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16,803,156 | 16,803,194 | 1 | 2 | 16,802,525 | train | <story><title>Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments Over Ethical Concerns</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-employees-quitting-whatsapp-instagram-cambridge-analytica-report-2018-4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ThemalSpan</author><text>I find this issue much more pressing in the defense industry. I (thankfully) have the freedom to choose where I work. I will never willingly work on weapon systems. There are those that do though. Engineers who design things to kill other people. What the actual fuck.</text></item><item><author>taurath</author><text>I wonder how many new hires pass up Facebook because of ethical concerns. Whats scary is if even internally people are moving departments because of ethics, that basically filters so that the least ethical people are on the teams with the most ethical concerns.<p>If there&#x27;s a real net effect on their hiring, they&#x27;ll have to increase salaries to lure people in, which will take in even more unethical people (of course, not everyone that works for or wants to work for Facebook is unethical).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eric_b</author><text>That&#x27;s great that you&#x27;ve got a set of principles that you live by, and are able to stick to them. However, your principles are not everyone&#x27;s principles, and what you consider moral and ethical is not universal. Grellas had a great comment on working for the military industrial complex a few days ago, that I think is worth a read:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16759324" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16759324</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments Over Ethical Concerns</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-employees-quitting-whatsapp-instagram-cambridge-analytica-report-2018-4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ThemalSpan</author><text>I find this issue much more pressing in the defense industry. I (thankfully) have the freedom to choose where I work. I will never willingly work on weapon systems. There are those that do though. Engineers who design things to kill other people. What the actual fuck.</text></item><item><author>taurath</author><text>I wonder how many new hires pass up Facebook because of ethical concerns. Whats scary is if even internally people are moving departments because of ethics, that basically filters so that the least ethical people are on the teams with the most ethical concerns.<p>If there&#x27;s a real net effect on their hiring, they&#x27;ll have to increase salaries to lure people in, which will take in even more unethical people (of course, not everyone that works for or wants to work for Facebook is unethical).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>minhazm</author><text>I grew up in Maryland, which probably has the most defense contractors in the country and I decided in college that I didn&#x27;t want to work in defense for ethical reasons. But there is another side of it, some people genuinely believe that the work they are doing is helping to keep the country safe.</text></comment> |
19,618,281 | 19,615,357 | 1 | 3 | 19,615,080 | train | <story><title>At high pressures, potassium adopts a mix of crystalline and liquid structure</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/04/new-phase-matter-confirmed-solid-and-liquid-same-time-potassium-physics/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>apo</author><text>It&#x27;s great that the popular press still runs science articles.<p>What&#x27;s not so great:<p>1. There is no link to the original paper.<p>2. The description of the phenomenon has been so contorted that it&#x27;s impossible to understand exactly what was found or its significance.<p>The article notes:<p>&gt; “Somehow, these potassium atoms decide to divide up into two loosely linked sub-lattices,” Hermann says. But as scientists turned up the heat, x-ray images showed the four chains disappearing, and researchers argued about what exactly was happening.<p>Fine, there&#x27;s debate about how to explain the experiment.<p>&gt; The computer models confirmed that between about 20,000 and 40,000 times atmospheric pressure and 400 to 800 Kelvin (260 to 980 degrees Fahrenheit), the potassium entered what’s called a chain-melted state, in which the chains dissolved into liquid while the remaining potassium crystals stayed solid.<p>That&#x27;s just one explanation consistent with the data. Clearly, there are others.<p>The article gives the false impression that some smoking gun has been found. Far from it.</text></comment> | <story><title>At high pressures, potassium adopts a mix of crystalline and liquid structure</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/04/new-phase-matter-confirmed-solid-and-liquid-same-time-potassium-physics/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>peter_d_sherman</author><text>Favorited.<p>If you were interested in one day creating Star Trek&#x27;s Replicator, this might be a good place to start. That is, here might be a good place to study the junction between solid and liquid phases of matter (your future Replicator would probably create liquids out of thin air before you figured out how to create solids, and this might be the phenomena you wanted to study to then figure out how to create those solids...)<p>Also, the list of exotic states of matter in the article is worth reading and re-reading...</text></comment> |
25,468,746 | 25,468,090 | 1 | 2 | 25,467,545 | train | <story><title>Cerulean: Experimental micro-blogging app for Matrix</title><url>https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/18/introducing-cerulean</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ryukafalz</author><text>This is very cool, although every additional use case for Matrix makes me wish there were ways to grant access to a subset of my account.<p>Worst case scenario logging into a Mastodon client is that it wrecks my microblogging data. Worst case scenario logging into a Matrix microblogging app is that it wrecks my microblogging data <i>and</i> drops my admin privileges on all of my Matrix chatrooms.<p>OAuth scope by room type, maybe? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;matrix-org&#x2F;matrix-doc&#x2F;pull&#x2F;1840" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;matrix-org&#x2F;matrix-doc&#x2F;pull&#x2F;1840</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Cerulean: Experimental micro-blogging app for Matrix</title><url>https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/18/introducing-cerulean</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>robto</author><text>I&#x27;m really excited about using Matrix for more than instant messaging. This November I spent a week reading all the specs (which were really well documented!) and some spec proposals that I think are really important for non-IM clients (room types, event relations (replies), portable identities). I was able to get a simple web client up and running in ~300 lines of clojurescript.<p>Cerulean is looking great! Does it support e2e threads? I&#x27;m about to take a stab at implementing e2e in my application and I&#x27;m curious how much overhead it is.</text></comment> |
34,286,440 | 34,286,307 | 1 | 2 | 34,286,253 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Did dang get hacked?</title><text>The last three comments posted have been out of character. First some random incomprehensible typing:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34285936" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34285936</a><p>And then posting the same archive.org link on two several years old articles:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17327039#34286087" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17327039#34286087</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10611015#34286089" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10611015#34286089</a><p>Not sure what’s going on.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Wow you guys don&#x27;t miss much do you? Two different things were going on here:<p>I was working on some spam filters and posting some test comments to verify some of that. That was 34285936. I posted a few and deleted them but apparently neglected to delete that one. I&#x27;ve done so now.<p>The other two were related to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33855594" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33855594</a>, which I sent a repost invite for. I was going through the previous stories about Paul Otlet and noticed that <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nautil.us&#x2F;issue&#x2F;21&#x2F;information&#x2F;the-future-of-the-web-is-100-years-old" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nautil.us&#x2F;issue&#x2F;21&#x2F;information&#x2F;the-future-of-the-web-...</a> doesn&#x27;t exist any more - so I posted an archive.org link in those two threads. This will be useful if and when we have a new thread about Otlet&#x27;s Mundaneum.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Did dang get hacked?</title><text>The last three comments posted have been out of character. First some random incomprehensible typing:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34285936" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34285936</a><p>And then posting the same archive.org link on two several years old articles:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17327039#34286087" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17327039#34286087</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10611015#34286089" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10611015#34286089</a><p>Not sure what’s going on.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>guiambros</author><text>Uh, this is indeed weird. Hope all is ok.<p>For those curious and without showdead, the first link was posted 1h ago, and shows:<p>&quot;<i>For ok whatfix swaptoAPP blahhhh</i>&quot;</text></comment> |
8,442,479 | 8,441,017 | 1 | 3 | 8,439,977 | train | <story><title>Why 12-Foot Traffic Lanes Are Disastrous for Safety</title><url>http://www.citylab.com/design/2014/10/why-12-foot-traffic-lanes-are-disastrous-for-safety-and-must-be-replaced-now/381117/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chetanahuja</author><text>I&#x27;m seeing a lot of resistance to the idea of narrower city streets on this thread. The advantages of narrower city streets (and hence, crossings) goes far beyond safety. It actually enhances quality of life in a significant way. A wide, four lane highway running across your town basically says humans must come encased inside an automobile. Pedestrians and cyclists become second class citizens. It&#x27;s a design driven for the convenience of cars and to the detriment of humans.<p>Here&#x27;s a far more engaging critique of car-first design by James Kunstler: <a href="http://youtu.be/Q1ZeXnmDZMQ" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Q1ZeXnmDZMQ</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>StefanKarpinski</author><text>So many ostensibly &quot;urban&quot; places in the US feel actively hostile to pedestrians. One of the best things about New York is that, more than any other place in the country, pedestrians unequivocally own the city. If you are in a car (or even a bike), you are on borrowed turf and must drive as such. This is as it should be – cities are for people, not cars.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why 12-Foot Traffic Lanes Are Disastrous for Safety</title><url>http://www.citylab.com/design/2014/10/why-12-foot-traffic-lanes-are-disastrous-for-safety-and-must-be-replaced-now/381117/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chetanahuja</author><text>I&#x27;m seeing a lot of resistance to the idea of narrower city streets on this thread. The advantages of narrower city streets (and hence, crossings) goes far beyond safety. It actually enhances quality of life in a significant way. A wide, four lane highway running across your town basically says humans must come encased inside an automobile. Pedestrians and cyclists become second class citizens. It&#x27;s a design driven for the convenience of cars and to the detriment of humans.<p>Here&#x27;s a far more engaging critique of car-first design by James Kunstler: <a href="http://youtu.be/Q1ZeXnmDZMQ" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Q1ZeXnmDZMQ</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Dylan16807</author><text>A narrow four lane highway is scarcely better than a wide four lane highway.<p>Get rid of the highways downtown if your goal is better cities. Don&#x27;t just make the lanes look less safe to slow people slightly.</text></comment> |
40,816,154 | 40,815,713 | 1 | 2 | 40,797,790 | train | <story><title>FDA warns top U.S. bakery not to claim foods contain allergens when they don't</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2024/06/26/g-s1-6238/fda-warns-bakery-foods-allergens</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gumby</author><text>FWIW Bimbo (a Mexican company) is the largest baking company in north america -- when you go to the typical grocery store almost all the baked goods will be from Bimbo regardless of the label (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bimbobakeriesusa.com&#x2F;our-brands" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bimbobakeriesusa.com&#x2F;our-brands</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ASalazarMX</author><text>As a Mexican, I&#x27;m still salty with Bimbo because I went to Spain, and they sold there better, bigger Bimbo-brand sliced bread than here, including varieties without crust.<p>It takes guts to keep the brand name in English-speaking contries, though.<p>&gt; The name was formed as the combination of the Disney Bambi and Dumbo films names, which were the favourite movies of Marinela, Lorenzo Servitje&#x27;s daughter. Later, the founders would find out that bimbo is an Italian slang for children (shortened from bambino), and that in China the word for bread (面包, miànbāo) is similar to the name of the brand.</text></comment> | <story><title>FDA warns top U.S. bakery not to claim foods contain allergens when they don't</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2024/06/26/g-s1-6238/fda-warns-bakery-foods-allergens</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gumby</author><text>FWIW Bimbo (a Mexican company) is the largest baking company in north america -- when you go to the typical grocery store almost all the baked goods will be from Bimbo regardless of the label (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bimbobakeriesusa.com&#x2F;our-brands" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bimbobakeriesusa.com&#x2F;our-brands</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>floxy</author><text>&gt;when you go to the typical grocery store almost all the baked goods will be from Bimbo regardless of the label<p>Are those those the only brands they produce? I only recognize 3 of those brands, and I can&#x27;t even be sure I&#x27;ve ever eaten more than one of those. Maybe they are big only in certain regions?</text></comment> |
30,974,803 | 30,974,504 | 1 | 2 | 30,972,694 | train | <story><title>Super Simple Storage Service</title><url>http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>azornathogron</author><text>I believe they have overestimated the cost of using 3.5&quot; floppies, probably to make themselves look better by comparison.<p>They give the cost as $211,172, but that&#x27;s the cost to buy a 1 TiB pack of floppies. Their own storage cost is per-month, so to get the equivalent cost for floppies you need to also divide by the expected useful lifetime of a floppy disk. I did a web search for &quot;floppy disk lifetime&quot; and the internet [1] told me &quot;I’ve seen numbers saying the lifespan of floppy disks is three to five years. But I’ve also seen numbers that claim they can last ten to twenty years or even indefinitely.&quot;<p>If you assume floppy disks have an expected lifetime of 5 years, you can amortise the cost across that time, bringing the cost per TiB-month down to a nice reasonable $3,520.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.storagecraft.com&#x2F;data-storage-lifespan&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.storagecraft.com&#x2F;data-storage-lifespan&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jiggawatts</author><text>This suddenly reminded me of the floppy-disk raid: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20080117032102&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;phoenix.cc.edu:80&#x2F;MegaFloppy.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20080117032102&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;phoenix.cc...</a><p>You&#x27;ve got to wonder how it would work if taken to the extreme: rack after rack of floppy drives filling an entire data centre providing a glacially-slow S3 service.<p>Can you imagine the <i>noise</i>? It would be... glorious.<p>The linked article used these compact drives: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;External-Floppy-1-44MB-FDUSB-M-V1&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B00U5Z8A48" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;External-Floppy-1-44MB-FDUSB-M-V1&#x2F;dp&#x2F;...</a><p>They&#x27;re 5.75 x 4.25 x 0.75 inches. So if you mount them vertically like in high-density storage arrays, you can fit 25 of them into the width of a rack, about 7 rows from the front to back. So... about 175 per layer that is about 4 RU high including the space for the controller board. You can fit 10 of these layers in a standard rack, for 1,750 floppy drives total per rack.<p>Let&#x27;s see... that&#x27;s 2.52 GB per rack! Seek times are variable depending on the floppy drive model, but 250 ms is approximately correct for the average. So about 7,000 IOPS total per rack. <i>Not too shabby!</i><p>A decent sized data centre might have 1,000 racks. So a &quot;cloud-scale&quot; floppy drive object storage system might have 2.52 TB of raw storage. However, you have to divide that by three for the redundant copies, so we&#x27;re back to 840 GB of usable storage capacity per floor, but with an impressive 7M IOPS.<p>To put things in perspective, that&#x27;s directly equivalent to a single modern laptop SSD drive in terms of both capacity and IOPS. Except that the latency of the SSD is 5000x lower.</text></comment> | <story><title>Super Simple Storage Service</title><url>http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>azornathogron</author><text>I believe they have overestimated the cost of using 3.5&quot; floppies, probably to make themselves look better by comparison.<p>They give the cost as $211,172, but that&#x27;s the cost to buy a 1 TiB pack of floppies. Their own storage cost is per-month, so to get the equivalent cost for floppies you need to also divide by the expected useful lifetime of a floppy disk. I did a web search for &quot;floppy disk lifetime&quot; and the internet [1] told me &quot;I’ve seen numbers saying the lifespan of floppy disks is three to five years. But I’ve also seen numbers that claim they can last ten to twenty years or even indefinitely.&quot;<p>If you assume floppy disks have an expected lifetime of 5 years, you can amortise the cost across that time, bringing the cost per TiB-month down to a nice reasonable $3,520.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.storagecraft.com&#x2F;data-storage-lifespan&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.storagecraft.com&#x2F;data-storage-lifespan&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nition</author><text>Since this is a write-only service, it doesn&#x27;t actually matter if the disk stops working, or even ceases to exist. Therefore we may be able to estimate the lifespan as infinite.<p>There may also be no need to purchase more than one disk. In fact taken to its logical conclusion there is no need to purchase any disk at all - but of course that brings us all the way to the S4 business model itself.</text></comment> |
26,954,782 | 26,952,927 | 1 | 2 | 26,948,814 | train | <story><title>Experian’s credit freeze security is still a joke</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/04/experians-credit-freeze-security-is-still-a-joke/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jwr</author><text>&gt; Credit cards in the USA are backed by very strong consumer protection laws. That is why you can mindlessly give one to wait staff at a restaurant who will disappear with it for an extended amount of time, while in any other country that would be unimaginable.<p>But how is this specific to &quot;credit&quot; cards? Don&#x27;t debit cards get the same protection? The point here is that in the US one <i>needs</i> to have &quot;credit history&quot; in order to do things like rent an apartment, which is not a thing in the EU.<p>As to security, the EU has largely gotten around the problem by implementing modern payment systems. In Poland no waiter will &quot;disappear&quot; with your card, they will bring a mobile terminal to the table, so that you can use your (contactless) card.<p>In fact, living in Poland currently, I can&#x27;t remember the last time I used a <i>physical</i> card anywhere. For the last two years or so I&#x27;ve only been carrying my phone with me, no wallet at all.</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>Credit cards in the USA are backed by very strong consumer protection laws. That is why you can mindlessly give one to wait staff at a restaurant who will disappear with it for an extended amount of time, while in any other country that would be unimaginable. I have also never once cared about credit card skimmers at gas stations or anything of the sort. It&#x27;s the bank&#x27;s responsibility to protect the card, not my own.<p>Consumer culture in general means that it is very profitable for banks and payment processors to hand out credit cards like candy (with huge spending incentives), despite knowing that a ton of people are going to rack up debt that they will never be able to pay.<p>The overall credit system is also a lot larger than just credit cards. The country runs on cheap debt. Everything from houses, education, cars all the way to TVs and dresses is financed with long-term payments and low single digit interest rates. Most of what people earn goes towards paying for stuff they bought in the past rather than saving for something they might buy later.</text></item><item><author>anyfoo</author><text>As someone who grew up in Europe and lives in the US now, the whole &quot;credit&quot; thing is still weird to me anyway. In Germany at least, credit cards are mostly only a thing because they are convenient to pay with online, and then often behave like debit cards (paying directly from your bank account) anyway.<p>Everyday shopping happens with debit cards, bills are paid by wiring money.<p>When I came here, I &quot;built credit&quot; by paying everything by credit card and making sure to pay off the entire bill <i>immediately</i> to not incur any interest penalty, but when I read stuff like &quot;always pay off the credit card with the highest APR first&quot;, my head&#x27;s still spinning.</text></item><item><author>PascLeRasc</author><text>I really, really wish I could opt out of having accounts with the big 3 credit bureaus. Freezes don’t appear to work - they usually say that I don’t have an active freeze whenever I go to lift one. Or their website is down entirely. Or they won’t let me get to the freeze section without clicking no on their paid monitoring services 8 times. For Transunion all I needed to lift a freeze was the last 4 of my SSN, so how does that help?<p>I don’t want to have my information with these companies. Please let me not participate. It’s like every American was given a Chase Bank account at birth that we can’t close, it’s weird.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>herbstein</author><text>&gt; In fact, living in Poland currently, I can&#x27;t remember the last time I used a physical card anywhere. For the last two years or so I&#x27;ve only been carrying my phone with me, no wallet at all.<p>Here in Denmark we recently got an official digital drivers license. You verify your identity with the government issued 2FA system, scan the NFC chip in your (non-expired) passport, and you&#x27;re golden. The digital license is as valid as the physical license.<p>Couple this with NFC payment being a requirement anywhere that takes payment, the banks having developed a way of transferring money between accounts in different banks instantly based on just a phone number, and the digital drivers license, there&#x27;s never a need to have my wallet on me. At the moment I&#x27;m not even sure where it is -- it&#x27;s somewhere in the apartment.</text></comment> | <story><title>Experian’s credit freeze security is still a joke</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/04/experians-credit-freeze-security-is-still-a-joke/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jwr</author><text>&gt; Credit cards in the USA are backed by very strong consumer protection laws. That is why you can mindlessly give one to wait staff at a restaurant who will disappear with it for an extended amount of time, while in any other country that would be unimaginable.<p>But how is this specific to &quot;credit&quot; cards? Don&#x27;t debit cards get the same protection? The point here is that in the US one <i>needs</i> to have &quot;credit history&quot; in order to do things like rent an apartment, which is not a thing in the EU.<p>As to security, the EU has largely gotten around the problem by implementing modern payment systems. In Poland no waiter will &quot;disappear&quot; with your card, they will bring a mobile terminal to the table, so that you can use your (contactless) card.<p>In fact, living in Poland currently, I can&#x27;t remember the last time I used a <i>physical</i> card anywhere. For the last two years or so I&#x27;ve only been carrying my phone with me, no wallet at all.</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>Credit cards in the USA are backed by very strong consumer protection laws. That is why you can mindlessly give one to wait staff at a restaurant who will disappear with it for an extended amount of time, while in any other country that would be unimaginable. I have also never once cared about credit card skimmers at gas stations or anything of the sort. It&#x27;s the bank&#x27;s responsibility to protect the card, not my own.<p>Consumer culture in general means that it is very profitable for banks and payment processors to hand out credit cards like candy (with huge spending incentives), despite knowing that a ton of people are going to rack up debt that they will never be able to pay.<p>The overall credit system is also a lot larger than just credit cards. The country runs on cheap debt. Everything from houses, education, cars all the way to TVs and dresses is financed with long-term payments and low single digit interest rates. Most of what people earn goes towards paying for stuff they bought in the past rather than saving for something they might buy later.</text></item><item><author>anyfoo</author><text>As someone who grew up in Europe and lives in the US now, the whole &quot;credit&quot; thing is still weird to me anyway. In Germany at least, credit cards are mostly only a thing because they are convenient to pay with online, and then often behave like debit cards (paying directly from your bank account) anyway.<p>Everyday shopping happens with debit cards, bills are paid by wiring money.<p>When I came here, I &quot;built credit&quot; by paying everything by credit card and making sure to pay off the entire bill <i>immediately</i> to not incur any interest penalty, but when I read stuff like &quot;always pay off the credit card with the highest APR first&quot;, my head&#x27;s still spinning.</text></item><item><author>PascLeRasc</author><text>I really, really wish I could opt out of having accounts with the big 3 credit bureaus. Freezes don’t appear to work - they usually say that I don’t have an active freeze whenever I go to lift one. Or their website is down entirely. Or they won’t let me get to the freeze section without clicking no on their paid monitoring services 8 times. For Transunion all I needed to lift a freeze was the last 4 of my SSN, so how does that help?<p>I don’t want to have my information with these companies. Please let me not participate. It’s like every American was given a Chase Bank account at birth that we can’t close, it’s weird.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>naniwaduni</author><text>There is a very strong, very simple alignment of incentives that you&#x27;d think shouldn&#x27;t really matter, but makes a huge difference: with credit, the burden is on the <i>bank</i> to collect money from <i>you</i>.</text></comment> |
37,103,236 | 37,101,541 | 1 | 2 | 37,100,140 | train | <story><title>Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-hit-internet-archive-with-new-400m-copyright-lawsuit-230812/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EMIRELADERO</author><text>Courts have ruled that <i>merely executing an exe file</i> is itself an act of copyright infringment, because the OS copies the contents into RAM. That&#x27;s how deep it goes.<p>The reason no users are violating copyright when running software normally is because of a special exception for software in the Copyright Act.</text></item><item><author>arghdos</author><text>&gt; The complaint states that when the 78rpm records were converted into digital files, IA reproduced copyrighted recordings without permission. When IA copied those files to a server, that amounted to another unauthorized reproduction<p>Am I wrong to interpret this as trying to outlaw ripping a CD and uploading to a personal NAS? There’s additional claims about distribution to the public that (may??) seem more reasonable, but that seems like some copyright maximalism trying to rewrite history?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>terminous</author><text>&gt; Courts have ruled that merely executing an exe file is itself an act of copyright infringment, because the OS copies the contents into RAM<p>You can&#x27;t just drop an extraordinary claim like that without a citation. When I search those terms, your comment is the only one I can find that remotely resembles anything like the case you&#x27;re describing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-hit-internet-archive-with-new-400m-copyright-lawsuit-230812/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EMIRELADERO</author><text>Courts have ruled that <i>merely executing an exe file</i> is itself an act of copyright infringment, because the OS copies the contents into RAM. That&#x27;s how deep it goes.<p>The reason no users are violating copyright when running software normally is because of a special exception for software in the Copyright Act.</text></item><item><author>arghdos</author><text>&gt; The complaint states that when the 78rpm records were converted into digital files, IA reproduced copyrighted recordings without permission. When IA copied those files to a server, that amounted to another unauthorized reproduction<p>Am I wrong to interpret this as trying to outlaw ripping a CD and uploading to a personal NAS? There’s additional claims about distribution to the public that (may??) seem more reasonable, but that seems like some copyright maximalism trying to rewrite history?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gumby</author><text>I think a lot of that has since gone away.<p>I remember the battles around &#x27;2000 when the record industry tried to get paid for each instance when parts of the music files were buffered (because they were &quot;copies&quot;). They weren&#x27;t laughed out of court. These days I think they would.</text></comment> |
4,645,639 | 4,645,507 | 1 | 2 | 4,645,357 | train | <story><title>The Product is the Byproduct</title><url>http://zachholman.com/talk/product-is-the-byproduct</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bmelton</author><text>This is perhaps the first slide I've seen by Holman, but despite having seen what feels like a million slide decks this year, this one resonated to me like no other has.<p>In an older job, I was constantly battling my program manager's desire to have everybody "come in on time". It was a great offense to her if somebody came in so much as five minutes late. Despite being the managing developer for the team, and hence, ultimately responsible for all the engineering work that happened, I refused to care, so long as the work was getting done. I had a great team of talented guys that were always down to knock out a problem, whatever the problem was.<p>My boss wouldn't see the hours they put in working from home ("How do I know they're <i>working</i> if I can't see them!?!?"), or the hours they stayed late when the work wasn't done.<p>I tried the age old arguments "So long as the work is getting done..." or "They can come and go whenever they want so long as I'm meeting deadlines..." etc., but none of it flew. I regret not trying harder to change the culture before ultimately giving up and going somewhere that 'got it'. As a result, I have less responsibility, work from home, work more than I used to, and am happier to do so. I also can't imagine giving up the team that I have now for any reason, and I honestly think they feel similarly.<p>I usually poo-poo all over 'company culture' lectures, but this one completely hits the nail on the head as far as I'm concerned.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Product is the Byproduct</title><url>http://zachholman.com/talk/product-is-the-byproduct</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>trhtrsh</author><text>&#62; "increases in masculine wording were sufficient to decrease women's job appeal ratings and their anticipated belongingness in specific occupations"<p>&#62; People in Silicon Valley are dicks<p>&#62; Hire those bothered by suck<p>&#62; [random butt statue]</text></comment> |
7,470,295 | 7,470,032 | 1 | 3 | 7,469,795 | train | <story><title>The Creator of 'Doom' Is Now A Facebook Employee</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/25/the-creator-of-doom-is-now-a-facebook-employee/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>daviding</author><text>There&#x27;s been a flurry of threads, and I&#x27;ve not seen this discussed. As a huge fan of Carmack and a believer in VR, the acquisition is interesting, in that:<p>- John Carmack&#x27;s OR work was not just on the mechanism of VR in terms of the screens, latency, but also on an embedded operating system to best drive the experience. The fact that Zuckerberg in the investment call mentioned this as a &#x27;new device platform&#x27; (not desktop, not mobile) could be taken somewhat literally. This could be an interesting way for FB to become part of a new embedded platform, written to drive these displays. This Facebook Display OS could be next years press froth that was the Facebook Phone OS. While AR &#x2F; Glass is not much like OR, the platform might be Mark&#x27;s play here, just as much as a &#x27;seems like a good long bet&#x27;.<p>- John fairly recently discussed how Armadillo was really not something he could put much more money in. Fairly quickly he has got into a situation that (post golden handcuffs) he could seriously restart this. While it&#x27;s funny to imagine Zuckerberg&#x2F;Carmack in code review meetings :) the reality if the situation might be that this OR adventure is big-picture just John&#x27;s way back home to Armadillo in a few years. Needs must and all that.<p>I&#x27;m still internalizing the news (as a dev&#x2F;purchaser of both DK1 and preorder DK2) but some things do seem apparent today:<p>- This is probably a good time for one of the VR also-rans to do a &#x27;Oculus Rift kickerstarter V2&#x27; on this news. Rightly or wrongly there&#x27;s now a huge need for a new white knight in VR that could be tapped.<p>- What JC does&#x2F;says now is a barometer for a lot of people in the OR community.<p>- OR&#x27;s biggest pitfall will now be loss of focus. There are now so many distractions, from metaverses to HR noise.<p>Personally I think FB will be hands-off, and this is not a disaster but then my main excitement is really just on getting to CV1 as soon as possible, regardless of who owns the most stock, and today&#x27;s news helps that.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Creator of 'Doom' Is Now A Facebook Employee</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/25/the-creator-of-doom-is-now-a-facebook-employee/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>downer76</author><text>If Carmack obtained any sort of options or shares in Oculus stock prior to this deal, this is likely to be quite a hefty payday for him, no?<p>Just goes to show that his business sense was dead on, and he aligned his position with an organization he instinctively perceived as valuable <i>before</i> it&#x27;s value exploded. It&#x27;s probably safe to say, though, that his participation in the company also augmented the perception of its value, by his association acting as a defacto endorsement.</text></comment> |
26,791,634 | 26,791,483 | 1 | 2 | 26,791,138 | train | <story><title>The True Meaning of Technical Debt (2020)</title><url>https://refactoring.fm/p/the-true-meaning-of-technical-debt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>travisjungroth</author><text>&gt; Weird phrases that we often mock, such as &quot;action item&quot;, or &quot;circling back&quot;, are actually highly efficient vectors of meaning. They fit non trivial concepts in very few words, and are understood by everybody.<p>I hold the opposite belief. Management speak is meant to obfuscate. Instead of just telling a report who disagrees with your decision based on expected outcome to think the way you tell them to, just say &quot;think outside of the box&quot;. When you commit to &quot;circling back&quot;, you&#x27;re committing to nothing but having this idea cross the manager&#x27;s mind at some point in the future.<p>It&#x27;s weird that this is the conclusion the author came to from their linked article, considering this is in it:<p>&gt; This is why you might be tempted to use the readily accessible management metaphor laced language which you’re familiar with. Don’t.<p>&quot;Technical Debt&quot; is this level of crummy metaphor. I love Cunningham&#x27;s original definition. Do your best to model the business problem with the understanding you have. Later, pay down that debt by refactoring.<p>That&#x27;s not what it means anymore. Tech debt means whatever the speaker wants it to mean. It&#x27;s a get out of jail free card for any bad software choice.<p>&quot;That choice will severely limit our capabilities in the future, and be incredibly hard to change.&quot;<p>&quot;I&#x27;m willing to take on some tech debt to prioritize shipping.&quot;<p>See? No need to think.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>All those phrases originally meant something. I think they become management speak via two mechanisms: 1. People use them shorn of their original meaning to deliver the appearance of being managerial without the substances or 2. People raise them to rock-solid rules and demand slavish conformance to them without thought about costs&#x2F;benefits or appropriateness.<p>For bonus points, mix the two up, so that not only is someone trying to sound managerial but failing by using the terms completely incorrectly, but then also rigidly enforce their incorrect understandings.<p>For instance, if you have lots of meetings and those meetings almost never produce &quot;action items&quot;, and&#x2F;or those action items never get done, you really do have a problem. If you don&#x27;t like calling them action items, fine, find another word, but it&#x27;ll be the same thing. But if you get a manager that insists that meetings <i>always</i> produce action items, no matter what, you get another sort of failure. It is a perfectly valid use of a meeting to get two groups together and just make sure they are on the same page about something. If that&#x27;s all you ever meet about, there may be a deeper problem you should dig into, this shouldn&#x27;t be your dominant form of meeting (unless you&#x27;re in a position where that&#x27;s your direct job), but it does sometimes need to happen.<p>I find it useful to dig down to the &quot;original&quot; meaning of a lot of these terms, think about what they mean and how to use them in my own head to put terminology on things, but not to be rigid about it.<p>I also observe that there are some managers who use the terms essentially correctly, and some that clearly fit into at least one of the two categories I listed at the beginning. They should be treated differently.</text></comment> | <story><title>The True Meaning of Technical Debt (2020)</title><url>https://refactoring.fm/p/the-true-meaning-of-technical-debt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>travisjungroth</author><text>&gt; Weird phrases that we often mock, such as &quot;action item&quot;, or &quot;circling back&quot;, are actually highly efficient vectors of meaning. They fit non trivial concepts in very few words, and are understood by everybody.<p>I hold the opposite belief. Management speak is meant to obfuscate. Instead of just telling a report who disagrees with your decision based on expected outcome to think the way you tell them to, just say &quot;think outside of the box&quot;. When you commit to &quot;circling back&quot;, you&#x27;re committing to nothing but having this idea cross the manager&#x27;s mind at some point in the future.<p>It&#x27;s weird that this is the conclusion the author came to from their linked article, considering this is in it:<p>&gt; This is why you might be tempted to use the readily accessible management metaphor laced language which you’re familiar with. Don’t.<p>&quot;Technical Debt&quot; is this level of crummy metaphor. I love Cunningham&#x27;s original definition. Do your best to model the business problem with the understanding you have. Later, pay down that debt by refactoring.<p>That&#x27;s not what it means anymore. Tech debt means whatever the speaker wants it to mean. It&#x27;s a get out of jail free card for any bad software choice.<p>&quot;That choice will severely limit our capabilities in the future, and be incredibly hard to change.&quot;<p>&quot;I&#x27;m willing to take on some tech debt to prioritize shipping.&quot;<p>See? No need to think.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snarf21</author><text>I agree with you but I think there is something to the business side. No Sales&#x2F;PjM&#x2F;Manager&#x2F;CFO is likely to want to spend 3 months of resources on non-revenue generating updates. They would rather pay the fiddler when the system has a failure. Just like us humans, people don&#x27;t change their diet and exercise until <i>AFTER</i> the heart attack.</text></comment> |
3,037,381 | 3,037,318 | 1 | 2 | 3,037,250 | train | <story><title>Netflix Secures Streaming Deal With DreamWorks</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/business/media/netflix-secures-streaming-deal-with-dreamworks.html?_r=1&hp</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stephenjudkins</author><text>While I'm rooting for Netflix to succeed in the short term, I have doubts about its long-term viability. Currently, in the media-delivery industry, Netflix is elbowing out the un-innovative rent-extracting cable TV industry, which is unequivocally a good thing. Delivering better choices for lower prices, while consigning cable companies to delivering commodity broadband access can only help consumers.<p>In the longer term, however, I fail to see how Netflix can avoid having its product turn into a commodity. Delivery of digital video to consumers will only continue to get cheaper and easier. Obviously Netflix has gotten amazing deals on bandwidth (see their recent spat with Comcast) but other the prices it pays will only continue to converge with the prices for commodity CDNs.<p>The only major part of Netflix's business that's resistant to commoditization is having a huge base of subscribers that allows them to cut deals directly with studios like Dreamworks. Obviously Netflix is trying to position itself as a cheaper, better middleman between consumers and content producers than the combination of cable channels and cable companies. This could be very attractive to studios in the medium-term, but ultimately why not cut out the middleman? When (not if) quick, flexible, and easy online payment comes to the internet, what's stopping Dreamworks from simply charging and delivering the movie to consumers directly?</text></comment> | <story><title>Netflix Secures Streaming Deal With DreamWorks</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/business/media/netflix-secures-streaming-deal-with-dreamworks.html?_r=1&hp</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kloncks</author><text><i>Netflix will begin streaming DreamWorks films starting in 2013.</i><p>Lovely. See you in two years.</text></comment> |
40,327,353 | 40,327,338 | 1 | 2 | 40,315,686 | train | <story><title>So We've Got a Memory Leak</title><url>https://stevenharman.net/so-we-have-a-memory-leak</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavlov</author><text>Never calling free() is a valid memory management strategy if you know your process lifetime exactly.</text></item><item><author>DonHopkins</author><text>&quot;I&#x27;m not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say &#x27;Yeah it works but you&#x27;re leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that.&#x27; I’ll just restart Apache every 10 requests.&quot; -Rasmus Lerdorf, PHP Non-Designer<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikiquote.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rasmus_Lerdorf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikiquote.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rasmus_Lerdorf</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iveqy</author><text>Git is actually using that approach which means that libgit is pretty useless to embed, which noone does anyway since it&#x27;s GPL and everyone instead uses libgit2.</text></comment> | <story><title>So We've Got a Memory Leak</title><url>https://stevenharman.net/so-we-have-a-memory-leak</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavlov</author><text>Never calling free() is a valid memory management strategy if you know your process lifetime exactly.</text></item><item><author>DonHopkins</author><text>&quot;I&#x27;m not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say &#x27;Yeah it works but you&#x27;re leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that.&#x27; I’ll just restart Apache every 10 requests.&quot; -Rasmus Lerdorf, PHP Non-Designer<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikiquote.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rasmus_Lerdorf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikiquote.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rasmus_Lerdorf</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rwmj</author><text>I tried to do this in a real program once. The program only ever runs for a fraction of a second and then exits, so it seemed like a good candidate. Unfortunately what happened after is that our company started running tools like Coverity which complained about leaked memory. The path of least resistance was to fix that by adding free()&#x27;s everywhere.</text></comment> |
