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15,945,727 | 15,945,689 | 1 | 2 | 15,945,490 | train | <story><title>Show HN: An educational blockchain implementation in Python</title><url>https://github.com/julienr/ipynb_playground/blob/master/bitcoin/dumbcoin/dumbcoin.ipynb</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>magnat</author><text>&gt; It is NOT secure neither a real blockchain and you should NOT use this for anything else than educational purposes.<p>It would be nice if non-secure parts of implementation or design were clearly marked.<p>What&#x27;s the point of education article, if bad examples aren&#x27;t clearly marked as bad? If MD5 usage is the only issue, author could easily replace it with SHA and get rid of the warning at the start. If there are other issues, how can a reader know which parts to trust?<p>Even if fixing bad&#x2F;insecure parts are &quot;left as an exercise for the reader&quot;, learning value of the article would be much greater if those parts would be at least pointed at.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: An educational blockchain implementation in Python</title><url>https://github.com/julienr/ipynb_playground/blob/master/bitcoin/dumbcoin/dumbcoin.ipynb</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>h4l0</author><text>For the last couple of months, there have been many educational, simple implementations that explains blockchain technology, I guess thanks to crypto bubble. I wish these were around when we were doing our senior design project on blockchains in 2014. Back then, I only could find basiccoin[0], which was purely minified to just fit in 1000 loc.<p>After that, I decided to re-implement everything from scratch. My foremost constraint was to write readable code so that anyone could read the codebase and have an idea of how blockchain works.<p>My current draft of implementation can be found on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;halilozercan&#x2F;halocoin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;halilozercan&#x2F;halocoin</a> , which currently lacks detailed README and documentation. However, you can still experiment with it by using API or CLI. I&#x27;m running a dedicated server to have an always online peer you can connect to.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zack-bitcoin&#x2F;basiccoin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zack-bitcoin&#x2F;basiccoin</a><p>Edit: a word</text></comment> |
4,707,401 | 4,707,170 | 1 | 2 | 4,706,892 | train | <story><title>Give A Damn</title><url>http://clayallsopp.com/posts/give-a-damn/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>klibertp</author><text>I have different problem - I just can't code like The Kid anymore. I know I could in the past, I have the code to confirm this. Not anymore, I'm not able to.<p>And often I'm required to. My boss says: "just hack it quickly" or "it's one-shot script, just write it" and wants it done in an hour or so. And I can't do this.<p>I don't even know why I can't. I tried many times to "just code" and there's something in my mind that seems to be opposed to this. This "something" refuses to use unknown or not fully understood tools. It refuses to let ugly line of code be. I feel like I'm refactoring my "one-shot" scripts reflexively, without me noticing. And the worst thing is I do it continuosly - not when the script is finished and somehow works, but during writing it for the first time. I know exactly when was the last time I wrote more than twenty (Python) lines of code without breaking the code into functions and classes, caring about names and comments: in 2004. Tests came later, but now they are a reflex too.<p>And now what my boss wants done in an hour I write in three or four. Then he's getting angry and tells me to go clean and document some code or to implement something else, and I do, and it more often than not works and - I hear - could even be a pleasure to read. But then, few days later, he wants me to quickly convert something or export something or something like that and I just can't do it, unless I have previous script ready. Then he's angry again...<p>TL;DR - giving a damn is certainly a good thing, sometimes, but taken to the extreme can disturb your career.</text></comment> | <story><title>Give A Damn</title><url>http://clayallsopp.com/posts/give-a-damn/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Zarel</author><text>On the other hand, I'm reminded of this passage from HPMoR:<p>"But Father had once told her that the trouble with passing up opportunities was that it was habit-forming. If you told yourself you were waiting for a better opportunity next time, why, next time you'd probably tell yourself the same thing. Father had said that most people spent their whole lives waiting for an opportunity that was good enough, and then they died. Father had said that while seizing opportunities would mean that all sorts of things went wrong, it wasn't nearly as bad as being a hopeless lump. Father had said that after she got into the habit of seizing opportunities, then it was time to start being picky about them."<p>Or, in context: You can't skip directly to writing quality code. First, you have to get used to writing code, and to do that, you have to write a lot of it. You have to get used to getting things done. Only after you have a good grasp of getting things done, of seeing a project to completion, should you start worrying about code quality.<p>I have a lot of unfinished projects, and a lot of smaller projects that I have finished. I'm sure all of us do. But once, I decided not to worry so much and just start writing, and I started and shipped an incredibly ambitious project. It wasn't my best code, but it taught me a lot about not sitting at a blank screen trying to plan everything to be perfect before starting.</text></comment> |
23,552,592 | 23,552,622 | 1 | 2 | 23,551,098 | train | <story><title>BountySource have turned evil – alternatives?</title><url>https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/5938.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>It makes sense to have some expiry. Else you can be left holding hundreds of thousands of dollars of people&#x27;s money that will never return, forever, which really complicates your finances.<p>Your own bank has clauses like this btw. I had to fight for my funds in a bank account I hadn&#x27;t touched in seven years. And I once used a pay-as-you-go phone service that would consume your balance if you went 6 months without depositing.<p>But two years seems way too aggressive for this sort of project.</text></item><item><author>mcv</author><text>It sounds like they&#x27;re just taking existing bounty money for themselves. Only if your bounty is from before 2018, you can only redeploy it, and not get your money back. Any bounty from between 2018 and today is just lost if it doesn&#x27;t get claimed within 2 years. Future bounties probably won&#x27;t be on this platform.<p>Sounds like a quick money grab while destroying your brand. Were they recently bought by a hedge fund or something?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>troydavis</author><text>&gt; It makes sense to have some expiry. Else you can be left holding hundreds of thousands of dollars of people&#x27;s money that will never return, forever, which really complicates your finances.<p>There&#x27;s a pretty simple answer here: return it to the person who posted the bounty. Other options could be letting them donate it (minus standard fees) to the maintainer(s) of the project that their bounty applied to or to an OSS organization.<p>The choices aren&#x27;t just &quot;Hold on to it forever&quot; and &quot;Take it for Bountysource.&quot; It&#x27;s on the books as a liability for a reason, namely, it&#x27;s not Bountysource&#x27;s money.<p>(There&#x27;s also an entire ecosystem for unclaimed property, which is where banks distribute money from customers they can&#x27;t locate: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unclaimed.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unclaimed.org&#x2F;</a>)</text></comment> | <story><title>BountySource have turned evil – alternatives?</title><url>https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/5938.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>It makes sense to have some expiry. Else you can be left holding hundreds of thousands of dollars of people&#x27;s money that will never return, forever, which really complicates your finances.<p>Your own bank has clauses like this btw. I had to fight for my funds in a bank account I hadn&#x27;t touched in seven years. And I once used a pay-as-you-go phone service that would consume your balance if you went 6 months without depositing.<p>But two years seems way too aggressive for this sort of project.</text></item><item><author>mcv</author><text>It sounds like they&#x27;re just taking existing bounty money for themselves. Only if your bounty is from before 2018, you can only redeploy it, and not get your money back. Any bounty from between 2018 and today is just lost if it doesn&#x27;t get claimed within 2 years. Future bounties probably won&#x27;t be on this platform.<p>Sounds like a quick money grab while destroying your brand. Were they recently bought by a hedge fund or something?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>henriquez</author><text>This is an interesting problem that ruined a side project I worked on. I wanted to avoid forcing people to pay monthly subscription fees so instead I let them buy &quot;credits&quot; and pay as they go. Unfortunately many people bought credits and then disappeared after using the product a couple of times, leaving my company with thousands of dollars we were actually holding on behalf of our customers. My accountants informed me that even though we have that money in the bank it&#x27;s not really &quot;ours,&quot; and we can&#x27;t even find a lot of these people in order to refund them.<p>I&#x27;m not saying that what BountySource is doing is justified. In my case I need to just wind down the company because I think it would be unethical to pull this shit.</text></comment> |
25,635,867 | 25,635,157 | 1 | 2 | 25,632,757 | train | <story><title>BadEconomics: Putting $400M of Bitcoin on your company balance sheet</title><url>https://www.singlelunch.com/2020/10/21/badeconomics-putting-400m-of-bitcoin-on-your-company-balance-sheet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>virgilp</author><text>&gt; ignoring that the ability to independently verify the money supply and being able to transfer money across political boundaries without censorship is probably the most important intrinsic value one could hope for in a MoE&#x2F;SoV.<p>That BTC is not (yet?) money should again be non-controversial, since the vast majority of economic agents anywhere won&#x27;t accept it directly (so you need to exchange BTC for cash first). It does have a decent claim at &quot;store of value&quot;. But, where is the &quot;intrinsic value&quot;? You claim two of them:<p>1. ability to independently verify the money supply<p>2. being able to transfer money across political boundaries without censorship<p>I don&#x27;t understand either, to be honest:<p>1. You can verify the supply of other things (e.g. company shares) at an independent body. I&#x27;m pretty sure that&#x27;s true for &quot;money in circulation&quot;, too. Ok, the verification is not distributed, but is that distribution so valuable? Or do you actually mean &quot;The supply is naturally-limited and nobody can easily produce tons of BTC out of thin air&quot;? Then, yes, BTC has that property... but, tons of other things do! E.g. why not invest in amber, it&#x27;s probably one of the rarest things in the universe.<p>2. Transfer across political boundaries: is there ANY inherent guarantee? Say US decides tomorrow that trading BTC is illegal, how would BTC protect you from that? Using existing anti-money-laundering laws &amp; global institutions, you&#x27;d be effectively banned from getting back any value from your BTCs (or, doing so would expose you to all the associated risks).</text></item><item><author>frankenst1</author><text>Like most posts critical of Bitcoin it ignores that<p><pre><code> - Bitcoin becomes less volatile over time
- Bitcoin was less volatile than TLSA, AMZN or AAPL in 2020 (3-month realised volatility) [0]
- Bitcoin becomes less risky over time (since despite increased incentives to &quot;hack&quot; it, no exploits happened)
</code></pre>
It also repeats typical nocoiner fallacies like &quot;it has no intrinsic value&quot; and &quot;gold is used for jewelry&quot;, ignoring that the ability to independently verify the money supply and being able to transfer money across political boundaries without censorship is probably the most important intrinsic value one could hope for in a MoE&#x2F;SoV.<p>New in this post was the author&#x27;s stance to trust the Fed to keep inflation predictable:<p><pre><code> &quot;as long as the Fed isn’t run by spider monkeys stacked in a trench coat, the inflation is likely to be within reasonable bounds&quot;
&quot;well-run currencies like the USD, GBP, CAD, EUR, etc. all lose their value at a low and most importantly fairly predictible rate&quot;
</code></pre>
However, the Fed increased M1 money supply by ~20% just in the 2 months following that blog post and by ~70% in the total of 2020 - an increase unprecedented in the history of the US dollar. 2 of the 3 dollars in your pocket have been created out of thin air in 2020.<p>Believing that inflation rates in the next years won&#x27;t spike as a result requires an amount of trust even more artificially inflated than the USD today.<p>[0]: Daily %-change of TSLA,BTC,NFLX,AAPL,AMZN: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;mE7bSI4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;mE7bSI4</a> (TSLA is green)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erosenbe0</author><text>If you are living in the US or EU then being able to hide assets and transfer without censorship is mostly a bug, not a feature. And eventually the governments will have to do something about it in order to preserve the rule of law.<p>What happens if you are disabled in a horrible negligent accident or defrauded in some conventional transaction and defendant hides all assets and transactions in BTC?<p>I can&#x27;t imagine a long term equilibrium where [Americans, at least] store trillions and trillions of dollars in BTC without substantial additional regulation.<p>Edit: for those in relatively more corrupt, tenuous circumstances then BTC is a net positive, of course.</text></comment> | <story><title>BadEconomics: Putting $400M of Bitcoin on your company balance sheet</title><url>https://www.singlelunch.com/2020/10/21/badeconomics-putting-400m-of-bitcoin-on-your-company-balance-sheet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>virgilp</author><text>&gt; ignoring that the ability to independently verify the money supply and being able to transfer money across political boundaries without censorship is probably the most important intrinsic value one could hope for in a MoE&#x2F;SoV.<p>That BTC is not (yet?) money should again be non-controversial, since the vast majority of economic agents anywhere won&#x27;t accept it directly (so you need to exchange BTC for cash first). It does have a decent claim at &quot;store of value&quot;. But, where is the &quot;intrinsic value&quot;? You claim two of them:<p>1. ability to independently verify the money supply<p>2. being able to transfer money across political boundaries without censorship<p>I don&#x27;t understand either, to be honest:<p>1. You can verify the supply of other things (e.g. company shares) at an independent body. I&#x27;m pretty sure that&#x27;s true for &quot;money in circulation&quot;, too. Ok, the verification is not distributed, but is that distribution so valuable? Or do you actually mean &quot;The supply is naturally-limited and nobody can easily produce tons of BTC out of thin air&quot;? Then, yes, BTC has that property... but, tons of other things do! E.g. why not invest in amber, it&#x27;s probably one of the rarest things in the universe.<p>2. Transfer across political boundaries: is there ANY inherent guarantee? Say US decides tomorrow that trading BTC is illegal, how would BTC protect you from that? Using existing anti-money-laundering laws &amp; global institutions, you&#x27;d be effectively banned from getting back any value from your BTCs (or, doing so would expose you to all the associated risks).</text></item><item><author>frankenst1</author><text>Like most posts critical of Bitcoin it ignores that<p><pre><code> - Bitcoin becomes less volatile over time
- Bitcoin was less volatile than TLSA, AMZN or AAPL in 2020 (3-month realised volatility) [0]
- Bitcoin becomes less risky over time (since despite increased incentives to &quot;hack&quot; it, no exploits happened)
</code></pre>
It also repeats typical nocoiner fallacies like &quot;it has no intrinsic value&quot; and &quot;gold is used for jewelry&quot;, ignoring that the ability to independently verify the money supply and being able to transfer money across political boundaries without censorship is probably the most important intrinsic value one could hope for in a MoE&#x2F;SoV.<p>New in this post was the author&#x27;s stance to trust the Fed to keep inflation predictable:<p><pre><code> &quot;as long as the Fed isn’t run by spider monkeys stacked in a trench coat, the inflation is likely to be within reasonable bounds&quot;
&quot;well-run currencies like the USD, GBP, CAD, EUR, etc. all lose their value at a low and most importantly fairly predictible rate&quot;
</code></pre>
However, the Fed increased M1 money supply by ~20% just in the 2 months following that blog post and by ~70% in the total of 2020 - an increase unprecedented in the history of the US dollar. 2 of the 3 dollars in your pocket have been created out of thin air in 2020.<p>Believing that inflation rates in the next years won&#x27;t spike as a result requires an amount of trust even more artificially inflated than the USD today.<p>[0]: Daily %-change of TSLA,BTC,NFLX,AAPL,AMZN: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;mE7bSI4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;mE7bSI4</a> (TSLA is green)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>as300</author><text>&gt; Then, yes, BTC has that property... but, tons of other things do! E.g. why not invest in amber, it&#x27;s probably one of the rarest things in the universe.<p>Yes but the amount of amber, gold, silver, etc. on Earth is a known unknown. There are presumably deposits of gold that we don&#x27;t yet know about. The amount of BTC is known. You seem to be conflating rarity with fixed scarcity.<p>&gt; Using existing anti-money-laundering laws &amp; global institutions, you&#x27;d be effectively banned from getting back any value from your BTCs (or, doing so would expose you to all the associated risks).<p>While this is true, this is sort of the whole point of bitcoin. Like, it&#x27;s a currency that is independent of any nation-state and acts as a sort of systemic-hedge against governmental incompetence&#x2F;malfeasance. So the fact that it could even be banned by any particular country is kind of part of its value proposition. And, similar to VPN&#x27;s, just because an IP-based technology is banned doesn&#x27;t mean that it&#x27;d become impossible to use.</text></comment> |
39,459,301 | 39,459,303 | 1 | 2 | 39,452,494 | train | <story><title>Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero</title><url>https://saveflipper.ca/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexb_</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>creaturemachine</author><text>Tik-Tok-inspired Kia thefts weren&#x27;t a problem in Canada because they&#x27;ve required immobilizers since 2007, something Kia skimped on for the US market.</text></item><item><author>fargle</author><text>stupid on stupid.<p>- it&#x27;s incredibly stupid to ban the flipper zero because it&#x27;s factually not even part of the problem<p>- but it&#x27;s equally stupid to &quot;ban insecure vehicles&quot;. if kia makes a cheap car with crappy locks either don&#x27;t buy it (because maybe insurance) or <i>add and aftermarket immobilizer</i> or a steering wheel lock. if it was really negligent of kia to &quot;save a couple bucks&quot;, then it&#x27;s equally negligent on you for not spending a couple bucks.<p>- i also cringe at the idea that we throw the word negligent around when talking about failing to prevent other peoples crimes. i&#x27;m not negligent for not doing <i>enough</i> to prevent the crimes of some other asshole. nor is kia. meanwhile, there&#x27;s sibling threads here that point out that the us is far to hard on the criminals. so wait - kia and me and other law abiding entities are &quot;negligent&quot;, but the asshole who stole the car deserves compasion, etc.?<p>- it&#x27;s stupid-on-stupid-on-stupid to sit here discussing the problem of car thefts, caused by lack of enforcement of the existing laws against it, and the proposed solutions is making more things illegal (and arguing about which things).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>franga2000</author><text>The manufacturer is not the victim here, the buyer is. If I pay a contractor to install a new door and lock on my apartment and it turns out they did a terrible job which made it trivial for a thief to break in, the contractor should be liable.<p>Crime exists, this is the world we live in. Failing to implement even the most basic security measure, which is considered industry standard, in a high-value product that is known to be very attractive to thieves and then selling that product to consumers with no warning that &quot;unlike most other cars on the market, which have many layers of security features, this car can be stolen using a cheap toy&quot; makes the inevitable thefts absolutely Kia&#x27;s fault.<p>It&#x27;s not like people are saying the thieves did nothing wrong, both sides are at fault: the thieves stole people&#x27;s cars to enrich themselves and Kia secretly omitted a basic security feature which in turn enabled thousands of fully predictable and preventable thefts from their customers, again, to enrich themselves.</text></comment> | <story><title>Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero</title><url>https://saveflipper.ca/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexb_</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>creaturemachine</author><text>Tik-Tok-inspired Kia thefts weren&#x27;t a problem in Canada because they&#x27;ve required immobilizers since 2007, something Kia skimped on for the US market.</text></item><item><author>fargle</author><text>stupid on stupid.<p>- it&#x27;s incredibly stupid to ban the flipper zero because it&#x27;s factually not even part of the problem<p>- but it&#x27;s equally stupid to &quot;ban insecure vehicles&quot;. if kia makes a cheap car with crappy locks either don&#x27;t buy it (because maybe insurance) or <i>add and aftermarket immobilizer</i> or a steering wheel lock. if it was really negligent of kia to &quot;save a couple bucks&quot;, then it&#x27;s equally negligent on you for not spending a couple bucks.<p>- i also cringe at the idea that we throw the word negligent around when talking about failing to prevent other peoples crimes. i&#x27;m not negligent for not doing <i>enough</i> to prevent the crimes of some other asshole. nor is kia. meanwhile, there&#x27;s sibling threads here that point out that the us is far to hard on the criminals. so wait - kia and me and other law abiding entities are &quot;negligent&quot;, but the asshole who stole the car deserves compasion, etc.?<p>- it&#x27;s stupid-on-stupid-on-stupid to sit here discussing the problem of car thefts, caused by lack of enforcement of the existing laws against it, and the proposed solutions is making more things illegal (and arguing about which things).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deepsun</author><text>Just use &quot;passw0rd&quot; everywhere. It&#x27;s the fault of a hacker who steals your account, not your fault. Every single time.<p>Especially that no security is absolute. Effort matters.</text></comment> |
5,219,606 | 5,219,552 | 1 | 2 | 5,219,444 | train | <story><title>Unofficial documentation of the Tesla Model S REST API</title><url>https://github.com/timdorr/model-s-api</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>timdorr</author><text>Docs are here: <a href="http://docs.timdorr.apiary.io/" rel="nofollow">http://docs.timdorr.apiary.io/</a><p>This was discovered via the Android app in particular: <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslamotors.tesla" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslamotor...</a><p>I did some sniffing on the traffic, which is SSL encrypted, but luckily it's pretty easy to install your own CA in Android 4.1+.<p>They have both a Rails app and a nodejs server. The nodejs server is for live streaming car location and driving metrics. I haven't gotten that documented yet (but I'm accepting pull requests!), but some people have already been making use of it: <a href="http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/13410-Model-S-REST-API" rel="nofollow">http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/13410-Model-S-...</a><p>One guy already has his Model S tweeting: <a href="https://twitter.com/pureamps" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/pureamps</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Unofficial documentation of the Tesla Model S REST API</title><url>https://github.com/timdorr/model-s-api</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dochtman</author><text>Using GET to trigger horn honking... Not sure I'd consider that good REST practices.<p>(At least honking the horn doesn't incur permanent state change; unlocking the doors is obviously not safe.)<p>Edit: idempotency vs safety... I knew I was being stupid.</text></comment> |
38,802,712 | 38,802,654 | 1 | 3 | 38,802,152 | train | <story><title>40% of US electricity is now emissions-free</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/40-of-us-electricity-is-now-emissions-free/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zyl1n</author><text>What does natural gas have to do with greenwashing? It is naturally occurring gas; different from other hydrocarbon gas that is man-made.</text></item><item><author>globalnode</author><text>i agree, but i also dislike the term &quot;natural gas&quot; sure its natural just like everything in the universe is -- just a bit of greenwashing to go with our CO2 emissions</text></item><item><author>vinniepukh</author><text>I like the term “emissions-free”.<p>It keeps our eyes on the target - not emitting CO2 and other gasses to the atmosphere.<p>Other qualities like “renewablility” or “greenness” are cherries in the top. Nice to haves!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tadfisher</author><text>That&#x27;s true, but the term itself is archaic; at the time (early 19th century) the most widespread gaseous fuel was coal gas, also known as &quot;town gas&quot; because we piped it to urban homes for lighting. There&#x27;s not much need for the distinction anymore, plus &quot;methane&quot; aligns with the other trade names for other fossil gases (propane, butane).</text></comment> | <story><title>40% of US electricity is now emissions-free</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/40-of-us-electricity-is-now-emissions-free/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zyl1n</author><text>What does natural gas have to do with greenwashing? It is naturally occurring gas; different from other hydrocarbon gas that is man-made.</text></item><item><author>globalnode</author><text>i agree, but i also dislike the term &quot;natural gas&quot; sure its natural just like everything in the universe is -- just a bit of greenwashing to go with our CO2 emissions</text></item><item><author>vinniepukh</author><text>I like the term “emissions-free”.<p>It keeps our eyes on the target - not emitting CO2 and other gasses to the atmosphere.<p>Other qualities like “renewablility” or “greenness” are cherries in the top. Nice to haves!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SapporoChris</author><text>&quot;Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes.&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Natural_gas" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Natural_gas</a><p>Alright, so it goes by several names but it&#x27;s sold to consumers as &quot;Natural Gas&quot;. I&#x27;m not sure if it was green washing, but obviously the marketers were going for the most palatable name for consumers.</text></comment> |
34,273,099 | 34,273,076 | 1 | 2 | 34,272,215 | train | <story><title>No, you can’t manufacture that like Apple does (2014)</title><url>https://beneinstein.medium.com/no-you-cant-manufacture-that-like-apple-does-93bea02a3bbf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SargeDebian</author><text>Do you have a source for that? It is the default painkiller in the Netherlands, and it&#x27;s what GPs typically prescribe people that come to them with something that doesn&#x27;t really need treatment, to the point that it&#x27;s a meme.<p>I&#x27;d be interested in hearing how they&#x27;re wrong to that extent, on such scale.</text></item><item><author>midoridensha</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>jiggawatts</author><text>Reminds me of a conversation I had with someone in the pharmaceutical industry. He lamented that the box was by far the most expensive component for many of their products. Paracetamol is <i>cheap</i>, glossy full-colour printing with embossing is not!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andreareina</author><text>It’s a half right sort of thing. Overdose is acutely toxic to the liver. Dosage guidelines are safe unless you’ have impaired liver function (been drinking?), <i>or</i> you’re taking another drug that also has paracetamol (e.g. combo paracetamol&#x2F;ibuprofen, painkillers for period cramps, etc). I’ve seen opiates compounded with paracetamol and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s mostly to (try to) limit abuse.<p>Then again this is in contrast to NSAIDs like ibuprofen that can result in gastric bleeding even at the recommended dose.<p>I prefer paracetamol&#x2F;acetaminophen for most uses but I’m pretty careful about how much and what else I’m taking.</text></comment> | <story><title>No, you can’t manufacture that like Apple does (2014)</title><url>https://beneinstein.medium.com/no-you-cant-manufacture-that-like-apple-does-93bea02a3bbf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SargeDebian</author><text>Do you have a source for that? It is the default painkiller in the Netherlands, and it&#x27;s what GPs typically prescribe people that come to them with something that doesn&#x27;t really need treatment, to the point that it&#x27;s a meme.<p>I&#x27;d be interested in hearing how they&#x27;re wrong to that extent, on such scale.</text></item><item><author>midoridensha</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>jiggawatts</author><text>Reminds me of a conversation I had with someone in the pharmaceutical industry. He lamented that the box was by far the most expensive component for many of their products. Paracetamol is <i>cheap</i>, glossy full-colour printing with embossing is not!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidkuennen</author><text>Interesting. Anecdotally we (myself, friends and family) never get prescribed Paracetamol here in Germany. It&#x27;s always Ibuprofen. I always felt it was obvious, given the supposedly side effects of it.</text></comment> |
5,829,370 | 5,826,770 | 1 | 2 | 5,826,579 | train | <story><title>Making Google’s CalDAV and CardDAV APIs available for everyone</title><url>http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2013/06/making-googles-caldav-and-carddav-apis.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zmmmmm</author><text>While this is great and I sincerely congratulate Google for it, I still find the wording slightly disturbing. They say they were going to close down the API because only "a few large developers" were using it. Then that since they've heard from developers about a lot of "use cases" they've decided to change their mind.<p>For me, openness is a relatively unconditional principle. You do it because it is a virtue in and of itself. To hear that we need to spell out specific use cases to justify something being open seems to indicate that Google slightly misses the point. Google shouldn't have to like our reasons for wanting things open. Google should have to justify why they are closed. Indeed, it's in the most unfriendly situations when the openness matters (ie: we want to get our data out of Google and move away from Google services).<p>So while I'm happy to hear this, and I know I'm picking nits here, it still doesn't quite feel like the "old" Google that really made a principle out of these things.</text></comment> | <story><title>Making Google’s CalDAV and CardDAV APIs available for everyone</title><url>http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2013/06/making-googles-caldav-and-carddav-apis.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mwfunk</author><text>This is pretty outstanding on Google's part. Thank you to whoever made this happen.</text></comment> |
18,503,149 | 18,501,568 | 1 | 2 | 18,499,781 | train | <story><title>Container Linux on the Desktop [slides]</title><url>https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17Hml1iFqdXElxOcrh9caQSC5px5mDgaS015Vhaz42ZY</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xte</author><text>In my own personal opinion container idea is &quot;meh&quot; and today&#x27;s usage trends are AWFUL. They serve a sole real purpose, open door to proprietary software on GNU&#x2F;Linux destroying it&#x27;s community model.<p>You can&#x27;t run unsafe software in safety, it&#x27;s a myth. Or worse is giving trust to a specific tech and so ignore both it&#x27;s potential mistrust and other software security implications.<p>The future for me is Nix{,OS}&#x2F;Guix{,SD} certainly not &quot;chroots&quot;&#x2F;&quot;jails&quot;&#x2F;&quot;zones&quot;&#x2F;&quot;lpar&quot;&#x2F;*.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zerogvt</author><text>I agree but in containers&#x27; defense they weren&#x27;t supposed to be about security in the first place. In my understanding the main incentive for the huge push behind them was immutability and them being microservices-friendly technology.</text></comment> | <story><title>Container Linux on the Desktop [slides]</title><url>https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17Hml1iFqdXElxOcrh9caQSC5px5mDgaS015Vhaz42ZY</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xte</author><text>In my own personal opinion container idea is &quot;meh&quot; and today&#x27;s usage trends are AWFUL. They serve a sole real purpose, open door to proprietary software on GNU&#x2F;Linux destroying it&#x27;s community model.<p>You can&#x27;t run unsafe software in safety, it&#x27;s a myth. Or worse is giving trust to a specific tech and so ignore both it&#x27;s potential mistrust and other software security implications.<p>The future for me is Nix{,OS}&#x2F;Guix{,SD} certainly not &quot;chroots&quot;&#x2F;&quot;jails&quot;&#x2F;&quot;zones&quot;&#x2F;&quot;lpar&quot;&#x2F;*.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ngcazz</author><text>Do you have any data to back up your assertion? Not being facetious here, really would like to understand these downsides.<p>To be honest I think it unfair to ignore the fact that you can build your own containers to leverage dependency isolation, or to deploy through an orchestration engine ie. Kubernetes.</text></comment> |
7,525,681 | 7,525,684 | 1 | 2 | 7,525,198 | train | <story><title>Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/03/brendan-eich-steps-down-as-mozilla-ceo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dopamean</author><text>I generally agree with you but I think the problem here is that being against gay marriage is more than just a &quot;political view.&quot; Being for low taxes is a political view. Being for smaller government is a political view. Believing a certain group of people don&#x27;t deserve to live their lives like other simply because of who they love is not a political view. It reads as extremely hateful and that makes people uncomfortable. I would be uncomfortable if the head of the company I worked for felt that way.</text></item><item><author>DangerousPie</author><text>I am a strong supporter of gay marriage, but I have to say that I find this very unfortunate and worrying. Apparently many Mozilla supporters seem to think it is okay to bully a qualified person out of his job only for his political views, even if they had absolutely no effect on his qualification or his actions on the job.<p>I can&#x27;t help but feel like this campaign has done a lot more harm to him than his $1000 donation could have ever done to anyone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gfodor</author><text>I support legalizing gay marriage. But two things, first, supporting prop 8 does not mean you &quot;believe a certain group of people don&#x27;t deserve to live their lives like others.&quot; It means you don&#x27;t believe that the government should recognize same sex marriages as marriages. There are a large gradient of views here, and on one extreme are the bigots who hate homosexuals and on the other there are people who simply have hangups about the word &quot;marriage&quot; vs &quot;civil unions.&quot; As far as I know Brendan has never articulated his opinions on the matter, they have just been extrapolated from a $1,000 donation.<p>Second, support of prop 8 would have been a mainstream viewpoint less than 10 years ago. In many parts of the country, support of prop 8 <i>is</i> a mainstream viewpoint. People who have different upbringings in different geographic areas are of course going to be biased towards certain views, and it&#x27;s a bit unfair to chastise them for not completely realigning their viewpoints overnight for something that has probably been the fastest and most productive civil rights movement, maybe ever. People love to talk about tolerance except when tolerance means they have to deal with people who were raised with fundamentally different views, or people who may even have the same views they did a decade ago but failed to &quot;evolve.&quot; This could have been an opportunity to attempt bring someone, a powerful CEO, to the side of being informed and support gay rights but instead it was a witch hunt and an embarrassment.</text></comment> | <story><title>Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/03/brendan-eich-steps-down-as-mozilla-ceo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dopamean</author><text>I generally agree with you but I think the problem here is that being against gay marriage is more than just a &quot;political view.&quot; Being for low taxes is a political view. Being for smaller government is a political view. Believing a certain group of people don&#x27;t deserve to live their lives like other simply because of who they love is not a political view. It reads as extremely hateful and that makes people uncomfortable. I would be uncomfortable if the head of the company I worked for felt that way.</text></item><item><author>DangerousPie</author><text>I am a strong supporter of gay marriage, but I have to say that I find this very unfortunate and worrying. Apparently many Mozilla supporters seem to think it is okay to bully a qualified person out of his job only for his political views, even if they had absolutely no effect on his qualification or his actions on the job.<p>I can&#x27;t help but feel like this campaign has done a lot more harm to him than his $1000 donation could have ever done to anyone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewpi</author><text>So Barack Obama, the President of the US, was against gay marriage in 2008; I&#x27;m confused as to why he gets a pass here, but the head of Mozilla doesn&#x27;t?</text></comment> |
5,075,573 | 5,073,297 | 1 | 3 | 5,072,958 | train | <story><title>Ersatz - Deep neural networks in the cloud</title><url>http://www.ersatz1.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bravura</author><text>Recommendation: Reach out to my colleague James Bergstra, and build out automatic hyperparameter selection. This will make your offering work off-the-shelf, which is what is necessary for it to see wider adoption.<p>Why? The real pain in the ass in training a deep network is the hyperparameter selection.<p>What is your learning rate? What is your noise level? What is your regularization parameter?<p>Choosing these values is a far bigger pain than almost everything else combined.<p>Doing a grid search is intractable. Random hyperparameter search is better. You can use a sophisticated strategy, like Bergstra et al have proposed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ersatz - Deep neural networks in the cloud</title><url>http://www.ersatz1.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RyanZAG</author><text>Little bit confusing on what this actually is. Is this<p>1) Cloud GPU computation where you upload some special model code that is run on the neural network? ie. your own code<p>2) Upload data and run some pre-specified models on it, such as in the example you have a '-d model=spanish_speech_recognizer' - in which case the offering is all about how many and how good your pre-defined models are.<p>The two different use cases are for completely different target audiences.</text></comment> |
35,677,889 | 35,678,009 | 1 | 2 | 35,677,754 | train | <story><title>Ban all gambling adverts, say more than half of Britons</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/23/ban-all-gambling-adverts-say-more-than-half-of-britons</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alexb_</author><text>If you ever watch sporting events from the 80s, you see Marlboro advertisements <i>everywhere</i>. Cigarette companies advertised in every single sport all the time in a gigantic marketing blitz - I think in the future we will see gambling ads now in the same way.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ban all gambling adverts, say more than half of Britons</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/23/ban-all-gambling-adverts-say-more-than-half-of-britons</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hourago</author><text>They did this in Sweden. I think that people was not even worried about gambling addiction, but just totally tired of the non-stop amount of loud flashy ads. Gambling ads usually are quite aggressive and TV, websites, bus stops, everywhere there were gambling ads.<p>It worked. Nowadays it is not easy to see this kind of ads anymore.</text></comment> |
15,692,215 | 15,692,146 | 1 | 2 | 15,690,121 | train | <story><title>Understanding Hinton’s Capsule Networks, Part I: Intuition</title><url>https://medium.com/@pechyonkin/understanding-hintons-capsule-networks-part-i-intuition-b4b559d1159b</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ilzmastr</author><text>&quot;We have the face oval, two eyes, a nose and a mouth. For a CNN, a mere presence of these objects can be a very strong indicator to consider that there is a face in the image. Orientational and relative spatial relationships between these components are not very important to a CNN.&quot;<p>^^^ What? The opposite of this is the mainstream I thought. The promise of DL is to learn hierarchical models of your data. The network learns edge filters, learns combinations of edge filters that differentiate an eye vs a nose, but doesn&#x27;t learn combinations of intermediate features that determine a face? ppl usually say with a deep enough network an hierarchical concept can be learned...</text></comment> | <story><title>Understanding Hinton’s Capsule Networks, Part I: Intuition</title><url>https://medium.com/@pechyonkin/understanding-hintons-capsule-networks-part-i-intuition-b4b559d1159b</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tmsldd</author><text>Hinton is with no doubt one of the greatest name in the field, but I think in this case particularly the paper fails to properly address citations. I have seen people publishing about dynamic routing and invariance problem by decades (e.g. C. Von der Malsburg, T. Poggio, and many others).
