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3,930,481 | 3,929,805 | 1 | 3 | 3,929,308 | train | <story><title>Inverse Fizzbuzz</title><url>http://www.jasq.org/2/post/2012/05/inverse-fizzbuzz.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>harpastum</author><text><i>TLDR: Here's a constant-time solution: <a href="http://codepad.org/Id9eu0Ax" rel="nofollow">http://codepad.org/Id9eu0Ax</a> </i><p>Matching the the sequence of fizz/buzz/fizbuzz disregarding numbers is a repetitive case.<p>Start with<p><pre><code> 3 Fizz
5 Buzz
6 Fizz
9 Fizz
10 Buzz
12 Fizz
15 FizzBuzz
18 Fizz
20 Buzz
21 Fizz
24 Fizz
25 Buzz
27 Fizz
30 FizzBuzz
[repeats]
</code></pre>
Just split the input list as a prefix of a few, and then a repeat. The goal of the shortest total distance between them is constant. You just need to measure the number of ints between each of the 8 repeating distances.<p>For example:<p><pre><code> 3 -&#62; Fizz
+2 -&#62; Buzz
+1 -&#62; Fizz
+3 -&#62; Fizz
+1 -&#62; Buzz
+2 -&#62; Fizz
+3 -&#62; FizzBuzz
+3 -&#62; Fizz
+2 -&#62; Buzz
+1 -&#62; Fizz
+3 -&#62; Fizz
+1 -&#62; Buzz
+2 -&#62; Fizz
+3 -&#62; FizzBuzz
</code></pre>
So you would match against the list [Fizz, Buzz, Fizz, Fizz, Buzz, Fizz, FizzBuzz].</text></comment> | <story><title>Inverse Fizzbuzz</title><url>http://www.jasq.org/2/post/2012/05/inverse-fizzbuzz.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>EternalFury</author><text>Cute.
Now, back to reality, where 99% of the code is dead simple stuff that sticks around for years.
I am really starting to believe it is a fault to be too clever in software development. Granted, the easier your code is to understand, the better it is for business.</text></comment> |
36,173,532 | 36,166,742 | 1 | 2 | 36,165,513 | train | <story><title>The Analog Thing: an open source, educational, low-cost modern analog computer</title><url>https://the-analog-thing.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bgribble</author><text>Very familiar-looking to anyone who has been following the modular synthesizer renaissance. Modular synths are basically analog computers, just not well-optimized for precision in most cases. All the basic building blocks of THAT are available as modules from a number of boutique manufacturers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dreamcompiler</author><text>Yes but the emphasis is different. Modular synths typically come with oscillators; analog computers typically don&#x27;t. But if you want an oscillator you can build one out of integrators in a feedback configuration.<p>Modular synths typically come with filters; analog computers typically don&#x27;t. Analog computers do come with integrators which could be considered very weird lowpass filters. Likewise a differentiator can be considered a weird and always imperfect highpass filter.<p>Both typically come with adders, but a modular synth will call this a mixer. Both typically come with multipliers but a modular synth will often call a multiplier a ring modulator (and it might not multiply all four quadrants).<p>(Just to make things more confusing, at RF frequencies the word &quot;mixer&quot; typically refers to a multiplier rather than an adder. In the audio range, mixers are adders.)<p>Modular synths are designed for making sound; analog computers are designed for precise, much slower waveform generation. Its circuits might not even be capable of operating fast enough to make sound.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Analog Thing: an open source, educational, low-cost modern analog computer</title><url>https://the-analog-thing.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bgribble</author><text>Very familiar-looking to anyone who has been following the modular synthesizer renaissance. Modular synths are basically analog computers, just not well-optimized for precision in most cases. All the basic building blocks of THAT are available as modules from a number of boutique manufacturers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcpst</author><text>Yeah- as a long time modular synth user I practically drool over stuff like this. But for the money I can just get more synth modules.</text></comment> |
8,516,966 | 8,516,627 | 1 | 2 | 8,515,593 | train | <story><title>Startcraps</title><url>http://www.brainshave.com/blog/startcraps</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Permit</author><text>-&gt; Work on a medical startup; &quot;Why don&#x27;t any of the founders have a background in medicine, I don&#x27;t trust these guys&quot;.<p>-&gt; Work on AI; &quot;These guys are peddling vaporware&quot;.<p>-&gt; Work on connecting people your own age (something you might have domain expertise in); &quot;What a vapid, crappy startup. Work on real problems!&quot;.<p>-&gt; Work in Finance, at Google or Facebook; &quot;I saw the brightest minds of my generation moving money and selling ads&quot;.<p>I truly hope no one is discouraged by articles like this one. (Also, where are all the much-alluded-to apps for sharing pictures of cats? They&#x27;re so often referenced as evidence of crappy startups that I&#x27;d assume they&#x27;d be more present.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cjjrjd</author><text>Perhaps the real problem is that there is an overabundance of people in software looking for easy money.<p>It may not be a popular thing to say on HN, but in my experience it seems to fit the data.</text></comment> | <story><title>Startcraps</title><url>http://www.brainshave.com/blog/startcraps</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Permit</author><text>-&gt; Work on a medical startup; &quot;Why don&#x27;t any of the founders have a background in medicine, I don&#x27;t trust these guys&quot;.<p>-&gt; Work on AI; &quot;These guys are peddling vaporware&quot;.<p>-&gt; Work on connecting people your own age (something you might have domain expertise in); &quot;What a vapid, crappy startup. Work on real problems!&quot;.<p>-&gt; Work in Finance, at Google or Facebook; &quot;I saw the brightest minds of my generation moving money and selling ads&quot;.<p>I truly hope no one is discouraged by articles like this one. (Also, where are all the much-alluded-to apps for sharing pictures of cats? They&#x27;re so often referenced as evidence of crappy startups that I&#x27;d assume they&#x27;d be more present.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>irremediable</author><text>Well said.<p>FWIW, one of my friends did create a small startup that focuses on sharing cat photos. The app is called &quot;Cat Snaps&quot;. It wasn&#x27;t a waste at all: he spent a few weeks learning the tools, and made a little bit of money from doing so.</text></comment> |