28,707,285 | 28,707,323 | 1 | 3 | 28,706,404 | train | <story><title>Klimaticket: All public transport in Austria with a single ticket for 1095 EUR/y</title><url>https://www.klimaticket.at/en/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quadrifoliate</author><text>Next stop: Just make public transport free for all reasonably permanent residents (for example, you could get a free ticket for next year when you file your taxes).<p>Anyone who rides public transport instead of expensive and polluting cars is doing a service for the environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sokoloff</author><text>If you go that far, why stop there? What&#x27;s the reason to have all the expenses and effort of fare collection if you&#x27;re only going to collect fares from the occasional users of the system and not the daily users?<p>If you&#x27;re going to make it free for all residents, you might as well just make it free for everyone.</text></comment> | <story><title>Klimaticket: All public transport in Austria with a single ticket for 1095 EUR/y</title><url>https://www.klimaticket.at/en/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quadrifoliate</author><text>Next stop: Just make public transport free for all reasonably permanent residents (for example, you could get a free ticket for next year when you file your taxes).<p>Anyone who rides public transport instead of expensive and polluting cars is doing a service for the environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bakuninsbart</author><text>Here in Berlin the idea floating around is to make yearly tickets very cheap (365€), while keeping prices for single travel (2.80€) or daily tickets (9.50€) more expensive. That&#x27;s probably the easiest, least bureaucratic route to go.<p>For poorer households, the yearly ticket will still be subsidized, but the public transport companies (fully owned by the state) will still have direct income to maintain a corporate-like structure.</text></comment> |
9,145,932 | 9,145,612 | 1 | 2 | 9,145,007 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app</title><url>http://www.ghostnoteapp.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ThomPete</author><text>Also a humble request.<p>I literally went through 3 developers and too much money until I was so luck to find @jimmyhoughjr.<p>Jimmys primary expertise is iOS but I convinced him to help me out on this project for the money I could afford.<p>Jimmy could use some freelance work as he has been out of work for while now (and live in the mid-west).<p>So if you need an extra hand on som iOS work don&#x27;t hesitate to connect with him. He is a really nice guy and he is one of the main reasons Ghostnote even is anything today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>captn3m0</author><text>Hi Thomas,<p>I remember discussing Ghostnote with you when you were designing mockups back in October last year. Thrilled to see it released.<p>Original mockup from october: <a href="http://000fff.org/uploads/24a818aa6352f1f8d4ad33bf3e90145bb1ec71aa3e.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;000fff.org&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;24a818aa6352f1f8d4ad33bf3e90145bb1...</a><p>Chat on #weekendhacker about the mockup: <a href="https://botbot.me/freenode/weekendhacker/2014-10-17/?msg=23682070&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;botbot.me&#x2F;freenode&#x2F;weekendhacker&#x2F;2014-10-17&#x2F;?msg=236...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app</title><url>http://www.ghostnoteapp.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ThomPete</author><text>Also a humble request.<p>I literally went through 3 developers and too much money until I was so luck to find @jimmyhoughjr.<p>Jimmys primary expertise is iOS but I convinced him to help me out on this project for the money I could afford.<p>Jimmy could use some freelance work as he has been out of work for while now (and live in the mid-west).<p>So if you need an extra hand on som iOS work don&#x27;t hesitate to connect with him. He is a really nice guy and he is one of the main reasons Ghostnote even is anything today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>txu</author><text>Congratulations! May I ask how did you reach out to developers and how long did the project take. I assume you designed it? Thanks! :-)</text></comment> |
5,692,941 | 5,692,835 | 1 | 2 | 5,692,605 | train | <story><title>The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition)</title><url>http://www.stroustrup.com/4th.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>girvo</author><text>I've recently started learning C++ again to get into game programming. Initially I was learning Flash/AS3 based engines, as I used to be quite a great AS2 programmer back in the day.<p>I want to learn to create cross-platform games, but want to get in the guts a bit more than, say, Unity lets you. So, C++ is what I decided on.<p>It's a beast of a language, I'll tell you that much, but it's actually really quite enjoyable to program in! It was the first real language I tried to learn when I was 12 years old. I got as far as making a text game with `switch' statements ;)<p>Definitely going to order this one I think. Coming from an ALGOL-derived language background for the most part, having something like this as a reference will be brilliant, and a good addition to go with my `Pro C++' book (handles architecture and idioms more than the language itself per se, but does cover some advanced features).<p>The only thing I wish I could find was a reference on how games are actually _built_: what development patterns, what tools I'll need to write, etc. All I can find are low-level OpenGL based things for writing engines, or fluffy "Design a Game!" crap. *sigh</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hdivider</author><text>I'm a short while away from releasing a game made in C++/DirectX for Windows 8 (using the DirectXTK helpers and obvious APIs like XAudio2) - i.e. mostly 'from scratch,' more or less.<p>And I have to say - yeah, you definitely learn a <i>lot</i> from that kind of project, not least because you have to constantly bear the rather large technical overhead. And that learning certainly feels great. =)<p>However, I also have to say this: while the sheer power of the 'raw' C++/DirectX combo is enormous in terms of what games you could potentially make, the fact that even basic ideas take a comparatively long time to prototype is something that I think acts as a substantial disadvantage when it comes to the actual business side of things.<p>I think a lot of really interesting, innovative ideas for game mechanics (or game atmosphere or feedback or other critical and somewhat subjective aspects of game development) don't require the full horsepower (performance or flexibility-wise) of the raw C++/(DirectX || whatever) approach. A few basic ideas (which you don't have to realise from scratch) can combine to give unexpected results, some of which could be really interesting. Maybe it's like spanning a 2D vector space with a linear combination of just two different vectors.<p>(This might link in nicely with what Daniel Cook means by 'finite infinity' in his talk on game design [1].)<p>Just something to think about. =)<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7DFuXDN29M&#38;list=PL1A42B4BE1438E290" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7DFuXDN29M&#38;list=PL1A42B4...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition)</title><url>http://www.stroustrup.com/4th.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>girvo</author><text>I've recently started learning C++ again to get into game programming. Initially I was learning Flash/AS3 based engines, as I used to be quite a great AS2 programmer back in the day.<p>I want to learn to create cross-platform games, but want to get in the guts a bit more than, say, Unity lets you. So, C++ is what I decided on.<p>It's a beast of a language, I'll tell you that much, but it's actually really quite enjoyable to program in! It was the first real language I tried to learn when I was 12 years old. I got as far as making a text game with `switch' statements ;)<p>Definitely going to order this one I think. Coming from an ALGOL-derived language background for the most part, having something like this as a reference will be brilliant, and a good addition to go with my `Pro C++' book (handles architecture and idioms more than the language itself per se, but does cover some advanced features).<p>The only thing I wish I could find was a reference on how games are actually _built_: what development patterns, what tools I'll need to write, etc. All I can find are low-level OpenGL based things for writing engines, or fluffy "Design a Game!" crap. *sigh</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mkilling</author><text>Game Coding Complete: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Game-Coding-Complete-Fourth-ebook/dp/B00B7RE4GQ/" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Game-Coding-Complete-Fourth-ebook/dp/B...</a></text></comment> |
23,286,635 | 23,286,383 | 1 | 2 | 23,285,249 | train | <story><title>Jepsen Disputes MongoDB's Data Consistency Claims</title><url>https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/05/Jepsen-MongoDB-4-2-6/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thomascgalvin</author><text>You can tell a lot about a developer by their preferred database.<p>* Mongo: I like things easy, even if easy is dangerous. I probably write Javascript exclusively<p>* MySQL: I don&#x27;t like to rock the boat, and MySQL is available everywhere<p>* PostgreSQL: I&#x27;m not afraid of the command line<p>* H2: My company can&#x27;t afford a database admin, so I embedded the database in our application (I have actually done this)<p>* SQLite: I&#x27;m either using SQLite as my app&#x27;s file format, writing a smartphone app, or about to realize the difference between load-in-test and load-in-production<p>* RabbitMQ: I don&#x27;t know what a database is<p>* Redis: I got tired of optimizing SQL queries<p>* Oracle: I&#x27;m being paid to sell you Oracle</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ceocoder</author><text>This might be a stupid question, but surely no one thinks of RabbigMQ as a <i>database</i> right? I’ve used it from 2012 to 2018 extensively, including using things like shovels to build hub spoke topologies, however not once did I think of it as anything but a message broker.<p>Did I miss something huge?</text></comment> | <story><title>Jepsen Disputes MongoDB's Data Consistency Claims</title><url>https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/05/Jepsen-MongoDB-4-2-6/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thomascgalvin</author><text>You can tell a lot about a developer by their preferred database.<p>* Mongo: I like things easy, even if easy is dangerous. I probably write Javascript exclusively<p>* MySQL: I don&#x27;t like to rock the boat, and MySQL is available everywhere<p>* PostgreSQL: I&#x27;m not afraid of the command line<p>* H2: My company can&#x27;t afford a database admin, so I embedded the database in our application (I have actually done this)<p>* SQLite: I&#x27;m either using SQLite as my app&#x27;s file format, writing a smartphone app, or about to realize the difference between load-in-test and load-in-production<p>* RabbitMQ: I don&#x27;t know what a database is<p>* Redis: I got tired of optimizing SQL queries<p>* Oracle: I&#x27;m being paid to sell you Oracle</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1123581321</author><text>As someone who chose MySQL and provides direction to developers who really like Postgres, and who also uses Postgres for fun, I do find myself having to both defend MySQL as a prudent option and convince them that I know anything at all about Postgres or computer science. :)</text></comment> |
8,768,694 | 8,768,252 | 1 | 2 | 8,767,203 | train | <story><title>EFF in Court to Argue NSA Collection from Internet Backbone Is Unconstitutional</title><url>https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-court-argue-nsa-data-collection-internet-backbone-unconstitutional</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fluidcruft</author><text>&gt; the 4th Amendment clearly talks about searches and <i>seizures</i><p>Not to nitpick, but how exactly is making a copy of something a seizure?</text></item><item><author>higherpurpose</author><text>Also, just because there isn&#x27;t a &quot;human&quot; that does the search manually, doesn&#x27;t mean the human doesn&#x27;t <i>benefit</i> from the search (exactly as if he would if he did the search himself).<p>And another thing: the 4th Amendment clearly talks about searches and <i>seizures</i>, so saying &quot;we&#x27;re only collecting it, but not searching it&quot; shouldn&#x27;t work as an excuse either.<p>EFF should also make a case for how searching into your online Facebook accounts, Google accounts, chat accounts and so on, is the &quot;searching through your home without a warrant and fishing for crimes of the 21st century&quot; - or something along those lines.<p>A third party may hold the data <i>for you</i>, but people think of those accounts as &quot;theirs&quot;, and they have <i>an expectation of privacy</i> for them. If you keep something in a bank deposit box, does the bank own your deposit box and everything in it? Or is that &quot;yours&quot;, and you expect nobody but you to access that? Right now, the government much prefers to go to these companies and just ask <i>them</i> for what you have in those accounts, because it&#x27;s so much easier for them to do that, than ask <i>you</i>. But I feel they are skirting an important right humans should be having here.<p>The &quot;physical&quot; protections seem to be so much better than the &quot;digital&quot; protections in the US law right now. It&#x27;s time to change that, and make it clear that digital protections should be <i>at least</i> as strong as the kind of protections we benefit from in the real world.<p>For example, it makes no sense for email to be considered under a much lower standard than real mail. They are both <i>exactly the same type of communication</i>. It&#x27;s just the medium that&#x27;s different, but that shouldn&#x27;t matter <i>at all</i>.</text></item><item><author>iandanforth</author><text>&quot;Under the government&#x27;s legal theory, it can copy virtually all Internet communications and then search them from top to bottom for specific &quot;identifiers&quot;—all without a warrant or individualized suspicion—as long as it does so quickly using only automated processes.&quot;<p>Love it. I hadn&#x27;t thought of it like that before. Just because your search is fast doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s not a search.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mhurron</author><text>The full text is:<p>&quot;The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.&quot;<p>A plain English interpretation would seem to make the NSA slurping illegal, but a legal interpretation could be completely different.</text></comment> | <story><title>EFF in Court to Argue NSA Collection from Internet Backbone Is Unconstitutional</title><url>https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-court-argue-nsa-data-collection-internet-backbone-unconstitutional</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fluidcruft</author><text>&gt; the 4th Amendment clearly talks about searches and <i>seizures</i><p>Not to nitpick, but how exactly is making a copy of something a seizure?</text></item><item><author>higherpurpose</author><text>Also, just because there isn&#x27;t a &quot;human&quot; that does the search manually, doesn&#x27;t mean the human doesn&#x27;t <i>benefit</i> from the search (exactly as if he would if he did the search himself).<p>And another thing: the 4th Amendment clearly talks about searches and <i>seizures</i>, so saying &quot;we&#x27;re only collecting it, but not searching it&quot; shouldn&#x27;t work as an excuse either.<p>EFF should also make a case for how searching into your online Facebook accounts, Google accounts, chat accounts and so on, is the &quot;searching through your home without a warrant and fishing for crimes of the 21st century&quot; - or something along those lines.<p>A third party may hold the data <i>for you</i>, but people think of those accounts as &quot;theirs&quot;, and they have <i>an expectation of privacy</i> for them. If you keep something in a bank deposit box, does the bank own your deposit box and everything in it? Or is that &quot;yours&quot;, and you expect nobody but you to access that? Right now, the government much prefers to go to these companies and just ask <i>them</i> for what you have in those accounts, because it&#x27;s so much easier for them to do that, than ask <i>you</i>. But I feel they are skirting an important right humans should be having here.<p>The &quot;physical&quot; protections seem to be so much better than the &quot;digital&quot; protections in the US law right now. It&#x27;s time to change that, and make it clear that digital protections should be <i>at least</i> as strong as the kind of protections we benefit from in the real world.<p>For example, it makes no sense for email to be considered under a much lower standard than real mail. They are both <i>exactly the same type of communication</i>. It&#x27;s just the medium that&#x27;s different, but that shouldn&#x27;t matter <i>at all</i>.</text></item><item><author>iandanforth</author><text>&quot;Under the government&#x27;s legal theory, it can copy virtually all Internet communications and then search them from top to bottom for specific &quot;identifiers&quot;—all without a warrant or individualized suspicion—as long as it does so quickly using only automated processes.&quot;<p>Love it. I hadn&#x27;t thought of it like that before. Just because your search is fast doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s not a search.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Laremere</author><text>There is a level of interpretation required here. The 4th amendment wasn&#x27;t written in an age where it was conceivable that information could be copied for free or intercepted without taking something from a carrier. What&#x27;s important is the intent of the protections. NSA has decided to interpret these wordings in a way which lets them intercept and copy communications, and it&#x27;s the job of the courts to interpret the constitution and tell them that they aren&#x27;t allowed to do that.</text></comment> |
28,767,192 | 28,763,576 | 1 | 3 | 28,761,294 | train | <story><title> Facebook Whistleblower Leaks Thousands of Pages of Incriminating Internal Docs</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/10/04/1042921981/facebook-whistleblower-renewing-scrutiny-of-social-media-giant</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ozzythecat</author><text>I don’t personally use FB and don’t have a very favorable view of their products.<p>I would, however, like to see the same level scrutiny applied to the general American media, especially the news media. FB has come in and started eating their lunch. There’s a deeper problem here, and it feels more like the powers that he want to take down FB.<p>I’m not denying any allegation made against FB, but why is it that Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, and Hollywood get a pass when they’ve been damaging America for much longer than FB has existed?<p>If the government sees a problem and wants to get involved - great. But let’s hold an equal bar.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gorwell</author><text>I agree, and further it smacks of Manufactured Consent. First, notice the surge in specifically anti-facebook stories over the past month.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=pastMonth&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;query=facebook&amp;sort=byPopularity&amp;type=story" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=pastMonth&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=fa...</a><p>While twitter and the corporate media are largely absent from the same scrutiny, as you note. They are just as responsible for eroding democratic norms, eroding trust and whipping up the public into a frothing, misinformed rage.<p>Now this culminates with an impeccably credentialed, rich, Harvard elite `whistleblower` who is largely repeating what we&#x27;ve long known? And who just started a twitter account and web site while on a whirlwind tour. And who is roundly supported by the corporate media and government. This doesn&#x27;t strike me as speaking truth to power. It&#x27;s the opposite.<p>Contrast with Snowden, who came out with new revelations and knowingly took on a great amount of risk to do so. There was no anti-NSA media surge leading up to his appearance. He was not embraced by the ruling class. Rather he infuriated them. That is speaking truth to power.<p>What we are seeing is the ruling class desperately trying to reassert control over the flow of information. Using facebook as a mechanism to take back control is smart, clearly. Both sides of the aisle want to regulate them. Mark is not a sympathetic character. People want to see a powerful corporation and CEO finally get more than a slap on the wrist. We thirst for a hanging. It appears they are going to give it to us, but I fear we will regret it in the end. As the response will reach far beyond the walls of facebook.<p>To understand the dynamic we are seeing play out, the book `Revolt of the Public` is worth reading.<p>“All over the world, elite institutions from governments to media to academia are losing their authority and monopoly control of information to dynamic amateurs and the broader public. This book, until now only in samizdat (and Kindle) form, has been my #1 handout for the last several years to anyone seeking to understand this unfolding shift in power from hierarchies to networks in the age of the Internet.” --Marc Andreessen<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Revolt-Public-Crisis-Authority-Millennium&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1732265143" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Revolt-Public-Crisis-Authority-Millen...</a></text></comment> | <story><title> Facebook Whistleblower Leaks Thousands of Pages of Incriminating Internal Docs</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/10/04/1042921981/facebook-whistleblower-renewing-scrutiny-of-social-media-giant</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ozzythecat</author><text>I don’t personally use FB and don’t have a very favorable view of their products.<p>I would, however, like to see the same level scrutiny applied to the general American media, especially the news media. FB has come in and started eating their lunch. There’s a deeper problem here, and it feels more like the powers that he want to take down FB.<p>I’m not denying any allegation made against FB, but why is it that Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, and Hollywood get a pass when they’ve been damaging America for much longer than FB has existed?<p>If the government sees a problem and wants to get involved - great. But let’s hold an equal bar.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philwelch</author><text>The elephant in the room here is the First Amendment. The government, legally, cannot do anything to censor &quot;hate speech&quot; or &quot;misinformation&quot; on CNN or Fox News. They also can&#x27;t do anything to censor &quot;hate speech&quot; or &quot;misinformation&quot; on Facebook, but they can certainly harass Facebook into doing it for them.</text></comment> |
22,648,302 | 22,648,315 | 1 | 3 | 22,646,358 | train | <story><title>Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management</title><url>https://grocy.info/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>six2seven</author><text>This is exactly what I needed and was thinking about building a similar app. But to be really useful and automated, there&#x27;s a bit long way I&#x27;m afraid. The biggest deal breaker is the time spend for the data entry and updates, leaving a pen-and-paper &#x2F; notes solution still the most easy to use and just visiting local groceries and shops. I was collecting receipts and playing a bit with scanning of these, but the amount of noise in the data and inconsistencies between shops were a bit pushing away (unless you want to dedicate time cleaning the data and training own tailored information extraction models).<p>One of the options to solve the data entry could be:
- good quality automatic scanning of receipts (not only individual barcodes) from shops using OCR possibly supported with image recognition for double-checking (can happen that products will be mis-labelled or without quantities, etc)
- when ordering on-line, the receipt should be available, so should be also much easier
Yet, not always one will have a meaningful receipt available...<p>Solved the data entry and being able to predict own&#x27;s supply needs would be also great to have a up-to date management of the inventory. Here are even more challenges on the tracking of the available goods at home, where these are and how many items (and in what state, expiration date, etc) would require most probably implementing different solutions from IoT (connected cameras, sensors, etc.).<p>Then, having a connected home with own groceries supplies under control, one can then automate further the shopping process with feeding-back the information about own&#x27;s demand to on-line groceries one is subscribed to. This can enable customer subscription plans, and for retailer keeping a possible continuous flow of goods. This could be really really useful especially for upcoming months, when it seems like we are expected to spend a bit more time at home rather than usual, hopefully not fighting in the local shops for the last rolls of the new white paper gold.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chipperyman573</author><text>If you shop at walmart, there is an option to add a receipt to your account by scanning the barcode in the app (or it shows up by itself when you use walmart pay). These can be retrieved online from anywhere (not just the app) and is how I do it, way easier than you think. It basically comes down to<p>$(&quot;.icon-button-children&quot;).each((index, item) =&gt; ($(item).click())) &#x2F;&#x2F; expand all items<p>$(&quot;.LinesEllipsis &quot;).each((index, item) =&gt; console.log(item.innerText)) &#x2F;&#x2F; record the stuff<p>on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.walmart.com&#x2F;account" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.walmart.com&#x2F;account</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management</title><url>https://grocy.info/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>six2seven</author><text>This is exactly what I needed and was thinking about building a similar app. But to be really useful and automated, there&#x27;s a bit long way I&#x27;m afraid. The biggest deal breaker is the time spend for the data entry and updates, leaving a pen-and-paper &#x2F; notes solution still the most easy to use and just visiting local groceries and shops. I was collecting receipts and playing a bit with scanning of these, but the amount of noise in the data and inconsistencies between shops were a bit pushing away (unless you want to dedicate time cleaning the data and training own tailored information extraction models).<p>One of the options to solve the data entry could be:
- good quality automatic scanning of receipts (not only individual barcodes) from shops using OCR possibly supported with image recognition for double-checking (can happen that products will be mis-labelled or without quantities, etc)
- when ordering on-line, the receipt should be available, so should be also much easier
Yet, not always one will have a meaningful receipt available...<p>Solved the data entry and being able to predict own&#x27;s supply needs would be also great to have a up-to date management of the inventory. Here are even more challenges on the tracking of the available goods at home, where these are and how many items (and in what state, expiration date, etc) would require most probably implementing different solutions from IoT (connected cameras, sensors, etc.).<p>Then, having a connected home with own groceries supplies under control, one can then automate further the shopping process with feeding-back the information about own&#x27;s demand to on-line groceries one is subscribed to. This can enable customer subscription plans, and for retailer keeping a possible continuous flow of goods. This could be really really useful especially for upcoming months, when it seems like we are expected to spend a bit more time at home rather than usual, hopefully not fighting in the local shops for the last rolls of the new white paper gold.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bauerd</author><text>Re data entry: was thinking this through a lot recently.
Basically what I&#x27;d like to build requires either (1) product recognition vision like Google Lens offers, or (2) a barcode scanner <i>and</i> an extensive barcode product database. Both can be combined of course.<p>My solution would be to read frames from a smartphone&#x27;s camera until a barcode is detected. This can be achieved with eg Firebase ML, on-device. If a barcode database lookup gives a product, put it on the in&#x2F;out list. If not, send the frame to a product recognition vision service. This could be Google Cloud Vision AI, but they don&#x27;t give you access to their product set that backs Google Lens.<p>Finally, provide controls to adjust the number of items on the in&#x2F;out list<p>I thought about OCRing supermarket receipts too but these differ so greatly in layout etc. per country I figured it&#x27;s not the way to go<p>Edit: Problem you run into as not all of this can be done on-device is privacy concerns of coursem just my thoughts on what interface I&#x27;d like to have</text></comment> |
32,119,879 | 32,116,805 | 1 | 2 | 32,094,603 | train | <story><title>OpenDroneMap</title><url>https://www.opendronemap.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crysin</author><text>Wanted to share a personal project I&#x27;ve been working on using ODM.<p>I&#x27;m mostly on a weekly basis capturing the progress of my home as it is built. I have a DJI Mini 2 and using Dronelink to create the missions. I was originally using DJI Flight Planner + Litchi but it&#x27;s paths it was generating for the area I wanted to cover wasn&#x27;t great and it forced my gimble to look straight down, I&#x27;m sure Litchi may have let me adjust that somewhere but I couldn&#x27;t figure it out. I had 85% overlap but even with that, as the house started getting built ODM seemed to be unable to generate point cloud points for some of the walls thus resulting in large holes in the geometry. I switched to Dronelink which overall has been a much more user-friendly experience for the mission planning and it lets me control the gimbal angle. While my photo clarity isn&#x27;t as great as now, my drone doesn&#x27;t stop for each photo, having my camera angled slightly throughout the mission has greatly reduced the missing geometry in the outputted model. I&#x27;ve been very pleased with ODM thus far though the amount of settings in WebODM have been overwhelming and I&#x27;ve settled on just using the Default as it seems the best at giving me decent 3D geometry that is compressible in a GLTF format.<p>I&#x27;m working on a explorer to catalog the phases.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crysin.github.io&#x2F;new-construction-explorer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crysin.github.io&#x2F;new-construction-explorer&#x2F;</a><p>Any suggestions on better ways to improve the output are welcome.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenDroneMap</title><url>https://www.opendronemap.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smallerfish</author><text>Cool idea, which I&#x27;ve wanted to exist (so I&#x27;m glad it does). I have two suggestions for improving the site:<p>1) The huge list of software in the ecosystem is overwhelming. Bury it. The choice of picking the two alternative ways of running it at the top is fine, but that&#x27;s all the front page should have to say about software.<p>2) Critically, on the front page you need a quick demo or diagram showing how you get data into it. As a potential user, I really don&#x27;t care about the open ecosystem or joining a community (this is good content for a &quot;Developers&quot; tab) - instead I want to know how much effort it&#x27;s going to take me to capture the images and turn them into a cool map. What software does the drone need to run? Can you push video into ODM and get a map out, or do I need to preprocess those images? How far can I go with it, and how are those results achieved? Do I need to be a developer or can I be a semi-technical drone operator? FPV drones ok, or just DJI? Etc etc.</text></comment> |
15,055,589 | 15,055,588 | 1 | 2 | 15,054,903 | train | <story><title>Ethereum Proof of Stake FAQ</title><url>https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-FAQ</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xorcist</author><text>Ethereum was supposed to have every feature under the sun from the start, proof-of-stake perhaps being the second most hyped. (Turing completeness being the clear first, which is problematic given the halting theorem and all that, so it&#x27;s now rich statefullness instead.) And PoS is one of those ideas that most people looking at cryptocurrencies end up trying some variant of. PoW is obviously wasteful and it would be nice to improve on that. The problem is that it doesn&#x27;t have the same properties as PoW have, and that are hard to do without.<p>The problems are the basic ones, how to avoid colluding stakers, how to neuter the market for consumed stakes, how to deter chain splits. There is a constant flow of new coins that try various approaches, but the ones that have survived have all had to resort to some variant of checkpoints where a trusted third party decides on regular intervals which chain is valid. This has obvious implications for a supposedly trustless digital currency, where you don&#x27;t really need that complicated blockchain anymore.<p>This Ethereum PoS FAQ is much like other documentation from the Ethereum Foundation quite dense where most paragraphs introduce terms not seen elsewhere (economic finality? slashing? weak subjectivity?). If you want the interesting bit, the TL;DR, then skip to the part about weak subjectivity. Read it, and then read it again and bear in mind how other coins solved this problem.<p>Tell me I&#x27;m wrong, but I think this bit with the key part being that the node &quot;authenticate out of band&quot;, involve a certain third party with a Very Important Key. In which case the rest of the theory in the document doesn&#x27;t matter much, does it?</text></comment> | <story><title>Ethereum Proof of Stake FAQ</title><url>https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-FAQ</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>earlz</author><text>Just for an other-side perspective, people that enjoy this might enjoy my technical deep dive into PoSv3: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;earlz.net&#x2F;view&#x2F;2017&#x2F;07&#x2F;27&#x2F;1904&#x2F;the-missing-explanation-of-proof-of-stake-version" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;earlz.net&#x2F;view&#x2F;2017&#x2F;07&#x2F;27&#x2F;1904&#x2F;the-missing-explanatio...</a><p>It is a much older implementation that works on Bitcoin&#x27;s UTXO model (rather than the account model in Ethereum) and without smart contracts. It doesn&#x27;t have a solution to the nothing at stake long-term attack, but it thwarts all known short-term attacks. Personally, CASPER&#x27;s solution to the nothing at stake problem is concerning. In an ideal world, it is ideal, but in a more practical world, I can definitely foresee someone doing something wrong or making a mistake (either developer bugs, or consumer running two wallets, etc), unintentionally making a block on another chain, and losing their $1M worth of ETH as a result. It only takes that happening once, maybe twice, to get people to think twice about staking, and when less people are staking with less coins, the network is much easier to attack<p>(disclaimer: I work on a blockchain project that is somewhat a competitor to Ethereum)</text></comment> |
14,054,774 | 14,054,406 | 1 | 2 | 14,053,958 | train | <story><title>Twitter Sues Federal Government</title><url>https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3538047-Twitter-Complaint.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RangerScience</author><text>Okay, what seems to be going on is:<p>a) DHS &#x2F; Customs &amp; Border Protection want to unmask the person(s) behind the @ALT_USCIS account<p>b) They want to use an unnamed &quot;investigatory tool&quot; to do this<p>c) Twitter does not want them to do this, on (extensive) 1st amendment grounds<p>d) Twitter says the Supreme Court is on their side on this issue<p>The lawsuit is to stop DHS &#x2F; CBP from using the tool.<p>The &quot;tool&quot; is a legal &quot;tool&quot; - an ability granted to the agencies to legally compel Twitter to do stuff.<p>The reasonable editorial is then that the Government wants to do this because they don&#x27;t like being criticized or contradicted by these ALT_* accounts, and Twitter wants the accounts to stay anonymous because the criticism is good (both in terms of quality and effect), and taking away that anonymity is all kinds of bad.<p>(I&#x27;m <i>totally</i> on Twitter&#x27;s side on this)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>an unnamed &quot;investigatory tool&quot; to do this</i><p>Paragraph 7 of the complaint identifies 19 U.S.C. § 1509 as &quot;the sole statutory authority CBP invoked in issuing the summons&quot; [1]. It appears to be a customs authority related to the &quot;examination of books and witnesses&quot; [2]. Sufficient to say, it&#x27;s a stupid overreach.<p>Side note: we need a fund that re-imburses private companies for challenging such orders. It could be managed by the ACLU, EFF, <i>et cetera</i>. What Twitter is doing, here, is public service.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.documentcloud.org&#x2F;documents&#x2F;3538047-Twitter-Complaint.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.documentcloud.org&#x2F;documents&#x2F;3538047-Twitter-Comp...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;uscode&#x2F;text&#x2F;19&#x2F;1509" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;uscode&#x2F;text&#x2F;19&#x2F;1509</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter Sues Federal Government</title><url>https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3538047-Twitter-Complaint.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RangerScience</author><text>Okay, what seems to be going on is:<p>a) DHS &#x2F; Customs &amp; Border Protection want to unmask the person(s) behind the @ALT_USCIS account<p>b) They want to use an unnamed &quot;investigatory tool&quot; to do this<p>c) Twitter does not want them to do this, on (extensive) 1st amendment grounds<p>d) Twitter says the Supreme Court is on their side on this issue<p>The lawsuit is to stop DHS &#x2F; CBP from using the tool.<p>The &quot;tool&quot; is a legal &quot;tool&quot; - an ability granted to the agencies to legally compel Twitter to do stuff.<p>The reasonable editorial is then that the Government wants to do this because they don&#x27;t like being criticized or contradicted by these ALT_* accounts, and Twitter wants the accounts to stay anonymous because the criticism is good (both in terms of quality and effect), and taking away that anonymity is all kinds of bad.<p>(I&#x27;m <i>totally</i> on Twitter&#x27;s side on this)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jach</author><text>On c), not just 1st amendment grounds. That&#x27;s their secondary complaint. Their primary complaint is that the summons invoked a nonsensical justification, related to merchandise imports, for its lawful authority to make such a summons. This one: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;uscode&#x2F;text&#x2F;19&#x2F;1509" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;uscode&#x2F;text&#x2F;19&#x2F;1509</a></text></comment> |
6,130,821 | 6,128,876 | 1 | 3 | 6,128,343 | train | <story><title>Student says he was unwitting drug mule, sues Ford</title><url>http://news.msn.com/us/student-says-he-was-unwitting-drug-mule-sues-ford</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>At first I thought, how is this Ford&#x27;s fault? How is this any different from someone just picking the trunk lock?<p>But then I realized: Ford <i>actively provided</i> the car codes to a car they&#x27;d sold, to someone who wasn&#x27;t the owner, without the owner&#x27;s permission. This is no different from the locksmith who installed the lock to your house, giving someone else a copy of the key to your front door &quot;because they said they knew you&quot;.<p>Maybe Ford calculates that it&#x27;s easier to just give out the codes to people related to the dealers, for convenience, but that needs to factor in that they <i>should</i> be forced to pay heavy, heavy fines or restitution when bad things happen.<p>And even worse, imagine if someone were raped or killed because of Ford&#x27;s negligence concerning codes. People&#x27;s security in their cars is a serious thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Student says he was unwitting drug mule, sues Ford</title><url>http://news.msn.com/us/student-says-he-was-unwitting-drug-mule-sues-ford</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gpcz</author><text>As implied in Cory Doctorow&#x27;s &quot;The coming war on general-purpose computation,&quot; modern cars are really computers with an engine and wheels. This event has proven that computer security breaches in cars can have real-world legal consequences for citizens. As a result, there may be a market in a hardening&#x2F;privacy guide for new cars, similar to the kind sysadmins use to harden Internet-facing servers. Alongside your standard hacker-types, a guide like this probably has a market in survivalist&#x2F;conspiracy circles.<p>The guide could explain how to change the code in the car&#x27;s alarm transmitter as well as how to remove devices with privacy implications like OnStar.</text></comment> |
31,348,557 | 31,348,578 | 1 | 2 | 31,347,983 | train | <story><title>Cryptocurreny retailer BitPrime closes trading after running out of money</title><url>https://www.bitprime.co.nz/important-notice-for-all-customers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>soared</author><text>Would someone mind calming me by explaining why this is not a huge red flag, this isn’t the beginning of the end, and a theoretical crypto crash won’t throw the market into turmoil (or why the current market turmoil ain’t so bad)?<p>I don’t have any kids to feed, just young dumb and tired of market crashes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woah</author><text>This is some random startup nobody has heard of. HN likes to work themselves into a froth over every scrap of bad crypto news, but this is utterly insignificant. Crypto will continue to fluctuate wildly as it always has.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cryptocurreny retailer BitPrime closes trading after running out of money</title><url>https://www.bitprime.co.nz/important-notice-for-all-customers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>soared</author><text>Would someone mind calming me by explaining why this is not a huge red flag, this isn’t the beginning of the end, and a theoretical crypto crash won’t throw the market into turmoil (or why the current market turmoil ain’t so bad)?<p>I don’t have any kids to feed, just young dumb and tired of market crashes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atleta</author><text>I&#x27;m not positive on crypto in general, but they seem to have run of of their own money (capital) and not their customers&#x27; money. I.e. they didn&#x27;t lose their customers&#x27; coins. Actually, it seems that they have never held them anyway. So it&#x27;s not like a bank crash.<p>The service seems to have been making it possible for people to sell their coins directly to one another. (Crypto exchanges hold your crypto and don&#x27;t do an actual transaction through the block chain until you withdraw what you have. Though they could still guarantee not losing your coins if they go bankrupt...)<p>This is what they said about it:<p>&gt; Are my funds safe?<p>&gt; We don’t hold customer funds – at the time of the trade, we send the cryptocurrency directly to your wallet. If you need to execute a trade at this time, other platforms can facilitate this.</text></comment> |
39,243,920 | 39,242,979 | 1 | 2 | 39,240,205 | train | <story><title>Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/31/microsoft_seeks_rust_developers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>godzillabrennus</author><text>Seems like RUST needs work to become easier to learn. Hard for a business to take a risk on using it (outside of a use case absolutely needing a memory safe language) if the talent pool is shallow.</text></item><item><author>diego_moita</author><text>Agree, I am still looking for a Rust position, although I have more than 3 years of experience with it.<p>And yes, it is very hard.<p>It seems Rust is in a chicken&#x2F;egg position: employers avoid it because &quot;there are few developers&quot;, developers avoid it because &quot;there are few jobs&quot;.<p>Until recently the majority of Rust jobs were blockchain stuff. Now I see a rise in network infrastructure and security.</text></item><item><author>mmastrac</author><text>I love writing Rust, but I was really surprised by how difficult it was to find a job _actually_ writing Rust.<p>I&#x27;m happy to see the increased activity in the space, but searching for a job in Rust is probably still 10x harder than C or C++.<p>It worked out in the end, and I&#x27;m happy to be getting paid to be writing Rust every day, but I hope that the market for Rust jobs continues to grow -- ideally even faster than it has been.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unclad5968</author><text>I don&#x27;t care that it&#x27;s hard to learn. What turns me off rust is that if I ever make a change that requires a lifetime annotation, I now have to go back through all my code potentially adding lifetime annotations to everything it touches.<p>I was making a little toy compiler in rust and basically gave up when I wanted to make a change that would have amount to string -&gt; string_view in c++ because in rust I now need to tell the compiler that the String to my &amp;String is going to outlive the struct. Now I understand why it&#x27;s good but Id rather just let c++ blow my feet off. Maybe once I nail down all the data structures I&#x27;ll rewrite it in rust.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/31/microsoft_seeks_rust_developers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>godzillabrennus</author><text>Seems like RUST needs work to become easier to learn. Hard for a business to take a risk on using it (outside of a use case absolutely needing a memory safe language) if the talent pool is shallow.</text></item><item><author>diego_moita</author><text>Agree, I am still looking for a Rust position, although I have more than 3 years of experience with it.<p>And yes, it is very hard.<p>It seems Rust is in a chicken&#x2F;egg position: employers avoid it because &quot;there are few developers&quot;, developers avoid it because &quot;there are few jobs&quot;.<p>Until recently the majority of Rust jobs were blockchain stuff. Now I see a rise in network infrastructure and security.</text></item><item><author>mmastrac</author><text>I love writing Rust, but I was really surprised by how difficult it was to find a job _actually_ writing Rust.<p>I&#x27;m happy to see the increased activity in the space, but searching for a job in Rust is probably still 10x harder than C or C++.<p>It worked out in the end, and I&#x27;m happy to be getting paid to be writing Rust every day, but I hope that the market for Rust jobs continues to grow -- ideally even faster than it has been.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wredue</author><text>Honestly. Rust is not all that “difficult”. There’s just SO MUCH that you MUST know to be effective.<p>You need to know all of the rustisms. Plus you need to have a general knowledge of memory. You need to understand how memory is being abstracted and how to work within those constraints so as not to be slow. You need to know all of the monads, what they mean, why each exists, what the nuance is, and why you might use one over another in a specific situation.<p>It’s not difficult so much as it just takes so much time and challenging-yourself practice to try to memorize everything.<p>A “being effective at rust” book would probably dwarf a “being effective at C++” book in pages assuming similar prose. And we all know how much of a beast C++ is.</text></comment> |