But I admit, authors in general name concepts in such obscure and convoluted way, which makes it very hard to actually separate contributions and give credits to whom deserves it.</text></comment> |
23,364,411 | 23,364,221 | 1 | 3 | 23,361,987 | train | <story><title>SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit</title><url>https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-astronauts-launch-from-america-in-historic-test-flight-of-spacex-crew-dragon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>It is hard to convey how &quot;sustainable&quot; this feels to me. For the first time, humans have gone into orbit in a spacecraft that was designed from the ground up to be a commercial venture.<p>All of the NASA missions prior to this have an ambience of &quot;uneconomical but useful&quot;. Even the shuttle, which was supposed to be this cost effective space truck, turned out to be not even close.<p>And the last thing I&#x27;m feeling is the amazement at how much technology has evolved to get us to this point. I imagined as a child that the Apollo program would lead to a factory of rockets that launched people to orbit, to the Moon, and even to Mars on demand. And seeing what SpaceX has done to get to this point, it is clear to me that was never even close to possible. The Russian program is great in that way. It shows what that path might have looked like. And yes we could have refined the making of F1 engines, the construction of boosters, and just pushed that, but that leads to a steady state that is below what you need to run a program like this with a net positive economic outcome.<p>So very impressed guys, congratulations!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>&gt;&gt; into orbit in a spacecraft that was designed from the ground up to be a commercial venture.<p>If we are talking pure commercial travel, it is a vehicle without a destination. The ISS is definitely not a commercial project. There are lots of reasons for the ISS to exist, and they have changed over time, but it has never been a money-making venture. While the dragons certainly do come in under budget, they are a more efficient path to orbit, the purpose of the mission is not commercial. Crew Dragon&#x27;s existence is funded by the need to move people to and from the ISS. Without the ISS, Crew Dragon would exist. I hold off on the &quot;commercial&quot; designation until the customer funding the mission actually intends profit.<p>What we need is a commercial, money-making, reason to launch people into orbit. Astronauts fly for science. They fly for national pride. They fly to demonstrate engineering excellence. They don&#x27;t fly to make money. I&#x27;m a big spacelaunch fan but I just don&#x27;t see any commercial reason to launch people into space. (Space hotels for billionaires might be a niche but that doesn&#x27;t seem sustainable imho.)</text></comment> | <story><title>SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit</title><url>https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-astronauts-launch-from-america-in-historic-test-flight-of-spacex-crew-dragon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>It is hard to convey how &quot;sustainable&quot; this feels to me. For the first time, humans have gone into orbit in a spacecraft that was designed from the ground up to be a commercial venture.<p>All of the NASA missions prior to this have an ambience of &quot;uneconomical but useful&quot;. Even the shuttle, which was supposed to be this cost effective space truck, turned out to be not even close.<p>And the last thing I&#x27;m feeling is the amazement at how much technology has evolved to get us to this point. I imagined as a child that the Apollo program would lead to a factory of rockets that launched people to orbit, to the Moon, and even to Mars on demand. And seeing what SpaceX has done to get to this point, it is clear to me that was never even close to possible. The Russian program is great in that way. It shows what that path might have looked like. And yes we could have refined the making of F1 engines, the construction of boosters, and just pushed that, but that leads to a steady state that is below what you need to run a program like this with a net positive economic outcome.<p>So very impressed guys, congratulations!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jl6</author><text>Not to detract one iota from this amazing achievement, but what definition of sustainable are you thinking of? This was still paid for by the government.</text></comment> |
29,156,339 | 29,156,073 | 1 | 3 | 29,152,433 | train | <story><title>The popularity of e-bikes isn’t slowing down</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/08/business/e-bikes-urban-transit.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevincrane</author><text>&gt; Proponents of efforts to make roads safer for cyclists have always gotten pushback from people who think that cycling is a niche hobby of rich lycra-clad yuppies.<p>Which I think is misguided pushback btw (which I think you agree with based on the context).<p>I see it as a chicken and egg thing. The roads are unsafe for bikers, so the only people who bike are those who are super dedicated to it. Then when people ask for the roads to be safer, it gets pushed back as &quot;only biking enthusiasts use the roads now&quot;.<p>Safer roads means more people will bike, which means biking will stop being seen as an elitist thing.<p>Edit: to add on, bikes are like 1-2 orders of magnitude cheaper than cars too, both in upfront and ongoing costs also. It’s super unfortunate that it still gets the stereotype as a “rich white people” activity when it’s really so much more financially accessible than a car.</text></item><item><author>paulgb</author><text>The thing that excites me most about e-bikes is that they change the politics around cycling. Proponents of efforts to make roads safer for cyclists have always gotten pushback from people who think that cycling is a niche hobby of rich lycra-clad yuppies.<p>With e-bikes becoming more common, I know a number of people who would not have touched a bike share but are using it as a replacement for Uber&#x2F;Lyft rides. People can cycle in to work without breaking a sweat.<p>It&#x27;s a bummer that so much legislation aimed at reducing emissions subtly encourages the use of cars without throwing any bones to people who would like to ride bikes, electric or not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmcphers</author><text>&gt; It’s super unfortunate that it still gets the stereotype as a “rich white people” activity when it’s really so much more financially accessible than a car.<p>It&#x27;s true that a bicycle is <i>itself</i> cheaper than a car, but housing within biking distance to job centers sure isn&#x27;t. In my view this is the primary reason bicycle commuters are stereotypically rich folks. The bicycle itself isn&#x27;t the expensive part; you need proximity, extra commute time, and infrastructure. That stuff just isn&#x27;t accessible to many people.</text></comment> | <story><title>The popularity of e-bikes isn’t slowing down</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/08/business/e-bikes-urban-transit.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevincrane</author><text>&gt; Proponents of efforts to make roads safer for cyclists have always gotten pushback from people who think that cycling is a niche hobby of rich lycra-clad yuppies.<p>Which I think is misguided pushback btw (which I think you agree with based on the context).<p>I see it as a chicken and egg thing. The roads are unsafe for bikers, so the only people who bike are those who are super dedicated to it. Then when people ask for the roads to be safer, it gets pushed back as &quot;only biking enthusiasts use the roads now&quot;.<p>Safer roads means more people will bike, which means biking will stop being seen as an elitist thing.<p>Edit: to add on, bikes are like 1-2 orders of magnitude cheaper than cars too, both in upfront and ongoing costs also. It’s super unfortunate that it still gets the stereotype as a “rich white people” activity when it’s really so much more financially accessible than a car.</text></item><item><author>paulgb</author><text>The thing that excites me most about e-bikes is that they change the politics around cycling. Proponents of efforts to make roads safer for cyclists have always gotten pushback from people who think that cycling is a niche hobby of rich lycra-clad yuppies.<p>With e-bikes becoming more common, I know a number of people who would not have touched a bike share but are using it as a replacement for Uber&#x2F;Lyft rides. People can cycle in to work without breaking a sweat.<p>It&#x27;s a bummer that so much legislation aimed at reducing emissions subtly encourages the use of cars without throwing any bones to people who would like to ride bikes, electric or not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmos</author><text>Throw into this confusion a badly implemented public transportation system that you find in most US cities.<p>Public transportation and city bike rental systems should be free to ride. We all pay taxes to keep roads maintained, we should all pay taxes to keep public transportation maintained.<p>Not charging would help busses keep their schedules with less queuing and waiting, tourists would be less likely to rent a car, and it could help that chicken and egg problem.
The problem with charging people with riding public transportation is you are taxing the very people we should be rewarding. The people who are committing to taking up less space on the road and living with a smaller carbon footprint are being penalized for their hugely beneficial decision to society not to drive.
Making public transportation better and free are the two
things that can transform a city and make it more equitable.
Poor people would have more money and more places available to spend it. Every city benefits from its people having more money to spend and more places to spend it.</text></comment> |
21,248,973 | 21,247,821 | 1 | 2 | 21,247,466 | train | <story><title>Airborne laser scan reveals Arran's ancient sites</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-49989351</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>debbiedowner</author><text>What is really interesting is that the main innovation is never mentioned in the BBC article. The academic they quote, Dave Cowley, is an author on &quot;Using deep neural networks on airborne laser scanning data: Results from a case study of semi‐automatic mapping of archaeological topography on Arran, Scotland&quot; from 11&#x2F;2018 [0]. The &quot;new 3D technology&quot; that is becoming more &quot;widely available&quot; and allows for &quot;rapid discovery&quot; is not LIDAR (which is very old) but Deep Learning as applied to LIDAR. It&#x27;s interesting b&#x2F;c the BBC doesn&#x27;t mention &quot;Deep Learning&quot; in the article. LIDAR is old enough that it was launched into space as early as 1971. Deep learning is most popular on images, but is becoming more popular recently on less structured data like the unordered collection of points in xD (x &gt;= 3), so this is the new part.<p>(I will also say that in this case, the article makes images out of the LIDAR data and runs DL on that, but this is not mandatory. Checkout Pointet++ if interested. I just wanted to draw attention to the fact that the &quot;cutting edge&quot; part was not collecting data but analyzing it.)<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;onlinelibrary.wiley.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;full&#x2F;10.1002&#x2F;arp.1731" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;onlinelibrary.wiley.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;full&#x2F;10.1002&#x2F;arp.1731</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Airborne laser scan reveals Arran's ancient sites</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-49989351</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joosters</author><text>Some kind of scale on those scan images would be helpful...</text></comment> |
29,901,110 | 29,900,354 | 1 | 2 | 29,897,280 | train | <story><title>PCI-Sig Releases 256GBps PCIe 6.0 X16 Spec</title><url>https://www.servethehome.com/pci-sig-releases-256gbps-pcie-6-0-x16-spec/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>azalemeth</author><text>Stupid question from me: how the hell do they prototype and debug this? It&#x27;s very far from my EE knowledge. Communication analysers will show the eye diagram and tell you a lot about stray capacitance and inductance, but I know that most 10GSa&#x2F;s+ devices cost more than a house and have a tendency to live in a lab for a long time. It seems to my mind like there are so many difficulties in driving pci-e fast, from timing to voltage drop and current limitations. All of this must be implemented, somehow, if the spec is finalised. Right? They wouldn&#x27;t write it up otherwise (right?!).<p>So -- how do you prove that your infrastructure can blow the socks off everything without building two of them and testing?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lramseyer</author><text>Not a stupid question at all!<p>Any communication protocol has functional layers to them, and at the very bottom is what&#x27;s called the Phy layer (or physical layer.) While pretty much every layer can be implemented in digital logic, the physical layer has a lot of analog circuitry. (It&#x27;s programmable analog circuitry, so it&#x27;s technically mixed signal.) Most wired communication protocols that you are familiar with (including SAS&#x2F;SATA, USB, HDMI&#x2F;DP, PCIe&#x2F;NVMe, and Ethernet) all use what&#x27;s known as a &quot;SerDes Phy&quot; which is short for Serializer Deserializer. It takes parallel data in, and serializes it to transmit data, and does the reverse when receiving data. In the example of PCIe Gen 4, it takes 32 bits of data in at 500 Mb&#x2F;s (per bit) and serializes it to 16 Gb&#x2F;s.<p>Because the SerDes Phy is such a common part of all communication protocols, it&#x27;s often reused in other designs. For example - a GPU may use the same SerDes Phy design for its PCIe lanes as it does for its HDMI ports (at least on the transmit side.) They are however programmed differently.<p>Because these designs see so much reuse in so many different chips, there are companies that specialize in designing SerDes Phys, and their development is usually ahead of protocol development. Though in today&#x27;s day and age, it&#x27;s super complicated, and consists of way more than shift registers and a PLL. But there are SerDes designs that exist in products that are capable of 112Gb&#x2F;s (not sure if 224Gb&#x2F;s exists outside of test chips yet.)<p>You can buy modern FPGAs that have PCIe Gen 5, but with a SerDes Phy capable of going way faster. And if you want, you could bypass that hard block and talk straight to the SerDes, and program your own PCIe 6.0 controller.<p>But to answer your question on how they prototype it and test it, they run computer simulations that are exceedingly complicated and slow, and once a test chip comes back from the fab, eye diagrams are usually collected using what&#x27;s known as a repeating signal scope. Since it&#x27;s insanely difficult to sample a 112Gb&#x2F;s signal at any reasonable resolution, it&#x27;s sampled statistically (in time) over billions of samples, and plotted by knowing the frequency of the target signal. An eye diagram is what comes out of a traditional NRZ (non return to zero) where each cycle represents either a 1 or a 0. In an eye diagram, you see all permutations of bit transitions overlayed on each other, since you&#x27;re sampling billions of cycles statistically. This is important because you can see other anomalies of your signal like jitter and rise&#x2F;fall times.<p>There&#x27;s a lot more to it, and this comment is already getting to be a wall of text but definitely feel free to ask more questions!</text></comment> | <story><title>PCI-Sig Releases 256GBps PCIe 6.0 X16 Spec</title><url>https://www.servethehome.com/pci-sig-releases-256gbps-pcie-6-0-x16-spec/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>azalemeth</author><text>Stupid question from me: how the hell do they prototype and debug this? It&#x27;s very far from my EE knowledge. Communication analysers will show the eye diagram and tell you a lot about stray capacitance and inductance, but I know that most 10GSa&#x2F;s+ devices cost more than a house and have a tendency to live in a lab for a long time. It seems to my mind like there are so many difficulties in driving pci-e fast, from timing to voltage drop and current limitations. All of this must be implemented, somehow, if the spec is finalised. Right? They wouldn&#x27;t write it up otherwise (right?!).<p>So -- how do you prove that your infrastructure can blow the socks off everything without building two of them and testing?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragontamer</author><text>I&#x27;m not in EE, but I&#x27;d imagine that you start with x1 lane and work your way up.<p>Each PCIe lane is an independent SERDES. Its not like a parallel memory controller where they share a clock, when you have x16 lanes, you have 16x independent streams you&#x27;re shoving to the device downstream.</text></comment> |
13,364,011 | 13,363,273 | 1 | 3 | 13,362,451 | train | <story><title>TINY: VNC for DOS</title><url>http://josh.com/tiny/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>besselheim</author><text>I remember setting this up about a decade ago on some old electroplating control system front end. It worked very well - unlike the rest of the software on there.<p>Unfortunately the DOS program it was being used to remote was highly picky on the hardware being used, and would refuse to communicate with the PLC if the PC was too new. Due to the harsh environment of the plant, we&#x27;d go through two or three computers per year. So there was a lot of digging around for old hardware until we realised it would run reliably in DOSBox with a suitable CPU speed set.<p>After that, our use case for TINY was no more, and we just used a VNC server for Windows. Saved a great deal of site to site travel and plant downtime while it was set up though.</text></comment> | <story><title>TINY: VNC for DOS</title><url>http://josh.com/tiny/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nerflad</author><text>For those commenting about open-source: check out the zip archive[0] provided by the author. This project appears to be about a decade old; those files have modified dates of 2007&#x2F;2008 (&amp; perhaps the post title should reflect this).<p>Since it&#x27;s freeware&#x2F;&quot;source-available&quot;, I wonder if they would consider making it publicly available or passing it on to a new maintainer.<p>Either way, very cool project.<p>[0]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;josh.com&#x2F;tiny&#x2F;download&#x2F;TinyImage.zip" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;josh.com&#x2F;tiny&#x2F;download&#x2F;TinyImage.zip</a></text></comment> |
13,544,086 | 13,544,084 | 1 | 2 | 13,543,072 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Arrived – Stack Overflow for US Immigration</title><url>https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=us.arrived.arrived</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wjmclaugh</author><text>For the majority of Hispanic immigrants, smartphones are their only computing device. I&#x27;m a believer than an app always outdoes a &quot;mobile-friendly&quot; site. Also an app lets you require a user to sign a ToS once after installation without requiring accounts. For a website it&#x27;s not as seamless.</text></item><item><author>Johnny555</author><text>Why is this (apparently) just an app? I&#x27;d much rather have a mobile web site that I can read on any of my devices and not have to install an app on my phone to use it.<p>If StackOverflow were only available as an app, it&#x27;d be much much less useful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ajedi32</author><text>&gt; Also an app lets you require a user to sign a ToS once after installation without requiring accounts. For a website it&#x27;s not as seamless.<p>Huh? I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever visited a purely informational website (like this one apparently is) that required me to sign a ToS just to view it. You just click the link, read whatever information you came for, and leave when you&#x27;re done. That&#x27;s far more &quot;seamless&quot; than having to install an app before you can do anything.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Arrived – Stack Overflow for US Immigration</title><url>https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=us.arrived.arrived</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wjmclaugh</author><text>For the majority of Hispanic immigrants, smartphones are their only computing device. I&#x27;m a believer than an app always outdoes a &quot;mobile-friendly&quot; site. Also an app lets you require a user to sign a ToS once after installation without requiring accounts. For a website it&#x27;s not as seamless.</text></item><item><author>Johnny555</author><text>Why is this (apparently) just an app? I&#x27;d much rather have a mobile web site that I can read on any of my devices and not have to install an app on my phone to use it.<p>If StackOverflow were only available as an app, it&#x27;d be much much less useful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmdrfred</author><text>&gt;I&#x27;m a believer than an app always outdoes a &quot;mobile-friendly&quot; site.<p>I disagree. Downloading and installing a binary blob in order to then download some text is a worse UX for me.<p>&gt;Also an app lets you require a user to sign a ToS once after installation without requiring accounts.<p>A cookie would solve this problem.<p>I suspect the real reason people keep pushing apps is they are much more monetizable rather than taking the user into account.</text></comment> |
21,104,840 | 21,071,359 | 1 | 3 | 21,064,540 | train | <story><title>Four Years in Startups</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/30/four-years-in-startups</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shellmayr</author><text>The text really captured my attention. I&#x27;ve recently been struggling with whether or not tech and the modern internet are a force for good. I always enjoyed tinkering with hardware and software, and have been working in related jobs because it pays well and there are always interesting challenges to solve. But the societal shifts ongoing in Europe, the filter bubbles and breaking down of discourse, the xenophobia and the growing divide between large parts of society as well as the erosion of (local) media and the crisis of mental well-being among both adults and adolescents, which I feel are at least partly attributable to technological changes in the past ten years, have led me to think that maybe the most important thing for people right now may be spaces without technology, without personalization and just being confronted with the community of others. This does not seem like a problem solvable by the means of technology and makes me wonder whether I&#x27;ve spent my life learning about technology only to abandon it at some point.<p>Are there any good resources about what I call my &quot;tech hangover&quot; to navigate how to move on, maybe convert this education into something of societal value beyond screens? Or am I being too cynical about everything and in reality it&#x27;s all much better than I&#x27;m seeing it? Open for anything here really, but struggling with the status quo.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kirso</author><text>It feels to me that overall people are quitting their corporate jobs and searching for meaningful and impactful things to do professionally. There are some movements which are trying to do something like AI for good, but it seems like generally people know that &quot;something is not right&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Four Years in Startups</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/30/four-years-in-startups</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shellmayr</author><text>The text really captured my attention. I&#x27;ve recently been struggling with whether or not tech and the modern internet are a force for good. I always enjoyed tinkering with hardware and software, and have been working in related jobs because it pays well and there are always interesting challenges to solve. But the societal shifts ongoing in Europe, the filter bubbles and breaking down of discourse, the xenophobia and the growing divide between large parts of society as well as the erosion of (local) media and the crisis of mental well-being among both adults and adolescents, which I feel are at least partly attributable to technological changes in the past ten years, have led me to think that maybe the most important thing for people right now may be spaces without technology, without personalization and just being confronted with the community of others. This does not seem like a problem solvable by the means of technology and makes me wonder whether I&#x27;ve spent my life learning about technology only to abandon it at some point.<p>Are there any good resources about what I call my &quot;tech hangover&quot; to navigate how to move on, maybe convert this education into something of societal value beyond screens? Or am I being too cynical about everything and in reality it&#x27;s all much better than I&#x27;m seeing it? Open for anything here really, but struggling with the status quo.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>v64</author><text>I don&#x27;t have any good advice, but just wanted to say you&#x27;re definitely not alone. I left the tech industry due to these feelings and observations.</text></comment> |
39,583,464 | 39,583,755 | 1 | 2 | 39,582,541 | train | <story><title>"AI will cure cancer" misunderstands both AI and medicine</title><url>https://rachel.fast.ai/posts/2024-02-20-ai-medicine/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yashap</author><text>I do think AI has a chance to make healthcare, for cancer and other diseases, a lot more proactive.<p>Even though we know prognosis is much better for cancer, and many other diseases, if you catch it early, we do essentially nothing to catch it early. My understanding is that this is because:<p>1. Administering regular MRIs, blood panels, etc. is expensive, in terms of the initial data collection<p>2. It’s also expensive, in terms of getting healthcare professionals to analyze the results<p>3. People often get the analysis wrong, in terms of both false negatives and false positives<p>4. False positives can lead to even more scans, analysis, etc., costing even more money<p>It does seem possible to me that specialized AI could get much better than humans at interpreting this data, doing it very cheaply (solving problem 2) with far fewer false negatives and false positives (solving 3 and 4). And it’s even possible that AI powered robotics gets great at collecting data in the first place, bringing down the cost of problem 1.<p>Basically, “AI invents cures for different types of cancer” seems like a moonshot, but “AI makes proactive medical scanning cheap and effective, thus greatly improving cancer outcomes” seems like a real possibility.<p>While we have some proactive screening for some types of cancer, the status quo for many types of cancer&#x2F;patients is “wait until the cancer has spread enough that the patient is experiencing significant symptoms, with no systematic way to detect cancer early.” This is clearly not great. We’re accepting this for practical reasons today, but I do think AI has a significant chance to greatly improve the status quo here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pheewma</author><text>There are also downstream consequences of ordering tests aside from cost; not all tests are harmless. As an example, regular screening for prostate cancer isn&#x27;t recommended as much. Partially because it is often so slow-growing that people often die of other causes before the cancer even begins to cancer, and because the definitive test is a biopsy which is somewhat invasive. Rates of complications are relatively low, but it becomes a cost-benefit consideration (again, irrespective of cost) of if those risks are worth catching something that you may not even want to bother treating.</text></comment> | <story><title>"AI will cure cancer" misunderstands both AI and medicine</title><url>https://rachel.fast.ai/posts/2024-02-20-ai-medicine/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yashap</author><text>I do think AI has a chance to make healthcare, for cancer and other diseases, a lot more proactive.<p>Even though we know prognosis is much better for cancer, and many other diseases, if you catch it early, we do essentially nothing to catch it early. My understanding is that this is because:<p>1. Administering regular MRIs, blood panels, etc. is expensive, in terms of the initial data collection<p>2. It’s also expensive, in terms of getting healthcare professionals to analyze the results<p>3. People often get the analysis wrong, in terms of both false negatives and false positives<p>4. False positives can lead to even more scans, analysis, etc., costing even more money<p>It does seem possible to me that specialized AI could get much better than humans at interpreting this data, doing it very cheaply (solving problem 2) with far fewer false negatives and false positives (solving 3 and 4). And it’s even possible that AI powered robotics gets great at collecting data in the first place, bringing down the cost of problem 1.<p>Basically, “AI invents cures for different types of cancer” seems like a moonshot, but “AI makes proactive medical scanning cheap and effective, thus greatly improving cancer outcomes” seems like a real possibility.<p>While we have some proactive screening for some types of cancer, the status quo for many types of cancer&#x2F;patients is “wait until the cancer has spread enough that the patient is experiencing significant symptoms, with no systematic way to detect cancer early.” This is clearly not great. We’re accepting this for practical reasons today, but I do think AI has a significant chance to greatly improve the status quo here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcims</author><text>We found out about my daughter&#x27;s type 1 diabetes purely by accident. I found a blood glucose test kit doing some spring cleaning and asked the family to gather around to check our sugar. It was really just a joke but I thought it would be fun. Queue three results around 100 and one at 270. We tested again the next day and it was 290.<p>Finding type 1 diabetes this way in a young teenager was so absolutely out of the norm that a major children&#x27;s hospital had no idea what to do with her. They admitted her because it was protocol but it was completely unnecessary and we had to explain how it happened at least ten times while we were there.<p>It was an eye opening experience.</text></comment> |
22,539,063 | 22,538,358 | 1 | 3 | 22,538,144 | train | <story><title>Robinhood maxed out credit line last month amid market tumult</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-10/robinhood-maxed-out-credit-line-last-month-amid-market-tumult</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alexpotato</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked in &quot;FinTech DevOps&quot; for the past 10 years and this reminds me of a story from a past job:<p>We hired the Global Head of Clearing [0] from a big bank and on their first day they were giving a presentation on their background and how financial clearing works.<p>Someone asked &quot;What is your nightmare scenario?&quot;<p>The response:<p><i>We have a large overnight position in a security. Our Prime Broker (PB) [1] comes back and says &quot;We disagree with you on the position so you can&#x27;t trade.&quot; Even if it turns out that the PB is wrong, by the time it all gets sorted out, the market has moved so much in that security that it bankrupts us. I&#x27;ve seen it happen to other firms and it&#x27;s not pretty.</i><p>I also started at Knight right after their big outage. [2] People like to talk about the big tech outages sinking financial firms but it can just as easily be plain old issues with bookkeeping that can blow up a firm.<p>0 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;terms&#x2F;c&#x2F;clearing.asp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;terms&#x2F;c&#x2F;clearing.asp</a><p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;professionals&#x2F;110415&#x2F;role-prime-broker.asp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;professionals&#x2F;110415&#x2F;r...</a><p>2 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thestreet.com&#x2F;investing&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;knight-capital-shuts-down-trading-on-electrical-outage-11752932" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thestreet.com&#x2F;investing&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;knight-capital-sh...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Robinhood maxed out credit line last month amid market tumult</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-10/robinhood-maxed-out-credit-line-last-month-amid-market-tumult</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shanxS</author><text>As a small investor (investing around few thousand USD), how do I know which app to trust?
There is Robinhood and Stash for ETFs and Stocks and then there are robot-wealth mangers like WealthFront etc.<p>Should I always stick to big firms like Vanguard or Fidelity?
Thing I don&#x27;t like about firms like Vanguard and Fidelity is that you cannot buy fraction of a unit which Robinhood&#x2F;Stash allow you to do.<p>Any advice?</text></comment> |
20,822,296 | 20,821,680 | 1 | 2 | 20,820,524 | train | <story><title>Thunderbird 68.0</title><url>https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/68.0/releasenotes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yowlingcat</author><text>Does anyone have the inside story to what happened that caused Thunderbird to stop being developed in the first place, and what led to its development being picked back up again? It&#x27;s not really clear what happened in either case to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hsivonen</author><text>Since there were others interested in continued development, Thunderbird development didn&#x27;t stop when Mozilla Corporation decided to scale down its level of support for the project. After a new way of arranging funding was set up (through Mozilla Foundation), there has been more visibility of development. (I don&#x27;t know of actual metrics of development activity over time.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Thunderbird 68.0</title><url>https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/68.0/releasenotes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yowlingcat</author><text>Does anyone have the inside story to what happened that caused Thunderbird to stop being developed in the first place, and what led to its development being picked back up again? It&#x27;s not really clear what happened in either case to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saulrh</author><text>Wild-ass guess: Some enterprise user determined that quietly funding it would cost less than rebuilding some bit of internal tooling that depended on it.<p>(cunningham, cunningham, cunningham, come forth and correct me!)</text></comment> |
36,534,433 | 36,530,962 | 1 | 3 | 36,520,925 | train | <story><title>Monster gravitational waves spotted for first time</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02167-7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtlmtlmtlmtl</author><text>Modern physics(and engineering) is kind of absurd. And I mean that in a good way. LIGO? I didn&#x27;t believe at all that it would ever work. Even when they got detections I kinda thought they were chasing their own tails. Now the evidence is pretty much rock solid that the data is real(multiple facilities, correlations with light observations for neutron star mergers, etc).
Then I heard about LISA, which essentially is building this thing in fucking space(different geometry, but same basic concept), with probes somehow orbiting in unison and firing lasers at eachother over ridiculous distances(2.5 million kilometers!). I thought they were raving mad. But pathfinder, the POC, seemed to work, and now they&#x27;re building the thing. Planned for 2037, but still.<p>When I heard about this project in a spacetime video a few years ago IIRC, again I thought okay, this is too far. It&#x27;s never gonna work, there&#x27;ll be too much noise yadda yadda. And it now it looks they might have done it.<p>At this point, if physicists say something is possible, I listen no matter how impossible it sounds.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wefarrell</author><text>This discovery didn&#x27;t actually involve LIGO, nor any other feats of impressive physical engineering. It was made by observing neutron stars and finding patterns in their unexpected perturbations.<p>Neutron star rotation is so consistent that they are used to calibrate atomic clocks[0]. However some of them were glitching and not rotating as expected, but the glitches were consistent between each other. It turns out they aren&#x27;t actually glitching, but spacetime is being distorted by massive gravitational waves.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gizmodo.com&#x2F;scientists-use-spinning-neutron-stars-to-calibrate-atom-1831327033" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gizmodo.com&#x2F;scientists-use-spinning-neutron-stars-to...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Monster gravitational waves spotted for first time</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02167-7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtlmtlmtlmtl</author><text>Modern physics(and engineering) is kind of absurd. And I mean that in a good way. LIGO? I didn&#x27;t believe at all that it would ever work. Even when they got detections I kinda thought they were chasing their own tails. Now the evidence is pretty much rock solid that the data is real(multiple facilities, correlations with light observations for neutron star mergers, etc).