25,851,411 | 25,851,469 | 1 | 3 | 25,850,966 | train | <story><title>Vitamin D uncorrelated with Covid severity in those of European descent</title><url>https://nutrition.bmj.com/content/early/2021/01/07/bmjnph-2020-000151</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WoodenChair</author><text>Note that this study was not a placebo controlled trial, and it was not even based on data about actual vitamin D levels. Instead, it was retrospective analysis using instrumental variables. I&#x27;m not saying its conclusions are wrong, I&#x27;m just saying that IMHO it&#x27;s not a definitive study.<p>Quoting the study:<p>&quot;Although we will need well-powered and carefully executed randomised trials and a subsequent meta-analysis of the different studies to provide an accurate estimate of the effect of vitamin D on COVID-19 prevention and severity, we can anticipate the results of such studies by comparing individuals who are genetically predisposed to lower vitamin D levels with those who are not, based on the Mendelian randomisation (MR) paradigm. In a randomised controlled trial, we would minimise the effect of confounding factors by randomly assigning participants to a treatment group receiving vitamin D supplements or to a control group receiving a placebo and thus estimate the true effect of the intervention. In the natural experiment of MR, genetic variants predisposing the individual to higher levels of vitamin D are assigned randomly at conception, based on the genetic polymorphisms of their parents, in relation to other possible confounding traits. As genetic polymorphisms remain constant throughout life and the individual does not change their vitamin D intake according to their genotype, the use of this information can provide indirect evidence of causality.18 Here, using data from genome-wide association (GWA) studies for vitamin D levels, vitamin D deficiency and COVID-19 incidence and severity, we test whether genetically increased vitamin D levels are associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection risk and COVID-19 severity.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Vitamin D uncorrelated with Covid severity in those of European descent</title><url>https://nutrition.bmj.com/content/early/2021/01/07/bmjnph-2020-000151</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nradov</author><text>This site has an index of most of the studies on Vitamin D and COVID-19. Before commenting here I recommend at least reading those abstracts.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vitamin-d-covid.shotwell.ca&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vitamin-d-covid.shotwell.ca&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
15,309,709 | 15,309,058 | 1 | 3 | 15,308,577 | train | <story><title>Monsanto’s Weed Killer, Dicamba, Divides Farmers</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/21/business/monsanto-dicamba-weed-killer.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=12&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2017%2F09%2F21%2Fbusiness%2Fmonsanto-dicamba-weed-killer.html&eventName=Watching-article-click</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikehain</author><text>I&#x27;ve been recently enjoying a YouTube channel by a guy who turned his yard into a sustainable &quot;food forest&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ng-VskDFPpM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ng-VskDFPpM</a><p>That is the video that led me to it, but after I saw it I went back through his video history to see how he got the whole project started and to see his progress over the years. He has a video in there where he recommends a series of books that he learned from, like Albert Howard&#x27;s &quot;An Agricultural Testament,&quot; Sepp Holzer&#x27;s &quot;Permaculture,&quot; and Masanobu Fukuoka&#x27;s &quot;One Straw Revolution.&quot; I&#x27;ve gotten started reading the first two and they&#x27;re really great books.</text></comment> | <story><title>Monsanto’s Weed Killer, Dicamba, Divides Farmers</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/21/business/monsanto-dicamba-weed-killer.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=12&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2017%2F09%2F21%2Fbusiness%2Fmonsanto-dicamba-weed-killer.html&eventName=Watching-article-click</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>exabrial</author><text>How come when it comes to the environment&#x2F;global warming, the predominant approach is &quot;we believe in science&quot;, but when it comes to organic foods, GMOs, and vaccines the &quot;science is questionable&quot;?</text></comment> |
36,988,028 | 36,987,980 | 1 | 2 | 36,987,619 | train | <story><title>The cartel that controls the US meat industry</title><url>https://statecraft.beehiiv.com/p/the-cartel-that-controls-us-meat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>r3trohack3r</author><text>A reminder that Tyson is abusing the legal system to force people in the American south into working in their chicken plants for free: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;revealnews.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;they-thought-they-were-going-to-rehab-they-ended-up-in-chicken-plants&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;revealnews.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;they-thought-they-were-going-...</a><p>I don&#x27;t know every brand that uses Tyson products, but when I discover something is coming from a Tyson factory I stop purchasing it.</text></comment> | <story><title>The cartel that controls the US meat industry</title><url>https://statecraft.beehiiv.com/p/the-cartel-that-controls-us-meat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>prepend</author><text>I was really interested in the figure that shows prices going up while input costs decrease. But this doesn’t reflect all inputs just the price of meat procured. There are many other input costs, mostly labor.<p>So this diagram is really frustrating as it makes me want to reach a conclusion (wtf, what an unnatural difference) without giving me enough information to know anything.<p>It would be like showing that household grocery costs decreased while disposable income decreased and then writing an article about the relationship between those two while not revealing that rent increased at the same time.<p>In general, I don’t know if they answer properly if profits increased because of inflation or if inflation increased because of inflation. Since the cartel existed before the shift, I would like to know what they think made companies suddenly get greedier.</text></comment> |
41,397,025 | 41,395,166 | 1 | 2 | 41,394,797 | train | <story><title>Elasticsearch is open source, again</title><url>https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-is-open-source-again</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Raed667</author><text>what is preventing AWS from dropping OpenSearch and going back to just selling Elastic ?</text></item><item><author>foxyv</author><text>It was so that AWS would create their own name for their fork:<p>&gt; we changed the license, knowing it would result in a fork of Elasticsearch with a different name and a different trajectory. It’s a long story.<p>I think the name of the fork is now OpenSearch.</text></item><item><author>simonw</author><text>&gt; The good news is that while it was painful, it worked. 3 years later, Amazon is fully invested in their fork, the market confusion has been (mostly) resolved, and our partnership with AWS is stronger than ever. We were even named AWS partner of the year.<p>I don&#x27;t entirely understand this bit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>godber</author><text>OpenSearch really appears to have a significant amount of development momentum. It is functionally equivalent with Elasticsearch. There would be no incentive for AWS to do this. After ES broke their compatibility with OpenSearch they also broke compatibility with their own older versions. This forced users to choose in order to move forward with anything. I don’t know how it worked out for others but I’ve converted hundreds of ES clusters to OS and switched all development to OpenSearch because they started gaining momentum and didn’t make decisions that were actively hostile to their users.<p>Edit: As long as OpenSearch doesn’t start breaking the self hosted use case, I don’t see any reason to consider Elasticsearch again. In fact, ES would have to offer up a significant advantage to overcome the bother.</text></comment> | <story><title>Elasticsearch is open source, again</title><url>https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-is-open-source-again</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Raed667</author><text>what is preventing AWS from dropping OpenSearch and going back to just selling Elastic ?</text></item><item><author>foxyv</author><text>It was so that AWS would create their own name for their fork:<p>&gt; we changed the license, knowing it would result in a fork of Elasticsearch with a different name and a different trajectory. It’s a long story.<p>I think the name of the fork is now OpenSearch.</text></item><item><author>simonw</author><text>&gt; The good news is that while it was painful, it worked. 3 years later, Amazon is fully invested in their fork, the market confusion has been (mostly) resolved, and our partnership with AWS is stronger than ever. We were even named AWS partner of the year.<p>I don&#x27;t entirely understand this bit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foxyv</author><text>To be honest, the OpenSearch brand has more value now than Elastic.</text></comment> |
