, I can only assume that a big chunk of customers are very, VERY angry at them.</text></comment> | <story><title>AWS outage summary</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/message/680342/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Trufa</author><text>I really love when the companies take time to explain their customers what happened specially in such detail.<p>It's clearly a very complicated setting, and this type of posts make me trust them more, don't get me wrong, and outage is an outage, but knowing that they are in control and take time to explain shows respect and the correct attitude towards a mistake.<p>Good for them!</text></comment> |
41,396,493 | 41,396,394 | 1 | 2 | 41,395,591 | train | <story><title>Ever used Google Chrome in incognito mode? You could be entitled to up to $5k</title><url>https://bivens.plaintip.com/index.php/google-incognito/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chungy</author><text>If I was presiding over this case, I&#x27;d throw it out. It&#x27;s never been misleading about what it is: it doesn&#x27;t save stuff to your hard disk. That says nothing about remote servers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sohcahtoa82</author><text>To the tech crowd that visits HN, it&#x27;s obvious what Incognito did and didn&#x27;t do.<p>But imagine your non-technical family members. You know, the type that calls you up for tech support on a regular basis because &quot;you know computers&quot;. Someone tells them &quot;Hey, you should be using Incognito when doing adult activities&quot; and then gets caught browsing adult sites on a work computer because they thought Incognito would make it invisible.<p>This lawsuit isn&#x27;t for you and me, it&#x27;s for them.<p>The question is, since <i>WE</i> know what it did, is it ethical (or even legal) for us to join the class action?<p>Personally, even if it was legal, and even if someone convinced me it wasn&#x27;t unethical, I wouldn&#x27;t do it. I don&#x27;t want to risk Google being like &quot;You joined a lawsuit against us, so we don&#x27;t want to do business with you. Say goodbye to your entire Google account. This locks you out of your phone? Too damn bad.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Ever used Google Chrome in incognito mode? You could be entitled to up to $5k</title><url>https://bivens.plaintip.com/index.php/google-incognito/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chungy</author><text>If I was presiding over this case, I&#x27;d throw it out. It&#x27;s never been misleading about what it is: it doesn&#x27;t save stuff to your hard disk. That says nothing about remote servers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Terr_</author><text>If I recall correctly, one of the problems (unless it was a different court case) involved the incestuous corporate relationship between the browser and the sites.<p>Customers wre using a tool provided by Google for accessing Google services (among others) and the Google tool is promising them that their activity isn&#x27;t being recorded.<p>It isn&#x27;t unreasonable for someone to believe that the promise included <i>all those Google services and websites as well</i>, but instead they were still being tracked and correlated etc.</text></comment> |
16,061,907 | 16,062,201 | 1 | 2 | 16,060,384 | train | <story><title>Tesla Model 3 Sets New EV Cannonball Run Record</title><url>http://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/17312/tesla-model-3-sets-new-ev-cannonball-run-record-of-50-hours-16-minutes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>InTheArena</author><text>I drove the Model 3 last week. It’s a properly good car in it’s own right - It reminded me of the MOdel 3 from BMS in how it handles, of course the performance curve is totally different. The rethinking of the dashboard is perfect for the cell phone age. It’s Apple Good (back when Apple was good).<p>The performance curve - the instant power at any point is addicting. The seats were comfortable, and the trunk space was ample.<p>The build quality, at least on the unit I saw is _better_ then the S or the X right now. This is primarily due to the simplification of the assembly compared to the S and the X. Honestly, having driven both, I would buy a 3 before buying a S. The only killer feature I see missing is the air suspension, and we know that is coming for the 3.<p>They are going to sell a million of the 3s.<p>For the record, I’m not a EV or a green evangelist. I don’t have a snarky license plate, or solar on my roof. But I will be picking one of these up. It’s perfect for my use cases. People will compare it with the Bolt, but people forget that SUperchargers are Tesla only right now. Want to get from LA to NY? Easy in Tesla. With a Bolt, there are places that you just can’t go.<p>It looks like (judging by VIN allocations, which is not a great method, but also by drone videos) that Tesla hit 1k a week the last week or two of December. Assuming no huge bottlenecks remaining, that takes them solidly half way up their ramp, with one more huge jump - to 3-5k a week - remaining.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BoorishBears</author><text>The Bolt has DC fast charging, the Volt is a PHEV and would make it from LA to NY with 5 minute stops.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla Model 3 Sets New EV Cannonball Run Record</title><url>http://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/17312/tesla-model-3-sets-new-ev-cannonball-run-record-of-50-hours-16-minutes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>InTheArena</author><text>I drove the Model 3 last week. It’s a properly good car in it’s own right - It reminded me of the MOdel 3 from BMS in how it handles, of course the performance curve is totally different. The rethinking of the dashboard is perfect for the cell phone age. It’s Apple Good (back when Apple was good).<p>The performance curve - the instant power at any point is addicting. The seats were comfortable, and the trunk space was ample.<p>The build quality, at least on the unit I saw is _better_ then the S or the X right now. This is primarily due to the simplification of the assembly compared to the S and the X. Honestly, having driven both, I would buy a 3 before buying a S. The only killer feature I see missing is the air suspension, and we know that is coming for the 3.<p>They are going to sell a million of the 3s.<p>For the record, I’m not a EV or a green evangelist. I don’t have a snarky license plate, or solar on my roof. But I will be picking one of these up. It’s perfect for my use cases. People will compare it with the Bolt, but people forget that SUperchargers are Tesla only right now. Want to get from LA to NY? Easy in Tesla. With a Bolt, there are places that you just can’t go.<p>It looks like (judging by VIN allocations, which is not a great method, but also by drone videos) that Tesla hit 1k a week the last week or two of December. Assuming no huge bottlenecks remaining, that takes them solidly half way up their ramp, with one more huge jump - to 3-5k a week - remaining.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vanderZwan</author><text>Comments like this make me think the Model 3 is going to be the Ford Model T of electric cars.</text></comment> |
14,633,128 | 14,632,941 | 1 | 3 | 14,631,357 | train | <story><title>Scientific research piracy site hit with $15M fine</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/scientific-research-piracy-site-hit-with-15-million-fine/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pzh</author><text>Why Elsevier would feel entitled to the copyright of publicly funded research is beyond anyone&#x27;s guess.<p>This ruling actually makes me realize that SciHub is a single point of failure, and if it gets closed, there won&#x27;t be anything else to replace it. Unlike the thousands of torrents and streaming sites for movies and TV shows, research paper sites aren&#x27;t something that the average Internet users care about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sedachv</author><text>There was a great post by <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;user?id=maxxxxx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;user?id=maxxxxx</a> about why the ruling class of the United States views copyright the way they do:<p><i>Copyright and IP (and probably real estate) are pretty much the only way for capitalists to make money the more things like internet, 3D printing, AI, robotics and so on are available to the masses. To me it&#x27;s the only way to keep the current power structures intact so for a lot of powerful people copyright laws are probably the most important laws. They don&#x27;t need the state for personal protection (they can pay for security guards instead of police) but they need the state for protecting their livelihood.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12514611" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12514611</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Scientific research piracy site hit with $15M fine</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/scientific-research-piracy-site-hit-with-15-million-fine/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pzh</author><text>Why Elsevier would feel entitled to the copyright of publicly funded research is beyond anyone&#x27;s guess.<p>This ruling actually makes me realize that SciHub is a single point of failure, and if it gets closed, there won&#x27;t be anything else to replace it. Unlike the thousands of torrents and streaming sites for movies and TV shows, research paper sites aren&#x27;t something that the average Internet users care about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agumonkey</author><text>It seems cloneable, scihub is backed by libgen which receives every proxied document and serve them as torrents (with stable availability). Also the files db is public. It&#x27;s a bit large in total, something like 20TB for all files, 200MB db dump.<p>Still the sci hub proxy is indeed a single point of failure, but people could mirror the already stored part. I&#x27;d do it if I had a team.</text></comment> |
12,745,372 | 12,745,370 | 1 | 2 | 12,742,853 | train | <story><title>The Anti-Helicopter Parent’s Plea: Let Kids Play</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/magazine/the-anti-helicopter-parents-plea-let-kids-play.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ttcbj</author><text>When I was a kid, we ran around our neighborhood as a pack every day after school, and all summer. We would explore the woods, explore new construction houses near us after the workers left, play sports, and thousands of other activities.<p>Unfortunately, the environment has changed for my kids in ways that makes this difficult to duplicate:<p>1. Other kids aren&#x27;t home anymore, they are all at structured activities. There is no neighborhood pack to play with.<p>2. Parents aren&#x27;t home either, they are working. When I was a kid, if you got a splinter or scrape, you just went to the nearest house and someone&#x27;s mom patched you up. All those houses are empty now.<p>3. If you keep your kid home to play freely, they miss out on all the social stuff going on in the structured activities. Much as I dislike all the structure, it is where the other kids are.<p>I agree it sounds great to let your kids roam free as we did, but I think in practice the environment has changed in ways that make it difficult.</text></item><item><author>modoc</author><text>I agree with this 100%! I grew up free to explore the woods, build forts, climb trees, jump off rocks, swim unsupervised, ride mt. bikes down steep hills, drive dirt bikes from age 10 on, drive snowmobiles, carry a pocket knife, whittle, etc... Yes, I cut myself on occasion, even broke a couple bones, but it was completely worth it and helped me grow up to be self sufficient, self confident, and know my limits, strengths, and weaknesses.<p>I really do feel badly for most of the kids today, who are so hampered and restrained.<p>Don&#x27;t let you kid fall into a bonfire, but DO let them burn themselves on the stove (after you tell them - that is hot). Inform but let them learn from their own mistakes. There&#x27;s nothing wrong with a few cuts, bruises, scrapes, burns, etc...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kohanz</author><text>&gt; I agree it sounds great to let your kids roam free as we did, but I think in practice the environment has changed in ways that make it difficult<p>I agree, both with this and the premise that overprotective parenting is a real phenomenon. You can&#x27;t place all of the blame on the parents for their increased vigilance because the environment of growing up has literally changed.<p>Like many of you, when I was young, I played all over my neighbourhood with other kids my age, completely unsupervised. Free to wander quite far from my home with the understanding that I would be home for supper. However, I grew up in a small town (pop. ~20k).<p>Today, most people live in cities, and many in large ones (us included). When my kids are older, I will do my best to give them freedom to play, but there are just some realities today that are different from when I was younger. I remember reading somewhere that there are roughly 3x the amount of vehicles on the road as there were in the 80s (when I was growing up). My biggest safety fear for my kids is traffic. We live in a city. There are a lot of parks around, but getting to and from places involves navigating traffic and a lot of it. I&#x27;ll do my best to educate them and give them trust to do so, but you can&#x27;t help but be a bit concerned. We all know you can be involved in a traffic accident these days through no fault of your own.<p>To clarify: I&#x27;m not saying that the world is actually more dangerous for kids today than it was a generation ago, but I think for many parents it&#x27;s not difficult to see how they could have that perception (true or not) and thus parent in a more protective way. Not only has the world changed, but so has the beholder (from carefree child to responsible parent).</text></comment> | <story><title>The Anti-Helicopter Parent’s Plea: Let Kids Play</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/magazine/the-anti-helicopter-parents-plea-let-kids-play.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ttcbj</author><text>When I was a kid, we ran around our neighborhood as a pack every day after school, and all summer. We would explore the woods, explore new construction houses near us after the workers left, play sports, and thousands of other activities.<p>Unfortunately, the environment has changed for my kids in ways that makes this difficult to duplicate:<p>1. Other kids aren&#x27;t home anymore, they are all at structured activities. There is no neighborhood pack to play with.<p>2. Parents aren&#x27;t home either, they are working. When I was a kid, if you got a splinter or scrape, you just went to the nearest house and someone&#x27;s mom patched you up. All those houses are empty now.<p>3. If you keep your kid home to play freely, they miss out on all the social stuff going on in the structured activities. Much as I dislike all the structure, it is where the other kids are.<p>I agree it sounds great to let your kids roam free as we did, but I think in practice the environment has changed in ways that make it difficult.</text></item><item><author>modoc</author><text>I agree with this 100%! I grew up free to explore the woods, build forts, climb trees, jump off rocks, swim unsupervised, ride mt. bikes down steep hills, drive dirt bikes from age 10 on, drive snowmobiles, carry a pocket knife, whittle, etc... Yes, I cut myself on occasion, even broke a couple bones, but it was completely worth it and helped me grow up to be self sufficient, self confident, and know my limits, strengths, and weaknesses.<p>I really do feel badly for most of the kids today, who are so hampered and restrained.<p>Don&#x27;t let you kid fall into a bonfire, but DO let them burn themselves on the stove (after you tell them - that is hot). Inform but let them learn from their own mistakes. There&#x27;s nothing wrong with a few cuts, bruises, scrapes, burns, etc...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>branchless</author><text>2 is a big one. Yet another consequence of high land prices as now both partners are forced to work.<p>Another is the break up of wider family. Before people could live locally and they would have their grandparents local too, and aunts etc. Now that land rents are so high and work is god, together with low job security, people are forced to move to other parts of urban areas or even to different cities in order to find work.<p>Still everyone seems pretty happy with capital gains on their home that can never be realised because all other homes also went up in price, so perhaps it&#x27;s worth the utter destruction of life as we know it!</text></comment> |
10,255,246 | 10,255,131 | 1 | 2 | 10,254,667 | train | <story><title>The FCC Might Ban Specific Operating Systems</title><url>http://prpl.works/2015/09/21/yes-the-fcc-might-ban-your-operating-system/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lexicalscope</author><text>This title is kind of click-bait - they aren&#x27;t prohibiting operating systems, they _might_ be prohibiting installation of operating systems that are not approved on certain types of devices that allow software defined radio - that is, transceivers that can be tweaked easily by software.<p>That is not at all the same thing as banning an operating system.<p>This is already present insofar as hardware requirements in radios - radios cannot be permitted to listen on frequencies reserved for cell phones, and must not be restricted in such way as they can be easily modified to enable it (e.g., a header&#x2F;jumper). This really just extends this requirement that it is non-trivial to enable illegal broadcasting or reception on software defined radios.<p>Now - insofar as if this should impact open source operating systems, we have a good question. I don&#x27;t think it does that - my interpretation, potentially wrong of course, just as the article&#x27;s could be wrong, is that you would have to restrict the actual firmware in question to a blob that communicates with the hardware in a secure way. This would prevent open&#x2F;free components insofar as the actual driver, but would not permit the operating system itself from being installed. They mention this, but only at the end of the article.<p>I also doubt the impact of this for non software-defined&#x2F;modular radio systems. I don&#x27;t see a way this would really impact everyday wifi or non-modular systems in a way most people would care about. That isn&#x27;t to say it isn&#x27;t _bad_ but once again, it just seems super misleading and alarmist.<p>Whether or not the FCC should or shouldn&#x27;t do this is a different question, but the link&#x27;s title seems intentionally misleading.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kazinator</author><text>&gt; <i>they aren&#x27;t prohibiting operating systems, they _might_ be prohibiting installation of operating systems that are not approved on certain types of devices that ...</i><p><i>&quot;prohibit installation&quot;</i> means to ban.<p><i>&quot;operating systems that are not approved on certain types of devices that ...&quot;</i> means specific operating systems.<p>So, the FCC &quot;might ban specific operating systems&quot;; you&#x27;ve paraphrased what the title says.</text></comment> | <story><title>The FCC Might Ban Specific Operating Systems</title><url>http://prpl.works/2015/09/21/yes-the-fcc-might-ban-your-operating-system/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lexicalscope</author><text>This title is kind of click-bait - they aren&#x27;t prohibiting operating systems, they _might_ be prohibiting installation of operating systems that are not approved on certain types of devices that allow software defined radio - that is, transceivers that can be tweaked easily by software.<p>That is not at all the same thing as banning an operating system.<p>This is already present insofar as hardware requirements in radios - radios cannot be permitted to listen on frequencies reserved for cell phones, and must not be restricted in such way as they can be easily modified to enable it (e.g., a header&#x2F;jumper). This really just extends this requirement that it is non-trivial to enable illegal broadcasting or reception on software defined radios.<p>Now - insofar as if this should impact open source operating systems, we have a good question. I don&#x27;t think it does that - my interpretation, potentially wrong of course, just as the article&#x27;s could be wrong, is that you would have to restrict the actual firmware in question to a blob that communicates with the hardware in a secure way. This would prevent open&#x2F;free components insofar as the actual driver, but would not permit the operating system itself from being installed. They mention this, but only at the end of the article.<p>I also doubt the impact of this for non software-defined&#x2F;modular radio systems. I don&#x27;t see a way this would really impact everyday wifi or non-modular systems in a way most people would care about. That isn&#x27;t to say it isn&#x27;t _bad_ but once again, it just seems super misleading and alarmist.<p>Whether or not the FCC should or shouldn&#x27;t do this is a different question, but the link&#x27;s title seems intentionally misleading.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>archimedespi</author><text>&gt; This is already present insofar as hardware requirements in radios - radios cannot be permitted to listen on frequencies reserved for cell phones, and must not be restricted in such way as they can be easily modified to enable it (e.g., a header&#x2F;jumper). This really just extends this requirement that it is non-trivial to enable illegal broadcasting or reception on software defined radios.<p>Cough, cough, HackRF(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;greatscottgadgets.com&#x2F;hackrf&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;greatscottgadgets.com&#x2F;hackrf&#x2F;</a>) + GNURadio(<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gnuradio.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gnuradio.org&#x2F;</a>) don&#x27;t seem to have these limitations.</text></comment> |