Then I heard about LISA, which essentially is building this thing in fucking space(different geometry, but same basic concept), with probes somehow orbiting in unison and firing lasers at eachother over ridiculous distances(2.5 million kilometers!). I thought they were raving mad. But pathfinder, the POC, seemed to work, and now they&#x27;re building the thing. Planned for 2037, but still.<p>When I heard about this project in a spacetime video a few years ago IIRC, again I thought okay, this is too far. It&#x27;s never gonna work, there&#x27;ll be too much noise yadda yadda. And it now it looks they might have done it.<p>At this point, if physicists say something is possible, I listen no matter how impossible it sounds.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lasc4r</author><text>I feel like you need to see _this_ spacetime video: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=4d0EGIt1SPc">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=4d0EGIt1SPc</a><p>If you think LISA is mad this will blow your mind.</text></comment> |
21,867,337 | 21,867,528 | 1 | 3 | 21,865,579 | train | <story><title>Evolutionary history and why physical activity is important for brain health</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-your-brain-needs-exercise/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rosybox</author><text>&gt; I think the studies are looking at this backwards. Physical activity should probably be looked at as the natural state of humans and ask why lack of physical activity affects the brain.<p>I wonder if there&#x27;s a selfless gene in humans that reduces the reproductive fitness&#x2F;longevity of humans that aren&#x27;t pulling their weight for the group. I could imagine that a gene that shortens the life of a member in a group could increase the survivability of the gene in the same way that we&#x27;ve documented selfless genes that spur primates to alert predators to save close relations at their own personal expense.<p>Lack of activity might just be telling the body that we&#x27;re useless and we need to exit in order to help others. It&#x27;s a silly idea, but just a shower thought I&#x27;ve been mulling over.</text></item><item><author>throwaway_tech</author><text>&gt;Less clear has been why physical activity affects the brain in the first place.<p>I think the studies are looking at this backwards. Physical activity should probably be looked at as the natural state of humans and ask why lack of physical activity affects the brain.<p>Then it probably makes a lot more sense, the brain is comprised of cells, just like muscles, that are either anabolic or catabolic. A lack of physical exercise is going to put all cells, including brain cells, in a catabolic state the same as muscle atrophy will waste away muscles due to lack of physical activity.<p>Cells are cells, they are where energy is made, they are binary only existing in anabolic or catabolic states and never simultaneously existing in both states. Lack of exercise put the cells in catabolic states and long term catabolic states lead to metabolic&#x2F;energy production problems in the cells. So naturally if you consider lack of exercise as the natural state of humans, sure it will appear physical activity improve brain function.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway_tech</author><text>&gt;It&#x27;s a silly idea, but just a shower thought I&#x27;ve been mulling over.<p>I can&#x27;t answer your questions, but I can add some more food for thought to think about...consider the impact of ones microbiome in turning genes like this on&#x2F;off. So you may have the &quot;selfless gene&quot; as you call it, but by default it is turned off, so you don&#x27;t warn your own of the predator, now same exact hypthetical, but it just so happens you ate something that introduced new viruses&#x2F;bacteria into your microbiome, which happened to change your gene expression and turn on the selfless gene causing &quot;you&quot; to warn your kind of the threat. Did you really warn them, or since the gene was only turned on by your particular microbiome at the time, are you just a host being controlled by trillions of bacteria and viruses?</text></comment> | <story><title>Evolutionary history and why physical activity is important for brain health</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-your-brain-needs-exercise/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rosybox</author><text>&gt; I think the studies are looking at this backwards. Physical activity should probably be looked at as the natural state of humans and ask why lack of physical activity affects the brain.<p>I wonder if there&#x27;s a selfless gene in humans that reduces the reproductive fitness&#x2F;longevity of humans that aren&#x27;t pulling their weight for the group. I could imagine that a gene that shortens the life of a member in a group could increase the survivability of the gene in the same way that we&#x27;ve documented selfless genes that spur primates to alert predators to save close relations at their own personal expense.<p>Lack of activity might just be telling the body that we&#x27;re useless and we need to exit in order to help others. It&#x27;s a silly idea, but just a shower thought I&#x27;ve been mulling over.</text></item><item><author>throwaway_tech</author><text>&gt;Less clear has been why physical activity affects the brain in the first place.<p>I think the studies are looking at this backwards. Physical activity should probably be looked at as the natural state of humans and ask why lack of physical activity affects the brain.<p>Then it probably makes a lot more sense, the brain is comprised of cells, just like muscles, that are either anabolic or catabolic. A lack of physical exercise is going to put all cells, including brain cells, in a catabolic state the same as muscle atrophy will waste away muscles due to lack of physical activity.<p>Cells are cells, they are where energy is made, they are binary only existing in anabolic or catabolic states and never simultaneously existing in both states. Lack of exercise put the cells in catabolic states and long term catabolic states lead to metabolic&#x2F;energy production problems in the cells. So naturally if you consider lack of exercise as the natural state of humans, sure it will appear physical activity improve brain function.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xjay</author><text>Somewhat related: &quot;How Immune Systems Can Influence Social Behavior&quot; [1]<p>So yeah, maybe there&#x27;s actually some subsystem that controls social behavior, to get rid of someone from the group, or out them to the group by having them unintentionally sabotage themselves, etc.<p>Maybe people who can&#x27;t self-terminate are turned into some threat to society that would get them targeted, but their minds present it as some kind of game.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;psychcentral.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;how-immune-systems-can-influence-social-behavior&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;psychcentral.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;how-immune-systems-can-influen...</a></text></comment> |
15,071,778 | 15,071,911 | 1 | 2 | 15,071,492 | train | <story><title>Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a privacy-preserving way</title><url>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.governance/81gMQeMEL0w</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Vinnl</author><text>Note: &quot;planning&quot; means &quot;reaching out for feedback about&quot;.<p>Also interesting: the method they plan on using for anonymising this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Differential_privacy#Principle_and_illustration" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Differential_privacy#Principle...</a><p>If that is not sufficiently anonymous, then please submit the reasoning why to Mozilla.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clarkevans</author><text>I think the burden here is backwards? URLs may contain Protected Health and other Identifying Information. If this data leaks SSL and could be sent to a 3rd party, then it makes Firefox an unsuitable client for a great many applications.<p>EDIT: OK. It&#x27;s boolean flags (like use of flash) plus an eTLD+1 (example.org; not myname.example.org?). Even so, I believe this tracking should be opt-in with a disclosure screen that explains exactly what Mozilla is recording. Informed consent is a practice we should be promoting, even if it seems unnecessary.</text></comment> | <story><title>Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a privacy-preserving way</title><url>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.governance/81gMQeMEL0w</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Vinnl</author><text>Note: &quot;planning&quot; means &quot;reaching out for feedback about&quot;.<p>Also interesting: the method they plan on using for anonymising this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Differential_privacy#Principle_and_illustration" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Differential_privacy#Principle...</a><p>If that is not sufficiently anonymous, then please submit the reasoning why to Mozilla.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>claudius</author><text>Any submission of data requires the transmission of an IP address, which is personal data and necessitates appropriate protection.<p>I very much hope that the Debian maintainers (and hopefully also the guys preparing Fennec in F-Droid) will disable such data collection mechanisms, either completely or hidden behind an explicit opt-in instead of the opt-out suggested in the e-mail.</text></comment> |
39,851,185 | 39,851,292 | 1 | 3 | 39,850,925 | train | <story><title>Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content</title><url>https://fandom.ink/@Rozzychan/112161902225538242</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>&quot;I keep all my work on Google&#x2F;Apple&#x2F;Dropbox&#x2F;Office&quot; is really the new version of &quot;I kept all my work on my hard drive and didn&#x27;t back it up&quot;. All of these companies have shown repeatedly that they will cut off your access with no notice for any or no reason and with no recourse. Cloud backups used to be a smart thing to do. Now they are a liability.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giantg2</author><text>&quot;Cloud backups used to be a smart thing to do. Now they are a liability.&quot;<p>If they&#x27;re actually a <i>backup</i> they can be a good idea. If it&#x27;s a single source, then yeah, it&#x27;s asking for trouble. I even backup my GitHub stuff locally because who knows what could happen.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content</title><url>https://fandom.ink/@Rozzychan/112161902225538242</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>&quot;I keep all my work on Google&#x2F;Apple&#x2F;Dropbox&#x2F;Office&quot; is really the new version of &quot;I kept all my work on my hard drive and didn&#x27;t back it up&quot;. All of these companies have shown repeatedly that they will cut off your access with no notice for any or no reason and with no recourse. Cloud backups used to be a smart thing to do. Now they are a liability.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aaomidi</author><text>I’ve always argued that we need regulation that prevents large companies from just yeeting your data.<p>At most they should be able to put it in RO mode to let you take it out.</text></comment> |
21,922,533 | 21,922,321 | 1 | 2 | 21,921,323 | train | <story><title>The old internet died and we watched and did nothing</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/how-we-killed-the-old-internet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Timberwolf</author><text>I thought similar. To me what Buzzfeed are calling the &quot;old Internet&quot; here is something I very much remember bemoaning as the &quot;new Internet&quot; in which dedicated protocols such as NNTP and IRC got displaced by brattish commercial upstarts whose web-based versions had 10% of the quality-of-life features and about 5% of the community etiquette. However they displaced everything that came before them because you could embed images, have an animated avatar and (most importantly) not have to delve into the world of finding a client of choice and connecting it to your ISP&#x27;s news servers.<p>What I find myself missing more than anything else is that news server was something <i>you</i> paid for, either as part of an ISP package, as a dedicated service or your university tuition fees. The commercial model was purely the provision of that resource - not selling your data, nor being a vector for targeted political ads. There was no incentive to make the basic mechanics of discussion worse or promote flame wars in the name of &quot;engagement&quot; or &quot;monetisation&quot;, and while I&#x27;m sure the smaller community size played a part things seemed to bump along with a far greater degree of civility and allowance for misunderstanding.</text></item><item><author>rasengan</author><text>The old internet died long before these centralized services appeared. The old internet was when we ran our own servers, built and hosted our own websites, and we were truly free in the wild wild west.<p>Its easier than ever to run your own servers, but today few do.<p>The old internet is dead (for now) and it looks more like the BBS era today. But we innovated past that then, and we will innovate past that now.<p>I am greatly looking forward to all of the decentralization work that is in progress from the numerous people on HN and the internet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>StevePerkins</author><text>I started college, and discovered the Internet, in fall of 1993. An epoch infamously known as &quot;Eternal September&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eternal_September" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eternal_September</a>). The old-timers on Usenet and IRC at the time thought that me and my classmates were idiots. That we killed the &quot;old Internet&quot;.<p>From my perspective though, the &quot;old Internet&quot; died when Deja News sold out to Google. When phpBB forums started replacing Usenet, and ICQ or other chat apps started replacing IRC.<p>From the perspective of those newbies, the &quot;old Internet&quot; died when phpBB forums were replaced by LiveJournal pages and blog comment sections. When ICQ fragmented into AOL, Yahoo, and MSN instant messengers.<p>Those people saw the &quot;old Internet&quot; die when pages and blogs coalesced into early social media.<p>Those people saw the &quot;old Internet&quot; die when social media took on its contemporary shape (e.g. YouTube videos becoming more professional and SEO-oriented, clickbait, photo and video-based social media surpassing text-based social media).<p>This article is just some person at Buzzfeed, writing a eulogy for the &quot;old Internet&quot; as understood by the generation of people who have jobs at Buzzfeed.</text></comment> | <story><title>The old internet died and we watched and did nothing</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/how-we-killed-the-old-internet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Timberwolf</author><text>I thought similar. To me what Buzzfeed are calling the &quot;old Internet&quot; here is something I very much remember bemoaning as the &quot;new Internet&quot; in which dedicated protocols such as NNTP and IRC got displaced by brattish commercial upstarts whose web-based versions had 10% of the quality-of-life features and about 5% of the community etiquette. However they displaced everything that came before them because you could embed images, have an animated avatar and (most importantly) not have to delve into the world of finding a client of choice and connecting it to your ISP&#x27;s news servers.<p>What I find myself missing more than anything else is that news server was something <i>you</i> paid for, either as part of an ISP package, as a dedicated service or your university tuition fees. The commercial model was purely the provision of that resource - not selling your data, nor being a vector for targeted political ads. There was no incentive to make the basic mechanics of discussion worse or promote flame wars in the name of &quot;engagement&quot; or &quot;monetisation&quot;, and while I&#x27;m sure the smaller community size played a part things seemed to bump along with a far greater degree of civility and allowance for misunderstanding.</text></item><item><author>rasengan</author><text>The old internet died long before these centralized services appeared. The old internet was when we ran our own servers, built and hosted our own websites, and we were truly free in the wild wild west.<p>Its easier than ever to run your own servers, but today few do.<p>The old internet is dead (for now) and it looks more like the BBS era today. But we innovated past that then, and we will innovate past that now.<p>I am greatly looking forward to all of the decentralization work that is in progress from the numerous people on HN and the internet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>api</author><text>You&#x27;re forgetting spam. Spam destroyed all those first generation federated systems. IRC survived because it was too niche for spammers to target much but spam is the primary thing that killed Usenet and email as a truly open system.<p>The closed systems were better able to fight spam because they could easily ban people and IPs.<p>On a deeper level spam, &quot;brattish&quot; commercial sites, etc. all come from when money got involved.<p>The old Internet was mostly noncommercial. Money changes everything.<p>Even on the new sites I saw a massive shift when e.g. it became possible to monetize YouTube videos. All the sudden everything became about engagement and controversy and got big and divisive and dumb and flashy.<p>Ultimately we must adapt or perish. There is no going back. I think all new systems must be designed with the trial by fire of spam and other profit motivated attacks in mind from the start.</text></comment> |
22,855,542 | 22,855,562 | 1 | 2 | 22,855,286 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Freelancer Rates in the US</title><text>Hello,<p>I have often been somewhat confused when it comes to hourly rates for freelancers in IT.
While it is pretty normal to charge more than 60€&#x2F;h here in Europe I’m always shocked to come across postings like these from the US:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;soshace.com&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;python-back-end-web-developer-remote-soshace-16-09-2019" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;soshace.com&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;python-back-end-web-developer-remot...</a><p>This is a remote python job for an intermediate or senior developer that pays 20-30$&#x2F;h. And not the first one of that kind I came across.<p>That would mean a freelancer makes less than half the money as compared to a 9-5.<p>Is this normal?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>AzzieElbab</author><text>150&#x2F;hr sums up to 200k&#x2F;year if you work 30 hours a week for 11 months.
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Fixed typo</text></item><item><author>gt2</author><text>Like anything else you can find all ranges offered and all ranges accepted.
I thought the exact opposite was the norm, with higher rates in US companies than UK&#x2F;europe.<p>Senior level rates in US range from 100-300&#x2F;hr. I know it&#x27;s a big range, but it comes down to speed, creativity, references, portfolio, fit for the project, availability.<p>As far as the half the money as a 9-5, it&#x27;s actually the other way around-- as a freelancer, you need more money to compensate for things like insurance, taxes, risk that come with being an independent&#x2F;freelancer. So they say to match a 75k salary, you need approximately 150&#x2F;hr.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Arubis</author><text>Tl;dr: I charge a fair amount (effectively well into $three digits&#x2F;hr) and making what I have previously at a w2 is a real fight.<p>Presuming you meant $150&#x2F;hr: indeed, and if you’re freelancing, you almost certainly don’t have that high a proportion of billable time. Prospecting, marketing, deliberate learning, and other overhead are all necessary parts of the deal and can easily take half your available time. I tend to do all that in downtime between contracts, so it’ll look like 25-35 billable hours per week but with maybe 25-30 weeks&#x2F;year utilization. Others just overlap everything; works well with longer contracts.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Freelancer Rates in the US</title><text>Hello,<p>I have often been somewhat confused when it comes to hourly rates for freelancers in IT.
While it is pretty normal to charge more than 60€&#x2F;h here in Europe I’m always shocked to come across postings like these from the US:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;soshace.com&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;python-back-end-web-developer-remote-soshace-16-09-2019" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;soshace.com&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;python-back-end-web-developer-remot...</a><p>This is a remote python job for an intermediate or senior developer that pays 20-30$&#x2F;h. And not the first one of that kind I came across.<p>That would mean a freelancer makes less than half the money as compared to a 9-5.<p>Is this normal?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>AzzieElbab</author><text>150&#x2F;hr sums up to 200k&#x2F;year if you work 30 hours a week for 11 months.
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Fixed typo</text></item><item><author>gt2</author><text>Like anything else you can find all ranges offered and all ranges accepted.
I thought the exact opposite was the norm, with higher rates in US companies than UK&#x2F;europe.<p>Senior level rates in US range from 100-300&#x2F;hr. I know it&#x27;s a big range, but it comes down to speed, creativity, references, portfolio, fit for the project, availability.<p>As far as the half the money as a 9-5, it&#x27;s actually the other way around-- as a freelancer, you need more money to compensate for things like insurance, taxes, risk that come with being an independent&#x2F;freelancer. So they say to match a 75k salary, you need approximately 150&#x2F;hr.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidmurdoch</author><text>Assuming you meant 150&#x2F;hr...<p>Freelancers have costs that W2 employees do not, like self employment taxes and the full cost of health insurance.</text></comment> |
11,279,871 | 11,279,785 | 1 | 2 | 11,279,433 | train | <story><title>Re: Obama on Fetishizing Our Phones</title><url>http://jonathanmh.com/re-obama-on-fetishizing-our-phones-yes-we-can/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomlongson</author><text>A key promise of Obama&#x27;s campaign for the presidency was to run the “most transparent” government- however the only person to really deliver on that promise was a whistleblower.
Secret courts, secret domestic spying, and now calls for weakening of the digital equivalent of the safe shows that he either was not honest about transparency, or has radically changed his opinion since becoming POTUS.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s that he decided to use his political clout to pick healthcare as his signature in American history, not wage war against the NSA, but either way it saddens me to have campaigned for someone who has empowered a surveillance state instead of fight against it.<p>Liberty literally means &quot;freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control&quot;, and freedom in the information age means the liberty to communicate and store information. Anything to compromise that makes us all more vulnerable to control in all parts of our lives, not just those stored in zeros and ones. I believe America can be &quot;Land of the free, home of the brave&quot;, but not without digital liberty.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jordanb</author><text>I think Washington has changed Obama more than Obama changed Washington. He&#x27;s spent seven years in the craziest bubble in America surrounded by people being paid millions to distort his worldview one way or another.<p>A while back he advised some kids in College to never type anything into a computer if they want it to remain private. For him, it probably seems completely reasonable. I doubt he&#x27;s touched a keyboard since he became president. His daughters are the only teenagers in America who&#x27;ve never been near Snapchat (the Secret Service will keep it that way). And he&#x27;s literally surrounded by security officers and spooks everywhere he goes. They manage every interaction he has so you can imagine their worldview is going to affect him.<p>I&#x27;m not trying to make excuses for him. He&#x27;s so completely off the deep end nowadays (between this and TPP) that it&#x27;s heartbreaking as a long time supporter. I hope he leaves the presidency, leaves Washington and spends a few years thinking about what went wrong before writing his memoirs. It would be an amazing insight into the corrosive influence of Washington on a person&#x27;s integrity.</text></comment> | <story><title>Re: Obama on Fetishizing Our Phones</title><url>http://jonathanmh.com/re-obama-on-fetishizing-our-phones-yes-we-can/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomlongson</author><text>A key promise of Obama&#x27;s campaign for the presidency was to run the “most transparent” government- however the only person to really deliver on that promise was a whistleblower.
Secret courts, secret domestic spying, and now calls for weakening of the digital equivalent of the safe shows that he either was not honest about transparency, or has radically changed his opinion since becoming POTUS.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s that he decided to use his political clout to pick healthcare as his signature in American history, not wage war against the NSA, but either way it saddens me to have campaigned for someone who has empowered a surveillance state instead of fight against it.<p>Liberty literally means &quot;freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control&quot;, and freedom in the information age means the liberty to communicate and store information. Anything to compromise that makes us all more vulnerable to control in all parts of our lives, not just those stored in zeros and ones. I believe America can be &quot;Land of the free, home of the brave&quot;, but not without digital liberty.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rubbingalcohol</author><text>Speaking of transparency, Obama also secretly lobbied to kill FOIA transparency reform: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;freedom.press&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;new-documents-show-obama-admin-aggressively-lobbied-kill-transparency-reform-congress" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;freedom.press&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;new-documents-show-obama-...</a></text></comment> |
3,363,666 | 3,363,442 | 1 | 2 | 3,363,250 | train | <story><title>India’s missed call culture</title><url>http://gigaom.com/mobile/indias-missed-call-mobile-ecosystem-2/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>someperson</author><text>There is a HUGE market here for someone to create a free texting app that encodes each character in the length of time before the call has been ended (like morse code, but with no dots, only dashes).<p>The application would abstract the handshake+message delivery away and hopefully would find ways to reliably send a character in hundred milliseconds, instead of seconds.<p>If the application becomes successful, you would have live with being the one to make carriers the world over to begin charging when a phone BEGINS ringing, instead of a successful connection. (or remove the loophole in another way, like charge on the 3rd attempt.)<p>Alternatively don't send individual characters, from a single call the user can choose one of 5-10 default messages (preset or mutually-agreed-upon-inadvance) like "OK" "Be there in 5 minutes" "No" etc via the length of a single call using a mobile phone application.<p>You can have entire conversations via mobile for free :D</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eru</author><text>&#62; If the application becomes successful, you would have live with being the one to make carriers the world over to begin charging when a phone BEGINS ringing, instead of a successful connection. (or remove the loophole in another way, like charge on the 3rd attempt.)<p>They could also start messing up your careful timing. Then it would be much harder to convey information.</text></comment> | <story><title>India’s missed call culture</title><url>http://gigaom.com/mobile/indias-missed-call-mobile-ecosystem-2/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>someperson</author><text>There is a HUGE market here for someone to create a free texting app that encodes each character in the length of time before the call has been ended (like morse code, but with no dots, only dashes).<p>The application would abstract the handshake+message delivery away and hopefully would find ways to reliably send a character in hundred milliseconds, instead of seconds.<p>If the application becomes successful, you would have live with being the one to make carriers the world over to begin charging when a phone BEGINS ringing, instead of a successful connection. (or remove the loophole in another way, like charge on the 3rd attempt.)<p>Alternatively don't send individual characters, from a single call the user can choose one of 5-10 default messages (preset or mutually-agreed-upon-inadvance) like "OK" "Be there in 5 minutes" "No" etc via the length of a single call using a mobile phone application.<p>You can have entire conversations via mobile for free :D</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>namank</author><text>Would you be able to do this at the app level? Maybe I don't know about it enough but I'm thinking you would need to have direct access to the radio to encode the paging signal. Then wouldn't the base station have to understand our different tones so it can preserve them in order to pass them on?<p>cool idea tho</text></comment> |
17,509,123 | 17,508,465 | 1 | 2 | 17,507,511 | train | <story><title>The San Franciso Fire Department makes its own wooden ladders by hand</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/inside-san-francisos-fire-department-where-ladders-are-1552279252</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisseaton</author><text>Americans seem to take a lot of pride in their fire brigades - their fire engines are still shiny and polished with more traditional signage and the fire fighters still wear helmets with their traditional shape.<p>In the United Kingdom they wear more simple uniforms and the engines are just a box shape with no bells any more - seems a shame.<p>Usually it&#x27;s UK the has more ceremony in these kind of things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eigenvector</author><text>One of the biggest differences between Europe and North America in this regard is that in European cities, emergency vehicles have to be designed to fit a 1000-year-old city in terms of width, turning radius, maximum weight, etc. This leads to a much more compact shape and shorter wheelbase.<p>In North America streets are designed to fit emergency vehicles. You&#x27;re not allowed to build a street so narrow that a fire engine couldn&#x27;t turn around there, for example.</text></comment> | <story><title>The San Franciso Fire Department makes its own wooden ladders by hand</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/inside-san-francisos-fire-department-where-ladders-are-1552279252</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisseaton</author><text>Americans seem to take a lot of pride in their fire brigades - their fire engines are still shiny and polished with more traditional signage and the fire fighters still wear helmets with their traditional shape.<p>In the United Kingdom they wear more simple uniforms and the engines are just a box shape with no bells any more - seems a shame.<p>Usually it&#x27;s UK the has more ceremony in these kind of things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrguyorama</author><text>Honestly, from quickly looking at some images of UK firefighters, it seems the difference to me is that their equipment is <i>modern</i>, an not just in a design sense. Their helmets look better designed to protect the user and their fire engines look like they weren&#x27;t purchased in the 70&#x27;s.<p>So maybe the difference is that in the UK, they don&#x27;t have to use old equipment</text></comment> |
4,602,320 | 4,602,241 | 1 | 2 | 4,602,046 | train | <story><title>How To Build A Blog Readership</title><url>http://danshipper.com/how-to-build-a-blog-readership#</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Jun8</author><text>"Some people are genuinely uninterested in writing things that people want to read – as an example try reading some Hegel."<p>I squirted my coffee on this one. He <i>does</i> practice what he preaches, i.e. has a unique and memorable voice.<p>My take is: good writing and unique voice is a necessary but not sufficient condition for a successful blog. Without these, you won't get much readership other than Google directs (maybe). But no amount of cool writing will get your Advanced Algorithms blog read if it doesn't have useful and interesting informational nuggets.<p>The problem, as I see it, that a lot of people face trying to write a technical blog is how to divide up what they're explaining into digestible chunks (size dependent on audience, Terence Tao's blog chunk size will be different than your high school math blog's) and present them intermingled with good language. In effect, the language (unique voice, anecdotes, etc.) is the carrier and the chunks is the information and the audience dictates the channel capacity.</text></comment> | <story><title>How To Build A Blog Readership</title><url>http://danshipper.com/how-to-build-a-blog-readership#</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kiba</author><text>Blogging isn't the only way to write and publish the content.<p>The way I do it is to write 500 words a day on some random subjects for no reason other than it's "interesting" on published it on a single page called Notes and Thought. Then I continuously work the various areas of that pages, adding new paragraph, fixing grammar mistakes, and so on. Eventually, one of the section in my page will grow into a essay. When an essay is spun off, I also work on the essay to make sure it's complete-sounding and all polished up. However, they are never actually finished or frozen in time, and they will be continuously updated for the rest of their lifespan. Notes and Thoughts also linked any spun off essay with the original section and an abstract describing the content of the new essay.<p>Blog posts are temporal in nature, and they never get updated continuously. So a hundred year from now, the blog post will say the same thing, still feel amateurish, and also horrifically outdated.<p>If you want to know what I am working on: <a href="http://kibabase.com/articles/notes-and-thoughts" rel="nofollow">http://kibabase.com/articles/notes-and-thoughts</a><p>Blogging is more like a conversation that's very time specific. While mine is more like a book or an encyclopedia of my mind.</text></comment> |
32,827,921 | 32,828,104 | 1 | 2 | 32,826,437 | train | <story><title>FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/tvqddc/fb_feed_is_98_suggested_pages_and_barely_any/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dvtrn</author><text>I made the conscious effort before leaving Facebook to trade phone numbers, addresses and birthday dates from the people I wanted to really wanted stay in touch with, and put them in my phone. This was all within the last three years.<p>I’ve sent birthday gifts in the mail, and I’ve gotten gifts in mail from these very people.<p>Sometimes, when I wonder where the convenience that gets talked about in the context of Facebook and “staying in touch” ends and a more delicate form of “you’re probably not as close to some of the people on your friends list as you think” (which was absolutely the case for me) begins.<p>It took really minimal effort on my part to find other ways of staying in touch, but I think maybe the key is you have to WANT to stay in touch with people?<p>Just a shower thought.</text></item><item><author>pfortuny</author><text>Ordinary people put up with a lot of inconvenience just to stay connected (in some way). This is why fb has not collapsed yet.<p>I left it years ago when I realized it was just annoying me.</text></item><item><author>YouWhy</author><text>Knowing the beast firsthand, there&#x27;s no trace of doubt in my mind that the convergence to a junk product outcome involved a monotonous increase in ad revenue and likely, engagement metrics.<p>There&#x27;s a tragic dimension that a system which connected so much of humanity to itself so well would be rendered so toxic as a product and as a community in just a few years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avgDev</author><text>I&#x27;m doing this too and it has been great for me in general.<p>I looked at my fb friends and thought to myself which people I really liked and would like to reconnect with. I messaged &quot;facebook friends&quot; I have not talked to in a while and told them it may seem weird but I really would like to reconnect. I have never done anything like this, as I am extremely prone to losing touch with people.<p>I ended up reconnecting with a few people in real life and it has been great. I also plan on sending cards and stuff.</text></comment> | <story><title>FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/tvqddc/fb_feed_is_98_suggested_pages_and_barely_any/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dvtrn</author><text>I made the conscious effort before leaving Facebook to trade phone numbers, addresses and birthday dates from the people I wanted to really wanted stay in touch with, and put them in my phone. This was all within the last three years.<p>I’ve sent birthday gifts in the mail, and I’ve gotten gifts in mail from these very people.<p>Sometimes, when I wonder where the convenience that gets talked about in the context of Facebook and “staying in touch” ends and a more delicate form of “you’re probably not as close to some of the people on your friends list as you think” (which was absolutely the case for me) begins.<p>It took really minimal effort on my part to find other ways of staying in touch, but I think maybe the key is you have to WANT to stay in touch with people?<p>Just a shower thought.</text></item><item><author>pfortuny</author><text>Ordinary people put up with a lot of inconvenience just to stay connected (in some way). This is why fb has not collapsed yet.<p>I left it years ago when I realized it was just annoying me.</text></item><item><author>YouWhy</author><text>Knowing the beast firsthand, there&#x27;s no trace of doubt in my mind that the convergence to a junk product outcome involved a monotonous increase in ad revenue and likely, engagement metrics.<p>There&#x27;s a tragic dimension that a system which connected so much of humanity to itself so well would be rendered so toxic as a product and as a community in just a few years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pfortuny</author><text>I do send <i>postcards</i> and people like it so much they ask me not to stop.</text></comment> |
40,481,087 | 40,480,319 | 1 | 2 | 40,466,814 | train | <story><title>Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness (1908)</title><url>http://scentofdawn.blogspot.com/2011/07/before-soul-dawn-helen-keller-on-her.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kqr</author><text>James Gleick in <i>The Information</i> also describes cases of the effect of traditional literacy on complexity&#x2F;abstraction of thought.<p>He claims that literacy is nearly a prerequisite for things like zeroth-order logical reasoning and understanding of abstract shapes. Two examples he gives:<p>- Some illiterate people are told that all bears in the north are white, that Greenland is a country in the north, then they are asked what colours bears in Greenland have. They answer, &quot;Different regions have differently coloured bears. I haven&#x27;t been to Greenland. But I have seen a brown bear.&quot;<p>I would have said, &quot;Based on the information you gave me, I would guess white.&quot;<p>- When shown a rectangle and asked what shape it is some illiterate answer things like &quot;a door&quot; or &quot;a playing card&quot; but struggle to find things doors and playing cards have in common.<p>I go to the abstract shapes immediately when I&#x27;m shown drawings by my son. It&#x27;s almost at a point where it feels like my logical&#x2F;abstract reasoning stands in the way of creativity.<p>----<p>But I don&#x27;t know how much this is personality (I happen to have a knack for logical&#x2F;abstract reasoning and I happened to learn to read when I was very young) and how much is an effect of reading. After all, anthropologists are great at the concrete rather than abstract, but maybe they get lots of training in it. I&#x27;ve also heard the Japanese are better at it.<p>TFA clearly postulates it has more to do with the kind of vocabulary, or maybe it&#x27;s on an increasing scale with more language.</text></item><item><author>atum47</author><text>This reminded me of a story my professor once told us back in college. I was studying sign language and she is deaf. She told us growing up in the old days they didn&#x27;t had specialized schools for deaf people (since they could read?!) so she attended regular school and was not doing ok. She struggled a lot until she finally got the attention that she needed from a teacher who was able to instruct her in sign language (which believe you or not is Brazil&#x27;s second official language). Before that she told us she was not able to have complex thoughts. She didn&#x27;t know her father had a name, for instance. She thought his &quot;name&quot; was daddy. She is a brilliant woman and I&#x27;m glad I attended her class and also, that she was able to find someone who helped her, growing up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smeej</author><text>This makes me wonder about what turned out to be a pivotal moment in my early life. It was the day I first realized other people have their own minds, and that I could predict with some degree of accuracy what was in them.<p>My dad wrote the numbers 1 through 4 on a piece of paper, then asked me to pick one, but not tell him which I&#x27;d chosen. Once I had it, he said, &quot;You picked 3, didn&#x27;t you?&quot; I was dumbfounded. &quot;How did you do that??&quot;<p>&quot;Most people don&#x27;t like to be out on the edges. It makes them uncomfortable. So they don&#x27;t pick 1 or 4. And most people, like you, are right-handed, so they pick 3 over 2.&quot;<p>&quot;OK, OK, do it again.&quot; (This was the moment a flash of magic happened in my head.)<p>&quot;You picked 1 this time, didn&#x27;t you?&quot;<p>&quot;No, I picked 3 again because I knew you would think I would pick 1 this time.&quot;<p>With a fear in his eyes that I only later discovered came from the fact that his own sense of safety depended on being the smartest person in the room, he said, &quot;You&#x27;re only 3. I don&#x27;t think you&#x27;re supposed to know how to do that yet.&quot;<p>But here&#x27;s the other thing--I <i>was</i> literate when I was 3. Nobody really knows how I picked it up, but one day I told my mom it was my turn to read the stories, and I&#x27;ve been reading fluently ever since. I&#x27;ve been told I read differently than most people even now (blocks of text rather than individual letters or words), but I was definitely reading.<p>I&#x27;ve never associated the two events before, nor that maybe I was only able to do one because of the other, but it makes sense of the fact that other kids didn&#x27;t really start to seem reasonable or thoughtful until 1st or 2nd grade. They lived in these imaginary worlds where things didn&#x27;t have to make sense. It seemed like a lot of fun, but I had trouble joining them there. I always assumed both skills just correlated with age, not that one might facilitate the other.<p>My story obviously doesn&#x27;t prove anything, but you&#x27;ve given me an interesting thing to think about today!</text></comment> | <story><title>Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness (1908)</title><url>http://scentofdawn.blogspot.com/2011/07/before-soul-dawn-helen-keller-on-her.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kqr</author><text>James Gleick in <i>The Information</i> also describes cases of the effect of traditional literacy on complexity&#x2F;abstraction of thought.<p>He claims that literacy is nearly a prerequisite for things like zeroth-order logical reasoning and understanding of abstract shapes. Two examples he gives:<p>- Some illiterate people are told that all bears in the north are white, that Greenland is a country in the north, then they are asked what colours bears in Greenland have. They answer, &quot;Different regions have differently coloured bears. I haven&#x27;t been to Greenland. But I have seen a brown bear.&quot;<p>I would have said, &quot;Based on the information you gave me, I would guess white.&quot;<p>- When shown a rectangle and asked what shape it is some illiterate answer things like &quot;a door&quot; or &quot;a playing card&quot; but struggle to find things doors and playing cards have in common.<p>I go to the abstract shapes immediately when I&#x27;m shown drawings by my son. It&#x27;s almost at a point where it feels like my logical&#x2F;abstract reasoning stands in the way of creativity.<p>----<p>But I don&#x27;t know how much this is personality (I happen to have a knack for logical&#x2F;abstract reasoning and I happened to learn to read when I was very young) and how much is an effect of reading. After all, anthropologists are great at the concrete rather than abstract, but maybe they get lots of training in it. I&#x27;ve also heard the Japanese are better at it.<p>TFA clearly postulates it has more to do with the kind of vocabulary, or maybe it&#x27;s on an increasing scale with more language.</text></item><item><author>atum47</author><text>This reminded me of a story my professor once told us back in college. I was studying sign language and she is deaf. She told us growing up in the old days they didn&#x27;t had specialized schools for deaf people (since they could read?!) so she attended regular school and was not doing ok. She struggled a lot until she finally got the attention that she needed from a teacher who was able to instruct her in sign language (which believe you or not is Brazil&#x27;s second official language). Before that she told us she was not able to have complex thoughts. She didn&#x27;t know her father had a name, for instance. She thought his &quot;name&quot; was daddy. She is a brilliant woman and I&#x27;m glad I attended her class and also, that she was able to find someone who helped her, growing up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abdullahkhalids</author><text>I checked the reference. The &quot;bears story&quot; is based on work done in 1930s.<p>Psychology, a hundred years later is a shoddy science, despite us having learning quite a lot about how to do decent experiments and field surveys. It&#x27;s very very difficult to tease out replicable effects in human behavior. I would immediately reject any psychology finding from the 1930s, unless it has been replicated more recently.</text></comment> |