4,207,300 | 4,207,320 | 1 | 2 | 4,205,967 | train | <story><title>Why Showing Your Face at Work Matters</title><url>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/2012-summer/53407/why-showing-your-face-at-work-matters</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marknutter</author><text>"Those that think there is more to your job than the lines of code you write. In even small companies (maybe even especially small companies?) culture is important. Culture transmits largely by physical proximity. Osmosis if you will. There is value in team camaraderie, whiteboard sessions, going to lunch with colleagues, sometimes just sitting around and shooting the breeze about whatever."<p>You're waiving your hands here; flailing, even. None of this is quantifiable, it's all your based on your gut feeling. There are plenty of ways culture can transmit online, but I'm afraid my examples would involve just as much conjecture as yours do.<p>I telecommute, but also make a trip to be on location every couple of months. I agree that face to face contact is important to some degree, but not in any way I could accurately measure. I'm <i>FAR</i> more productive when I'm telecommuting because I don't have colleagues interrupting me with questions ever 10 minutes, I don't feel the temptation to "shoot the shit", I can work through lunch, and I waste no time commuting. As a result I'm more productive than the average non-telecommuting worker.<p>Raises and promotions may be a function of relationships, but perhaps they shouldn't be? Perhaps they should be based on performance.</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>Working from home is a popular topic for us engineers. Generally speaking there are two broad camps in this argument:<p>1. Those who want to work from home and argue largely from that position. They say they'll be just as productive, you can write code from anywhere, having a more flexible schedule will make them happier and more productive and so on; and<p>2. Those that think there is more to your job than the lines of code you write. In even small companies (maybe even especially small companies?) culture is important. Culture transmits largely by physical proximity. Osmosis if you will. There is value in team camaraderie, whiteboard sessions, going to lunch with colleagues, sometimes just sitting around and shooting the breeze about whatever.<p>I fall very firmly into camp (2). This also applies to splitting teams geographically (common within Google) and, all other things being equal, you're better off having your organization in N locations versus N+1 locations.<p>Raises and promotions are more a function of relationships than anything else. Not being there decreases visibility and diminishes relationships. Or perhaps it's just that those who basically just want to write code see no value in and/or spend no time on building relationships?<p>So I think if you found a group of likeminded people that just wanted to put their heads down and write code then they could probably work together as an effective distributed team but as soon as you're in the minority in that situation you're losing out and (IMHO) it's not what's best for a colocated team anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidw</author><text>&#62; You're waiving your hands here; flailing, even. None of this is quantifiable<p>Just because it is not easy to quantify does not mean there isn't some truth to it. 'Flailing' and 'hand waving' seem exaggerated.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Showing Your Face at Work Matters</title><url>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/2012-summer/53407/why-showing-your-face-at-work-matters</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marknutter</author><text>"Those that think there is more to your job than the lines of code you write. In even small companies (maybe even especially small companies?) culture is important. Culture transmits largely by physical proximity. Osmosis if you will. There is value in team camaraderie, whiteboard sessions, going to lunch with colleagues, sometimes just sitting around and shooting the breeze about whatever."<p>You're waiving your hands here; flailing, even. None of this is quantifiable, it's all your based on your gut feeling. There are plenty of ways culture can transmit online, but I'm afraid my examples would involve just as much conjecture as yours do.<p>I telecommute, but also make a trip to be on location every couple of months. I agree that face to face contact is important to some degree, but not in any way I could accurately measure. I'm <i>FAR</i> more productive when I'm telecommuting because I don't have colleagues interrupting me with questions ever 10 minutes, I don't feel the temptation to "shoot the shit", I can work through lunch, and I waste no time commuting. As a result I'm more productive than the average non-telecommuting worker.<p>Raises and promotions may be a function of relationships, but perhaps they shouldn't be? Perhaps they should be based on performance.</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>Working from home is a popular topic for us engineers. Generally speaking there are two broad camps in this argument:<p>1. Those who want to work from home and argue largely from that position. They say they'll be just as productive, you can write code from anywhere, having a more flexible schedule will make them happier and more productive and so on; and<p>2. Those that think there is more to your job than the lines of code you write. In even small companies (maybe even especially small companies?) culture is important. Culture transmits largely by physical proximity. Osmosis if you will. There is value in team camaraderie, whiteboard sessions, going to lunch with colleagues, sometimes just sitting around and shooting the breeze about whatever.<p>I fall very firmly into camp (2). This also applies to splitting teams geographically (common within Google) and, all other things being equal, you're better off having your organization in N locations versus N+1 locations.<p>Raises and promotions are more a function of relationships than anything else. Not being there decreases visibility and diminishes relationships. Or perhaps it's just that those who basically just want to write code see no value in and/or spend no time on building relationships?<p>So I think if you found a group of likeminded people that just wanted to put their heads down and write code then they could probably work together as an effective distributed team but as soon as you're in the minority in that situation you're losing out and (IMHO) it's not what's best for a colocated team anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stfu</author><text>Oh if only social interations were that easy quantifiable. Life would be a lot easier. We could avoid all wars, be full of love and full of love and happiness, developing only the most successful products without ever failing to understand the (irr)ationality of our clients. Social data is so subjective, as it is almost impossible to control externalities, and something like the (un)importance of "facetime" is in my opinion always circumstantial. Therefore I would agree with the gut feeling comment, as it comes really down to the individual employee to evaluate his intentions/priorities/relationships and what works best for that situation.</text></comment> |