6,990,706 | 6,989,888 | 1 | 3 | 6,989,624 | train | <story><title>Peter Thiel’s Graph of the Year</title><url>http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/12/30/peter-thiels-graph-of-the-year/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone</author><text>That graph is a bit of a lie. Student debt is summed over all students, so it grows if the student population grows (which it has; 2013 saw a decline, but that will not factor much in this data yet). It also integrates over many years. That makes the total debt look more threatening.<p>It would be more reasonable to show a per-year, per student debt (people graduating in year X had an average debt of $Y; people leaving without graduating had an average debt of $Z)<p>Such a graph probably still looks bad (median income has dropped, after all), but it will be more informative.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ronaldx</author><text>I knew that graph was misleading, but I still missed that it was <i>total</i> student debt vs <i>per capita</i> median income.<p>I nominate it for worst graph of the year: if you set out to make a biased graph, you couldn&#x27;t do much better.<p>Drawing such an obviously bad graph undermines the point being made, in my view.</text></comment> | <story><title>Peter Thiel’s Graph of the Year</title><url>http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/12/30/peter-thiels-graph-of-the-year/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone</author><text>That graph is a bit of a lie. Student debt is summed over all students, so it grows if the student population grows (which it has; 2013 saw a decline, but that will not factor much in this data yet). It also integrates over many years. That makes the total debt look more threatening.<p>It would be more reasonable to show a per-year, per student debt (people graduating in year X had an average debt of $Y; people leaving without graduating had an average debt of $Z)<p>Such a graph probably still looks bad (median income has dropped, after all), but it will be more informative.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spikels</author><text>We can argue about the details but the underlying story is accurate: the cost of higher education has gone up a lot while the income of college graduates has been flat or declined slightly. This is not news[1a][1b].<p>The big question is will collage graduate wages rise in the future so that these debts become manageable - many are concerned they won&#x27;t and these debts will consume many years of their earnings. And nobody is predicting college inflation will decline anytime soon so college may be even less affordable in the future.<p>BTW - Undergraduate and graduate enrollment was up only about 25% (flat since 2010)[2] while total student debt tripled since 2003. Average student debt probably nearly doubled since 2003 (up 58% 2005-2012[3] do the math to estimate 2003-2013 - up about 92%).<p>[1a] <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/economicsunbound/archives/2009/09/earnings_of_you.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessweek.com&#x2F;the_thread&#x2F;economicsunbound&#x2F;arch...</a><p>[1b] <a href="http://theatlantic.tumblr.com/post/24693728700/dont-fall-for-this-misleading-graph-about-college" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;theatlantic.tumblr.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;24693728700&#x2F;dont-fall-for...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/09/03/number-of-students-enrolled-in-college-drops/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.wsj.com&#x2F;economics&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;03&#x2F;number-of-students...</a><p>[3] <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/halahtouryalai/2013/01/29/more-evidence-on-the-student-debt-crisis-average-grads-loan-jumps-to-27000/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;halahtouryalai&#x2F;2013&#x2F;01&#x2F;29&#x2F;more-e...</a></text></comment> |
22,045,830 | 22,045,363 | 1 | 2 | 22,045,053 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email</title><url>https://diaryemail.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kossnocorp</author><text>Yesterday Paul Graham asked for an email diary service (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;paulg&#x2F;status&#x2F;1216714155731890176" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;paulg&#x2F;status&#x2F;1216714155731890176</a>):<p>&gt; Is there an easy way to build, or a startup that offers, something that will email you once a day asking &quot;What&#x27;s happening?&quot; and then accumulate the replies?<p>I did just that! Let me know what you think.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alfonsodev</author><text>He also wrote<p>&gt; Unfortunately, though, in this one case I can&#x27;t promise that if you build it, I&#x27;ll use it. Unless I know you, I can&#x27;t trust that you won&#x27;t read my emails. (I trusted the previous startup that did it because we&#x27;d funded them.)<p>How do you solve the &quot;won&#x27;t read my emails&quot; problem ?<p>I&#x27;ve seen the statement in your website:<p>&gt; Your data stored and transferred securely. No one will ever read or process your notes even the staff. Your data belongs to you and can be easily exported in preferable format by request.<p>But once the data leaves the browser there is no way to know, wouldn&#x27;t you consider to partner with Gmail(or others) and appear as an addon to an already trusted company in order to start off the business ?</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email</title><url>https://diaryemail.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kossnocorp</author><text>Yesterday Paul Graham asked for an email diary service (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;paulg&#x2F;status&#x2F;1216714155731890176" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;paulg&#x2F;status&#x2F;1216714155731890176</a>):<p>&gt; Is there an easy way to build, or a startup that offers, something that will email you once a day asking &quot;What&#x27;s happening?&quot; and then accumulate the replies?<p>I did just that! Let me know what you think.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gpickett00</author><text>I love that someone followed through and got it done. I bet a lot of people thought about it. I bet that there&#x27;s even someone seeing this right now pissed off that they didn&#x27;t finish first.<p>Great design. Where&#x27;d you get your little illustrations?</text></comment> |
13,880,590 | 13,878,391 | 1 | 3 | 13,874,026 | train | <story><title>Hiring without whiteboards</title><url>https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>udev</author><text>It is also a cultural thing.<p>I observe that anglo-saxon peoples teach their kids to voice their concerns, needs, wants, and opinions, and to expect (!) results from this. (Compare how american kids behave at airports, train station, and public places with kids from other countries, e.g. french speaking countries).<p>This helps them approach situations in life with a healthy dose of self-worth and the baseline state of mind that if something is wrong it&#x27;s not their fault.<p>In contrast, many other cultures teach their kids that it is impolite&#x2F;crude&#x2F;disrespectful to bother adults with your half-baked thought, or (God forbid) unexpected wants, or complaints.<p>I come from a culture where you are expected to moderate your verbal output when addressing your superiors (e.g. teachers, boss, etc.). You speak out only when you have something worthy to say.<p>Example:<p>I had trouble going to &quot;office-hours&quot; when at university in North-America. I always got the feeling that I am bothering the prof, and it is my duty to study more to understand the material, and I should not take his time when I merely did not understand something.<p>My anglo colleagues seem to not have such qualms. Their thinking is more along the lines of &quot;I don&#x27;t understand (not my fault), it is his job to teach me (most likely his problem), he has to explain this better, I pay for tuition after all...&quot;.<p>I am happy to have unlearned some of the above things.<p>But generally, I find the speak-your-mind-at-the-white-board-while-we-watch interview tailored for cultures where kids are taught to be vocal, and are difficult for equally intelligent people from other backgrounds.</text></item><item><author>kelvin0</author><text>Imagine this. You are interviewing for a job, you walk in a room with 2 people who hand you over a sheet with a few problems. They ask you to write the solutions on the whiteboard, while they wait for you to complete.<p>Not a word is said, they are clicking at their laptops, and staring at the whiteboard, as waiting for the genie to pop out of a bottle. All the while your mind is frozen and stuck in a bad loop.<p>This lasts an hour, you are barely able to complete parts of the problems and are frozen. Of course this affects your usually creative and sharp mind.<p>The torture lasts an hour, time&#x27;s up! You shake their hands, as a kiss of death, and head out. As you are walking back, all the answers to all the problems they wanted you to whiteboard, come rushing like a torrent in your mind. Too bad, another &#x27;botched&#x27; technical interview.<p>This is my experience as a battle tested developer who is shipped many products and has been programming for the love of computers since the age of 12 (professionally for more than 15 years). I am not going to be working at Google any time soon (not that a Google job really matters to me).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jordanb</author><text>What you&#x27;re describing is Power Distance.<p>On the whole the West tends to have lower power distance than the East. And Anglo and Germanic countries tend to have lower power distance than Romantic countries, while Scandinavia has the lowest power distance anywhere.<p>France has quite a high power distance by Western standards, although it&#x27;s still lower than most Eastern countries.<p>The US tends to have rather high power distance by Anglo&#x2F;Germanic standards although if you look at all the cultural dimensions the US tends to be an outlier towards moderation in its cohort probably due to its amalgamated culture (the US is hardly a strictly Anglo country).<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.clearlycultural.com&#x2F;geert-hofstede-cultural-dimensions&#x2F;power-distance-index&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.clearlycultural.com&#x2F;geert-hofstede-cultural-dimen...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Hiring without whiteboards</title><url>https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>udev</author><text>It is also a cultural thing.<p>I observe that anglo-saxon peoples teach their kids to voice their concerns, needs, wants, and opinions, and to expect (!) results from this. (Compare how american kids behave at airports, train station, and public places with kids from other countries, e.g. french speaking countries).<p>This helps them approach situations in life with a healthy dose of self-worth and the baseline state of mind that if something is wrong it&#x27;s not their fault.<p>In contrast, many other cultures teach their kids that it is impolite&#x2F;crude&#x2F;disrespectful to bother adults with your half-baked thought, or (God forbid) unexpected wants, or complaints.<p>I come from a culture where you are expected to moderate your verbal output when addressing your superiors (e.g. teachers, boss, etc.). You speak out only when you have something worthy to say.<p>Example:<p>I had trouble going to &quot;office-hours&quot; when at university in North-America. I always got the feeling that I am bothering the prof, and it is my duty to study more to understand the material, and I should not take his time when I merely did not understand something.<p>My anglo colleagues seem to not have such qualms. Their thinking is more along the lines of &quot;I don&#x27;t understand (not my fault), it is his job to teach me (most likely his problem), he has to explain this better, I pay for tuition after all...&quot;.<p>I am happy to have unlearned some of the above things.<p>But generally, I find the speak-your-mind-at-the-white-board-while-we-watch interview tailored for cultures where kids are taught to be vocal, and are difficult for equally intelligent people from other backgrounds.</text></item><item><author>kelvin0</author><text>Imagine this. You are interviewing for a job, you walk in a room with 2 people who hand you over a sheet with a few problems. They ask you to write the solutions on the whiteboard, while they wait for you to complete.<p>Not a word is said, they are clicking at their laptops, and staring at the whiteboard, as waiting for the genie to pop out of a bottle. All the while your mind is frozen and stuck in a bad loop.<p>This lasts an hour, you are barely able to complete parts of the problems and are frozen. Of course this affects your usually creative and sharp mind.<p>The torture lasts an hour, time&#x27;s up! You shake their hands, as a kiss of death, and head out. As you are walking back, all the answers to all the problems they wanted you to whiteboard, come rushing like a torrent in your mind. Too bad, another &#x27;botched&#x27; technical interview.<p>This is my experience as a battle tested developer who is shipped many products and has been programming for the love of computers since the age of 12 (professionally for more than 15 years). I am not going to be working at Google any time soon (not that a Google job really matters to me).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianratnapala</author><text>People are downvoting this, but the difference in cultures is real (though I wouldn&#x27;t say it is confined to anglos). But udev might be exposing a case where the &quot;anglo&quot; culture has a genuine advantage.<p>Engineers really should communicate clearly about
technical stuff. People solving complex problems
really should concepualise their approaches clearly,
ideally so that can be expressed in words. People
really should reach out for help when blocked.<p>And if Anglos find it easier to do those things, then
good on &#x27;em.</text></comment> |
12,648,125 | 12,646,796 | 1 | 2 | 12,646,083 | train | <story><title>Show HN: A new decentralized microblogging platform</title><url>https://github.com/Gargron/mastodon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xj9</author><text>Why do we keep building centralized &quot;decentralized&quot; services to replace entrenched centralized providers? What hope of victory is there against the Twitters and Facebooks of the world? They already own that space! They aren&#x27;t going to be disrupted by Yet Another Twitter Clone.<p>Disruption means doing something that your competitors are effectively incapable of doing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gargron</author><text>This isn&#x27;t a startup, it&#x27;s an open-source project. Most likely the Twitters and Facebooks will win, but people should have a viable choice... Plus this is an incredibly fun project to be working on, to be quite honest.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: A new decentralized microblogging platform</title><url>https://github.com/Gargron/mastodon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xj9</author><text>Why do we keep building centralized &quot;decentralized&quot; services to replace entrenched centralized providers? What hope of victory is there against the Twitters and Facebooks of the world? They already own that space! They aren&#x27;t going to be disrupted by Yet Another Twitter Clone.<p>Disruption means doing something that your competitors are effectively incapable of doing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blowski</author><text>Their USP, which Facebook and Twitter can never compete with, is self-hosting. Multiple companies could set up, some with ad-free paid options, others funded by advertising. And if you don&#x27;t like those options, you can host it yourself for you and your family.<p>I think that&#x27;s a worthy goal, though I&#x27;m not convinced it we&#x27;ll achieve it because of the amount of money the vested interests can throw at preventing it. But it remains a good idea, even if it never becomes mainstream.</text></comment> |
21,471,122 | 21,471,227 | 1 | 2 | 21,470,407 | train | <story><title>Solar farm has to switch off every second day due to negative prices</title><url>https://reneweconomy.com.au/this-solar-farm-has-to-switch-off-every-second-day-due-to-negative-prices-63529/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ZeroGravitas</author><text>I&#x27;m not a fan of most reporting of these negative price events.<p>First, they rarely explain why the price is negative. As the article explains, solar can switch itself off, so it&#x27;s nothing physical about solar that can cause negative prices, as all solar can switch itself off before it goes negative it would bottom out at zero for those reasons.<p>In most cases I&#x27;ve seen so far, contractual agreements with gas, coal or nuclear (who struggle to switch themselves off quickly without hurting themselves) have been the reasons for negative pricing and the grid wasn&#x27;t actually at 100% renewable at the time of the curtailment. In other words, solar switches itself off, while other, dirtier plants get fined (negative price!) for demanding that they be allowed to still run.<p>In South Australia they&#x27;re doing pretty well on renewable, so it&#x27;s possible they actually are at 100% renewable at these times (would be good for the stories to clarify). If that&#x27;s the case then the negative price is most likely caused by subsidies to wind that are paid per generation. If the subsidies to two renewable plants are different then one will bid the other off the market at that point since the price can go down to the opposite of the subsidy before they make an actual loss.<p>All in all, these negative prices are useful market signals. I wish the weren&#x27;t covered by journalists who seem to think negative numbers are taboo for some reason.<p>The fact that it&#x27;s the same plant that gets switched off repeatedly (rather than all solar reducing output) makes me think this is either a contractual thing that only affects its owner or a regional transmission thing that only affects its geographic location. Again, would be nice for stories to find out which.</text></comment> | <story><title>Solar farm has to switch off every second day due to negative prices</title><url>https://reneweconomy.com.au/this-solar-farm-has-to-switch-off-every-second-day-due-to-negative-prices-63529/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nabla9</author><text>EXPLANATION: Some power sources can’t be shut down and restarted quickly and cost-efficiently. If the cost of stopping and restarting plant is higher than the cost of selling energy at a negative price for some time, prices go negative.<p>This kind of price fluctuation can increase the overall cost of energy production. We need cost effective power storage solutions and better electric grids to make renewable more effective.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Duck_curve" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Duck_curve</a></text></comment> |