15,500,424 | 15,500,523 | 1 | 3 | 15,498,767 | train | <story><title>Why You Can Focus in a Coffee Shop but Not in Your Open Office</title><url>https://hbr.org/2017/10/why-you-can-focus-in-a-coffee-shop-but-not-in-your-open-office</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tritium</author><text>The power differential implicit in the voice of managers.<p>The competitive aspect of operating alongside co-workers.<p>The fairness of slacking off, letting one&#x27;s mind wander, contemplating a hard problem while staring off into space and refraining from typing at a keyboard, maybe running late in the mornings, versus doing &quot;<i>real</i>&quot; work, ass in chair, on time, contributing ideas in meetings and phone calls, producing visible progress...<p>Whether or not people (who can affect your ability to put a roof over your head) <i>ARE NOTICING YOUR EVERY MOVE</i>.<p>This is what an open office is does to me. The anxiety induced by others, and their potential for influencing where the rubber meets the road.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tapanjk</author><text>&gt; Whether or not people (who can affect your ability to put a roof over your head) ARE NOTICING YOUR EVERY MOVE.<p>I think what matters is whether I think I am being watched by my coworkers (superiors or otherwise). This uses up some part of my brain that needs to focus on my &quot;visual performance&quot; and thus creates stress. But when I do not think I am watched, my creativity goes up and stress drops. For example, I contribute much better in an audio conference or Slack (just text) meetings, than in a video conference or a face to face meeting. In the former case, I am more relaxed and am able to focus on the problem being discussed and in the latter case, not so much. This might be specific to certain personality types but is true for me for sure.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why You Can Focus in a Coffee Shop but Not in Your Open Office</title><url>https://hbr.org/2017/10/why-you-can-focus-in-a-coffee-shop-but-not-in-your-open-office</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tritium</author><text>The power differential implicit in the voice of managers.<p>The competitive aspect of operating alongside co-workers.<p>The fairness of slacking off, letting one&#x27;s mind wander, contemplating a hard problem while staring off into space and refraining from typing at a keyboard, maybe running late in the mornings, versus doing &quot;<i>real</i>&quot; work, ass in chair, on time, contributing ideas in meetings and phone calls, producing visible progress...<p>Whether or not people (who can affect your ability to put a roof over your head) <i>ARE NOTICING YOUR EVERY MOVE</i>.<p>This is what an open office is does to me. The anxiety induced by others, and their potential for influencing where the rubber meets the road.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>southphillyman</author><text>I can probably count on my hands the amount of times I browsed HN&#x2F;non work related sites when I worked in an open office environment. Much like Agile, it&#x27;s an effective tool to micro manage white collar workers.</text></comment> |
30,089,789 | 30,088,928 | 1 | 2 | 30,086,553 | train | <story><title>Windows Subsystem for Android</title><url>https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/android/wsa/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drewg123</author><text><i>In order to be available on a Windows 11 device...only a small set of apps selected by Microsoft and Amazon are available.</i><p>WHY? Maybe give me a warning when installing, but at least let me try.<p>I hate how Apple gave devs the choice to make their apps unavailable on MacOS, so even though I can run theoretically run iOS apps on my M1 MBP, there are no apps I care about available for MacOS, so the feature might as well not exist.<p>At least with Android you can sideload the APK, so that&#x27;s a plus..</text></comment> | <story><title>Windows Subsystem for Android</title><url>https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/android/wsa/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sexy_panda</author><text>These titles are so confusing.<p>I thought it could run windows applications on Android.</text></comment> |
18,630,486 | 18,630,348 | 1 | 3 | 18,628,072 | train | <story><title>No, negative masses have not revolutionized cosmology</title><url>http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2018/12/no-negative-masses-have-not.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mbell</author><text>I&#x27;m not a physicist, just an interested bystander but some of these arguments don&#x27;t seem to hold water to me:<p>&gt; There’s a more general point to be made here. The primary reason that we use dark matter and dark energy to explain cosmological observations is that they are simple.<p>&gt; A creation term is basically a magic fix by which you can explain everything and anything.<p>Dark matter is an unknown &#x27;substance&#x27; that interacts only through gravity (weakly) and must have a very specific and complex distribution in the universe to &#x27;work&#x27;. That strikes me as neither &#x27;simple&#x27; nor much different than tossing a constant into an equation to make it work. Similarly Dark Energy is an unknown form of energy that in uniformly distributed through the universe, which to me is just a fancy way of saying &quot;we added a constant to make it work&quot;. In both cases I don&#x27;t see how either are implicitly better than adding a &#x27;creation term&#x27;.</text></comment> | <story><title>No, negative masses have not revolutionized cosmology</title><url>http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2018/12/no-negative-masses-have-not.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>duality</author><text>&quot;[T]he gravitational interaction is exchanged by a spin-2 field, whereas the electromagnetic force is exchanged by a spin-1 field. Note that for this to be the case, you do not need to speak about the messenger particle that is associated with the force if you quantize it (gravitons or photons). It’s simply a statement about the type of interaction, not about the quantization. Again, you don’t get to choose this behavior. Once you work with General Relativity, you are stuck with the spin-2 field and you conclude: like charges attract and unlike charges repel.&quot;<p>There was a bit of discussion about this on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18609375" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18609375</a> as well. Working through the exercise of how spin-2 mediated forces differ from spin-1 is a worthwhile exercise for those who are so inclined.</text></comment> |
9,660,374 | 9,660,548 | 1 | 3 | 9,659,740 | train | <story><title>Hunting for Hackers, N.S.A. Secretly Expands Internet Spying at U.S. Border</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/us/hunting-for-hackers-nsa-secretly-expands-internet-spying-at-us-border.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickysielicki</author><text>I disagree.<p>&gt; &quot;hacking has left teenage basements and has become weaponized and used by governments around the world&quot;<p>Source? Particularly with respect to &quot;weaponized&quot;. The worst I saw was North Korea alledgedly being responsible for pirating a crappy movie, and a 10 minute shutdown of github a few months ago.<p>&gt; &quot;Military self defense.&quot;<p>Who and what are you afraid of? And how does this policy help with that? No truly dangerous information would ever come close to US borders. This, just like massive traffic collection, can only be said to be an invasion of privacy for the average man. The people we&#x27;d like to catch were never at risk at all.<p>I just don&#x27;t buy into the fear, and I see the consequences as huge.<p>Terrorism is modern day McCarthyism.</text></item><item><author>dkopi</author><text>This might be less of a popular opinion, but I believe this is exactly when NSA surveillance is rightly placed.<p>In a world where hacking has left teenage basements and has become weaponized and used by governments around the world - collecting information about foreign hackers is a legitimate use of surveillance powers for Military self defense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timtadh</author><text>&gt; &gt; &quot;hacking has left teenage basements and has become weaponized and used by governments around the world&quot;<p>&gt; Source? Particularly with respect to &quot;weaponized&quot;. The worst I saw was North Korea alledgedly being responsible for pirating a crappy movie, and a 10 minute shutdown of github a few months ago.<p>Arguably it has been &quot;weaponized&quot; by the NSA and their allies. See, stuxnet and related threats. There is good reason to believe other nation state actors also have &quot;weaponized&quot; threats. For instance the recent &quot;man-on-the-side&quot; DDOS attack via the great firewall on github. There is also a healthy business for buying and selling vulnerabilities and exploits and the .gov organizations are known buyers.<p>So yes, I think it is fair to say that &quot;hacking has left teenage basements&quot;. That part of the statement the gp&#x27;s statement it obviously true when you look at say sophisticated carder rings.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hunting for Hackers, N.S.A. Secretly Expands Internet Spying at U.S. Border</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/us/hunting-for-hackers-nsa-secretly-expands-internet-spying-at-us-border.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickysielicki</author><text>I disagree.<p>&gt; &quot;hacking has left teenage basements and has become weaponized and used by governments around the world&quot;<p>Source? Particularly with respect to &quot;weaponized&quot;. The worst I saw was North Korea alledgedly being responsible for pirating a crappy movie, and a 10 minute shutdown of github a few months ago.<p>&gt; &quot;Military self defense.&quot;<p>Who and what are you afraid of? And how does this policy help with that? No truly dangerous information would ever come close to US borders. This, just like massive traffic collection, can only be said to be an invasion of privacy for the average man. The people we&#x27;d like to catch were never at risk at all.<p>I just don&#x27;t buy into the fear, and I see the consequences as huge.<p>Terrorism is modern day McCarthyism.</text></item><item><author>dkopi</author><text>This might be less of a popular opinion, but I believe this is exactly when NSA surveillance is rightly placed.<p>In a world where hacking has left teenage basements and has become weaponized and used by governments around the world - collecting information about foreign hackers is a legitimate use of surveillance powers for Military self defense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bediger4000</author><text><i>Terrorism is modern day McCarthyism.</i><p>Yes, sure. But it&#x27;s modern day McCarthyism viewed through the lens of loss of profits from the collapse of the Soviet Union. That is, without a Russian Bear to scare people with, the US intelligence community can&#x27;t get money at will. Once Osama bin Laden was shot to pieces, Al Queda lost a lot of its terrorizing power, so now it&#x27;s &quot;ISIS&quot; or &quot;ISIL&quot; or &quot;Islamic State&quot;. There&#x27;s Al Shabab and Iran and probably some others to have always been at war with waiting in the wings.</text></comment> |
35,556,574 | 35,556,463 | 1 | 2 | 35,555,263 | train | <story><title>Supabase Auth: SSO, Mobile, and Server-Side Support</title><url>https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-auth-sso-pkce</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oakesm9</author><text>&gt; Building apps for iOS requires support for native Sign in with Apple<p>This part isn&#x27;t 100% true. It is only a requirement if you have some other form of social login (such as &quot;Login with Facebook&quot;) and your app isn&#x27;t specifically made for using data from that platform (such as a Facebook page managemenet app) [0].<p>You don&#x27;t need Sign in with Apple if you only use your own account system.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;app-store&#x2F;review&#x2F;guidelines&#x2F;#sign-in-with-apple" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;app-store&#x2F;review&#x2F;guidelines&#x2F;#sig...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Supabase Auth: SSO, Mobile, and Server-Side Support</title><url>https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-auth-sso-pkce</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andymitchell</author><text>I can&#x27;t advocate Supabase enough. Their combo of openness and elegance in their platform leaves me (a developer&#x2F;entrepreneur) feeling secure.<p>This is perhaps a future topic, but to me it extends out of SSO:<p>Paul (@kiwicopple), do you have an opinion on which enterprise-grade AuthZ provider works best with Supabase?<p>I suspect it&#x27;s Cerbos or Casbin, but if you ever do it in house (and since you&#x27;ve nailed AuthN that makes great sense), my wishlist:<p>- It should be as simple as an API end point, .approve(auth.jwt(), Array&lt;Role | Permission&gt;). I.e. be available in Edge Functions, Postgres Functions, and anywhere else.<p>- Use a policy schema with the most industry support for easier acceptance&#x2F;integration with the enterprise.<p>- Flesh out with enterprise-ready policy auditing tools, logging, etc. This is the real time saving for developers.<p>- I really recommend Tailscale&#x27;s ideas for better RBAC in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tailscale.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;rbac-like-it-was-meant-to-be&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tailscale.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;rbac-like-it-was-meant-to-be&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
8,376,911 | 8,376,788 | 1 | 2 | 8,376,064 | train | <story><title>PostgreSQL Outperforms MongoDB in New Round of Tests</title><url>http://blogs.enterprisedb.com/2014/09/24/postgres-outperforms-mongodb-and-ushers-in-new-developer-reality/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tete</author><text>Did I miss something? MongoDB was never ever faster than Postgres. That&#x27;s nothing new. Most of these things are clear when one reads the MongoDB docs:<p>MongoDB stores Metadata, (nearly) uncompressed on a per document basis, so of course it uses way more diskspace. It doesn&#x27;t store the data in any efficient way either.<p>Also it&#x27;s pretty much unoptimized, compared to Postgres which has been around for a really long time so it&#x27;s kinda slow.<p>Many functions in MongoDB are actually implemented in JavaScript, not C. So that&#x27;s also a factor, even when I guess it&#x27;s not the big one here.<p>MongoDB has a lot of limitations that can really bite yo (document size even though that&#x27;s the smallest (gridfs), how you can do indices, even limitations in how your query can look like, etc<p>The only thing that&#x27;s good about MongoDB is that it&#x27;s nice for getting something up and running quickly and that it&#x27;s a charm to scale (in many different kinds), compared to PostgreSQL. If PostgreSQL had something built in(!) coming at least close to that (and development has a strong focus there) it would be perfect.<p>For all these reasons many companies actually have hybrid systems, because sometimes one thing makes sense and sometimes the other.<p>The benchmark seems strange, cause there are many SQL and NoSQL databases that are faster and that&#x27;s a kinda well-known fact. I think everyone who ever had to decide on a database system has known that, even without a benchmark.<p>This makes it kinda look like an advertisement (look at the company behind the blog).<p>Using PostgreSQL 9.3 with JSON for a while now and it&#x27;s great. Also I know it is possible to scale PostgreSQL and it&#x27;s really nice. Still a lot more complexity involved (again, depending on the use case).<p>Just use the right tool and please let&#x27;s stop with such shallow comparisons, because I think it kinda harms the reputation of database engineers and system architects - and the authors of such comparison. When you look for real comparisons and example use cases, typical patterns or just some help one always stumbles across these things and they tend to quickly be out of date too, cause all well-known databases have a lot of active development going on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>personZ</author><text>The entire narrative behind MongoDB in the first chapters of its evangelism was performance, partly due to its document-oriented approach (things are quicker in some scenarios when you get rid of relations, and it was contrast against the many tables approach), which is something that you can only very recently do in pgsql, and partly due to implementation choices like the dangerous default lack of fsync.<p>Early evangelism for Mongodb was <i>overwhelmingly</i> one that hyped performance over all others. It was, somewhat infamously now, webscale.<p>So now pgsql (since 9.2, but vastly improved in 9.3) can also do the things that MongoDB does, better, if you want to do the document approach (which is a serious debate unto itself). That is news and is interesting.<p>As for scaling out, I would argue that 9.3 offers more realistic, robust options than MongoDB does.</text></comment> | <story><title>PostgreSQL Outperforms MongoDB in New Round of Tests</title><url>http://blogs.enterprisedb.com/2014/09/24/postgres-outperforms-mongodb-and-ushers-in-new-developer-reality/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tete</author><text>Did I miss something? MongoDB was never ever faster than Postgres. That&#x27;s nothing new. Most of these things are clear when one reads the MongoDB docs:<p>MongoDB stores Metadata, (nearly) uncompressed on a per document basis, so of course it uses way more diskspace. It doesn&#x27;t store the data in any efficient way either.<p>Also it&#x27;s pretty much unoptimized, compared to Postgres which has been around for a really long time so it&#x27;s kinda slow.<p>Many functions in MongoDB are actually implemented in JavaScript, not C. So that&#x27;s also a factor, even when I guess it&#x27;s not the big one here.<p>MongoDB has a lot of limitations that can really bite yo (document size even though that&#x27;s the smallest (gridfs), how you can do indices, even limitations in how your query can look like, etc<p>The only thing that&#x27;s good about MongoDB is that it&#x27;s nice for getting something up and running quickly and that it&#x27;s a charm to scale (in many different kinds), compared to PostgreSQL. If PostgreSQL had something built in(!) coming at least close to that (and development has a strong focus there) it would be perfect.<p>For all these reasons many companies actually have hybrid systems, because sometimes one thing makes sense and sometimes the other.<p>The benchmark seems strange, cause there are many SQL and NoSQL databases that are faster and that&#x27;s a kinda well-known fact. I think everyone who ever had to decide on a database system has known that, even without a benchmark.<p>This makes it kinda look like an advertisement (look at the company behind the blog).<p>Using PostgreSQL 9.3 with JSON for a while now and it&#x27;s great. Also I know it is possible to scale PostgreSQL and it&#x27;s really nice. Still a lot more complexity involved (again, depending on the use case).<p>Just use the right tool and please let&#x27;s stop with such shallow comparisons, because I think it kinda harms the reputation of database engineers and system architects - and the authors of such comparison. When you look for real comparisons and example use cases, typical patterns or just some help one always stumbles across these things and they tend to quickly be out of date too, cause all well-known databases have a lot of active development going on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nitramp</author><text>Is MongoDB&#x27;s distribution and scaling story really nicer? A cluster story that&#x27;s easy to set up but then doesn&#x27;t actually work (loses data, fails in potentially catastrophic ways) sounds not all that useful.<p><a href="http://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;aphyr.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;284-call-me-maybe-mongodb</a></text></comment> |
17,170,383 | 17,170,169 | 1 | 3 | 17,169,810 | train | <story><title>Empiricism and the limits of gradient descent</title><url>http://togelius.blogspot.com/2018/05/empiricism-and-limits-of-gradient.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonster</author><text>There are a couple of factual errors here. First, the difference between backprop and evolution is smaller than the author indicates. The error signal used in modern backprop training is stochastic because it is computed on a minibatch (which is why it&#x27;s called stochastic gradient descent). This stochasticity seems important to achieving good results. And the most popular evolutionary algorithm in the deep learning world is Evolution Strategies, which effectively approximates a gradient. Ordinary genetic algorithms are not gradient-based and have recently shown promise in limited domains, but can&#x27;t compete with gradient-based algorithms for supervised learning.<p>The key claim in the article, that gradient descent could not discover physics from equations seems, like it is a statement about neural networks, not gradient descent. Given sufficient training data, a neural network can probably learn to model physics. I sympathize with the concern that it&#x27;s very difficult to translate a neural network&#x27;s knowledge into human concepts, but I see no reason to believe that optimizing the same system with an evolutionary algorithm would make this problem any easier. You could e.g. try to do program induction (which was supposed to be the future of AI many decades ago) instead of modeling the data directly, but choosing to perform program induction does not preclude the use of a neural network. Neural networks trained by gradient descent can generate ASTs (e.g. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nlp.cs.berkeley.edu&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;Rabinovich-Stern-Klein_2017_AbstractSyntaxNetworks_paper.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nlp.cs.berkeley.edu&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;Rabinovich-Stern-Klein_2017_...</a>).<p>[Edited to remove reference to universal approximation; as comments point out, even if a neural network can approximate a function, it isn&#x27;t guaranteed to be able to learn it. But I am reasonably confident that a neural network can learn Newton&#x27;s second law.]</text></comment> | <story><title>Empiricism and the limits of gradient descent</title><url>http://togelius.blogspot.com/2018/05/empiricism-and-limits-of-gradient.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sepranu</author><text>The points the author makes about gradient descent are accurate, in a sense. However, they oversimplify the technique (as it is currently applied today) and the context in which it is used. It seems as if the author, like many others, has a basic understanding of the subject&#x27;s basic mechanisms, but not the context in which experts understand them.<p>The example the author cites regarding evo algorithms learning physical laws is laughable - &quot;It&#x27;s just not in the data - it has to be invented&quot; applies equally to both the backprop and the evolutionary learning algorithms.<p>&quot;In this case, the representation (mathematical expressions represented as trees) is distinctly non-differentiable, so could not even in principle be learned through gradient descent.&quot;<p>This is incorrect, almost like saying NLP data is not differentiable. For instance, set this representation up as the output of a network (or, if you wanted to be fancier, the central component of an autoencoder), and see how well it predicts&#x2F;correlates with the experimental data. This is the error, which is back-propagated through the network&#x27;s nodes.<p>FWIW, many theoreticians believe that the unreasonable effectiveness of neural networks and especially transfer learning <i>is a result</i> of their well-suitedness to encode laws of physics and Euclidean geometry. The author&#x27;s final points about a nine-year-old survey may be out of date w.r.t. contemporary neural networks, which often have spookily good local minima and do not behave in the way intuition about gradient descent might suggest.</text></comment> |
14,375,508 | 14,375,310 | 1 | 2 | 14,373,720 | train | <story><title>Video Messages and Telescope on Telegram</title><url>https://telegram.org/blog/video-messages-and-telescope</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CiPHPerCoder</author><text>Regular reminder that Telegram&#x27;s encryption protocol, MTProto, is not secure, and you should not ever rely on it for privacy. Use Signal or WhatsApp instead.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eprint.iacr.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;1177.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eprint.iacr.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;1177.pdf</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cryptofails.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;70546720222&#x2F;telegrams-cryptanalysis-contest" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cryptofails.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;70546720222&#x2F;telegrams-crypta...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Video Messages and Telescope on Telegram</title><url>https://telegram.org/blog/video-messages-and-telescope</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>castratikron</author><text>What I thought was more interesting was the ability to send money to Telegram bots. Maybe they are trying to take on WeChat as the &quot;everything&quot; app.</text></comment> |
3,698,607 | 3,698,178 | 1 | 2 | 3,697,519 | train | <story><title>Indian Government uses special powers to slash cancer drug price by 97%</title><url>http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Govt-uses-special-powers-to-slash-cancer-drug-price-by-97/articleshow/12240143.cms</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JunkDNA</author><text>I worked in the drug R&#38;D business for over 8 years. I still follow the industry closely. Some things always get lost in these discussions. First, <i>manufacturing</i> an existing drug is absurdly cheap. Modern industrial chemistry ensures this for all small molecule drugs (note that this is not the same case for the "biologics" which are often fiendishly difficult to make). Almost all the cost in a drug is the manufacturer recouping R&#38;D costs. These costs have been spiraling out of control for 10 years. They are astronomical. A recent Forbes analysis pegs the cost of a new drug with failures of drugs in development folded in anywhere from $3 billion to $12 billion depending on the manufacturer (excellent context and discussion here: <a href="http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/02/10/the_terrifying_cost_of_a_new_drug.php" rel="nofollow">http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/02/10/the_terrifyi...</a>).<p>You don't need to be an industry expert to grok that those numbers are wildly unsustainable. It is not possible to keep spending the amount companies spend to make new drugs. In the past, companies would inflate the price in the USA to make up for reduced prices elsewhere. But with all the recent healthcare reform in the USA, that strategy is ending.<p>To add insult to injury, the vast majority of the most commonly used drugs will lose patent protection in the next couple of years. In the industry they call this the patent cliff. There will not be enough new drugs to offset all the ones that go generic.<p>This move by India is a symptom of the wider drug industry problems. There will be more of these kinds of moves in the future. The industry has been searching for ways to more effectively make drugs and have it not be so expensive. But so far they have been striking out for 10 years running. The current strategy is to lay off most of their r&#38;d workforce and offshore and outsource this part of the business.<p>Somewhere out there, a business model is waiting to be found. Whoever cracks that nut and becomes the Southwest of the drug industry is going to make a fortune.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Alex3917</author><text>&#62;<i>Almost all the cost in a drug is the manufacturer recouping R&#38;D costs.</i><p>Actually that's not true. Big pharma spends twice as much on advertising as they do on R&#38;D:<p><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080105140107.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080105140107.ht...</a><p>They also spend a significant amount of money on government fines due to corrupt practices (i.e. killing people). They are now the single most corrupt industry, paying significantly more fines per year than the entire military industrial complex:<p><a href="http://www.citizen.org/hrg1924" rel="nofollow">http://www.citizen.org/hrg1924</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Indian Government uses special powers to slash cancer drug price by 97%</title><url>http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Govt-uses-special-powers-to-slash-cancer-drug-price-by-97/articleshow/12240143.cms</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JunkDNA</author><text>I worked in the drug R&#38;D business for over 8 years. I still follow the industry closely. Some things always get lost in these discussions. First, <i>manufacturing</i> an existing drug is absurdly cheap. Modern industrial chemistry ensures this for all small molecule drugs (note that this is not the same case for the "biologics" which are often fiendishly difficult to make). Almost all the cost in a drug is the manufacturer recouping R&#38;D costs. These costs have been spiraling out of control for 10 years. They are astronomical. A recent Forbes analysis pegs the cost of a new drug with failures of drugs in development folded in anywhere from $3 billion to $12 billion depending on the manufacturer (excellent context and discussion here: <a href="http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/02/10/the_terrifying_cost_of_a_new_drug.php" rel="nofollow">http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/02/10/the_terrifyi...</a>).<p>You don't need to be an industry expert to grok that those numbers are wildly unsustainable. It is not possible to keep spending the amount companies spend to make new drugs. In the past, companies would inflate the price in the USA to make up for reduced prices elsewhere. But with all the recent healthcare reform in the USA, that strategy is ending.<p>To add insult to injury, the vast majority of the most commonly used drugs will lose patent protection in the next couple of years. In the industry they call this the patent cliff. There will not be enough new drugs to offset all the ones that go generic.<p>This move by India is a symptom of the wider drug industry problems. There will be more of these kinds of moves in the future. The industry has been searching for ways to more effectively make drugs and have it not be so expensive. But so far they have been striking out for 10 years running. The current strategy is to lay off most of their r&#38;d workforce and offshore and outsource this part of the business.<p>Somewhere out there, a business model is waiting to be found. Whoever cracks that nut and becomes the Southwest of the drug industry is going to make a fortune.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tripzilch</author><text>But most of those R&#38;D costs are for getting "FDA" approval. I don't see why India (or anyone, really) should pay for lining the pockets of the USA's inefficient and corrupt bureaucratic machinery.<p>Or I could be wrong and those $12B really goes into equipment and lab workers wages, but you won't blame me for finding it <i>real</i> hard to believe until I see at least a rough breakdown of how those costs are summed up.<p>From the article: "Bayer tried to justify its high price by making claims of high R&#38;D costs, but refused to provide any details".<p>That either means they don't know themselves, or it means that the larger part of the budget got "lost" in requesting approval forms paper pushing greasing cogs and lobbying politicians.</text></comment> |
29,756,785 | 29,756,787 | 1 | 2 | 29,754,072 | train | <story><title>Intellectual Loneliness</title><url>https://perell.com/note/intellectual-loneliness/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bloodyplonker22</author><text>The problem with books is that, while there are a lot of good books with good content, 5% of it is good content while 95% is filler material to get the book to a certain amount of pages in order to sell it.</text></item><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>Reading the <i>right</i> books is great. 95% of published books are garbage (much like 95% of TV). I&#x27;ve read an awful lot of books, and finally realized that very few books are worth the time to read.</text></item><item><author>tibbar</author><text>I took a ten year break from reading books. Instead I programmed, read blog posts, followed the news, and had a few good talks with friends here and there.<p>When I started reading again my world caught on fire. A good book is vastly, unimaginably better than doom scrolling, and the wealth of ideas and history and inspiration that starts to accumulate as you read more is life changing. For example, I learned how to properly build habits, how my childhood in a cult came about and what other people who left have done to come to terms with it, and endless interesting facts about lifelong hobbies and interests. Reading is great.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcusbuffett</author><text>I read a ton and this is my #1 complaint about nonfiction (and sometimes fiction too). I’ve read two books recently that broke this pattern (replacing guilt by Nate Soared, and hell yeah or no by Derek Sivers). It was a huge breath of fresh air, to not find myself skimming over the 32nd time the author feels the need to restate the premise of the book in only slightly different terms. Most authors just don’t have 200 pages of insight into whatever they’re writing about; I’m not sure why exactly they all feel the need to write 200-300 pages anyway.<p>I’m not sure where the disconnect lies, between the people that view this as a huge problem with nonfiction and the rest. I don’t think it’s book selection, because I’ll often read a book where I felt the last half was 90% rehashing, and in the reviews no one else will mention that the author ran out of interesting things to say halfway through.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intellectual Loneliness</title><url>https://perell.com/note/intellectual-loneliness/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bloodyplonker22</author><text>The problem with books is that, while there are a lot of good books with good content, 5% of it is good content while 95% is filler material to get the book to a certain amount of pages in order to sell it.</text></item><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>Reading the <i>right</i> books is great. 95% of published books are garbage (much like 95% of TV). I&#x27;ve read an awful lot of books, and finally realized that very few books are worth the time to read.</text></item><item><author>tibbar</author><text>I took a ten year break from reading books. Instead I programmed, read blog posts, followed the news, and had a few good talks with friends here and there.<p>When I started reading again my world caught on fire. A good book is vastly, unimaginably better than doom scrolling, and the wealth of ideas and history and inspiration that starts to accumulate as you read more is life changing. For example, I learned how to properly build habits, how my childhood in a cult came about and what other people who left have done to come to terms with it, and endless interesting facts about lifelong hobbies and interests. Reading is great.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sjtindell</author><text>I find this true for some of the recent horde of nonfiction books with names like “numb: the astounding new science of how your leg falls asleep”. Their topic is usually fascinating, but the content is full of random stories, speculation, and drawn out conclusions.</text></comment> |
10,322,361 | 10,322,337 | 1 | 2 | 10,321,206 | train | <story><title>The Joyful, Illiterate Kindergartners of Finland</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/10/the-joyful-illiterate-kindergartners-of-finland/408325?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adventured</author><text>Where I live in the US you can send a child to a good daycare for about ~$350 per month.<p>What causes daycare to be so expensive in Australia? Wages, regulation, not enough supply, something else?</text></item><item><author>interpol_p</author><text>The cost of day care over there is stunning. The day care we send our children to in Australia is very similar to what you describe (i.e., compassionate and loving staff, focus on play in a mixed social environment, lots of outings and great food).<p>But the cost is $85 per day, per child. We have two children so it costs more than our mortgage to take our children to day care. It is also one of the more affordable day cares.<p>The government is supposed to cover 50% of the cost, but only up to maximum of $7,500. Meaning they end up covering far less than half.</text></item><item><author>pavlov</author><text>I&#x27;ve lived my life in Finland. I don&#x27;t know if the schools are all that (it&#x27;s been 20 years since mine)... But I can speak for municipal daycare &#x2F; kindergarten, as I have a 3-year-old daughter and I&#x27;ve been extremely happy with the care.<p>The teachers and staff at the center are so competent and compassionate. Playing is always at the forefront, but they have educational themes for a full year that are cleverly integrated into the daily rhythm. The children are always doing short trips that reveal new things of their daily surroundings in the city. The social environment mixes children of various ages: there are kids of age 2 and 5 in the same groups.<p>I know my child&#x27;s life would be a lot poorer without daycare. And it only costs about 200 euros &#x2F; month. (We&#x27;re paying the maximum price since we&#x27;re two working parents; with less family income the price would go down to nearly zero. Also, children are eligible for daycare even if their parents are not working.)<p>Giving our kids a rich social life and early education without the pressures of a traditional school model is probably the one thing Finnish society has figured out. (The rest is more or less a mess right now.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>$350? Is that subsidized? That doesn&#x27;t seem possible.<p>A good student:teacher ratio for 1-2 year olds is 1:3, for 3 year olds is 1:5 and for 4 year olds is 1:8. Assuming an even mix, that&#x27;s an overall ratio of 1:4. 350 x 4 x 12 is $17K a year per teacher, and that&#x27;s only if nothing goes towards rent, supplies and the other costs of running a day care.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Joyful, Illiterate Kindergartners of Finland</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/10/the-joyful-illiterate-kindergartners-of-finland/408325?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adventured</author><text>Where I live in the US you can send a child to a good daycare for about ~$350 per month.<p>What causes daycare to be so expensive in Australia? Wages, regulation, not enough supply, something else?</text></item><item><author>interpol_p</author><text>The cost of day care over there is stunning. The day care we send our children to in Australia is very similar to what you describe (i.e., compassionate and loving staff, focus on play in a mixed social environment, lots of outings and great food).<p>But the cost is $85 per day, per child. We have two children so it costs more than our mortgage to take our children to day care. It is also one of the more affordable day cares.<p>The government is supposed to cover 50% of the cost, but only up to maximum of $7,500. Meaning they end up covering far less than half.</text></item><item><author>pavlov</author><text>I&#x27;ve lived my life in Finland. I don&#x27;t know if the schools are all that (it&#x27;s been 20 years since mine)... But I can speak for municipal daycare &#x2F; kindergarten, as I have a 3-year-old daughter and I&#x27;ve been extremely happy with the care.<p>The teachers and staff at the center are so competent and compassionate. Playing is always at the forefront, but they have educational themes for a full year that are cleverly integrated into the daily rhythm. The children are always doing short trips that reveal new things of their daily surroundings in the city. The social environment mixes children of various ages: there are kids of age 2 and 5 in the same groups.<p>I know my child&#x27;s life would be a lot poorer without daycare. And it only costs about 200 euros &#x2F; month. (We&#x27;re paying the maximum price since we&#x27;re two working parents; with less family income the price would go down to nearly zero. Also, children are eligible for daycare even if their parents are not working.)<p>Giving our kids a rich social life and early education without the pressures of a traditional school model is probably the one thing Finnish society has figured out. (The rest is more or less a mess right now.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nmcfarl</author><text>Just to give a good indication of the range of options&#x2F;prices in the US, a good day care in Seattle proper runs just under $2000&#x2F;m and has a 1 year long waiting list. We applied for 3 and got into 1. (For an infant, prices go down about $150&#x2F;m for every year of life).</text></comment> |
12,782,787 | 12,782,448 | 1 | 3 | 12,781,447 | train | <story><title>We Got Phished</title><url>https://www.exploratorium.edu/blogs/tangents/we-got-phished-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryanobjc</author><text>2 factor authentication is key here. The ubikey is a gold standard for business - no one should do serious business without it!<p>For everyone else, I think the new 2fa Google App approach is better. When you go to login, your Google App pushes a notification to your phone and you have to click on it. This raises the bar to doing a simultaneous login, which isn&#x27;t impossible, but even if it weeds out a large number of attacks for now, it&#x27;s worth it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>laurencei</author><text>Does 2 factor prevent phishing though?<p>If I was going to do a Google Phishing page - I would take the username + password that the user supplied into MY fake page, and POST&#x2F;CURL that to the Google login.<p>If Google returns asking for a 2factor to MY fake, I would display the 2 factor prompt to the user, and get them to type the 2-factor into my page, which I would pass back to Google.<p>Basically you can use a phishing page as a MITM attack.<p>When you auth against Google with 2-factor, there is a &quot;remember this computer&quot; option - giving the attacker at least 30 days of access to your email without needing a further 2-factor code.<p>So if the person is tricked enough to type their username+password into a fake google page, they are just as likely to follow through with their 2-factor code.</text></comment> | <story><title>We Got Phished</title><url>https://www.exploratorium.edu/blogs/tangents/we-got-phished-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryanobjc</author><text>2 factor authentication is key here. The ubikey is a gold standard for business - no one should do serious business without it!<p>For everyone else, I think the new 2fa Google App approach is better. When you go to login, your Google App pushes a notification to your phone and you have to click on it. This raises the bar to doing a simultaneous login, which isn&#x27;t impossible, but even if it weeds out a large number of attacks for now, it&#x27;s worth it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kovek</author><text>Well, on a phishing page the user could still type in the username and password before clicking submit. Only after submitting the username and password do authentication layers require the user to interact with their mobile device (which is usually how it works). Some users might forget that they are supposed to 2FA (say, on their first few days at the job).<p>What if the password input would only be shown after the user typed in their username, pressed submit and confirmed that they were trying to log in using their mobile device?<p>* Input username<p>* Press submit<p>* Interact with mobile device for 2FA<p>* Input password<p>* Press submit</text></comment> |
40,643,006 | 40,642,448 | 1 | 2 | 40,639,628 | train | <story><title>Engage your audience: get to the point, use story structure, force specificity</title><url>https://iandanielstewart.com/2024/06/09/engage-your-audience-by-getting-to-the-point-using-story-structure-and-forcing-specificity/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danybittel</author><text>Vicky is not talking about the a story structure. If you followed a story structure, you start with how you&#x27;ve been (I always loved windows), then what happened (I got an automatic update), then piles of problems (The computer wouldn&#x27;t start, lost some data, couldn&#x27;t reinstall windows) then the solution (until I installed Linux) the moral (use Linux).<p>Vickys structure is sort of the opposite. Start with the most important part (You should use Linux), go deeper (for example Gnome, for desktop) or add surprise (it&#x27;s very easy to install), open the conversation with a question (do you use Linux?) or close it with an answer (it doesn&#x27;t have automatic updates).<p>That&#x27;s why this blog post is kind of a mess, with conflicting ideas.</text></comment> | <story><title>Engage your audience: get to the point, use story structure, force specificity</title><url>https://iandanielstewart.com/2024/06/09/engage-your-audience-by-getting-to-the-point-using-story-structure-and-forcing-specificity/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bawolff</author><text>I found myself first agreeing with this, and then hating the examples used.<p>I think the part i liked boils down to: have a thesis and be very upfront on what it is. Everything you say should build up that thesis.<p>To a lesser extent, i also agree with the idea that presentations should (usually) have a narrative structure, but i wouldn&#x27;t put it the same way they did.<p>But at the same time, when they started to go into examples, everything started to sound click-baity. &quot;One important thing you have to know about X&quot; just feels like a click-bait headline. It also kind of assumes that i want to know one thing about X. Maybe i would rather know zero things. The &quot;why&quot; is left unadressed.</text></comment> |
32,117,650 | 32,117,692 | 1 | 2 | 32,117,381 | train | <story><title>Amazon instructs New York workers “don't sign” union cards</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/amazon-alb-1-anti-union-signage-alu-004207814.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>noisy_boy</author><text>&gt; The ALU may ask you to sign an authorization card or share a QR code to fill out an online authorization card.