27,373,768 | 27,372,853 | 1 | 2 | 27,370,026 | train | <story><title>Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/software-developer-community-stack-overflow-sold-to-tech-giant-prosus-for-1-8-billion-11622648400</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skeeter2020</author><text>&gt;&gt; The entire company is staying in place: we just have different owners now.<p>I&#x27;ve been a part of a couple of these. This statement is somewhere on the spectrum of absolutely naive to willfully disingenuous.<p>&quot;Someone just paid 2 billion dollars to buy us, but they&#x27;re not going to change anything, exert any influence or expect payback beyond what we&#x27;ve already been doing.&quot;</text></item><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>I dunno. Reddit seems like an example of a successful acquisition. Conde Nast managed not to destroy Reddit after buying it.<p>But I agree with you overall. I&#x27;m a bit nervous too. Stack Overflow is so good, and its fate is now entirely in the hands of the purchaser.<p>EDIT: In the other announcement post (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;02&#x2F;kinda-a-big-announcement&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;02&#x2F;kinda-a-big-announ...</a>):<p><i>Today we’re pleased to announce that Stack Overflow is joining Prosus. Prosus is an investment and holding company, which means that the most important part of this announcement is that Stack Overflow will continue to operate independently, with the exact same team in place that has been operating it, according to the exact same plan and the exact same business practices. Don’t expect to see major changes or awkward “synergies”. The business of Stack Overflow will continue to focus on Reach and Relevance, and Stack Overflow for Teams. The entire company is staying in place: we just have different owners now.</i><p>I wonder how true this will be over time.</text></item><item><author>ddingus</author><text>While I&#x27;m happy for the people who made a lot of money in this transaction, I always read these announcements with a bit of angst.<p>From a user point of view, I expect this to go like Reddit has, for example. Everyone building that value saw high use value, returns on their investment in the form of information they need, lean, easy to find, high signal to noise.<p>Now there is a debt to be paid. The new owner needs to extract the purchase price, and whatever additional additional returns they intend. Everything costs something.<p>So what will it be?<p>Subscription access?<p>Less favorable signal to noise?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xenadu02</author><text>While somewhat rare there are holding companies like Jonas Software that buy lots of smaller software companies in various markets then effectively let each subsidiary run without too much interference. Their philosophy seems to be own most or all of the competitors in a vertical market, sell the software for a reasonable (read: non-Oracle) price with ongoing maintenance, and collect the cash. I only know about them because a relative was Director of Engineering at the time they were acquired and is now CEO.<p>They don&#x27;t expect any massive changes in revenue with the companies they acquire. They&#x27;re willing to hire and invest in revamping&#x2F;improving their products. Their goal is stable revenue by making customers happy enough to keep paying the maintenance.<p>They seem to be doing OK with that business model.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/software-developer-community-stack-overflow-sold-to-tech-giant-prosus-for-1-8-billion-11622648400</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skeeter2020</author><text>&gt;&gt; The entire company is staying in place: we just have different owners now.<p>I&#x27;ve been a part of a couple of these. This statement is somewhere on the spectrum of absolutely naive to willfully disingenuous.<p>&quot;Someone just paid 2 billion dollars to buy us, but they&#x27;re not going to change anything, exert any influence or expect payback beyond what we&#x27;ve already been doing.&quot;</text></item><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>I dunno. Reddit seems like an example of a successful acquisition. Conde Nast managed not to destroy Reddit after buying it.<p>But I agree with you overall. I&#x27;m a bit nervous too. Stack Overflow is so good, and its fate is now entirely in the hands of the purchaser.<p>EDIT: In the other announcement post (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;02&#x2F;kinda-a-big-announcement&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;02&#x2F;kinda-a-big-announ...</a>):<p><i>Today we’re pleased to announce that Stack Overflow is joining Prosus. Prosus is an investment and holding company, which means that the most important part of this announcement is that Stack Overflow will continue to operate independently, with the exact same team in place that has been operating it, according to the exact same plan and the exact same business practices. Don’t expect to see major changes or awkward “synergies”. The business of Stack Overflow will continue to focus on Reach and Relevance, and Stack Overflow for Teams. The entire company is staying in place: we just have different owners now.</i><p>I wonder how true this will be over time.</text></item><item><author>ddingus</author><text>While I&#x27;m happy for the people who made a lot of money in this transaction, I always read these announcements with a bit of angst.<p>From a user point of view, I expect this to go like Reddit has, for example. Everyone building that value saw high use value, returns on their investment in the form of information they need, lean, easy to find, high signal to noise.<p>Now there is a debt to be paid. The new owner needs to extract the purchase price, and whatever additional additional returns they intend. Everything costs something.<p>So what will it be?<p>Subscription access?<p>Less favorable signal to noise?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spurgu</author><text>Naive indeed. I flew to meet a company we had just acquired and I personally promised them that nothing would change. Even though I believed it at the time of course it didn&#x27;t pan out that way and to this day I regret saying that.</text></comment> |
22,741,502 | 22,741,604 | 1 | 2 | 22,740,447 | train | <story><title>People are planting more vegetable gardens</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/27/822514756/fearing-shortages-people-are-planting-more-vegetable-gardens</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UncleOxidant</author><text>I&#x27;m not planting a garden because I fear shortages, I&#x27;m planting it so I don&#x27;t have to make as many trips to the store.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mywittyname</author><text>I do it because some things are wildly overpriced at the grocery. Like, there&#x27;s no use in planting cucumbers when they are $0.50 at the grocery. But fresh herbs are like $3 a bunch and berries can be $3-5 a lb, so it can make good financial sense to plant some of these.<p>An herb garden and planter will produce easily $100 worth of herbs over a season for nothing more than 20 minutes of planting, then regular watering and tending. I had so much basil last year that I literally ate it in salad.<p>Berry bushes can be a little more expensive, like $20-50. But they also yield crazy amounts of fruit over the season and grow in like 95% of the USA.<p>It&#x27;s a good investment, and it&#x27;s a nice way to get some out doors time everyday.</text></comment> | <story><title>People are planting more vegetable gardens</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/27/822514756/fearing-shortages-people-are-planting-more-vegetable-gardens</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UncleOxidant</author><text>I&#x27;m not planting a garden because I fear shortages, I&#x27;m planting it so I don&#x27;t have to make as many trips to the store.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dkhenry</author><text>I&#x27;m planting one because its the most relaxing and rewarding thing for me. Something about watching things slowly grow after tending to them for months is very rewarding. Also they don&#x27;t sell all the kinds of produce you can grow. Heirloom varietals taste so much better then the mass market kinds.</text></comment> |
2,715,683 | 2,715,674 | 1 | 3 | 2,715,521 | train | <story><title>The One Google Plus Feature Facebook Should Fear</title><url>http://www.allfacebook.com/the-one-google-plus-feature-facebook-should-fear-2011-06</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cryptoz</author><text>Am I being unrealistically impatient, or is the only feature that actually matters the feature that lets your friends sign up? Google+ is a ghost town for me right now and there's nothing I can do to change that.<p>It's very frustrating. I love the ideas in Google+ and want to use it, but I've got no ability to share or add friends.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ygor</author><text>I had the opposite reaction: At first only a couple of close friends were in my circles, and it felt like a true social site. Even though many of us are miles and miles apart, we were sharing, talking, hanging out and posting. All this without hundreds of relatives, coworkers, ex girlfriends silently watching us like some stalkers from the bushes.<p>It got even better once i realized that because of the way circles work, this kind of feeling might actually be preserved without much effort on my behalf.</text></comment> | <story><title>The One Google Plus Feature Facebook Should Fear</title><url>http://www.allfacebook.com/the-one-google-plus-feature-facebook-should-fear-2011-06</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cryptoz</author><text>Am I being unrealistically impatient, or is the only feature that actually matters the feature that lets your friends sign up? Google+ is a ghost town for me right now and there's nothing I can do to change that.<p>It's very frustrating. I love the ideas in Google+ and want to use it, but I've got no ability to share or add friends.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matwood</author><text>Looks like they are adding people in rounds. This morning I added some friends to circles trying to find out how to get them in then later in the morning all of them were added. I did the same thing again and it had appeared to stop working. Late this afternoon all of the additional people were added.<p>Basically add everyone you want to circles and make a post. They'll likely get through the invite within a day or less based on my current experience.</text></comment> |
18,723,654 | 18,721,587 | 1 | 3 | 18,720,850 | train | <story><title>For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter Public Domain</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/first-time-20-years-copyrighted-works-enter-public-domain-180971016/?preview</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yason</author><text>The sheer length of timespans involved in copyright make it very detached from the actual reality a lot of people grew up with.<p>A copyright of a few years would better reflect what has been going on in the daily life since 70&#x27;s-80&#x27;s. If you grew up then you would see films of only few years back on TV at which point you could tape them for yourself and your friends. Anything that was broadcast immediately became effectively free: there was always someone who had a copy you could borrow or copy yourself. This gave the industry a lot of time to milk revenues from the cinema and then home video until everyone had it from broadcasts.<p>With a few notable exceptions, I don&#x27;t see content from five years back making a huge cashflow, not to mention ten years. Thus copyright could be a paid privilege.<p>You would get the copyright for the first year for free. Then it would cost more each year to maintain the copyright for one more year. Let&#x27;s take a small percentage of the first year&#x27;s total sales for a given piece, make it the cost of copyright for the next year and for the following year, add the same percentage to the previous cost of copyright.<p>We would therefore effectively be taxing the practise of hoarding content under copyright.<p>At the same time income from the content would fall so the markets would reach a point where it would cost too much to keep the copyright in effect. The content business could make their own decisions per each piece of content. They would extend copyright on the most popular films and music while let go of the ones that don&#x27;t sell too well.<p>All this would benefit everyone and make the copyright monopoly vs people&#x27;s rights closer to a balance.</text></comment> | <story><title>For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter Public Domain</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/first-time-20-years-copyrighted-works-enter-public-domain-180971016/?preview</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cogman10</author><text>Here is what I see happening. Companies stop worrying about the copyright law. Why should they? With youtube they have effectively proved that they can shut down any video they like without any negative repercussions. And now that piracy is way down due to streaming services, what do they gain by maintaining their copyright?<p>We&#x27;ve extended copyright so long that there isn&#x27;t even a reason to extend it further. And now, the mechanisms to enforce copyright are so biased towards large corporations that, even without infringing, they can make your life a living hell if you cross them.<p>Don&#x27;t believe me? Look at just about any youtube content producer. Basically all of them have stories about their content being pulled because some mega corp hears them mention something that might be theirs.</text></comment> |
6,442,493 | 6,442,107 | 1 | 3 | 6,441,441 | train | <story><title>Alfred 2 Workflows</title><url>https://github.com/zenorocha/alfred-workflows</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Shank</author><text>I really wish that this could be ported to Windows or Linux. I haven&#x27;t heard much from the developer about that when asked; but it seems like a far fetched goal right now.<p>Does anyone have suggestions for Windows that aren&#x27;t Launchy (or, Launchy addons&#x2F;improvements to use)?</text></comment> | <story><title>Alfred 2 Workflows</title><url>https://github.com/zenorocha/alfred-workflows</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jimmcslim</author><text>Having originally been a Quicksilver user back in the day (ah.... Quicksilver) I jumped to Launchbar when QS started to become more and more unreliable (I&#x27;m aware that it has recently rearisen, like a phoenix, from the ashes).<p>But the workflow aspect of Alfred 2 is quite appealing, I should probably give it a shot for a while.</text></comment> |
20,058,388 | 20,058,400 | 1 | 2 | 20,054,831 | train | <story><title>Block Fingerprinting with Firefox</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/how-to-block-fingerprinting-with-firefox/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dessant</author><text>Google&#x27;s reCAPTCHA makes it impossible to use large portions of the web once you take reasonable measures to protect your privacy. The challenge will continuously fail, despite you spending time to carefully solve it. This cruel behavior is described in a patent [1] by Kyle Adams of Juniper Networks.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patents.google.com&#x2F;patent&#x2F;US9407661" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patents.google.com&#x2F;patent&#x2F;US9407661</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kabacha</author><text>Google&#x27;s reCAPTCHA is cancer upon the web. Everyone should enable fingerprint block to shut this invasive and abusive garbage.<p>If everyone would block it the website owners would have no choice other than to move to a different captcha system.</text></comment> | <story><title>Block Fingerprinting with Firefox</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/how-to-block-fingerprinting-with-firefox/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dessant</author><text>Google&#x27;s reCAPTCHA makes it impossible to use large portions of the web once you take reasonable measures to protect your privacy. The challenge will continuously fail, despite you spending time to carefully solve it. This cruel behavior is described in a patent [1] by Kyle Adams of Juniper Networks.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patents.google.com&#x2F;patent&#x2F;US9407661" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patents.google.com&#x2F;patent&#x2F;US9407661</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sebazzz</author><text>Remember that reCAPTCHA v1 used to be noble: reading books and converting them to text.<p>Now you&#x27;re just training many Google machine learning algorithms by classifying data. In which they get more useful for the consumer, thus more powerful.</text></comment> |
23,944,552 | 23,944,007 | 1 | 3 | 23,937,842 | train | <story><title>A few negative online reviews early on can hurt a restaurant</title><url>https://news.osu.edu/how-a-few-negative-online-reviews-early-on-can-hurt-a-restaurant/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cutenewt</author><text>There are so many fake or manipulated reviews across all sites -- Yelp, Amazon, Uber, eBay -- that I just don&#x27;t trust them anymore.<p>Unfortunately, we are addicted to having someone filter products and services for us, even if they are manipulated.<p>I&#x27;m dying for an alternative to the 5-star review, but seems like there&#x27;s no end in sight.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>&gt; Unfortunately, we are addicted to having someone filter products and services for us, even if they are manipulated.<p>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m addicted, I just don&#x27;t know what else to do. How would you recommend I evaluate a product or service before buying it, if I don&#x27;t personally know someone who can give a recommendation?<p>I do try to look at trusted professional review sites where possible (The Wirecutter, Consumer Reports, etc), but that only works for certain types of popular products.</text></comment> | <story><title>A few negative online reviews early on can hurt a restaurant</title><url>https://news.osu.edu/how-a-few-negative-online-reviews-early-on-can-hurt-a-restaurant/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cutenewt</author><text>There are so many fake or manipulated reviews across all sites -- Yelp, Amazon, Uber, eBay -- that I just don&#x27;t trust them anymore.<p>Unfortunately, we are addicted to having someone filter products and services for us, even if they are manipulated.<p>I&#x27;m dying for an alternative to the 5-star review, but seems like there&#x27;s no end in sight.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>superhuzza</author><text>&gt;I&#x27;m dying for an alternative to the 5-star review<p>Trusted source, e.g. particular friends&#x2F;family&#x2F;reviewers. I&#x27;ve had far better experiences trusting one knowledgeable person than 100s of anonymous reviewers.</text></comment> |
1,469,727 | 1,469,623 | 1 | 3 | 1,469,332 | train | <story><title>Review: $99 TonidoPlug Linux Home Server, NAS</title><url>http://paulstamatiou.com/review-99-tonidoplug-linux-home-server-nas</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CRASCH</author><text>It seems like they stretching the definition of cloud a bit.<p>What happened to the cloud, it is almost meaningless now. I should say it means everything, which has no meaning.<p>It is like the new version of Multi-Media. It has pictures and text so its Multi-Media.<p>I'm going to go play on my personal cloud Multi-Media gaming platform now.</text></comment> | <story><title>Review: $99 TonidoPlug Linux Home Server, NAS</title><url>http://paulstamatiou.com/review-99-tonidoplug-linux-home-server-nas</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adamsmith</author><text>I'll be doing cartwheels once someone gets ZFS working on this, so I can plug in a bunch of USB hard drives through a USB hub and share a pool over the network.<p>(In the mean time, I have a Dell box doing this for me, though it was hard to set up. It took hours of debugging to figure out that OpenSolaris would crash until I disabled the second core/SMP. Then, it took hours to find out that the network crashed randomly due to a driver bug, and to find the right hotpatch off a random forum thread.)</text></comment> |
36,587,083 | 36,587,264 | 1 | 3 | 36,586,262 | train | <story><title>Anti-ageing protein injection boosts monkeys’ memories</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02214-3</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yes_man</author><text>Regarding the immortality talk around the topic. I am not an expert and this is not an informed argument, but intuitively feels this whole ”anti-ageing by chemical cocktails” cannot be sustainable forever. There must be a price for injecting increasing quantities of proteins to the body to turn back the clock. Imagine a headline from 1893 about discovery of meth: ”Japanese scientists invent an injection that cures humans from the need to sleep”. It turns out there is a price for messing with the system.<p>So I do not believe any immortality of the human body by these synthetic interventions is possible. Kicking the can down the road certainly and would be nice to live healthy longer.</text></comment> | <story><title>Anti-ageing protein injection boosts monkeys’ memories</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02214-3</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oogabooga13</author><text>The best anti-ageing cure that works now might be an optimized diet, exercise, and sleep routine. No protein injections required!</text></comment> |
16,060,643 | 16,060,229 | 1 | 3 | 16,057,449 | train | <story><title>NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging morale, unpopular reorg</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-nsas-top-talent-is-leaving-because-of-low-pay-and-battered-morale/2018/01/02/ff19f0c6-ec04-11e7-9f92-10a2203f6c8d_story.html?utm_term=.0388eaf826c3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snowwrestler</author><text>It&#x27;s popular to say things like some government employees are &quot;folks who can&#x27;t hack it in civilian life,&quot; but there&#x27;s basically no evidence this is true.<p>First of all, let&#x27;s make sure we look at the full scope of civilian life with a sober eye. Anyone working the counter at your local Post Office could easily work the register at any grocery store in your town. And any medium to large company has plenty of internal politics. Don&#x27;t make the mistake of comparing the worst case of government to some idealized notion of private enterprise.<p>Second, take a look at what happens to people who do leave the government. Very often, their salaries go up in the private sector. This is especially true for specialists like the folks who work at the NSA. Seems like they can hack it.<p>Folks who have not worked for the government, or very close to it, have a hard time comprehending the fundamental differences between government and private enterprise. For one thing, when you work for the government, many rules of your job carry the force of law. Being too flexible might not just get you fired, it might get you prosecuted.<p>And there are <i>so many rules</i>. I&#x27;ll give you one example scenario: a person leaves their job, and a subordinate steps up, takes on their workload, and does great.<p>In a private company, you&#x27;d just promote the subordinate. You already know they can do the work, you retain institutional knowledge, and it&#x27;s easier to hire junior positions. Efficient and effective.<p>But in most federal agencies that would be illegal, as it might permit some form of corruption. The subordinate would have to keep doing the extra workload, while the supervisor requisitions a new position to replace the old one, and then runs a (highly regulated) open public application process. The subordinate can apply too, of course.<p>This is not because the supervisor is some terrible inflexible or dumb person. <i>The rules are just stricter and more burdensome in the government than in private enterprise.</i><p>Why? Because everyone loves to believe the worst about the government, so it&#x27;s easy to sell voters on the necessity of a shitload of burdensome rules.<p>So: if you want people to act smarter in the government, you have to give them permission to act smarter. Firing has little to do with it. You have to give people the opportunity to try things and make mistakes in good faith.</text></item><item><author>eadmund</author><text>The problem is that we can (and should!) raise government pay scales, but we must <i>also</i> make it easier to fire people (or manage them downwards) for incompetence. Government work is for two types of people (and there&#x27;s some overlap on the Euler diagram): patriots, and folks who can&#x27;t hack it in civilian life.<p>It&#x27;s not just a &#x27;perception of gov&#x27;t incompetence&#x27;: it&#x27;s a widespread phenomenon. Government employees tend to excel at working organisational politics (i.e., in serving their organisational customers) rather than in serving their taxpaying customers. Government work is a kind of kabuki theatre, in which everyone agrees to praise the emperor&#x27;s new clothes and ignore the boy who points out that he&#x27;s naked.<p>The unfortunate thing is that government work is really important: it <i>requires</i> the best and the brightest, not the lazy and the uninspired. Patriotism should of course be a <i>sine qua non</i> for the civil service, but so should excellence. We should pay market rates, but we should pay them for market quality.<p>Raising rates without working to improve quality would mean getting mutton when we pay for lamb.</text></item><item><author>smallnamespace</author><text>It seems like it&#x27;s pretty hard for the government to compete with private industry in compensation. Federal pay grades are capped by Congress, and the top grade is around ~$150k a year [1]. And note that since it&#x27;s the top of the scale, you have to start people off lower so that there is salary progression.<p>Pretty sure a top cryptographer or security expert should be worth several times that, especially if they are also dealing with classified information and safeguarding all the data collection (e.g. if the NSA is going to spy on us, wouldn&#x27;t you like that to be as secure as possible?).<p>This is another reason why we&#x27;re going to enter an era of corporate feudalism. There has been a cycle of:<p>1. perception of gov&#x27;t incompetence<p>2. normal people ask &#x27;why are we paying people so much for doing a bad job?&#x27;<p>3. gov&#x27;t pay scales fall further behind private industry<p>4. rise in relative mediocrity<p>5. repeat<p>I think voters largely don&#x27;t realize how much competence actually costs in the market now and will vent about their justified perceptions of inequality by preventing equalization of pay between the gov&#x27;t and private sectors, but that will paradoxically just make things worse in the long run as the private sector snaps up all the talent and we end up with a barely-functioning federal bureaucracy.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;work.chron.com&#x2F;nsa-pay-scale-16399.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;work.chron.com&#x2F;nsa-pay-scale-16399.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pc86</author><text>&gt; <i>It&#x27;s popular to say things like some government employees are &quot;folks who can&#x27;t hack it in civilian life,&quot; but there&#x27;s basically no evidence this is true.</i><p>Have you ever worked for government? I&#x27;m a civilian contractor in a software architecture role to a public safety agency in a state government. Half the &quot;senior application developers&quot; haven&#x27;t written code in 15 years and don&#x27;t know what a unit test is. There are maybe 2-3 individual contributors for each manager. Not team lead, manager, and is in a $105-110k+&#x2F;yr position that does annual reviews, on call scheduling, etc.<p>The floor I&#x27;m on has 25-35 developers, DBAs, and BAs, and I can count on one hand the number of people who could get hired into a junior technical position at my employer. There are people who are unironically counting the days they have left until they can retire and draw their pension when they have more than 5 years left.<p>&gt; <i>Anyone working the counter at your local Post Office could easily work the register at any grocery store in your town.</i><p>And they&#x27;d take a 60% pay cut to do so, wouldn&#x27;t they? Anyway, this is about folks in technical roles. Running a register and handing out stamps isn&#x27;t particularly technical.<p>&gt; <i>Second, take a look at what happens to people who do leave the government. Very often, their salaries go up in the private sector. This is especially true for specialists like the folks who work at the NSA. Seems like they can hack it.</i><p>Well that&#x27;s sort of tautological, isn&#x27;t it? &quot;The people who get a civilian job are capable of getting a civilian job.&quot; These folks are in the &quot;Patriot, not inept&quot; section of the diagram.<p>&gt; <i>Firing has little to do with it.</i><p>Firing has a lot to do. I&#x27;ve spoken candidly about my colleagues here with higher ups in the agency. They&#x27;ve openly bemoaned their inability to fire <i>anyone</i>, especially the people who they know for a fact do nothing all day. Those people are soaking up hundreds of thousands, even millions a year, in taxpayer dollars, doing little work of substance or value, and preventing their positions from being filled by someone capable.</text></comment> | <story><title>NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging morale, unpopular reorg</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-nsas-top-talent-is-leaving-because-of-low-pay-and-battered-morale/2018/01/02/ff19f0c6-ec04-11e7-9f92-10a2203f6c8d_story.html?utm_term=.0388eaf826c3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snowwrestler</author><text>It&#x27;s popular to say things like some government employees are &quot;folks who can&#x27;t hack it in civilian life,&quot; but there&#x27;s basically no evidence this is true.<p>First of all, let&#x27;s make sure we look at the full scope of civilian life with a sober eye. Anyone working the counter at your local Post Office could easily work the register at any grocery store in your town. And any medium to large company has plenty of internal politics. Don&#x27;t make the mistake of comparing the worst case of government to some idealized notion of private enterprise.<p>Second, take a look at what happens to people who do leave the government. Very often, their salaries go up in the private sector. This is especially true for specialists like the folks who work at the NSA. Seems like they can hack it.<p>Folks who have not worked for the government, or very close to it, have a hard time comprehending the fundamental differences between government and private enterprise. For one thing, when you work for the government, many rules of your job carry the force of law. Being too flexible might not just get you fired, it might get you prosecuted.<p>And there are <i>so many rules</i>. I&#x27;ll give you one example scenario: a person leaves their job, and a subordinate steps up, takes on their workload, and does great.<p>In a private company, you&#x27;d just promote the subordinate. You already know they can do the work, you retain institutional knowledge, and it&#x27;s easier to hire junior positions. Efficient and effective.<p>But in most federal agencies that would be illegal, as it might permit some form of corruption. The subordinate would have to keep doing the extra workload, while the supervisor requisitions a new position to replace the old one, and then runs a (highly regulated) open public application process. The subordinate can apply too, of course.<p>This is not because the supervisor is some terrible inflexible or dumb person. <i>The rules are just stricter and more burdensome in the government than in private enterprise.</i><p>Why? Because everyone loves to believe the worst about the government, so it&#x27;s easy to sell voters on the necessity of a shitload of burdensome rules.<p>So: if you want people to act smarter in the government, you have to give them permission to act smarter. Firing has little to do with it. You have to give people the opportunity to try things and make mistakes in good faith.</text></item><item><author>eadmund</author><text>The problem is that we can (and should!) raise government pay scales, but we must <i>also</i> make it easier to fire people (or manage them downwards) for incompetence. Government work is for two types of people (and there&#x27;s some overlap on the Euler diagram): patriots, and folks who can&#x27;t hack it in civilian life.<p>It&#x27;s not just a &#x27;perception of gov&#x27;t incompetence&#x27;: it&#x27;s a widespread phenomenon. Government employees tend to excel at working organisational politics (i.e., in serving their organisational customers) rather than in serving their taxpaying customers. Government work is a kind of kabuki theatre, in which everyone agrees to praise the emperor&#x27;s new clothes and ignore the boy who points out that he&#x27;s naked.<p>The unfortunate thing is that government work is really important: it <i>requires</i> the best and the brightest, not the lazy and the uninspired. Patriotism should of course be a <i>sine qua non</i> for the civil service, but so should excellence. We should pay market rates, but we should pay them for market quality.<p>Raising rates without working to improve quality would mean getting mutton when we pay for lamb.</text></item><item><author>smallnamespace</author><text>It seems like it&#x27;s pretty hard for the government to compete with private industry in compensation. Federal pay grades are capped by Congress, and the top grade is around ~$150k a year [1]. And note that since it&#x27;s the top of the scale, you have to start people off lower so that there is salary progression.<p>Pretty sure a top cryptographer or security expert should be worth several times that, especially if they are also dealing with classified information and safeguarding all the data collection (e.g. if the NSA is going to spy on us, wouldn&#x27;t you like that to be as secure as possible?).<p>This is another reason why we&#x27;re going to enter an era of corporate feudalism. There has been a cycle of:<p>1. perception of gov&#x27;t incompetence<p>2. normal people ask &#x27;why are we paying people so much for doing a bad job?&#x27;<p>3. gov&#x27;t pay scales fall further behind private industry<p>4. rise in relative mediocrity<p>5. repeat<p>I think voters largely don&#x27;t realize how much competence actually costs in the market now and will vent about their justified perceptions of inequality by preventing equalization of pay between the gov&#x27;t and private sectors, but that will paradoxically just make things worse in the long run as the private sector snaps up all the talent and we end up with a barely-functioning federal bureaucracy.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;work.chron.com&#x2F;nsa-pay-scale-16399.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;work.chron.com&#x2F;nsa-pay-scale-16399.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bonesss</author><text>&gt; <i>Why? Because everyone loves to believe the worst about the government, so it&#x27;s easy to sell voters on the necessity of a shitload of burdensome rules.</i><p>There&#x27;s also a fundamental difference between you being cavalier with <i>your</i> money, and me being cavalier with <i>our</i> money.<p>Being tax payer funded changes accountability, investment horizons, and access to capital. The CEO of Twitter gets to put whoever he wants in wherever, and eats the costs if it works bad, but to ensure responsible fiduciary practices with our collective wealth we, the taxpayers, demand less aggressive and efficient practices to limit corruption and incompetence.<p>This is a conscious social decision, to move slower and more carefully, and will hopefully be minimized with increasingly robust Civic Tech. Alternative federal structures would historically point towards oligarchies and widespread corruption.</text></comment> |
27,044,777 | 27,044,408 | 1 | 2 | 27,044,044 | train | <story><title>Berkshire Hathaway’s stock price is too high for Nasdaq computers</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/berkshire-hathaways-stock-price-is-too-much-for-computers-11620168548</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>philsnow</author><text>&gt; When pressed on the issue, [Warren Buffet] has told shareholders that a lower price would bring unsophisticated short-term investors into the stock.<p>there&#x27;s BRK.B for that. BRK.A is what, a vanity stock?<p>I&#x27;ve long had the idea that the reason to buy any BRK.A is because ownership of a single share allows you to go to the shareholders meeting in Omaha.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;ask&#x2F;answers&#x2F;021615&#x2F;what-difference-between-berkshire-hathaways-class-and-class-b-shares.asp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;ask&#x2F;answers&#x2F;021615&#x2F;what-differe...</a> doesn&#x27;t mention the shareholders meeting, so maybe that&#x27;s outdated or apocryphal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>harry8</author><text>&gt; When pressed on the issue, [Warren Buffet] has told shareholders that a lower price would bring unsophisticated short-term investors into the stock.<p>With respect to Buffet who has talent and is not a total fraud he gets a large fraction of his outsized returned in trades not available to you and me. Off market placements for example. Do you think your returns would have improved if you could buy Goldman Sachs at a 20% discount to market? Yeah me too.<p>Marketing and promotion is one way he gets those offers you and I don&#x27;t. (No not the only way, he has billions to invest too, but his <i>name</i> helps). Having the highest share price for a single unit of stock is something else to talk about and color a story if you&#x27;re reporting it. He&#x27;s very good at this promotion. His annual letter was a previous generation&#x27;s version of Elon Musk&#x27;s tweeting, hiring onion writers, flame throwers and so on that gets Elon so talked about.<p>It&#x27;s a skill, a talent. Finding the opportunities and exploiting them in a way that doesn&#x27;t significantly blow back at you. Buffet executes it brilliantly. Something to consider in your own business. Is there something else you can exploit like that which would make for a paragraph in the story of your company?</text></comment> | <story><title>Berkshire Hathaway’s stock price is too high for Nasdaq computers</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/berkshire-hathaways-stock-price-is-too-much-for-computers-11620168548</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>philsnow</author><text>&gt; When pressed on the issue, [Warren Buffet] has told shareholders that a lower price would bring unsophisticated short-term investors into the stock.<p>there&#x27;s BRK.B for that. BRK.A is what, a vanity stock?<p>I&#x27;ve long had the idea that the reason to buy any BRK.A is because ownership of a single share allows you to go to the shareholders meeting in Omaha.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;ask&#x2F;answers&#x2F;021615&#x2F;what-difference-between-berkshire-hathaways-class-and-class-b-shares.asp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;ask&#x2F;answers&#x2F;021615&#x2F;what-differe...</a> doesn&#x27;t mention the shareholders meeting, so maybe that&#x27;s outdated or apocryphal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CapriciousCptl</author><text>You can go to the meeting with BRK.B. Buffett prefers long-term holders, and the feeling was a higher share price makes things a little less liquid. With fractional share ownership it&#x27;s kind of a wash now.<p>Even BRK.B would be 50x more its current price but it had to be split when they bought Burlington Northern with stock to accomodate BNSF shareholders.<p>The major difference is voting power. Economic interest is pro rata, but voting is much different (not that it matters in the current environment). That, and BRK issues direct tender offers to BRK.A holders.</text></comment> |
22,140,233 | 22,140,386 | 1 | 3 | 22,139,421 | train | <story><title>How much longer will we trust Google’s search results?</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/tech/2020/1/24/21079696/google-serp-design-change-altavisa-ads-trust</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BitwiseFool</author><text>I&#x27;ve actually moved to other search engines because the quality of the results have gone down dramatically. It seems like google will fixate on one or two keywords in my search (usually the most generic ones) and ignore the rest. In addition, the old google tricks like using quotes for literal values no longer seems to work. It is like google is guessing what I want, rather than trying to find what I have entered as a query.<p>I don&#x27;t know if this is because SEO has poisoned their index, or if I&#x27;m not googling &quot;correctly&quot; anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rurp</author><text>Google ignoring what I had actually typed and instead showing results to a more popular query that was similar, but distinctly different, is what finally got me to switch over to DuckDuckGo. Now that I&#x27;ve gotten used to DDG I find Google unpleasant to use. The amount of ads and clutter on the page is distracting, and the organic results seemed ever more skewed towards ecommerce results.</text></comment> | <story><title>How much longer will we trust Google’s search results?</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/tech/2020/1/24/21079696/google-serp-design-change-altavisa-ads-trust</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BitwiseFool</author><text>I&#x27;ve actually moved to other search engines because the quality of the results have gone down dramatically. It seems like google will fixate on one or two keywords in my search (usually the most generic ones) and ignore the rest. In addition, the old google tricks like using quotes for literal values no longer seems to work. It is like google is guessing what I want, rather than trying to find what I have entered as a query.<p>I don&#x27;t know if this is because SEO has poisoned their index, or if I&#x27;m not googling &quot;correctly&quot; anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>javiercr</author><text>To get the old behaviour for literal search using quotes enable the &quot;Verbatim mode&quot; (Tools &gt; All results &gt; Verbatim)<p>It&#x27;s a must if you&#x27;re a developer searching for some obscure error message, yet still most people don&#x27;t know about it.</text></comment> |
6,501,307 | 6,501,041 | 1 | 2 | 6,499,409 | train | <story><title>Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/04/us-swiss-pay-idUSBRE9930O620131004</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marknutter</author><text>I see it differently. If people are receiving a basic income their performance at a job becomes much less important. Why care if you do a good job if losing it doesn&#x27;t really impact you that negatively?</text></item><item><author>TelmoMenezes</author><text>&gt; One of the main questions about something like this is about who would do boring, low-paid work with this sort of basic income.<p>I believe this would not be a problem in the long run for the following reasons:<p>- A lot of boring low-pay work is unnecessary (dealing with the endless paper trail of over-complicated bureaucracies, lots of things that companies do, like telemarketing, just because it&#x27;s so cheap, etc. etc.);<p>- A lot of it is necessary, so it would just become more expensive. At some price, people will be willing to do this work despite the basic income. Many people actually enjoy doing meaningful work, be it plumbing or being a doctor. It&#x27;s the soul-crushing pointless work that is so depressing;<p>- This would then create strong economic pressure to finally use technology for what it&#x27;s good: automatize labor. No longer would there be the job loss dilemma;<p>- Likewise, this would create strong economic pressure to simplify everything: no more pointless bureaucracy, no more over-complicated taxation schemes that require an army of accountants, much less pointless meetings and other corporate fat, and so on.<p>I&#x27;m filled with hope by this idea and honestly believe that it has a chance of working. It&#x27;s time to step into the next era.</text></item><item><author>tikhonj</author><text>A Swiss franc is currently worth a little bit more than a dollar, so this works out to $2800&#x2F;month or $33600&#x2F;year. By US standards, this actually seems to be a good salary: significantly better than working full time at minimum wage.<p>It would cover all my current expenses handily. Of course, I&#x27;m young and single but by no means frugal. (I find that the little costs involved in worrying about my expenses easily outweigh the money saved.) So this is quite an income.<p>One of the main questions about something like this is about who would do boring, low-paid work with this sort of basic income. What I would really hope is that people would still do many of those jobs, but for far fewer hours--largely as a way to get money for incidental expenses and luxuries beyond the basic income. One problem I find with most jobs is that it&#x27;s much easier to get more pay than less hours, even if I really want the latter. There is a large drop-off between full-time and part-time work.[1]<p>Beyond a certain level, I would value having more free time far more than making more money. Unfortunately, mostly for social reasons, it&#x27;s hard to express this preference. A basic income could make this much easier to do.<p>While I suspect this might not pass, I think it would be very valuable for the entire world. One of the unfortunate realities in politics is that it is really hard to run experiments; small countries like Switzerland can act as a test subject for the entire world. Or perhaps like a tech early adopter for modern policies.<p>Either way, this passing would be very interesting.<p>[1]: For me, this is not quite as simple. In reality, there are plenty of jobs where I would be <i>happy</i> to work relatively long hours. But this stops being a question of pay, or even &quot;work&quot;: after all, I&#x27;m happy to spend hours and hours programming <i>for free</i>. Being paid to do something I really like is wonderful, but it really changes the dynamics in ways that probably do not apply to most people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>In two words: Maslow&#x27;s hierarchy. [1]<p>The best places I know have people who are working from higher-layer motivations, and corporate cultures that encourage that by treating people as adults, supporting them, giving them wide latitude to get things done, et cetera.<p>The worse are the opposite. The people there are desperate for money to survive. The corporate cultures are disempowering, controlling, contemptuous.<p>It&#x27;s commonly thought in the US that these are just two different sorts of people, the high-class creatives who should be given latitude, and the low-class proles who must be controlled like surly teens if they are to get anything done.<p>But that&#x27;s not true. For example, Toyota&#x27;s great success comes mainly from treating factory workers with deep respect. [2] And it works here, too. <i>This American Life</i> tells the story [3] of Toyota turning GM&#x27;s worst plant into one of the best. Same people, just a different culture.<p>So if people are receiving a basic income, jobs will have to shift toward the model that motivates people through the higher end of Maslow&#x27;s hierarchy. Money will be part of why people show up, but it would not longer be the only reason.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs</a>
[2] Liker&#x27;s <i>Toyota Kata</i> is a great book on this.