25,112,097 | 25,110,447 | 1 | 2 | 25,108,599 | train | <story><title>Apple Addresses Privacy Concerns Surrounding App Authentication in macOS</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/15/apple-privacy-macos-app-authenticaion/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jb1991</author><text>&gt; The bitterness that flies around whenever Apple comes up around here is almost inexplicable.<p>or more specifically, not so much inexplicable (as actually I think it is quite predictable), but rather it is just exhausting.<p>I&#x27;m never going to buy a Windows computer. Period. I&#x27;m probably never going to switch to Linux either. I don&#x27;t go around shouting my reasons why I won&#x27;t, and I think most Apple users behave this way.<p>But for a certain segment of the non-Apple crowd, yelling consistently about their opinions is an odd recurrence.</text></item><item><author>skibble</author><text>Oh please. Just because there’s someone shouting this in every such thread doesn’t make it automatically true. You can set up a Mac without ever connecting it to the internet and it will work perfectly.<p>These are defensive measures to protect the general user base from malware. Yes, using HTTP in 2020 is worthy of scrutiny, but not using every such incident as a new piece of armour for this tedious narrative. Apple’s entire platform offering is based around curation. If you disagree with it, there are many other platforms out there you can elect to use. The bitterness that flies around whenever Apple comes up around here is almost inexplicable.</text></item><item><author>devwastaken</author><text>The problem should have never existed. Phoning home in this manner should never have existed. This problem is not a bug, it&#x27;s a fundamental problem with the culture of software development apple curates. They don&#x27;t believe you should own your computer, that apple always knows better, and if you don&#x27;t use it the way they force you to, it&#x27;s unsupported behavior.<p>To them this is natural, they get away doing anything with the Iphone. Doing it to macos is the natural result of that precedent.<p>There&#x27;s a downvote brigade in this thread. The downvote button is not a &quot;I disagree&quot; button.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AsyncAwait</author><text>&gt; or more specifically, not so much inexplicable (as actually I think it is quite predictable), but rather it is just exhausting<p>Weird how I feel the same about all the pro-Apple comments in every Linux thread, specifically to the effect of:<p>&#x27;Unlike Linux, macOS just works. When I was younger I used to play with Linux too, but now I do actually work I just need shit to work and macOS does that&#x27;, followed by a bunch of outdated, showing knows nothing about what they&#x27;re talking about shit about PulseAudio.<p>But when Apple completely and utterly screws up, to the point when you can&#x27;t even launch non-Apple apps on a machine you paid thousands of dollars for, then people are all too sudden overreacting?<p>Funny how that works.<p>&gt; I&#x27;m never going to buy a Windows computer. Period. I&#x27;m probably never going to switch to Linux either.<p>Good. And most FLOSS people don&#x27;t want you to either. What is my problem is when people have crazy high expectations of FLOSS maintainers, but a trillion dollar company screwing up is filled under the category of &#x27;shit happens&#x27; so to speak.<p>Especially considering Apple&#x27;s a commercial entity that DOES NOT and WILL NOT care about you or what you think and does not need anyone&#x27;s advocacy as they have a massive marketing budget of their own. Aside from that, there is a feeling in the FLOSS community that Apple&#x27;s conducting a war on general purpose computing as we know it, which is not an unreasonable thing to be fearful of considering their influence.<p>&gt; I don&#x27;t go around shouting my reasons why I won&#x27;t,<p>I am glad to hear that, but there&#x27;s an awful number of your fellow Applers who are doing exactly the opposite.<p>&gt; But for a certain segment of the non-Apple crowd, yelling consistently about their opinions is an odd recurrence.<p>Right, which is totally not a thing for the Apple crowd, is that it?</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Addresses Privacy Concerns Surrounding App Authentication in macOS</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/15/apple-privacy-macos-app-authenticaion/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jb1991</author><text>&gt; The bitterness that flies around whenever Apple comes up around here is almost inexplicable.<p>or more specifically, not so much inexplicable (as actually I think it is quite predictable), but rather it is just exhausting.<p>I&#x27;m never going to buy a Windows computer. Period. I&#x27;m probably never going to switch to Linux either. I don&#x27;t go around shouting my reasons why I won&#x27;t, and I think most Apple users behave this way.<p>But for a certain segment of the non-Apple crowd, yelling consistently about their opinions is an odd recurrence.</text></item><item><author>skibble</author><text>Oh please. Just because there’s someone shouting this in every such thread doesn’t make it automatically true. You can set up a Mac without ever connecting it to the internet and it will work perfectly.<p>These are defensive measures to protect the general user base from malware. Yes, using HTTP in 2020 is worthy of scrutiny, but not using every such incident as a new piece of armour for this tedious narrative. Apple’s entire platform offering is based around curation. If you disagree with it, there are many other platforms out there you can elect to use. The bitterness that flies around whenever Apple comes up around here is almost inexplicable.</text></item><item><author>devwastaken</author><text>The problem should have never existed. Phoning home in this manner should never have existed. This problem is not a bug, it&#x27;s a fundamental problem with the culture of software development apple curates. They don&#x27;t believe you should own your computer, that apple always knows better, and if you don&#x27;t use it the way they force you to, it&#x27;s unsupported behavior.<p>To them this is natural, they get away doing anything with the Iphone. Doing it to macos is the natural result of that precedent.<p>There&#x27;s a downvote brigade in this thread. The downvote button is not a &quot;I disagree&quot; button.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>izacus</author><text>What a bizarre post considering all the pro-Apple smugness we see in Windows, Android and Linux topics. To the point where some of them are almost outright Apple ads.<p>Almost as bizarre as loyalty to a single brand even when they stop treating you well.</text></comment> |
36,658,775 | 36,658,466 | 1 | 3 | 36,656,145 | train | <story><title>Building cross-platform Rust for Web, Android and iOS – a minimal example</title><url>https://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/2022/07/06/building-cross-platform-rust-for-web-android-and-ios-a-minimal-example/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jwells89</author><text>This is cool, but it&#x27;s worth noting that depending on how network-heavy the app in question is it may not be advisable to build the networking portion of an app as part of the shared core.<p>The reason for this is because iOS has a multitude of device specific optimizations built into the native networking stack to my knowledge is opted out of with the usage of cross platform networking. This includes features coalescence of calls across apps to occur when the antenna is already awake (to save power) and transparent management of multi-connection situations (e.g. when the phone has both wifi and cell available). The result is more power used and less fluidity in some situations.<p>I don&#x27;t think this is as much of an issue on Android where third party networking libs like OkHTTP are the norm anyway.<p>With this in mind I believe the best functionality to put in a shared core is generic common logic which does not have platform optimizations.</text></comment> | <story><title>Building cross-platform Rust for Web, Android and iOS – a minimal example</title><url>https://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/2022/07/06/building-cross-platform-rust-for-web-android-and-ios-a-minimal-example/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dylanowen</author><text>I found <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;antoniusnaumann&#x2F;cargo-swift">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;antoniusnaumann&#x2F;cargo-swift</a> pretty nice for iOS. It uses UniFFI under the hood but automates the other pieces with building an xcode project.</text></comment> |
14,629,080 | 14,627,933 | 1 | 3 | 14,627,690 | train | <story><title>Text to speech in Python</title><url>https://pythonprogramminglanguage.com/text-to-speech/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BugsJustFindMe</author><text>The more accurate title for this is &quot;Python interface to Google&#x27;s cloud TTS service&quot;.<p>Which means it won&#x27;t work offline or when Google inevitably shuts down the API.</text></comment> | <story><title>Text to speech in Python</title><url>https://pythonprogramminglanguage.com/text-to-speech/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>haikuginger</author><text>sudo pip install? Really?<p>You almost never want to use the system Python. Use pyenv[0] to install the version of Python you want, and then create a new virtual environment for each project.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pyenv&#x2F;pyenv" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pyenv&#x2F;pyenv</a></text></comment> |
3,817,692 | 3,817,409 | 1 | 3 | 3,817,097 | train | <story><title>“She doesn’t deserve to be alive”</title><url>http://blog.asmartbear.com/doesnt-deserve-to-be-alive.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eggbrain</author><text>The problem I've found, and I know this is true in me, is that people have a gated view of success -- they only consider the people that are more successful than them in their self-evaluation. People look longingly at the friends that went to Harvard Law and have made millions, but don't seem to give a glance to the friends who are having tough times emotionally or financially.<p>Even Julius Caesar reportedly, upon seeing a statue of Alexander the Great, realized with dissatisfaction he was now at an age when Alexander had the world at his feet, while he had achieved comparatively little.<p>The point is, if we are looking to find someone better than us in the areas we want to succeed, we will easily find them. It's only upon reflection that we might find that the areas we give no credit to, the areas we have already succeeded in, might be just as important as the things we strive for.</text></comment> | <story><title>“She doesn’t deserve to be alive”</title><url>http://blog.asmartbear.com/doesnt-deserve-to-be-alive.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>exratione</author><text>Nobody deserves to be alive. Use of the word "deserves" in that context is one of those subtle abuses of the capabilities of language that verge on indoctrination. If you unpack it, you'll see that it implies the existence of some form of universal scoring system that everyone is a part of whether they want to be or not. Which is of course very far from the case, despite the existence of large groups of very missionary-minded folk who would like you to subscribe to that irrational belief.<p>This is one of many forms of what we might call adversarial grouping - very common when you see words like "we" and "should" showing up in sentences - in which the writer tries to place people, often the readers or listeners, into a specific memeplex without their consent. Given that the placing is usually happening at a level below the active topic, it is often surprisingly successful.<p>In this it shares a lot with the art of propaganda and advertising, illustrating that these things are points on a spectrum of abusive linguistics both grand and small. But all worth trying to keep an eye on as they arrive at your doorstep.</text></comment> |
21,274,176 | 21,273,517 | 1 | 3 | 21,269,795 | train | <story><title>Magic Mushrooms Can Help Smokers Kick the Habit</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2019/10/01/766057380/how-magic-mushrooms-can-help-smokers-kick-the-habit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cheez</author><text>I&#x27;ve got a habit I&#x27;m trying to break as well and I pondered using drugs. But I don&#x27;t do drugs otherwise. How do you go about finding DMT?</text></item><item><author>JonAtkinson</author><text>I used another psychedelic (DMT) to self treat my alcoholism. While it is early days still, I am almost 600 days sober.<p>The drug allowed to me introspect and access my mind in a way which was previously blocked. From the perspective it unlocked, it was easy to see the harm I was doing to myself and others. It changed my life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>newnewpdro</author><text>Get some mushrooms, everything else is going to be more risky and a lot more like a hard drug use situation experientially.<p>You can grind up mushrooms and steep them like a tea, or just eat them as-is. It&#x27;s nothing like using drugs, more like consuming a food that has an odd effect then just goes away once it&#x27;s passed through.<p>Also, start small, it&#x27;s useful for acclimating to the whole experience. And you might find what you&#x27;re looking for without even taking a full psychedelic dose. Microdosing shrooms is still quite active, much like drinking a cup of coffee is.</text></comment> | <story><title>Magic Mushrooms Can Help Smokers Kick the Habit</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2019/10/01/766057380/how-magic-mushrooms-can-help-smokers-kick-the-habit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cheez</author><text>I&#x27;ve got a habit I&#x27;m trying to break as well and I pondered using drugs. But I don&#x27;t do drugs otherwise. How do you go about finding DMT?</text></item><item><author>JonAtkinson</author><text>I used another psychedelic (DMT) to self treat my alcoholism. While it is early days still, I am almost 600 days sober.<p>The drug allowed to me introspect and access my mind in a way which was previously blocked. From the perspective it unlocked, it was easy to see the harm I was doing to myself and others. It changed my life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonsaidit</author><text>You make it yourself and its a quite easy process. Look up dmt tek</text></comment> |
36,848,422 | 36,848,867 | 1 | 2 | 36,847,133 | train | <story><title>Pikchr: A PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation</title><url>https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/doc/userman.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewl</author><text>Pikchr was created by the same small group that did SQLite, and it is what creates the SQLite diagrams like the ones on this page:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlite.org&#x2F;lang_select.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlite.org&#x2F;lang_select.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Pikchr: A PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation</title><url>https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/doc/userman.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ComputerGuru</author><text>&gt; the antepenultimate oval object<p>I laughed at this thinking it was a perfectly cromulent - but completely made up - way of saying “third last” — but I just looked it up and now I feel stupid since it’s actually in the dictionary. Today I learned!</text></comment> |
19,340,447 | 19,339,360 | 1 | 2 | 19,337,638 | train | <story><title>Galaxy Simulations Offer a New Solution to the Fermi Paradox</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/galaxy-simulations-offer-a-new-solution-to-the-fermi-paradox-20190307/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>btilly</author><text>I have a boring solution to the Fermi paradox. It is old, but really, really boring.<p>Start looking at things that are weird about our Solar System and the Earth. Figure out which ones are probably necessary for intelligence. Add those into the Fermi calculation. And see that it is likely that we&#x27;re the first intelligent life in this galaxy.<p>What are some of those special things? It is not enough to have a planet that has the right ingredients to start life. It is necessary that it&#x27;s progress not be constantly wiped out by major disasters over a very long time scale. What kinds of disasters?<p>You don&#x27;t want a supernova going off too close. We have been lucky to avoid that. Our odds were greatly improved by the fact that we spend most of our time out of the galactic plane, away from other stars that could be about to go boom. This is an unusual orbit.<p>You don&#x27;t want to be hit by too many comets. We&#x27;ve been hit by some, but far, far less than we would have without Jupiter acting like a sweeper to clean up dangerous stuff in our neighborhood. How rare is that? We have cataloged planets in hundreds of other solar systems. We see ones with only rocky planets. Ones with only gas giants. But we&#x27;re the only one we know of with both gas giants and rocky planets. The only one where the rocky planets wind up protected from most of dinosaur killer kinds of impacts.<p>Oh, and get this one. Without the Moon, the tilt of the Earth&#x27;s spin is unstable. Without it, in simulations we would wind up with one pole aimed at the Sun and the other not once every few tens of millions of years. Probably not good for the development of intelligent life. Again we don&#x27;t know how rare this is, but we suspect that it is rather uncommon.<p>Suppose that each of these only happens to one star out of a thousand. Suppose further that there is one more, as yet unidentified, special factor about us that is also required. Again make that a 1&#x2F;1000 coincidence. That would make the odds good that of the ~250 billion stars in our galaxy, we&#x27;re the only ones with intelligent life.<p>Or if you do the back of the envelope just with the three that I named, and made them 1&#x2F;10,000 coincidences, you get the same result.<p>As a sanity check, the fact that no other intelligent life has been observed is evidence that it is unlikely. And given Fermi&#x27;s argument, it is probably unlikely at least on the scale of 100 billion to one against.</text></comment> | <story><title>Galaxy Simulations Offer a New Solution to the Fermi Paradox</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/galaxy-simulations-offer-a-new-solution-to-the-fermi-paradox-20190307/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lukifer</author><text>My favorite solution: The galaxy is teeming with life, but in the form of quasi-immortal software that lives at such vast timescales, they&#x27;re as uninterested in talking to us as we would be in talking to a fruit fly. (Imagine Space Ents that say hello, and are perfectly content to wait 10,000 years for a reply.) It may well be that becoming such a life form is the only practical way to deal with the speed-of-light constraint, either in travel or communication.</text></comment> |
29,910,329 | 29,909,582 | 1 | 3 | 29,906,496 | train | <story><title>US consumer prices soared 7% in past year, most since 1982</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/consumer-prices-inflation-c1bfd93ed1719cf0135420f4fd0270f9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asow92</author><text>All of the people I went to school with who are struggling with debt and jobs today are those who picked terrible majors or shouldn&#x27;t have been in the major in the first place. They knew that it would be bad going into it and still went ahead with it anyway. We need to figure out how to stop these people from committing these mistakes earlier on in the process. There is no shame in going into less technical trades—especially since they are in high demand.</text></item><item><author>jonathan-adly</author><text>I feel a lot of sympathy to kids graduating in this decade in most careers. Tons of debt, ever increasing asset prices, and terrible job market with stagnating wages.<p>If you don&#x27;t have rich parents, you are in a terrible spot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>md2020</author><text>I agree, just want to add my anecdotal evidence. I graduated undergrad in Dec 2020 with a good job lined up, as did many of my friends who picked majors that had been the obvious good choices when they enrolled in college 4 years earlier. It was easy to see what career tracks would be good ideas, and the people I know who put in <i>minimal</i> effort to research these before committing ended up just fine. It’s not like people who picked majors with poor employment prospects were blindsided <i>at any point</i>. Now these are the same people who I see vocally advocating for the government to cancel their debt and cancel their rent.<p>I’d say I’m pretty progressive on most issues, and obviously I have sympathy for my friends that ended up this way, but I have to agree with you that one way we could end up with fewer people limping along is to just keep them from shooting themselves in the foot.</text></comment> | <story><title>US consumer prices soared 7% in past year, most since 1982</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/consumer-prices-inflation-c1bfd93ed1719cf0135420f4fd0270f9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asow92</author><text>All of the people I went to school with who are struggling with debt and jobs today are those who picked terrible majors or shouldn&#x27;t have been in the major in the first place. They knew that it would be bad going into it and still went ahead with it anyway. We need to figure out how to stop these people from committing these mistakes earlier on in the process. There is no shame in going into less technical trades—especially since they are in high demand.</text></item><item><author>jonathan-adly</author><text>I feel a lot of sympathy to kids graduating in this decade in most careers. Tons of debt, ever increasing asset prices, and terrible job market with stagnating wages.<p>If you don&#x27;t have rich parents, you are in a terrible spot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>UncleMeat</author><text>&gt; There is no shame in going into less technical trades—especially since they are in high demand.<p>People say this, but it is so often said by people not in these industries. My brother in law is an electrician and he gets paid badly, works rough hours, and is provided fairly limited safety by his employer. This is obviously a data point of one, but the fact that he feels incapable of finding a better job in his city indicates to me that this is the norm.</text></comment> |