23,998,625 | 23,997,790 | 1 | 2 | 23,997,362 | train | <story><title>U.S. Economy Contracted at Record Rate Last Quarter</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/us-economy-gdp-report-second-quarter-coronavirus-11596061406</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>civilized</author><text>It didn&#x27;t. It contracted by 9.5% in Q2, which, if repeated for four consecutive quarters, would become 32.9%.<p>Annualized figures <i>might</i> make sense in ordinary times, but these are not ordinary times.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koheripbal</author><text>To be clear, in finance, we _always_ quote annualized numbers. It would be super unconventional and misleading to everyone in finance to list an absolute number as you suggest.<p>This is more like the general populace not understanding how finance works rather than the finance press exaggerating the number.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. Economy Contracted at Record Rate Last Quarter</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/us-economy-gdp-report-second-quarter-coronavirus-11596061406</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>civilized</author><text>It didn&#x27;t. It contracted by 9.5% in Q2, which, if repeated for four consecutive quarters, would become 32.9%.<p>Annualized figures <i>might</i> make sense in ordinary times, but these are not ordinary times.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pwaivers</author><text>Here&#x27;s a pretty good explanation of how the figures are reported (and why it can be misleading): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;29&#x2F;business&#x2F;economy&#x2F;us-gdp-report.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;29&#x2F;business&#x2F;economy&#x2F;us-gdp-r...</a>.</text></comment> |
30,065,897 | 30,063,977 | 1 | 2 | 30,060,458 | train | <story><title>How big was the Tonga eruption?</title><url>https://graphics.reuters.com/TONGA-VOLCANO/lgpdwjyqbvo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RowanH</author><text>Heard it go bang, 2600km away, echoing through the hills around our place at the top of the South Island of New Zealand. That&#x27;s pretty staggering to think about it. Then to see other peoples Home Assistants around the world pick up the change in pressure on opposite sides of the planet. Mental, just mental...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spartanatreyu</author><text>I live on the beach on the East coast of Australia. We had a marine tsunami warning. We were a few floors up so I wasn&#x27;t really worried about myself.<p>About 12ish hours after the initial eruption I thought that anything that was going to happened had all passed by hours ago and I was talking with friends online.<p>Randomly I started hearing this white noise kind of sound (it sounded like the bubbling water of a kettle without any whistling). I took my headphones off and opened my door trying to find the source of the noise, thinking that the kettle had turned on.<p>I looked outside and what was small surf conditions only 3 minutes before was extremely turbulent with white frothy waves moving in every direction. It looked like it was reacting to an earthquake but there was no movement in the ground. (I&#x27;ve felt an earthquake there before which is rare here but since our foundations are in the sands I&#x27;ve had the experience and could tell there was no earthquake in the ground on the morning after the eruption)<p>Since the waves were moving in every direction, some of them were colliding head on. When this happened and the peaks and troughs were interacting in the right way they were shooting out jets of water spray at my eye level about 15m above sea level (I could tell since they were intersecting the horizon from my perspective).<p>It continued for about a 30 seconds, calming down over another 30 seconds. After the surf had lowered itself to its previous levels, the whole top of the water going back about 50ish meters was covered in thick brown foam. All of the turbulent waves had dredged up the sand beneath it.<p>The foam slowly disappeared over about an hour with the last bits being the foam that ended up getting washed ashore and out of the water&#x27;s reach.</text></comment> | <story><title>How big was the Tonga eruption?</title><url>https://graphics.reuters.com/TONGA-VOLCANO/lgpdwjyqbvo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RowanH</author><text>Heard it go bang, 2600km away, echoing through the hills around our place at the top of the South Island of New Zealand. That&#x27;s pretty staggering to think about it. Then to see other peoples Home Assistants around the world pick up the change in pressure on opposite sides of the planet. Mental, just mental...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway894345</author><text>I&#x27;ve heard that the Krakatoa eruption was so loud that the sound wave reverberated around the globe several times. I assume that means if you&#x27;re on exactly the other end of the world, the sound is coming at you from every direction? Similarly, no matter where you are on earth, the sound is coming at you from different directions at different times? Of course, I&#x27;m assuming that the sound wave was in audible frequencies which may or may not be the case...</text></comment> |
37,835,979 | 37,835,624 | 1 | 2 | 37,834,927 | train | <story><title>Lit 3.0</title><url>https://lit.dev/blog/2023-10-10-lit-3.0/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>roblh</author><text>I like the idea of Lit a lot, but every time I’ve tried to use it, it feels kind of unclear what the intended way of using it actually is. Like, what an actual code base that uses it heavily would look like. All of their example code seems to have no context around it at all, so it’s really difficult to infer from that how to actually make anything useful, or even how to get started. I hope they sort that out at some point.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lit 3.0</title><url>https://lit.dev/blog/2023-10-10-lit-3.0/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eyelidlessness</author><text>I haven’t used Lit, but I’ve had my eye on it for some time as a potential good fit for some project ideas. One of the things I like is that it seems to be strongly in the “use the platform” camp, while still adding clear value (and ecosystem, which IMO is a tough charge for anything in the space not named React). For a semver major release, this one seems compelling if mundane (that’s a good thing!). But that’s just my observation as a current spectator. Looking forward to reactions from actual Lit users.</text></comment> |