&gt; <i>This is a legally binding document</i><p>Ooh scary ... is the employment contract signed by Amazon&#x27;s employees not legally binding? How is it Amazon&#x27;s business what their grown-ass employees can or cannot sign?<p>&gt; By signing a card or filling out an online authorization form, you are providing the ALU your personal information.<p>Like Amazon monitoring my spending habits?<p>&gt; By signing a card or filling out an online authorization form, you are authorizing the ALU to speak on your behalf.<p>And thats terrible how?<p>&gt; The ALU is not part of Amazon and does not represent Amazon<p>Thats the whole point.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon instructs New York workers “don't sign” union cards</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/amazon-alb-1-anti-union-signage-alu-004207814.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>photochemsyn</author><text>Realistically an Amazon-wide union is the only way Amazon workers are going to get decent wage increases. If the USA is going to allow manufacturers to outsource the majority of well-paid (~$30&#x2F;hr avg) manufacturing jobs to Mexico and China, without having any cross-border capital flow penalities (neoliberal globalism in a nutshell), then the major employers like Amazon and Walmart are going to have to double their wages.<p>Yes, that means less for the executives and shareholders. They may have to sell some of their properties, oh dear.</text></comment> |
26,401,683 | 26,401,407 | 1 | 2 | 26,398,767 | train | <story><title>Israel’s lucrative and secretive cybersurveillance industry</title><url>https://restofworld.org/2021/inside-israels-lucrative-and-secretive-cybersurveillance-talent-pipeline/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>high_byte</author><text>&gt; As K. recalls, the recruitment pitch directed toward him was more about the “caressing of ego.” He was told: “You’re the best. We chose you. You’re one in a million. Most people can’t handle this job. You’re a genius.”<p>8200-alumni, can confirm lol.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>When I was in the last few months of tech school, Ft. Meade recruited our class. Apparently, the school had a deal with them.<p>I decided not to pursue. I wasn&#x27;t particularly thrilled with being a janitor for six months, while they cleared me.<p>These days, I doubt they&#x27;d touch me with a ten-foot pole. Young folks are clean slates. Us old farts are baggage, personified. No &quot;red flags,&quot; but I&#x27;m also really cynical, and they&#x27;d have a hard time getting me to jump through their hoops.</text></comment> | <story><title>Israel’s lucrative and secretive cybersurveillance industry</title><url>https://restofworld.org/2021/inside-israels-lucrative-and-secretive-cybersurveillance-talent-pipeline/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>high_byte</author><text>&gt; As K. recalls, the recruitment pitch directed toward him was more about the “caressing of ego.” He was told: “You’re the best. We chose you. You’re one in a million. Most people can’t handle this job. You’re a genius.”<p>8200-alumni, can confirm lol.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dls2016</author><text>It&#x27;s kind of hilarious because the big lesson I learned in the US military is that they have a great system for coordinating&#x2F;motivating a whole bunch of average people into doing &quot;big&quot; things.<p>I use this to motivate myself to this day... &quot;well I was born a perhaps slightly above-average schlub... if those other people can succeed then with a bit of persistence so can I.&quot;<p>Maybe I&#x27;ve been going about it all wrong!</text></comment> |
39,703,384 | 39,703,126 | 1 | 2 | 39,702,915 | train | <story><title>Boeing overwrote security camera footage of repair work on Alaska door plug</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2024/03/13/boeing-video-footage-overwrite-erased-door-plug-alaska</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brk</author><text>&quot;Boeing Overwrote&quot; makes it sound like they actively did something to cause the footage to be lost. Most video surveillance systems record to a giant circular buffer, newest video overwrites oldest video automatically. In many cases there are no standards or requirements for specific retention periods, and 30-60 days is a common max storage duration. The logic being that for most incidents, you know about it in plenty of time to go back and archive the relevant video.<p>This looks like a scenario where there should have been standards in place for video retention, at a minimum for particularly sensitive operations where effects might not be realized for months, or even years.</text></comment> | <story><title>Boeing overwrote security camera footage of repair work on Alaska door plug</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2024/03/13/boeing-video-footage-overwrite-erased-door-plug-alaska</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mustardboy</author><text>Bottom of the article:<p>&quot;Consistent with standard practice, video recordings are maintained on a rolling 30 day basis.&quot;</text></comment> |
26,648,132 | 26,647,677 | 1 | 3 | 26,646,939 | train | <story><title>Masks distributed in Canada with microscopic graphene potentially toxic</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/masks-early-pulmonary-toxicity-quebec-schools-daycares-1.5966387</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dukeofdoom</author><text>Wow, this seems like 4chan conspiracy theory becoming reality. Will the worm one turn out to be true too?<p>On a side note, what kind of idiot puts graphene in masks, when its so widely known that graphene is a carcinogen. How can this not be maliciously done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scrollaway</author><text>We had similar drama with masks distributed in Belgium. They contain nanoparticles of silver. The government gave an official recommendation to stop wearing them.<p>Original report: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brusselstimes.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;belgium-all-news&#x2F;156628&#x2F;cloth-mouth-masks-from-avrox-luxembourg-belgium-government-distributed-free-to-pharmacies-may-be-toxic&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brusselstimes.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;belgium-all-news&#x2F;156628&#x2F;c...</a><p>Follow-up recommendation: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brusselstimes.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;belgium-all-news&#x2F;156876&#x2F;belgian-government-says-to-stop-wearing-the-free-cloth-masks-they-distributed-as-a-precaution&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brusselstimes.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;belgium-all-news&#x2F;156876&#x2F;b...</a><p>I&#x27;m still wearing mine because I don&#x27;t go out often enough for it to matter (and when I do, I&#x27;m usually on a bicycle where it&#x27;s not required to wear one). But what a fucked up story. I really thought this would be the end of it: anti-maskers &quot;won&quot;, are set for life with an argument on a silver platter now. With actual silver.<p>Surprisingly, though, that didn&#x27;t happen. People have been pretty chill about it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Masks distributed in Canada with microscopic graphene potentially toxic</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/masks-early-pulmonary-toxicity-quebec-schools-daycares-1.5966387</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dukeofdoom</author><text>Wow, this seems like 4chan conspiracy theory becoming reality. Will the worm one turn out to be true too?<p>On a side note, what kind of idiot puts graphene in masks, when its so widely known that graphene is a carcinogen. How can this not be maliciously done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cxcorp</author><text>I wonder if the Quebec government tested the masks for things like this? Especially, considering:<p>&gt; Back in December, the Quebec government revealed that masks it had been distributing for months to more than 15,000 daycares across the province did not meet safety standards, and daycare staff were ordered to stop using them.<p>&gt; Between May and November, the ministry distributed 31.1 million MC9501 masks throughout the network to protect staff from COVID-19, but they were determined to be unfit for use.<p>Fool me once...</text></comment> |
17,849,078 | 17,849,107 | 1 | 2 | 17,848,882 | train | <story><title>Google’s Jeff Dean’s undergrad senior thesis on neural networks (1990) [pdf]</title><url>https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I1fs4sczbCaACzA9XwxR3DiuXVtqmejL/view</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>halflings</author><text>As always, Jeff Dean doesn&#x27;t fail to inspire respect.<p>Tackling a complex problem (still relevant today) at an early age, getting great results <i>and</i> describing the solution clearly&#x2F;concisely.<p>My master thesis was ~60 pages long, and was probably about 1&#x2F;1000 as useful as this one.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google’s Jeff Dean’s undergrad senior thesis on neural networks (1990) [pdf]</title><url>https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I1fs4sczbCaACzA9XwxR3DiuXVtqmejL/view</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mlthoughts2018</author><text>An underappreciated aspect of this is finding an academic department that would allow you to submit something this concise as a senior thesis.<p>My experience, mostly in grad school, was that anyone editing my work wanted more verbiage. If you only needed a short, one-sentence paragraph to say something, it just wasn’t accepted. There had to be more.<p>Jeff Dean is an uncommonly good communicator. But he also benefited from being allowed, perhaps even encouraged, to prioritize effective and concise communication.<p>Most people aren’t so lucky, and end up learning that this type of concision will not go over well. People presume you’re writing like a know-it-all, or that you didn’t do due diligence on prior work.</text></comment> |
20,285,983 | 20,285,699 | 1 | 3 | 20,283,794 | train | <story><title>HTTP Cats</title><url>https://http.cat/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>benatkin</author><text>The .cat domain is restricted to Catalan-speaking stuff, but this site still exists. Well played, Internet. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;.cat#Restrictions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;.cat#Restrictions</a><p>Poking around, it has a catalan translation, but not a spanish or french translation. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;http.cat&#x2F;?lang=cat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;http.cat&#x2F;?lang=cat</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;http.cat&#x2F;?lang=es" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;http.cat&#x2F;?lang=es</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;http.cat&#x2F;?lang=fr" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;http.cat&#x2F;?lang=fr</a><p>Edit: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nyan.cat&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nyan.cat&#x2F;</a> has a catalan version too (català). Apparently <i>you&#x27;ve been nyaning</i> is <i>has nyanyejat</i> in catalan:<p>&quot;HAS NYANYEJAT DURANT
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Tweet Your Score&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Y_Y</author><text>I&#x27;m glad someone else is worried about this. For some reason Catalans are very special and love tlds. For example in BCN one is within the geometric catchment for:<p><pre><code> - .barcelona
- .cat
- .es
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I don&#x27;t think any other settlement on earth is so blessed.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth, the registrar for .cat (Nominalia) isn&#x27;t very strict</text></comment> | <story><title>HTTP Cats</title><url>https://http.cat/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>benatkin</author><text>The .cat domain is restricted to Catalan-speaking stuff, but this site still exists. Well played, Internet. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;.cat#Restrictions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;.cat#Restrictions</a><p>Poking around, it has a catalan translation, but not a spanish or french translation. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;http.cat&#x2F;?lang=cat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;http.cat&#x2F;?lang=cat</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;http.cat&#x2F;?lang=es" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;http.cat&#x2F;?lang=es</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;http.cat&#x2F;?lang=fr" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;http.cat&#x2F;?lang=fr</a><p>Edit: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nyan.cat&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nyan.cat&#x2F;</a> has a catalan version too (català). Apparently <i>you&#x27;ve been nyaning</i> is <i>has nyanyejat</i> in catalan:<p>&quot;HAS NYANYEJAT DURANT
117.6
SEGONS
Tweet Your Score&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tempest1981</author><text>And a NYAN language setting - clever.<p>I got NaN on iOS Safari:<p>HAS NYANYEJAT DURANT
NaN
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Tweet Your Score<p>You&#x27;ve NYANED for
NaN
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Tweet Your Score<p>NYAN NYAN NYAN
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24,125,228 | 24,124,848 | 1 | 2 | 24,122,200 | train | <story><title>TSA considers new system for flyers without ID</title><url>https://papersplease.org/wp/2020/08/11/tsa-considers-new-system-for-flyers-without-id/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mLuby</author><text>&gt; The main reason for the TSA to outsource the questioning of travelers and scoring of answers is to evade the rules applicable to collection and use of personal data by Federal agencies. … The nominal “fly&#x2F;no-fly” decision will still be made by the TSA, not the contractor. But that “decision” will be a rubber-stamp approval or disapproval based solely on whether the app shows a “pass” or “fail” score, or whether the would-be traveler doesn’t have a suitable smartphone or is otherwise unable or unwilling to complete the app-based process.<p>You hear the drug trade is really lucrative but you&#x27;re not allowed to sell drugs, so you send your money to a contractor that sells drugs, they give you more money back, and you technically haven&#x27;t &quot;sold drugs.&quot;<p>Somehow, thinking breaks down at the boundary between systems, because inexplicably the constraints or guarantees of the consuming system do not propagate to the providing system.<p>TSA could and should be (made) identity-agnostic, with its mandate to protect vehicles and occupants. Immigration is what should care about the individual that&#x27;s being allowed into the country.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shard</author><text>You just had your servers hacked into and all your database are belong to them. The black hats demand X number of BitCoins as ransom, but you cannot pay because it violates certain laws. So you hire an intermediary who pays for you, thereby avoiding the legal problem.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;8&#x2F;4&#x2F;21353842&#x2F;garmin-ransomware-attack-wearables-wastedlocker-evil-corp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;8&#x2F;4&#x2F;21353842&#x2F;garmin-ransomware...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>TSA considers new system for flyers without ID</title><url>https://papersplease.org/wp/2020/08/11/tsa-considers-new-system-for-flyers-without-id/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mLuby</author><text>&gt; The main reason for the TSA to outsource the questioning of travelers and scoring of answers is to evade the rules applicable to collection and use of personal data by Federal agencies. … The nominal “fly&#x2F;no-fly” decision will still be made by the TSA, not the contractor. But that “decision” will be a rubber-stamp approval or disapproval based solely on whether the app shows a “pass” or “fail” score, or whether the would-be traveler doesn’t have a suitable smartphone or is otherwise unable or unwilling to complete the app-based process.<p>You hear the drug trade is really lucrative but you&#x27;re not allowed to sell drugs, so you send your money to a contractor that sells drugs, they give you more money back, and you technically haven&#x27;t &quot;sold drugs.&quot;<p>Somehow, thinking breaks down at the boundary between systems, because inexplicably the constraints or guarantees of the consuming system do not propagate to the providing system.<p>TSA could and should be (made) identity-agnostic, with its mandate to protect vehicles and occupants. Immigration is what should care about the individual that&#x27;s being allowed into the country.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsync</author><text>&quot;You hear the drug trade is really lucrative but you&#x27;re not allowed to sell drugs, so you send your money to a contractor that sells drugs, they give you more money back, and you technically haven&#x27;t &quot;sold drugs.&quot;&quot;<p>I believe you have just described &quot;banking&quot;.</text></comment> |
26,384,057 | 26,383,999 | 1 | 2 | 26,383,419 | train | <story><title>Food Prices Are Soaring Faster Than Inflation and Incomes</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-01/inflation-2021-malnutrition-and-hunger-fears-rise-as-food-prices-soar-globally</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DoingIsLearning</author><text>&quot;thanks to a combination of poor weather, increased demand and virus-mangled global supply chains.&quot;<p>Seems like a lost opportunity to create so much anxiety with a long piece like this, to then only have this single line to hint at a reason for the rise.<p>Can anybody more economically minded clarify if this is just post-covid rebound supply chain prices or is this food prices adjusting closer to their &#x27;real&#x27; cost?<p>Also what events do they refer to regarding &#x27;poor weather&#x27;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baybal2</author><text>Last year we had:<p>1. Biblical scale locust infestation in much of Africa, and Asia<p>2. Floods in East Asia<p>3. Early winter in Russia, Ukraine, and North China<p>4. Failed, and missed sowing of grains in much of above regions<p>5. Shipping disruptions, and resulting food spoilage, and waste<p>6. Granaries busted, and people burning through many months worth of grain, and flour in much of third world due to initial COVID panic<p>7. Financial speculators having the best field run on agriculture in decades<p>8. Anxiety about point 6 repeating runs on food wholesalers again<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aljazeera.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;10&#x2F;nobel-winner-wfp-warns-of-a-hunger-pandemic-worse-than-virus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aljazeera.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;10&#x2F;nobel-winner-wfp-w...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Food Prices Are Soaring Faster Than Inflation and Incomes</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-01/inflation-2021-malnutrition-and-hunger-fears-rise-as-food-prices-soar-globally</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DoingIsLearning</author><text>&quot;thanks to a combination of poor weather, increased demand and virus-mangled global supply chains.&quot;<p>Seems like a lost opportunity to create so much anxiety with a long piece like this, to then only have this single line to hint at a reason for the rise.<p>Can anybody more economically minded clarify if this is just post-covid rebound supply chain prices or is this food prices adjusting closer to their &#x27;real&#x27; cost?<p>Also what events do they refer to regarding &#x27;poor weather&#x27;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adflux</author><text>Sure, almost all central banks over the world have printed an astronomical amount of money. Even though they may state there is no significant inflation, I dont buy it and neither do many other economists. Stock prices, house prices and now, at last, commodity prices have gone through the roof... But you&#x27;re probably earning about as much as you were a year ago, or less, if your industry was affected...<p>It&#x27;s not just food. Lumber, Steel and Oil aswell.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;6a7c232e-9c63-420c-ac05-40aea84a9504" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;6a7c232e-9c63-420c-ac05-40aea84a9...</a><p>EDIT: noticed link is paywalled (but not when you access via google) alternative article here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-global-markets-idUSKBN2AM014" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-global-markets-idUSKBN2AM...</a> &quot;World shares slide on inflation fears, commodities surge&quot;</text></comment> |
5,164,476 | 5,164,588 | 1 | 2 | 5,163,615 | train | <story><title>Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revolution Quiet?</title><url>http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/01/11/why-did-media-keep-the-recent-peaceful-icelandic-revolution-quiet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brown9-2</author><text>Which is an easier explanation to believe?<p>1. The "media" got together and said to each other, "We better not cover this story at all, because it will give too many people dangerous ideas"<p>or<p>2. Media outlets individually (particularly in the US) decided not to cover the actions of the Icelandic government because they think most of their viewers don't care much about Iceland and/or because "check out what has slowly been happening in Iceland over the past 5 years" isn't much of a breaking news story.<p>This story <i>has</i> been covered, but just because it isn't to the extent that you wish it was covered does not mean a conspiracy must exist.<p>NPR did a story on Iceland just two days ago: <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/01/170867071/episode-435-a-new-mom-and-the-president-of-iceland" rel="nofollow">http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/01/170867071/episode-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patrickk</author><text>"<i>2. Media outlets individually (particularly in the US) decided not to cover the actions of the Icelandic government because they think most of their viewers don't care much about Iceland and/or because "check out what has slowly been happening in Iceland over the past 5 years" isn't much of a breaking news story.</i>"<p>It's highly relevant because of the stark contrast in the manner in which Iceland prosecuted the bankers like the criminals they are, versus the crazy manner in which bankers are treated in the US and Europe.<p>One law for the corrupt, rich, and connected bankers, and much harsher laws for ordinary people who are not connected, wealthy and powerful (e.g. individuals targeted for illegal downloads versus bankers blowing up the global economy causing untold economic hardship). This sends out a strong message from a government to it's electorate: <i>fuck you, you miserable peasant. Not only will you go along with these bailouts, you'll cheer loudly for your bought candidate when he's re-elected.</i><p>I'm from Ireland, and we should have copied Iceland to the letter. The difference is we're in the EU and our government is happy to be Angela Merkel's little bitch, and take the pain (sovereign debt burden) to maintain the illusion that everything is rosy in the garden.<p>Iceland even had the balls to <i>crowd-source</i> it's new constitution, giving real, tangible power to it's people (you couldn't even imagine this in most countries). Talk about real democracy compared to crony capitalism:<p><a href="http://gigaom.com/2012/10/22/icelanders-approve-their-crowdsourced-constitution/" rel="nofollow">http://gigaom.com/2012/10/22/icelanders-approve-their-crowds...</a><p>Great article on Iceland from Michael Lewis (Wall Street on the Tundra):<p><a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/04/iceland200904" rel="nofollow">http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/04/iceland2...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revolution Quiet?</title><url>http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/01/11/why-did-media-keep-the-recent-peaceful-icelandic-revolution-quiet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brown9-2</author><text>Which is an easier explanation to believe?<p>1. The "media" got together and said to each other, "We better not cover this story at all, because it will give too many people dangerous ideas"<p>or<p>2. Media outlets individually (particularly in the US) decided not to cover the actions of the Icelandic government because they think most of their viewers don't care much about Iceland and/or because "check out what has slowly been happening in Iceland over the past 5 years" isn't much of a breaking news story.<p>This story <i>has</i> been covered, but just because it isn't to the extent that you wish it was covered does not mean a conspiracy must exist.<p>NPR did a story on Iceland just two days ago: <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/01/170867071/episode-435-a-new-mom-and-the-president-of-iceland" rel="nofollow">http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/01/170867071/episode-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drzaiusapelord</author><text>Yeah, I'm having a hard time buying the conspiracy theory here. Iceland's entire population is the equivalent of 2 or 3 larger neighborhoods in Chicago. Its just not pressing news. Its a small and unimportant country. I doubt most Americans could find it on an unlabeled map.<p>Not to mention, parliamentary style governments are always being torn down and rebuilt as different blocs of power emerge. Things can change fast, especially if that country also does direct democracy referendums. That's a feature, not a bug and very different to the more stable and conservative style of government the US was built on.<p>Also, a screen blocking "join us on facebook" dhtml pop-up? Wow. Another example of the hostile web here.</text></comment> |
14,576,556 | 14,576,403 | 1 | 3 | 14,576,005 | train | <story><title>Cloudflare's new Argo feature billing surprise</title><text>A heads up for any other Cloudflare customers that have enabled Argo. This feature is supposed to improve performance due to better routing but what is not mentioned is that any abuse traffic, even explicitly blocked traffic is still counted against the $0.10 &#x2F; GB.<p>I had an attack come in a few days ago generating false traffic and blocked it via Cloudflare&#x27;s IP firewall. All traffic, including blocked, still counts towards billable per gigabyte bandwidth as confirmed by their support staff. They may sometime in the future separate the counts but for now the support recommendation is to disable Argo.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jgrahamc</author><text>Cloudflare CTO here. I&#x27;ll look into this. Doesn&#x27;t make sense we&#x27;d charge you for traffic we filtered out.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cloudflare's new Argo feature billing surprise</title><text>A heads up for any other Cloudflare customers that have enabled Argo. This feature is supposed to improve performance due to better routing but what is not mentioned is that any abuse traffic, even explicitly blocked traffic is still counted against the $0.10 &#x2F; GB.<p>I had an attack come in a few days ago generating false traffic and blocked it via Cloudflare&#x27;s IP firewall. All traffic, including blocked, still counts towards billable per gigabyte bandwidth as confirmed by their support staff. They may sometime in the future separate the counts but for now the support recommendation is to disable Argo.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>asadlionpk</author><text>I have been thinking of enabling this feature. Aside from this issue, does it make visible difference in terms of performance?</text></comment> |
14,436,422 | 14,436,275 | 1 | 2 | 14,431,470 | train | <story><title>Lessons I Learned from the Dotcom Bubble for the Coming Cryptocurrency Bubble</title><url>http://continuations.com/post/161091248805/some-lessons-i-learned-from-the-dotcom-bubble-for</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jonnathanson</author><text>Respectfully, I think a lot of comments on this topic are missing the point of the author&#x27;s advice. Whether there is or is not a bubble, and if there is, how big that bubble might get, are irrelevant here. That&#x27;s not what this article is about.<p>First, the author assumes there <i>is</i> a bubble brewing. That&#x27;s not his thesis; that&#x27;s his background assumption. His thesis is that, <i>assuming there is a bubble</i>, you should do X, Y, and Z, and not do A, B, and C.<p>So yeah, after reading this, we could argue once again about whether there&#x27;s a bubble or not. But the more interesting argument is about whether his advice is sound. Not whether his assumption is sound.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lessons I Learned from the Dotcom Bubble for the Coming Cryptocurrency Bubble</title><url>http://continuations.com/post/161091248805/some-lessons-i-learned-from-the-dotcom-bubble-for</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Ologn</author><text>The difference is the dot-com stocks had some theoretical value - even Pets.com, people buy pet supplies online after all.<p>Unlike commodities, equities and so forth, cryptocoins have no value whatsoever. So to try to make it sound like it has worth, its pushers have to cast about for anything they can and finally come upon the only thing they can - the dollar. In fact, they say, it&#x27;s even better than the dollar.<p>It would take too long to explain here why the Bitcoin is not like the only thing they have left to compare it to, the dollar. Also, an explanation won&#x27;t sway anyone who has already had a drink of the kool-aid any how.<p>May I recommend another message board for all those high on cryptocoins here - 4chan ( <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;boards.4chan.org&#x2F;biz&#x2F;catalog" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;boards.4chan.org&#x2F;biz&#x2F;catalog</a> ). 4chan &#x2F;biz&#x2F; is filled with uneducated, poor kids all looking to get wealthy with little work on the cryptocoin get rich quick schemes.<p>I think it&#x27;s a much better message board for all of you of this bent. Here on HN there are still some people who believe in studying math and science and engineering and CS at universities, and then going and doing a lot of hard work and creating wealth. 4chan is mostly filled with your types - the get-rich-quick scam artists. Go read 4chan &#x2F;biz&#x2F; right now - it&#x27;s filled with no work, no study, get rich quick types like yourself. Leave and go there. HN will be stuck with those &quot;out of it&quot; old fogies who actually believe in study, hard work, that commodities need value to have worth in the long-term, and old-fashioned, out of touch ideas like that.</text></comment> |
15,378,974 | 15,378,602 | 1 | 3 | 15,378,121 | train | <story><title>EFF: Stupid patents are dragging down AI and machine learning</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/eff-stupid-patents-are-dragging-down-ai-and-machine-learning/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>revel</author><text>The unfortunate reality is that the 20th century legal code is ill equipped for dealing with software firms. Up until about 1980-1990 it didn&#x27;t matter all that much, but tech firms are now the largest, fastest growing and most powerful companies in the world. We can&#x27;t punt on these issues any more.<p>There are 3 forms of IP protection: copyright, patents, and trademarks. The crux of the issue is that, for software, copyright protection is too weak and patents are too strong. So called &quot;stupid patents&quot; are a symptom of this issue, but not the cause. Software ideas don&#x27;t work well under either of these existing protection models. Further, software patents are especially broken since they&#x27;ve deviated from their originally intended purpose of helping fledgling inventors launch their creations without larger firms stealing their work. Now every large firm has an arsenal of allegedly &quot;protective&quot; patents that can be swiftly mobilized to crush upstart competitors. Similarly, patent trolls can sit on the sidelines and exact royalties far beyond the economic value that their inventions contribute. Bluntly, there needs to be a new form of IP protection to deal with this reality -- this isn&#x27;t to say I have any strong ideas of what this form of protection should be, just that these are the characteristics of the problem.<p>The same core issue is starting to become apparent in anti-trust law. These laws are inappropriate for tech firms because they don&#x27;t scale like traditional businesses (how do you deal with an industry with super high HHI but massive barriers to entry and no easy way to split up existing competitors?), but that&#x27;s a topic for another thread.</text></comment> | <story><title>EFF: Stupid patents are dragging down AI and machine learning</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/eff-stupid-patents-are-dragging-down-ai-and-machine-learning/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kflop</author><text>Patents used to keep inventors from taking their secrets into their graves, but now it seems they only support some kind of cold war between big players that can afford to produce lots of bogus patents possibly usable for retaliation. Also, and this is a nice side effect, everybody who cannot afford to waste money on this is kept out of the game.</text></comment> |
24,022,113 | 24,021,511 | 1 | 2 | 24,020,263 | train | <story><title>Derek Sivers and the Art of Enough</title><url>https://brendancahill.io/brensblog/dereksivers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tkiley</author><text>I had a bunch of equity in a startup that had a cost basis of, essentially, $0. Under normal circumstances, I would have sold this for $millions, and would have paid nearly 20% in capital gains taxes immediately.<p>Instead, I contributed my equity to a CRUT. I paid zero capital gains taxes at that moment, and the CRUT pays zero capital gains taxes ever. Also, because a contribution to the trust is a contribution in part to charity (with proportions calculated according to actuarial figures of my life expectancy), I got a charitable tax deduction of many million dollars which I was able to carry forward for many years.<p>Each year I owe taxes on the 5% which the CRUT distributes to me every year, but since this is capital gains income, it is taxed at a very low rate -- which is effectively reduced even further because it is offset by the charitable deduction which I have been able to carry forward.<p>The net effect is that I&#x27;m paying capital gains taxes in a tiny trickle over the remainder of my lifetime, and I also got a giant charitable deduction to offset those capital gains taxes. When I die, the principal in the trust goes to charity. The IRS will never get the kind of bite at this equity that I would intuitively expect it to get.<p>I don&#x27;t understand how this capital gains tax loophole could be beneficial to society. I think it should be removed from the tax code.<p>Another side effect of the CRUT I hadn&#x27;t anticipated: Occasionally, I note the intrusive thought that my continued life is the one and only barrier which is keeping a decent amount of capital from serving charitable purposes right now. That&#x27;s honestly pretty depressing sometimes.</text></item><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>Wow cool! For those of us who don&#x27;t regularly create charitable remainder trusts, what are the tax consequences and why are they unfair?</text></item><item><author>tkiley</author><text>Derek&#x27;s writing influenced me quite a bit in the early 2000s. I bootstrapped a software business from zero to near $10m in annualized revenue, and sold it almost half a decade ago. I contributed 100% of my equity into a charitable remainder trust because I learned about that idea from his website.<p>Since then, I&#x27;ve done a lot of &quot;puttering&quot;. I&#x27;m teaching myself jazz guitar, and I&#x27;m currently enrolled in law school. I have basically unlimited time to read whatever interests me. If I could go back five years and give myself some advice, I would say that &quot;enough&quot; is not durably satisfying. Purpose is durably satisfying. Purpose arises from constraints. Having &quot;enough&quot; means you lack a particular type of constraint. Thus, enough&quot; can get in the way of developing purpose, particularly if you are somewhat undisciplined like me.<p>(Also, I would abolish charitable remainder trusts from the tax code. I created one for lifestyle reasons not tax reasons, but after experiencing the tax consequences firsthand, I think they are profoundly unfair.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skrebbel</author><text>Thanks! I think I get it, but not fully yet: if you&#x27;d deplete the entire trust before dying, you&#x27;d have paid the same capital gains tax as you would&#x27;ve if you had not made the trust, correct? Just spread out over many years.<p>Why do you feel that it is a loophole if you pay the same, just at different times? (except over what you give to charity, but isn&#x27;t charity untaxed pretty much across the board in the US?)<p>EDIT: by they way, yours is the first tax related comment that I recall reading that complains about unfair rules that are in your favour. Hats off, I had expected the opposite answer.</text></comment> | <story><title>Derek Sivers and the Art of Enough</title><url>https://brendancahill.io/brensblog/dereksivers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tkiley</author><text>I had a bunch of equity in a startup that had a cost basis of, essentially, $0. Under normal circumstances, I would have sold this for $millions, and would have paid nearly 20% in capital gains taxes immediately.<p>Instead, I contributed my equity to a CRUT. I paid zero capital gains taxes at that moment, and the CRUT pays zero capital gains taxes ever. Also, because a contribution to the trust is a contribution in part to charity (with proportions calculated according to actuarial figures of my life expectancy), I got a charitable tax deduction of many million dollars which I was able to carry forward for many years.<p>Each year I owe taxes on the 5% which the CRUT distributes to me every year, but since this is capital gains income, it is taxed at a very low rate -- which is effectively reduced even further because it is offset by the charitable deduction which I have been able to carry forward.<p>The net effect is that I&#x27;m paying capital gains taxes in a tiny trickle over the remainder of my lifetime, and I also got a giant charitable deduction to offset those capital gains taxes. When I die, the principal in the trust goes to charity. The IRS will never get the kind of bite at this equity that I would intuitively expect it to get.<p>I don&#x27;t understand how this capital gains tax loophole could be beneficial to society. I think it should be removed from the tax code.<p>Another side effect of the CRUT I hadn&#x27;t anticipated: Occasionally, I note the intrusive thought that my continued life is the one and only barrier which is keeping a decent amount of capital from serving charitable purposes right now. That&#x27;s honestly pretty depressing sometimes.</text></item><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>Wow cool! For those of us who don&#x27;t regularly create charitable remainder trusts, what are the tax consequences and why are they unfair?</text></item><item><author>tkiley</author><text>Derek&#x27;s writing influenced me quite a bit in the early 2000s. I bootstrapped a software business from zero to near $10m in annualized revenue, and sold it almost half a decade ago. I contributed 100% of my equity into a charitable remainder trust because I learned about that idea from his website.<p>Since then, I&#x27;ve done a lot of &quot;puttering&quot;. I&#x27;m teaching myself jazz guitar, and I&#x27;m currently enrolled in law school. I have basically unlimited time to read whatever interests me. If I could go back five years and give myself some advice, I would say that &quot;enough&quot; is not durably satisfying. Purpose is durably satisfying. Purpose arises from constraints. Having &quot;enough&quot; means you lack a particular type of constraint. Thus, enough&quot; can get in the way of developing purpose, particularly if you are somewhat undisciplined like me.<p>(Also, I would abolish charitable remainder trusts from the tax code. I created one for lifestyle reasons not tax reasons, but after experiencing the tax consequences firsthand, I think they are profoundly unfair.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DennisP</author><text>Whether that&#x27;s bad depends on how you feel about the way your government spends tax money. Because you used a CRUT, the money that doesn&#x27;t support you will go to some worthy charity, instead of funding a series of wars, pervasive surveillance, and cages for kids.<p>Of course the government also does many worthwhile things, but your extra money will be spent entirely on worthwhile things, and not at all on horrific ones.</text></comment> |
26,254,257 | 26,253,833 | 1 | 3 | 26,252,348 | train | <story><title>Stop Using Icon Fonts</title><url>https://www.irigoyen.dev/blog/2021/02/17/stop-using-icon-fonts</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mablopoule</author><text>Apart from font-icon, a nice way to handle icons in a website is to leverage the underutilized &lt;use&gt; SVG element:<p><pre><code> &lt;!-- Should be in all your pages --&gt;
&lt;svg style=&quot;display: none&quot; aria-hidden=&quot;true&quot;&gt;
&lt;defs&gt;
&lt;symbol id=&quot;icon-circle&quot; viewBox=&quot;0 0 20 20&quot;&gt;&lt;circle fill=&quot;currentColor&quot; cx=&quot;10&quot; cy=&quot;10&quot; r=&quot;10&quot; &#x2F;&gt;&lt;&#x2F;symbol&gt;
&lt;!-- other icons here --&gt;
&lt;&#x2F;defs&gt;
&lt;&#x2F;svg&gt;
&lt;!-- In some other template --&gt;
&lt;button&gt;
&lt;svg class=&quot;icon&quot;&gt;&lt;use xlink:href=&quot;#icon-circle&quot;&gt;&lt;&#x2F;use&gt;&lt;&#x2F;svg&gt;
&lt;span&gt;foobar&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;
&lt;&#x2F;button&gt;
&lt;!-- in your CSS --&gt;
.icon { width: 1em; height: 1em; }
</code></pre>
This approach I feel has most of the advantages of inlined SVG (mostly context-dependent colors) while avoiding most of the clutter, and is not heavily reliant on a specific JS-based workflow (thought we do need to includes our &lt;def&gt; somewhere in all pages)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shubhamjain</author><text>I have tried this, but adding symbols to the file becomes a giant PITA. Then, you also have to ensure that symbols are loaded on every page. I had some SVGs that were multiple kilobytes (logos and stuff), and this just increased the page weight.<p>You can give my library, svg-loader, [1] a try. It&#x27;s a single line of javascript that makes it really easy to load external SVGs as inline elements. The syntax is even shorter and you avoid all the problems of external SVGs.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;shubhamjain&#x2F;svg-loader" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;shubhamjain&#x2F;svg-loader</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Stop Using Icon Fonts</title><url>https://www.irigoyen.dev/blog/2021/02/17/stop-using-icon-fonts</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mablopoule</author><text>Apart from font-icon, a nice way to handle icons in a website is to leverage the underutilized &lt;use&gt; SVG element:<p><pre><code> &lt;!-- Should be in all your pages --&gt;