9,978,976 | 9,978,369 | 1 | 2 | 9,976,298 | train | <story><title>I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10</title><url>https://jonathan.porta.codes/2015/07/30/windows-10-seems-to-have-some-scary-privacy-defaults/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>natmaster</author><text>I find it shocking how people readily accept Google&#x27;s far worse policies, and yet are so concerned about an easy opt out.<p>For instance, in Android, Google tracks with GPS accuracy your whereabouts constantly. This isn&#x27;t just what IP your desktop is attached to. Furthermore, there is no prompt telling you this happens with a very easy way of undoing. In fact even if you knew about this it is very hard to find a way to disable.<p>Secondly, Chrome send every website you visit to their servers to be logged. Again, this is not explained in some easy opt-out screen and in fact the only way to get around this is to use SRWare Iron, where they removed that code.<p>But Microsoft makes it easy for you to choose the privacy options even telling you about them on install.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>autoexec</author><text>&gt; I find it shocking how people readily accept Google&#x27;s far worse policies, and yet are so concerned about an easy opt out.<p>For me it&#x27;s because I control my interaction with Google. I don&#x27;t use their search for things I don&#x27;t want them recording, I don&#x27;t use gmail for conversations I expect to be private. Once your talking about the private files I store on my hard drive and access with the OS, the keystrokes I enter on my keyboard for every application, then the reach is far greater. Having a company like Google say &quot;You can use these services, but we&#x27;re going to spy on you&quot; is not the same as MS saying &quot;we will be watching and have access to everything on your computer, oh and you can&#x27;t disable all of this spying without an enterprise license.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10</title><url>https://jonathan.porta.codes/2015/07/30/windows-10-seems-to-have-some-scary-privacy-defaults/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>natmaster</author><text>I find it shocking how people readily accept Google&#x27;s far worse policies, and yet are so concerned about an easy opt out.<p>For instance, in Android, Google tracks with GPS accuracy your whereabouts constantly. This isn&#x27;t just what IP your desktop is attached to. Furthermore, there is no prompt telling you this happens with a very easy way of undoing. In fact even if you knew about this it is very hard to find a way to disable.<p>Secondly, Chrome send every website you visit to their servers to be logged. Again, this is not explained in some easy opt-out screen and in fact the only way to get around this is to use SRWare Iron, where they removed that code.<p>But Microsoft makes it easy for you to choose the privacy options even telling you about them on install.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zarel</author><text>This is completely false. For one thing, SRWare Iron is a scam:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.insanitybit.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;06&#x2F;23&#x2F;srware-iron-browser-a-real-private-alternative-to-chrome-21&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.insanitybit.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;06&#x2F;23&#x2F;srware-iron-browser-a-...</a><p>For another thing, Chrome doesn&#x27;t log every website you visit. The closest thing they do is suggest autocompletions for searches&#x2F;URLs you type in the URL, which is a straightforwardly-explained checkbox in Chrome&#x27;s privacy settings.</text></comment> |
39,660,284 | 39,659,713 | 1 | 3 | 39,658,408 | train | <story><title>When 'open core' projects reject contributions for competing with the EE</title><url>https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch/pull/3266</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>klabb3</author><text>Look at the timestamps. It’s months of complete silence, which is not a great sign from a saas. It was clear that the feature was popular.<p>Another thing that annoys me to no end is locking threads because it’s “heated”. Just accept the grief and venting, people deserve it. It’s toxic positivity.</text></item><item><author>madeofpalk</author><text>One lesson from this is to not contribute a &#x27;major feature&#x27; to an open source project without a signal that it would actually be accepted. Even if the feature doesn&#x27;t conflict with enterprise&#x2F;monetisation, the feature could just be against the goals of ideals of the maintainers, of whom the project is up to.<p>Open source is not a mandate that the maintainers must accept every contribution. The author should consider why they don&#x27;t want to maintain a fork, and whether that&#x27;s the same reason why this PR was rejected in favor of an enterprise feature.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>madeofpalk</author><text>I agree - I think the maintainers of the project could have handled this better by responding to it immediately. But that wouldn&#x27;t have resolved the wasted effort of the whole PR.<p>&gt; <i>Just accept the grief and venting, people deserve it. It’s toxic positivity.</i><p>Absolutely not. No one is entitled to vent at a project, and no maintainer deserves to have that directed to them.</text></comment> | <story><title>When 'open core' projects reject contributions for competing with the EE</title><url>https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch/pull/3266</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>klabb3</author><text>Look at the timestamps. It’s months of complete silence, which is not a great sign from a saas. It was clear that the feature was popular.<p>Another thing that annoys me to no end is locking threads because it’s “heated”. Just accept the grief and venting, people deserve it. It’s toxic positivity.</text></item><item><author>madeofpalk</author><text>One lesson from this is to not contribute a &#x27;major feature&#x27; to an open source project without a signal that it would actually be accepted. Even if the feature doesn&#x27;t conflict with enterprise&#x2F;monetisation, the feature could just be against the goals of ideals of the maintainers, of whom the project is up to.<p>Open source is not a mandate that the maintainers must accept every contribution. The author should consider why they don&#x27;t want to maintain a fork, and whether that&#x27;s the same reason why this PR was rejected in favor of an enterprise feature.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>soamv</author><text>&gt; Just accept the grief and venting<p>Maintainers do not owe you this, in addition to maintaining the software that you can use for free. You&#x27;re entitled to be upset, and they&#x27;re just as entitled to say &quot;please go somewhere else to vent, we&#x27;re busy&quot;.</text></comment> |
11,529,703 | 11,529,730 | 1 | 2 | 11,527,738 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: How did you learn about stocks and the market?</title><text>I find it really hard&#x2F;confusing to understand stocks and the market from the investing perspective. I&#x27;m a beginner in this domain. So, I keen to learn about it so that I can understand the technical details too. I did a search and found out that everybody is recommending &quot;The Intelligent Investor&quot; by Benjamin Graham. I&#x27;m kind of person who likes to watch videos, so I also found couple of courses (paid) on Udemy but those aren&#x27;t good and just wastage of money. I also found that Investopedia is an excellent resource. It contains a lot of good tutorials [0], guides [1] and videos [2].<p>You might have already learnt what I&#x27;m trying to. What&#x27;s your story? It would be really nice if you can also share the resources that proved really useful to you.<p>[0] http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;university&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;
[1] http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;university&#x2F;
[2] http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>brianpgordon</author><text>You will never, ever beat the market by making smart trades.<p>Get real- you&#x27;re a beginner reading investopedia. Active funds employ hundreds or thousands of people who work more than full-time to support an operation of systematically studying investment opportunities and exploiting inside information to beat the market, and even <i>they</i> don&#x27;t beat the market.<p>Put your money in a diversified portfolio of index funds and leave it alone. Making targeted trades costs money and will do no better than index funds anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dwc</author><text>Agreed, with one exception: when you as an individual have fairly deep knowledge about something and spot a market opportunity based on that knowledge, you <i>might</i> be able to correctly judge whether you can take advantage of it.<p>I&#x27;ve done this several times and made good money. Two times I approximately doubled my money over the course of several months. Yeah, not day trading but buying and waiting for the market to figure out what I already knew. The thing about that is, it only happens when it happens. Most of the time my money is sitting in index funds quietly getting solid but undramatic returns, and I don&#x27;t have to pay much attention at all.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: How did you learn about stocks and the market?</title><text>I find it really hard&#x2F;confusing to understand stocks and the market from the investing perspective. I&#x27;m a beginner in this domain. So, I keen to learn about it so that I can understand the technical details too. I did a search and found out that everybody is recommending &quot;The Intelligent Investor&quot; by Benjamin Graham. I&#x27;m kind of person who likes to watch videos, so I also found couple of courses (paid) on Udemy but those aren&#x27;t good and just wastage of money. I also found that Investopedia is an excellent resource. It contains a lot of good tutorials [0], guides [1] and videos [2].<p>You might have already learnt what I&#x27;m trying to. What&#x27;s your story? It would be really nice if you can also share the resources that proved really useful to you.<p>[0] http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;university&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;
[1] http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;university&#x2F;
[2] http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>brianpgordon</author><text>You will never, ever beat the market by making smart trades.<p>Get real- you&#x27;re a beginner reading investopedia. Active funds employ hundreds or thousands of people who work more than full-time to support an operation of systematically studying investment opportunities and exploiting inside information to beat the market, and even <i>they</i> don&#x27;t beat the market.<p>Put your money in a diversified portfolio of index funds and leave it alone. Making targeted trades costs money and will do no better than index funds anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baccredited</author><text>&gt;You will never, ever beat the market by making smart trades.<p>Agree. Just buy ticker VOO and get on with your life. Even Warren Buffet has said to buy 90% VOO and 10% bonds. And you will never be as good at this as Warren Buffett.<p>That said, I take 10% of my net worth and put it in a &#x27;casino fund&#x27; where I can buy whatever I want. Startups, peer to peer nonsense, individual stocks, and so on.</text></comment> |
27,957,736 | 27,957,735 | 1 | 2 | 27,957,171 | train | <story><title>TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe chip plant</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/TSMC-eyes-Germany-as-possible-location-for-first-Europe-chip-plant</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>artemonster</author><text>ha! I guess you haven&#x27;t worked as a designer or verification engineer, designing chips then? let me tell you: you work with a commitee-designed c++ like abomination language with 300 non-composible keywords that make no freaking sense. all of that crap grew from legacy-upon-legacy of crutches as an attempt to fix the goddamn broken-by-design verilog. Ultimately, this craplanguage + library that is 90% non-debuggable macros, works only with ~3 vendor simulators (all 3 would do different stuff on big designs and you are locked almost forever). When you simulate you designs, most of external components would be either encrypted blackboxes or be calling &quot;magic&quot; functions (called system tasks) that are absultely opaque to you and do some global side-effects. All of this multiplied by the fact that every statement is executed in parallel in your huge design and evolves in time.
Oh, did I mention how crappy the actual tools are? Think of 90&#x27;s era with outdated and moronic UI&#x2F;UX, some poorely integrated quasi-TCL interpreter for configuration &amp; ability to crash that tool in &lt;3 clicks. Ah, you will be paying 15kUSD&#x2F;year per license, thank you very much. You will be needing lots of them (&gt; 50).</text></item><item><author>tester34</author><text>Overall semiconducting industry seems to be way more exciting than boring computer industry</text></item><item><author>ipnon</author><text>TSMC is really the keystone for everything else done that ends up getting talked about on this website. They are constantly at the bleeding edge of computer manufacture and pushing it further still. We should feel some sense of amazement to be alive still in the middle of the computer revolution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Heliosmaster</author><text>Or working with a 40M Loc codebase started in the 80s with 50% code duplication. Because it&#x27;s so mission critical that nobody really touches existing code. Or that everything needs to be rubber-stamped by a ton of people and even a rename takes months to make it in the codebase. Oh well. That&#x27;s probably every enterprise</text></comment> | <story><title>TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe chip plant</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/TSMC-eyes-Germany-as-possible-location-for-first-Europe-chip-plant</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>artemonster</author><text>ha! I guess you haven&#x27;t worked as a designer or verification engineer, designing chips then? let me tell you: you work with a commitee-designed c++ like abomination language with 300 non-composible keywords that make no freaking sense. all of that crap grew from legacy-upon-legacy of crutches as an attempt to fix the goddamn broken-by-design verilog. Ultimately, this craplanguage + library that is 90% non-debuggable macros, works only with ~3 vendor simulators (all 3 would do different stuff on big designs and you are locked almost forever). When you simulate you designs, most of external components would be either encrypted blackboxes or be calling &quot;magic&quot; functions (called system tasks) that are absultely opaque to you and do some global side-effects. All of this multiplied by the fact that every statement is executed in parallel in your huge design and evolves in time.
Oh, did I mention how crappy the actual tools are? Think of 90&#x27;s era with outdated and moronic UI&#x2F;UX, some poorely integrated quasi-TCL interpreter for configuration &amp; ability to crash that tool in &lt;3 clicks. Ah, you will be paying 15kUSD&#x2F;year per license, thank you very much. You will be needing lots of them (&gt; 50).</text></item><item><author>tester34</author><text>Overall semiconducting industry seems to be way more exciting than boring computer industry</text></item><item><author>ipnon</author><text>TSMC is really the keystone for everything else done that ends up getting talked about on this website. They are constantly at the bleeding edge of computer manufacture and pushing it further still. We should feel some sense of amazement to be alive still in the middle of the computer revolution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spaniard89277</author><text>Hmmm, isn&#x27;t there people pushing for better standards, language, tools?</text></comment> |
38,899,478 | 38,899,192 | 1 | 2 | 38,890,705 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Building a 'liturgical lightbulb', bringing the Calendar to life</title><url>https://github.com/grahame/pharus</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ksenzee</author><text>I love everything about this. Shopping for hardware now. If I get it up and running, I&#x27;ll submit a PR for the US Episcopal calendar.<p>This is a bigger and more involved project than I think a lot of people will realize. One of my recent side projects was a Mastodon bot that posts a daily verse from the Episcopal Hymnal 1982 (botsin.space&#x2F;@hymnal1982), and getting it to reflect the liturgical calendar was a job and a half. (It missed all of Christmas after Christmas Day; have to go debug that.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Building a 'liturgical lightbulb', bringing the Calendar to life</title><url>https://github.com/grahame/pharus</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kstrauser</author><text>Clever! I love seeing super-niche projects that neatly solve one person’s problem.</text></comment> |
17,196,878 | 17,196,593 | 1 | 2 | 17,195,951 | train | <story><title>Map: US States Renamed as Countries with Similar GDPs</title><url>http://thesoundingline.com/map-of-the-day-us-states-renamed-for-countries-with-similar-gdps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danielvf</author><text>From the original article and chart (not the current linked site):<p>&gt; &quot;California has a labor force of 19.3 million compared to the labor force in the UK of 33.8 million (World Bank data here). Amazingly, it required a labor force 75% larger (and 14.5 million more people) in the UK to produce the same economic output last year as California! ... Further, California as a separate country would have been the 5th largest economy in the world last year, ahead of the UK ($2.62 trillion), India ($2.61 trillion) and France ($2.58 trillion).&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skratlo</author><text>&gt; Amazingly, it required a labor force 75% larger (and 14.5 million more people) in the UK to produce the same economic output<p>Look at it the other way, the UK can house &amp; feed more people with the same economic output, therefore being more efficient at those tasks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Map: US States Renamed as Countries with Similar GDPs</title><url>http://thesoundingline.com/map-of-the-day-us-states-renamed-for-countries-with-similar-gdps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danielvf</author><text>From the original article and chart (not the current linked site):<p>&gt; &quot;California has a labor force of 19.3 million compared to the labor force in the UK of 33.8 million (World Bank data here). Amazingly, it required a labor force 75% larger (and 14.5 million more people) in the UK to produce the same economic output last year as California! ... Further, California as a separate country would have been the 5th largest economy in the world last year, ahead of the UK ($2.62 trillion), India ($2.61 trillion) and France ($2.58 trillion).&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mhandley</author><text>That shows the power of immigration. I&#x27;m not even talking about immigration from outside the US, though that&#x27;s significant too. California has such high GDP per capita because it draws well educated people from the rest of the US. If it was an independent country, it couldn&#x27;t do that so easily.</text></comment> |
13,988,647 | 13,988,615 | 1 | 2 | 13,987,471 | train | <story><title>The Arrival of AI</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2017/the-arrival-of-artificial-intelligence/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>altonzheng</author><text>&gt; How many will care if artificial intelligence destroys life if it has already destroyed meaning?<p>This line sounds deep, but I think it incorrectly conflates work with life having meaning. If eventually there isn&#x27;t a need for large swaths of the population to work, then so what? I don&#x27;t think the elite aristocrats in previous centuries had any problem with not working. Humanity can adapt to find other sources of meaning, like the pursuit of art in its various forms (although I&#x27;m assuming that computers can&#x27;t replace art). I think a better question is if society can adapt quick enough to fill the void left by the absence of work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Banthum</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting that your counterexample - doing art - is indeed a form of work. Because it is. Doing good art is painfully hard work, in fact.<p>There&#x27;s nothing in principle that stops a machine from creating art. Even, better art than any person could do. So once that happens, where are we left?<p><i>Meaning</i> isn&#x27;t something physical in the universe. Meaning is an emotion. It&#x27;s what you feel when you&#x27;re working towards something that you believe has some greater importance. With all opportunity to work towards anything taken away, life will become meaningless by definition, unless humans are left with some pseudo-artificial challenges to push against.<p>Zookeepers put the animals&#x27; food inside a metal box with a small hole, so the animals have to do work to get it out. It&#x27;s good for the animals to have something to work towards, and they&#x27;re too dumb to realize they&#x27;re being manipulated. Maybe that&#x27;s our future. With WoW and Clash of Clans, etc, sometimes it feels like we&#x27;re already halfway there.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Arrival of AI</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2017/the-arrival-of-artificial-intelligence/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>altonzheng</author><text>&gt; How many will care if artificial intelligence destroys life if it has already destroyed meaning?<p>This line sounds deep, but I think it incorrectly conflates work with life having meaning. If eventually there isn&#x27;t a need for large swaths of the population to work, then so what? I don&#x27;t think the elite aristocrats in previous centuries had any problem with not working. Humanity can adapt to find other sources of meaning, like the pursuit of art in its various forms (although I&#x27;m assuming that computers can&#x27;t replace art). I think a better question is if society can adapt quick enough to fill the void left by the absence of work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>harryh</author><text>Didn&#x27;t elite aristocrats in previous centuries spend a lot of time sleeping with each others spouses and playing arbitrary power games? Looking to them as a source of what a post work world could look like isn&#x27;t particularly inspiring.</text></comment> |