28,232,745 | 28,231,521 | 1 | 2 | 28,218,133 | train | <story><title>JSON for Modern C++ version 3.10.0</title><url>https://github.com/nlohmann/json/releases/tag/v3.10.0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>esprehn</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t appear to be all that &quot;modern&quot;: it doesn&#x27;t support string_view for lookup without extra allocations, and it doesn&#x27;t support unordered_map (or even use it as the default) for objects.<p>It seems they&#x27;re targeting C++11?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nlohmann</author><text>The development started in 2013 when C++11 was still modern. Since then, the term &quot;modern C++&quot; is, to my understanding, a synonym for &quot;C++11 and later&quot;. Of course, some code may look dated compared to newer C++ constructs, but the main goal is to integrate JSON into any C++ code bases without making it look odd.<p>The string_view lookup is nearly done, but I did not want to wait for it, because it would have delayed the release even more.<p>I&#x27;m also working on supporting unordered_map - using it as container for objects would be easy if we would just break the existing API - the hard part is to support it with the current (probably bad designed) template API.</text></comment> | <story><title>JSON for Modern C++ version 3.10.0</title><url>https://github.com/nlohmann/json/releases/tag/v3.10.0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>esprehn</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t appear to be all that &quot;modern&quot;: it doesn&#x27;t support string_view for lookup without extra allocations, and it doesn&#x27;t support unordered_map (or even use it as the default) for objects.<p>It seems they&#x27;re targeting C++11?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MauranKilom</author><text>&gt; and it doesn&#x27;t support unordered_map (or even use it as the default) for objects.<p>std::unordered_map has massive overhead in space and time. Maybe I misunderstand your idea, but outside of <i>extremely</i> niche use cases, std::unordered_map is basically never the right tool (unless you don&#x27;t care in the slightest about performance or memory overhead).</text></comment> |
16,450,899 | 16,451,028 | 1 | 3 | 16,450,448 | train | <story><title>IRS Notification</title><url>https://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/articles/2924446</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seibelj</author><text>I highly recommend that you do not commit tax fraud. Pay your taxes - not only the right thing to do, but because of the lack of anonymity provided by every blockchain save a few, it is trivial to track your trades.<p>You don’t want to go from mild-mannered software engineer to tax criminal, do you? Think about it hard. Government lawyers and regulators are indeed incentivized by metrics - the max number of pleas and convictions. They don’t care about your stories.<p>The smart move is to pay what you owe, and if you don’t like it, structure your affairs for the future to minimize taxes. But it’s very risky to lie about your past.<p>Additionally, tech industry workers have not exactly been worshipped by the press as of late. Expect a lot of backlash if you, an already highly paid knowledge worker, cheated to pay what taxes you dutifully owed. The press would not be kind to you, and they would not be in the wrong.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amorphid</author><text>To me, having to cut a big check to the IRS is the ultimate first world problem. I&#x27;d love to owe the IRS a million bucks because I made way more than that :)</text></comment> | <story><title>IRS Notification</title><url>https://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/articles/2924446</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seibelj</author><text>I highly recommend that you do not commit tax fraud. Pay your taxes - not only the right thing to do, but because of the lack of anonymity provided by every blockchain save a few, it is trivial to track your trades.<p>You don’t want to go from mild-mannered software engineer to tax criminal, do you? Think about it hard. Government lawyers and regulators are indeed incentivized by metrics - the max number of pleas and convictions. They don’t care about your stories.<p>The smart move is to pay what you owe, and if you don’t like it, structure your affairs for the future to minimize taxes. But it’s very risky to lie about your past.<p>Additionally, tech industry workers have not exactly been worshipped by the press as of late. Expect a lot of backlash if you, an already highly paid knowledge worker, cheated to pay what taxes you dutifully owed. The press would not be kind to you, and they would not be in the wrong.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wefawefsdf</author><text>On the other side of the coin, I&#x27;m actually going to offset some huge gains on my stocks by filing a loss for a few cryptos during the crash :D</text></comment> |
23,831,035 | 23,829,348 | 1 | 2 | 23,826,070 | train | <story><title>The AirPods Pro “Rattlegate”</title><url>https://annoying.technology/posts/abea6876cf4f2e13/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>an_opabinia</author><text>I don&#x27;t know dude, they&#x27;ve replaced like, 3 laptops for me, all the keyboards, everything. They fix it all, no problem, everything is easy when it&#x27;s scheduled by appointment.<p>I&#x27;m never at fault for the issue though.</text></item><item><author>lmilcin</author><text>This is a very known feature of Apple, especially if you are subscribed to Louis Rossmann&#x27;s channel. Basically, Apple is going to treat you first class only until you have a hardware problem.<p>Not just allergic to any hardware needing repair, Apple will go out of their way to make your life miserable. At the very best their repair is to replace most of your device for a hefty price, at worst they will flat out refuse to help even if you offer them to pay out of your pocket but also put their legal departments to work ensuring there is nobody else on the market to compete with the service they don&#x27;t provide, stop shipments of parts that don&#x27;t infringe on any trademarks or patents, and so on.</text></item><item><author>personlurking</author><text>Wow. I&#x27;ve had this same problem for months. I spent over an hour on the phone with Support just trying to describe the problem, until they came to the conclusion that there was absolutely no way to send me new ones or to have me send them my broken ones...because I live in Puerto Rico. The week prior, Apple had sent me a new cable for my phone in 2 days flat, yet when I had a problem, there was nothing they could do about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caymanjim</author><text>&gt; They fix it all, no problem, everything is easy when it&#x27;s scheduled by appointment.<p>The fact that you need to schedule an appointment in the first place is horrible customer service. When I buy a product from NewEgg, if there&#x27;s anything wrong with it, they immediately ship me a new one and a box to return the old one in, no questions asked. When my ThinkPad started having issues eight months after purchase, they sent me a prepaid return box, fixed it, and sent it back quickly. When I&#x27;ve had problems with MacBooks, I&#x27;ve had to schedule an appointment, drive to the Apple store, wait in line, explain my problem, let them ask a zillion irrelevant questions (the equivalent of &#x27;did you try rebooting?&#x27;), and then come back in a few weeks to pick it up. They are hostile to customers when it comes to hardware issues, and they almost never admit that their products are faulty. Look at how long it took them to fix the TouchBar and keyboard failures a few years ago.<p>Apple will fix your product if it&#x27;s under warranty, but they won&#x27;t make it easy, and they won&#x27;t pull a defective product and re-engineer it until the bad press overwhelms them. They&#x27;re not great at this aspect of customer service.</text></comment> | <story><title>The AirPods Pro “Rattlegate”</title><url>https://annoying.technology/posts/abea6876cf4f2e13/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>an_opabinia</author><text>I don&#x27;t know dude, they&#x27;ve replaced like, 3 laptops for me, all the keyboards, everything. They fix it all, no problem, everything is easy when it&#x27;s scheduled by appointment.