[3] <a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/403/nummi" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thisamericanlife.org&#x2F;radio-archives&#x2F;episode&#x2F;403&#x2F;n...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/04/us-swiss-pay-idUSBRE9930O620131004</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marknutter</author><text>I see it differently. If people are receiving a basic income their performance at a job becomes much less important. Why care if you do a good job if losing it doesn&#x27;t really impact you that negatively?</text></item><item><author>TelmoMenezes</author><text>&gt; One of the main questions about something like this is about who would do boring, low-paid work with this sort of basic income.<p>I believe this would not be a problem in the long run for the following reasons:<p>- A lot of boring low-pay work is unnecessary (dealing with the endless paper trail of over-complicated bureaucracies, lots of things that companies do, like telemarketing, just because it&#x27;s so cheap, etc. etc.);<p>- A lot of it is necessary, so it would just become more expensive. At some price, people will be willing to do this work despite the basic income. Many people actually enjoy doing meaningful work, be it plumbing or being a doctor. It&#x27;s the soul-crushing pointless work that is so depressing;<p>- This would then create strong economic pressure to finally use technology for what it&#x27;s good: automatize labor. No longer would there be the job loss dilemma;<p>- Likewise, this would create strong economic pressure to simplify everything: no more pointless bureaucracy, no more over-complicated taxation schemes that require an army of accountants, much less pointless meetings and other corporate fat, and so on.<p>I&#x27;m filled with hope by this idea and honestly believe that it has a chance of working. It&#x27;s time to step into the next era.</text></item><item><author>tikhonj</author><text>A Swiss franc is currently worth a little bit more than a dollar, so this works out to $2800&#x2F;month or $33600&#x2F;year. By US standards, this actually seems to be a good salary: significantly better than working full time at minimum wage.<p>It would cover all my current expenses handily. Of course, I&#x27;m young and single but by no means frugal. (I find that the little costs involved in worrying about my expenses easily outweigh the money saved.) So this is quite an income.<p>One of the main questions about something like this is about who would do boring, low-paid work with this sort of basic income. What I would really hope is that people would still do many of those jobs, but for far fewer hours--largely as a way to get money for incidental expenses and luxuries beyond the basic income. One problem I find with most jobs is that it&#x27;s much easier to get more pay than less hours, even if I really want the latter. There is a large drop-off between full-time and part-time work.[1]<p>Beyond a certain level, I would value having more free time far more than making more money. Unfortunately, mostly for social reasons, it&#x27;s hard to express this preference. A basic income could make this much easier to do.<p>While I suspect this might not pass, I think it would be very valuable for the entire world. One of the unfortunate realities in politics is that it is really hard to run experiments; small countries like Switzerland can act as a test subject for the entire world. Or perhaps like a tech early adopter for modern policies.<p>Either way, this passing would be very interesting.<p>[1]: For me, this is not quite as simple. In reality, there are plenty of jobs where I would be <i>happy</i> to work relatively long hours. But this stops being a question of pay, or even &quot;work&quot;: after all, I&#x27;m happy to spend hours and hours programming <i>for free</i>. Being paid to do something I really like is wonderful, but it really changes the dynamics in ways that probably do not apply to most people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fnordfnordfnord</author><text>Because you will still have to compete for desirable jobs.<p>For menial labor, most of it can&#x2F;will be automated.<p>For undesirable jobs that can&#x27;t be automated away, employers will have to make the jobs desirable. One way to do that will be to increase the pay, but, that is not the only means for doing so. There are many things employers can do to make employment more desirable that have a low or zero net cost. I&#x27;d even argue that some of those things would save money&#x2F;resources in varying amounts even absent the pressure to do so.<p>One very good and interesting effect that I predict is that individuals whose employment places them in ethical dilemmas will no longer have as much pressure for compliance with potentially unethical demands, since the entirety of their livelihood no longer depends upon compliance.</text></comment> |
28,953,762 | 28,946,753 | 1 | 2 | 28,944,200 | train | <story><title>California tried to save the nation from tax filing, then Intuit stepped in</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-10-21/california-tried-to-save-the-nation-from-the-misery-of-tax-filing-then-intuit-stepped-in</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjcon</author><text>&gt; The &quot;left&quot; that has power in the US (establishment dems) barely qualify as being left at all<p>So when the left does something you dont like, they must not be left? Smells of no true scottsman to me.</text></item><item><author>thebigman433</author><text>This is so important and I think a lot of people miss it. The &quot;left&quot; that has power in the US (establishment dems) barely qualify as being left at all. They are very much invested in protecting power and wealth.<p>The only &quot;left&quot; that would push against the rentiers are people who will almost never see power. However, I wouldnt say AOC winning is a &quot;fluke&quot;. Its definitely the exception, but progressives have been able to repeat it a few more times in democrat strongholds that have historically kept establishment candidates.<p>Right now the only &quot;power&quot; the real left has is withholding their votes from corporate dem bills like we&#x27;re seeing with the BBB Act. This only even works because the rest of the party is interested in protecting power&#x2F;wealth and is pretty inept at actually winning races.</text></item><item><author>pydry</author><text>The left doesnt really have any power in the US.<p>What passes for the left (the socially liberal corporate elites that run most of the democratic party) are pretty much just as invested in protecting the rentiers as the right wing.<p>Rentier money is structurally geared towards destroying any populist politicians who threaten their rents. It was a fluke that AOC won given her <i>Democratic</i> opponent (when she was unknown) outspent her something like 7:1. People like her arent supposed to slip through the early stage political filter.<p>If they do slip through there&#x27;s also an enormously powerful and effective propaganda machine dedicated to character assassination.</text></item><item><author>ashtonkem</author><text>Going to paraphrase a quote from a podcast that stuck with me.<p>&gt; What (the left) needs to do is clear out rents. Not just housing rents, but rent seekers. The economy is riddled through with people who do nothing, but get paid because structurally that’s who gets paid.<p>Intuit is one of those companies. They produce a few real products, QuickBooks for businesses and Mint, but overwhelmingly their money comes from the fact that they charge rent on filling your taxes. They’re a parasite on our society.<p>Fortunately the podcaster wasn’t talking about the US; their country was worse off than America in this area by far. But unfortunately it seems like we’re on the same glide slope if we don’t do something about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thebigman433</author><text>Im mostly comparing it to the politics of the &quot;left&quot; in most other first world countries. In my opinion, candidates who arent willing to support guaranteed family leave, single payer healthcare, and more progressive taxes, arent very far left.<p>Of course you could definitely make an argument for that being no true scottsman, so I guess it just depends on opinion.</text></comment> | <story><title>California tried to save the nation from tax filing, then Intuit stepped in</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-10-21/california-tried-to-save-the-nation-from-the-misery-of-tax-filing-then-intuit-stepped-in</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjcon</author><text>&gt; The &quot;left&quot; that has power in the US (establishment dems) barely qualify as being left at all<p>So when the left does something you dont like, they must not be left? Smells of no true scottsman to me.</text></item><item><author>thebigman433</author><text>This is so important and I think a lot of people miss it. The &quot;left&quot; that has power in the US (establishment dems) barely qualify as being left at all. They are very much invested in protecting power and wealth.<p>The only &quot;left&quot; that would push against the rentiers are people who will almost never see power. However, I wouldnt say AOC winning is a &quot;fluke&quot;. Its definitely the exception, but progressives have been able to repeat it a few more times in democrat strongholds that have historically kept establishment candidates.<p>Right now the only &quot;power&quot; the real left has is withholding their votes from corporate dem bills like we&#x27;re seeing with the BBB Act. This only even works because the rest of the party is interested in protecting power&#x2F;wealth and is pretty inept at actually winning races.</text></item><item><author>pydry</author><text>The left doesnt really have any power in the US.<p>What passes for the left (the socially liberal corporate elites that run most of the democratic party) are pretty much just as invested in protecting the rentiers as the right wing.<p>Rentier money is structurally geared towards destroying any populist politicians who threaten their rents. It was a fluke that AOC won given her <i>Democratic</i> opponent (when she was unknown) outspent her something like 7:1. People like her arent supposed to slip through the early stage political filter.<p>If they do slip through there&#x27;s also an enormously powerful and effective propaganda machine dedicated to character assassination.</text></item><item><author>ashtonkem</author><text>Going to paraphrase a quote from a podcast that stuck with me.<p>&gt; What (the left) needs to do is clear out rents. Not just housing rents, but rent seekers. The economy is riddled through with people who do nothing, but get paid because structurally that’s who gets paid.<p>Intuit is one of those companies. They produce a few real products, QuickBooks for businesses and Mint, but overwhelmingly their money comes from the fact that they charge rent on filling your taxes. They’re a parasite on our society.<p>Fortunately the podcaster wasn’t talking about the US; their country was worse off than America in this area by far. But unfortunately it seems like we’re on the same glide slope if we don’t do something about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throw_nbvc1234</author><text>It&#x27;s almost like politics isn&#x27;t as binary as left or right; at least when you get down to the fundamentals and not the media&#x27;s portrayal of things.</text></comment> |
11,162,277 | 11,162,284 | 1 | 3 | 11,159,840 | train | <story><title>Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud</title><url>https://news.spotify.com/us/2016/02/23/announcing-spotify-infrastructures-googley-future/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crb</author><text>There are vendors running managed Postgres services on Google Cloud Platform, like ElephantSQL [1] and Aiven [2]. And you can of course run your own on GCE, even to the extent of 24&#x2F;7 commercial support - you can run EnterpriseDB from Cloud Launcher [3].<p>And, you can also run Kubernetes on AWS - we have a group focused on making sure it&#x27;s an excellent experience.<p>I work for Google Cloud Platform; ping me if you&#x27;d like more help with either option.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elephantsql.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2014-11-17-google-compute-engine.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elephantsql.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2014-11-17-google-compute-e...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aiven.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aiven.io&#x2F;</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.google.com&#x2F;launcher&#x2F;solution&#x2F;public-edb-ppas&#x2F;edb-postgres-enterprise?q=enter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.google.com&#x2F;launcher&#x2F;solution&#x2F;public-edb-ppas&#x2F;e...</a></text></item><item><author>waffle_ss</author><text>I tried Google Container Engine (GKE) and really liked it - it&#x27;s the best cloud solution for deploying Docker to production in my opinion, mainly due to its use of Kubernetes. Unfortunately in my Web apps I make heavy use of Postgres-specific features, and since Cloud SQL only supports MySQL, Google Cloud is a total non-starter for me.<p>So for now I&#x27;m on AWS, using Postgres on RDS and deploying containers with ECS. ECS is a lot simpler than Kubernetes, but since my apps are pretty simple (a half dozen task definitions), it&#x27;s not a big deal. I really hope Google adds Postgres to Cloud SQL at some point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>waffle_ss</author><text>&gt; There are vendors running managed Postgres services on Google Cloud Platform, like ElephantSQL<p>I did check out ElephantSQL but my pricing needs are somewhere between their $100 and $20 plans and there seems to be a lack of configurability compared to RDS&#x27;s parameter groups (e.g. enabling extensions).<p>&gt; you can also run Kubernetes on AWS<p>I&#x27;ve had success turning up Kubernetes clusters on AWS for demo purposes, but I really don&#x27;t want to manage a k8s cluster myself (anecdotes I&#x27;ve read about etcd failures &#x2F; partitions especially scare me). Also I use Terraform for provisioning, and kube-up.sh is not something that fits into that paradigm. I&#x27;ve also made the mistake running kube-up.sh with the wrong arguments after a previous invocation that had created a cluster, which caused it to try and create a new cluster, which wiped the local cache of the previous cluster I had made, making kube-down.sh unable to automatically clean up the old cluster (so I had to do it manually in the AWS console).<p>The other thing I tried was the kube-aws CoreOS tool, which is nice, but it comes baked with a 90-day expiration due to TLS certificate expiration, so I&#x27;d have to set up some sort of PKI process to make that production-ready. All in all just too much work for a single person trying to deploy a small number of containers for small to medium sized projects; if I was a medium-sized company with hundreds of containers and some dedicated DevOps resources maybe it would be worth it, but for myself I&#x27;d prefer a turn-key solution like ECS or GKE.</text></comment> | <story><title>Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud</title><url>https://news.spotify.com/us/2016/02/23/announcing-spotify-infrastructures-googley-future/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crb</author><text>There are vendors running managed Postgres services on Google Cloud Platform, like ElephantSQL [1] and Aiven [2]. And you can of course run your own on GCE, even to the extent of 24&#x2F;7 commercial support - you can run EnterpriseDB from Cloud Launcher [3].<p>And, you can also run Kubernetes on AWS - we have a group focused on making sure it&#x27;s an excellent experience.<p>I work for Google Cloud Platform; ping me if you&#x27;d like more help with either option.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elephantsql.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2014-11-17-google-compute-engine.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elephantsql.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2014-11-17-google-compute-e...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aiven.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aiven.io&#x2F;</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.google.com&#x2F;launcher&#x2F;solution&#x2F;public-edb-ppas&#x2F;edb-postgres-enterprise?q=enter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.google.com&#x2F;launcher&#x2F;solution&#x2F;public-edb-ppas&#x2F;e...</a></text></item><item><author>waffle_ss</author><text>I tried Google Container Engine (GKE) and really liked it - it&#x27;s the best cloud solution for deploying Docker to production in my opinion, mainly due to its use of Kubernetes. Unfortunately in my Web apps I make heavy use of Postgres-specific features, and since Cloud SQL only supports MySQL, Google Cloud is a total non-starter for me.<p>So for now I&#x27;m on AWS, using Postgres on RDS and deploying containers with ECS. ECS is a lot simpler than Kubernetes, but since my apps are pretty simple (a half dozen task definitions), it&#x27;s not a big deal. I really hope Google adds Postgres to Cloud SQL at some point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>merb</author><text>You can&#x27;t compare that to postgresql on aws. especially not when it comes to pricing.</text></comment> |
37,959,705 | 37,958,988 | 1 | 2 | 37,957,152 | train | <story><title>The ten year anniversary of the Healthcare.gov rescue</title><url>https://www.pauladamsmith.com/blog/2023/10/the-10-year-anniversary-of-the-healthcare.gov-rescue.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mlinhares</author><text>If I was running a state agency and the federal government told me I could just use their system instead of spending my own money I would definitely take on the federal government instead of paying for it. Sometimes the whole &quot;states are their own thing&quot; here in the US goes way too far.</text></item><item><author>PopAlongKid</author><text>For context, the original intention was that states would run their own exchanges, only if they refused would residents of the state use the federal exchange.<p>36 states initially did not set up their own exchanges.[0]<p>It appears that currently, 20 states (including D.C.) have their own marketplace.[1]<p>&gt;The shutdown prevented anyone from outside the main team working on HealthCare.gov from coming in to help<p>That government shutdown in 2013 was instigated entirely by one U.S. Senator, Ted Cruz, expressly for the purpose of sabotaging ACA.[2]<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aspe.hhs.gov&#x2F;reports&#x2F;health-insurance-marketplace-premiums-2014-september-2013" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aspe.hhs.gov&#x2F;reports&#x2F;health-insurance-marketplace-pr...</a><p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.healthcare.gov&#x2F;marketplace-in-your-state&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.healthcare.gov&#x2F;marketplace-in-your-state&#x2F;</a><p>[2]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.texastribune.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;16&#x2F;ted-cruz-2013-obamacare-shutdown-was-defining-mome&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.texastribune.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;16&#x2F;ted-cruz-2013-obamac...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>liveoneggs</author><text>Would you also take federal money to expand medicaid coverage to the poor citizens of your state?<p>If so you might not be qualified to be a republican governor.<p>Wouldn&#x27;t it be much better to hire your friends as IT consultants, make broken systems as confusing as possible, and continuously change the rules, and then starve the half-assed system of funding in an attempt to keep people from signing up for coverage at all? What makes this plan doubly republican-friendly is that all players are your donors and most victims are minorities.</text></comment> | <story><title>The ten year anniversary of the Healthcare.gov rescue</title><url>https://www.pauladamsmith.com/blog/2023/10/the-10-year-anniversary-of-the-healthcare.gov-rescue.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mlinhares</author><text>If I was running a state agency and the federal government told me I could just use their system instead of spending my own money I would definitely take on the federal government instead of paying for it. Sometimes the whole &quot;states are their own thing&quot; here in the US goes way too far.</text></item><item><author>PopAlongKid</author><text>For context, the original intention was that states would run their own exchanges, only if they refused would residents of the state use the federal exchange.<p>36 states initially did not set up their own exchanges.[0]<p>It appears that currently, 20 states (including D.C.) have their own marketplace.[1]<p>&gt;The shutdown prevented anyone from outside the main team working on HealthCare.gov from coming in to help<p>That government shutdown in 2013 was instigated entirely by one U.S. Senator, Ted Cruz, expressly for the purpose of sabotaging ACA.[2]<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aspe.hhs.gov&#x2F;reports&#x2F;health-insurance-marketplace-premiums-2014-september-2013" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aspe.hhs.gov&#x2F;reports&#x2F;health-insurance-marketplace-pr...</a><p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.healthcare.gov&#x2F;marketplace-in-your-state&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.healthcare.gov&#x2F;marketplace-in-your-state&#x2F;</a><p>[2]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.texastribune.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;16&#x2F;ted-cruz-2013-obamacare-shutdown-was-defining-mome&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.texastribune.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;16&#x2F;ted-cruz-2013-obamac...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ceejayoz</author><text>In many cases, it was ideological, not fiscal.<p>States opting not to open their own exchange (grey): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;HealthCare.gov#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:ACA_health_insurance_exchanges_by_state.svg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;HealthCare.gov#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:ACA...</a><p>States opting not to expand Medicaid (blue): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;4&#x2F;47&#x2F;Medicaid_expansion_map_of_US._Affordable_Care_Act.svg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;4&#x2F;47&#x2F;Medicaid...</a><p>(The second chart had more blue at the time; opt-outs have gone from 26 down to 10 now.)</text></comment> |
8,964,281 | 8,964,187 | 1 | 2 | 8,963,658 | train | <story><title>What Silicon Valley Thinks of Women</title><url>http://www.newsweek.com/2015/02/06/what-silicon-valley-thinks-women-302821.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raldi</author><text><i>&gt; It wouldn&#x27;t be an exaggeration to say that a front line, if not the trench of the global gender war, is in Silicon Valley.</i><p>I agree that parts of the tech world are really horrible, and I think we need to be doing everything we can to make women feel more welcome in our industry (not just for them, but for us), but isn&#x27;t it at least a <i>little</i> exaggeration to say that Silicon Valley is the main &quot;trench of the global gender war&quot;?<p>I&#x27;d think we&#x27;d be ranked after at least a couple of these:<p>* The construction industry<p>* The Bible Belt<p>* The restaurant industry<p>* West Africa<p>* The movie industry<p>* The Vatican<p>* The sportswriting industry<p>* The people who make Superbowl ads<p>* Japan<p>* The adult entertainment industry<p>* The Middle East<p>* Wall Street<p>* Nepal<p>* The upper echelons of American politics</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>falcolas</author><text>OK. Maybe I don&#x27;t get this, but doesn&#x27;t framing this as a &quot;war&quot; make the situation even worse? Isn&#x27;t viewing the opposite gender as &quot;enemy combatants&quot; a really terrible thing to do?<p>I would think that women face enough challenges in their workplace without being viewed by their coworkers as being hostile and out for their livelihoods.<p>Maybe I have this all wrong, but this seems that &quot;news&quot; pieces like this do not help anybody but the media (though perhaps it makes those on either side of the gender divide who already view the others as enemy combatants feel validated).</text></comment> | <story><title>What Silicon Valley Thinks of Women</title><url>http://www.newsweek.com/2015/02/06/what-silicon-valley-thinks-women-302821.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raldi</author><text><i>&gt; It wouldn&#x27;t be an exaggeration to say that a front line, if not the trench of the global gender war, is in Silicon Valley.</i><p>I agree that parts of the tech world are really horrible, and I think we need to be doing everything we can to make women feel more welcome in our industry (not just for them, but for us), but isn&#x27;t it at least a <i>little</i> exaggeration to say that Silicon Valley is the main &quot;trench of the global gender war&quot;?<p>I&#x27;d think we&#x27;d be ranked after at least a couple of these:<p>* The construction industry<p>* The Bible Belt<p>* The restaurant industry<p>* West Africa<p>* The movie industry<p>* The Vatican<p>* The sportswriting industry<p>* The people who make Superbowl ads<p>* Japan<p>* The adult entertainment industry<p>* The Middle East<p>* Wall Street<p>* Nepal<p>* The upper echelons of American politics</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Alex3917</author><text>The bible belt isn&#x27;t exactly eating the world.<p>We live in a society where more people now aspire to be tech CEOs than pro athletes or rock stars, and tech is one of the main centers of power both politically and economically.<p>It&#x27;s easy to dismiss the article because there are a few mischaracterizations and exaggerations. But you need to remember that most people get their information about the tech world from second hand sources, and SV is largely opaque and closed off to the general public.<p>If you actually read it for what it is rather than just judging the author based on her knowledge of obscure inside-baseball tech scandals then I think there are some valuable points.</text></comment> |
3,228,348 | 3,226,146 | 1 | 3 | 3,225,875 | train | <story><title>Machine Vision made Easy - SimpleCV</title><url>http://www.simplecv.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kscottz</author><text>I am one of the SimpleCV Developers. We are overjoyed at all this feedback. We have a few really exciting things coming up that we would like to share:<p>1) We will probably release the SimpleCV 1.2 super packs next week. There are a ton of sweet new features. We could really use some beta testers. Please let us know if you are interested.<p>2) We just signed a book deal with O'Reilly Media to make a SimpleCV guide. We are soliciting input from the community about what CV problems they need solved, or cool projects they would like us to do.<p>With respect to our business model, right now we are focused on quickly and cheaply delivering open-source machine vision solutions for manufacturing. If you have a manufacturing contact that has a machine vision problem and is looking for a solution we would love to talk to them. In the next month we will have a development scrum that will focus on our Seer product. Seer will the framework for deploying your computer vision projects in a cloud context. This means being able to remotely deploy and manage a vision system (i.e. CV as a service). Also along these lines we are actively looking for partners for the DARPA iFAB BAA that will be released soon (see: <a href="https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&#38;mode=form&#38;id=d1b63a1890d7c187590e695bc8457fd6&#38;tab=core&#38;_cview=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&#38;mode=form&#38;id...</a>). If you are going to submit a proposal for this contract we would love to talk to you.<p>Since we're open source we welcome and encourage community participation and feedback. If you have a cool project or a pony request shoot us a message via twitter (@Simple_CV or @IngenuitasInc) and we can chat and perhaps help you with your project.</text></comment> | <story><title>Machine Vision made Easy - SimpleCV</title><url>http://www.simplecv.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ecaron</author><text>Is CV a common term for "computer vision"? I'm used to CV meaning "curriculum vitae" and it took me ~2 minutes to realize the site had nothing to do with it.<p><i>/me might be in the recruiting realm too long</i></text></comment> |
36,587,639 | 36,587,871 | 1 | 2 | 36,585,940 | train | <story><title>Red Hat Is Not Linux (2000)</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20000815063125/http://www.redhatisnotlinux.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ytjohn</author><text>When I was young and optimistic, I was doing a bunch of side IT jobs. At one, a local insurance company needed to replace their Windows NT server. Instead of going with Windows 2000, I talked them into me setting up a RedHat Linux server running Samba. I had a few hiccups as the workstations weren&#x27;t actually connected to a domain originally, but I eventually got them all going with AD login, roaming profiles, tape backups, etc. The big selling point was the open source nature, free updates forever.<p>Less than six months later, Redhat announced that the were going to discontinue RedHat Linux and start releasing their new RedHat Enteprise Linux. This left me rather angry and embarrassed. It was definitely a turning point in my understanding of FOSS. It also made me a lifelong Debian&#x2F;Debian derivative user.<p>I&#x27;ve supported RHEL professionally, even getting RHCEs in it. RedHat has also contributed a lot to the open source community. But I&#x27;ve certainly never forgot that first pivot, so I&#x27;m not surprised with their recent decisions regarding RHEL&#x27;s source code.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jzb</author><text>I understand embarrassment, but anger might be misplaced. Red Hat was a newly public company trying to turn a profit. It identified its market and Red Hat Linux wasn&#x27;t serving it, and the model they were pursuing with Red Hat Linux wasn&#x27;t working.<p>But I am a solid supporter of the &quot;pay for RHEL or use Debian&quot; philosophy. If you need promises about the future, pay for RHEL or use a project that doesn&#x27;t have commercial motives. Debian is great and I wish more companies would standardize on it and support it.<p>I&#x27;m not such a fan of the middle road of hoping that vendors will continue supplying things of value for free. It&#x27;s especially ironic that an <i>insurance vendor</i> got burned by placing a bet on a free operating system with no assurances whatsoever. The RHEL subscription is insurance.</text></comment> | <story><title>Red Hat Is Not Linux (2000)</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20000815063125/http://www.redhatisnotlinux.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ytjohn</author><text>When I was young and optimistic, I was doing a bunch of side IT jobs. At one, a local insurance company needed to replace their Windows NT server. Instead of going with Windows 2000, I talked them into me setting up a RedHat Linux server running Samba. I had a few hiccups as the workstations weren&#x27;t actually connected to a domain originally, but I eventually got them all going with AD login, roaming profiles, tape backups, etc. The big selling point was the open source nature, free updates forever.<p>Less than six months later, Redhat announced that the were going to discontinue RedHat Linux and start releasing their new RedHat Enteprise Linux. This left me rather angry and embarrassed. It was definitely a turning point in my understanding of FOSS. It also made me a lifelong Debian&#x2F;Debian derivative user.<p>I&#x27;ve supported RHEL professionally, even getting RHCEs in it. RedHat has also contributed a lot to the open source community. But I&#x27;ve certainly never forgot that first pivot, so I&#x27;m not surprised with their recent decisions regarding RHEL&#x27;s source code.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josephcsible</author><text>&gt; The big selling point was the open source nature, free updates forever. Less than six months later, Redhat announced that the were going to discontinue RedHat Linux and start releasing their new RedHat Enteprise Linux.<p>I wish there were legal consequences when companies lied about future prices of things or durations of support.</text></comment> |
15,518,257 | 15,518,266 | 1 | 2 | 15,511,962 | train | <story><title>A calendar of upcoming changes to the Twitter Rules</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2017/safetycalendar.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adamrezich</author><text>Hopefully Twitter actually defines a lot of these nebulous and highly-subjective terms going forward.<p>What is the exact definition of a &quot;violent group&quot;?<p>What constitutes &quot;hateful imagery&quot;?<p>Where can I find their database of &quot;hate symbols&quot;?<p>What constitutes a &quot;hateful display name&quot;?<p>What constitutes &quot;condoning and glorifying violence&quot;? (I would argue that many if not most video games at least glorify violence, from my perspective!)<p>In our modern Internet-connected society, the meanings of terms and symbols are subject to rapid and unexpected change. The ADL lists &quot;Pepe the Frog&quot; as a &quot;hate symbol&quot;[0], and while it&#x27;s basically undeniable that many people use the symbol in an intentionally inflammatory or hateful context, I&#x27;m left completely at a loss as to whether or not posting an image of Pepe—or any cartoon frog for that matter—will get me suspended. (I have no reason to do so of course; this is entirely hypothetical.)<p>From the perspective of many people, especially those who use Twitter, certain political figures are considered to be inherently &quot;hateful&quot;, and showing support for them is considered to be an act of hate.<p>There&#x27;s a lot of talk about lines being drawn here but no talk of where exactly they will be drawn.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adl.org&#x2F;education&#x2F;references&#x2F;hate-symbols&#x2F;pepe-the-frog" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adl.org&#x2F;education&#x2F;references&#x2F;hate-symbols&#x2F;pepe-t...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jordigh</author><text>&gt; Hopefully Twitter actually defines a lot of these nebulous and highly-subjective terms going forward.<p>There is a certain &quot;jurisprudence&quot; to this sort of thing. All laws are written ambiguously; that doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s impossible to enforce them or that the laws are useless. Human interaction shouldn&#x27;t be codified into computer code and in most cases can&#x27;t be.<p>Whatever Twitter decides those things are, someone will be upset about it, and someone will contest the definition. That&#x27;s fine. We already have this kind of thing in HN and Reddit and anywhere else on the internet where any kind of moderation happens. We had it in Usenet and in web forums.<p>The whole idea that ambiguity in the laws means that we should have absolute &quot;free speech&quot; including the demonstrably toxic and hateful place that Twitter has become is bonkers. Sure, you&#x27;ll alienate some people who don&#x27;t like your definitions. But that&#x27;s kind of the point. To foster the community you want to have.</text></comment> | <story><title>A calendar of upcoming changes to the Twitter Rules</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2017/safetycalendar.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adamrezich</author><text>Hopefully Twitter actually defines a lot of these nebulous and highly-subjective terms going forward.<p>What is the exact definition of a &quot;violent group&quot;?<p>What constitutes &quot;hateful imagery&quot;?<p>Where can I find their database of &quot;hate symbols&quot;?<p>What constitutes a &quot;hateful display name&quot;?<p>What constitutes &quot;condoning and glorifying violence&quot;? (I would argue that many if not most video games at least glorify violence, from my perspective!)<p>In our modern Internet-connected society, the meanings of terms and symbols are subject to rapid and unexpected change. The ADL lists &quot;Pepe the Frog&quot; as a &quot;hate symbol&quot;[0], and while it&#x27;s basically undeniable that many people use the symbol in an intentionally inflammatory or hateful context, I&#x27;m left completely at a loss as to whether or not posting an image of Pepe—or any cartoon frog for that matter—will get me suspended. (I have no reason to do so of course; this is entirely hypothetical.)<p>From the perspective of many people, especially those who use Twitter, certain political figures are considered to be inherently &quot;hateful&quot;, and showing support for them is considered to be an act of hate.<p>There&#x27;s a lot of talk about lines being drawn here but no talk of where exactly they will be drawn.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adl.org&#x2F;education&#x2F;references&#x2F;hate-symbols&#x2F;pepe-the-frog" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adl.org&#x2F;education&#x2F;references&#x2F;hate-symbols&#x2F;pepe-t...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>QAPereo</author><text>There seems to be an assumption here and elsewhere, that Twitter or any such company actually has the answers to these questions. I really doubt that they do, and they announce these measures periodically for PR, to crack down on something, or just to reiterate what&#x27;s always been true: they own their platform and everything on it.<p>These highly centralized, privatized means of communication have gone from amusing, to sickening.</text></comment> |
27,094,640 | 27,094,306 | 1 | 2 | 27,092,326 | train | <story><title>Staying on the path to high performing teams (2018)</title><url>https://lethain.com/durably-excellent-teams/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>I have to agree with the other commenters about #1. Adding people adds team overhead, and that is <i>killer</i>. It’s actually fairly surprising how people still think of that as a solution, when there is so much prior art, showing it’s a lot less effective than you’d think <i>(see Brooks, Fred -The Mythical Man-Month)</i>.<p>I encounter people all the time, that are inordinately proud of their infrastructure and process, and how that reduces team overhead, while allowing them to treat engineers like LEGO blocks. I worked for a Japanese company, and they actually make this work (sort of, and at a big price). It requires a fairly massive and inflexible structure (despite being labeled “agile,” it tends to be remarkably rigid).<p>There’s absolutely no substitute for a seasoned, <i>experienced</i> team that has worked together for <i>years</i>, and is secure in its cohesiveness. “Tribal Knowledge” is a dirty word in today’s business culture, but it is, hands down, the most efficient “team glue” in the world. It is also thousands of years old. No high-tech equipment required. Mammoth hunters worked as a team, and achieved big results. Military teams are as old as history, and that is all about commoditizing “tribal knowledge,” and investing in <i>people</i>, not just weapons and tactics.<p>When I read “add slack,” I was like “How does adding a gab tool improve innovation?”. Then I read that it meant adding downtime&#x2F;flex goal stuff, and totally agree.</text></comment> | <story><title>Staying on the path to high performing teams (2018)</title><url>https://lethain.com/durably-excellent-teams/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fconnor</author><text>&quot;When falling behind, the system fix is to hire more people until the team moves into treading water.&quot;<p>I actually disagree with this statement. Teams can be falling behind for a variety of reasons and throwing more people at the problem can often cause further issues especially if the domain &#x2F; technology &#x2F; code base &#x2F; system ..... Is complex.<p>Onboarding people into a team is an incredibly costly exercise, to do it while a team is already struggling will often create a worse problem. You need to be sure that the reason the team is struggling is purely an hour&#x27;s in the day and not due to other factors.</text></comment> |