25,852,272 | 25,849,998 | 1 | 3 | 25,846,391 | train | <story><title>Red Hat announces no-cost RHEL for small production environments</title><url>https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dralley</author><text>(RH Employee)<p>&gt; First, they should have announced this when they killed CentOS.<p>I agree.<p>&gt;Second, this is only of value to the teeny tiny companies and individual users with a single server in their home. Small companies with any expectation of growth should probably just use Rocky instead from the get go.<p>Without saying too much - stay tuned for further announcements.</text></item><item><author>awill</author><text>First, they should have announced this when they killed CentOS.<p>Second, this is only of value to the teeny tiny companies and individual users with a single server in their home. Small companies with any expectation of growth should probably just use Rocky instead from the get go.<p>I have a single server in my home running CentOS 7. I gain nothing by using RHEL over Rocky in the future, except with RHEL I have to accept ToS, do some subscription checks, and run the risk that Red Hat cancels this programme down the road. I only see this of value for someone who actually runs real RHEL in prod, and needs to test&#x2F;validate hardware&#x2F;software. For anyone just wanting &#x27;free&#x27; RHEL, they should just use Rocky.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justapassenger</author><text>&gt; Without saying too much - stay tuned for further announcements.<p>It&#x27;s a horrible way to treat users.<p>They aren&#x27;t paying customers, so whatever for RH short-term bottom line. But amount of community backslash approach like that is bringing can have negative long term impact.<p>RH pulled the rug from under the people, and is telling them to stay tuned. I wouldn&#x27;t base my infra on a system like that.<p>But that&#x27;s good for overall Linux community - RH has way too much power there.</text></comment> | <story><title>Red Hat announces no-cost RHEL for small production environments</title><url>https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dralley</author><text>(RH Employee)<p>&gt; First, they should have announced this when they killed CentOS.<p>I agree.<p>&gt;Second, this is only of value to the teeny tiny companies and individual users with a single server in their home. Small companies with any expectation of growth should probably just use Rocky instead from the get go.<p>Without saying too much - stay tuned for further announcements.</text></item><item><author>awill</author><text>First, they should have announced this when they killed CentOS.<p>Second, this is only of value to the teeny tiny companies and individual users with a single server in their home. Small companies with any expectation of growth should probably just use Rocky instead from the get go.<p>I have a single server in my home running CentOS 7. I gain nothing by using RHEL over Rocky in the future, except with RHEL I have to accept ToS, do some subscription checks, and run the risk that Red Hat cancels this programme down the road. I only see this of value for someone who actually runs real RHEL in prod, and needs to test&#x2F;validate hardware&#x2F;software. For anyone just wanting &#x27;free&#x27; RHEL, they should just use Rocky.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucideer</author><text>I understand as an RH employee you&#x27;re likely not in a position to make decisions about what you can disclose when, but... (I&#x27;m sure you&#x27;re aware) your first answer contradicts your second.</text></comment> |
8,230,509 | 8,230,449 | 1 | 2 | 8,228,583 | train | <story><title>Amazon has sold no more than 35,000 Fire phones, data suggests</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/26/amazon-fire-phone-sales-data</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>georgemcbay</author><text>As a huge fan of Amazon in general (as a customer), I still find it difficult to believe they released a hobbled Android phone that is AT&amp;T exclusive and starts at $650 into a world where the $350 fully unlocked Nexus 5 already existed for almost 8 months prior to their release.<p>I&#x27;m just really seriously confused by what they were thinking here.<p>It is almost like seeing one of those &quot;fail&quot; videos where a kid piledrives his friend off the roof into the backyard and both kids end up badly injured -- of course that was the end result, there was no reasonably plausible path from the starting point to any sort of non-failure ending.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon has sold no more than 35,000 Fire phones, data suggests</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/26/amazon-fire-phone-sales-data</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>e40</author><text>I bought a Fire tablet and I swore &quot;never again&quot; after that experience. I sold it on Craig&#x27;s list and bought a Nexus 7. Couldn&#x27;t be happier.<p>The fact that Amazon has a separate store really ticked me off. Lots of apps I was used to on my phone couldn&#x27;t be used on the Fire. And, the fact that the Fire was based on Android 2.x and really never got better, well, that was really annoying, too.<p>So, when their phone was announced, even before I knew one thing about it, I was completely uninterested.</text></comment> |
39,968,674 | 39,968,664 | 1 | 2 | 39,968,205 | train | <story><title>Working from home isn't going away, even if some CEOs wish it would</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/07/working-from-home-isnt-going-away-even-if-some-ceos-wish-it-would/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>martin_drapeau</author><text>It&#x27;s all about saving time. Musk got a private jet to save time travelling around. Employees WFH to save time too. That&#x27;s the hack they found to avoid commuting to work. In such they improve the quality of their lives.<p>Musk, Jasys and Benioff should treat their employees like they do their customers. Adapt to their needs. Asking people to come back to the office is just like selling something a customer no longer wants.<p>As for Musk saying &quot;it ain&#x27;t fair for service employees&quot; I reply those are different jobs. Poor excuse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whoodle</author><text>I find the “it’s not fair to service workers” incredibly unconvincing. There’s lots of things that tech workers get that service workers don’t. Better pay, better flexibility with vacations, control over schedules, probably better insurance, the ability to sit all day, etc. The fact that WFH is the line for Musk is because he doesn’t like it. The same for other CEOs. But they know that isn’t an argument anyone will listen to.</text></comment> | <story><title>Working from home isn't going away, even if some CEOs wish it would</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/07/working-from-home-isnt-going-away-even-if-some-ceos-wish-it-would/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>martin_drapeau</author><text>It&#x27;s all about saving time. Musk got a private jet to save time travelling around. Employees WFH to save time too. That&#x27;s the hack they found to avoid commuting to work. In such they improve the quality of their lives.<p>Musk, Jasys and Benioff should treat their employees like they do their customers. Adapt to their needs. Asking people to come back to the office is just like selling something a customer no longer wants.<p>As for Musk saying &quot;it ain&#x27;t fair for service employees&quot; I reply those are different jobs. Poor excuse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Gigachad</author><text>Pretty much, from all the debate, its clear that the problem isn&#x27;t the office. It&#x27;s the commute. I hated going to the office when it was an hour drive away, often worse with traffic incidents. But for the last few years I&#x27;ve lived much closer so it&#x27;s a quick train trip or bike ride to work and now I much prefer going to the office. It&#x27;s so obviously better for communicating with people.</text></comment> |
24,559,481 | 24,558,027 | 1 | 2 | 24,555,464 | train | <story><title>2020 Bundles</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2020/2020-bundles/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dgudkov</author><text>One of the most successful examples of bundling is Microsoft&#x27;s enterprise plans. For instance, the top E5 plan includes so much enterprise software for so low price that it creates the perception of free software. MS Office? Free. Power BI? Free. Etc.<p>Tableau, which I believe is a more sophisticated data visualization application is getting squeezed out from enterprise accounts. Why? Because Power BI is &quot;free&quot;.<p>Bundling is a huge power.</text></comment> | <story><title>2020 Bundles</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2020/2020-bundles/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lawrenceyan</author><text>It&#x27;s honestly been amazing to see the utter decimation traditional television&#x2F;media has encountered over the last decade.<p>An entire generation of kids is growing up without ever having watched TV thanks to Youtube and Twitch.</text></comment> |
20,528,217 | 20,527,654 | 1 | 3 | 20,526,461 | train | <story><title>In the US, wells being drilled ever deeper as groundwater vanishes</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/wells-are-getting-deeper-as-groundwater-gets-depleted/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>Why not just price water to reflect supply realities?<p>Why would anyone care about saving water when it&#x27;s so dirt cheap? &quot;Awareness&quot; seems like a waste of time in comparison.</text></item><item><author>srameshc</author><text>The same phenomenon is happening is happening in China &amp; India and probably many other parts of he world as well. As we become more a more affluent society, our on water consumption increases. We need to raise awareness at a global level about preserving and saving water.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;china&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2013&#x2F;04&#x2F;28-000-rivers-disappeared-in-china-what-happened&#x2F;275365&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;china&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2013&#x2F;04&#x2F;28-000-riv...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;photos&#x2F;rivers-run-dry&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;photos&#x2F;rivers...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abraae</author><text>Exactly. My father in law lives in a town that has no water metering (and usually, but not always, plenty of water).
In the summer he puts his sprinklers in 2 or 3 times a day, even when dire warnings are issued about water consumption.
Human behavior is all about the impact on the back pocket (particularly if you are a pensioner).</text></comment> | <story><title>In the US, wells being drilled ever deeper as groundwater vanishes</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/wells-are-getting-deeper-as-groundwater-gets-depleted/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>Why not just price water to reflect supply realities?<p>Why would anyone care about saving water when it&#x27;s so dirt cheap? &quot;Awareness&quot; seems like a waste of time in comparison.</text></item><item><author>srameshc</author><text>The same phenomenon is happening is happening in China &amp; India and probably many other parts of he world as well. As we become more a more affluent society, our on water consumption increases. We need to raise awareness at a global level about preserving and saving water.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;china&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2013&#x2F;04&#x2F;28-000-rivers-disappeared-in-china-what-happened&#x2F;275365&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;china&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2013&#x2F;04&#x2F;28-000-riv...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;photos&#x2F;rivers-run-dry&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;photos&#x2F;rivers...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Amezarak</author><text>A lot of people outside of cities have their own groundwater wells, which is at least part of what the article is talking about. How do you price water people are pulling directly from the ground with their own equipment?</text></comment> |
18,957,395 | 18,957,411 | 1 | 2 | 18,956,883 | train | <story><title>H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against Free and Simple Tax Filing (2017)</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-free-simple-hr-block-intuit-lobbying-against-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bluejekyll</author><text>This is a great example of why the way in which politicians raise money and how they are lobbied is corruptive.<p>This is a case where quite easily 80% of their constituency would applaud the change. But a minor set of companies with an ability to contribute large sums of money (for or against) is able to influence something like this passing.<p>Citizens United and similar SCOTUS cases have made it even that much more unlikely that the situation will be improved any time soon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fmardones</author><text>&quot;You sit down, review a prefilled filing from the government. If it’s accurate, you sign it. If it’s not, you fix it or ignore it altogether and prepare your return yourself. It’s your choice. You might not have to pay for an accountant, or fiddle for hours with complex software. It could all be over in minutes.&quot;<p>This is exactly how it works in Chile...since 2005!</text></comment> | <story><title>H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against Free and Simple Tax Filing (2017)</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-free-simple-hr-block-intuit-lobbying-against-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bluejekyll</author><text>This is a great example of why the way in which politicians raise money and how they are lobbied is corruptive.<p>This is a case where quite easily 80% of their constituency would applaud the change. But a minor set of companies with an ability to contribute large sums of money (for or against) is able to influence something like this passing.<p>Citizens United and similar SCOTUS cases have made it even that much more unlikely that the situation will be improved any time soon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grecy</author><text>Yes, this is a failing of Democracy as it currently works in the United States, because the money of large corporations has more say that the will of the people.<p>Unfortunately, it&#x27;s true of so many aspects of American society right now that are in desperate need of reform or rebuild - education, health, roads, public transport, safety, just to name a few.<p>There are so many hundreds of billions of private profits tied up in these things they will never be allowed to improve.</text></comment> |
25,653,344 | 25,652,110 | 1 | 3 | 25,644,678 | train | <story><title>An Open-Source FPGA-Optimized Out-of-Order RISC-V Soft Processor (2019) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.rsg.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/shioya/pdfs/Mashimo-FPT%2719.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeff-davis</author><text>If I understand this correctly:<p>Typically, I think of an FPGA as something used to accelerate specialized operations. But sometimes, in the middle of one of these specialized operations, you might want to do something more general, like run a network stack, without returning to the CPU. A soft processor like this allows you to run an ordinary network stack (with ordinary code) inside the FPGA.<p>Is that right?<p>I thought one of the things people used FPGAs for was accelerating network stacks, so I don&#x27;t quite know why you&#x27;d want to use a soft processor for that. But it does make sense that you&#x27;d want to be able to run ordinary code in an FPGA (as part of a larger FPGA operation that is not ordinary code).<p>EDIT: Also, I don&#x27;t understand this statement: &quot;for example, one main compute kernel, which is too complex to deploy on dedicated hardware, is run by specialized soft processors&quot;. What do the authors mean &quot;too complex to deploy on dedicated hardware&quot;?</text></item><item><author>Symmetry</author><text>To push this up from the comments, if you&#x27;re interested in why this is important or what the authors are trying to do the PDF where they describe their approach and architecture is really interesting.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rsg.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp&#x2F;members&#x2F;shioya&#x2F;pdfs&#x2F;Mashimo-FPT&#x27;19.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rsg.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp&#x2F;members&#x2F;shioya&#x2F;pdfs&#x2F;Mashim...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rcxdude</author><text>FPGAs are frequently not connected with a dedicated CPU at all, and even when they are they may be connected over a link with lower bandwidth&#x2F;higher latency than you would like. In these cases you usually have a bunch of management and logic tasks which are better suited to a CPU (basically anything with a large number of different serial steps and complex control flow will probably synthesize poorly directly to an FPGA: this is probably what the authors described as &#x27;too complex for dedicated hardware&#x27;), so you synthesize a CPU in the FPGA fabric which usually has a direct memory map to whatever registers you need in the FPGA design to accomplish your goals. This is common enough basically every FPGA vendor also sells FPGA SOCs which have a hard CPU attached to the fabric, and if you are using one of those then you will generally not synthesize a CPU in the fabric because it&#x27;ll usually be slower and less power efficient than the hard CPU you have. But that CPU also isn&#x27;t free and if your CPU compute requirements are not particularly high than the soft CPU might be more efficient for your usecare (or a hard CPU may not be an option in the range you need).</text></comment> | <story><title>An Open-Source FPGA-Optimized Out-of-Order RISC-V Soft Processor (2019) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.rsg.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/shioya/pdfs/Mashimo-FPT%2719.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeff-davis</author><text>If I understand this correctly:<p>Typically, I think of an FPGA as something used to accelerate specialized operations. But sometimes, in the middle of one of these specialized operations, you might want to do something more general, like run a network stack, without returning to the CPU. A soft processor like this allows you to run an ordinary network stack (with ordinary code) inside the FPGA.<p>Is that right?<p>I thought one of the things people used FPGAs for was accelerating network stacks, so I don&#x27;t quite know why you&#x27;d want to use a soft processor for that. But it does make sense that you&#x27;d want to be able to run ordinary code in an FPGA (as part of a larger FPGA operation that is not ordinary code).<p>EDIT: Also, I don&#x27;t understand this statement: &quot;for example, one main compute kernel, which is too complex to deploy on dedicated hardware, is run by specialized soft processors&quot;. What do the authors mean &quot;too complex to deploy on dedicated hardware&quot;?</text></item><item><author>Symmetry</author><text>To push this up from the comments, if you&#x27;re interested in why this is important or what the authors are trying to do the PDF where they describe their approach and architecture is really interesting.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rsg.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp&#x2F;members&#x2F;shioya&#x2F;pdfs&#x2F;Mashimo-FPT&#x27;19.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rsg.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp&#x2F;members&#x2F;shioya&#x2F;pdfs&#x2F;Mashim...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mng2</author><text>&gt;What do the authors mean &quot;too complex to deploy on dedicated hardware&quot;?<p>It costs time and effort to translate a software function to HDL&#x2F;FPGA, so it&#x27;s not always worth doing. For example you could do TCP&#x2F;IP in hardware, but unless you have particular performance requirements (say HFT) you&#x27;re probably better off with a soft core and a tested software TCP&#x2F;IP stack.<p>Also each feature translated to hardware takes up space in the fabric. When you crunch numbers on an FPGA, it&#x27;s ideal if you can lay out the entire sequence of operations as one big pipeline, so you can keep throughput as high as possible. Sufficiently long or complex sequences may not translate efficiently to FPGA.</text></comment> |