<p>I&#x27;m never at fault for the issue though.</text></item><item><author>lmilcin</author><text>This is a very known feature of Apple, especially if you are subscribed to Louis Rossmann&#x27;s channel. Basically, Apple is going to treat you first class only until you have a hardware problem.<p>Not just allergic to any hardware needing repair, Apple will go out of their way to make your life miserable. At the very best their repair is to replace most of your device for a hefty price, at worst they will flat out refuse to help even if you offer them to pay out of your pocket but also put their legal departments to work ensuring there is nobody else on the market to compete with the service they don&#x27;t provide, stop shipments of parts that don&#x27;t infringe on any trademarks or patents, and so on.</text></item><item><author>personlurking</author><text>Wow. I&#x27;ve had this same problem for months. I spent over an hour on the phone with Support just trying to describe the problem, until they came to the conclusion that there was absolutely no way to send me new ones or to have me send them my broken ones...because I live in Puerto Rico. The week prior, Apple had sent me a new cable for my phone in 2 days flat, yet when I had a problem, there was nothing they could do about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mnd999</author><text>Once they’ve acknowledged a major fault, yeah. But until then it’s denial and nonsense and stupidity. My last Mac was a 2007 MBP - the one with the melty GPU. It’s actually still functional on the third board but the fuss and nonsense around getting the first two replaced when everyone knew there was a common fault (except Apple apparently) was pretty pathetic.</text></comment> |
5,759,612 | 5,759,492 | 1 | 2 | 5,758,521 | train | <story><title>Massive Number of Vulnerabilities Found in X.Org</title><url>http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2013-May/036276.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>The only reason this isn't worth a freakout is that nobody running Linux in a graphical desktop configuration could ever have assumed that the machine was multiuser-safe to begin with. The reality is probably that no Linux (or FreeBSD) system in any configuration is secure from an attacker that can run native code in an unprivileged process. But with X11 running, you never had a chance.<p>I'm always amused by the dismissive tone programmers take to findings like this --- "oh, any thoughtful C programmer could avoid these problems". No, they can't. How many billions of dollars does it take to prove this point? The very best secure programmers in the world, building C (and C++) codebases from scratch specifically to address these problems, almost invariably fail to do so: memory corruption bugs get found in these systems just like they do in '90s-vintage X11 code.<p>C is my very favorite language and I'm not saying people shouldn't use it (well... they should avoid it, actually), but people should work in it with their eyes open.</text></item><item><author>asveikau</author><text>The fact that one must watch out for integer overflow on a buffer size calculation for malloc, realloc, etc. should be no surprise to a thoughtful C programmer. It sounds like somebody just did an audit of an old code base looking for bad patterns and this is what came out of it. It sounds like great work on the part of the people doing audits/fixes but I'm not sure it's freakout material ("massive" seems a bit sensationalist).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thrownaway2424</author><text>At no time has there ever been a Linux kernel release with no local root exploits. There have been periods of uncertainty when we didn't know the exact exploit but we always find out eventually. Keep this in mind whenever you think about Linux security.</text></comment> | <story><title>Massive Number of Vulnerabilities Found in X.Org</title><url>http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2013-May/036276.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>The only reason this isn't worth a freakout is that nobody running Linux in a graphical desktop configuration could ever have assumed that the machine was multiuser-safe to begin with. The reality is probably that no Linux (or FreeBSD) system in any configuration is secure from an attacker that can run native code in an unprivileged process. But with X11 running, you never had a chance.<p>I'm always amused by the dismissive tone programmers take to findings like this --- "oh, any thoughtful C programmer could avoid these problems". No, they can't. How many billions of dollars does it take to prove this point? The very best secure programmers in the world, building C (and C++) codebases from scratch specifically to address these problems, almost invariably fail to do so: memory corruption bugs get found in these systems just like they do in '90s-vintage X11 code.<p>C is my very favorite language and I'm not saying people shouldn't use it (well... they should avoid it, actually), but people should work in it with their eyes open.</text></item><item><author>asveikau</author><text>The fact that one must watch out for integer overflow on a buffer size calculation for malloc, realloc, etc. should be no surprise to a thoughtful C programmer. It sounds like somebody just did an audit of an old code base looking for bad patterns and this is what came out of it. It sounds like great work on the part of the people doing audits/fixes but I'm not sure it's freakout material ("massive" seems a bit sensationalist).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asveikau</author><text>Did I say avoid the problems? I'm pretty sure I said that the problems are not surprising. And, to add to that: I think it's especially not surprising in an older code base from an era in which this was less common knowledge. New code bases are of course not infallible but awareness of this is a higher priority than it used to be.<p>I think it's also interesting that issues like this sometimes remain in libraries because people think the caller should figure out overflow. From a casual read of the announcement it looks like they took a better approach in some areas, i.e. the library assumes the worst of the caller. I'm reminded of something I read a few years back about the OpenBSD folks adding more overflow checks to calloc which does multiplication. It's nice when you can catch it in a library rather than pushing decisions to the caller.</text></comment> |