4,368,211 | 4,367,073 | 1 | 3 | 4,365,255 | train | <story><title>Steve Yegge: Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus</title><url>https://plus.google.com/u/0/110981030061712822816/posts/KaSKeg4vQtz</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>As much as some commenters are (weirdly?) railing against this classification scheme I think the underlying idea that software conservatism is about risk aversion is essentially accurate.<p>Perhaps another way of framing this is to ask the question: are you optimizing for the best case or the worst case? This ultimately is a form of risk management. And I'm not talking in the algorithmic sense, meaning complexity expressed as the asymptotically worst case. I'm talking about people, software and ecosystems.<p>Let me illustrate this idea with Java.<p>- C++ has operator overloads. Java does not? Why? Because people might abuse them. That's optimizing for the worst case (ie bad or inexperienced programmers). Properly used, operator overloading can lead to extremely readable code;<p>- Java has checked exceptions and uses them liberally (pun intended). C#, as one example, only has unchecked exceptions. Why? Philosophically the Java language designers (and many of its users) feel that this forces callers to deal with exceptions. Pragmatically (IMHO) it does not and leads to more cases of exceptions being simply swallowed. But again this is optimizing for the worst case ie programmers who should deal with a particular error condition but won't;<p>- Java has no multiple inheritance. Same story: it can be abused ("it is known"). But also mixins can be a powerful metaphor.<p>- Rinse and repeat for duck typing, extension methods, etc.<p>Putting Python two steps from Ruby strikes me as an interesting choice. I'd say the difference is at most one.<p>I'll also agree that Google as a company (based on my own <i>much</i> more limited experience than Yegge's) is firmly conservative. The style of writing Javascript that he refers to is about writing Google Closure code with all sorts of directives to aid the Closure Compiler (I describe Closure as putting the Java back into Javascript).<p>I also see a lot of Python code that isn't really Python. It's Java expressed in Python syntax rather than idiomatic Python and that is kind of sad.<p>Which isn't to say that any of this is necessarily bad (or good). It's just a (software) political viewpoint you need to be comfortable with (or at least can tolerate) or (to quote the South Park meme) "You're gonna have a bad time".<p>One of the comments linked <i>Worse is Better</i> [1], which is worth a read too.<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs240/readings/worse-is-better.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs240/readings/worse-is-better...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flatline3</author><text>Yegge took a massive shit on technical discourse, and if not countered, the ramifications thereof could be felt for <i>years</i>. His influence is disproportional to his value, and I am extremely disappointed to see anyone here taking his emotional arguments seriously.<p>Unless firmly censured, I expect to see Yegge's ridiculous viral meme of "liberal vs. conservative" spread and repeated by inexperienced developers indefinitely.<p>If I had any respect for Yegge, I entirely lost it here. The question of how to write software should be founded in careful consideration of specific problem domains, experience and research, and studied approaches. It should not be founded in some gross politicized and emotional argument.<p>Yegge is not just wrong, his reframing of engineering decision making is dangerous, and his ridiculous and viral engineering-as-politics meme makes people dumber for having simply read it. I'm disgusted with it, as well as any debate that seriously approaches his irrational appeal to emotion.<p>Yegge should be ashamed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Steve Yegge: Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus</title><url>https://plus.google.com/u/0/110981030061712822816/posts/KaSKeg4vQtz</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>As much as some commenters are (weirdly?) railing against this classification scheme I think the underlying idea that software conservatism is about risk aversion is essentially accurate.<p>Perhaps another way of framing this is to ask the question: are you optimizing for the best case or the worst case? This ultimately is a form of risk management. And I'm not talking in the algorithmic sense, meaning complexity expressed as the asymptotically worst case. I'm talking about people, software and ecosystems.<p>Let me illustrate this idea with Java.<p>- C++ has operator overloads. Java does not? Why? Because people might abuse them. That's optimizing for the worst case (ie bad or inexperienced programmers). Properly used, operator overloading can lead to extremely readable code;<p>- Java has checked exceptions and uses them liberally (pun intended). C#, as one example, only has unchecked exceptions. Why? Philosophically the Java language designers (and many of its users) feel that this forces callers to deal with exceptions. Pragmatically (IMHO) it does not and leads to more cases of exceptions being simply swallowed. But again this is optimizing for the worst case ie programmers who should deal with a particular error condition but won't;<p>- Java has no multiple inheritance. Same story: it can be abused ("it is known"). But also mixins can be a powerful metaphor.<p>- Rinse and repeat for duck typing, extension methods, etc.<p>Putting Python two steps from Ruby strikes me as an interesting choice. I'd say the difference is at most one.<p>I'll also agree that Google as a company (based on my own <i>much</i> more limited experience than Yegge's) is firmly conservative. The style of writing Javascript that he refers to is about writing Google Closure code with all sorts of directives to aid the Closure Compiler (I describe Closure as putting the Java back into Javascript).<p>I also see a lot of Python code that isn't really Python. It's Java expressed in Python syntax rather than idiomatic Python and that is kind of sad.<p>Which isn't to say that any of this is necessarily bad (or good). It's just a (software) political viewpoint you need to be comfortable with (or at least can tolerate) or (to quote the South Park meme) "You're gonna have a bad time".<p>One of the comments linked <i>Worse is Better</i> [1], which is worth a read too.<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs240/readings/worse-is-better.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs240/readings/worse-is-better...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pheinberg</author><text>I don't think the main problem with operator overloading is "abuse"; I think it's that there's absolutely no way to know what a given clause of code might <i>mean</i>, even if the overloading has been defined by excellent coders.</text></comment> |
15,185,716 | 15,184,193 | 1 | 2 | 15,183,733 | train | <story><title>The fertility of the older mind</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170828-the-amazing-fertility-of-the-older-mind</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hathawsh</author><text>As a child I was obsessively aware of other people&#x27;s opinions of me, so I was afraid to make mistakes. Today, I am much better at putting myself in the learning mindset because I have learned a basic truth: <i>learning is essentially the same as temporarily making a fool of myself, but in a safe place</i>. That&#x27;s how we all learned to walk, talk, and read, after all. If we can learn such complex skills as those then we can surely pick up a lot more skills, with effort.<p>I wish I had understood that as a child. I tried to learn to dance and act, but I mostly failed because I didn&#x27;t really put myself out there. I did learn to sing thanks to choirs. I got into computers partly because all my mistakes were completely private.<p>There&#x27;s no reason I can&#x27;t continue to learn new skills. I just need to shed my ego and try things without reservation.</text></comment> | <story><title>The fertility of the older mind</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170828-the-amazing-fertility-of-the-older-mind</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gopalv</author><text>&gt; Or perhaps children are simply less inhibited and aren’t so scared about making mistakes.<p>Struck a chord there - because I had come to the same conclusion of sorts, about my ability to practice activities in public.<p>Riding a bicycle is a fairly hard thing to learn and very easy to practice (from my experience), but learning to do that when everyone around is falling off them was much less of a struggle than trying to learn ice skating in my mid thirties, when everyone at the &quot;cheap skate night&quot; is just gliding by with no effort.<p>There&#x27;s a certain embarrassment which distracts from the task at hand. And being good at several other things, which are more immediately satisfying to do also factors into the decision to spend time learning something new which you&#x27;ll never be as good as the ones who started when they were 5.<p>Right now, I&#x27;m struggling to learn enough spanish to converse with my kid &amp; observing language learning first-hand, in third person. The words just come out without any particular boundaries in production - grammar, conjugations, gender, whether it is the right word.<p>Everything is optional and the only discouraging response is skipping the conversation and trying to ignore it.</text></comment> |
20,469,535 | 20,469,157 | 1 | 2 | 20,468,845 | train | <story><title>HTTP Security Headers – A Complete Guide</title><url>https://nullsweep.com/http-security-headers-a-complete-guide/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>deftnerd</author><text>This is a good basic overview of the basic headers, but I suggest spending some time on Scott Helme&#x27;s blog. He runs securityheaders.io, a free service that scans your site, and assigns it a letter grade based on what headers and configurations you&#x27;ve applied.<p>For instance, his explanation of Content Security Policy headers is much more detailed than in the OP&#x27;s link.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scotthelme.co.uk&#x2F;content-security-policy-an-introduction&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scotthelme.co.uk&#x2F;content-security-policy-an-introduc...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>HTTP Security Headers – A Complete Guide</title><url>https://nullsweep.com/http-security-headers-a-complete-guide/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spectre256</author><text>It&#x27;s definitely worth repeating the warning that, while very useful, Strict-Transport-Security should be deployed with special care!<p>While the author&#x27;s example of `max-age=3600` means there&#x27;s only an hour of potential problems, enabling Strict-Transport-Security has the potential to prevent people from accessing your site if for whatever reason you are no longer able to serve HTTPS traffic.<p>Considering another common setting is to enable HSTS for a year, its worth enabling only deliberately and with some thought.</text></comment> |
20,779,236 | 20,779,264 | 1 | 2 | 20,777,236 | train | <story><title>China’s assault on Cathay Pacific</title><url>https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/08/22/why-chinas-assault-on-cathay-pacific-should-scare-all-foreign-firms</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>If you’re a Hong Kong resident, what are your options? Can you flee the country with a visa to a first world country with rights less under pressure from a totalitarian state?<p>Edit: I genuinely appreciate all of the replies to this comment as this humanitarian crisis unfolds.</text></item><item><author>simonh</author><text>&gt;Chinese inspectors have started screening the phones of Cathay crew for anti-Beijing material.<p>If that doesn&#x27;t persuade ordinary Hong Kongers to love and trust the mainland authorities, I don&#x27;t know what will.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnzim</author><text>In the early 90s many countries started opening up pathways for HK citizens fearing this - there was a lot of talk of &quot;Brain Drain&quot; in HK.<p>Canada in particular did a great job of encouraging emigration.<p>These days it&#x27;s a little harder. The classic &quot;HK passport&quot; is the BNO - British Nationality Overseas which doesn&#x27;t give you right of abode in the UK because racism.<p>Asylum is also extremely difficult to achieve - you&#x27;d have to have been already targeted and by that point there&#x27;s already a risk of being disappeared extra-judicially.</text></comment> | <story><title>China’s assault on Cathay Pacific</title><url>https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/08/22/why-chinas-assault-on-cathay-pacific-should-scare-all-foreign-firms</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>If you’re a Hong Kong resident, what are your options? Can you flee the country with a visa to a first world country with rights less under pressure from a totalitarian state?<p>Edit: I genuinely appreciate all of the replies to this comment as this humanitarian crisis unfolds.</text></item><item><author>simonh</author><text>&gt;Chinese inspectors have started screening the phones of Cathay crew for anti-Beijing material.<p>If that doesn&#x27;t persuade ordinary Hong Kongers to love and trust the mainland authorities, I don&#x27;t know what will.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theseadroid</author><text>HK allows dual citizenship and there are around 300,000 Canadians living in HK right now[1]. Not sure about other nationalities. And I think HK passport can go to many countries visa free or visa on arrival[2]. So in a sense many protesters do have a plan b if needed.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nationalpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;canada&#x2F;unrest-in-hong-kong-fuels-speculation-of-spike-in-re-return-migration-to-canada" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nationalpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;canada&#x2F;unrest-in-hong-kong-fue...</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.immd.gov.hk&#x2F;eng&#x2F;service&#x2F;travel_document&#x2F;visa_free_access.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.immd.gov.hk&#x2F;eng&#x2F;service&#x2F;travel_document&#x2F;visa_fre...</a></text></comment> |
41,232,410 | 41,231,277 | 1 | 3 | 41,206,168 | train | <story><title>Room inspections at Resorts World confuse, annoy DEF CON attendees</title><url>https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/tourism/invasion-of-privacy-hotel-room-inspections-confuse-hacker-convention-attendees-3121350/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Since the festival shooting Vegas hotels have a policy of entering every room every 24 hours. If you skip housekeeping, they get suspicious and then they send security to check on you.<p>Some clever hackers figured out how to use the phone system to make them think housekeeping had been there[0], so now they do inspections when BlackHat&#x2F;DefCon is in town because they don&#x27;t trust their own tracking systems.<p>[0] One of the hotels had housekeeping dial *5 on the room phone when they entered the room to clean, and then *5 again when they left. So some hackers would put out their &quot;do not clean&quot; sign and then just dial *5 twice 10 minutes apart so no one would get suspicious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noddingham</author><text>That&#x27;s simply not true. I&#x27;ve stayed at PH, TI, and the Venetian over the last 3 years for conferences and personal travel, I pass on housekeeping the whole week, and there have been no security checks like you describe.</text></comment> | <story><title>Room inspections at Resorts World confuse, annoy DEF CON attendees</title><url>https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/tourism/invasion-of-privacy-hotel-room-inspections-confuse-hacker-convention-attendees-3121350/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Since the festival shooting Vegas hotels have a policy of entering every room every 24 hours. If you skip housekeeping, they get suspicious and then they send security to check on you.<p>Some clever hackers figured out how to use the phone system to make them think housekeeping had been there[0], so now they do inspections when BlackHat&#x2F;DefCon is in town because they don&#x27;t trust their own tracking systems.<p>[0] One of the hotels had housekeeping dial *5 on the room phone when they entered the room to clean, and then *5 again when they left. So some hackers would put out their &quot;do not clean&quot; sign and then just dial *5 twice 10 minutes apart so no one would get suspicious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wannacboatmovie</author><text>Holy shit, there are hotels that still do housekeeping every day post COVID? Please name names, I want to stay there! Even better if there are ones that still do real room service where someone wheels a cart into your room, not leaving a bag at the foot of your door.<p>Last time I traveled the concierge looked at me as if I was some horrible person because I requested daily housekeeping, not this &quot;on demand&quot; nonsense which has sadly become pervasive.</text></comment> |
17,803,087 | 17,802,619 | 1 | 3 | 17,802,237 | train | <story><title>Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/20/17758724/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-specs-pricing-release-date-features</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bitL</author><text>Hmm, 24%-42% performance increase (14&#x2F;16TFlops vs 11.3TFlops) for 70-90% price increase... And prices were already inflated by crypto that is now collapsing. Not sure who is the target market for this tech honestly. Still only 11GB RAM, even if 50% faster, making it a nonsense purchase for Deep Learning enthusiasts (state-of-art models are already larger).<p>Unless somebody invented RTX-based coin of course, then this is the minimal price...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdietrich</author><text><i>&gt;Not sure who is the target market for this tech honestly.</i><p>These are gaming GPUs being announced at a games conference to an audience of gamers and games journalists. The focus of Huang&#x27;s talk was how accelerated ray tracing will improve the graphical fidelity of games.<p>GPU compute is a spin-off from gaming. Gamers remain the primary market. They generate the volume that allows Nvidia to sell a supercomputer on a card for under $1000. If you want a professional product, Nvidia are more than happy to sell you a Tesla or a Quadro at a professional price point.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/20/17758724/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-specs-pricing-release-date-features</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bitL</author><text>Hmm, 24%-42% performance increase (14&#x2F;16TFlops vs 11.3TFlops) for 70-90% price increase... And prices were already inflated by crypto that is now collapsing. Not sure who is the target market for this tech honestly. Still only 11GB RAM, even if 50% faster, making it a nonsense purchase for Deep Learning enthusiasts (state-of-art models are already larger).<p>Unless somebody invented RTX-based coin of course, then this is the minimal price...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aqme28</author><text>Where are you getting a 70-90% price increase?<p>1080s are ~$450, will now be $799.
1070s are ~$400, will now be $599.<p>(I&#x27;m going off the top hits on Newegg)</text></comment> |
32,935,788 | 32,933,844 | 1 | 3 | 32,932,438 | train | <story><title>The IT Crowd US Pilot (2007) [video]</title><url>https://archive.org/details/the-it-crowd-us-pilot</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Longlius</author><text>Part of it is simply different television formats. The Office UK specifically aired on BBC One without commercials which meant that it had to be cut down to fit on a major network&#x27;s timeslot of 20-24 min. Shows like that typically have to go to special TV stations like PBS or BBC America in order to get a commercial-free timeslot or (in BBC America&#x27;s case) finagled into a less common time slot with weird commercial break timings. Even with shows that have the same length as
a standard US show, the break timings are at different points making it more complicated for TV networks to schedule ad space around.<p>And then there&#x27;s the larger issue of a lot of British TV actors simply not having the recognizability of their American counterparts which is a major selling point (esp in the pre-web media days). Steve Carrell was a minor star from his time on the Daily Show which made him a good fit to &#x27;sell&#x27; the US Office.<p>&gt;Did the UK IT Crowd ever take off in the US?<p>It was a minor cult hit, especially among the technologically-inclined demographic. But it&#x27;s not especially well-known.</text></item><item><author>dotBen</author><text>I&#x27;m pretty sure this pilot is the same script as episode 1 of the original UK series. Clearly someone felt the need to recast and reshoot the series with US actors (plus Richard Ayoade), like they did the US Office.<p>I wonder if that&#x27;s old thinking (or wasn&#x27;t actually needed) - the amount of UK TV that&#x27;s now on Netflix and other OTT platforms seems to suggest that US audiences are open to enjoying original UK series without being reshot. Did the UK IT Crowd ever take off in the US?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rwmj</author><text>I learned this is why David Attenborough&#x27;s nature documentaries now have the obligatory 10 minute &quot;making of&quot; featurette at the end. The first 50 minutes is sold overseas as an hour long documentary (with ad breaks), and the last 10 minutes is for the BBC audience in the UK to fill it up to an hour.</text></comment> | <story><title>The IT Crowd US Pilot (2007) [video]</title><url>https://archive.org/details/the-it-crowd-us-pilot</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Longlius</author><text>Part of it is simply different television formats. The Office UK specifically aired on BBC One without commercials which meant that it had to be cut down to fit on a major network&#x27;s timeslot of 20-24 min. Shows like that typically have to go to special TV stations like PBS or BBC America in order to get a commercial-free timeslot or (in BBC America&#x27;s case) finagled into a less common time slot with weird commercial break timings. Even with shows that have the same length as
a standard US show, the break timings are at different points making it more complicated for TV networks to schedule ad space around.<p>And then there&#x27;s the larger issue of a lot of British TV actors simply not having the recognizability of their American counterparts which is a major selling point (esp in the pre-web media days). Steve Carrell was a minor star from his time on the Daily Show which made him a good fit to &#x27;sell&#x27; the US Office.<p>&gt;Did the UK IT Crowd ever take off in the US?<p>It was a minor cult hit, especially among the technologically-inclined demographic. But it&#x27;s not especially well-known.</text></item><item><author>dotBen</author><text>I&#x27;m pretty sure this pilot is the same script as episode 1 of the original UK series. Clearly someone felt the need to recast and reshoot the series with US actors (plus Richard Ayoade), like they did the US Office.<p>I wonder if that&#x27;s old thinking (or wasn&#x27;t actually needed) - the amount of UK TV that&#x27;s now on Netflix and other OTT platforms seems to suggest that US audiences are open to enjoying original UK series without being reshot. Did the UK IT Crowd ever take off in the US?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>c4ptnjack</author><text>Mostly agree with all you have to say minus the reference as Steve carrell being a safe, reliable pick at the time period. Being on the daily show is a great metric for a casting director as far as quality goes but in reality he had close to zero exposure and public recognition before the office.<p>That fact is supported by how bad the first season of the US office did ratings wise. People warmed up to it quickly thanks to the quality of writing, but the showrunners and producers clearly didn&#x27;t feel confident in the future success of Steve carrell as a leading star or they wouldn&#x27;t have ordered he get hair plugs to make him more look more likable.<p>Lastly, there is something to be said, at least regarding comedy, about differences in taste between cultures. British and US comedy have often been quite different over the last 70 years and is evident in the stylistic differences between the british and us versions of the office in season 1.</text></comment> |
13,267,140 | 13,267,110 | 1 | 3 | 13,266,238 | train | <story><title>Open Letter to a Car-Addicted City (2014)</title><url>http://www.planetizen.com/node/72068/open-letter-car-addicted-city</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bgirard</author><text>I recall in ~2009 my university (UWaterloo) had a referendum to increase tuition by $50&#x2F;term (now $80&#x2F;term) to increase city bus routes to the university and provide free service to students using your student card. I voted against it because I could easily carpool and was against another mandatory fee.<p>The vote was fairly controversial and passed by a narrow margin. But since the service was improved to every 15 minutes and I was already paying for it I started using the service and shortly stopped driving to school altogether.<p>By the time I graduated I really loved the system since it really improved my commute and really regretted voting against it. I just checked and now the approval is at 94% for the UPass.</text></comment> | <story><title>Open Letter to a Car-Addicted City (2014)</title><url>http://www.planetizen.com/node/72068/open-letter-car-addicted-city</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>acd</author><text>Why even allow cars in the cities? The air will be cleaner without them. Have parking spaces outside the center and then automatic electric shuttle trains to transport people in.<p>Walking and biking in the city center with lots of green areas.<p>No cars means clean air and safe traffic. Air pollution from cars is a silent killer.</text></comment> |
28,003,267 | 28,002,563 | 1 | 2 | 28,002,094 | train | <story><title>One Tenth of a Second</title><url>https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/one-tenth-of-a-second</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GuB-42</author><text>I always say that important scientific discoveries arise from better tools. Once technology can make the tool, it doesn&#x27;t take long for the discovery to be made. It may take a genius, but there are a lot of geniuses on Earth.<p>Without precision instruments, how can we know that light has a speed, that stars are not points of light on a crystal sphere surrounding the earth, that diseases are carried by microbes... General relativity was a way to solve anomalies in the orbit of Mercury, something only detectable with precise measurement. Without it, general relativity would make no sense: why use all these complex formulas when Newton gravity works just as well? Send Einstein&#x27;s work to the 16th century and it will be slashed by Occam&#x27;s razor.<p>The &quot;tenth of a second&quot; problem is just that, technology able to measure tenth of seconds opened new fields.<p>I don&#x27;t mean that technology is more important than scientific research, but they go hand in hand, no good science without good observation, no good observation without good tech, and no good tech without good science.</text></comment> | <story><title>One Tenth of a Second</title><url>https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/one-tenth-of-a-second</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nine_k</author><text>Scroll right to the numbered list; it&#x27;s <i>fascinating:</i> questions of scientific objectivity, the idea of psychology study, cinematogrpahy, statistics, continuity of reality, etc all arising from the need to observe events at a precision of 0.1s.</text></comment> |
40,684,200 | 40,683,573 | 1 | 2 | 40,681,784 | train | <story><title>Cost of self hosting Llama-3 8B-Instruct</title><url>https://blog.lytix.co/posts/self-hosting-llama-3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>philipkglass</author><text><i>Instead of using AWS another approach involves self hosting the hardware as well. Even after factoring in energy, this does dramatically lower the price.</i><p><i>Assuming we want to mirror our setup in AWS, we’d need 4x NVidia Tesla T4s. You can buy them for about $700 on eBay.<p>Add in $1,000 to setup the rest of the rig and you have a final price of around:<p>$2,800 + $1,000 = $3,800</i><p>This whole exercise assumes that you&#x27;re using the Llama 3 8b model. At full fp16 precision that will fit in one 3090 or 4090 GPU (the int8 version will too, and run faster, with very little degradation.) Especially if you&#x27;re willing to buy GPU hardware from eBay, that will cost significantly less.<p>I have my home workstation with a 4090 exposed as a vLLM service to an AWS environment where I access it via reverse SSH tunnel.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>speakspokespok</author><text>Why did this only occur to me recently? You can selfhost a k8s cluster and expose the services using a $5 digital ocean droplet. The droplet and k8s services are point-to-point connected using tailscale. Performance is perfectly fine, keeps your skillset sharp, and you’re self-hosting!</text></comment> | <story><title>Cost of self hosting Llama-3 8B-Instruct</title><url>https://blog.lytix.co/posts/self-hosting-llama-3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>philipkglass</author><text><i>Instead of using AWS another approach involves self hosting the hardware as well. Even after factoring in energy, this does dramatically lower the price.</i><p><i>Assuming we want to mirror our setup in AWS, we’d need 4x NVidia Tesla T4s. You can buy them for about $700 on eBay.<p>Add in $1,000 to setup the rest of the rig and you have a final price of around:<p>$2,800 + $1,000 = $3,800</i><p>This whole exercise assumes that you&#x27;re using the Llama 3 8b model. At full fp16 precision that will fit in one 3090 or 4090 GPU (the int8 version will too, and run faster, with very little degradation.) Especially if you&#x27;re willing to buy GPU hardware from eBay, that will cost significantly less.<p>I have my home workstation with a 4090 exposed as a vLLM service to an AWS environment where I access it via reverse SSH tunnel.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>logtrees</author><text>Whoa, so you have code running in AWS making use of your local hardware via what is called a reverse SSH tunnel? I will have to look into how that works, that&#x27;s pretty powerful if so. I have a mac mini that I use for builds and deploys via FTP&#x2F;SFTP and was going to look into setting up &quot;messaging&quot; via that pipeline to access local hardware compute through file messages lol, but reverse SSH tunnel sounds like it&#x27;ll be way better for directly calling executables rather than needing to parse messages from files first.</text></comment> |
13,470,466 | 13,468,422 | 1 | 2 | 13,466,187 | train | <story><title>Cisco: Magic WebEx URL Allows Arbitrary Remote Command Execution</title><url>https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1096</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andmarios</author><text>WebEx is the worst conferencing software I&#x27;ve used.
Their Linux support is worst than non-existant. If it were non-existant that would be it, life could go on. But no, they provide a java applet that runs only from firefox, that it&#x27;s impossible to use audio because they are still at 32bit, that claims to share one application and instead shares your whole screen (and only if you are lucky and someone tells you, you&#x27;ll ever know), that occasionally (like one hour before an important meeting) they release a version with bad manifests and the applet refuses to download its components.<p>Even their Android client can&#x27;t manage the mic volume properly and people can&#x27;t hear you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phillc73</author><text>I was asked to join a call yesterday using appear.in[1]. Having never used this service before, I feared the worst and accessed the invitation link a good 20 minutes before the call was due to start.<p>Using Chromium on Debian, everything worked absolutely smoothly. No further install requested. Audio quality was great. My video picture looked a bit grainy to me, but the other participant appeared very clear on my end.<p>They&#x27;re using WebRTC[2], which excludes Explorer and Safari, but covers recent versions of just about everything else.<p>After poor experiences using Skype, Webex and Hangouts, I was very pleasantly surprised by appear.in<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;appear.in" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;appear.in</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.appear.in&#x2F;article&#x2F;94-who-can-use-appear-in" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.appear.in&#x2F;article&#x2F;94-who-can-use-appear-in</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Cisco: Magic WebEx URL Allows Arbitrary Remote Command Execution</title><url>https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1096</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andmarios</author><text>WebEx is the worst conferencing software I&#x27;ve used.
Their Linux support is worst than non-existant. If it were non-existant that would be it, life could go on. But no, they provide a java applet that runs only from firefox, that it&#x27;s impossible to use audio because they are still at 32bit, that claims to share one application and instead shares your whole screen (and only if you are lucky and someone tells you, you&#x27;ll ever know), that occasionally (like one hour before an important meeting) they release a version with bad manifests and the applet refuses to download its components.<p>Even their Android client can&#x27;t manage the mic volume properly and people can&#x27;t hear you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>terrywang</author><text>WebEx is not the worst but definitely among those which are considered the worst;-)<p>Currently my company uses Hangouts, BlueJeans, Zoom, and WebEx - don&#x27;t know why there is no decision made.<p>In this context it is the worse - I tried to run it on Linux, like you said now that chrome support is gone, I can only launch the Java (swing - not Java applet for sure) UI via Firefox, end up with crappy slow GUI, no ability for screen sharing &amp; viewing, no audio, utterly useless.<p>On Linux, web conferencing services that provide a lite (feature rich) version like BlueJeans and GoToMeeting (chrome extension and&#x2F;or web version) are pleasant to use.<p>I personally prefer to use Hangouts if no such pure web version is available although Hangouts seems to have lost its gravity…</text></comment> |
11,922,924 | 11,922,696 | 1 | 2 | 11,922,485 | train | <story><title>ReStructuredText vs. Markdown for documentation</title><url>http://zverovich.net/2016/06/16/rst-vs-markdown.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jawns</author><text>One point that&#x27;s not really touched upon is the fact that it really does matter whether the person writing the documentation is a technical writer or a developer.<p>If you&#x27;re a tech writer, you&#x27;re probably interested in using the best tool for the job, because writing documentation is what you do day in, day out. If ReStructuredText is the most powerful format, then you&#x27;re going to strongly lean toward that.<p>If you&#x27;re a developer, however, writing documentation -- while you may recognize its necessity -- is a task that is often a slog. It&#x27;s something you do so you can get it out of the way, and you really don&#x27;t want to spend very much time thinking about the &quot;how.&quot; You especially don&#x27;t want to spend very much time learning the intricacies of a new markup format, unless you absolutely have to.<p>I say this as a developer who is also a writer. I enjoy writing, but I know many developers don&#x27;t. And if Markdown makes it easier for them to write documentation, either because they&#x27;re already familiar with it or because it&#x27;s just a simpler format, then I&#x27;m all for it, even if ReStructuredText might be a bit powerful overall.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcosdumay</author><text>Completely true, until you need a feature that the less powerful format does not support. Then you are back at the beginning, regretting spending all that time learning something that won&#x27;t fill your needs.<p>ReStructuredText is not hard. Yes, unusual features are hard to memorize, but a quick google search beats it being impossible every time.</text></comment> | <story><title>ReStructuredText vs. Markdown for documentation</title><url>http://zverovich.net/2016/06/16/rst-vs-markdown.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jawns</author><text>One point that&#x27;s not really touched upon is the fact that it really does matter whether the person writing the documentation is a technical writer or a developer.<p>If you&#x27;re a tech writer, you&#x27;re probably interested in using the best tool for the job, because writing documentation is what you do day in, day out. If ReStructuredText is the most powerful format, then you&#x27;re going to strongly lean toward that.<p>If you&#x27;re a developer, however, writing documentation -- while you may recognize its necessity -- is a task that is often a slog. It&#x27;s something you do so you can get it out of the way, and you really don&#x27;t want to spend very much time thinking about the &quot;how.&quot; You especially don&#x27;t want to spend very much time learning the intricacies of a new markup format, unless you absolutely have to.<p>I say this as a developer who is also a writer. I enjoy writing, but I know many developers don&#x27;t. And if Markdown makes it easier for them to write documentation, either because they&#x27;re already familiar with it or because it&#x27;s just a simpler format, then I&#x27;m all for it, even if ReStructuredText might be a bit powerful overall.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xapata</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t say Markdown is simpler. It has fewer features, but the core experience is about the same as reStructuredText.<p>RST header markup is more readable in plain text. In Markdown, the less important a header is, the more hash marks. In RST, I am free to make less important headers have less visual weight.</text></comment> |
30,241,025 | 30,238,669 | 1 | 2 | 30,206,027 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What are some good tech magazines?</title><text>I spend so much of my work and leisure time on devices and have been trying to reduce this. For example, I&#x27;ve recently switched to an iPod Classic for a lot of my music listening which has been quite nice.<p>I also spend a lot of time browsing and reading interesting articles, particularly on HN and want to replace some of that with &#x27;offline&#x27; alternatives. When it comes to other hobbies (sports, music) I have found some great magazines still in circulation that can work as alternatives to browsing online.<p>I&#x27;d love to hear your suggestions for tech related magazines, ideally things I can subscribe to and get monthly&#x2F;quarterly. These should be varied enough to cover the kind of topics we see here on HN daily as opposed to super general tech news type magazines.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tinyprojects</author><text>I&#x27;m glad I&#x27;m not the only one who thinks WIRED has gone down hill a bit recently.</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>My current subscription list includes;<p>Wired -- has slipped a bit, I worry they have lost the will to cover cutting edge.<p>Smithsonian -- a wide variety of topics, some tech, some archeologh etc.<p>Smithsonian Air &amp; Space -- (now quarterly :-() which has good space technology as well as interesting stories of both military and civilian aircraft.<p>Science News -- which culls from a lot of journals and finds interesting papers to highlight (I will often follow up on an article by writing to the researchers for copies of their papers)<p>Popular Science, Popular Mechanics -- These have become remarkably similar in their content focus, that said they keep me up to date on a lot of commercial gizmos that I might otherwise miss in the noise.<p>QST (part of the ARRL membership) -- Which is all about Amateur Radio and so it hits a lot of interesting topics as I continue to explore software defined radios both in theory and in practice.<p>I use Scansnap scanner and paper guillotine to save articles that I find either particularly interesting, or I am curious if they will go anywhere. There are many interesting &quot;over night&quot; revolutions that appear years earlier as some sort of &quot;wouldn&#x27;t it be cool if ...&quot; article. Indexing them is a pain, my indexing foo is weak :-).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jsemrau</author><text>I absolutely miss the Wired of the 1990&#x27;s.