24,072,701 | 24,072,765 | 1 | 3 | 24,071,590 | train | <story><title>Google discontinues the Pixel 4, nine months after release</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/06/google-discontinues-the-pixel-4-nine-months-after-release/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Guest19023892</author><text>I was thinking the same thing the other day. I just updated my parents&#x27; computers (which are 10 years old) to Windows 10. They still work great for their needs and they&#x27;re up-to-date. I&#x27;m running a 7 year old ultrabook also on Windows 10. I&#x27;m planning to upgrade this year, but at least it&#x27;s secure with the latest updates. I feel like we&#x27;ve been able to get a ton of use from these devices.<p>Meanwhile, I have a Samsung Note 2 phone which is 8 years old. It&#x27;s fast enough for what I do (browse the internet for 10 minutes a day, send a dozen WhatsApp messages, book an Uber). That thing was released in 2012 and could no longer upgrade to new Android releases in 2014. That&#x27;s pathetic. I need to replace it this year, not because it&#x27;s too slow, but because it&#x27;s insecure and no longer supported by anything. I was going to buy a smart scale the other day, but the app doesn&#x27;t support my Android version. Also wanted an app for syncing the time with my Bluetooth GShock. Not supported. Sonos speakers? Not supported. It&#x27;s a garbage phone now not because of the hardware, but because of the lack of support.</text></item><item><author>aloknnikhil</author><text>&gt; Just like all Pixel devices, Pixel 4 will continue to get software and security updates for at least 3 years from when the device first became available on the Google Store in the U.S.<p>This is something I just don&#x27;t understand. As phones get more powerful, there is absolutely no excuse to not support them for longer. When did the standard for supporting consumer devices get so low? Love it or hate it, Apple still supports the iPhone 6s Plus. A phone which is almost 5 years old now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>exmadscientist</author><text>You&#x27;re talking about three different classes of device: PCs, phones, and IoT (IoS)&#x2F;deep embedded.<p>Embedded development is hard. Really hard. And much of that difficulty is intrinsic to the problem space, so it isn&#x27;t going away anytime soon. But much of it is just embedded developers being masochists and embedded tool developers being sadists. For phones, the pain is probably 90% avoidable. 90 percent!<p>No, I don&#x27;t know why we live with it either.<p>The reason your phone is different than your PC is that the PC&#x27;s OS has all the drivers for everything built in, then loads whichever drivers your specific machine needs. Embedded Linux images are built specific to one model of hardware, with weird crappy OEM-provided drivers baked in and nowhere else available. It doesn&#x27;t _have_ to be this way. But it is.<p>So to support your phone, the vendor basically maintains a custom-patched kernel with a bizarre build process. And that&#x27;s done more or less independently for every model they&#x27;re supporting. It&#x27;s a huge headache!<p>Why deep embedded is this way is a little more understandable. (It&#x27;s also where I prefer to work if I&#x27;m doing software; I don&#x27;t like embedded Linux. It&#x27;s just not my thing. So if I&#x27;m wrong when talking about it, that&#x27;s why.) Deep embedded is often working with very limited hardware, custom circuits, and general strangeness. It also can serve the industrial, automotive, or medical markets, which naturally tend to longer product cycles. So the product is generally less standard, meaning it makes more sense (at least to me) why the support flow is so bespoke.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google discontinues the Pixel 4, nine months after release</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/06/google-discontinues-the-pixel-4-nine-months-after-release/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Guest19023892</author><text>I was thinking the same thing the other day. I just updated my parents&#x27; computers (which are 10 years old) to Windows 10. They still work great for their needs and they&#x27;re up-to-date. I&#x27;m running a 7 year old ultrabook also on Windows 10. I&#x27;m planning to upgrade this year, but at least it&#x27;s secure with the latest updates. I feel like we&#x27;ve been able to get a ton of use from these devices.<p>Meanwhile, I have a Samsung Note 2 phone which is 8 years old. It&#x27;s fast enough for what I do (browse the internet for 10 minutes a day, send a dozen WhatsApp messages, book an Uber). That thing was released in 2012 and could no longer upgrade to new Android releases in 2014. That&#x27;s pathetic. I need to replace it this year, not because it&#x27;s too slow, but because it&#x27;s insecure and no longer supported by anything. I was going to buy a smart scale the other day, but the app doesn&#x27;t support my Android version. Also wanted an app for syncing the time with my Bluetooth GShock. Not supported. Sonos speakers? Not supported. It&#x27;s a garbage phone now not because of the hardware, but because of the lack of support.</text></item><item><author>aloknnikhil</author><text>&gt; Just like all Pixel devices, Pixel 4 will continue to get software and security updates for at least 3 years from when the device first became available on the Google Store in the U.S.<p>This is something I just don&#x27;t understand. As phones get more powerful, there is absolutely no excuse to not support them for longer. When did the standard for supporting consumer devices get so low? Love it or hate it, Apple still supports the iPhone 6s Plus. A phone which is almost 5 years old now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>knorker</author><text>That&#x27;s not a fair comparison. PCs have barely gotten faster in the last 10 years. 20 years ago you could spend $2000 every 3 years and get a 10x better computer. Not so last 10 years. Aside from graphics cards the hardware has not gotten noticeably better or faster for day to day work.<p>So of course you can upgrade to windows 10.<p>Phone hardware has. Very much so.</text></comment> |
29,433,757 | 29,434,049 | 1 | 2 | 29,432,816 | train | <story><title>An alarming trend in K-12 math education: a guest post and an open letter</title><url>https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6146</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>heyitsguay</author><text>As someone who did a BA and PhD in math, went through high school geometry proofs, taught geometry proofs to math students and math education students:<p>Geometry proofs are a <i>terrible</i> way of introducing rigorous mathematical proofs to students. Seriously. I cannot overstate how misleading they are. I remember my first abstract algebra class in college, after the first HW I got called in by the TA because I tried to structure my proofs like I learned in geometry class - a sequence of symbols and references to hard-coded lists of axioms and prior deductions. I thought that&#x27;s what proofs are, but they are not, at least not as humans do higher math. High school geometry tries to distill this process down to a symbol manipulation game that students can memorize and regurgitate, and in the process loses the essence of the thing it was meant to capture in the first place.</text></item><item><author>cperciva</author><text><i>they are cutting geometry a bit, which doesn&#x27;t make as much sense today as it did 100 years ago when far more people grew up to be farmers or ranchers.</i><p>The point of high school Geometry was never to compute areas of fields. Trigonometry is far more useful for that anyway.<p>The point of high school Geometry is that it is the first introduction to rigorous mathematical proof -- and has been, ever since Euclid&#x27;s Elements.</text></item><item><author>humanistbot</author><text>The manufactured outrage over the California math recommendations keep getting posted on HN. Read the actual text of the plans here [1]. The FAQ is at [2] and directly responds to these characterizations. They are not banning gifted &amp; talented programs or advanced students taking accelerated courses. They are not taking algebra out of the curriculum, although they are cutting geometry a bit, which doesn&#x27;t make as much sense today as it did 100 years ago when far more people grew up to be farmers or ranchers. They are adding more statistics and probability, which I think are crucial in today&#x27;s society.<p>What they are fundamentally doing is breaking up the classic U.S. staged path where you learn algebra for a year, then geometry for a year, then back to algebra &#x2F; pre-calc for a year, then maybe take statistics or calculus as an elective, etc. Instead, all branches of math will be taught in an integrated approach focused around applied problems.<p>This is how a lot of European math courses are taught. In fact, I think HN would appreciate the shift from focusing on pure numbers and classic formulas to more applied uses of math, including algorithms, probability, data collected and analyzed in charts, etc. Students also forget a lot of algebra when they do a year of geometry by itself, then have to go back to algebra &#x2F; pre-calc.<p>It also does mean that in the transition, it will be harder for students to &quot;test out&quot; of the classic algebra I&#x2F;II, geometry, pre-calc sequence, because it will just be &quot;year X integrated math.&quot; But the framework does not forbid gifted and talented programs or anything like that. There will just be a few awkward years while the curriculum shifts.<p>Now, there are some on the left who advocated for the elimination of gifted and talented programs altogether, for equity reasons. They did not get what they wanted in the new California framework. That hasn&#x27;t stopped a lot of people from looking at what California is doing and imagining it is actually some kind of Harrison Bergeron dystopia, when that is absolutely not the case.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cde.ca.gov&#x2F;ci&#x2F;ma&#x2F;cf&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cde.ca.gov&#x2F;ci&#x2F;ma&#x2F;cf&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cde.ca.gov&#x2F;ci&#x2F;ma&#x2F;cf&#x2F;mathfwfaqs.asp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cde.ca.gov&#x2F;ci&#x2F;ma&#x2F;cf&#x2F;mathfwfaqs.asp</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cperciva</author><text>I would agree that proofs as introduced in high school Geometry have more in common with formal axiomatic logic than the vast majority of &quot;real-world&quot; mathematical proofs; but a large part of that is just clumsy notation.<p>The fundamental concepts<p>1. We have axioms which are things we accept without proof because we all agree that they&#x27;re obvious;<p>2. Everything else should follow logically from things which come earlier;<p>3. Don&#x27;t skip steps!<p>are extremely important and apply regardless of the field you&#x27;re in.</text></comment> | <story><title>An alarming trend in K-12 math education: a guest post and an open letter</title><url>https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6146</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>heyitsguay</author><text>As someone who did a BA and PhD in math, went through high school geometry proofs, taught geometry proofs to math students and math education students:<p>Geometry proofs are a <i>terrible</i> way of introducing rigorous mathematical proofs to students. Seriously. I cannot overstate how misleading they are. I remember my first abstract algebra class in college, after the first HW I got called in by the TA because I tried to structure my proofs like I learned in geometry class - a sequence of symbols and references to hard-coded lists of axioms and prior deductions. I thought that&#x27;s what proofs are, but they are not, at least not as humans do higher math. High school geometry tries to distill this process down to a symbol manipulation game that students can memorize and regurgitate, and in the process loses the essence of the thing it was meant to capture in the first place.</text></item><item><author>cperciva</author><text><i>they are cutting geometry a bit, which doesn&#x27;t make as much sense today as it did 100 years ago when far more people grew up to be farmers or ranchers.</i><p>The point of high school Geometry was never to compute areas of fields. Trigonometry is far more useful for that anyway.<p>The point of high school Geometry is that it is the first introduction to rigorous mathematical proof -- and has been, ever since Euclid&#x27;s Elements.</text></item><item><author>humanistbot</author><text>The manufactured outrage over the California math recommendations keep getting posted on HN. Read the actual text of the plans here [1]. The FAQ is at [2] and directly responds to these characterizations. They are not banning gifted &amp; talented programs or advanced students taking accelerated courses. They are not taking algebra out of the curriculum, although they are cutting geometry a bit, which doesn&#x27;t make as much sense today as it did 100 years ago when far more people grew up to be farmers or ranchers. They are adding more statistics and probability, which I think are crucial in today&#x27;s society.<p>What they are fundamentally doing is breaking up the classic U.S. staged path where you learn algebra for a year, then geometry for a year, then back to algebra &#x2F; pre-calc for a year, then maybe take statistics or calculus as an elective, etc. Instead, all branches of math will be taught in an integrated approach focused around applied problems.<p>This is how a lot of European math courses are taught. In fact, I think HN would appreciate the shift from focusing on pure numbers and classic formulas to more applied uses of math, including algorithms, probability, data collected and analyzed in charts, etc. Students also forget a lot of algebra when they do a year of geometry by itself, then have to go back to algebra &#x2F; pre-calc.<p>It also does mean that in the transition, it will be harder for students to &quot;test out&quot; of the classic algebra I&#x2F;II, geometry, pre-calc sequence, because it will just be &quot;year X integrated math.&quot; But the framework does not forbid gifted and talented programs or anything like that. There will just be a few awkward years while the curriculum shifts.<p>Now, there are some on the left who advocated for the elimination of gifted and talented programs altogether, for equity reasons. They did not get what they wanted in the new California framework. That hasn&#x27;t stopped a lot of people from looking at what California is doing and imagining it is actually some kind of Harrison Bergeron dystopia, when that is absolutely not the case.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cde.ca.gov&#x2F;ci&#x2F;ma&#x2F;cf&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cde.ca.gov&#x2F;ci&#x2F;ma&#x2F;cf&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cde.ca.gov&#x2F;ci&#x2F;ma&#x2F;cf&#x2F;mathfwfaqs.asp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cde.ca.gov&#x2F;ci&#x2F;ma&#x2F;cf&#x2F;mathfwfaqs.asp</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacobmartin</author><text>It is interesting to me that you didn&#x27;t encounter problems with the rote geometric method before abstract algebra. I went to a so-so public school in the American South, so I don&#x27;t think I exactly had a stellar introduction to math or even school&#x2F;academics in general, but beginning in trigonometry, we had to structure our proofs with more words and &#x27;connective tissue,&#x27; and less explicit axiomatization&#x2F;symbolization. Calculus continued this trend, and by the time I took linear algebra (at a local university while I was still in high school), the proofs were exactly like the proofs I would write throughout college. But there were several &#x27;stepping stones&#x27; away from the original geometric proof.<p>Though admittedly I only got an SB in Math, I think geometric proofs were an okay <i>introduction</i> to the idea of the proof and of logic. Of course they are not representative of professional math. There are many things we learn as an introduction which don&#x27;t turn out to bear that much resemblance to the more advanced form. I don&#x27;t write 5-paragraph essays with clear thesis sentences anymore either. But it helped me to learn to write that way as a way of clarifying that I was stating my arguments effectively.<p>Sometimes, for my homework, I tried to state very explicitly in my proofs which axiomata I was using, both as an intellectual exercise and to see, e.g., where I might have gotten my logic backwards or where I used the axiom of choice (which constantly surprised me). I wouldn&#x27;t turn these overexplicit proofs, but it helped to clarify that I was doing things correctly. If anything, when I was in college, the trend was <i>away</i> from &#x27;informal&#x27; language. When I took, e.g., Discrete Math, for more complicated proofs, we were encouraged to write out a DAG for the dependencies of the proofs&#x2F;lemmata so that it was exceedingly clear what depended on what and that we had in fact proven what we set out to prove.</text></comment> |
19,925,398 | 19,924,975 | 1 | 2 | 19,900,498 | train | <story><title>Making Playgrounds a Little More Dangerous</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/10/well/family/adventure-playgrounds-junk-playgrounds.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>magicalhippo</author><text>A friend of mine designs playgrounds for kids, and is very good at it (his designs win 90+% of the competitive bids he enters).<p>He&#x27;s also worked hard to put in place a playground safety inspector certification system over here.<p>One of his core ideas is that there are two types of safety: subjective safety and objective safety.<p>For example, kids quickly learn that falling from a height is painful, and experiences such as that teaches them how to evaluate their own safety when say climbing. This is the subjective safety.<p>However they&#x27;re usually not going to be able to correctly evaluate the safety of climbing a playhouse where they might get their head stuck between two planks because the opening between the planks were just right for their heads to fit, but not their bodies. Or that the hood drawstring in their jacket can get stuck in small wedges and openings, especially dangerous near slides. Such issues go under the objective safety.<p>Now, his point is that you can make playgrounds which are <i>objectively</i> very safe, without making them any less exciting. Part of the excitement comes from allowing the kids to explore their <i>subjective</i> safety boundaries, but a lot comes from the design itself.<p>He often works with one of the major suppliers of playground equipment on their new designs, but a large part of his secret sauce is how he places that equipment on the playground. Many playground designers (which at least here are mostly landscape architects) seem to just put one piece there and another over there, without giving much thought to facilitating the flow of spontaneous play from one piece of equipment to the next.<p>Anyway, he could explain this a lot better than me. I just help him out with some presentations and such every now and then.</text></item><item><author>devchix</author><text>A recent episode of 99% Invisible: Play Mountain looked at how the playground got to be safe and boring.<p>&quot;A two-year-old boy named Frank Nelson was climbing a 12-foot-tall slide in a Chicago park when he slipped through a railing and hit his head so hard that it caused permanent brain damage. The park system of Chicago was sued and had to pay out millions of dollars to Nelson’s family.<p>At that time, in the late 70s, there were no laws, or real industry standards when it came to the safety of playground equipment. Frank Nelson’s fall was one of a number of lawsuits that led the Consumer Product Safety Commission to publish the Handbook for Public Playground Safety in 1981. Then another standards organization, the ASTM, published its own guidelines. Pretty soon these rulebooks were in the hands of insurance companies and parks departments and school boards across the United States. To this day, almost all playgrounds have to be approved by a certified playground safety inspector.