37,989,800 | 37,989,644 | 1 | 3 | 37,987,812 | train | <story><title>Off-duty pilot allegedly tried to shut off engines on Alaska Airlines flight</title><url>https://abcnews.go.com/US/alaska-airlines-flight-diverted-after-credible-security-threat/story?id=104223059</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wongarsu</author><text>One option would be to just treat everyone. Every commercial pilot could have to complete 20 hours of therapy a year, with strict confidentiality so they can be open without jeopardizing their career. Or two mandatory hours per month with a psychologist, or whatever scheme works best.</text></item><item><author>djohnston</author><text>How do you fix the mental health issue with pilots? My understanding is that as soon as you self report you’ve basically jeopardised your career and you’re grounded for a minimum of 6 months while you wait for FAA physicians.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>veqq</author><text>Therapy can often create problems ex nihilio if there isn&#x27;t something obvious to handle e.g.: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S0005796723001560" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S000579672...</a><p>&gt; eight-session DBT skills-training intervention (‘WISE Teens) (n = 563) or class-as-per-usual (n = 508). On average, the ‘WISE Teens’ intervention did not improve outcomes with significant deteriorations or null effects observed across outcomes relative to class-as-per-usual immediately post-intervention. The largest deteriorations were observed for depressive (d = −0.22; 95% CI = −0.35, −0.08) and anxiety symptoms (d = −0.28; 95%CI - = −0.41, −0.14</text></comment> | <story><title>Off-duty pilot allegedly tried to shut off engines on Alaska Airlines flight</title><url>https://abcnews.go.com/US/alaska-airlines-flight-diverted-after-credible-security-threat/story?id=104223059</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wongarsu</author><text>One option would be to just treat everyone. Every commercial pilot could have to complete 20 hours of therapy a year, with strict confidentiality so they can be open without jeopardizing their career. Or two mandatory hours per month with a psychologist, or whatever scheme works best.</text></item><item><author>djohnston</author><text>How do you fix the mental health issue with pilots? My understanding is that as soon as you self report you’ve basically jeopardised your career and you’re grounded for a minimum of 6 months while you wait for FAA physicians.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Horffupolde</author><text>The problem is that once they admit that they have suicidal thoughts, you can’t just continue therapy. They shouldn’t keep flying.</text></comment> |
6,334,354 | 6,334,516 | 1 | 2 | 6,333,664 | train | <story><title>Deeply Moving: Deep Learning for Sentiment Analysis</title><url>http://nlp.stanford.edu/sentiment/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dave_sullivan</author><text>If you&#x27;re interested in using deep learning for nlp, I highly suggest putting a pot of coffee on and watching this a couple times: <a href="http://www.socher.org/index.php/DeepLearningTutorial/DeepLearningTutorial" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.socher.org&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;DeepLearningTutorial&#x2F;DeepLea...</a><p>The really neat part is moving away from bag of words representations. Bag of words was always a bit of a hack. But seriously, watch those videos, it will give you a good idea on how it all works, the op is using similar methods.<p>Edit: thanks gallamine, I fixed the link</text></comment> | <story><title>Deeply Moving: Deep Learning for Sentiment Analysis</title><url>http://nlp.stanford.edu/sentiment/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>agibsonccc</author><text>I know there&#x27;s deep hate for java around here, but here&#x27;s another relevant link. (You could probably shoehorn in scala or clojure as well) This is a direct tutorial for doing deep learning.<p><a href="http://nlp.stanford.edu/courses/NAACL2013/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nlp.stanford.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;NAACL2013&#x2F;</a><p>Take a look at a recent homework assignment they had to do with Named Entity Recognition and Deep Learning:
<a href="http://nlp.stanford.edu/~socherr/pa4_ner.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nlp.stanford.edu&#x2F;~socherr&#x2F;pa4_ner.pdf</a><p>It&#x27;s good to see neural networks being leveraged as they are. Conditional Random Fields have been dominant for sequence based classifiers for a while. We&#x27;ve been needing to push the envelope a bit further.</text></comment> |
12,851,518 | 12,846,439 | 1 | 3 | 12,845,855 | train | <story><title>The Mirai Botnet Is Proof the Security Industry Is Broken</title><url>https://blog.appcanary.com/2016/mirai-botnet-security-broken.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whack</author><text>That&#x27;s a great point regarding the economics of why IoT manufacturers don&#x27;t invest all that much on security. Here&#x27;s another one. It&#x27;s an externality. Botnet attacks don&#x27;t harm the IoT manufacturers. They don&#x27;t even harm the IoT products or their users. They harm completely innocent bystanders like DNS&#x2F;github.<p>What possible incentive do IoT manufacturers have to invest money on initiatives that bring no benefits to themselves, or their customers? What possible incentive do users have to follow &quot;proper security protocols&quot;, when they can just do something simple&#x2F;convenient, and if something goes wrong, some random internet website pays the price.<p>As idiotic as this sounds, the only non-regulatory solution I can think of is for all potential BotNet victims to collectively &quot;bribe&quot; the IoT companies into following proper security protocols.</text></item><item><author>Analemma_</author><text>I wish more people would talk about the economics of why netsec is such a garbage industry. It&#x27;s a few honest people screaming to be heard above the din of snake-oil salesmen, but there&#x27;s an economic reason that goes beyond &quot;dumb users, incompetent programmers and CTOs who just look and speeds and feeds&quot;. The problem is there&#x27;s weak correlation, or at least very difficult-to-see correlation, between the amount of effort you put in on security and the results you get.<p>You could have no security and just get lucky and never get hacked. Or you could have great security and just get really unlucky and have a determined hacker. Or you could be spending uselessly and still getting lucky, although you (and your vendor!) attribute your good fortune to the product. This kind of information failure makes it really hard to have a functional and efficient market, even when everyone involved is honest.<p>I don&#x27;t have a good solution for this, which I why I hope someone smarter than me brings it up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>redbeard0x0a</author><text>If ISPs turned off your connection if it was found that something on your network is part of an active attack of a botnet until the problem is cleaned up. Now the &#x27;victim&#x27; (I&#x27;d not really say victim because they chose the cheapest webcam online) has to figure out (or hire somebody to) clean up their network.<p>If there are actual consequences for people&#x27;s computers and IoT devices being &#x27;hacked&#x27;, they will start to look for ways to avoid the inconvenience in the future. They might start using better passwords, not installing every toolbar under the sun, demand better products (and accountability) from the companies they purchase items from.<p>tl;dr;<p>The only way to get some of these problems fixed is to introduce some level of pain, somewhere in the system. I say penalize the consumer who decided to buy the cheapest thing online - turn off their Internet connection when an infected device is found.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Mirai Botnet Is Proof the Security Industry Is Broken</title><url>https://blog.appcanary.com/2016/mirai-botnet-security-broken.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whack</author><text>That&#x27;s a great point regarding the economics of why IoT manufacturers don&#x27;t invest all that much on security. Here&#x27;s another one. It&#x27;s an externality. Botnet attacks don&#x27;t harm the IoT manufacturers. They don&#x27;t even harm the IoT products or their users. They harm completely innocent bystanders like DNS&#x2F;github.<p>What possible incentive do IoT manufacturers have to invest money on initiatives that bring no benefits to themselves, or their customers? What possible incentive do users have to follow &quot;proper security protocols&quot;, when they can just do something simple&#x2F;convenient, and if something goes wrong, some random internet website pays the price.