When it was a magazine, no THE magazine, to read about the intersection of culture and tech. In this day and age, I find it hard to pickup a copy of Wired at the airport because it has content for about 5 minutes.
One of my favs is still Monocle, but it doesn&#x27;t have much tech. Unfortunately.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What are some good tech magazines?</title><text>I spend so much of my work and leisure time on devices and have been trying to reduce this. For example, I&#x27;ve recently switched to an iPod Classic for a lot of my music listening which has been quite nice.<p>I also spend a lot of time browsing and reading interesting articles, particularly on HN and want to replace some of that with &#x27;offline&#x27; alternatives. When it comes to other hobbies (sports, music) I have found some great magazines still in circulation that can work as alternatives to browsing online.<p>I&#x27;d love to hear your suggestions for tech related magazines, ideally things I can subscribe to and get monthly&#x2F;quarterly. These should be varied enough to cover the kind of topics we see here on HN daily as opposed to super general tech news type magazines.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tinyprojects</author><text>I&#x27;m glad I&#x27;m not the only one who thinks WIRED has gone down hill a bit recently.</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>My current subscription list includes;<p>Wired -- has slipped a bit, I worry they have lost the will to cover cutting edge.<p>Smithsonian -- a wide variety of topics, some tech, some archeologh etc.<p>Smithsonian Air &amp; Space -- (now quarterly :-() which has good space technology as well as interesting stories of both military and civilian aircraft.<p>Science News -- which culls from a lot of journals and finds interesting papers to highlight (I will often follow up on an article by writing to the researchers for copies of their papers)<p>Popular Science, Popular Mechanics -- These have become remarkably similar in their content focus, that said they keep me up to date on a lot of commercial gizmos that I might otherwise miss in the noise.<p>QST (part of the ARRL membership) -- Which is all about Amateur Radio and so it hits a lot of interesting topics as I continue to explore software defined radios both in theory and in practice.<p>I use Scansnap scanner and paper guillotine to save articles that I find either particularly interesting, or I am curious if they will go anywhere. There are many interesting &quot;over night&quot; revolutions that appear years earlier as some sort of &quot;wouldn&#x27;t it be cool if ...&quot; article. Indexing them is a pain, my indexing foo is weak :-).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rileymat2</author><text>By recently, do you mean 2005?</text></comment> |
41,234,721 | 41,232,130 | 1 | 2 | 41,211,091 | train | <story><title>Antifragility in complex dynamical systems</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s44260-024-00014-y</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bob1029</author><text>I&#x27;ve found that intentionally causing abrupt (but reasonable) changes to hyperparameters in evolutionary spiking neural network simulations (I.e between each generation) results in far more robust simulations that will meet fitness criteria with less likelihood of getting stuck somewhere. The tradeoff being that simulating will take longer, but this may be worth things like reducing the chances of your resource requirements going asymptotic half way through.<p>My current method of perturbation is to cap the total # of activations per candidate globally. When at least 3 improvements in the best global fitness score have been achieved, I cut the global activation limit in <i>half</i>. Obviously, this is fairly catastrophic for the current population. Each generation can increase the limit by 1% if no improvements made. This provides aggressive selection pressure for more efficient networks and forces a different kind of partial restart of the training process (I.e. do what you just did with 50% resources now). Very often this does result in optimization of the network. It also seems to make the networks rebound faster after restarts. At first, a restart can take 10-20 generations to recover. By generation 1000, this is closer to 1-2.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seanhunter</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;ve found that intentionally causing abrupt (but reasonable) changes to hyperparameters in evolutionary spiking neural network simulations (I.e between each generation) results in far more robust simulations that will meet fitness criteria with less likelihood of getting stuck somewhere.<p>If I understand you correctly this is similar to the philosophy behind simulated annealing isn&#x27;t it? The idea being that adding some peturbation can be enough to jog the evolution out of local minima and you probably want to reduce the amount of those jogs over time so it ends up converging.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Simulated_annealing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Simulated_annealing</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Antifragility in complex dynamical systems</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s44260-024-00014-y</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bob1029</author><text>I&#x27;ve found that intentionally causing abrupt (but reasonable) changes to hyperparameters in evolutionary spiking neural network simulations (I.e between each generation) results in far more robust simulations that will meet fitness criteria with less likelihood of getting stuck somewhere. The tradeoff being that simulating will take longer, but this may be worth things like reducing the chances of your resource requirements going asymptotic half way through.<p>My current method of perturbation is to cap the total # of activations per candidate globally. When at least 3 improvements in the best global fitness score have been achieved, I cut the global activation limit in <i>half</i>. Obviously, this is fairly catastrophic for the current population. Each generation can increase the limit by 1% if no improvements made. This provides aggressive selection pressure for more efficient networks and forces a different kind of partial restart of the training process (I.e. do what you just did with 50% resources now). Very often this does result in optimization of the network. It also seems to make the networks rebound faster after restarts. At first, a restart can take 10-20 generations to recover. By generation 1000, this is closer to 1-2.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>UniverseHacker</author><text>Very cool, but I&#x27;m surprised you&#x27;re sharing this on here and not in a job interview with a deep learning startup and&#x2F;or an arXiv paper.</text></comment> |
10,447,405 | 10,447,212 | 1 | 2 | 10,446,865 | train | <story><title>Quill – A cross browser rich text editor with an API</title><url>https://github.com/quilljs/quill/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jhchen</author><text>Hey HN - project creator here. Pleasantly surprise to see Quill picked up again on HN. We built Quill to because my previous company needed a modern editor with an API to manipulate the contents (our use case was collaborative coauthoring). Before I left we open sourced Quill and I have been working on it since. I recently posted about Quill’s 1.0 roadmap: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;quilljs.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-road-to-1-0&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;quilljs.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-road-to-1-0&#x2F;</a>. AMA.</text></comment> | <story><title>Quill – A cross browser rich text editor with an API</title><url>https://github.com/quilljs/quill/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lhl</author><text>Here&#x27;s a previous discussion on Quill <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7716376" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7716376</a> and a recent discussion on Trix, another rich text editor: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10410879" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10410879</a><p>The most comprehensive&#x2F;updated list of editors I know of is here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cheeaun&#x2F;mooeditable&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Javascript-WYSIWYG-editors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cheeaun&#x2F;mooeditable&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Javascript-WYSIW...</a><p>(It doesn&#x27;t do much to compare&#x2F;evaluate the options, but it&#x27;s pretty up-to-date&#x2F;comprehensive, which is a start)</text></comment> |
16,817,145 | 16,816,947 | 1 | 3 | 16,816,324 | train | <story><title>A Gentle Introduction to Rust</title><url>https://stevedonovan.github.io/rust-gentle-intro/readme.html#a-gentle-introduction-to-rust</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>skywhopper</author><text>Speaking as someone who&#x27;s poked around at the edges of Rust and always come away frustrated, the Rust world does need a &quot;gentle introduction&quot;. But while this document seems to understand that need, it gets messy pretty fast.<p>First of all, the introduction is all over the place, and poorly structured. There first section asks &quot;Why Learn a new Programming Language?&quot; but never answers that question (beyond &quot;it&#x27;s good mental exercise&quot;), and follows it up with a section labelled &quot;Where Rust Shines&quot; that instead vaguely compares its memory management approach to C, calls C a &quot;cowboy language&quot;, lists some of Rust&#x27;s design components (not really even principles, just aspects of the language), and then starts giving advice for how to learn a programming language in general? What?<p>Next is Hello World, and immediately &quot;Rust is a curly-braces language with semicolons, C++-style comments and a main function - so far, so familiar.&quot; Well, to C++&#x2F;Java&#x2F;Javascript programmers, maybe it is familiar. That may well be a huge part of your intended audience, but this gloss of the basics is a big red flag about what assumptions might be made further on.<p>&quot;The exclamation mark indicates that this is a macro call. For C++ programmers, this can be a turn-off, since they are used to seriously stupid C macros&quot;<p>Whoa, there, cowboy! This is Hello World! Mentioning macros at all should probably be reserved for a little later, much less vaguely referencing the C preprocessor&#x27;s bad repuation. Then the tangent about &quot;OMG, you mean I have to type an exclamation point!?&quot; is telling, though. At this point in a gentle introduction, you probably shouldn&#x27;t be already alluding to the trash talking about the language.<p>We aren&#x27;t even past the first example. Further down the page, there&#x27;s some big talk about how Rust favors explicitness, immediately followed by a discussion of how all the types are implicit and how confusing that can be. No mention of how you would remember that `f64` is the default floating point type...<p>This is a worthy attempt and probably a good first draft. It&#x27;s definitely a document that needs to exist, but in its current state, it&#x27;s an gentle intro that only a disaffected C++ programmer could love. But please keep working on it--I need something like this.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Gentle Introduction to Rust</title><url>https://stevedonovan.github.io/rust-gentle-intro/readme.html#a-gentle-introduction-to-rust</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>allengeorge</author><text>Parsing with `nom` seems like a pretty aggressive introduction to Rust :)</text></comment> |
31,517,434 | 31,513,529 | 1 | 2 | 31,511,274 | train | <story><title>Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of American firearms (2015)</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4318286/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>librish</author><text>It&#x27;s time we start legislating based on empirical evidence instead of lofty ideals. Yes, if everyone was responsible perhaps it would be OK for all of us to own firearms. But so many people are utterly irresponsible, and guns make that irresponsibility lethal.<p>People should safely store their fire-arms, but they don&#x27;t and guns get stolen and sold illegally, or used by their teenage child.<p>People shouldn&#x27;t point a gun at someone unless their life is in danger and they&#x27;re prepared to take a life, but they do and people get shot by accident, or road rage turns deadly.<p>Not to mention the suicides. If you own a gun ideation can turn into action in less than 30 seconds and it can seem like a painless, easy way to go.<p>And when everyone is armed everyone wants to be armed. Cops pull their guns quickly out of fear of armed criminals. Regular people want to own a gun because they feel like everyone else does, and they&#x27;re now less safe unless they also get one.<p>Growing up outside the US I never saw any guns. I don&#x27;t know of anyone who had a gun. I don&#x27;t know of anyone who knew anyone who had a gun. I remember seeing military members in parades carrying guns because it was one of the few times I&#x27;d actually seen one. Cops didn&#x27;t walk around armed. There are other ways to kill people but guns are an especially effective, intuitive, and easy way to do so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bko</author><text>&gt; empirical evidence instead of lofty ideals<p>The problem with a lot of anti-gun measures is that the proponents readily admit that they would not have stopped any particular shooter. For instance, people talk about background checks, but this shooter and many others did not have a history and were not known to police. They would have passes a background check.<p>Often times the person acquiring the gun already broke a number of gun laws. Either straw purchase, borrowed someones gun, carrying across state lines, etc. So throwing more laws at it won&#x27;t necessarily help. Enforcement of existing laws could help but is obviously difficult. Not to mention that gun violence is much higher in cities&#x2F;counties&#x2F;states with the most gun control measures. You can say that they just get the guns from elsewhere and national restrictions need to be imposed, but we should see SOME effect. Wyoming should have a higher murder rate than Michigan.<p>So the conversation from anti-gun people basically amounts to less guns everywhere, but that genie might be out of the bottle already. There are already hundreds of millions of guns in the US and it would be impractical to seize even a tiny percent of them.<p>But note that there were always guns in America. In fact, guns were often brought to high schools. In 1969, most public high schools in NYC had a shooting club. And yet there were no school shootings.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nypost.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;03&#x2F;31&#x2F;when-toting-guns-in-high-school-was-cool&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nypost.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;03&#x2F;31&#x2F;when-toting-guns-in-high-schoo...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of American firearms (2015)</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4318286/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>librish</author><text>It&#x27;s time we start legislating based on empirical evidence instead of lofty ideals. Yes, if everyone was responsible perhaps it would be OK for all of us to own firearms. But so many people are utterly irresponsible, and guns make that irresponsibility lethal.<p>People should safely store their fire-arms, but they don&#x27;t and guns get stolen and sold illegally, or used by their teenage child.<p>People shouldn&#x27;t point a gun at someone unless their life is in danger and they&#x27;re prepared to take a life, but they do and people get shot by accident, or road rage turns deadly.<p>Not to mention the suicides. If you own a gun ideation can turn into action in less than 30 seconds and it can seem like a painless, easy way to go.<p>And when everyone is armed everyone wants to be armed. Cops pull their guns quickly out of fear of armed criminals. Regular people want to own a gun because they feel like everyone else does, and they&#x27;re now less safe unless they also get one.<p>Growing up outside the US I never saw any guns. I don&#x27;t know of anyone who had a gun. I don&#x27;t know of anyone who knew anyone who had a gun. I remember seeing military members in parades carrying guns because it was one of the few times I&#x27;d actually seen one. Cops didn&#x27;t walk around armed. There are other ways to kill people but guns are an especially effective, intuitive, and easy way to do so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>karmelapple</author><text>Here’s a roadmap for policymakers that I think is steeped in evidence: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholar.harvard.edu&#x2F;files&#x2F;claireboine&#x2F;files&#x2F;policy.brief_.summary.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholar.harvard.edu&#x2F;files&#x2F;claireboine&#x2F;files&#x2F;policy.b...</a><p>There are 3 recommended policy changes in there.</text></comment> |
38,157,862 | 38,154,857 | 1 | 3 | 38,152,475 | train | <story><title>Montreal’s new rapid transit line saved millions per mile</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-30/how-montreal-s-new-rapid-transit-line-saved-millions-per-mile</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>icyfox</author><text>I&#x27;m really happy that Montreal made this work. We need more alternative examples of public transit build-outs in the west that actually work and come in on-budget. Copenhagen is another good exemplar here with their public&#x2F;private collaboration for new lines.<p>I do think this article has a rather unrealistic tone for what the rest of us can learn from this though.<p>&gt; One advantage is that CDPQ Infra was able to take advantage of existing rights of way to create the route, rather than needing to dig costly tunnels or demolish buildings.<p>This is huge. In many cities where we most desperately need public transit in the US, this just isn&#x27;t realistic. We need net new lines either over or underground, and no matter how you slice that they&#x27;re going to need right of way allowances and NIMBY disagreements. Plus most urban settings that will benefit the most from transit will need tunnel development as part of the cost projections.<p>&gt; Quebec passed a law that requires municipalities to respond in a timely manner to CDPQ Infra’s requests for permits and other forms of cooperation.<p>Reading about California&#x27;s highspeed rail project[^1], it seemed clear that there was deep government buy-in about the end state but the interim goals were over legislated. Counties in the central valley traded their buy-in for the project to starting the line build-out in their counties, even though population centers in LA and SF could have benefited way more from early wins. One thing this article missed was that we need to set more of a precedence for transit agencies &#x2F; bureaucrats on the ground to make decisions that will further the end goal and circumvent the horse-trading at the legislative level.<p>[^1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;10&#x2F;09&#x2F;us&#x2F;california-high-speed-rail-politics.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;10&#x2F;09&#x2F;us&#x2F;california-high-speed-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WalterBright</author><text>King County in Washington State has been determined to avoid using any existing rail right-of-way, and insists on blasting new right-of-way at incredible cost.<p>The existing right-of-way (sometimes even with tracks still on them!) is turned into bike paths, that nobody uses most of the year because of rain.<p>They also decided to build a new tunnel under Seattle. What to do with the dirt they dug out? Why, they stuffed it into the old tunnel! Probably the most expensive use of existing infrastructure ever. (The excuse was the old tunnel needed some work to make it more earthquake resistant. All that needed to be done was add a liner.)<p>It gets even better. They decided to build another tunnel. So they bought a zillion dollar boring machine, and tunneled away. When the tunnel was completed, they cut up the boring machine for scrap! After all, nobody would ever need to build another tunnel.<p>Since the end of the tunnel was still in the major Seattle metropolitan area, and the machine was already there in place, just keep boring north. But hey, I surely am a dunderhead.<p>It&#x27;s so awful one is tempted to characterize it as malicious.</text></comment> | <story><title>Montreal’s new rapid transit line saved millions per mile</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-30/how-montreal-s-new-rapid-transit-line-saved-millions-per-mile</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>icyfox</author><text>I&#x27;m really happy that Montreal made this work. We need more alternative examples of public transit build-outs in the west that actually work and come in on-budget. Copenhagen is another good exemplar here with their public&#x2F;private collaboration for new lines.<p>I do think this article has a rather unrealistic tone for what the rest of us can learn from this though.<p>&gt; One advantage is that CDPQ Infra was able to take advantage of existing rights of way to create the route, rather than needing to dig costly tunnels or demolish buildings.<p>This is huge. In many cities where we most desperately need public transit in the US, this just isn&#x27;t realistic. We need net new lines either over or underground, and no matter how you slice that they&#x27;re going to need right of way allowances and NIMBY disagreements. Plus most urban settings that will benefit the most from transit will need tunnel development as part of the cost projections.<p>&gt; Quebec passed a law that requires municipalities to respond in a timely manner to CDPQ Infra’s requests for permits and other forms of cooperation.<p>Reading about California&#x27;s highspeed rail project[^1], it seemed clear that there was deep government buy-in about the end state but the interim goals were over legislated. Counties in the central valley traded their buy-in for the project to starting the line build-out in their counties, even though population centers in LA and SF could have benefited way more from early wins. One thing this article missed was that we need to set more of a precedence for transit agencies &#x2F; bureaucrats on the ground to make decisions that will further the end goal and circumvent the horse-trading at the legislative level.<p>[^1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;10&#x2F;09&#x2F;us&#x2F;california-high-speed-rail-politics.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;10&#x2F;09&#x2F;us&#x2F;california-high-speed-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alephxyz</author><text>Indeed, about 80% of the tracks for the new rail system, including the most expensive bits (across the st Lawrence river, through downtown and dense suburbs, under the Mont-Royal) were on pre-existing railways or rights of ways. The rest was built aboveground next to a highway (with a small branch dug underground towards the airport).<p>By comparison, the Blue line metro extension is being built from scratch, including expropriations, and the projected cost is CAD6.4B for 5-6km of new tunnels and give stations.</text></comment> |
19,672,254 | 19,671,326 | 1 | 2 | 19,670,831 | train | <story><title>Microsimulation of Traffic Flow</title><url>http://traffic-simulation.de/ring.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>siavosh</author><text>This is incredible, I put a cone in the middle of the road and realized the nightmare I had caused, and then quickly removed it. But the nightmare just continued to ripple through space and time. This explains all those mysterious traffic jams I&#x27;ve been in that seemed to defy reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kozhevnikov</author><text>Here&#x27;s a real world example of a traffic wave due to one person&#x27;s sudden break<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;fLNs3k0.gifv" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;fLNs3k0.gifv</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Microsimulation of Traffic Flow</title><url>http://traffic-simulation.de/ring.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>siavosh</author><text>This is incredible, I put a cone in the middle of the road and realized the nightmare I had caused, and then quickly removed it. But the nightmare just continued to ripple through space and time. This explains all those mysterious traffic jams I&#x27;ve been in that seemed to defy reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>systemtest</author><text>The solution is simple. Lower the speed limit to 20kph, wait for the ripple to disappear and slowly raise the limit to 100kph. The reason this doesn&#x27;t work in real life is lack of dynamic signage and because people don&#x27;t adhere to the speed limit.</text></comment> |
21,326,628 | 21,324,737 | 1 | 2 | 21,323,015 | train | <story><title>Google clamps down on free storage</title><url>https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/gmail-hooked-us-on-free-storage-now-google-is-making-us-pay</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linsomniac</author><text>This article seems awfully doom and gloom. I find that:<p>- Google provides really good tools for archiving your data. If you want to reduce your storage footprint, you can use Google Takeout to grab it, archive it somewhere else, and then clean up items you no longer want. I recently did this with my photos, I knew I had some huge videos that had been uploaded that I didn&#x27;t need (I had edited them into a Youtube video), so I was able to find and delete them and open up quite a bit of space. I toyed with the idea of deleting photos 5 years old, once I archived them, but I didn&#x27;t need to because of the above.<p>- Google provides a lot of value to me for the $3&#x2F;month I&#x27;ve been spending. Photo enrichment and searching is something I use all the time. Storage of my documents and files is very useful and google has been super reliable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crispinb</author><text>I found it good value until they removed local syncing of Google Photos from their Gdrive client. That was where most of my data was. Making it only accessible via a web form download was a huge product downgrade that I don&#x27;t think a more customer-responsive company would have risked. So I cancelled my subs &amp; won&#x27;t be going back (I&#x27;m sure they&#x27;re quaking in their billionaire boots).</text></comment> | <story><title>Google clamps down on free storage</title><url>https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/gmail-hooked-us-on-free-storage-now-google-is-making-us-pay</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linsomniac</author><text>This article seems awfully doom and gloom. I find that:<p>- Google provides really good tools for archiving your data. If you want to reduce your storage footprint, you can use Google Takeout to grab it, archive it somewhere else, and then clean up items you no longer want. I recently did this with my photos, I knew I had some huge videos that had been uploaded that I didn&#x27;t need (I had edited them into a Youtube video), so I was able to find and delete them and open up quite a bit of space. I toyed with the idea of deleting photos 5 years old, once I archived them, but I didn&#x27;t need to because of the above.<p>- Google provides a lot of value to me for the $3&#x2F;month I&#x27;ve been spending. Photo enrichment and searching is something I use all the time. Storage of my documents and files is very useful and google has been super reliable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>&gt; If you want to reduce your storage footprint, you can use Google Takeout to grab it,<p>This is what I&#x27;m doing to migrate my data over to Microsoft&#x27;s offering (I get adfree mail and 1TB + office products that work offline). I&#x27;m just waiting for Microsoft to let me use a domain without GoDaddy, so I can use the email, but I&#x27;m more likely to use it for storage.</text></comment> |
2,141,606 | 2,140,605 | 1 | 2 | 2,140,354 | train | <story><title>Help wanted: Google hiring in 2011</title><url>http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/help-wanted-google-hiring-in-2011.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dadkins</author><text>"There’s something at Google for everyone"<p>...except for the 99% of applicants they reject.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cdibona</author><text>Whenever you hear a number like 99% of applicants are rejected or 1000 resumes a day are rejected, you should understand what's going on.<p>Google gets resumes and random text from 1000s of people a day looking for a job, all over the world, completely bereft of any sort of qualification. That's the vast majority of resumes any large business like Google will see. It's like Spam writ large.<p>So we have resume screeners who look at those random resumes and try to separate wheat from chaff. For some, we have a phone screen that is literally to check the most basic of facts to see if the resume is at all consistent with the name at the top, then a real phone screen with an engineer, then an onsite, then offer.<p>Each step loses people, but the first, separating the clear bs from the real is where the huge gap comes from.<p>That said, I hope we have more false negatives than false positives every step of the way, and for that, all I can say is that I wish it didn't have to be that way. Well, that, and this: Get referred by a Googler, skip many of the above steps :-)</text></comment> | <story><title>Help wanted: Google hiring in 2011</title><url>http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/help-wanted-google-hiring-in-2011.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dadkins</author><text>"There’s something at Google for everyone"<p>...except for the 99% of applicants they reject.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cryptoz</author><text>I think they reject a higher percentage than 99%. It's probably closer to 99.9%, or even 99.95%. They get something like 1,000,000 applications per year. It's crazy.</text></comment> |
36,524,170 | 36,524,089 | 1 | 3 | 36,523,878 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Is GitHub down?</title><text>Not loading for me at all, but status page shows green across the board.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>klysm</author><text>Seems to be a fairly catastrophic failure. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;</a> fails to load. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.githubstatus.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.githubstatus.com&#x2F;</a> shows all green as of this writing. Nothing on the twitter yet <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;githubstatus" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;githubstatus</a><p>edit: The outage is now acknowledged on the status page <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.githubstatus.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.githubstatus.com&#x2F;</a><p>edit: EU folks appear to have things working so it looks like a regional network fault</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Maxion</author><text>Strange stuff, as it works completely fine for me in the EU? I just posted comments to several issues.<p>Edit: Front page still loads and I am logged in. Everything is as normal. Status page shows everything is down. Lol.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Is GitHub down?</title><text>Not loading for me at all, but status page shows green across the board.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>klysm</author><text>Seems to be a fairly catastrophic failure. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;</a> fails to load. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.githubstatus.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.githubstatus.com&#x2F;</a> shows all green as of this writing. Nothing on the twitter yet <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;githubstatus" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;githubstatus</a><p>edit: The outage is now acknowledged on the status page <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.githubstatus.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.githubstatus.com&#x2F;</a><p>edit: EU folks appear to have things working so it looks like a regional network fault</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pc86</author><text>Status page is red now, it probably only checks once every couple minutes.</text></comment> |
17,413,115 | 17,413,103 | 1 | 2 | 17,411,635 | train | <story><title>I Don’t Believe in Full-Stack Engineering</title><url>https://robinrendle.com/notes/i-dont-believe-in-full-stack-engineering/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>warent</author><text>This article is conflating junior developers with full-stack engineering.<p>I work on the entire stack. Can I work with databases and write queries? Sure. Can I do it as well as a data architect? No. That&#x27;s not what&#x27;s expected of a full stack engineer.<p>We can have meaningful, productive discussions with everyone on all parts of the stack. We&#x27;ll talk with the data architect, write&#x2F;tweak a query if we need to, we&#x27;ll talk with the product manager and collect some features, we&#x27;ll communicate the requirements to a backend engineer if one exists and help prepare the API as necessary to ensure the frontend can query for only what it needs when it needs it, and we&#x27;ll connect it to the frontend which we built (yes, even using data chunking, semantic UI, and accessibility, all of which are expected in professional front-end development)<p>To the purist engineer, none of this is part of their reality because the purist doesn&#x27;t have business requirements or tradeoffs. In the real world of business, these skills generate profit and are especially useful with new products and prototypes. If you&#x27;re experienced enough and have a great team with you, you can execute on this with minimal technical debt that doesn&#x27;t create long-term problems while still providing users with a great experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bcheung</author><text>Agreed. I would also add, I don&#x27;t think frontend vs backend accurately describes how skillsets are clustered anymore -- especially with JavaScript&#x27;s increasing ubiquity.<p>I would cluster skillsets into: ops, development, and design.<p>Ops: making things highly available, logging, performance monitoring, reliability, deployment scripts<p>Development: Writing code on both frontend and backend.<p>Design: Visual design and CSS&#x2F;HTML<p>Most developers I&#x27;ve interacted with at various companies write both APIs in the backend and user facing UI. In my experience it&#x27;s becoming increasingly rare that a frontend developer doesn&#x27;t also write backend code.<p>They typically aren&#x27;t very good at making their apps deployable and highly available, and they also aren&#x27;t very good at making things look good with CSS. Sure they can do it, but it isn&#x27;t their specialty and it would be quite a learning curve or it just takes them much longer than someone who does just that.<p>When hiring people, I like to find people who are strong individually in those 3 areas (ops, programming, design). I don&#x27;t try to find programmers who can do ops or design. I don&#x27;t worry so much about a frontend engineer being able to do backend work and vice versa, the crossover is generally smooth and interchangeable.<p>It is generally easy to find ops, and programmers who specialize and are talented. Designers who can do visual design and code it up are a bit rarer, so sometimes it is needed have 1 person do design and another person code it up.<p>Also, a very senior person is obviously going to be stronger in each of those areas, so full stack is highly correlated with working experience.</text></comment> | <story><title>I Don’t Believe in Full-Stack Engineering</title><url>https://robinrendle.com/notes/i-dont-believe-in-full-stack-engineering/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>warent</author><text>This article is conflating junior developers with full-stack engineering.<p>I work on the entire stack. Can I work with databases and write queries? Sure. Can I do it as well as a data architect? No. That&#x27;s not what&#x27;s expected of a full stack engineer.<p>We can have meaningful, productive discussions with everyone on all parts of the stack. We&#x27;ll talk with the data architect, write&#x2F;tweak a query if we need to, we&#x27;ll talk with the product manager and collect some features, we&#x27;ll communicate the requirements to a backend engineer if one exists and help prepare the API as necessary to ensure the frontend can query for only what it needs when it needs it, and we&#x27;ll connect it to the frontend which we built (yes, even using data chunking, semantic UI, and accessibility, all of which are expected in professional front-end development)<p>To the purist engineer, none of this is part of their reality because the purist doesn&#x27;t have business requirements or tradeoffs. In the real world of business, these skills generate profit and are especially useful with new products and prototypes. If you&#x27;re experienced enough and have a great team with you, you can execute on this with minimal technical debt that doesn&#x27;t create long-term problems while still providing users with a great experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taurath</author><text>More than that, we can talk to designers, product people, leads, etc and have a better holistic view of the glue that holds everything together.<p>Its EXPECTED however that one not have all the answers.<p>In my experience, across general app development there are 4 specializations, and any given engineer should be able to straddle 2 of them.<p>Client Infrastructure | Client Product | Backend Product | Backend Infrastructure<p>Full stack generally stays to the product side of both. They tend to have a relatively shallow context on the current goings on of infrastructure&#x2F;tooling, but can focus on one area or another when the time calls.</text></comment> |
36,586,719 | 36,586,460 | 1 | 3 | 36,586,170 | train | <story><title>Google's updated privacy policy states it can use public data to train its AI</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/googles-updated-privacy-policy-states-it-can-use-public-data-to-train-its-ai-models-095541684.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>elric</author><text>We probably need a better definition of which data is &quot;public&quot;. Simply being accessible doesn&#x27;t cut it. I can look out my window and straight into my neighbour&#x27;s bathroom. Is that public information? Same goes for information on the internet. Sure, my neighbour could put up curtains (and I really wish he would), much like people could restrict access to web pages, but I don&#x27;t think a lack of protection should automagically imply public access. Much less public access for the profit of some multi-billion dollar corporation.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google's updated privacy policy states it can use public data to train its AI</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/googles-updated-privacy-policy-states-it-can-use-public-data-to-train-its-ai-models-095541684.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kdavis</author><text>Generally this is already &quot;the law of the land&quot; in the US via the HiQ Labs v. LinkedIn precedent[1]. (IANAL)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn</a></text></comment> |
18,685,207 | 18,684,280 | 1 | 3 | 18,683,230 | train | <story><title>Experts Urge U.S. To Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion Research</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-urge-u-s-to-continue-support-for-nuclear-fusion-research/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devy</author><text>Nuclear fusion is probably still decades away. But I am going tangent here, nuclear fission still have great potentials.
Scientists from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory actually
helped China to built Molten Salt reactors in the 70s during Nixon administration. [1] And since then thorium based molten salt Gen IV reactors have been having renewed interests around the global. China actually tested the whole system feasibility in Giga Watts scale in recent years. [2]<p>Nuclear power is vital part of the energy infrastructure to curb worsening environment due to climate change - it&#x27;s still considered superior than all the other green alternative energies in terms of either 24&#x2F;7 availability (vs. solar&#x2F;wind) or massive scale (vs. geothermal) or location restricted (vs. hydro) or carbon-free (vs. biomass&#x2F;bio-fuel). China realized that in their dire request to transition out their entire energy reliance on carbon-based energies, it&#x27;s impossible to do without nuclear.
Also, newer reactor designs are much safer and last longer so a lot of the concerns of radioactive waste have largely been alleviated.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10229697" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10229697</a> (2015)<p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17813614" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17813614</a> (2018)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>njarboe</author><text>There have been a series of breakthrough in helicity injection techniques and the understanding of spheromak physics in the last decade. Some believe that economical fusion power plants are possible with today&#x27;s technology[1] and need a ~$30 million to prove out a scale model reactor before building a full scale one on the order of $2-3 billion of a 1-2 Gigawatt power plant.<p>This is an order of magnitude less cost that the ITER project, which is spending a lot of money on cement and magnets on a probably doomed technology path of commercial fusion.<p>These same breakthroughs are also likely to be able to produce a fusion engine for spacecraft. This is actually an easier problem to solve than electricity generation as the deuterium can be used as fuel and as a propellant ejected straight out of the plasma core at variable ISP up to around 100,000. No inefficient fusion to electricity to rocket engine cycle is necessary.<p>I am not a fusion scientist, but my father is. For more info and technical references, drop me an email (see profile).<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washington.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;08&#x2F;uw-fusion-reactor-concept-could-be-cheaper-than-coal&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washington.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;08&#x2F;uw-fusion-reactor...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Experts Urge U.S. To Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion Research</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-urge-u-s-to-continue-support-for-nuclear-fusion-research/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devy</author><text>Nuclear fusion is probably still decades away. But I am going tangent here, nuclear fission still have great potentials.
Scientists from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory actually
helped China to built Molten Salt reactors in the 70s during Nixon administration. [1] And since then thorium based molten salt Gen IV reactors have been having renewed interests around the global. China actually tested the whole system feasibility in Giga Watts scale in recent years. [2]<p>Nuclear power is vital part of the energy infrastructure to curb worsening environment due to climate change - it&#x27;s still considered superior than all the other green alternative energies in terms of either 24&#x2F;7 availability (vs. solar&#x2F;wind) or massive scale (vs. geothermal) or location restricted (vs. hydro) or carbon-free (vs. biomass&#x2F;bio-fuel). China realized that in their dire request to transition out their entire energy reliance on carbon-based energies, it&#x27;s impossible to do without nuclear.