<p>And safety inspectors look for places where kids could fall, or get pinched, poked, or trapped. As you might imagine, all of these rules and regulations make the job of playground designers a lot harder. This is the reason why the playgrounds that you see everywhere all look more or less the same. A majority of playgrounds are “post and deck” systems with standard swings, slides, and monkey bars in one piece of equipment.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;99percentinvisible.org&#x2F;episode&#x2F;play-mountain&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;99percentinvisible.org&#x2F;episode&#x2F;play-mountain&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hexane360</author><text>This seems really similar to techniques I&#x27;ve heard about in road design. A lot of safety improvements are pretty well compensated by changes in people&#x27;s behavior. For example, if you make shoulders and lanes wider, people will feel like they&#x27;re going slower and speed up to compensate. Even with things you wouldn&#x27;t expect, like the dedicated&#x2F;third brake light made mandatory for cars in 1986, there were significant changes in behavior (decreased following time) to compensate. However, there are many safety improvements that are more or less invisible to the end user. The best example is rumble strips -- they&#x27;re never noticed until they do their job.</text></comment> | <story><title>Making Playgrounds a Little More Dangerous</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/10/well/family/adventure-playgrounds-junk-playgrounds.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>magicalhippo</author><text>A friend of mine designs playgrounds for kids, and is very good at it (his designs win 90+% of the competitive bids he enters).<p>He&#x27;s also worked hard to put in place a playground safety inspector certification system over here.<p>One of his core ideas is that there are two types of safety: subjective safety and objective safety.<p>For example, kids quickly learn that falling from a height is painful, and experiences such as that teaches them how to evaluate their own safety when say climbing. This is the subjective safety.<p>However they&#x27;re usually not going to be able to correctly evaluate the safety of climbing a playhouse where they might get their head stuck between two planks because the opening between the planks were just right for their heads to fit, but not their bodies. Or that the hood drawstring in their jacket can get stuck in small wedges and openings, especially dangerous near slides. Such issues go under the objective safety.<p>Now, his point is that you can make playgrounds which are <i>objectively</i> very safe, without making them any less exciting. Part of the excitement comes from allowing the kids to explore their <i>subjective</i> safety boundaries, but a lot comes from the design itself.<p>He often works with one of the major suppliers of playground equipment on their new designs, but a large part of his secret sauce is how he places that equipment on the playground. Many playground designers (which at least here are mostly landscape architects) seem to just put one piece there and another over there, without giving much thought to facilitating the flow of spontaneous play from one piece of equipment to the next.<p>Anyway, he could explain this a lot better than me. I just help him out with some presentations and such every now and then.</text></item><item><author>devchix</author><text>A recent episode of 99% Invisible: Play Mountain looked at how the playground got to be safe and boring.<p>&quot;A two-year-old boy named Frank Nelson was climbing a 12-foot-tall slide in a Chicago park when he slipped through a railing and hit his head so hard that it caused permanent brain damage. The park system of Chicago was sued and had to pay out millions of dollars to Nelson’s family.<p>At that time, in the late 70s, there were no laws, or real industry standards when it came to the safety of playground equipment. Frank Nelson’s fall was one of a number of lawsuits that led the Consumer Product Safety Commission to publish the Handbook for Public Playground Safety in 1981. Then another standards organization, the ASTM, published its own guidelines. Pretty soon these rulebooks were in the hands of insurance companies and parks departments and school boards across the United States. To this day, almost all playgrounds have to be approved by a certified playground safety inspector.<p>And safety inspectors look for places where kids could fall, or get pinched, poked, or trapped. As you might imagine, all of these rules and regulations make the job of playground designers a lot harder. This is the reason why the playgrounds that you see everywhere all look more or less the same. A majority of playgrounds are “post and deck” systems with standard swings, slides, and monkey bars in one piece of equipment.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;99percentinvisible.org&#x2F;episode&#x2F;play-mountain&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;99percentinvisible.org&#x2F;episode&#x2F;play-mountain&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>natdempk</author><text>This is a really good take on safety and tooling that can be applied to a lot of things. Thanks for explaining this!<p>Do you have an example of a playground that he’s designed that highlights these principles?</text></comment> |
9,127,528 | 9,127,086 | 1 | 2 | 9,126,491 | train | <story><title>Timesheet.js</title><url>http://sbstjn.github.io/timesheet.js/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>gildas</author><text>The code is potentially vulnerable to XSS injections[1].<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/sbstjn/timesheet.js/blob/master/source/javascripts/timesheet.js#L39-L41" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sbstjn&#x2F;timesheet.js&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;source&#x2F;ja...</a><p>edit: Thanks for the downvotes, lesson learned! Never talk about vulnerabilities of a code which is #1 on HN and people will blindly put in production.<p>edit 2: So here is my new comment: &quot;Awesome library! The fact that users can easily enhance its behaviour by using &lt;script&gt; tags in labels is a great feature!&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>You&#x27;re going to be happier and your comments more persuasive if you just ignore downvotes. Like, completely. Your comment was inevitably going to be bolted to the top of the thread regardless of the randos who downvoted you.<p>I upvoted you because good catch, but winced when I did it because of the downvote whining. :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Timesheet.js</title><url>http://sbstjn.github.io/timesheet.js/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>gildas</author><text>The code is potentially vulnerable to XSS injections[1].<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/sbstjn/timesheet.js/blob/master/source/javascripts/timesheet.js#L39-L41" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sbstjn&#x2F;timesheet.js&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;source&#x2F;ja...</a><p>edit: Thanks for the downvotes, lesson learned! Never talk about vulnerabilities of a code which is #1 on HN and people will blindly put in production.<p>edit 2: So here is my new comment: &quot;Awesome library! The fact that users can easily enhance its behaviour by using &lt;script&gt; tags in labels is a great feature!&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rmrfrmrf</author><text>You&#x27;re absolutely right, for what it&#x27;s worth. Direct &lt;script&gt; tag injection didn&#x27;t work when I tested it, but the following sure does!<p><pre><code> new Timesheet(&#x27;timesheet-default&#x27;, 2002, 2013, [
[&#x27;09&#x2F;2008&#x27;, &#x27;06&#x2F;2010&#x27;,
&#x27;&lt;img src=&quot;666&quot; onerror=&quot;alert(\&#x27;injection!!\&#x27;)&quot;&gt;&#x27;,
&#x27;ipsum&#x27;]
]);
</code></pre>
Putting HTML elements in the label property itself certainly looks like it&#x27;s unintended design-wise, and IMO escaping input should definitely be the responsibility of this library (or, as gildas suggested, it should at the very least be documented).</text></comment> |
23,354,986 | 23,354,282 | 1 | 2 | 23,352,785 | train | <story><title>US customs and border protection is flying a surveillance drone over Minneapolis</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dzbe3/customs-and-border-protection-predator-drone-minneapolis-george-floyd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>remarkEon</author><text>Another fellow Minnesotan here and former Minneapolis resident (used to live a mile away from Hiawatha and Lake back in the day).<p>&gt;Characterizing what is happening as an edge case is a huge mistake. People do not spontaneously start protesting with so much anger if it hasn&#x27;t built up over so long.<p>These protests are at least partly drummed up by out of state agitators, and are implicitly condoned by a feckless and weak state and local government that would rather give ground (literally) than enforce the rule of law. Saying &quot;enough is enough&quot; means going to the polls, not burning down all of the businesses in your neighborhood that were already on the verge of collapse thanks to the pandemic. That people are making up excuses for this behavior is disturbing to me, and signals that America is farther along the path of Imperial collapse than I previously thought. What end do you think we end up with here by condoning this? Agitators taking over City Hall? Disbanding the police department?<p>Please don&#x27;t excuse burning down entire neighborhoods. Thanks.</text></item><item><author>pm90</author><text>Fellow HN user, I welcome you with warmth so please don&#x27;t take what I say offensively, but as a different perspective.<p>&gt; What happened is awful. It doesn&#x27;t reflect how genuinely kind people in Minnesota are and how we, collectively feel about what happened and the movement at large. There will always be edge-cases as there is with any situation in any context. But for everyone that I&#x27;ve known, for everyone I&#x27;ve met and encountered with in Minnesota, when I look back at my time spent on either coast I always have found the people in Minnesota to be great.<p>Characterizing what is happening as an edge case is a huge mistake. People do not spontaneously start protesting with so much anger if it hasn&#x27;t built up over so long. The police do not act with such impunity against citizens &quot;just in this off case&quot;. It needs to be systemic for the reactions to be this strong.<p>If you haven&#x27;t experienced this personally, that&#x27;s great! I will not question your experiences. But please understand that others have not had the same experience. They&#x27;ve had such a bad experience that they&#x27;re willing to go out in the streets during a pandemic to say &quot;enough is enough&quot;. The police have had enough experience to be well prepared with crowd control tools and to use them immediately on peaceful protestors, when they could have de-escalated. People don&#x27;t burn down a building they consider a symbol of tyranny just because of a single incident; their experience so far has ingrained into them a deep hatred for the police who are meant to protect and serve them.<p>As others in this thread have said, please try to listen to other perspectives. People experience different realities, and all of them can coexist without having to disprove the other.</text></item><item><author>joshmn</author><text>Native Minnesotan here — living in Minneapolis — that has lived on both coasts:<p>With all that&#x27;s happening the last few days, please don&#x27;t generally associate Minnesotans with the violent riots that have captured the attention of everyone. The peacefulness of the protests and gatherings has been overshadowed by the violence. There are countless examples of Minnesotans standing up to those who choose to loot and destroy the innocent. Those images are being overlooked.<p>What happened is awful. These violent riots, and the violent images aren&#x27;t reflective of Minnesotans at large. The violence doesn&#x27;t reflect how genuinely upset people in Minnesota feel about what happened and greater the movement at large. There will always be edge-cases as there is with any situation in any context. But for everyone that I&#x27;ve known, for everyone I&#x27;ve met and encountered with in Minnesota, when I look back at my time spent on either coast I always have found the people in Minnesota to be most great.<p>I have friends and colleagues asking me &quot;what&#x27;s going on with everyone in Minnesota?&quot; and I have to explain to them that these images aren&#x27;t representative of the place I call home and my neighbors I call my friends.<p>There are businesses that didn&#x27;t do anything wrong which have have been effectively `rm -rf` because of a small group of bad actors. The Target on Lake Street didn&#x27;t do anything. Banadir Pharmacy didn&#x27;t do anything. Seward Pharmacy didn&#x27;t do anything. The pawn shop didn&#x27;t do anything. The WIC office didn&#x27;t do anything. The liquor stores didn&#x27;t do anything. MoneyGram didn&#x27;t do anything. The tobacco store didn&#x27;t do anything. Disrupting those businesses and the livelihoods of their employees and owners doesn&#x27;t prove a point.<p>But burning down the precinct? Yeah, I can get behind that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>These protests are at least partly drummed up by out of state agitators</i><p>This is a scary response. We saw, today, a black CNN reporter arrested by state police on live television. If that’s how an educated, gently-speaking, Constitutionally-protected member of the press is treated, there is a root issue festering. Blaming it on agitators deflects from introspection.<p>A big part of the problem is Minneapolis’s moderates have turned a blind eye to the problems in their police force for years. That civic neglect has consequences. Those consequences are coming home to roost.</text></comment> | <story><title>US customs and border protection is flying a surveillance drone over Minneapolis</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dzbe3/customs-and-border-protection-predator-drone-minneapolis-george-floyd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>remarkEon</author><text>Another fellow Minnesotan here and former Minneapolis resident (used to live a mile away from Hiawatha and Lake back in the day).<p>&gt;Characterizing what is happening as an edge case is a huge mistake. People do not spontaneously start protesting with so much anger if it hasn&#x27;t built up over so long.<p>These protests are at least partly drummed up by out of state agitators, and are implicitly condoned by a feckless and weak state and local government that would rather give ground (literally) than enforce the rule of law. Saying &quot;enough is enough&quot; means going to the polls, not burning down all of the businesses in your neighborhood that were already on the verge of collapse thanks to the pandemic. That people are making up excuses for this behavior is disturbing to me, and signals that America is farther along the path of Imperial collapse than I previously thought. What end do you think we end up with here by condoning this? Agitators taking over City Hall? Disbanding the police department?<p>Please don&#x27;t excuse burning down entire neighborhoods. Thanks.</text></item><item><author>pm90</author><text>Fellow HN user, I welcome you with warmth so please don&#x27;t take what I say offensively, but as a different perspective.<p>&gt; What happened is awful. It doesn&#x27;t reflect how genuinely kind people in Minnesota are and how we, collectively feel about what happened and the movement at large. There will always be edge-cases as there is with any situation in any context. But for everyone that I&#x27;ve known, for everyone I&#x27;ve met and encountered with in Minnesota, when I look back at my time spent on either coast I always have found the people in Minnesota to be great.<p>Characterizing what is happening as an edge case is a huge mistake. People do not spontaneously start protesting with so much anger if it hasn&#x27;t built up over so long. The police do not act with such impunity against citizens &quot;just in this off case&quot;. It needs to be systemic for the reactions to be this strong.<p>If you haven&#x27;t experienced this personally, that&#x27;s great! I will not question your experiences. But please understand that others have not had the same experience. They&#x27;ve had such a bad experience that they&#x27;re willing to go out in the streets during a pandemic to say &quot;enough is enough&quot;. The police have had enough experience to be well prepared with crowd control tools and to use them immediately on peaceful protestors, when they could have de-escalated. People don&#x27;t burn down a building they consider a symbol of tyranny just because of a single incident; their experience so far has ingrained into them a deep hatred for the police who are meant to protect and serve them.<p>As others in this thread have said, please try to listen to other perspectives. People experience different realities, and all of them can coexist without having to disprove the other.</text></item><item><author>joshmn</author><text>Native Minnesotan here — living in Minneapolis — that has lived on both coasts:<p>With all that&#x27;s happening the last few days, please don&#x27;t generally associate Minnesotans with the violent riots that have captured the attention of everyone. The peacefulness of the protests and gatherings has been overshadowed by the violence. There are countless examples of Minnesotans standing up to those who choose to loot and destroy the innocent. Those images are being overlooked.<p>What happened is awful. These violent riots, and the violent images aren&#x27;t reflective of Minnesotans at large. The violence doesn&#x27;t reflect how genuinely upset people in Minnesota feel about what happened and greater the movement at large. There will always be edge-cases as there is with any situation in any context. But for everyone that I&#x27;ve known, for everyone I&#x27;ve met and encountered with in Minnesota, when I look back at my time spent on either coast I always have found the people in Minnesota to be most great.<p>I have friends and colleagues asking me &quot;what&#x27;s going on with everyone in Minnesota?&quot; and I have to explain to them that these images aren&#x27;t representative of the place I call home and my neighbors I call my friends.<p>There are businesses that didn&#x27;t do anything wrong which have have been effectively `rm -rf` because of a small group of bad actors. The Target on Lake Street didn&#x27;t do anything. Banadir Pharmacy didn&#x27;t do anything. Seward Pharmacy didn&#x27;t do anything. The pawn shop didn&#x27;t do anything. The WIC office didn&#x27;t do anything. The liquor stores didn&#x27;t do anything. MoneyGram didn&#x27;t do anything. The tobacco store didn&#x27;t do anything. Disrupting those businesses and the livelihoods of their employees and owners doesn&#x27;t prove a point.<p>But burning down the precinct? Yeah, I can get behind that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>komali2</author><text>Why did the cops shoot tear gas at peaceful protestors yesterday, when they didn&#x27;t two weeks ago when armed militia stormed the statehouse?<p>The cops brought this on themselves. There&#x27;s nobody to blame here but them.</text></comment> |