&lt;svg style=&quot;display: none&quot; aria-hidden=&quot;true&quot;&gt;
&lt;defs&gt;
&lt;symbol id=&quot;icon-circle&quot; viewBox=&quot;0 0 20 20&quot;&gt;&lt;circle fill=&quot;currentColor&quot; cx=&quot;10&quot; cy=&quot;10&quot; r=&quot;10&quot; &#x2F;&gt;&lt;&#x2F;symbol&gt;
&lt;!-- other icons here --&gt;
&lt;&#x2F;defs&gt;
&lt;&#x2F;svg&gt;
&lt;!-- In some other template --&gt;
&lt;button&gt;
&lt;svg class=&quot;icon&quot;&gt;&lt;use xlink:href=&quot;#icon-circle&quot;&gt;&lt;&#x2F;use&gt;&lt;&#x2F;svg&gt;
&lt;span&gt;foobar&lt;&#x2F;span&gt;
&lt;&#x2F;button&gt;
&lt;!-- in your CSS --&gt;
.icon { width: 1em; height: 1em; }
</code></pre>
This approach I feel has most of the advantages of inlined SVG (mostly context-dependent colors) while avoiding most of the clutter, and is not heavily reliant on a specific JS-based workflow (thought we do need to includes our &lt;def&gt; somewhere in all pages)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>voldemort1968</author><text>Came here to recommend this approach. Lots of FE devs don&#x27;t know about this.<p>Nice overview here too <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tutorials.jenkov.com&#x2F;svg&#x2F;use-element.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tutorials.jenkov.com&#x2F;svg&#x2F;use-element.html</a></text></comment> |
14,229,381 | 14,228,401 | 1 | 2 | 14,227,471 | train | <story><title>Tiny Linux distro that runs the entire OS as Docker containers</title><url>https://github.com/rancher/os</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gumby</author><text>I always felt, perhaps uncharitably, that the point of containers was &quot;those other programmers are idiots so we need to encapsulate everything for the sake of defense&quot;</text></item><item><author>lostmsu</author><text>The whole notion of containers is basically this. That&#x27;s why I am not sure why not just fix the OS. If there&#x27;s anything to fix in the first place.</text></item><item><author>oneplane</author><text>This is starting to smell like a system on top of a system to fix something that could be fixed in the system. Kind-of like implementing a filesystem on top op a filesystem... or putting a database on a filesystem to run another filesystem inside the database, or using a webbrowser as a runtime instead of an operating system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lobster_johnson</author><text>One huge benefit of containers is that you can treat a program as something atomic: Delete the container and it&#x27;s gone, as if it were never installed.<p>Modern package management systems like APT spend a lot of effort installing and removing files, and they don&#x27;t do it completely; any file created by a program after it is installed will not be tracked.<p>You could accomplish the same thing in other ways (as Apple&#x27;s sandboxing tech does), of course.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tiny Linux distro that runs the entire OS as Docker containers</title><url>https://github.com/rancher/os</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gumby</author><text>I always felt, perhaps uncharitably, that the point of containers was &quot;those other programmers are idiots so we need to encapsulate everything for the sake of defense&quot;</text></item><item><author>lostmsu</author><text>The whole notion of containers is basically this. That&#x27;s why I am not sure why not just fix the OS. If there&#x27;s anything to fix in the first place.</text></item><item><author>oneplane</author><text>This is starting to smell like a system on top of a system to fix something that could be fixed in the system. Kind-of like implementing a filesystem on top op a filesystem... or putting a database on a filesystem to run another filesystem inside the database, or using a webbrowser as a runtime instead of an operating system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mschuster91</author><text>tbh, I see the security point in Docker as a huge risk. Basically you&#x27;re depending on everyone in the chain to regularly recompile your images or you will get compromised eventually. There is no such thing as an apt-get dist-upgrade or any way to create real useful audit logs with Docker.<p>On the other hand, deploying stuff is dead easy now. You just tell the hoster &quot;deploy this Docker package, expose port X as HTTP, and put a SSL offloader in the front&quot; and that was it, no more &quot;we need &lt;insert long list&gt; to deploy this&quot; or countless hours spent with the hoster on how to get weird-framework-x to behave correctly.</text></comment> |
33,393,959 | 33,393,882 | 1 | 2 | 33,387,722 | train | <story><title>Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/29/elon-musk-twitter-takeover/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavlov</author><text>I worked at Facebook and remember what it was like to first face the total complexity of the system.<p>It’s really hard for me to imagine myself working at a company that deals almost exclusively with machine-generated data (as Tesla does) and being assigned to judge a social platform’s engineering qualify <i>in one day</i>. Cars and spaceships on a closed network are fundamentally “clean” compared to having hundreds of millions of people who produce dirty and often adversarial data.<p>But I guess the point of this exercise isn’t really to judge code quality, but to drive fear at Twitter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bertil</author><text>I suspect it’s less a complete review and more an interview of the senior technical manager, to get a sense of whether they are up to par. Do they think about observability, alerting, refactoring, service architecture, etc. reasonably well? Are there issues with how they motivate their teams or when they give them responsibilities? Are timelines challenging but doable?<p>“Code” is most likely “architecture” and “architecture” is code for “management”.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/29/elon-musk-twitter-takeover/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavlov</author><text>I worked at Facebook and remember what it was like to first face the total complexity of the system.<p>It’s really hard for me to imagine myself working at a company that deals almost exclusively with machine-generated data (as Tesla does) and being assigned to judge a social platform’s engineering qualify <i>in one day</i>. Cars and spaceships on a closed network are fundamentally “clean” compared to having hundreds of millions of people who produce dirty and often adversarial data.<p>But I guess the point of this exercise isn’t really to judge code quality, but to drive fear at Twitter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aliqot</author><text>&gt; drive fear at Twitter<p>Auditing what you just bought is about as smart as taking the used car you just bought to the shop to get everything checked over and tightened and lubricated.</text></comment> |
12,217,622 | 12,216,061 | 1 | 3 | 12,215,490 | train | <story><title>The Canadian Housing Boom Fueled by China’s Billionaires</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-vancouver-real-estate-market/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lpaone</author><text>What isn&#x27;t talked about in this article is the effect this is having on the other industries in the city aside from real estate.<p>I believe that Vancouver has potential to be THE tech hub in Canada. Unfortunately, wages are very low compared to the cost of housing, and so the cost of living is super high. Combine that with extremely low vacancy rates, and it is very hard to attract talent from out of town. In fact, many young, smart and talented people just head south to Seattle or the valley because the wages are so much higher, and the economics of staying in Vancouver just don&#x27;t make sense.<p>The other industries that could be thriving and building up a real economy in city are some of the biggest casualties in this whole mess. Unfortunately, all of the politicians from municipal to provincial are in bed with the real estate industry, so nothing truly effective and meaningful will be done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jlos</author><text>&gt;&gt; In fact, many young, smart and talented people just head south to Seattle or the valley because the wages are so much higher, and the economics of staying in Vancouver just don&#x27;t make sense.<p>Your claim is especially true if those people have families. 60% of Families said they planned on leaving the city in the next year due to the problems surrounding housing. Rental rates are also a problem with only a 0.6% vacancy rates and of those available only 16% are 2 bedroom and less than 1% are three bedroom.(1)<p>(1) <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theglobeandmail.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;british-columbia&#x2F;families-particularly-vulnerable-to-vancouvers-tight-rentalmarket&#x2F;article31222332&#x2F;?service=mobile" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theglobeandmail.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;british-columbia&#x2F;familie...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Canadian Housing Boom Fueled by China’s Billionaires</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-vancouver-real-estate-market/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lpaone</author><text>What isn&#x27;t talked about in this article is the effect this is having on the other industries in the city aside from real estate.<p>I believe that Vancouver has potential to be THE tech hub in Canada. Unfortunately, wages are very low compared to the cost of housing, and so the cost of living is super high. Combine that with extremely low vacancy rates, and it is very hard to attract talent from out of town. In fact, many young, smart and talented people just head south to Seattle or the valley because the wages are so much higher, and the economics of staying in Vancouver just don&#x27;t make sense.<p>The other industries that could be thriving and building up a real economy in city are some of the biggest casualties in this whole mess. Unfortunately, all of the politicians from municipal to provincial are in bed with the real estate industry, so nothing truly effective and meaningful will be done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rz2k</author><text>Introduction of a gradual increase in property taxes, as well as a gradual decease in income taxes, even lower than zero if appropriate, would be the naïve, straightforward economic policy recommendation if the problem has been accurately described. Some details yo resolve would be the numerous people who were using their primary residence as their main investment for retirement, and deciding how to handle people who were improving properties in order to make a living.</text></comment> |
13,805,323 | 13,805,320 | 1 | 3 | 13,803,238 | train | <story><title>World’s richest doctor gave away millions, then steered the cash to his company</title><url>https://www.statnews.com/2017/03/06/soon-shiong-philanthropy-business/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dxhdr</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulgraham.com&#x2F;founders.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulgraham.com&#x2F;founders.html</a><p>&quot;What We Look for in Founders<p>4. Naughtiness<p>Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They&#x27;re not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing proprieties. That&#x27;s why I&#x27;d use the word naughty rather than evil. They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter.&quot;</text></item><item><author>mikekij</author><text>Back in early 2016, I was in awe of many of the &quot;Unicorn&quot; startups that were defying all odds to raise money and huge valuations, and earning the praise of the press world-wide. Zenefits, Theranos, Nant Health, Uber... clearly the founders of these companies were made of some entirely different material than I was. Their success was so awe inspiring.<p>Now, it seems as though ~100% of these sorts of companies are up to some shenanigans. It makes me seriously question the validity of any tech company that is lauded by the press.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikekij</author><text>I would argue that:<p>1) Zenefits having software tools to specifically skirt state laws about employee certification requirements<p>2) Theranos lying about clinical results<p>3) Nant misrepresenting order data to their shareholders<p>4) Uber having a set of formalized HR processes that facilitate the sexual harassment of female employees<p>all go beyond &quot;naughty&quot;. Plus, I don&#x27;t think that PG would be excited about the financial impacts that each of those behaviors have had on the respective companies&#x27; share prices if he were a shareholder in those companies.</text></comment> | <story><title>World’s richest doctor gave away millions, then steered the cash to his company</title><url>https://www.statnews.com/2017/03/06/soon-shiong-philanthropy-business/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dxhdr</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulgraham.com&#x2F;founders.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulgraham.com&#x2F;founders.html</a><p>&quot;What We Look for in Founders<p>4. Naughtiness<p>Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They&#x27;re not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing proprieties. That&#x27;s why I&#x27;d use the word naughty rather than evil. They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter.&quot;</text></item><item><author>mikekij</author><text>Back in early 2016, I was in awe of many of the &quot;Unicorn&quot; startups that were defying all odds to raise money and huge valuations, and earning the praise of the press world-wide. Zenefits, Theranos, Nant Health, Uber... clearly the founders of these companies were made of some entirely different material than I was. Their success was so awe inspiring.<p>Now, it seems as though ~100% of these sorts of companies are up to some shenanigans. It makes me seriously question the validity of any tech company that is lauded by the press.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kelvin0</author><text>Yeah, I am quite ambivalent about this &#x27;rule&#x27;. I think you start on a slippery slope once you can rationalize this type of behavior. Also, would you be comfortable explaining your actions to a journalist&#x2F;public? If not, chances are there is shadiness occurring ...</text></comment> |
33,713,072 | 33,712,343 | 1 | 3 | 33,711,839 | train | <story><title>Gratitude is a secret weapon for attracting more opportunities</title><url>https://www.exaltitude.io/blogs/why-gratitude-is-the-secret-weapon-for-attracting-more-opportunities-and-creating-positive-change</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zwkrt</author><text>There are a lot of personal attributes and social behaviors that unlock opportunities. In the US a positive attitude, gratitude, and genuine interest are among them. In general just being pleasant to be around and personable will get you far in the engineering world because those qualities are often times lacking. When people managers are making decisions about resourcing I think that they are not honest with themselves about how much them &#x27;liking&#x27; a person goes into their decision making process. Same for hiring.<p>If you are a terse and dour person, it isn&#x27;t that you will experience more rejection per-se, it is just that opportunities will not even be presented to you because the person with the opportunity doesn&#x27;t want to spend time in your presence.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gratitude is a secret weapon for attracting more opportunities</title><url>https://www.exaltitude.io/blogs/why-gratitude-is-the-secret-weapon-for-attracting-more-opportunities-and-creating-positive-change</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>qazxcvbnmlp</author><text>Gratitude certainly unlocks more opportunities. The neat thing about gratitude is that if you practice it you find inner peace and don’t need the opportunities to be happy.</text></comment> |
2,365,686 | 2,365,517 | 1 | 3 | 2,365,386 | train | <story><title>Forrst Gets Seeded With $200,000</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/24/forrst-200000-seed/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jordanmessina</author><text>$200,000 isn't cool. You know what's cool? $41,000,000.<p>Honestly though, grats Kyle. Passionate users, revenue is coming in, you obviously deserve it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Forrst Gets Seeded With $200,000</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/24/forrst-200000-seed/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alphadog</author><text>Over 40 Million and you get to buy a vowel. Less than 40 million? No vowel for you.</text></comment> |
39,602,408 | 39,601,120 | 1 | 2 | 39,600,172 | train | <story><title>Linux Crosses 4% Market Share Worldwide</title><url>https://linuxiac.com/linux-crosses-four-percent-market-share-worldwide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qwertox</author><text>Ever since I&#x27;ve upgraded to Windows 11 I am so extremely frustrated with explorer&#x27;s performance. The shortest time I have to wait for it to react to a double-click is 5 seconds, sometimes it goes up to 30+ seconds when I&#x27;ve used the machine for a couple of hours. I don&#x27;t mean the time it takes an application to &quot;boot&quot;, but the time for explorer to deal with itself until it is able to launch something. Even a simple thing as showing the context menu and then displaying properties if that was selected. That is on a i9-9880H Laptop with 32GB of RAM and a Samsung 970 PRO.<p>It&#x27;s intolerable and I&#x27;m preparing to move to Linux. Since there are some tools I first need to write in order to maintain my workflow, mostly mouse-gesture-related stuff, I&#x27;m still waiting for the Wayland transition to get settled.<p>If I could stay on X11 for a decade from now on, I would migrate ASAP, but if the Kubuntu team decides to fully switch to Wayland without using X11 being an option, I&#x27;d have a problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fifticon</author><text>A way this used to be possible, also before win11, was misbehaving custom extensions to the explorer shell. IE, some applications install extra menus and handlers as part of the windows shell.
Particularly, some such extensions may fight with each other - you can have one installed, or the other, but not both.
I use the tortoiseGIT extension to integrate git into explorer, and a lot of the bugs it has seen over the years, have really been work-arounds to survive OTHER broken explorer extensions.
My point being, the problem may come from one of your staple applications, not from the fresh window install(?).</text></comment> | <story><title>Linux Crosses 4% Market Share Worldwide</title><url>https://linuxiac.com/linux-crosses-four-percent-market-share-worldwide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qwertox</author><text>Ever since I&#x27;ve upgraded to Windows 11 I am so extremely frustrated with explorer&#x27;s performance. The shortest time I have to wait for it to react to a double-click is 5 seconds, sometimes it goes up to 30+ seconds when I&#x27;ve used the machine for a couple of hours. I don&#x27;t mean the time it takes an application to &quot;boot&quot;, but the time for explorer to deal with itself until it is able to launch something. Even a simple thing as showing the context menu and then displaying properties if that was selected. That is on a i9-9880H Laptop with 32GB of RAM and a Samsung 970 PRO.<p>It&#x27;s intolerable and I&#x27;m preparing to move to Linux. Since there are some tools I first need to write in order to maintain my workflow, mostly mouse-gesture-related stuff, I&#x27;m still waiting for the Wayland transition to get settled.<p>If I could stay on X11 for a decade from now on, I would migrate ASAP, but if the Kubuntu team decides to fully switch to Wayland without using X11 being an option, I&#x27;d have a problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yesguidance</author><text>Somehow my windows taskbar crashes... And alt tabbing doesn&#x27;t work properly, I have to manually click on the windows in the overlay. My taskbar is always on top of windows, and they don&#x27;t respect it&#x27;s space so they just go under it and hide important stuff. Except firefox, which does respect the taskbar&#x27;s space on a non-primary monitor, obviously leaving the space, but on the main screen it overlaps the taskbar entirely.</text></comment> |
9,957,423 | 9,956,075 | 1 | 3 | 9,955,435 | train | <story><title>Autonomous Weapons: An Open Letter from AI and Robotics Researchers</title><url>http://futureoflife.org/AI/open_letter_autonomous_weapons#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hackuser</author><text>I don&#x27;t want to anyone to build autonomous weapons, but I don&#x27;t want anyone to build nuclear weapons or any other weapons of war either; I don&#x27;t see how to avoid it. If the choice is to either develop and deploy autonomous weapons or to risk having your population conquered and murdered by enemies that use them, then there is no choice.<p>Possibly, autonomous weapons like chemical weapons won&#x27;t be important to victory, or like most biological weapons (AFAIK) they won&#x27;t be cost-effective. But it&#x27;s hard to imagine a human defeating a bot in a shootout; consider human stock market traders who try to compete with flash trading computers, for example. In fact, I wonder if some of the tech is the same for optimizing decision speed and accuracy.<p>Perhaps the best response by governments is to use their resources to develop autonomous weapons countermeasures, especially those [EDIT: i.e., those countermeasures] that can be acquired and utilized by those with few resources: Towns, governments in poor countries, and even individuals.<p>Also, my guess is that it&#x27;s an area ripe for effective international standareds, treaties and law. All governments can agree that they don&#x27;t want the chaos of proliferating, unregulated autonomous weapons and would work to enforce the rules.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>presidentender</author><text>I&#x27;ve had a shootout of sorts against a robot. The robot was armed with an airsoft gun, and I with a Glock pistol. The goal was not to kill the robot (since it was expensive and the owner and I had spent a long time getting the machine vision software workin) but to avoid being hit by the robot while engaging some other targets.<p>The course had to be carefully constructed to avoid an immediate robot victory, and the robot wasn&#x27;t mobile. I wouldn&#x27;t take the human side in a confrontation with an armed robot driven by a defense budget.<p>The disadvantage of a robot is limited mobility and difficulty distinguishing friends from foes, the same disadvantages which plague landmines. The advantage is that a robotic force could provide the same area denial as landmines without the long-term consequences: set 20% of the robots to come home and recharge every day, with a week-long battery life, and you&#x27;ve got a very short period during which problems can happen.</text></comment> | <story><title>Autonomous Weapons: An Open Letter from AI and Robotics Researchers</title><url>http://futureoflife.org/AI/open_letter_autonomous_weapons#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hackuser</author><text>I don&#x27;t want to anyone to build autonomous weapons, but I don&#x27;t want anyone to build nuclear weapons or any other weapons of war either; I don&#x27;t see how to avoid it. If the choice is to either develop and deploy autonomous weapons or to risk having your population conquered and murdered by enemies that use them, then there is no choice.<p>Possibly, autonomous weapons like chemical weapons won&#x27;t be important to victory, or like most biological weapons (AFAIK) they won&#x27;t be cost-effective. But it&#x27;s hard to imagine a human defeating a bot in a shootout; consider human stock market traders who try to compete with flash trading computers, for example. In fact, I wonder if some of the tech is the same for optimizing decision speed and accuracy.<p>Perhaps the best response by governments is to use their resources to develop autonomous weapons countermeasures, especially those [EDIT: i.e., those countermeasures] that can be acquired and utilized by those with few resources: Towns, governments in poor countries, and even individuals.<p>Also, my guess is that it&#x27;s an area ripe for effective international standareds, treaties and law. All governments can agree that they don&#x27;t want the chaos of proliferating, unregulated autonomous weapons and would work to enforce the rules.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guelo</author><text>It is easy to prevent it, have the UN ban it and provide incentives for countries to sign a treaty. This has worked for things like chemical and biological warfare. The key is to star the process now before generals get their hands on the technology so there won&#x27;t be any pushback.</text></comment> |
40,941,334 | 40,941,151 | 1 | 2 | 40,938,923 | train | <story><title>The economics of a Postgres free tier</title><url>https://xata.io/blog/postgres-free-tier</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tossandthrow</author><text>I would love a service, where I can pay 2$ per month, pre-paid, something like my email, and then get a worry free Postgres instance - some limits as what these free databases offer, just for 1-2$ a month so that I know that I pay my part and that the database is kept alive.<p>But all DBaaS&#x27;s seem to offer free or at least 20$ per month, which is excessive for a small hobby project.<p>Does that exist?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>renewiltord</author><text>People who want to pay that little and can’t manage it themselves are very demanding. Better not to do business with them. I have a $2.50&#x2F;mo racknerd machine. Just bare Linux. Just do something like that. If you don’t want to, chances are that no one wants to manage it for you either.</text></comment> | <story><title>The economics of a Postgres free tier</title><url>https://xata.io/blog/postgres-free-tier</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tossandthrow</author><text>I would love a service, where I can pay 2$ per month, pre-paid, something like my email, and then get a worry free Postgres instance - some limits as what these free databases offer, just for 1-2$ a month so that I know that I pay my part and that the database is kept alive.<p>But all DBaaS&#x27;s seem to offer free or at least 20$ per month, which is excessive for a small hobby project.<p>Does that exist?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TechDebtDevin</author><text>Hetzner 2vCPU 4GB RAM 40gb: €4.50 per month.<p>Three Docker Containers: Postgres, NGINX, PostgREST<p>Or Pocketbase if that&#x27;s your sort of thing.<p>Automate snapshots for backups: €0.0131&#x2F;GB per month.</text></comment> |
17,575,432 | 17,575,142 | 1 | 3 | 17,575,015 | train | <story><title>Facebook AI Research Expands with New Academic Collaborations</title><url>https://code.fb.com/ai-research/facebook-ai-research-expands-with-new-academic-collaborations/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chriskanan</author><text>To summarize why I think professors are going with this arrangement (in order):<p>1) Much less, if any, grant writing. A standard NSF $500K 3 year grant provides a lab about $100K per year (due to university overhead). This will support 1-2 PhD students on a pittance of a stipend.<p>2) Less teaching (1 course once a year)<p>3) Computing resources that are far greater than you could get a grant for. One NVIDIA DGX-1 is about $100K. Very hard to get a grant for something like that. Companies have far greater resources than just one DGX-1<p>4) Access to software engineering personnel to help with research<p>5) Access to data, and the ability to create new datasets. Many datasets cost over $100K to make (e.g., those for semantic segmentation). Very hard to get a grant to make a dataset (I&#x27;ve tried)<p>6) Much better media relations to popularize your research<p>7) Bigger salary<p>A big part of this, in my opinion, is just that FB funds their labs. Getting government funding for a lab is difficult and frustrating and must be done continually, especially for these professors that run huge labs. NSF has a 7-15% success rate, and it can take a lot of effort to write a decent proposal. Including teaching regularly, this takes a lot of time from actual research. What these professors, I think, are negotiating is only teaching one semester a year and having a spigot of cash to fund their labs. They also gain access to massive amounts of data and computing resources.<p>Other companies don&#x27;t seem to be as open to this arrangement as FB, but it has a lot of appeal to me (although I&#x27;m not a lover of FB).</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook AI Research Expands with New Academic Collaborations</title><url>https://code.fb.com/ai-research/facebook-ai-research-expands-with-new-academic-collaborations/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mlthrowaway1953</author><text>How is IP handled in this situation? Especially given the recent discussion [1] on HN about how the recently announced DeepMind Patent Portfolio could be a problem, how is it that state employees (Washington, California) are &quot;co-employed&quot; by an organization to do _exactly_ the research that their home universities work on ? Who owns the IP in this case? Are these sorts of agreements FOIA-able?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17266951" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17266951</a></text></comment> |
11,867,850 | 11,867,514 | 1 | 2 | 11,863,729 | train | <story><title>Coming changes to Apple's App Store</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/8/11880730/apple-app-store-subscription-update-phil-schiller-interview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>veidr</author><text>Subscriptions <i>are</i> immoral, but not for those reasons. It&#x27;s an immoral business model because its success is based on bilking people -- cheating them into paying for &#x27;service&#x27; when they don&#x27;t want to.<p>The mechanism is simple: the slight inconvenience of cancellation prevents a huge number of users from cancelling as soon as they want to.<p>This is why getting your customers to set up <i>automated and recurring</i> payments is the pot of gold everybody wants (not just in software).<p>You don&#x27;t have to intend to bilk people if you do subscriptions; it&#x27;s inherent in your business model.<p>Try putting a confirmation screen in your app that makes the user press &quot;Renew&quot; each month before the app charges them again. That would move you toward the moral end of the spectrum, but it would gut your sales.<p>A $2 per month subscription, even if totally unneeded, is not something most busy people can find the time to deal with cancelling. Pretty soon a year has gone by and your &quot;service&quot; has provided zero value to them but you&#x27;ve ripped them off for $24.<p>(For clarity: I don&#x27;t mean <i>you</i> personally, and also I do work in subscription-based software. I just don&#x27;t have any illusions about it and it makes me feel icky.)</text></item><item><author>chasing</author><text>I want to address two things, here:<p>1) You&#x27;re absolutely right: Pricing matters. If I charge you $10&#x2F;mo for my app that sends you a text message every time there&#x27;s a full moon, that would be way too expensive and you&#x27;d be well within your rights as a consumer to spend your money on something else. As far as I&#x27;m aware, Apple will not force you to subscribe to any apps.<p>2) &quot;... subscriptions are immoral...&quot; Bullshit. And you don&#x27;t &quot;own&quot; software you buy and pay for once. Operating systems change. Companies and developers come and go. If you value a piece of software, then you value the developer and should desire that they maintain and improve the app.<p>What <i>is</i> moral is creating a system by which software developers can support themselves by creating products that are useful to the community. I&#x27;d say the App Store is currently broken in that regard (with a few high-profile exceptions). If popularizing subscription-based pricing will help fix that, I&#x27;m all in favor.</text></item><item><author>bad_user</author><text>There aren&#x27;t many apps that can save you 1000&#x2F;year. I keep hearing this, but that&#x27;s nonsense. If a &quot;service&quot; is not producing money and isn&#x27;t saving you time allowing you to produce money, then it&#x27;s not worth paying for.<p>Yes, I have subscriptions for IntelliJ IDEA, for Dropbox, for FastMail and for a DigitalOcean VPS. All these are producing money for me. But the list ends here. Because here&#x27;s the thing: $5&#x2F;month here, $10&#x2F;month there and pretty soon we&#x27;re talking about serious money. Not only that, but as soon as you stop paying for whatever reason (eg temporary financial problems) you&#x27;re out.<p>Of course, with our oversized salaries, we stop noticing that $5&#x2F;month for a passwords app is actually expensive. And that&#x27;s actually a good example because a passwords app at least has some utility.<p>More importantly, subscriptions are immoral because the end result is robbing users of any sense of ownership. And as a software developer, you no longer feel compelled to innovate, to improve, in order to convince users to upgrade. I for one hate renting things, I prefer ownership.</text></item><item><author>chasing</author><text>I think the mindset change that needs to happen is this:<p>Apps are a service.<p>I would actually prefer to pay developers of apps that are truly useful to me a monthly amount so I know they can continue to update and improve the app. If an app saves me $1000&#x2F;yr in headache, I&#x27;d prefer to spend $30&#x2F;yr on a subscription rather than lose the app entirely because the developers can&#x27;t keep the lights on.</text></item><item><author>AlexandrB</author><text>As someone who buys a lot of apps this is very disappointing. Things that would make me buy MORE apps (demos, upgrade pricing, better support) are still not in the app store, meanwhile the one pricing model I detest (subscriptions) is being added.<p>I suspect I&#x27;ll be buying far fewer apps if there&#x27;s a mass movement from a purchase model to a subscription model among app developers. I&#x27;m perfectly happy to pay $20-30 for an app (even a simple app) if it provides value and I&#x27;m happy to pay for major upgrades or additional content&#x2F;features, but I won&#x27;t pay $20-30 a year just to maintain the ability to launch an app on an ongoing basis.<p>In addition, after years of terrible search in the app store, coupling search improvements with search-based ads is just a kick in the shins.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sambe</author><text>Quite obviously biased and overstated. Many subscription models have nothing to do with tricking people or making it hard to cancel and many customers of those continue to pay knowingly and willingly and appreciate the convenience of agreeing to this up-front instead of manually renewing multiple services each month. For example, my water provider. My Netflix subscription. You cannot just ignore this because it doesn&#x27;t fit your model. The immorality is the trickery, not the subscription.</text></comment> | <story><title>Coming changes to Apple's App Store</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/8/11880730/apple-app-store-subscription-update-phil-schiller-interview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>veidr</author><text>Subscriptions <i>are</i> immoral, but not for those reasons. It&#x27;s an immoral business model because its success is based on bilking people -- cheating them into paying for &#x27;service&#x27; when they don&#x27;t want to.<p>The mechanism is simple: the slight inconvenience of cancellation prevents a huge number of users from cancelling as soon as they want to.<p>This is why getting your customers to set up <i>automated and recurring</i> payments is the pot of gold everybody wants (not just in software).<p>You don&#x27;t have to intend to bilk people if you do subscriptions; it&#x27;s inherent in your business model.<p>Try putting a confirmation screen in your app that makes the user press &quot;Renew&quot; each month before the app charges them again. That would move you toward the moral end of the spectrum, but it would gut your sales.<p>A $2 per month subscription, even if totally unneeded, is not something most busy people can find the time to deal with cancelling. Pretty soon a year has gone by and your &quot;service&quot; has provided zero value to them but you&#x27;ve ripped them off for $24.<p>(For clarity: I don&#x27;t mean <i>you</i> personally, and also I do work in subscription-based software. I just don&#x27;t have any illusions about it and it makes me feel icky.)</text></item><item><author>chasing</author><text>I want to address two things, here:<p>1) You&#x27;re absolutely right: Pricing matters. If I charge you $10&#x2F;mo for my app that sends you a text message every time there&#x27;s a full moon, that would be way too expensive and you&#x27;d be well within your rights as a consumer to spend your money on something else. As far as I&#x27;m aware, Apple will not force you to subscribe to any apps.<p>2) &quot;... subscriptions are immoral...&quot; Bullshit. And you don&#x27;t &quot;own&quot; software you buy and pay for once. Operating systems change. Companies and developers come and go. If you value a piece of software, then you value the developer and should desire that they maintain and improve the app.<p>What <i>is</i> moral is creating a system by which software developers can support themselves by creating products that are useful to the community. I&#x27;d say the App Store is currently broken in that regard (with a few high-profile exceptions). If popularizing subscription-based pricing will help fix that, I&#x27;m all in favor.</text></item><item><author>bad_user</author><text>There aren&#x27;t many apps that can save you 1000&#x2F;year. I keep hearing this, but that&#x27;s nonsense. If a &quot;service&quot; is not producing money and isn&#x27;t saving you time allowing you to produce money, then it&#x27;s not worth paying for.<p>Yes, I have subscriptions for IntelliJ IDEA, for Dropbox, for FastMail and for a DigitalOcean VPS. All these are producing money for me. But the list ends here. Because here&#x27;s the thing: $5&#x2F;month here, $10&#x2F;month there and pretty soon we&#x27;re talking about serious money. Not only that, but as soon as you stop paying for whatever reason (eg temporary financial problems) you&#x27;re out.<p>Of course, with our oversized salaries, we stop noticing that $5&#x2F;month for a passwords app is actually expensive. And that&#x27;s actually a good example because a passwords app at least has some utility.<p>More importantly, subscriptions are immoral because the end result is robbing users of any sense of ownership. And as a software developer, you no longer feel compelled to innovate, to improve, in order to convince users to upgrade. I for one hate renting things, I prefer ownership.</text></item><item><author>chasing</author><text>I think the mindset change that needs to happen is this:<p>Apps are a service.<p>I would actually prefer to pay developers of apps that are truly useful to me a monthly amount so I know they can continue to update and improve the app. If an app saves me $1000&#x2F;yr in headache, I&#x27;d prefer to spend $30&#x2F;yr on a subscription rather than lose the app entirely because the developers can&#x27;t keep the lights on.</text></item><item><author>AlexandrB</author><text>As someone who buys a lot of apps this is very disappointing. Things that would make me buy MORE apps (demos, upgrade pricing, better support) are still not in the app store, meanwhile the one pricing model I detest (subscriptions) is being added.<p>I suspect I&#x27;ll be buying far fewer apps if there&#x27;s a mass movement from a purchase model to a subscription model among app developers. I&#x27;m perfectly happy to pay $20-30 for an app (even a simple app) if it provides value and I&#x27;m happy to pay for major upgrades or additional content&#x2F;features, but I won&#x27;t pay $20-30 a year just to maintain the ability to launch an app on an ongoing basis.<p>In addition, after years of terrible search in the app store, coupling search improvements with search-based ads is just a kick in the shins.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>emptybits</author><text>&gt; Try putting a confirmation screen in your app that makes the user press &quot;Renew&quot; each month before the app charges them again. That would move you toward the moral end of the spectrum, but it would gut your sales.<p>I like this experiment. If I had to bet, I think you&#x27;re right that it would reduce revenue.<p>OTOH, to be fair, try this approach in the old-fashioned model... take the standard (large) transaction up front, offer a lifetime money-back guarantee (a very moral policy, to be sure), and then put a launch dialog in your app with two buttons: <i>&quot;Refund Now&quot;</i> and <i>&quot;Continue Using&quot;</i>.<p>I predict one would also see reduced revenues by taking what could be considered moral high ground in the non-subscription model.</text></comment> |