Also, newer reactor designs are much safer and last longer so a lot of the concerns of radioactive waste have largely been alleviated.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10229697" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10229697</a> (2015)<p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17813614" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17813614</a> (2018)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matt4077</author><text>This reads like a parody of every thread on nuclear technology on HN or, before it, slashdot.<p>It’s always „decades away“, but there’s always pebble bed&#x2F;molten salt&#x2F;thorium&#x2F;whatever technology that’s far better, basically functional, mostly free, and only held up by those darn environmentalists&#x2F;idiot politicians&#x2F;liberals&#x2F;oil lobby&#x2F;NIMBYs&#x2F;Elton John&#x2F;…<p>It feels like the tech community is forever trapped in the science fiction of the 50s, while actual science (and politicians) have created options that, frankly, are far better in every regard, including costs.</text></comment> |
8,345,406 | 8,345,146 | 1 | 2 | 8,344,668 | train | <story><title>Google Stops Forcing You to Join Google+ When Opening a New Account</title><url>http://seb.st/google-stops-forcing-you-to-join-google-when-opening-a-new-account/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aikah</author><text>G+ is a failure,let&#x27;s be clear about that.<p>You cant force people into a social network.Sure You can merge different services under a single &quot;login&quot; system,but dont make it a social network where things are published on a public profile,that&#x27;s insane.<p>People dont need 10 social networks...doesnt mean there is no room for competition,just that G+ didnt innovate,or try to have a fresh take on social networks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidgerard</author><text>&gt; G+ is a failure,let&#x27;s be clear about that.<p>I&#x27;m one of the few people who actually uses G+ by choice, and has done since public launch. But I&#x27;m not delusional about its glaring failure.<p>You try saying &quot;G+ is a failure&quot; on G+ and see the hilarity that ensues as people say &quot;MINE is great&quot;, &quot;You&#x27;re not using it right&quot;, &quot;Your link doesn&#x27;t talk about metrics in [unspecified niche] where I assure you it&#x27;s TOTALLY popular&quot; and literally call you a Facebook shill. Good Lord.<p>I mean, I stick around for the few people and one community that isn&#x27;t on Facebook. But G+ is a huge planned subdivision built in a desert, all the roads built but no houses, with a few people camped out around a fire going &quot;WELL THERE&#x27;S LOTS OF PEOPLE AROUND THIS FIRE.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Stops Forcing You to Join Google+ When Opening a New Account</title><url>http://seb.st/google-stops-forcing-you-to-join-google-when-opening-a-new-account/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aikah</author><text>G+ is a failure,let&#x27;s be clear about that.<p>You cant force people into a social network.Sure You can merge different services under a single &quot;login&quot; system,but dont make it a social network where things are published on a public profile,that&#x27;s insane.<p>People dont need 10 social networks...doesnt mean there is no room for competition,just that G+ didnt innovate,or try to have a fresh take on social networks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vertex-four</author><text>&gt; Sure You can merge different services under a single &quot;login&quot; system<p>The thing is, Google <i>already</i> had that. I have a pre-Google+ account that I&#x27;ve never upgraded, and I&#x27;ve always been able to log into everything (aside from Google+ itself) just fine.</text></comment> |
32,188,551 | 32,187,930 | 1 | 3 | 32,177,091 | train | <story><title>Swallowing the elephant into Blender</title><url>https://aras-p.info/blog/2022/07/20/Swallowing-the-elephant-into-Blender/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dahart</author><text>What a great example of how a series of reasonable decisions can add up to something unreasonable when you scale up the inputs. This line is my favorite: “there was an open task for a few years to address it (T73412), and so I did it.”<p>This situation reminds me a little bit of trying to work with very large images in ImageMagick, like 60k x 60k resolution. A simple resize was taking 6 hours on my mac 10 years ago, due to IM trying to allocate the whole image at once and then swapping non-stop. And then I discovered that the Graphics Magick fork did streamed resizing, and did the task in a couple of minutes. It’s a small and relatively easy change, but someone had to prioritize handling large inputs first. This is one reason software is hard for me; every time I need to process large inputs I wish I had written a streaming mechanism, but every time I start a project I decide to do the easy thing first and wait until I critically need streaming. Maybe it’s the right thing to do to avoid over-engineering, but this comes up often enough that I’m usually in a mild state of frustration about something being under-developed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Swallowing the elephant into Blender</title><url>https://aras-p.info/blog/2022/07/20/Swallowing-the-elephant-into-Blender/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ludston</author><text>&gt; The speedup factor is order-dependent.<p>This is why it is very difficult to justify optimization work to management. If there are 20 things to optimize that take 10 seconds each, the change isn&#x27;t really noticeable until you&#x27;re getting past half-way. And once your processing already takes a few minutes, what&#x27;s the harm in adding another 10 seconds?</text></comment> |
30,750,080 | 30,748,683 | 1 | 3 | 30,747,657 | train | <story><title>What doctors wish patients knew about long Covid</title><url>https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/what-doctors-wish-patients-knew-about-long-covid</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>logicalmonster</author><text>I think taking most illnesses seriously is wise, particularly so today as Covid has been around a shorter period of time and the long term effects are less known.<p>What I’m curious about is how does the frequency of “long-Covid” compare to other post-viral syndromes? Having various forms of malaise, lethargy, and other health problems after an illness is not a new phenomenon. Does this affect 1 in 100 or 1 in 100,000 people severely? How does this compare with say past flus? It’s hard to compare long Covid to anything without a basis for comparison.<p>I’ve had the flu before and was a physical wreck for about 6 months after until my body finally snapped back. Because it was pre-Covid times, I just sucked it up and focused on struggling through my day and then resting. I can easily imagine people going through something similar today, and because everybody is scared because of the media, we’re looking for a problem and labeling it rather than just generally sucking it up. (This isn’t to say that we shouldn’t work to understand and treat this problem, just that it might not be anything significantly different than all prior human experience)<p>How much of the concern over “long-Covid” is simply a byproduct of psychology? We may be fixated on a problem and looking for it and therefore finding it more even though it’s not necessarily any more common of a problem. Maybe a direct comparison with other viruses shows different, but this is the comparison I’d like to see to better understand the risk-management here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fragmede</author><text>Respectfully, no. I had Covid-19 in March 2020 and had long covid and... &quot;just suck it up and push through&quot; is basically the worst possible advice. Saying it causes fatigue just doesn&#x27;t describe how utterly disabling it can be. I would get tired walking from my bedroom to the kitchen and I live in a small apartment. When I <i>would</i> push through, I&#x27;d be bedridden for <i>days</i> after. Seriously! We&#x27;re talking too exhausted to have Netflix on in the background, not even watching it. I&#x27;m <i>sure</i> it&#x27;s not psychosomatic because this was all new at the time, and I was far too exhausted for <i>months</i> after to even just surf the Internet.<p>The most disabling part of the illness was learning that I can&#x27;t just &quot;push through&quot; without paying for it for <i>days</i> afterwards. For months after, a single beer and a big meal would lay me out. You don&#x27;t usually think of digesting food as strenuous, but in my weakened state, I&#x27;d start seeing stars and almost black out.<p>Now, it would be easy to dismiss me, blame me for not being healthier, but when young athletes who are fit have having these symptoms, and doctors (with better access to healthcare then I) are recording their own symptoms as scientists, it&#x27;s not made up.<p>The worst part of having long covid is people (including doctors!) who don&#x27;t believe long covid is real. Thankfully for long covid, there <i>are</i> biomarkers that can be tested for now so unbelievers don&#x27;t have to take it on faith. After the medical gaslighting I&#x27;ve experienced, I really feel for people that suffer from fibromyalgia or other mysterious un-seeable maladies that there are not tests for.</text></comment> | <story><title>What doctors wish patients knew about long Covid</title><url>https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/what-doctors-wish-patients-knew-about-long-covid</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>logicalmonster</author><text>I think taking most illnesses seriously is wise, particularly so today as Covid has been around a shorter period of time and the long term effects are less known.<p>What I’m curious about is how does the frequency of “long-Covid” compare to other post-viral syndromes? Having various forms of malaise, lethargy, and other health problems after an illness is not a new phenomenon. Does this affect 1 in 100 or 1 in 100,000 people severely? How does this compare with say past flus? It’s hard to compare long Covid to anything without a basis for comparison.<p>I’ve had the flu before and was a physical wreck for about 6 months after until my body finally snapped back. Because it was pre-Covid times, I just sucked it up and focused on struggling through my day and then resting. I can easily imagine people going through something similar today, and because everybody is scared because of the media, we’re looking for a problem and labeling it rather than just generally sucking it up. (This isn’t to say that we shouldn’t work to understand and treat this problem, just that it might not be anything significantly different than all prior human experience)<p>How much of the concern over “long-Covid” is simply a byproduct of psychology? We may be fixated on a problem and looking for it and therefore finding it more even though it’s not necessarily any more common of a problem. Maybe a direct comparison with other viruses shows different, but this is the comparison I’d like to see to better understand the risk-management here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MaximumYComb</author><text>I had post-viral syndrome from glandular fever when I was ~32. It sucked. Like you, I was a wreck for 6 months. It took 2-3 years before I could exercise properly but my life was decent enough at the 12 month mark. My research at the time indicated that rates of post-viral syndromes vary by disease. Glandular fever is known to cause it in 10-20% of adults who fall sick.</text></comment> |
4,417,161 | 4,416,952 | 1 | 3 | 4,416,864 | train | <story><title>Why Ratings Systems Don't Work</title><url>http://goodfil.ms/blog/posts/2012/08/22/why-ratings-systems-dont-work/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>s_henry_paulson</author><text>Terrible article. Calling histograms awful, based on nothing more than an opinion.<p>Then trying to conclude that some convoluted scatter plot system makes more sense is laughable.<p>Not to mention, this system is still just a star rating system. This would be no different than having two histograms side by side.. assuming, of course, that you'd even want to rate different aspects of the same thing.<p>I can't even imagine scatter plots on amazon, or trying to convince the general public that "it makes more sense"</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>todd3834</author><text>Terrible comment. I found the article interesting. As someone who has played around with many different types of rating systems, I applaud their effort at trying something different. Sounds like you area little too emotionally invested in histograms. I'm not even going to ask why.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Ratings Systems Don't Work</title><url>http://goodfil.ms/blog/posts/2012/08/22/why-ratings-systems-dont-work/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>s_henry_paulson</author><text>Terrible article. Calling histograms awful, based on nothing more than an opinion.<p>Then trying to conclude that some convoluted scatter plot system makes more sense is laughable.<p>Not to mention, this system is still just a star rating system. This would be no different than having two histograms side by side.. assuming, of course, that you'd even want to rate different aspects of the same thing.<p>I can't even imagine scatter plots on amazon, or trying to convince the general public that "it makes more sense"</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vhf</author><text><i>This would be no different than having two histograms side by side..</i><p>Yes it would, and the article shows why and how. Scatter plots are easy to read (for comp./math. educated people). Two histograms side by side are easy to read (and find correlations) for nobody.</text></comment> |
32,836,547 | 32,836,683 | 1 | 2 | 32,833,097 | train | <story><title>Why car wheels are so flat these days</title><url>https://www.theautopian.com/heres-why-car-wheels-are-so-flat-these-days-and-no-its-not-just-aerodynamics-and-styling/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>extrapickles</author><text>That is easy to accommodate as you can design the electronics such that when there is no power they cause maximum braking force and dump energy into the braking resistors. This can be done completely with power taken from the motor itself and if it’s not turning to generate power, then I would expect the parking brake system to engage, eg: a spring defaults it to “On” and power is used to keep it disengaged.</text></item><item><author>sbradford26</author><text>So a big reason why this probably wouldn&#x27;t fly is that it has a common mode failure which is loss of power. Most EVs don&#x27;t use permanent magnetic motors so it needs power to be able to use the motors for regen. So lets say the relay fails from the main battery pack suddenly you have no power, and no way to energize the coils in the motors to use them to regen. This could be mitigated by using permanent magnet motors but you still have the issue if control power is lost the vehicle cannot stop. The beauty of hydraulic brakes is that they work really well with power, but still function without it.</text></item><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>One day, I believe car design regulations will be amended to allow fully electric braking (ie. no hydraulics, drums, rotors, or pads). At that point, the motor can be moved into the wheel (unsprung mass = bad, but weight savings from not needing an axle or gearbox will outweigh this). Suspension and steering design is then far easier, because there is no axle to need to keep straight.<p>Braking redundancy will be achieved by having motors&#x2F;brakes on all four wheels, and within each motor 3 independant phase coils with independant controllers, such that there are effectively 12 brakes on a car. Normally the controllers work together for smooth braking, traction control, software differential, etc. But even after 3+ failures braking performance should still be satisfactory for an emergency stop.<p>Obviously braking energy needs to go somewhere. In the happy case, it&#x27;s regen&#x27;ed into a battery. If the battery can&#x27;t accept it, it gets dumped into dump resistors. If the dump resistors fail, it gets dumped into motor coils (of which there are 12 remember). Obviously the motor coils will heat up very fast, so this is probably a one-use-only failsafe, like airbags.<p>So the whole system (except the pedal itself) is 12 way redundant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sbradford26</author><text>This can only be done with permanent magnetic motors which is not the norm for EVs for many reasons. In a non permanent magnetic motor on loss of power there is no energy to dump into braking resistors since the motor is not causing any resistance because the coils have been de-energized.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why car wheels are so flat these days</title><url>https://www.theautopian.com/heres-why-car-wheels-are-so-flat-these-days-and-no-its-not-just-aerodynamics-and-styling/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>extrapickles</author><text>That is easy to accommodate as you can design the electronics such that when there is no power they cause maximum braking force and dump energy into the braking resistors. This can be done completely with power taken from the motor itself and if it’s not turning to generate power, then I would expect the parking brake system to engage, eg: a spring defaults it to “On” and power is used to keep it disengaged.</text></item><item><author>sbradford26</author><text>So a big reason why this probably wouldn&#x27;t fly is that it has a common mode failure which is loss of power. Most EVs don&#x27;t use permanent magnetic motors so it needs power to be able to use the motors for regen. So lets say the relay fails from the main battery pack suddenly you have no power, and no way to energize the coils in the motors to use them to regen. This could be mitigated by using permanent magnet motors but you still have the issue if control power is lost the vehicle cannot stop. The beauty of hydraulic brakes is that they work really well with power, but still function without it.</text></item><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>One day, I believe car design regulations will be amended to allow fully electric braking (ie. no hydraulics, drums, rotors, or pads). At that point, the motor can be moved into the wheel (unsprung mass = bad, but weight savings from not needing an axle or gearbox will outweigh this). Suspension and steering design is then far easier, because there is no axle to need to keep straight.<p>Braking redundancy will be achieved by having motors&#x2F;brakes on all four wheels, and within each motor 3 independant phase coils with independant controllers, such that there are effectively 12 brakes on a car. Normally the controllers work together for smooth braking, traction control, software differential, etc. But even after 3+ failures braking performance should still be satisfactory for an emergency stop.<p>Obviously braking energy needs to go somewhere. In the happy case, it&#x27;s regen&#x27;ed into a battery. If the battery can&#x27;t accept it, it gets dumped into dump resistors. If the dump resistors fail, it gets dumped into motor coils (of which there are 12 remember). Obviously the motor coils will heat up very fast, so this is probably a one-use-only failsafe, like airbags.<p>So the whole system (except the pedal itself) is 12 way redundant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SketchySeaBeast</author><text>So rather than coasting to the shoulder when you run out of gas your tires immediately slam full on coming to a screeching, uncontrolled stop in the middle of the highway?</text></comment> |
4,775,421 | 4,775,397 | 1 | 2 | 4,775,117 | train | <story><title>Shumway: a SWF interpreter entirely in JavaScript</title><url>http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2012-11-12/shumway-a-swf-interpreter-entirely-in-javascript/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thristian</author><text>I have good hopes for this (Mozilla's HTML5-based PDF reader is my favourite PDF browser plugin), but I'm a little worried - there have been a <i>lot</i> of Open Source Flash reimplementations, and so far as I can tell they all have early success and pretty demos of older Flash content, but are completely useless on most real-world Flash usage, like nearly any site that shows a video.<p>I'll note that Gnash does actually work on YouTube.com, but only because YouTube seems to deliberately serve an ancient version of their Flash player, rather than the latest version with the closed-captions and text overlays and all that stuff.</text></comment> | <story><title>Shumway: a SWF interpreter entirely in JavaScript</title><url>http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2012-11-12/shumway-a-swf-interpreter-entirely-in-javascript/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>richforrester</author><text>Being more of a designer than a developer, I've got to admit that the thought of second wind for Flash kind of scares me. I've never liked Flash, mainly because historically it wasn't as "open" as HTML, Macromedia Flash (I know, right) crashed a lot, as well as the general abuse of Flash found all around the web in the late 90's/early 2k.<p>Anyone willing/able to take my (probably irrational) fear away and tell me why this SWF interpreter is a good thing?</text></comment> |
11,754,234 | 11,754,307 | 1 | 2 | 11,752,917 | train | <story><title>The Dark Art of Mastering Music</title><url>http://pitchfork.com/features/article/9894-the-dark-art-of-mastering-music/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Benjamin_Dobell</author><text>This is a long article that starts off stating that mastering is difficult to explain, and then proceeds to not explain mastering.<p>They&#x27;re implying that poor mastering was to blame for Metallica&#x27;s album. Weren&#x27;t people complaining it was over-compressed? That&#x27;s mixing <i>not</i> mastering!<p>Mastering is a matter of making sure that listening to an album from start to finish sounds consistent. That&#x27;s why songs that go on compilation albums are mastered once on the original album, and again on the compilation - they most certainly aren&#x27;t mixed again.<p>Mastering may involve a small amount of compression across all components of the song (although it really shouldn&#x27;t), but it&#x27;s mostly controlling loudness, and loudness at different parts of the audio spectrum (more low-end, more high-end). Mastering is effectively something you could do yourself with your stereo&#x27;s settings (if you were constantly adjusting the settings through-out the song), mixing is fundamentally different and consists of combining &quot;tracks&quot;; vocals, guitar, harmonies, drums, sound effects, adding samples over drums (i.e. mix in a better sounding drum, or hit there-of, over the drumming recorded for the song).<p>EDIT: For clarity, me stating:<p>&gt; Mastering may involve a small amount of compression across all components of the song (although it really shouldn&#x27;t)<p>is my subjective opinion. Master-bus compression does happen regularly enough <i>during mastering</i> (in addition to during mixing), but as stated, it is typically only a <i>small amount</i>, compared to what a Mixing Engineer can get away with on a per &quot;track&quot; basis.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maldusiecle</author><text>Compression of individual parts happens during mixing, compression of the entire audio track happens during mastering. (Compression of the master bus sometimes also happens during mixing, but mastering engineers prefer not to work with tracks that have already had heavy compression applied to the master bus.)<p>The kind of brickwall limiting Metallica&#x27;s album had, where the volume of the track is maxed out at all times, can only come from compressing the master bus, which is properly a part of mastering, not mixing. (See also: the comically overcompressed mix of Raw Power that resulted when Iggy Pop was allowed to remaster the album himself.)</text></comment> | <story><title>The Dark Art of Mastering Music</title><url>http://pitchfork.com/features/article/9894-the-dark-art-of-mastering-music/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Benjamin_Dobell</author><text>This is a long article that starts off stating that mastering is difficult to explain, and then proceeds to not explain mastering.<p>They&#x27;re implying that poor mastering was to blame for Metallica&#x27;s album. Weren&#x27;t people complaining it was over-compressed? That&#x27;s mixing <i>not</i> mastering!<p>Mastering is a matter of making sure that listening to an album from start to finish sounds consistent. That&#x27;s why songs that go on compilation albums are mastered once on the original album, and again on the compilation - they most certainly aren&#x27;t mixed again.<p>Mastering may involve a small amount of compression across all components of the song (although it really shouldn&#x27;t), but it&#x27;s mostly controlling loudness, and loudness at different parts of the audio spectrum (more low-end, more high-end). Mastering is effectively something you could do yourself with your stereo&#x27;s settings (if you were constantly adjusting the settings through-out the song), mixing is fundamentally different and consists of combining &quot;tracks&quot;; vocals, guitar, harmonies, drums, sound effects, adding samples over drums (i.e. mix in a better sounding drum, or hit there-of, over the drumming recorded for the song).<p>EDIT: For clarity, me stating:<p>&gt; Mastering may involve a small amount of compression across all components of the song (although it really shouldn&#x27;t)<p>is my subjective opinion. Master-bus compression does happen regularly enough <i>during mastering</i> (in addition to during mixing), but as stated, it is typically only a <i>small amount</i>, compared to what a Mixing Engineer can get away with on a per &quot;track&quot; basis.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>louthy</author><text>&gt; Weren&#x27;t people complaining it was over-compressed? That&#x27;s mixing not mastering!<p>That&#x27;s not true. Mastering is the process of taking the final output of the master bus and processing it to the final release versions (for the various formats). Depending on where and who does it it can combine many processes: compression, limiting, EQing, stereo widening, bouncing to a tape, etc. It can be a totally functional exercise as well as a creative one.<p>Something that&#x27;s over-compressed could have had each instrument on each channel over-compressed (if it was mixed on an SSL for example where there&#x27;s a compressor per channel), or it could have had far too aggressive master-bus compression. So saying it&#x27;s definitely mixing not mastering is a stretch.</text></comment> |
26,347,180 | 26,347,205 | 1 | 2 | 26,346,226 | train | <story><title>Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization</title><url>https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/3/250713-understanding-deep-learning-still-requires-rethinking-generalization/fulltext</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>magicalhippo</author><text><i>The experiments we conducted emphasize that the effective capacity of several successful neural network architectures is large enough to shatter the training data. Consequently, these models are in principle rich enough to memorize the training data.</i><p>So they&#x27;re fitting elephants[1].<p>I&#x27;ve been trying to use DeepSpeech[2] lately for a project, would be interesting to see the results for that.<p>I guess it could also be a decent test for your model? Retrain it with random labels and if it succeeds the model is just memorizing, so either reduce model complexity or add more training data?<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.johndcook.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2011&#x2F;06&#x2F;21&#x2F;how-to-fit-an-elephant&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.johndcook.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2011&#x2F;06&#x2F;21&#x2F;how-to-fit-an-elep...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mozilla&#x2F;DeepSpeech" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mozilla&#x2F;DeepSpeech</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization</title><url>https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/3/250713-understanding-deep-learning-still-requires-rethinking-generalization/fulltext</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blt</author><text>Please add the (still) to the HN post title. The original version of the paper without (still) in the title is several years old.</text></comment> |
33,975,135 | 33,973,475 | 1 | 3 | 33,971,953 | train | <story><title>Nuclear-fusion lab achieves ‘ignition’: what does it mean?</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04440-7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>isoprophlex</author><text>So, they generated 3.15 MJ energy from the target, at a cost of an input of 2.05 MJ laser light. Pretty exciting.<p>However those lasers aren&#x27;t very efficient, generating the 2.05 MJ required more than 300 MJ of electricity.<p>What is the path forward... Can anyone elaborate? Do we make the lasers 100x more efficient? Will hitting a target with a 100x mass yield 315 MJ?<p>Edit: thanks everyone for the clarification. Really helps me putting the numbers in context.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>femto113</author><text>Scaling the NIF&#x27;s approach (laser inertial confinement) isn&#x27;t about more reaction mass per pulse, it&#x27;s about more frequent pulses, and is probably not going to be practical or cost effective in the foreseeable future. The fuel pellets are tiny (~2mm), their container is only about 1cm and must be nearly perfectly spherical. A continuous power plant would consume about half a million of them per day (6 per second), all of which need to be shot with perfect timing, precision, and reliability to the exact center of the laser sphere. My guess is magnetic systems are much more likely to ever be used in power generation.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nuclear-fusion lab achieves ‘ignition’: what does it mean?</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04440-7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>isoprophlex</author><text>So, they generated 3.15 MJ energy from the target, at a cost of an input of 2.05 MJ laser light. Pretty exciting.<p>However those lasers aren&#x27;t very efficient, generating the 2.05 MJ required more than 300 MJ of electricity.<p>What is the path forward... Can anyone elaborate? Do we make the lasers 100x more efficient? Will hitting a target with a 100x mass yield 315 MJ?<p>Edit: thanks everyone for the clarification. Really helps me putting the numbers in context.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lordnacho</author><text>I don&#x27;t get it. Wouldn&#x27;t that mean it required 302.05MJ to get 3.15MJ?</text></comment> |
33,203,612 | 33,203,691 | 1 | 2 | 33,202,549 | train | <story><title>Turkey adopts media law jailing for spreading ‘disinformation’</title><url>https://tvpworld.com/63914655/turkey-adopts-media-law-jailing-for-spreading-disinformation</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ccn0p</author><text>I see a lot of people critical of Turkey... and I agree. But the US is not too far away. See AB-2098 in California just signed by governor &#x2F; likely presidential nominee Gavin Newson [1] which basically gives the state the ability to revoke medical licenses for spreading
&quot;false information that is contradicted by contemporary scientific contrary to the standard of care&quot; (in other words, go against the CDC or other state-funded agencies, get punished by the state).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;leginfo.legislature.ca.gov&#x2F;faces&#x2F;billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2098" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;leginfo.legislature.ca.gov&#x2F;faces&#x2F;billTextClient.xhtm...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Turkey adopts media law jailing for spreading ‘disinformation’</title><url>https://tvpworld.com/63914655/turkey-adopts-media-law-jailing-for-spreading-disinformation</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>Think about the power you want the government to have. And then imagine what your political opponents will do with it the next time they win the election.</text></comment> |
28,596,632 | 28,595,696 | 1 | 3 | 28,594,863 | train | <story><title>Ruby for eBook Publishing</title><url>https://nts.strzibny.name/ruby-for-ebook-publishing/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>canyonero</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using mdBook: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;mdBook" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;mdBook</a> for a personal knowledge base in an ebook format and it&#x27;s been a joy. Not Ruby, it&#x27;s written in Rust instead.<p>It&#x27;s very easy to customize either via plugins with Rust or by overriding template files. While the linked article is cool, it seems like a lot of effort to maintain such a set up. Then again, if you&#x27;re a Ruby expert I could see this being worth it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ruby for eBook Publishing</title><url>https://nts.strzibny.name/ruby-for-ebook-publishing/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Lammy</author><text>&gt;PDF publishing<p>I&#x27;m also a big fan of the HexaPDF library: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hexapdf.gettalong.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hexapdf.gettalong.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
26,111,010 | 26,108,694 | 1 | 2 | 26,102,030 | train | <story><title>MasterCard to open up network to cryptocurrencies</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currency-mastercard/mastercard-to-open-up-network-to-select-cryptocurrencies-idUSKBN2AA2WF</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nexthash</author><text>Set this chart to &quot;all&quot; and tell me that this price movement is not a bubble. There is no earthly reason for why a &quot;BitCoin&quot; is worth $47,459.66 as of this post.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;price&#x2F;bitcoin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;price&#x2F;bitcoin</a><p>Cryptocurrency adoption in 3rd world countries like Nigeria, Vietnam, and the Philippines is not a good thing. It&#x27;s actually really sad, because it means they cannot rely on or trust their country&#x27;s currency. Therefore, they are forced to place bets in a volatile and dangerous game to keep their life savings. If Bitcoin or Ethereum or Dogecoin go bust, they will still lose everything, because there is no trust, recourse, or regulation tolerated in a decentralized system. Well, not much worse than their home country&#x27;s currency, I guess.</text></item><item><author>tboyd47</author><text>It&#x27;s important for people to read the actual press release: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mstr.cd&#x2F;3tLaPZM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mstr.cd&#x2F;3tLaPZM</a> There&#x27;s good info here which will be new info to many.<p>Why did they do this? It turns out that about a third of Nigerians report using or holding cryptocurrency (!). <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;chart&#x2F;18345&#x2F;crypto-currency-adoption&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;chart&#x2F;18345&#x2F;crypto-currency-adoptio...</a> Second place are Vietnam and the Phillipines. For all, the #1 reason was for remittances.<p>Haven&#x27;t we all had it drilled into our heads by CNBC and the likes that crypto was nothing but a big speculative bubble? Woops, I guess that was a big lie.<p>&gt; Users will also benefit from Wirex’s Cryptoback™ rewards program, which automatically gives customers up to 1.5% back in Bitcoin for every purchase made in-store.<p>It does appear that they will support transfers to external wallets (!), contrary to what has been claimed elsewhere in this thread -&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wirexapp.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;article&#x2F;how-do-i-transfer-cryptocurrency-from-my-wirex-crypto-account-to-an-external-crypto-wallet-0056" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wirexapp.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;article&#x2F;how-do-i-transfer-cryptocu...</a><p>The card is not yet available to US customers, although, apparently it is in the works -&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.bitcoin.com&#x2F;wirex-launching-us-after-receiving-state-money-transmission-license&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.bitcoin.com&#x2F;wirex-launching-us-after-receiving-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hanniabu</author><text>&gt; Set this chart to &quot;all&quot; and tell me that this price movement is not a bubble<p>It&#x27;s a new asset class, of course it&#x27;s going to see huge gains as it picks up adoption and of course if you zoom all the way out it&#x27;ll look like a bubble. The bubble goes bust every few years and comes back stronger. That&#x27;s a healthy market.<p>&gt; It&#x27;s actually really sad, because it means they cannot rely on or trust their country&#x27;s currency.<p>That&#x27;s a huge benefit and reason why bitcoin will become popular. It&#x27;s a portable store of value outside the control of any government. It doesn&#x27;t have the same issues as the US dollar for example where other countries need to be concerned about how not only their country is performing, but also the US since their reserves are in USD.<p>This is also why it&#x27;s gaining popularity around the world. Trust in governments is rapidly decreasing and the world as a whole is destabilizing due to polarization, poverty&#x2F;wealth gaps, and rising environmental concerns.<p>&gt; there is no trust<p>That&#x27;s the point. It&#x27;s trustless. You don&#x27;t need to worry about it.</text></comment> | <story><title>MasterCard to open up network to cryptocurrencies</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currency-mastercard/mastercard-to-open-up-network-to-select-cryptocurrencies-idUSKBN2AA2WF</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nexthash</author><text>Set this chart to &quot;all&quot; and tell me that this price movement is not a bubble. There is no earthly reason for why a &quot;BitCoin&quot; is worth $47,459.66 as of this post.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;price&#x2F;bitcoin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;price&#x2F;bitcoin</a><p>Cryptocurrency adoption in 3rd world countries like Nigeria, Vietnam, and the Philippines is not a good thing. It&#x27;s actually really sad, because it means they cannot rely on or trust their country&#x27;s currency. Therefore, they are forced to place bets in a volatile and dangerous game to keep their life savings. If Bitcoin or Ethereum or Dogecoin go bust, they will still lose everything, because there is no trust, recourse, or regulation tolerated in a decentralized system. Well, not much worse than their home country&#x27;s currency, I guess.</text></item><item><author>tboyd47</author><text>It&#x27;s important for people to read the actual press release: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mstr.cd&#x2F;3tLaPZM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mstr.cd&#x2F;3tLaPZM</a> There&#x27;s good info here which will be new info to many.<p>Why did they do this? It turns out that about a third of Nigerians report using or holding cryptocurrency (!). <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;chart&#x2F;18345&#x2F;crypto-currency-adoption&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;chart&#x2F;18345&#x2F;crypto-currency-adoptio...</a> Second place are Vietnam and the Phillipines. For all, the #1 reason was for remittances.<p>Haven&#x27;t we all had it drilled into our heads by CNBC and the likes that crypto was nothing but a big speculative bubble? Woops, I guess that was a big lie.<p>&gt; Users will also benefit from Wirex’s Cryptoback™ rewards program, which automatically gives customers up to 1.5% back in Bitcoin for every purchase made in-store.<p>It does appear that they will support transfers to external wallets (!), contrary to what has been claimed elsewhere in this thread -&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wirexapp.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;article&#x2F;how-do-i-transfer-cryptocurrency-from-my-wirex-crypto-account-to-an-external-crypto-wallet-0056" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wirexapp.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;article&#x2F;how-do-i-transfer-cryptocu...</a><p>The card is not yet available to US customers, although, apparently it is in the works -&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.bitcoin.com&#x2F;wirex-launching-us-after-receiving-state-money-transmission-license&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.bitcoin.com&#x2F;wirex-launching-us-after-receiving-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hntrader</author><text>I can say the same things about artwork or gold.<p>To me these things are totally useless, paint on a canvas (when I could just look at a photo of the same thing) and a shiny piece of metal, no utility whatsoever, who cares?<p>Well the value doesn&#x27;t come from one person&#x27;s assertion of value, it&#x27;s supply and demand. Apparently enough people like paint on a canvas and shiny metal for their own reasons.</text></comment> |
28,263,332 | 28,260,621 | 1 | 3 | 28,258,945 | train | <story><title>Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying major languages in 2021</title><url>https://notes.eatonphil.com/parser-generators-vs-handwritten-parsers-survey-2021.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>recursivedoubts</author><text>I took the compilers class at Stanford and never really understood the algorithms of bottom up parsing, or even really how grammars worked. I just made the tool work.<p>I then went to work at a private company, and an older guy who had gone to a state school that taught recursive descent (his was the last class to teach it) taught me how to do it. In a month or so I had learned more about how grammars actually work, what ambiguity is, and so forth, than in my whole class at Stanford.<p>I now teach compilers at a university, and I teach recursive descent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>I recommend you also teach &quot;precedence climbing&quot;, which is basically a slight refactoring of RD to parameterise the recursive functions by level so that grammars with many levels don&#x27;t require proportionally deep call stacks and it also massively reduces the duplication of code at each level:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.engr.mun.ca&#x2F;~theo&#x2F;Misc&#x2F;exp_parsing.htm#climbing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.engr.mun.ca&#x2F;~theo&#x2F;Misc&#x2F;exp_parsing.htm#climbing</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying major languages in 2021</title><url>https://notes.eatonphil.com/parser-generators-vs-handwritten-parsers-survey-2021.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>recursivedoubts</author><text>I took the compilers class at Stanford and never really understood the algorithms of bottom up parsing, or even really how grammars worked. I just made the tool work.<p>I then went to work at a private company, and an older guy who had gone to a state school that taught recursive descent (his was the last class to teach it) taught me how to do it. In a month or so I had learned more about how grammars actually work, what ambiguity is, and so forth, than in my whole class at Stanford.<p>I now teach compilers at a university, and I teach recursive descent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>recursivedoubts</author><text>as an aside, the parser for <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hyperscript.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hyperscript.org</a> is recursive descent, and our motto is: &quot;remember what our parser professors taught us, then do the opposite of that.&quot;<p>There&#x27;s some ugly stuff in there, but it&#x27;s fun, all because we wrote it in recursive descent and can do whatever we darn well please.</text></comment> |
5,444,427 | 5,444,075 | 1 | 2 | 5,442,366 | train | <story><title>Polycode – Open Source, cross-platform framework for games and interactive apps</title><url>http://polycode.org</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>icemelt8</author><text>Please don't down vote me. But can I ask that in a world where Unity exists, how is this relevant?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eropple</author><text>Unity is a great product for what it is, but it enforces upon you a particular view of the world and it's one I personally do not share. It puts you into its editor environment (which I don't find to be very good) and more or less expects you to be using the visual tools for most of what you're doing. I don't like that workflow; I prefer to work in a data-driven environment and in a real IDE. It is not as quick to prototype, but I enjoy it more and the end result satisfies me. I also prefer to know <i>exactly</i> what's going on in my game code, and there's enough obscuring that in Unity or another closed-source runtime that I'm not comfortable with it.<p>And I don't trust Unity not to close up shop one day and leave me high and dry with closed-source, bit-rotting libraries. Or to not target a platform I care about in the future, again leaving me screwed. I need to control the stack, and Unity is antithetical to this. (This is also why I have moved away from Xamarin's stuff--while enough of their stuff is open that I could spend multiple man-years re-implementing it if it went away tomorrow, it's a much better investment of my time to use the platform APIs directly.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Polycode – Open Source, cross-platform framework for games and interactive apps</title><url>http://polycode.org</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>icemelt8</author><text>Please don't down vote me. But can I ask that in a world where Unity exists, how is this relevant?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dysoco</author><text>In a world where you can do everything in Pascal... how are Scheme or Java relevant?</text></comment> |
41,448,277 | 41,447,552 | 1 | 3 | 41,445,790 | train | <story><title>Physics is unreasonably good at creating new math</title><url>https://nautil.us/why-physics-is-unreasonably-good-at-creating-new-math-797056/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>selectodude</author><text>To some extent, observation has taken a back seat because we&#x27;re at the point in our physics journey where we pontificate about things that are too small or too dark and far away to see. We simply can&#x27;t observe this stuff anymore.</text></item><item><author>tines</author><text>&gt; it wasn&#x27;t made during the nineteenth century<p>That&#x27;s because people were totally focused on physics, and math was just a useful tool sometimes. Doing physics was the true goal and observation the final arbiter of truth.<p>Nowadays, that distinction is blurred but for the opposite reason; people think that anything conceived by sound math must be true, and observation has taken a back seat.</text></item><item><author>cjs_ac</author><text>One of my physics lecturers at university made the offhand observation that the distinction between physics and mathematics is a <i>twentieth-century idea</i>: it wasn&#x27;t made during the nineteenth century or before, and it seems to be disappearing in the twenty-first.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>janalsncm</author><text>I don’t agree with this. I think there are definitely people like Michio Kaku who have books to sell who spend their time pontificating. People just think that physics looks like pontificating because that’s what it looks like on TV.<p>But there are also active researchers doing real research. Physics postdocs aren’t just sitting around in a circle making up stories about what the universe is like.</text></comment> | <story><title>Physics is unreasonably good at creating new math</title><url>https://nautil.us/why-physics-is-unreasonably-good-at-creating-new-math-797056/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>selectodude</author><text>To some extent, observation has taken a back seat because we&#x27;re at the point in our physics journey where we pontificate about things that are too small or too dark and far away to see. We simply can&#x27;t observe this stuff anymore.</text></item><item><author>tines</author><text>&gt; it wasn&#x27;t made during the nineteenth century<p>That&#x27;s because people were totally focused on physics, and math was just a useful tool sometimes. Doing physics was the true goal and observation the final arbiter of truth.<p>Nowadays, that distinction is blurred but for the opposite reason; people think that anything conceived by sound math must be true, and observation has taken a back seat.</text></item><item><author>cjs_ac</author><text>One of my physics lecturers at university made the offhand observation that the distinction between physics and mathematics is a <i>twentieth-century idea</i>: it wasn&#x27;t made during the nineteenth century or before, and it seems to be disappearing in the twenty-first.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>glitchc</author><text>Like the atom was in the 18th century? Electrons and protons in the 19th? Quarks in the 20th?</text></comment> |
30,531,059 | 30,530,151 | 1 | 3 | 30,528,473 | train | <story><title>SPAs Were a Mistake</title><url>https://gomakethings.com/spas-were-a-mistake/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zanfa</author><text>I think one of the unsolved problems of client-side interactivity on websites is how difficult it is to add it just <i>a little bit</i> of extra client-side functionality to a traditional server rendered website. For example, recently I had to deal with photo uploads on a Rails app, which works fine out of the box at first, until you want to show progress bars and uploaded previews etc. Then you add a couple of client-side Stimulus controllers, maybe a Turbo frame here and there and it works, but then you get to browser navigation and you&#x27;re screwed, because none of this works if somebody were to submit the form, then navigate back. Now you have to implement lifecycle handling to account for navigation and once you&#x27;re done, you&#x27;ve basically implemented a SPA, except it&#x27;s broken into a mix of tightly-coupled Javascript, Ruby and ERB templates.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dlisboa</author><text>The problem is the mixing and matching of state management. In a traditional web app all of the state is in the back end, in a SPA all of the state is in the front end. When we share state in between the two it&#x27;s often messy.<p>To me the answer feels like it should be &quot;traditional web app for most things, components-as-first-intended for some things&quot;. The simplest React example is just one component that abstracts presentation and logic. The only state is its own. It does not handle an entire web app as a SPA, no Redux, prop drilling, it&#x27;s just the idea of a reusable component as an HTML tag. Same with VueJS and all. If we restrict ourselves to that we&#x27;re in the good path.<p>If there was already an HTML tag for your own specific problem, wouldn&#x27;t you just use it in your traditional server-rendered app? A `&lt;photo-upload url=&quot;&#x2F;photos&quot;&gt;` tag that does exactly what you want. Or a `&lt;wizard pages=5 logic=&quot;com.domain&quot;&gt;` tag. We should create just those components, either in React&#x2F;VueJS&#x2F;Whatever or in vanilla JS Web Components, and live with the rest as we used to.<p>We&#x27;re basically saying that some parts of our apps are too difficult to mix and match state management, and we should offload all of the state to one of the two sides. In some rare apps indeed all of the state should be on the front end, but the use cases for that are just not as big as they&#x27;re made out to be.</text></comment> | <story><title>SPAs Were a Mistake</title><url>https://gomakethings.com/spas-were-a-mistake/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zanfa</author><text>I think one of the unsolved problems of client-side interactivity on websites is how difficult it is to add it just <i>a little bit</i> of extra client-side functionality to a traditional server rendered website. For example, recently I had to deal with photo uploads on a Rails app, which works fine out of the box at first, until you want to show progress bars and uploaded previews etc. Then you add a couple of client-side Stimulus controllers, maybe a Turbo frame here and there and it works, but then you get to browser navigation and you&#x27;re screwed, because none of this works if somebody were to submit the form, then navigate back. Now you have to implement lifecycle handling to account for navigation and once you&#x27;re done, you&#x27;ve basically implemented a SPA, except it&#x27;s broken into a mix of tightly-coupled Javascript, Ruby and ERB templates.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattwad</author><text>I feel like most people that hate SPAs never have to deal with this type of thing, or even only have to work on the backend. They just don&#x27;t get it. Of course, if you&#x27;re using a SPA for a static website, you&#x27;re also doing it wrong but that doesn&#x27;t mean SPA itself is a bad thing.</text></comment> |
18,393,566 | 18,393,684 | 1 | 2 | 18,391,120 | train | <story><title>Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing (2017)</title><url>https://mango.pdf.zone/operation-luigi-how-i-hacked-my-friend-without-her-noticing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edoo</author><text>Banks and the rest hate me. I use keypass to generate random alpha numeric &#x27;passwords&#x27; I use for the answers to personal questions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nothrabannosir</author><text>I have personally experienced a CS rep accepting “it’s just a bunch of random characters” as an answer. Combined with the fact that you just went on the record as using that scheme, your opsec just took a dramatic hit.<p>Use plausible sounding, but random answers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing (2017)</title><url>https://mango.pdf.zone/operation-luigi-how-i-hacked-my-friend-without-her-noticing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edoo</author><text>Banks and the rest hate me. I use keypass to generate random alpha numeric &#x27;passwords&#x27; I use for the answers to personal questions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tvanantwerp</author><text>Got bitten by this when I had to give a 32-character alphanumeric answer over the phone. I groaned and asked, &quot;Can I just give you the beginning and the end?&quot; The rep laughed and accepted my compromise. Since then, I use a collection of random words (in the style of correct-horse-battery-staple) for security questions.</text></comment> |
38,601,251 | 38,601,133 | 1 | 3 | 38,599,270 | train | <story><title>Tohands – Smart calculator for small businesses</title><url>https://smart.tohands.in/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>santhoshr</author><text>I think this is a ridiculously brilliant idea. It&#x27;s probably hard for Americans and folks in the West to imagine why this is a big deal. There are millions of vendors who basically dominate India&#x27;s retail market, which is probably one of the largest unorganized corners of the global economy with the world&#x27;s largest population. There have been tons of efforts and a significant amount of VC funding to digitize unorganized retail (the Kirana segment) in India, and many of these companies have struggled. I think part of the challenge is that they were trying to get shopkeepers to change behavior and force them away from their existing sales and checkout process. The elegance of the Kirana sale&#x2F;checkout is efficiency - no barcodes to scan, no POS to deal with, and it&#x27;s probably 3-4x faster than any modern checkout process. However, there is one tool they always use - a calculator.<p>This product basically enables me to do what I already do as a shopkeeper and maintain existing efficiencies while I also have the opportunity to digitize my transactions. I think it could be a game-changer.<p>Full disclosure: I grew up in a tiny town in India, and this was pretty much 100% of my retail experience!</text></comment> | <story><title>Tohands – Smart calculator for small businesses</title><url>https://smart.tohands.in/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>account_created</author><text>Nice project.<p>Few suggestions:
1. Change&#x2F;Update your logo. I find it hard to read it the font is not best for alphabets.
2. In the product itself, the brand name is reversed for the shopkeeper. I initially thought maybe it&#x27;s some smart name that could be read in reverse as well (like 1300135 lol). It is overengineered, just keep it simple it.
3. Add a real use-case demo in your website. It is currently filled with garbage&#x2F;gibberish.</text></comment> |
21,610,355 | 21,610,353 | 1 | 3 | 21,609,807 | train | <story><title>Microsoft REST API Guidelines</title><url>https://github.com/Microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/master/Guidelines.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Every single person writing a REST api should have to memorize this table:<p>GET - Return the current value of an object, is idempotent;<p>PUT - Replace an object, or create a named object, when applicable, is idempotent;<p>DELETE - Delete an object, is idempotent;<p>POST - Create a new object based on the data provided, or submit a command, NOT idempotent;<p>HEAD - Return metadata of an object for a GET response. Resources that support the GET method MAY support the HEAD method as well, is idempotent;<p>PATCH - Apply a partial update to an object, NOT idempotent;<p>OPTIONS - Get information about a request, is idempotent.<p>Most importantly, that PUT is idempotent.<p>Credit to arkadiytehgraet for retyping the table to be readable. Please give them an upvote for the effort.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arkadiytehgraet</author><text>Every single person writing a comment on Hacker News should have to memorize this rule:<p><i>Never</i> use code formatting for text, as it makes it unreadable on the mobile devices.<p>For my own (and others&#x27;) convenience, here is unformatted rule table from parent comment:<p>GET - Return the current value of an object, is idempotent;<p>PUT - Replace an object, or create a named object, when applicable, is idempotent;<p>DELETE - Delete an object, is idempotent;<p>POST - Create a new object based on the data provided, or submit a command, NOT idempotent;<p>HEAD - Return metadata of an object for a GET response. Resources that support the GET method MAY support the HEAD method as well, is idempotent;<p>PATCH - Apply a partial update to an object, NOT idempotent;<p>OPTIONS - Get information about a request, is idempotent.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft REST API Guidelines</title><url>https://github.com/Microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/master/Guidelines.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Every single person writing a REST api should have to memorize this table:<p>GET - Return the current value of an object, is idempotent;<p>PUT - Replace an object, or create a named object, when applicable, is idempotent;<p>DELETE - Delete an object, is idempotent;<p>POST - Create a new object based on the data provided, or submit a command, NOT idempotent;<p>HEAD - Return metadata of an object for a GET response. Resources that support the GET method MAY support the HEAD method as well, is idempotent;<p>PATCH - Apply a partial update to an object, NOT idempotent;<p>OPTIONS - Get information about a request, is idempotent.<p>Most importantly, that PUT is idempotent.<p>Credit to arkadiytehgraet for retyping the table to be readable. Please give them an upvote for the effort.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JMTQp8lwXL</author><text>There should be an option for deleting many objects. For that, you have to do a POST request on AWS S3:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.aws.amazon.com&#x2F;AmazonS3&#x2F;latest&#x2F;API&#x2F;API_DeleteObjects.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.aws.amazon.com&#x2F;AmazonS3&#x2F;latest&#x2F;API&#x2F;API_DeleteOb...</a><p>Instead of polluting existing method names to mean new things, HTTP could offer more method names.<p>Having POST alternatively mean &quot;send a command&quot; makes it meaningless. The command could do anything.</text></comment> |
18,602,778 | 18,600,605 | 1 | 3 | 18,599,728 | train | <story><title>What we learned from 3 years of bra engineering, and what's next</title><url>https://bratheory.com/what-we-learned-and-whats-next/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yodon</author><text>This seems like a good time to mention the history of the Apollo space suits, which were made for the manliest of men in the highly gender normed 1950&#x27;s by the largest corset and bra maker in the country. Why? Because bras and girdles require incredibly high skill design and fabrication engineering, as bra theory is discovering and as no other garment manufacturer of the day could equal.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mentalfloss.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;82726&#x2F;how-playtex-helped-win-space-race" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mentalfloss.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;82726&#x2F;how-playtex-helped-win-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Isamu</author><text>I highly recommend the book:<p>Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo
by Nicholas de Monchaux<p>&gt;How the twenty-one-layer Apollo spacesuit, made by Playtex, was a triumph of intimacy over engineering.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mitpress.mit.edu&#x2F;books&#x2F;spacesuit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mitpress.mit.edu&#x2F;books&#x2F;spacesuit</a><p>It has an interesting behind-the-scenes look at how Playtex succeeded where other contractors failed, how they were almost cut out of the deal anyway, and ended up being awarded the contract as a subcontractor to another company that was able to provide the necessary government-compliant documentation.</text></comment> | <story><title>What we learned from 3 years of bra engineering, and what's next</title><url>https://bratheory.com/what-we-learned-and-whats-next/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yodon</author><text>This seems like a good time to mention the history of the Apollo space suits, which were made for the manliest of men in the highly gender normed 1950&#x27;s by the largest corset and bra maker in the country. Why? Because bras and girdles require incredibly high skill design and fabrication engineering, as bra theory is discovering and as no other garment manufacturer of the day could equal.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mentalfloss.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;82726&#x2F;how-playtex-helped-win-space-race" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mentalfloss.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;82726&#x2F;how-playtex-helped-win-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>girvo</author><text>That’s fascinating, but makes sense! Considering how unique everyone’s bodies, and especially breasts can be, it’s amazing that mass produced even gets to “almost good enough”; I can’t wish Bra Theory enough luck!</text></comment> |
15,780,418 | 15,780,358 | 1 | 3 | 15,779,870 | train | <story><title>Evidence that collaboration results in group-think and mediocrity</title><url>https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/collaboration-kills-creativity-according-to-science.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>staunch</author><text>Creativity seems unimpeded when the one being creative is at the very top of the hierarchy. It doesn&#x27;t really work for anyone else unless they have a direct contribution and connection to the dictator though.<p>Any requirement that new stuff be reviewed by committee (e.g. a board of directors) will tend to destroy anything truly innovative.<p>Why? Because the creative people can see much further than the (much less involved) committee. They seem like crazy people talking about a world that doesn&#x27;t (yet) exist.<p>Elon Musk is doing so well because he has such an iron grip over his companies. If he ever becomes subject to real oversight he&#x27;ll fail as hard as Jobs did under Scully.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>b0rsuk</author><text>This old blog post argues that wisdom of crowds works well for estimating facts, but poorly for creative thinking, even so far as to say: &quot;Votes become vetoes&quot;. Because people don&#x27;t choose what they like the most, they choose against thing they like the least.<p>&quot;Ignoring the wisdom of crowds&quot;
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.asmartbear.com&#x2F;ignoring-the-wisdom-of-crowds.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.asmartbear.com&#x2F;ignoring-the-wisdom-of-crowds.ht...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Evidence that collaboration results in group-think and mediocrity</title><url>https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/collaboration-kills-creativity-according-to-science.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>staunch</author><text>Creativity seems unimpeded when the one being creative is at the very top of the hierarchy. It doesn&#x27;t really work for anyone else unless they have a direct contribution and connection to the dictator though.<p>Any requirement that new stuff be reviewed by committee (e.g. a board of directors) will tend to destroy anything truly innovative.<p>Why? Because the creative people can see much further than the (much less involved) committee. They seem like crazy people talking about a world that doesn&#x27;t (yet) exist.<p>Elon Musk is doing so well because he has such an iron grip over his companies. If he ever becomes subject to real oversight he&#x27;ll fail as hard as Jobs did under Scully.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icebraining</author><text>Elon Musk does have oversight, in the form of his investors. His creative vision had to pass through the scrutiny of the boards of those companies and individuals which invested in Tesla and SpaceX.<p>There&#x27;s also plenty of cases of actual employees being innovative. The work produced by employees of SRI (e.g. Douglas Engelbart&#x27;s team) and of Bell Labs eclipses Tesla and SpaceX in terms of innovation.</text></comment> |
17,070,624 | 17,070,137 | 1 | 3 | 17,045,777 | train | <story><title>Does Clean Laundry Have Germs?</title><url>http://www.stopthestomachflu.com/does-clean-laundry-have-germs-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ars</author><text>&gt; might be set to 60C (130F)<p>Don&#x27;t do that. You risk legionnaires disease. Set the temperature to at least 140F.</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>An interesting side effect here is that the house water heater has its own temperature control. For years people have been turning down the temperature setting on their water heaters to save energy, as a result the typical house water heater might be set to 60C (130F) and the washing machine was doing the best it could.</text></item><item><author>e12e</author><text>&gt; My sister Christy has an older top loader (not HE). She washed this laundry on hot and added the 1&#x2F;2 cup chlorine bleach directly to the wash water and it was very, very clean. She measured the temperature of her wash water when the tank filled up using her meat thermometer and it was 130 degrees F. She used Sam&#x27;s club detergent. Her laundry was perfectly clean (to the limits of my detection abilities).<p>So, 130F is just under 60C - what&#x27;s usually the minimum considered to kill bacteria. While I haven&#x27;t measured the actual temperature, my aging, second hand washer have three &quot;white&quot; programs: &quot;hot&quot; is 90 C, and there are two rated 60C. I&#x27;d never assume any of the other programs had a sterilising effect.<p>If &quot;hot&quot; is just 60C, and often not that - I can see a need to use bleach for some loads (or other means of killing off bacteria) if the norm is to use warm (not hot) water for washing.<p>Would be interesting to see similar test with just water (no soap, bleach) and a 90C degree program.<p>I&#x27;d guess the results would be &quot;dotted middleground&quot; like many of the test here.<p>Also would be nice to see how hanging in the sun would effect otherwise clean clothes (airborne bacteria vs uv death ray stand-off - might be meaningless without checking for <i>type</i> of bacteria).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>buttcoinslol</author><text>Don&#x27;t do that. You risk scalding burns. Far more people get scalded by tap&#x2F;shower water that is too hot than contract legionnaires by several orders of magnitude.<p>120F is the max recommended hot water temperature in the International Plumbing Code.</text></comment> | <story><title>Does Clean Laundry Have Germs?</title><url>http://www.stopthestomachflu.com/does-clean-laundry-have-germs-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ars</author><text>&gt; might be set to 60C (130F)<p>Don&#x27;t do that. You risk legionnaires disease. Set the temperature to at least 140F.</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>An interesting side effect here is that the house water heater has its own temperature control. For years people have been turning down the temperature setting on their water heaters to save energy, as a result the typical house water heater might be set to 60C (130F) and the washing machine was doing the best it could.</text></item><item><author>e12e</author><text>&gt; My sister Christy has an older top loader (not HE). She washed this laundry on hot and added the 1&#x2F;2 cup chlorine bleach directly to the wash water and it was very, very clean. She measured the temperature of her wash water when the tank filled up using her meat thermometer and it was 130 degrees F. She used Sam&#x27;s club detergent. Her laundry was perfectly clean (to the limits of my detection abilities).<p>So, 130F is just under 60C - what&#x27;s usually the minimum considered to kill bacteria. While I haven&#x27;t measured the actual temperature, my aging, second hand washer have three &quot;white&quot; programs: &quot;hot&quot; is 90 C, and there are two rated 60C. I&#x27;d never assume any of the other programs had a sterilising effect.<p>If &quot;hot&quot; is just 60C, and often not that - I can see a need to use bleach for some loads (or other means of killing off bacteria) if the norm is to use warm (not hot) water for washing.<p>Would be interesting to see similar test with just water (no soap, bleach) and a 90C degree program.<p>I&#x27;d guess the results would be &quot;dotted middleground&quot; like many of the test here.<p>Also would be nice to see how hanging in the sun would effect otherwise clean clothes (airborne bacteria vs uv death ray stand-off - might be meaningless without checking for <i>type</i> of bacteria).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmoriarty</author><text><i>&quot;Don&#x27;t do that. You risk legionnaires disease. Set the temperature to at least 140F.&quot;</i><p>How does water heater temperature below 140F increase the risk of getting legionnaires disease?<p>Also, I always wash my clothes on warm, never on hot, because I don&#x27;t want my clothes to shrink.<p>Many clothes manufacturers also label the clothes they make with directions saying to only wash on warm or cold. Otherwise, presumably, the clothes might get damaged.</text></comment> |
26,547,945 | 26,546,329 | 1 | 2 | 26,544,492 | train | <story><title>U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs Facebook appeal in user tracking lawsuit</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-facebook/u-s-supreme-court-rebuffs-facebook-appeal-in-user-tracking-lawsuit-idUSKBN2BE1TX</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ehnto</author><text>Hm, it&#x27;s challenging because of the new medium but maybe we could discuss a real world analogue:<p>You walk in to a home expecting to meet your friend, when you enter there is a man from the TV network there. You didn&#x27;t expect him, his intention is just to watch you and your friend talk about television shows.<p>Perhaps an example that gets closer to the crux of the problem:<p>You&#x27;re at a restaurant with a friend, and an unrelated stranger nearby can overhear the conversation. Not a participant, right? Now imagine they were sent to listen to you, and report back to the TV networks. I would say that, they have a very clear intention to participate in the conversation.</text></item><item><author>nerdponx</author><text><i>“Facebook was not an uninvited interloper to a communication between two separate parties; it was a direct participant,” the company said in a legal filing.</i><p>There&#x27;s gotta be some existing legal doctrine on what constitutes a &quot;direct participant&quot;, right?<p>Suppose I visit the website of Company A intending to do business with them (perhaps this is the only way to contact them). Their website contains the Facebook &quot;like&quot; button somewhere on the page. Is Facebook really a &quot;direct participant&quot; if I have no way to know that their widget is even on the site until I visit it, at which point they have already participated and I have no way to avoid it?<p>Likewise, does the law&#x2F;precedent on &quot;expectation of privacy&quot; have anything to say about who specifically I should&#x2F;shouldn&#x27;t expect privacy from?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freeopinion</author><text>What if the &quot;man from the TV network&quot; is really a &quot;man from Amazon&quot; only it isn&#x27;t a man. It&#x27;s a Ring doorbell, clearly labeled when you came through the front door. Or it&#x27;s a little Echo in the corner of the room.<p>Does that mean Amazon was invited to the conversation? Should you as a visitor to the home expect that every logo you see in the house means that you agree to have that company present in your conversations during the visit?<p>Does a Facebook icon or a Google icon or an Amazon icon on a webpage give them the right to participate in your conversation? Does a Windows logo in the corner of your screen give Microsoft the same right?<p>Is it ok if they don&#x27;t record audio or video, just metadata?</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs Facebook appeal in user tracking lawsuit</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-facebook/u-s-supreme-court-rebuffs-facebook-appeal-in-user-tracking-lawsuit-idUSKBN2BE1TX</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ehnto</author><text>Hm, it&#x27;s challenging because of the new medium but maybe we could discuss a real world analogue:<p>You walk in to a home expecting to meet your friend, when you enter there is a man from the TV network there. You didn&#x27;t expect him, his intention is just to watch you and your friend talk about television shows.<p>Perhaps an example that gets closer to the crux of the problem:<p>You&#x27;re at a restaurant with a friend, and an unrelated stranger nearby can overhear the conversation. Not a participant, right? Now imagine they were sent to listen to you, and report back to the TV networks. I would say that, they have a very clear intention to participate in the conversation.</text></item><item><author>nerdponx</author><text><i>“Facebook was not an uninvited interloper to a communication between two separate parties; it was a direct participant,” the company said in a legal filing.</i><p>There&#x27;s gotta be some existing legal doctrine on what constitutes a &quot;direct participant&quot;, right?<p>Suppose I visit the website of Company A intending to do business with them (perhaps this is the only way to contact them). Their website contains the Facebook &quot;like&quot; button somewhere on the page. Is Facebook really a &quot;direct participant&quot; if I have no way to know that their widget is even on the site until I visit it, at which point they have already participated and I have no way to avoid it?<p>Likewise, does the law&#x2F;precedent on &quot;expectation of privacy&quot; have anything to say about who specifically I should&#x2F;shouldn&#x27;t expect privacy from?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>legitster</author><text>Expectations of privacy are already pretty well defined: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Expectation_of_privacy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Expectation_of_privacy</a><p>You have an expectation of privacy in your own home - but you can&#x27;t take back what you shared to your friend when you discovered he writes down every conversation on his blog. Intent isn&#x27;t super relevant.<p>For the purpose of the wiretap act, &#x27;participant&#x27; is unrelated to intent.</text></comment> |
20,688,171 | 20,687,952 | 1 | 2 | 20,687,521 | train | <story><title>My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB Memory</title><url>https://louwrentius.com/my-home-lab-server-with-20-cores-40-threads-and-128-gb-memory.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greatjack613</author><text>To put this in perspective, The new $500 ryzen 9 3900x matches this $1700 xeon server in multi core geekbench, and kicks it in single core perf with a fraction of the power usage.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;browser.geekbench.com&#x2F;processors&#x2F;2587" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;browser.geekbench.com&#x2F;processors&#x2F;2587</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snuxoll</author><text>It also won’t have iLO, etc.<p>Even for a homelab these are useful features to have, I don’t want to go hooking up my monitor and keyboard every time I need to troubleshoot some boot issue or install a new OS. I can also get used DDR3 ECC memory for a hell of a lot cheaper than DDR4 right now.<p>Unfortunately the person who wrote this article is in the EU who has much slimmer picking in the second-hand market. I can buy a Dell R620 for $200-300, two 10-core Xeons for another $300 if it doesn’t come with enough cores, and 128GB of 16GB DDR RDIMMs for $200 - total price is under $1000USD, and that’s excluding any components that come with the server I may opt NOT to replace.</text></comment> | <story><title>My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB Memory</title><url>https://louwrentius.com/my-home-lab-server-with-20-cores-40-threads-and-128-gb-memory.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greatjack613</author><text>To put this in perspective, The new $500 ryzen 9 3900x matches this $1700 xeon server in multi core geekbench, and kicks it in single core perf with a fraction of the power usage.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;browser.geekbench.com&#x2F;processors&#x2F;2587" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;browser.geekbench.com&#x2F;processors&#x2F;2587</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>btgeekboy</author><text>That $1500 includes the rest of the computer, though. That adds up.</text></comment> |
7,016,019 | 7,016,106 | 1 | 2 | 7,015,145 | train | <story><title>Go’s Type System Is An Embarrassment</title><url>https://functionwhatwhat.com/go%E2%80%99s-type-system-is-an-embarrassment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kkowalczyk</author><text>Hoare didn&#x27;t invent 0-valued pointer. It was there since the beginning of time. Or at least the beginning of the CPUs.<p>People talk about getting rid of nil like it&#x27;s actually possible.<p>It&#x27;s not.<p>If you have pointers, they sometimes have to start the life uninitialized (i.e. with a value of 0) hence nil pointers.<p>As you admit yourself, the proposed solutions don&#x27;t actually get rid of anything. At best they can force you to handle nil value by wrapping it in some wrapper.<p>Guess what - if you have that kind of discipline, you can do the same in C++.<p>Why aren&#x27;t people doing that?<p>Because it comes at a cost. There&#x27;s a cost to the wrapper and when it comes down to it, you still have to write the code to handle the nil pointer whether you&#x27;re using a wrapper or a raw pointer.<p>It just doesn&#x27;t buy you much.<p>Finally, fixing crashes caused by referencing a null pointer is downright trivial. Spend a few weeks chasing a memory corruption caused by multi-threading and you&#x27;ll come to a conclusion that fixing a null pointer crashes (which can be done just by looking at the crashing callstack most of the time) is not such a big deal after all.</text></item><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>My biggest beef with the Go typesystem is that they didn&#x27;t get rid of nil. Tony Hoare (the guy who invented null) has acknowledged they were his &quot;billion dollar mistake&quot; [1], common practice in Java and Haskell is moving away from them, and yet Go included them anyway - in a language that&#x27;s supposed to be robust because you&#x27;re supposed to handle every case. The Maybe (or @Nullable) type is a much better idea, because it flips the default from &quot;any variable may be null&quot; to &quot;only variables explicitly declared as such may be null&quot;.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Billion-Dollar-Mistake-Tony-Hoare" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoq.com&#x2F;presentations&#x2F;Null-References-The-Billi...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdmichal</author><text>&gt; If you have pointers, they sometimes have to start the life uninitialized (i.e. with a value of 0) hence nil pointers.<p>Maybe at the machine level. But there&#x27;s nothing that stops a programming language a few levels above machine from requiring that every pointer be initialized with a reference.<p>&gt; As you admit yourself, the proposed solutions don&#x27;t actually get rid of anything. At best they can force you to handle nil value by wrapping it in some wrapper.<p>The entire point is that a large majority of APIs don&#x27;t WANT to accept or handle NIL, but have to, because the default is to allow it. And in some languages, such as Java, the only way to extend the type system is with reference types, making it impossible to ever not have to handle NIL. By reversing this decision, it becomes possible to specify both allowance and disallowance of NIL-valued parameters. Why you would ever argue against such expression is beyond me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Go’s Type System Is An Embarrassment</title><url>https://functionwhatwhat.com/go%E2%80%99s-type-system-is-an-embarrassment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kkowalczyk</author><text>Hoare didn&#x27;t invent 0-valued pointer. It was there since the beginning of time. Or at least the beginning of the CPUs.<p>People talk about getting rid of nil like it&#x27;s actually possible.<p>It&#x27;s not.<p>If you have pointers, they sometimes have to start the life uninitialized (i.e. with a value of 0) hence nil pointers.<p>As you admit yourself, the proposed solutions don&#x27;t actually get rid of anything. At best they can force you to handle nil value by wrapping it in some wrapper.<p>Guess what - if you have that kind of discipline, you can do the same in C++.<p>Why aren&#x27;t people doing that?<p>Because it comes at a cost. There&#x27;s a cost to the wrapper and when it comes down to it, you still have to write the code to handle the nil pointer whether you&#x27;re using a wrapper or a raw pointer.<p>It just doesn&#x27;t buy you much.<p>Finally, fixing crashes caused by referencing a null pointer is downright trivial. Spend a few weeks chasing a memory corruption caused by multi-threading and you&#x27;ll come to a conclusion that fixing a null pointer crashes (which can be done just by looking at the crashing callstack most of the time) is not such a big deal after all.</text></item><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>My biggest beef with the Go typesystem is that they didn&#x27;t get rid of nil. Tony Hoare (the guy who invented null) has acknowledged they were his &quot;billion dollar mistake&quot; [1], common practice in Java and Haskell is moving away from them, and yet Go included them anyway - in a language that&#x27;s supposed to be robust because you&#x27;re supposed to handle every case. The Maybe (or @Nullable) type is a much better idea, because it flips the default from &quot;any variable may be null&quot; to &quot;only variables explicitly declared as such may be null&quot;.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Billion-Dollar-Mistake-Tony-Hoare" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoq.com&#x2F;presentations&#x2F;Null-References-The-Billi...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>As others have pointed out, I&#x27;m not talking about nil as the zero-valued pointer at the hardware level. I&#x27;m talking about nil as the additional member of every type in the language&#x27;s typesystem. A typesystem is an abstraction over the hardware, designed to catch programmer errors and facilitate communication among programmers. There&#x27;s no reason it has to admit every possible value that the hardware can support.<p>And people <i>are</i> applying that sort of discipline - see the NullObject pattern in any OO language, or the @Nullable&#x2F;@NotNull annotations in Java, or !Object types in Google Closure Compiler. The thing is, they have to apply it manually to every type, because the type system assumes the default is nullable. That makes it an inconvenience, which makes a number of programmers not bother.<p>I&#x27;ll agree that null pointers are comparatively easy to track down compared to memory corruption caused by multi-threading. Threads are a broken programming model too, and if you want a sane life working with them you&#x27;ll apply a higher-level abstraction like CSP, producer-consumer queues, SEDA, data-dependency graphs, or transactions on top of them.</text></comment> |
21,273,372 | 21,273,192 | 1 | 3 | 21,269,763 | train | <story><title>Make More Land</title><url>https://www.jefftk.com/p/make-more-land</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>leetcrew</author><text>I tend to lean libertarian on most issues, but I am starting to think it just doesn&#x27;t make very much sense for people to own land privately. it&#x27;s one of the only things in the world that is truly scarce (ie, you can&#x27;t make more plots in the upper east side), and the value of land tends to be based much more on improvements to the surrounding area than improvements to the land itself. also, land ownership seems to lead to all sorts of perverse incentives to lobby for laws that distort the housing market.<p>sometimes I wonder if it wouldn&#x27;t be better to take a snapshot of all property values at a certain point in time, pay out the owners at the current value, and switch land over exclusively to long term leases from the government (where the lessee is allowed to sublet).</text></item><item><author>marvin</author><text>Here&#x27;s the biggest objection, that would hold true for many expensive areas of the Western world, and any policy that will dramatically increase the supply of real estate:<p>&quot;I own property here, and if we do this, the value of my property will fall. Therefore, we shouldn&#x27;t do it&quot;.<p>This is the real motivation, but bring up some environmental concerns, something about retaining the character of the area, something about ensuring that the area won&#x27;t be mobbed by new inhabitants, just to make the argument plausible. Then vote.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>isostatic</author><text>A land value tax, where you pay for the value of the land. Society builds a new subway stations near you, and land increases 20%, you pay 20% more tax. Society puts a power plant on your doorstep, land drops 40%, and you pay 40% less tax.<p>What you do with that land is irrelevent - you pay the same whether you have a small house on a 15 story building on it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Make More Land</title><url>https://www.jefftk.com/p/make-more-land</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>leetcrew</author><text>I tend to lean libertarian on most issues, but I am starting to think it just doesn&#x27;t make very much sense for people to own land privately. it&#x27;s one of the only things in the world that is truly scarce (ie, you can&#x27;t make more plots in the upper east side), and the value of land tends to be based much more on improvements to the surrounding area than improvements to the land itself. also, land ownership seems to lead to all sorts of perverse incentives to lobby for laws that distort the housing market.<p>sometimes I wonder if it wouldn&#x27;t be better to take a snapshot of all property values at a certain point in time, pay out the owners at the current value, and switch land over exclusively to long term leases from the government (where the lessee is allowed to sublet).</text></item><item><author>marvin</author><text>Here&#x27;s the biggest objection, that would hold true for many expensive areas of the Western world, and any policy that will dramatically increase the supply of real estate:<p>&quot;I own property here, and if we do this, the value of my property will fall. Therefore, we shouldn&#x27;t do it&quot;.<p>This is the real motivation, but bring up some environmental concerns, something about retaining the character of the area, something about ensuring that the area won&#x27;t be mobbed by new inhabitants, just to make the argument plausible. Then vote.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amalcon</author><text>I&#x27;ve heard the argument that this is what property taxes are (usually as means to oppose property taxes). What practical thing would you expect to change, that&#x27;s different from just raising property taxes?</text></comment> |
33,136,371 | 33,135,705 | 1 | 3 | 33,134,737 | train | <story><title>Lufthansa has not banned AirTags</title><url>https://liveandletsfly.com/lufthansa-airtags/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ezfe</author><text>Really simple question is whether car keys are banned under the same rules. They are powered by the same types of batteries.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brewdad</author><text>Airlines do recommend keeping your car keys in your carry-on. Presumably this is so that you aren&#x27;t stranded if your baggage gets lost rather than a ban on its battery.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lufthansa has not banned AirTags</title><url>https://liveandletsfly.com/lufthansa-airtags/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ezfe</author><text>Really simple question is whether car keys are banned under the same rules. They are powered by the same types of batteries.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kube-system</author><text>Car keys usually remained powered off until a button is pressed.</text></comment> |
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