5,850,322 | 5,850,241 | 1 | 3 | 5,849,772 | train | <story><title>Rand Paul wants to lead a Supreme Court challenge to Feds' tracking of Americans</title><url>http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/09/paul-wants-to-lead-supreme-court-challenge-to-fed-tracking-americans-calls/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>bpatrianakos</author><text>What amazes me is the hypocrisy in all this. The American people have basically known about this since about 2006. It&#x27;s just that there wasn&#x27;t as much proof or specifics but the media covered this and it was pretty much common knowledge that all phone calls and Internet activity were being watched. Of course that&#x27;s not okay and I still get the current outrage. Totally understandable.<p>But then there are the senators... These guys approved this activity long ago and while not all of them knew the specifics the Intelligence Committe did. They were taken into meetings where no note taking tools or anything with a battery was allowed and briefed about this.<p>Now that this story breaks the senate gets their panties in a twist like this is news to them. They simultaneously defend it and condemn it.<p>It isn&#x27;t fair to make such a blanket statement about the entire Senate, I know but what I&#x27;m really getting at here is that what Rand Paul is doing doesn&#x27;t strike me as sincere at all. It looks like a dog and pony show set up to make it look like someone gives a shit while they all keep getting briefed and voting for this stuff behind closed doors.<p>It&#x27;s like set up a bunch of PR stunts to make us feel warm and funny then do the opposite while no one is paying attention. On this issue I feel like its the guys trying to get attention the most who can be trusted the least.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shpxnvz</author><text>While this is undoubtedly true for some senators, Paul seems like quite a poor choice of target for this criticism.<p>He has been very vocal in opposition of governmental encroachment on civil liberties during his senate term. He was, in fact, the last senator left in opposition to the extension of the Patriot Act.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rand Paul wants to lead a Supreme Court challenge to Feds' tracking of Americans</title><url>http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/09/paul-wants-to-lead-supreme-court-challenge-to-fed-tracking-americans-calls/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>bpatrianakos</author><text>What amazes me is the hypocrisy in all this. The American people have basically known about this since about 2006. It&#x27;s just that there wasn&#x27;t as much proof or specifics but the media covered this and it was pretty much common knowledge that all phone calls and Internet activity were being watched. Of course that&#x27;s not okay and I still get the current outrage. Totally understandable.<p>But then there are the senators... These guys approved this activity long ago and while not all of them knew the specifics the Intelligence Committe did. They were taken into meetings where no note taking tools or anything with a battery was allowed and briefed about this.<p>Now that this story breaks the senate gets their panties in a twist like this is news to them. They simultaneously defend it and condemn it.<p>It isn&#x27;t fair to make such a blanket statement about the entire Senate, I know but what I&#x27;m really getting at here is that what Rand Paul is doing doesn&#x27;t strike me as sincere at all. It looks like a dog and pony show set up to make it look like someone gives a shit while they all keep getting briefed and voting for this stuff behind closed doors.<p>It&#x27;s like set up a bunch of PR stunts to make us feel warm and funny then do the opposite while no one is paying attention. On this issue I feel like its the guys trying to get attention the most who can be trusted the least.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gwright</author><text>Hypocrisy? I&#x27;m not so sure.<p>It is really difficult to get a single person to change their mind about something. Even more difficult to get large groups to change their collective opinion.<p>Theoretical concerns about how a program <i>might</i> be abused are much less convincing to people than actual abuses. It isn&#x27;t surprising to me that people who discounted the possiblity of abuse in the past might now think differently about it (politicians and public citizens alike) when presented with actual overreach or even abuse.<p>I don&#x27;t think that is an example of hypocrisy though.</text></comment> |
41,414,531 | 41,413,039 | 1 | 2 | 41,411,122 | train | <story><title>Percona Everest: open-source automated database provisioning and management</title><url>https://docs.percona.com/everest/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cyrnel</author><text>Most of the pain of running databases in k8s is all of the &quot;day 2&quot; operations like backups, clustering, scaling, upgrading, tuning, etc., so I&#x27;m glad to see all that accumulated knowledge built into controllers like this.<p>One feature I feel is lacking is better handling of database credentials. I see there&#x27;s a &quot;copy to clipboard&quot; button next to the password, which tells me we&#x27;re still using the same single, static, plain-text DB passwords that we&#x27;ve been using since the 90s. I&#x27;d love to see some kind of cross-platform RBAC system that uses rotating credentials or asymmetric crypto or something.</text></comment> | <story><title>Percona Everest: open-source automated database provisioning and management</title><url>https://docs.percona.com/everest/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>movedx</author><text>I got really excited about this and then realised it&#x27;s only for Kubernetes: the one platform I&#x27;ve never believed you should deploy a database to (relational or otherwise.) I guess there are some use cases for such a deployment, but after 20 years of experience across many organisations on three continents, I&#x27;ve never encountered a situation that involves constantly rolling forward the database engine. Bring the engine inline with updates, sure, but weekly? Even monthly? No.</text></comment> |
15,791,077 | 15,788,320 | 1 | 3 | 15,787,153 | train | <story><title>Population-based training of neural networks</title><url>https://deepmind.com/blog/population-based-training-neural-networks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>knexer</author><text>Two things stick out to me after a first read:<p>First, this actually learns a schedule for each hyperparameter, not just a good set of fixed values, automatically discovering learning rate annealing and related techniques. This seems incredibly powerful. It is also learning hyperparameter schedules specific to a single training run - which seems interesting but not obviously helpful, especially since many of the learned schedules fairly closely match the baseline hand-tuned ones.<p>Second, it seems like they&#x27;re optimizing against their validation metric directly; isn&#x27;t that basically &#x27;cheating&#x27; (i.e. defeats much of the point of having a separate validation metric in the first place)? It also seems completely orthogonal to their technique - could they not have optimized for the same loss function as the network itself? Is this an improvement over state of the art, or is it just overfitting to the validation metric?</text></comment> | <story><title>Population-based training of neural networks</title><url>https://deepmind.com/blog/population-based-training-neural-networks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>margorczynski</author><text>I think this is what Google and the others aim for - no hand-tuning. You simply specify the problem (some function to optimize) and the data. Everything in a nice concise package running on Google Cloud using their custom software and hardware.</text></comment> |
27,513,040 | 27,511,184 | 1 | 3 | 27,510,448 | train | <story><title>Avoid News, Part 2: What the Stock Market Taught Me about News</title><url>http://www.bayesianinvestor.com/blog/index.php/2021/06/13/avoid-news-part-2-what-the-stock-market-taught-me-about-news/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arduinomancer</author><text>Anyone else burnt out from the outrage cycle in recent times?<p>I don’t know if it’s selfish but I just don’t have the energy anymore to care about what bad thing person X or company Y did this week.<p>My current philosophy is to treat news&#x2F;Reddit&#x2F;social media like email in the old days.<p>That is: log on to a desktop computer once a week and read the highlights. It is not accessible except through the desktop computer.<p>The funny thing is this approach is completely opposite the “stories” trend in social media. It makes you really aware of the FOMO-by-design pattern these days.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dkdbejwi383</author><text>When nothing resulted of the &quot;Panama papers&quot;, I admit I basically checked out of active politics and reading the news. On occasion, I&#x27;ll read some long-form journalism, but I am done with daily &quot;news&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Avoid News, Part 2: What the Stock Market Taught Me about News</title><url>http://www.bayesianinvestor.com/blog/index.php/2021/06/13/avoid-news-part-2-what-the-stock-market-taught-me-about-news/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arduinomancer</author><text>Anyone else burnt out from the outrage cycle in recent times?<p>I don’t know if it’s selfish but I just don’t have the energy anymore to care about what bad thing person X or company Y did this week.<p>My current philosophy is to treat news&#x2F;Reddit&#x2F;social media like email in the old days.<p>That is: log on to a desktop computer once a week and read the highlights. It is not accessible except through the desktop computer.<p>The funny thing is this approach is completely opposite the “stories” trend in social media. It makes you really aware of the FOMO-by-design pattern these days.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PNWChris</author><text>I’m glad I’m not alone doing this! I’ve gone so far as setting up a content blocker on my phone and putting Reddit on a blocklist.<p>I just can’t handle all the front page content that elicits outrage and&#x2F;or incredulity, and the comment threads can be just as outrageous as the content itself.<p>Still, I dig so many of the communities on there, so I browse by setting aside time and hopping on my desktop.<p>I don’t use my desktop much (maybe a couple times a week), so I find it creates a nice mental partition from my day-to-day life and let’s me engage with Reddit on my own terms. Frankly, Reddit is a blast in small doses, so I’m happy with the balance I’ve struck.</text></comment> |
40,048,011 | 40,047,535 | 1 | 2 | 40,038,729 | train | <story><title>How much memory does a graph take?</title><url>https://jazco.dev/2024/04/15/in-memory-graphs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lmeyerov</author><text>Extra fun: We find most enterprise&#x2F;gov graph analytics work only requires 1-2 attributes to go along with the graph index, and those attributes often are already numeric (time, $, ...) or can be dictionary-encoded as discussed here (categorical, ID, ...). The result is that even &#x27;tough&#x27; billion scale graphs are fine on 1 gpu.<p>Ex: Most of our users are happy to do 100K-100M edges quickly on a single node, imagine a quick parquet read, so goes surprisingly far. For $0.5&#x2F;hr, you can get 16GB of GPU RAM on aws, stuff in 100M+ edges comfortably, and have room to compute all sorts of things. With a more typical one, 1B is easy.<p>Early, but that&#x27;s been the basic thinking into our new GFQL system: slice into the columns you want, and then do all the in-GPU traversals you want. In our V1, we keep things dataframe-native, including the in-GPU data representation, and we are now working on adding the first extensions to support on-the-fly switching to more graph-native indexing as needed.<p>Ex: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;graphistry&#x2F;pygraphistry&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;demos&#x2F;gfql&#x2F;benchmark_hops_cpu_gpu.ipynb">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;graphistry&#x2F;pygraphistry&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;demos...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How much memory does a graph take?</title><url>https://jazco.dev/2024/04/15/in-memory-graphs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fl0ki</author><text>I&#x27;ve been doing this for years in projects internal to my employers. It&#x27;s nice to see it catching on, because it&#x27;ll be easier to explain to people if I can point to a blog post saying the same thing.<p>Other tips worth trying:<p>* You&#x27;ll do even better by optimizing your ID type. Even if it has to be a string, it can at least be a string with SSO, or a long-lived string reference, or an interned string.<p>* Try the ahash crate instead of the default cryptogically secure hash function in Rust.<p>* Consider HashSet&lt;ByRef&lt;Arc&lt;T&gt;&gt;&gt; instead of having to take keys to a different map to resolve the actual object.</text></comment> |
25,139,457 | 25,139,279 | 1 | 2 | 25,134,220 | train | <story><title>"Equal pay for equal work" in remote jobs</title><url>https://www.nityesh.com/equal-pay-for-equal-work-at-a-remote-company/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>claudiulodro</author><text>&gt; You want to pay $2 dollars for milk, instead of $20? That&#x27;s thanks to competition between companies.<p>It&#x27;s not though. &quot;The support granted to U.S dairy producers represented approximately [...] 73% of the farmers&#x27; marketplace revenue. USDA data also reveals that US dairy farmers operate at a loss, and have a cost of production that is higher than what they earn from the marketplace.&quot;[1]<p>We&#x27;re subsidizing the low cost of milk via taxes because the marketplace failed to provide both affordable milk and the ability for dairy farmers to make a living.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;markets.businessinsider.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;american-dairy-farmers-depend-on-government-subsidies-1015126442" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;markets.businessinsider.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;american-dai...</a></text></item><item><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>&gt; You should expect &quot;equal pay for equal work&quot; at your new remote job<p>So naive.<p>In an ideal, utopian world? Maybe it would work this way. Maybe.<p>In reality, your compensation is a function of your negotiating power. Some people, in fact, manage to get the same pay even when working remote, because they&#x27;re &quot;highly employable&quot;. Others don&#x27;t.<p>And let me add: I almost agree that remote work shouldn&#x27;t necessarily command the same pay. A company&#x27;s goal is to &quot;extract&quot; from each employee more value than his&#x2F;her&#x2F;their salary. If a company manages to save on a salary because the employee doesn&#x27;t have much negotiating power, good for the company.<p>This is not to say that a company should do anything it wants, far from it. It simply means that if you accept that you live in a market-enabled society, your salary is at stake, too. You want to pay $2 dollars for milk, instead of $20? That&#x27;s thanks to competition between companies. That&#x27;s market forces at play. You want it there? Accept it on salary negotiation too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aeternum</author><text>&gt; the marketplace failed to provide both affordable milk and the ability for dairy farmers to make a living.<p>So the price is both two low and too high? This is not a failure of the marketplace (aka price discovery), this is the U.S. deciding that cheap milk and overproduction is in the nation&#x27;s best interest and we should socialize some of the production costs.<p>There are logical (milk as a staple product and avoidance of shortages), and illogical (milk lobby takes too much effort to oppose) reasons for it, but it is not a marketplace failure. Remove the subsidies and the market would quickly find the higher price at which dairy farmers could produce milk profitably and consumers would purchase it.</text></comment> | <story><title>"Equal pay for equal work" in remote jobs</title><url>https://www.nityesh.com/equal-pay-for-equal-work-at-a-remote-company/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>claudiulodro</author><text>&gt; You want to pay $2 dollars for milk, instead of $20? That&#x27;s thanks to competition between companies.<p>It&#x27;s not though. &quot;The support granted to U.S dairy producers represented approximately [...] 73% of the farmers&#x27; marketplace revenue. USDA data also reveals that US dairy farmers operate at a loss, and have a cost of production that is higher than what they earn from the marketplace.&quot;[1]<p>We&#x27;re subsidizing the low cost of milk via taxes because the marketplace failed to provide both affordable milk and the ability for dairy farmers to make a living.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;markets.businessinsider.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;american-dairy-farmers-depend-on-government-subsidies-1015126442" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;markets.businessinsider.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;american-dai...</a></text></item><item><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>&gt; You should expect &quot;equal pay for equal work&quot; at your new remote job<p>So naive.<p>In an ideal, utopian world? Maybe it would work this way. Maybe.<p>In reality, your compensation is a function of your negotiating power. Some people, in fact, manage to get the same pay even when working remote, because they&#x27;re &quot;highly employable&quot;. Others don&#x27;t.<p>And let me add: I almost agree that remote work shouldn&#x27;t necessarily command the same pay. A company&#x27;s goal is to &quot;extract&quot; from each employee more value than his&#x2F;her&#x2F;their salary. If a company manages to save on a salary because the employee doesn&#x27;t have much negotiating power, good for the company.<p>This is not to say that a company should do anything it wants, far from it. It simply means that if you accept that you live in a market-enabled society, your salary is at stake, too. You want to pay $2 dollars for milk, instead of $20? That&#x27;s thanks to competition between companies. That&#x27;s market forces at play. You want it there? Accept it on salary negotiation too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmrdporcupine</author><text>It&#x27;s sort of the opposite here in Canada, where dairy production is managed on a quota system (you need quota to produce and sell) and the quota is regulated such that the price remains stable (and more expensive than in the US) for the benefit of the farmers who have quota and in theory the public, who has a reliable &quot;reasonable&quot; price.<p>It&#x27;s dubious on many levels, but has its defenders.</text></comment> |
4,870,803 | 4,870,467 | 1 | 3 | 4,870,283 | train | <story><title>How tall can a Lego tower get?</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20578627</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ComputerGuru</author><text>I'm a little confused. That's the weight that a single Lego brick can withstand, correct? So assuming you made a "tower" that was essentially a vertical line of 2x2 Lego bricks, it'd collapse after 3,591m.<p>But that's not how we build towers. If you create a proper foundation with Lego bricks and distribute the weight evenly across them, and taper the tower as it goes up, am I wrong in assuming it could go a lot more than that? The entire weight of a structure never rests on a single brick...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>Probably the proper translation out of geek-speak and into reality is that there is almost certainly no real structure that can be made purely out of Lego bricks that will cause the lower level to mechanically fail. (I'm hedging for safety. I really want to say there isn't one at all, but I've learned not to underestimate people's ingenuity. But let me point out by "real structure" I mean one that can be reasonably built in the real world, not, for example, a structure a mile high with millimeter tolerances made out of mass-manufactured plastic bricks.)<p>For another example, one could try to create an inverted pyramid on one brick to crush it, but it will topple long before it crushes the brick.<p>The structural strength under that circumstance (pure Lego, nothing else) is so enormously high, as determined by this experiment, that there's no reason to ever worry about this eventuality.</text></comment> | <story><title>How tall can a Lego tower get?</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20578627</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ComputerGuru</author><text>I'm a little confused. That's the weight that a single Lego brick can withstand, correct? So assuming you made a "tower" that was essentially a vertical line of 2x2 Lego bricks, it'd collapse after 3,591m.<p>But that's not how we build towers. If you create a proper foundation with Lego bricks and distribute the weight evenly across them, and taper the tower as it goes up, am I wrong in assuming it could go a lot more than that? The entire weight of a structure never rests on a single brick...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicholassmith</author><text>Yeah that had me slightly puzzled, you'd never attempt a tower with so few bricks as the stability would see it topple over quite quickly.</text></comment> |
21,086,402 | 21,086,549 | 1 | 2 | 21,079,643 | train | <story><title>Commit Graph Drawing Algorithms</title><url>https://pvigier.github.io/2019/05/06/commit-graph-drawing-algorithms.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pcr910303</author><text>There&#x27;s also this, if anybody&#x27;s interested:<p>Preserving Command Line Workflow for a Package Management System using ASCII DAG Visualization(2018) [0]<p>It&#x27;s a paper about implementing a new ASCII graph format for dependency management, and it compares existing ASCII graph formats at the front of the paper.<p>I actually found interesting that many use-cases of ASCII graphs have diverse requirements that one format can&#x27;t rule all. In particular, usually dependency trees are deep and wide, while git histories are... relatively short and less complex.<p>Git ASCII graphing format is perfect for denoting graphs without ambiguity, but it becomes too long for most complex graphs, and that&#x27;s where the paper comes in.<p>Just a rant, not really super-related... but worth a mention.<p>[0]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.idav.ucdavis.edu&#x2F;~ki&#x2F;publications&#x2F;graphterm-preprint.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.idav.ucdavis.edu&#x2F;~ki&#x2F;publications&#x2F;graphterm-prepr...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Commit Graph Drawing Algorithms</title><url>https://pvigier.github.io/2019/05/06/commit-graph-drawing-algorithms.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>misnome</author><text>This is something I’ve been looking for for a long time - I’ve never been able to find the right combination of terms; searching for variations of graph drawing never yielded much beyond graphics, and I never did the project I wanted to yet.<p>Thanks.</text></comment> |
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