3,738,801 | 3,738,365 | 1 | 2 | 3,736,800 | train | <story><title>Unlearn, young programmer</title><url>http://blogs.tedneward.com/2012/03/21/Unlearn+Young+Programmer.aspx</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dkarl</author><text>Supervising junior staff is not where this battle is won or lost. Your development culture is going to have the biggest impact on how those young programmers go about their tasks. If you want junior programmers to develop well (software and themselves) you need to attend to the culture they take their cues from.<p>I worked in a near-ideal development culture once. Twice, I suppose. Everybody was humble. Everybody documented their code. Everybody bounced their ideas off someone; even the smartest guy in the office humbly asked for advice and meant it. Everyone was quick to assume that if other people thought their code was confusing, then it probably was. Everyone assumed they should be able to explain their brilliant idea to anyone else on the team and convince them of its value. Most of what I knew about the codebase at those jobs I learned from guys who knew ten times as much as me drawing diagrams on the whiteboard and asking, "Do you think this will work? Or am I being stupid here?"<p>A junior programmer would naturally succeed at the picture-hanging problem in that environment because they'd approach it the same way the star programmers approached their work: tell other people what they're working on and what they're thinking, and make sure they can articulate and justify an idea before they commit themselves to it.<p>That's the ideal. Most cultures fall short of that in one way or another. In a completely opposite situation, if the star programmers work in isolation, disdain to discuss their work with lesser programmers, neglect to document their code, and aspire to write code that no one else understands, junior programmers will learn some very unhelpful lessons. This is true even if the star programmers are getting shit done and writing efficient, correctly functioning code, because they're basically (and I shudder to use this word because I don't want to start the wrong kind of conversation) peacocking. They're getting stuff done the hard way and proving they can thrive in a completely unsupportive environment. There's unspoken machismo, which put into words would sound like this: "Nasty opaque codebase? What's wrong, can't take the complexity, little man?" "Gosh, I would have <i>written</i> some comments if I knew <i>some</i> people <i>needed</i> them." That's the kind of environment where a programmer is going to either wilt and do something really stupid because they've already given up or "rise to the challenge" and try to make a drywall saw using a 3D printer.<p>Take care of the culture: set a good example, promote respect and humility among your developers, and don't exempt anyone from good practices. Then junior programmers will find their way even if you don't have time to guide them yourself.</text></comment> | <story><title>Unlearn, young programmer</title><url>http://blogs.tedneward.com/2012/03/21/Unlearn+Young+Programmer.aspx</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pilif</author><text>Then again, by being experienced, you know that certain things just don't work and never will. Until you see a newbie do them because he didn't know it was "impossible".<p>Like the guy presenting his NES emulator at jsconf.eu in 2010 which was practically a line-by-line port of a Java emulator. If you'd have ask me whether it was possible to line-by-line port a Java application (and a complicated one at that) to JS, I would have told you that, of course, this was entirely impossible.<p>Until that guy, totally new to JS and emulation -heck - even programming in general - just did it because he didn't know better.<p>Sometimes, having a new perspective is very helpful and we must be careful not to lose that. Sure. The solution might not be perfect, but one can always refine it.</text></comment> |
9,356,741 | 9,355,551 | 1 | 3 | 9,354,922 | train | <story><title>The Slave Ship That Ran from Kerala to New Orleans</title><url>https://in.news.yahoo.com/the-slave-ship-that-ran-from-kerala-to-new-orleans-085329807.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jakewalker</author><text>I have had the great pleasure of helping represent a group of these workers (not the folks who just recently went to trial, but another related case in the Eastern District of Louisiana). One of the most gratifying experiences I&#x27;ve had as an attorney. Really glad to see this story getting attention here.<p>If you are interested in the topic, I&#x27;d highly recommend taking a look at some of the SPLC&#x27;s work on the issues surrounding the H2B program generally: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.splcenter.org&#x2F;get-informed&#x2F;publications&#x2F;close-to-slavery-guestworker-programs-in-the-united-states" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.splcenter.org&#x2F;get-informed&#x2F;publications&#x2F;close-to-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Slave Ship That Ran from Kerala to New Orleans</title><url>https://in.news.yahoo.com/the-slave-ship-that-ran-from-kerala-to-new-orleans-085329807.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sremani</author><text>This is disturbing but hardly surprising. US is dotted with slave labor camps from meat-packing towns in mid-west to underground garment factories in Los Angeles. This is where the perpetrators use the immigration law as a tool of their exploitation and enforcement, even if the worker involved or should I say, especially when the worker involved is legally here. On the other hand, the complete absence of Indian Consular services or the myriad of Indian cultural organizations in the story is appalling.</text></comment> |
19,930,061 | 19,929,728 | 1 | 3 | 19,926,948 | train | <story><title>Singapore Urges U.S. to Accept China's Rise, Spare Other Nations</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-16/singapore-urges-u-s-to-accept-china-s-rise-spare-other-nations</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chvid</author><text>As others has observed the economies of USA and China are tied at the hip.<p>China sells goods cheaply to USA and takes the dollars it makes and invest in US treasuries. This keeps inflation low and keeps interest rates low. And allows the US to maintain an unnatural high living standard with low savings and asset price inflation.<p>The central bank may be able to compensate from the lack of Chinese buying but it is an unsustainable situation as the inflationary pressure from the lack of imports would be in full force.<p>Also notice that Singapore seems to be saying: Please don&#x27;t ask us to pick sides ...<p>The US may have fewer friends in Asia than it assumes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CharlesColeman</author><text>&gt; Also notice that Singapore seems to be saying: Please don&#x27;t ask us to pick sides ...<p>&gt; The US may have fewer friends in Asia than it assumes.<p>Isn&#x27;t Singapore political system famously authoritarian capitalist and its people ethnically Chinese? It might be a mistake as viewing it too much of a representative of the rest of Asia. It sounds very similar to contemporary China, in many respects, so it may have an unusually strong affinity to it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hrw.org&#x2F;asia&#x2F;singapore" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hrw.org&#x2F;asia&#x2F;singapore</a>:<p>&gt; Singapore’s political environment is stifling. Citizens face severe restrictions on their basic rights to freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly through overly broad criminal laws and regulations. In 2017, the country tightened the already strict limits on public assemblies contained in the Public Order Act, which requires police permits for any “cause-related” assembly outside the closely monitored “Speakers’ Corner.”</text></comment> | <story><title>Singapore Urges U.S. to Accept China's Rise, Spare Other Nations</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-16/singapore-urges-u-s-to-accept-china-s-rise-spare-other-nations</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chvid</author><text>As others has observed the economies of USA and China are tied at the hip.<p>China sells goods cheaply to USA and takes the dollars it makes and invest in US treasuries. This keeps inflation low and keeps interest rates low. And allows the US to maintain an unnatural high living standard with low savings and asset price inflation.<p>The central bank may be able to compensate from the lack of Chinese buying but it is an unsustainable situation as the inflationary pressure from the lack of imports would be in full force.<p>Also notice that Singapore seems to be saying: Please don&#x27;t ask us to pick sides ...<p>The US may have fewer friends in Asia than it assumes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevin_b_er</author><text>Yes. China is far closer with more military and no nominal compunctions about human rights that the US sort of has. They&#x27;ll pick their poison to be China as the greater threat to appease.</text></comment> |
26,569,637 | 26,568,751 | 1 | 2 | 26,551,529 | train | <story><title>The dispassionate developer</title><url>https://blog.ploeh.dk/2021/03/22/the-dispassionate-developer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notsuoh</author><text>Taking that a step further, we often actively discourage looking at OSS contributions during resume review for the same reason we don&#x27;t offer take home interview assignments: it&#x27;s biased against people who don&#x27;t have a whole lot of extra time at home. When we have done either of the above, the singles who work part time have a bunch of time to perfect their work suddenly have a lot to show over the single parents who may be working full time or more.<p>I say &quot;often&quot; because OSS contributions can still be an indicator of something, but it&#x27;s not really clear what. Maybe it indicates drive to contribute to OSS, maybe technical ability, maybe no hobbies or commitments outside their day job. In our experience it&#x27;s often the latter, but even so, it&#x27;s biased against people who don&#x27;t have the time to contribute even if they desired to do so.<p>So we typically just stick with the resume for actual experience and college coursework, if any, but not the college itself. Using these heuristics we&#x27;ve managed to build a pretty strong pipeline of people with all backgrounds of education or experience.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>On the hiring side, it’s rare to see someone come through with significant OSS contributions. A small bug fix here or there is about the most I see from 90% of resumes.<p>Every once in a while we see someone with a lot of open source contributions, or even full leadership of a popular project. These people would really prefer if we believed that OSS contributions and GitHub profiles replaced resumes or CVs, because it’s where they shine. Unfortunately, doing so would exclude many great hires who have done a lot of great work at private companies that doesn’t show up on their GitHub. We’ve also had trouble hiring prolific OSS contributors who spent their days working on OSS contributions instead of doing their job. One candidate wanted their contract to state that they could spend half of their paid time working on their OSS project. We passed.<p>In my experience, anyone claiming to have a single dimension credential preference for hiring (usually GitHub portfolio, Ivy League education, ex-FAANG) is simply hiring for people who look like themselves. They’re not a good fit for unbiased hiring.</text></item><item><author>Derpdiherp</author><text>Maybe it&#x27;s the jobs that I&#x27;ve worked, or the country I&#x27;m in ( UK ). But I&#x27;ve really not seen this shift towards looking at portfolios of open source work rather than CV&#x27;s. Every company I&#x27;ve worked for has requested a CV, and often does some form of test or in person interview centred around programming problems. The tests vary in quality and depth.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t think of myself as a passionate developer. I have a family, I value my free time. I spend work time growing my skill set as it&#x27;s required, anything else I do is rarely related.<p>I have a feeling that there&#x27;s a silent majority of developers such as myself, that do enjoy programming and have a &quot;passion&quot; for it, but do not let this passion dissuade them from family time, or having more varied down time.<p>I think for a lot of people it&#x27;s a dangerous game to be spending every waking moment working for a company, then spending your down time scraping together stuff for open source contributions etc.<p>I salute those that can and do though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WalterSear</author><text>&gt; for the same reason we don&#x27;t offer take home interview assignments: it&#x27;s biased against people who don&#x27;t have a whole lot of extra time at home.<p>This is just another single dimension hiring credential, that will result in limiting your hiring pool to people like yourself. My code ran on 70+ million machines last month, but I&#x27;ve come to decline any timed or proctored technical interviews.<p>It&#x27;s not that I&#x27;m too good for whiteboarding or timed tests, or that my options are so open that there isn&#x27;t significant cost in doing so - quite the opposite: I&#x27;m come to find the process so traumatic that going through with it isn&#x27;t worth it for anyone involved: those jobs just aren&#x27;t open to people like me.</text></comment> | <story><title>The dispassionate developer</title><url>https://blog.ploeh.dk/2021/03/22/the-dispassionate-developer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notsuoh</author><text>Taking that a step further, we often actively discourage looking at OSS contributions during resume review for the same reason we don&#x27;t offer take home interview assignments: it&#x27;s biased against people who don&#x27;t have a whole lot of extra time at home. When we have done either of the above, the singles who work part time have a bunch of time to perfect their work suddenly have a lot to show over the single parents who may be working full time or more.<p>I say &quot;often&quot; because OSS contributions can still be an indicator of something, but it&#x27;s not really clear what. Maybe it indicates drive to contribute to OSS, maybe technical ability, maybe no hobbies or commitments outside their day job. In our experience it&#x27;s often the latter, but even so, it&#x27;s biased against people who don&#x27;t have the time to contribute even if they desired to do so.<p>So we typically just stick with the resume for actual experience and college coursework, if any, but not the college itself. Using these heuristics we&#x27;ve managed to build a pretty strong pipeline of people with all backgrounds of education or experience.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>On the hiring side, it’s rare to see someone come through with significant OSS contributions. A small bug fix here or there is about the most I see from 90% of resumes.<p>Every once in a while we see someone with a lot of open source contributions, or even full leadership of a popular project. These people would really prefer if we believed that OSS contributions and GitHub profiles replaced resumes or CVs, because it’s where they shine. Unfortunately, doing so would exclude many great hires who have done a lot of great work at private companies that doesn’t show up on their GitHub. We’ve also had trouble hiring prolific OSS contributors who spent their days working on OSS contributions instead of doing their job. One candidate wanted their contract to state that they could spend half of their paid time working on their OSS project. We passed.<p>In my experience, anyone claiming to have a single dimension credential preference for hiring (usually GitHub portfolio, Ivy League education, ex-FAANG) is simply hiring for people who look like themselves. They’re not a good fit for unbiased hiring.</text></item><item><author>Derpdiherp</author><text>Maybe it&#x27;s the jobs that I&#x27;ve worked, or the country I&#x27;m in ( UK ). But I&#x27;ve really not seen this shift towards looking at portfolios of open source work rather than CV&#x27;s. Every company I&#x27;ve worked for has requested a CV, and often does some form of test or in person interview centred around programming problems. The tests vary in quality and depth.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t think of myself as a passionate developer. I have a family, I value my free time. I spend work time growing my skill set as it&#x27;s required, anything else I do is rarely related.<p>I have a feeling that there&#x27;s a silent majority of developers such as myself, that do enjoy programming and have a &quot;passion&quot; for it, but do not let this passion dissuade them from family time, or having more varied down time.<p>I think for a lot of people it&#x27;s a dangerous game to be spending every waking moment working for a company, then spending your down time scraping together stuff for open source contributions etc.<p>I salute those that can and do though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>I prefer to look at everything the candidate has to offer.<p>Don’t penalize people for not having OSS contributions, of course, but it doesn’t make sense to ignore them. Whatever credentials the candidate brings to the table should be taken into consideration.<p>Not everyone has the opportunity to go to colleges or get a first job at a well-known company. If someone chooses to prove themselves via OSS contributions, let them.</text></comment> |
26,886,255 | 26,886,189 | 1 | 2 | 26,881,799 | train | <story><title>The Landlord's Game</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord%27s_Game</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>midasuni</author><text>Yes Smith was great. Why is inheritance moral? One person gets something for free, the other works and has to pay tax?</text></item><item><author>anonporridge</author><text>Adam Smith also wanted inheritance mostly abolished except for the small amount necessary to continue supporting a man&#x27;s wife and young children.</text></item><item><author>LambdaComplex</author><text>Even Adam Smith complained about landlords though.</text></item><item><author>nwah1</author><text>Fascintating piece of history. The inspiration behind the game Monopoly was an attempt to educate people on the immoral nature of the current landownership paradigm. But interestingly, it is based on the same original classical liberal arguments that spawned free market philosophy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OscarCunningham</author><text>Someone&#x27;s working in both cases. In the case of inheritance it&#x27;s the person who gave the money in their will. That person also already paid tax when they earned the money in the first place.<p>If anything I think we should encourage rich people to give their money away (even if only to their children) since wealth consumed by a broader number of people leads to more happiness than if it&#x27;s all consumed by one person. It&#x27;s better for a $10 million fortune to be spent by 10 consecutive generations than for it to all be spent by the original owner.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Landlord's Game</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord%27s_Game</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>midasuni</author><text>Yes Smith was great. Why is inheritance moral? One person gets something for free, the other works and has to pay tax?</text></item><item><author>anonporridge</author><text>Adam Smith also wanted inheritance mostly abolished except for the small amount necessary to continue supporting a man&#x27;s wife and young children.</text></item><item><author>LambdaComplex</author><text>Even Adam Smith complained about landlords though.</text></item><item><author>nwah1</author><text>Fascintating piece of history. The inspiration behind the game Monopoly was an attempt to educate people on the immoral nature of the current landownership paradigm. But interestingly, it is based on the same original classical liberal arguments that spawned free market philosophy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jusssi</author><text>Many places in the world you pay a tax for inheritance.<p>For 100% (or otherwise significant) inheritance tax, the issue is how to implement it. If you know it&#x27;s happening, you&#x27;ll just gift what you own to the preferred recipients before you die. If gifts are also 100% taxed, you sell your property to them (and then spring up a company and hire them to do &quot;work&quot;, so they get the money back). If sale of property and work are 100% taxed, well, it&#x27;s a very different kind of economy.<p>100% inheritance tax only hurts when someone dies unexpectedly. Others will be prepared with workarounds.<p>Where I live, both inheritance and gifts are taxed with very similar rates. Also, selling things under their market value is considered gifting (which sometimes gets interesting, for obvious reasons).</text></comment> |
3,310,273 | 3,309,990 | 1 | 2 | 3,309,736 | train | <story><title>The Mature Programmer</title><url>http://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/2011/11/11-22-11-mature-programmer.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>knieveltech</author><text>"The Mature Programmer would say that "clever code is almost always dangerous code". But fuck him. The problem is that when you get carried away with being "mature" you suck the joy right out coding."<p>I counter this with the following:<p>Fuck the joy of programming. On every occasion I've seen a multi-million dollar project crash and burn it was directly attributable to PM's lending credence to developers bitching about "boring" technology.<p>Here's the real joy of professional coding: 40 hour work weeks with no after-hours crisis pager. The only way you get those is through a rock solid codebase that's so boring you can ramp up the new guy in two days.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shadowsun7</author><text>But he's not arguing that at all! If you've read the entirety of the essay, he's saying that there has to be a balance between the needs of a job and the compulsion to have fun/showoff/be a hacker. (And he says it in one of the most reasonable ways possible.)<p>I think there's real value in this. After all, there's a real motivation to want to write amazing stuff to show off to your friends (e.g make them say "WTF how did you do that?"), as well as <i>play</i> with new technologies; and as an engineer you have to worry about a different set of important issues (e.g. is the project on time?/ what needs to be refactored?/what to bring up in the next team meeting?). He's arguing for a way to reconcile the two while at work, beyond just programming on personal projects on nights and weekends^[1]<p>^[1] And that's leaving out the section at the end where he argues about sticking to a set of engineering best practices, and not trusting yourself to be good enough to know when to break them.<p>PS: Also, see georgemcbay's comment <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3310114" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3310114</a> on how the author knows what he's talking about.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Mature Programmer</title><url>http://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/2011/11/11-22-11-mature-programmer.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>knieveltech</author><text>"The Mature Programmer would say that "clever code is almost always dangerous code". But fuck him. The problem is that when you get carried away with being "mature" you suck the joy right out coding."<p>I counter this with the following:<p>Fuck the joy of programming. On every occasion I've seen a multi-million dollar project crash and burn it was directly attributable to PM's lending credence to developers bitching about "boring" technology.<p>Here's the real joy of professional coding: 40 hour work weeks with no after-hours crisis pager. The only way you get those is through a rock solid codebase that's so boring you can ramp up the new guy in two days.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>absconditus</author><text>This is exactly why I still believe that what we do is not engineering. How long would a civil engineer be employed if he refused to use proven techniques and complained that he was not having enough fun on the latest bridge project? This nonsense might be fine for game development, but there is a great deal of software that affects people's lives. It is time for our profession to grow up.</text></comment> |
15,192,712 | 15,191,412 | 1 | 3 | 15,188,401 | train | <story><title>C++17 is formally approved</title><url>https://herbsutter.com/2017/09/06/c17-is-formally-approved/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>everheardofc</author><text>C++ shows that in theory you can fix any flaw in an existing programming language as long as you maintain backwards compatibility by simply adding more features. The only thing you cannot change are implicit defaults (e.g. pass by value is the default, you have to manually opt out to pointers or references).<p>I like modern C++ because for me it&#x27;s a reasonable compromise between java safety and C safety. Other than out of bounds memory accesses and legacy code I feel there is not much that can go wrong. However compiling C++ projects takes ages and in the projects I&#x27;ve worked on I often have to modify headers that are included almost everywhere. Every trivial changes requires a 5 minute rebuild.<p>After working with several high level programming languages with slow compilers I realised the following: typing is fast, compiling is slow. There is a reason why go is so popular. It offers that tradeoff in fast turn around time &#x2F; compilation time with reasonably good performance and simplicity in exchange for more keyboard bashing and keyboard bashing is a cheap price to pay for what you&#x27;re getting back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>staticassertion</author><text>&gt; C++ shows that in theory you can fix any flaw in an existing programming language as long as you maintain backwards compatibility by simply adding more features.<p>I feel like C++ proves exactly that you can&#x27;t.</text></comment> | <story><title>C++17 is formally approved</title><url>https://herbsutter.com/2017/09/06/c17-is-formally-approved/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>everheardofc</author><text>C++ shows that in theory you can fix any flaw in an existing programming language as long as you maintain backwards compatibility by simply adding more features. The only thing you cannot change are implicit defaults (e.g. pass by value is the default, you have to manually opt out to pointers or references).<p>I like modern C++ because for me it&#x27;s a reasonable compromise between java safety and C safety. Other than out of bounds memory accesses and legacy code I feel there is not much that can go wrong. However compiling C++ projects takes ages and in the projects I&#x27;ve worked on I often have to modify headers that are included almost everywhere. Every trivial changes requires a 5 minute rebuild.<p>After working with several high level programming languages with slow compilers I realised the following: typing is fast, compiling is slow. There is a reason why go is so popular. It offers that tradeoff in fast turn around time &#x2F; compilation time with reasonably good performance and simplicity in exchange for more keyboard bashing and keyboard bashing is a cheap price to pay for what you&#x27;re getting back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flavio81</author><text><i>&gt;C++ shows that in theory you can fix any flaw in an existing programming language as long as you maintain backwards compatibility by simply adding more features.</i><p>Well, &quot;adding more features&quot; can&#x27;t be done &quot;simply&quot; if you want to &quot;maintain backwards compatibility&quot;; indeed, in the process of doing this is that the &quot;flaws&quot; are potentially augmented.</text></comment> |
8,033,020 | 8,032,892 | 1 | 2 | 8,032,614 | train | <story><title>How I made $40k within Shopify's trial period</title><url>http://thatshirtwascash.com/blogs/news/15287435-how-i-made-40k-within-shopifys-trial-period</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>skizm</author><text>That&#x27;s awesome. Few questions:<p>40k revenue or profit? If it was rev then what was your profit (and vice versa)? And are you worried that the sort of initial wave of traffic will die down and you&#x27;ll be left only selling a couple dozen shirts a week? I mean this sort of thing (to me) seems like it is an awesome effort at capitalizing on something that went viral, but how do you plan on sustaining (or even growing) these numbers?</text></comment> | <story><title>How I made $40k within Shopify's trial period</title><url>http://thatshirtwascash.com/blogs/news/15287435-how-i-made-40k-within-shopifys-trial-period</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aditya</author><text>How did you make $40k?<p>Post says TINhouse was useless and reddit has the lowest conversion rate (but still accounted for 25% of the sales).<p>Could your talk about the &quot;engaging people on various forums&#x2F;communities&quot; part and where the majority of that 40k came from?</text></comment> |
4,834,648 | 4,833,921 | 1 | 2 | 4,833,074 | train | <story><title>The YC VC Program</title><url>http://ycombinator.com/ycvc.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>The office hours help all the startups. Decreasing the amount invested helps the successful and borderline startups because it means less of our time is taken up mediating founder disputes in the ones that are exploding. And yes, that was a significant time suck; Jessica says the majority of her time last batch was spent dealing with founder breakups.</text></item><item><author>waterlesscloud</author><text>I get why it's great for investors, but why is it great for founders? Especially when they could use the time to change plans.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>This is great! I always thought the $150k was too much of a runway. It allowed the poor startups to limp along for too long.<p>And besides, the real value from these investments isn't the money, it is the mindshare you get with the VCs. This will help make that mindshare greater.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>0ren</author><text>Have these disputes changed YC views regarding single founders?[0]
I think YC has always favored founding teams with a dominant leader[1], but I wonder if these break-up experiences have pushed it a bit further towards single founders with strong teams.<p>I guess there is no change, since the advantage YC sees in multi founders is probably only for the time interval before these disputes, at which point they are already doomed. But what I may be missing: could amicable breakup ever help a company avoid the dead pool?<p>Another thing I find missing from the discussion: is this move also meant to push new founders to profitability faster? PG seems to be mentioning it more lately ([2], [3] etc.).<p>[0] Honest question- I hope it does not spark another single vs. multi founder debate.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK3sVFs6_rs" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK3sVFs6_rs</a><p>[2] <i>The best solution is not to need money.</i> <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4067297" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4067297</a><p>[3] <i>The best thing to measure the growth rate of is revenue.</i> <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The YC VC Program</title><url>http://ycombinator.com/ycvc.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>The office hours help all the startups. Decreasing the amount invested helps the successful and borderline startups because it means less of our time is taken up mediating founder disputes in the ones that are exploding. And yes, that was a significant time suck; Jessica says the majority of her time last batch was spent dealing with founder breakups.</text></item><item><author>waterlesscloud</author><text>I get why it's great for investors, but why is it great for founders? Especially when they could use the time to change plans.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>This is great! I always thought the $150k was too much of a runway. It allowed the poor startups to limp along for too long.<p>And besides, the real value from these investments isn't the money, it is the mindshare you get with the VCs. This will help make that mindshare greater.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sjtgraham</author><text>PG how much of this attributable to $150k being too much money? Wasn't the last batch the largest by significant margin? Is it not expected that there will be more failure and therefore more demand on partner time as batch size increases?<p>In another comment, you mention founders scrapping over the carcass of their failed startups; what is it exactly they're fighting over? Surely the money has run out and anything left should be returned to investors in good faith? Are they fighting over Cinema Displays, Aeron chairs, etc, and by reducing the amount of the note you're reducing the amount of accoutrements these fledgling startups accumulate, and thus can fight over in the event of failure?</text></comment> |
33,929,337 | 33,928,827 | 1 | 2 | 33,928,399 | train | <story><title>Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850</title><url>https://twitter.com/emirkarsiyakali/status/1601373440979525632</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>emir</author><text>As you know, domain extensions like .dev and .app are owned by Google. Last year, I bought the <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.dev" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.dev</a> domain for one of our projects. When I tried to renew it this year, I was faced with a renewal price of $850 instead of the normal price of $12.<p>Since I looked at it in Turkish Lira, I thought at first that Google made a mistake when converting the currency, but it turns out that was not the case. Apparently, they are renewing generic domains like the one I own for $850 under the name Premium domain.<p>I could understand if I were to buy this domain from scratch, but I have been the owner of hundreds of domains for almost 20 years and I have never faced anything like this before. Once again, I realized that it is foolish to trust Google on any matter. Thank you, Google.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CydeWeys</author><text>Hi. I work on Google Registry. forum.dev is and always has been a premium domain name (and you paid that same premium price at initial registration). We price some domain names higher than others to help prevent cybersquatting, so that desirable domain names remain available for legitimate registrants rather than being sold for extravagant sums on the after-market. We have <i>never</i> increased the price of a single domain name after registration in our entire decade of existence.<p>For another example of a premium domain name that is still available for registration (in case people here want to verify the user experience), perform a domain name search for money.dev at your registrar of choice. It will be clearly marked with its yearly premium price. You would have seen this same information when you initially registered forum.dev.</text></comment> | <story><title>Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850</title><url>https://twitter.com/emirkarsiyakali/status/1601373440979525632</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>emir</author><text>As you know, domain extensions like .dev and .app are owned by Google. Last year, I bought the <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.dev" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.dev</a> domain for one of our projects. When I tried to renew it this year, I was faced with a renewal price of $850 instead of the normal price of $12.<p>Since I looked at it in Turkish Lira, I thought at first that Google made a mistake when converting the currency, but it turns out that was not the case. Apparently, they are renewing generic domains like the one I own for $850 under the name Premium domain.<p>I could understand if I were to buy this domain from scratch, but I have been the owner of hundreds of domains for almost 20 years and I have never faced anything like this before. Once again, I realized that it is foolish to trust Google on any matter. Thank you, Google.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cubesnooper</author><text>This is why I always purchase my domains for ten years up front, and top it up to ten again each year after.<p>This way if the renewal fee increases beyond what I’m willing to pay after I’ve already got infrastructure running on the domain, I have a whole decade to migrate to a better (cheaper) name.<p>$120 is a larger investment than $12 which means I buy fewer domains overall, but the stability benefits are worth it for me.</text></comment> |
19,091,839 | 19,091,054 | 1 | 3 | 19,089,417 | train | <story><title>X265 3.0 released</title><url>https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/src/46b84ff665fd301e384328972d3d1312a8c74599/doc/reST/releasenotes.rst?at=default&fileviewer=file-view-default</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kristofferR</author><text>It&#x27;s only recently been possible to actually use x265 for transparent encodes, previous versions of x265 removed film grain&#x2F;digital noice to such a degree that the quality was worse than x264 at equivalent bitrates. Combine that with the massively increased costs in both encoding&#x2F;decoding time (and worse x265 encoding tools&#x2F;knowledge), x265 simply wasn&#x27;t worthwhile except for crappy re-encodes at super low bitrates for people with crappy internet.<p>Recently you&#x27;ve begun to see a lot of x265 releases though, usually with HDR, the only significant feature x264 can&#x27;t provide.<p>For sub-4K SDR content there&#x27;s really no incentive for pirates to switch to x265, it&#x27;s just a nuisance. With torrenting people don&#x27;t pay for the extra bitrate x264 requires, unlike hosting services like Netflix, the ~20% bitrate savings of x265 are not important at all, especially compared to the other &quot;costs&quot; of compatibility issues and 10X longer encode times.</text></item><item><author>Havoc</author><text>Must say I&#x27;m massively surprised at how low adoption of 265&#x2F;hevc is in ahem the eyepatch wearing part of the internet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stordoff</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s only recently been possible to actually use x265 for transparent encodes, previous versions of x265 removed film grain&#x2F;digital noice to such a degree that the quality was worse than x264 at equivalent bitrates.<p>I&#x27;ve noticed this recently - Slow RF16 encodes were _visually_ worse (as in during casual watching I was asking if the source was really this bad, and when I went back to compare it was not[1]). Going to Slower is not tenable (a movie encode already takes ~8 hous, going to Slower makes it take nearly 2 days) (and I&#x27;m not even sure it would help), and increasing the RF to 14 would mean as I&#x27;m as well off keeping the original file (in some cases, RF16 is already almost as big as the original).<p>[1] Random framegrab, not checking the labels until after - in every case, it was obvious which was which.</text></comment> | <story><title>X265 3.0 released</title><url>https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/src/46b84ff665fd301e384328972d3d1312a8c74599/doc/reST/releasenotes.rst?at=default&fileviewer=file-view-default</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kristofferR</author><text>It&#x27;s only recently been possible to actually use x265 for transparent encodes, previous versions of x265 removed film grain&#x2F;digital noice to such a degree that the quality was worse than x264 at equivalent bitrates. Combine that with the massively increased costs in both encoding&#x2F;decoding time (and worse x265 encoding tools&#x2F;knowledge), x265 simply wasn&#x27;t worthwhile except for crappy re-encodes at super low bitrates for people with crappy internet.<p>Recently you&#x27;ve begun to see a lot of x265 releases though, usually with HDR, the only significant feature x264 can&#x27;t provide.<p>For sub-4K SDR content there&#x27;s really no incentive for pirates to switch to x265, it&#x27;s just a nuisance. With torrenting people don&#x27;t pay for the extra bitrate x264 requires, unlike hosting services like Netflix, the ~20% bitrate savings of x265 are not important at all, especially compared to the other &quot;costs&quot; of compatibility issues and 10X longer encode times.</text></item><item><author>Havoc</author><text>Must say I&#x27;m massively surprised at how low adoption of 265&#x2F;hevc is in ahem the eyepatch wearing part of the internet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fireattack</author><text>&gt; previous versions of x265 removed film grain&#x2F;digital noice<p>I noticed it as well, glad it gets fixed.<p>Do I need to toggle&#x2F;change any particular parameter, or just use defaults on newer versions to fix it though?</text></comment> |
13,900,255 | 13,891,207 | 1 | 2 | 13,887,237 | train | <story><title>Programs that have saved me 100+ hours</title><url>http://sadacaraveo.com/programs-that-have-saved-me-more-than-100-hours-by-automating-repetitive-tasks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>photon-torpedo</author><text>This sounds similar to &#x27;vidir&#x27;, which is available in Debian&#x2F;Ubuntu in the package &#x27;moreutils&#x27;. Indeed very useful for editing large directories.</text></item><item><author>rsync</author><text>One unix based utility that has saved me <i>incredible amounts of time</i> is &#x27;vimv&#x27;.[1]<p>You run vimv and you get your pwd, in the editor, and you can edit it <i>like a text file</i>. Then just quit and save and all of your filename changes get committed to that directory.<p>It&#x27;s an extremely fast way to do a bunch of random and irregular edits to a big directory full of files.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ivanmaeder&#x2F;vimv" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ivanmaeder&#x2F;vimv</a></text></item><item><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>I&#x27;d have to throw most of the standard UNIX utils in there: grep, awk, cut, sed, sort, uniq, and of course, vim.<p>Outside of the tech world, people seem to think that grabbing some columns out of a file and rearranging them or pasting them somewhere else is some kind of sorcery.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bartvk</author><text>Interesting. It&#x27;s packaged for macOS, too. Install Homebrew via <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brew.sh&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brew.sh&#x2F;</a> then type<p>$ brew install moreutils</text></comment> | <story><title>Programs that have saved me 100+ hours</title><url>http://sadacaraveo.com/programs-that-have-saved-me-more-than-100-hours-by-automating-repetitive-tasks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>photon-torpedo</author><text>This sounds similar to &#x27;vidir&#x27;, which is available in Debian&#x2F;Ubuntu in the package &#x27;moreutils&#x27;. Indeed very useful for editing large directories.</text></item><item><author>rsync</author><text>One unix based utility that has saved me <i>incredible amounts of time</i> is &#x27;vimv&#x27;.[1]<p>You run vimv and you get your pwd, in the editor, and you can edit it <i>like a text file</i>. Then just quit and save and all of your filename changes get committed to that directory.<p>It&#x27;s an extremely fast way to do a bunch of random and irregular edits to a big directory full of files.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ivanmaeder&#x2F;vimv" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ivanmaeder&#x2F;vimv</a></text></item><item><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>I&#x27;d have to throw most of the standard UNIX utils in there: grep, awk, cut, sed, sort, uniq, and of course, vim.<p>Outside of the tech world, people seem to think that grabbing some columns out of a file and rearranging them or pasting them somewhere else is some kind of sorcery.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agumonkey</author><text>Or wdired mode in GNU emacs</text></comment> |
17,146,796 | 17,146,972 | 1 | 3 | 17,144,160 | train | <story><title>Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set to Stop in an Emergency</title><url>https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/HWY18MH010-prelim.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JorgeGT</author><text>Direct link to NTSB preliminary report: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ntsb.gov&#x2F;investigations&#x2F;AccidentReports&#x2F;Reports&#x2F;HWY18MH010-prelim.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ntsb.gov&#x2F;investigations&#x2F;AccidentReports&#x2F;Reports&#x2F;...</a><p><i>According to data obtained from the self-driving system, the system first registered radar and LIDAR
observations of the pedestrian about 6 seconds before impact, when the vehicle was traveling at 43 mph.
As the vehicle and pedestrian paths converged, the self-driving system software classified the pedestrian
as an unknown object, as a vehicle, and then as a bicycle with varying expectations of future travel path.
At 1.3 seconds before impact, the self-driving system determined that an emergency braking maneuver
was needed to mitigate a collision (see figure 2).
2 According to Uber, emergency braking maneuvers are
not enabled while the vehicle is under computer control, to reduce the potential for erratic vehicle
behavior. The vehicle operator is relied on to intervene and take action. The system is not designed to
alert the operator.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nkoren</author><text>I worked on the autonomous pod system at Heathrow airport[1]. We used a very conservative control methodology; essentially the vehicle would remain stopped unless it received a positive &quot;GO&quot; signal from multiple independent sensor and control systems. The loss of <i>any</i> &quot;GO&quot; signal would result in an emergency stop. It was very challenging to get those all of those &quot;GO&quot; indicators reliable enough to prevent false positives and constant emergency-braking.<p>The reason we were ultimately able to do this is because we were operating in a fully-segregated environment of our own design. We could be certain that every other vehicle in the system was something that should be fully under our control, so anything even slightly anomalous should be treated as a hazard situation.<p>There are a lot of limitations to this approach, but I&#x27;m confident that it could carry literally billions of passengers without a fatality. It is <i>overwhelmingly</i> safe.<p>Operating in a mixed environment is profoundly different. The control system logic is fully reversed: you must presume that it is safe to proceed unless a &quot;STOP&quot; signal received. And because the interpretation of image &amp; LIDAR data is a rather... fuzzy... process, that &quot;STOP&quot; signal needs to have fairly liberal thresholds, otherwise your vehicle will not move.<p>Uber made a critical mistake in counting on a human-in-the-loop to suddenly take control of the vehicle (note: this is why Type 3 automation is something I&#x27;m very dubious about), but it&#x27;s important to understand that if you want autonomous vehicles to move through mixed-mode environments at the speeds which humans drive, then it is absolutely necessary for them to take a fuzzy, probabilistic approach to safety. This will inevitably result in fatalities -- almost certainly fewer than when humans drive, but plenty of fatalities nonetheless. The design of the overall system is system is inherently unsafe.<p>Do you find this unacceptable? If so, then then ultimately the only way to address this is through changing the design of the streets and&#x2F;or our rules about how they are be used. These are fundamentally infrastructural issues. Merely swapping out vehicle control systems -- robot vs. human -- will be less revolutionary than many expect.<p>1: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ultraglobalprt.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ultraglobalprt.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set to Stop in an Emergency</title><url>https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/HWY18MH010-prelim.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JorgeGT</author><text>Direct link to NTSB preliminary report: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ntsb.gov&#x2F;investigations&#x2F;AccidentReports&#x2F;Reports&#x2F;HWY18MH010-prelim.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ntsb.gov&#x2F;investigations&#x2F;AccidentReports&#x2F;Reports&#x2F;...</a><p><i>According to data obtained from the self-driving system, the system first registered radar and LIDAR
observations of the pedestrian about 6 seconds before impact, when the vehicle was traveling at 43 mph.
As the vehicle and pedestrian paths converged, the self-driving system software classified the pedestrian
as an unknown object, as a vehicle, and then as a bicycle with varying expectations of future travel path.
At 1.3 seconds before impact, the self-driving system determined that an emergency braking maneuver
was needed to mitigate a collision (see figure 2).
2 According to Uber, emergency braking maneuvers are
not enabled while the vehicle is under computer control, to reduce the potential for erratic vehicle
behavior. The vehicle operator is relied on to intervene and take action. The system is not designed to
alert the operator.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>That&#x27;s not just one error but a whole book of errors, and that last bit combined with the reliance on the operator to take action is criminal. (And if it isn&#x27;t it should be.)<p>I hope that whoever was responsible for this piece of crap software loses a lot of sleep over it, and that Uber will admit that they have no business building safety critical software. Idiots.<p>For <i>6</i> seconds the system had crucial information and failed to relay it, for 1.3 seconds the system knew an accident was going to happen and failed to act on that knowledge.<p>Drunk drivers suck, but this is much worse. This is the equivalent of plowing into a pedestrian with a vehicle while you&#x27;re in full control of it because you are afraid that your perception of the world is so crappy that you will over-react to such situations often enough that the risk of killing someone you know is there is perceived as the lower one.<p>Not to mention all the errors in terms of process and oversight that allowed this p.o.s. software to be deployed in traffic.</text></comment> |
7,094,203 | 7,094,209 | 1 | 2 | 7,093,369 | train | <story><title>AMC movie theater calls FBI to arrest a Google Glass user</title><url>http://the-gadgeteer.com/2014/01/20/amc-movie-theater-calls-fbi-to-arrest-a-google-glass-user</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>x0054</author><text>Here is what you need to do if you are ever in this situation:<p>1. Ask &quot;Am I under arrest?&quot;
2. If the answer is anything other than &quot;Yes&quot; ask &quot;Can I leave now?&quot;
3. If the answer is anything other than &quot;No,&quot; get up and leave! Don&#x27;t ask for permission, don&#x27;t say another word. Just leave. If anyone tries to stop you, say &quot;Unless I am under arrest, I am going to leave NOW. If you prevent me from leaving than I am assuming I am under arrest. If so, please read me my miranda rights right now.&quot;<p>If they read you your rights, ask for a lawyer. Specifically say &quot;I want to speak to a lawyer and I chose to remain silent and not answer any questions until I speak to a lawyer.&quot; If the cop tells you that your lawyer is on his&#x2F;her way and then continues to talk to you, you should say &quot;I see you continue to talk to me, I am going to assume that you are trying to elicit statements from me after I invoked my rights. I am going to relay this information to my lawyer.&quot;<p>If you are innocent, you have NOTHING to gain from talking to a cop. If you are guilty, you WILL hurt your case every time.<p>UPDATE: Spelling</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lelandbatey</author><text>It&#x27;s quite true. My father is a lawyer, and the first thing I remember learning, even before &quot;don&#x27;t talk to strangers&quot; was &quot;never talk to police&quot;. After that it was &quot;get everything in writing&quot; and &quot;act as if everyone is carrying a tape recorder&quot;, but that&#x27;s neither here nor there.</text></comment> | <story><title>AMC movie theater calls FBI to arrest a Google Glass user</title><url>http://the-gadgeteer.com/2014/01/20/amc-movie-theater-calls-fbi-to-arrest-a-google-glass-user</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>x0054</author><text>Here is what you need to do if you are ever in this situation:<p>1. Ask &quot;Am I under arrest?&quot;
2. If the answer is anything other than &quot;Yes&quot; ask &quot;Can I leave now?&quot;
3. If the answer is anything other than &quot;No,&quot; get up and leave! Don&#x27;t ask for permission, don&#x27;t say another word. Just leave. If anyone tries to stop you, say &quot;Unless I am under arrest, I am going to leave NOW. If you prevent me from leaving than I am assuming I am under arrest. If so, please read me my miranda rights right now.&quot;<p>If they read you your rights, ask for a lawyer. Specifically say &quot;I want to speak to a lawyer and I chose to remain silent and not answer any questions until I speak to a lawyer.&quot; If the cop tells you that your lawyer is on his&#x2F;her way and then continues to talk to you, you should say &quot;I see you continue to talk to me, I am going to assume that you are trying to elicit statements from me after I invoked my rights. I am going to relay this information to my lawyer.&quot;<p>If you are innocent, you have NOTHING to gain from talking to a cop. If you are guilty, you WILL hurt your case every time.<p>UPDATE: Spelling</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grecy</author><text>I don&#x27;t have &quot;a lawyer&quot; on call - won&#x27;t they provide me with a shitty one?</text></comment> |
39,993,937 | 39,989,715 | 1 | 3 | 39,976,391 | train | <story><title>Intel's ambitious Meteor Lake iGPU</title><url>https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/04/08/intels-ambitious-meteor-lake-igpu/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Const-me</author><text>Intel Core Ultra 7 155H can be configured to 20-65W TDP. AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme can be configured to 9-30W. Similar performance level at twice the power consumption doesn’t look particularly impressive.<p>Which is sad because things tend to stagnate without competition. Look at the current GPU landscape dominated by nVidia, or the CPU market during the decade before AMD Ryzen was released. Unless Intel manages to deliver something good, we gonna see similar stagnation with CPUs and APUs, with the market dominated by AMD products.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel's ambitious Meteor Lake iGPU</title><url>https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/04/08/intels-ambitious-meteor-lake-igpu/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yread</author><text>discussed here
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39973599">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39973599</a></text></comment> |
11,832,297 | 11,831,280 | 1 | 2 | 11,831,060 | train | <story><title>Why Britain banned mobile apps for government agencies</title><url>https://govinsider.asia/smart-gov/why-britain-banned-mobile-apps/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>GDS have done a fantastic job of what you might call &quot;government UX&quot;, by getting people with the right technical ethos in charge. HN would approve of their minimalist, functional, responsive approach.<p>Letting govt agencies who don&#x27;t know what they&#x27;re doing go out and tender for private sector building of internet services would be a disaster; they&#x27;d be oversold six ways from Sunday. Treble the cost to build the same thing three times for the three mobile platforms? Sure. Given that 99% of the stuff is simple secure form-filling, it doesn&#x27;t need to be more than a web page.<p>I can file my taxes or renew my driving license online. The system works.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Britain banned mobile apps for government agencies</title><url>https://govinsider.asia/smart-gov/why-britain-banned-mobile-apps/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kristianc</author><text>As a Briton, the idea of having to access government services through mobile apps seems vaguely offensive.<p>Apps are expensive to build, allow rampant surveillance that it&#x27;s very hard to audit under the hood, and mean that customer information is distributed based on your ability to access a smartphone.<p>The U.K. government also has a poor record of delivering large scale IT projects with complex chains of dependencies (the overhaul of the NHS IT system was cancelled after spending several billions on a Patient Information system that no one ever ended up using). Given the chance, departments would have tried to create the &#x27;Everything App&#x27; at enormous expense and with zero interoperability between depts.<p>The decision to push the GDS methodology across the whole of government was hugely unpopular within the civil service at the time but they&#x27;ve been absolutely vindicated in their approach.</text></comment> |
5,076,738 | 5,076,656 | 1 | 2 | 5,076,352 | train | <story><title>A cry for help</title><url>http://alpblog.heroku.com/a-cry-for-help/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dcurtis</author><text>Yeah, please don't use the Svbtle design.</text></item><item><author>tlrobinson</author><text>FYI: <a href="https://twitter.com/dcurtis/status/288684922217041920" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/dcurtis/status/288684922217041920</a></text></item><item><author>alpb</author><text>Sorry for reposting this guys. My blog went down and some stupid cache plugin revealed my db password, I had to remove the previous HN post and reinstalled my blog. Now it is back. I posted this again for people had no chance seeing this before I deleted the old post.<p>Thanks for everyone proposed helping the guy I mentioned in the post with their comments in the post I had to delete.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>georgeorwell</author><text>From the Twitter post:<p>&#62; This is getting ridiculous: the Svbtle design is not open source, and I have never given permission for anyone to use it with Wordpress.<p>Dude. Without trademarks, patents, or copyright, there's not much you can do. There is no permission for you to give or not give, unless your actual code is being ripped off. There is no "open source" license that the Svbtle design could be licensed under even if you wanted to do so. You could probably get a patent on the design. Apple has patents on rounded corners and page turning, for example. Once you publish something or offer it for sale in the US, you have one year to file for a patent. You still have time, but of course, IANAL.</text></comment> | <story><title>A cry for help</title><url>http://alpblog.heroku.com/a-cry-for-help/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dcurtis</author><text>Yeah, please don't use the Svbtle design.</text></item><item><author>tlrobinson</author><text>FYI: <a href="https://twitter.com/dcurtis/status/288684922217041920" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/dcurtis/status/288684922217041920</a></text></item><item><author>alpb</author><text>Sorry for reposting this guys. My blog went down and some stupid cache plugin revealed my db password, I had to remove the previous HN post and reinstalled my blog. Now it is back. I posted this again for people had no chance seeing this before I deleted the old post.<p>Thanks for everyone proposed helping the guy I mentioned in the post with their comments in the post I had to delete.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benatkin</author><text>The OP is just using a theme someone else put online. Here's what they have to say about it:<p><pre><code> Isn't this unoriginal?
Yes, in the same way svbtle is unoriginal.
See the original ["inspiration" for svbtle].
</code></pre>
<a href="https://github.com/gravityonmars/wp-svbtle#isnt-this-unoriginal" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/gravityonmars/wp-svbtle#isnt-this-unorigi...</a><p>I certainly don't agree with that.</text></comment> |
2,029,287 | 2,029,250 | 1 | 3 | 2,029,190 | train | <story><title>Startup Fundraising is a Time Sink</title><url>http://paulstamatiou.com/startup-fundraising-time-sink</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>maxklein</author><text>I'm really very fond of notifo and the service that it offers is invaluable, but what I think is wrong with it is the packaging. I can understand what notifo does, but I don't think anyone else in my family would ever understand it.<p>If I were them, I'd pivot notifo to become a kik-like instant messenger, but with a little twist : it's the IM that webservices can send messages to. So you grow on the consumer front because people can just use it for normal IMing between friends, but then you make revenue on the back-end by selling the website to user offering (when it exceeds a certain size).</text></comment> | <story><title>Startup Fundraising is a Time Sink</title><url>http://paulstamatiou.com/startup-fundraising-time-sink</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PStamatiou</author><text>OP here: If you get any nginx errors on my site can you let me know here? I think I'm about to jump ship with my WP setup and move to Jekyll.</text></comment> |
23,709,916 | 23,709,908 | 1 | 2 | 23,697,840 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What kind of ideas are not VC-backable but should exist in the future?</title><text>I have been thinking about what the current VC fund structure limits the founder&#x27;s imagination about the future for a long time.<p>Please share your wildest ideas.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>egypturnash</author><text>A free program for doing US taxes that has the polish and SEO of TurboTax.<p>The ultimate successful exit sees the entire sector of “tax service middleman” drying up once you have cut off the revenue of TurboTax and the rest of the tax preparation lobby, so they can no longer keep lobbying the government to have this complicated process instead of just automatically doing your taxes and sending you a bill like every other civilized country. Your company vanishes along with the rest of this sector.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arcticbull</author><text>Seriously the IRS should just mail you filled in forms, they have all the data, you can mail back amendments. Or online. There&#x27;s absolutely not a single reason any third party needs to be involved in this.<p>Canada&#x27;s been experimenting with this lately [1].<p>Frankly, as a rule of thumb, if something is potentially big and impactful, and isn&#x27;t well suited to being funded by a VC, it should just be a government service.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.canada.ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;revenue-agency&#x2F;services&#x2F;e-services&#x2F;about-auto-fill-return.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.canada.ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;revenue-agency&#x2F;services&#x2F;e-services&#x2F;...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What kind of ideas are not VC-backable but should exist in the future?</title><text>I have been thinking about what the current VC fund structure limits the founder&#x27;s imagination about the future for a long time.<p>Please share your wildest ideas.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>egypturnash</author><text>A free program for doing US taxes that has the polish and SEO of TurboTax.<p>The ultimate successful exit sees the entire sector of “tax service middleman” drying up once you have cut off the revenue of TurboTax and the rest of the tax preparation lobby, so they can no longer keep lobbying the government to have this complicated process instead of just automatically doing your taxes and sending you a bill like every other civilized country. Your company vanishes along with the rest of this sector.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>totemandtoken</author><text>I might get downvoted or something for this, but have you seen the most recent episode of Patroit Act with Hassan Minhaj?<p>His last episode was all about why tax prep companies mislead customers and the Patriot Act team set up a site that points to free tax filing services. Characteristically, with a vulgar name: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.turbotaxsucksass.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.turbotaxsucksass.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
25,290,595 | 25,289,586 | 1 | 3 | 25,288,541 | train | <story><title>Benchmark: Puppeteer vs. Selenium vs. Playwright vs. WebDriverIO</title><url>https://blog.checklyhq.com/puppeteer-vs-selenium-vs-playwright-speed-comparison/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JackC</author><text>I&#x27;m really excited by what Playwright has been up to on the python side recently with the pytest-playwright package. Browser-testing a Django app can be as simple as:<p><pre><code> def test_homepage(live_server, page):
page.goto(live_server.url)
assert page.innerText(&#x27;#splash-quote&#x27;) == &#x27;our splash-quote&#x27;
$ pytest -k test_homepage --browser chromium --browser firefox --verbose
tests&#x2F;test_browser.py::test_homepage[chromium] PASSED [ 50%]
tests&#x2F;test_browser.py::test_homepage[firefox] PASSED [100%]</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Benchmark: Puppeteer vs. Selenium vs. Playwright vs. WebDriverIO</title><url>https://blog.checklyhq.com/puppeteer-vs-selenium-vs-playwright-speed-comparison/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alexellisuk</author><text>Interesting.. I&#x27;ve chatted with Tim and learned a lot of people run Puppeteer on Lambda.. there is an easier way (spoiler - I work on the open source project OpenFaaS) - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openfaas.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;puppeteer-scraping&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openfaas.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;puppeteer-scraping&#x2F;</a><p>Hope it&#x27;s of some use to folks who may be struggling to compile lambda-chrome or with local testing.<p>I used Selenium a lot in a past life, so this post is interesting to see, but the UX and maintenance cost is also going to need to be factored in with bigger suites of tests.</text></comment> |
25,902,444 | 25,902,475 | 1 | 2 | 25,902,112 | train | <story><title>Food delivery startup Wolt raises $530M</title><url>https://sifted.eu/articles/wolt-530m-raise/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baxtr</author><text>I am amazed that against all common advice people still venture out into heavily competitive segments with strong incumbents. I am impressed and at the same time wonder how exactly they managed to convince investors. Would love to see their pitch deck.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jnr</author><text>Not sure how popular it is elsewhere, but here where I live, Wolt is the most popular food delivery service by a large margin. And their service is great. For us it is like Spotify or Netflix, but for food.<p>The rest of the EU and world probably deserve and would appreciate a service like that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Food delivery startup Wolt raises $530M</title><url>https://sifted.eu/articles/wolt-530m-raise/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baxtr</author><text>I am amazed that against all common advice people still venture out into heavily competitive segments with strong incumbents. I am impressed and at the same time wonder how exactly they managed to convince investors. Would love to see their pitch deck.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>user-the-name</author><text>I can offer this piece of insider information: Starting your business in the very high-cost-of-living Finland really helps.<p>(High cost of living means having to pay high fees to couriers and so on, which means it is impossible to do even do if you do not work out the economics properly right from the start, which then gives a huge advantage moving forward.)</text></comment> |
4,022,228 | 4,022,223 | 1 | 2 | 4,022,145 | train | <story><title>Diablo 3 bug report: "Passwords not case-sensitive."</title><url>http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5152409863</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karlshea</author><text>Facebook does sort of the same thing:<p><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-passwords-are-not-case-sensitive-update/3612" rel="nofollow">http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-passwords-are-no...</a><p>Yes, it's possibly less secure. But for both Facebook and all of the Blizzard games there are other options if you are concerned.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostromo</author><text>Related, but different in an important way.<p>If your password is aBc, you can log in to Facebook using aBc (original), AbC (windows caps lock), and ABc (first cap) only. For a regular password, this is just slightly less secure.<p>Being case insensitive entirely is quite a bit less secure (abc, abC, aBc, aBC, Abc, AbC, ABc, ABC).</text></comment> | <story><title>Diablo 3 bug report: "Passwords not case-sensitive."</title><url>http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5152409863</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karlshea</author><text>Facebook does sort of the same thing:<p><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-passwords-are-not-case-sensitive-update/3612" rel="nofollow">http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-passwords-are-no...</a><p>Yes, it's possibly less secure. But for both Facebook and all of the Blizzard games there are other options if you are concerned.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tylermenezes</author><text>Facebook's is a little better - you can't disregard case entirely. Blizzard just cut the search space by a lot.<p>Then again, it would be pretty difficult to brute force a password in Battle.net, to be honest. I'm assuming they'd lock out the account after just a handful of tries.</text></comment> |
26,250,208 | 26,249,690 | 1 | 2 | 26,243,116 | train | <story><title>Beeple Mania</title><url>https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a35500985/who-is-beeple-mike-winkelmann-nft-interview/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>qixxiq</author><text>I bought one of his &quot;Into the Ether&quot; NFTs[1] but now I&#x27;m in a fairly interesting position. If I prove ownership of the artwork (via a signed message from the address) then Beeple will send the physical artwork to me <i>but</i> it&#x27;ll immediately lose a high percentage of its value (currently trading at ~$90,000 from $969 original).<p>Right now it&#x27;s owned&#x2F;stored by the artist and someone buying the piece from me would be able to get it delivered directly from Beeple. That&#x27;s a new level of unboxed where the piece of art is basically unseen at this point in time and can easily be guaranteed original.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;niftygateway.com&#x2F;itemdetail&#x2F;primary&#x2F;0xd92e44ac213b9ebda0178e1523cc0ce177b7fa96&#x2F;3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;niftygateway.com&#x2F;itemdetail&#x2F;primary&#x2F;0xd92e44ac213b9e...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Beeple Mania</title><url>https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a35500985/who-is-beeple-mike-winkelmann-nft-interview/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>libertine</author><text>Yesterday I was talking with a friend of mine to try to wrap our heads around what&#x27;s happening, and we can&#x27;t help but feel that a lot of this NFT hype is based on FOMO and the craving for having something unique with high perceived value: like, everyone wants a Black Lotus, without having to wait 30 years to find out that there&#x27;s actually people that have also some emotional investment into these items, and are willing to pay some big money to have a piece of that...<p>... yet apparently there are &quot;Black Lotuses&quot; everywhere, because people are making them left and right (not literal black lotus ofc).<p>And we left it here:<p>- are people mistaking something &quot;unique&quot; with something that&#x27;s &quot;rare&quot;?<p>- is money really that much inflated?<p>- is crypto that much inflated?<p>- are these transactions being done among the same &quot;kind of people&quot;, and it will reach a cap eventually with no one to dump these NFTs to?<p>It&#x27;s like people want collectibles but seem to have decided to cut off a big part of what makes a collectible valuable. Everyone want&#x27;s to get rich with the next big rare item, without having to go through years of cultural shifts.<p>For example, some MTG cards&#x2F;sets represent a time and a place for many people, they were part of a culture. The rareness comes from the fact that a lot of these items had limited (some were literally alpha and beta versions of the game), and few endured the weight of time and life.<p>It&#x27;s not because they have a unique id.<p>Cryptopunks represent the early move of the NFT... but is that such a noteworthy valuable thing? Maybe it is.<p>I&#x27;m not saying that Beeple isn&#x27;t a good digital artist, he is. Neither I&#x27;m saying his art isn&#x27;t worth what people paid for, probably it&#x27;s worth it.<p>Yet, some how, can&#x27;t help but feeling that something is off. Or it&#x27;s just me that I&#x27;m just not getting &quot;the thing&quot;?</text></comment> |
32,509,627 | 32,392,140 | 1 | 3 | 32,381,206 | train | <story><title>Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall</title><url>https://www.efavdb.com/memory%20recall</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ren_engineer</author><text>I&#x27;d be really interested to see some research into integrating spaced repetition into our actual education system. Almost everything I see about it is adults learning, I wonder how much we could speed up primary school education considering so much of the &quot;base&quot; stuff needed to advance is rote memorization anyway<p>seems like countries should be investing money in this, potentially trillions in unlocked economic potential by improving and speeding up education. I think I read something like 20-30% of medical school students use SRS, yet only a fraction of the general population uses it. Insane to me that we have a tool like this and almost nothing is being done to improve adoption.</text></item><item><author>dls2016</author><text>I was anti-memorization until I went back to graduate school for mathematics. I had forgotten (or never learned) a lot of things needed to pass qualifying exams. At some point I ran across the spaced repetition idea (maybe from the Wired SuperMemo article [0]) and I gave it a try. I ended up using it to memorize large portions of baby Rudin and Munkres&#x27; Topology, as well as some algebra and a bunch of qualifying exam questions.<p>The qualifying exams were difficult until I reached some &quot;critical mass&quot; of knowledge. Then I could regurgitate proofs and even attack novel problems easily.<p>There&#x27;s an analogy here somewhere to the &quot;leetcode&quot; style of software engineer interview. On one hand qualifying exams and leetcode questions are a stupid gatekeeping mechanism, but on the other hand the best researchers&#x2F;engineers I know have a huge number of facts and examples memorized and ready at their fingertips. I didn&#x27;t think I needed to do so, but perhaps there is something to suffering through the rote memorization phase to make what comes next that much easier.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2008&#x2F;04&#x2F;ff-wozniak&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2008&#x2F;04&#x2F;ff-wozniak&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>David_R</author><text>&gt;see some research...spaced repetition into our actual education system.&lt;
I have followed the research in this area closely for several years. Most of the (excellent) foundational research was done by university psychology professors who used college students as subjects; it&#x27;s much harder for them to use primary school students, hence far less research with young learners. Implementing these techniques in elementary schools is more challenging then many would guess. Two good books: &quot;Make it Stick&quot; Brown, Roediger, McDaniel; &quot;Powerful Teaching&quot; Agarwal &amp; Bain. PM me if you&#x27;d like more info. The second book describes research with middle school students. Pooja Agarwal also hosts the informative site www.retrievalpractice.org which informs K-12 teachers and has lots of free downloads. I am involved in a startup that is beginning (pilot teachers in September) to implement spaced repetition for elementary school math.</text></comment> | <story><title>Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall</title><url>https://www.efavdb.com/memory%20recall</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ren_engineer</author><text>I&#x27;d be really interested to see some research into integrating spaced repetition into our actual education system. Almost everything I see about it is adults learning, I wonder how much we could speed up primary school education considering so much of the &quot;base&quot; stuff needed to advance is rote memorization anyway<p>seems like countries should be investing money in this, potentially trillions in unlocked economic potential by improving and speeding up education. I think I read something like 20-30% of medical school students use SRS, yet only a fraction of the general population uses it. Insane to me that we have a tool like this and almost nothing is being done to improve adoption.</text></item><item><author>dls2016</author><text>I was anti-memorization until I went back to graduate school for mathematics. I had forgotten (or never learned) a lot of things needed to pass qualifying exams. At some point I ran across the spaced repetition idea (maybe from the Wired SuperMemo article [0]) and I gave it a try. I ended up using it to memorize large portions of baby Rudin and Munkres&#x27; Topology, as well as some algebra and a bunch of qualifying exam questions.<p>The qualifying exams were difficult until I reached some &quot;critical mass&quot; of knowledge. Then I could regurgitate proofs and even attack novel problems easily.<p>There&#x27;s an analogy here somewhere to the &quot;leetcode&quot; style of software engineer interview. On one hand qualifying exams and leetcode questions are a stupid gatekeeping mechanism, but on the other hand the best researchers&#x2F;engineers I know have a huge number of facts and examples memorized and ready at their fingertips. I didn&#x27;t think I needed to do so, but perhaps there is something to suffering through the rote memorization phase to make what comes next that much easier.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2008&#x2F;04&#x2F;ff-wozniak&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2008&#x2F;04&#x2F;ff-wozniak&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pessimizer</author><text>Hundreds of millions of the world&#x27;s kids were remote learning for up to a year and a half. If there was any opportunity to develop real tools to help with remote learning, it was then, but we ended up with nothing, and remote learning still sucks.<p>If anybody is going to integrate memory techniques into a curriculum, it&#x27;ll probably be some Silicon Valley charter.</text></comment> |
29,369,447 | 29,369,678 | 1 | 3 | 29,368,530 | train | <story><title>Calling Rust from Python using PyO3</title><url>http://saidvandeklundert.net/learn/2021-11-18-calling-rust-from-python-using-pyo3/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdedev</author><text>Check out apache arrow in rust for transferring large amounts data between rust and python. With it you can get zero copy transfers between the languages. Afaik there is some performance penalty involved when converting python types to native rust types.<p>It used to be hard to do such transfers between rust and python using arrow but from v3 or v4, arrow implementation in rust started supporting the c data interface. Creating the array in rust and sending it to python might involve leaking a boxed object though<p>Check this out if you want to see how
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jhoekx&#x2F;python-rust-arrow-interop-example&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;lib.rs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jhoekx&#x2F;python-rust-arrow-interop-example&#x2F;...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Calling Rust from Python using PyO3</title><url>http://saidvandeklundert.net/learn/2021-11-18-calling-rust-from-python-using-pyo3/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Grollicus</author><text>I recently wanted to use some rust crates from Python and decided to give PyO3 a go and I must say it works really well.<p>Took about one evening to plug it all together and get it running. The guide at pyo3.rs was really helpful and maturin to build binary packages just works. You pass in python types and they arrive as rust-native types. Makes writing code feel very native.<p>The result: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Grollicus&#x2F;pyttfwrap" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Grollicus&#x2F;pyttfwrap</a> takes a string and splits it as it would wrap when rendered with a given TTF font. Most of the code is about keeping a reference to the loaded font as that&#x27;s an expensive operation.<p>Was some great fun and I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;ll use it some more.</text></comment> |
9,160,405 | 9,160,077 | 1 | 2 | 9,159,557 | train | <story><title>The Hiring Post</title><url>http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Author.<p>I can talk in a pretty good amount of detail about how exactly our process worked, if anyone has any questions.<p>And, to head off a concern a reviewer gave me: from 1997-2005, I was a full-time software developer; I shipped shrink-wrap boxed software on Windows and Unix in the 1990s, then appliances deployed at tier 1 ISPs. I&#x27;m a &quot;software person&quot; more than a &quot;security person&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Micaiah_Chang</author><text>Have you ever read <i>The Checklist Manifesto</i>[0]? I may be reading too much into this post, but the lessons you learned from this interview process have frighteningly close parallels to the lessons in the books. I doubt the book had any influence on your interview process, seeing as it was published after the interviews were formalized, but the book seems like it might have new lessons.<p>For example, a good portion of doctors absolutely hated using checklists. Yet, when pressed, readily admitted that it prevents simple mistakes and that they would prefer to have them rather than not to. Another is that entries that address more human concerns, e.g. &quot;Have everyone introduce themselves&quot;, have a place on good checklists.<p>[0] <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/dp/0312430000/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1425687523&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=checklist+manifesto" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right&#x2F;d...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Hiring Post</title><url>http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Author.<p>I can talk in a pretty good amount of detail about how exactly our process worked, if anyone has any questions.<p>And, to head off a concern a reviewer gave me: from 1997-2005, I was a full-time software developer; I shipped shrink-wrap boxed software on Windows and Unix in the 1990s, then appliances deployed at tier 1 ISPs. I&#x27;m a &quot;software person&quot; more than a &quot;security person&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cyounkins</author><text>How do you avoid wasting time on candidates that are a poor fit? When we advertise for an open position we get a ton of unqualified candidates.<p>In your post you say, &quot;At my last firm, we had the “first-call” system. Every serious applicant got, on average, 30-45 minutes of director-level time on the phone before any screening began.&quot; You seem to continue on from that point. What happens before first-call?</text></comment> |
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