<p>As idiotic as this sounds, the only non-regulatory solution I can think of is for all potential BotNet victims to collectively &quot;bribe&quot; the IoT companies into following proper security protocols.</text></item><item><author>Analemma_</author><text>I wish more people would talk about the economics of why netsec is such a garbage industry. It&#x27;s a few honest people screaming to be heard above the din of snake-oil salesmen, but there&#x27;s an economic reason that goes beyond &quot;dumb users, incompetent programmers and CTOs who just look and speeds and feeds&quot;. The problem is there&#x27;s weak correlation, or at least very difficult-to-see correlation, between the amount of effort you put in on security and the results you get.<p>You could have no security and just get lucky and never get hacked. Or you could have great security and just get really unlucky and have a determined hacker. Or you could be spending uselessly and still getting lucky, although you (and your vendor!) attribute your good fortune to the product. This kind of information failure makes it really hard to have a functional and efficient market, even when everyone involved is honest.<p>I don&#x27;t have a good solution for this, which I why I hope someone smarter than me brings it up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VodkaHaze</author><text>Externalities are usually solved through pigouvian taxes.<p>But since we can&#x27;t really know in advance what product will&#x2F;won&#x27;t be secure (or at least it&#x27;s incredibly difficult in the constantly goalpost moving security industry) the only way I can see this happening is if, say DYN could sue the IoT manufacturers for negligence or something of the like.</text></comment> |
39,973,503 | 39,973,304 | 1 | 3 | 39,969,929 | train | <story><title>It's Dante's hell – we're just living in it</title><url>https://www.neh.gov/article/its-dantes-hell-were-just-living-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nineplay</author><text>I&#x27;ve been reading Paradise Lost and Satan gives off major &quot;sexy villain&quot; vibes. The hosts of hell remain strong and defiant even while in their realm of eternal torment - &quot;Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven&quot; and all that. Meanwhile heaven is pretty bland and the angels come of as a bunch of milquetoasts.<p>I don&#x27;t know enough about Milton to know if he intended to write a cautionary tale vs. an interesting tail, but I can imagine readers thinking &quot;f** it, I&#x27;d rather hang out with the cool kids&quot;</text></item><item><author>082349872349872</author><text>Like Huxley after him, Dante made the first circle sound somewhat appealing. No doubt the food there could be much better, but the attraction would be the company, not the cuisine. (somewhat like Peter Wimsey visiting the Soviet Club, where his host tells him &quot;...the cooking isn’t very good here, but the subscription’s so small, you see&quot;?)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Terr_</author><text>Just to stir the pot and throw C.S. Lewis into the mix [0]:<p>&gt; To admire Satan, then, is to give one&#x27;s vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography. Yet the choice is possible. Hardly a day passes without some slight movement towards it in each one of us. That is what makes Paradise Lost so serious a poem. The thing is possible, and the exposure of it is resented. Where Paradise Lost is not loved, it is deeply hated. As Keats said more rightly than he knew, &#x27;there is death&#x27; in
Milton.<p>&gt; We have all skirted the Satanic island closely enough
to have motives for wishing to evade the full impact of the
poem. For, I repeat, the thing is possible ; and after a certain point it is prized. Sir Willoughby may be unhappy, but he wants to go on being Sir Willoughby. Satan wants to go on being Satan. That is the real meaning of his choice &#x27;Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav&#x27;n.&#x27; Some, to the very end, will think this a fine thing to say ; others will think that it fails to be roaring farce only because it spells agony. On the level of literary criticism the matter cannot be argued further. Each to his taste.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;A_Preface_to_Paradise_Lost" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;A_Preface_to_Paradise_Lost</a></text></comment> | <story><title>It's Dante's hell – we're just living in it</title><url>https://www.neh.gov/article/its-dantes-hell-were-just-living-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nineplay</author><text>I&#x27;ve been reading Paradise Lost and Satan gives off major &quot;sexy villain&quot; vibes. The hosts of hell remain strong and defiant even while in their realm of eternal torment - &quot;Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven&quot; and all that. Meanwhile heaven is pretty bland and the angels come of as a bunch of milquetoasts.<p>I don&#x27;t know enough about Milton to know if he intended to write a cautionary tale vs. an interesting tail, but I can imagine readers thinking &quot;f** it, I&#x27;d rather hang out with the cool kids&quot;</text></item><item><author>082349872349872</author><text>Like Huxley after him, Dante made the first circle sound somewhat appealing. No doubt the food there could be much better, but the attraction would be the company, not the cuisine. (somewhat like Peter Wimsey visiting the Soviet Club, where his host tells him &quot;...the cooking isn’t very good here, but the subscription’s so small, you see&quot;?)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tivert</author><text>&gt; The hosts of hell remain strong and defiant even while in their realm of eternal torment ... Meanwhile heaven is pretty bland and the angels come of as a bunch of milquetoasts.<p>That reminds me of the observation that happy lives make boring stories, so fiction tends towards showing dysfunctional characters, awful environments, or both.</text></comment> |
20,663,241 | 20,662,801 | 1 | 2 | 20,659,901 | train | <story><title>FBI tells lawmakers it can't access Dayton gunman's phone</title><url>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/456742-fbi-tells-lawmakers-it-cant-access-phone-of-dayton-gunman</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whatthesmack</author><text>The trouble with those policies (aside from 100-round barrels... I have no idea what that means, and I don’t think you do either) is that they’re often-mentioned, but people forget to ask the question, “Have these policies actually improved anything where they’ve been implemented?” Many of the recently-publicized shootings in the US have occurred in California, which has some of the most strict firearms laws in the nation.<p>&gt; We can reduce gun ownership
Do we actually want that, though? There are murmurs of defensive firearms use instances in the millions annually, whilst there are around 7k non-suicide-related deaths by firearm annually (1) (significantly less if you remove big anti-gun cities from the picture).<p>Compare firearms deaths with other causes:<p>* 70,000+ die from a drug overdose (2)
* 49,000 people die per year from the flu (3)
* 37,000 people die per year in traffic fatalities (4)
* 250,000+ people die each year from preventable medical errors. (5)
* 610,000 people die per year from heart disease (6)<p>There are a lot of things that might sound reasonable on the surface that the media likes to tout in the firearms debate, but many of them don’t hold muster. Why guns are the hot-button issue and heart disease isn’t plastered over the media 24&#x2F;7? I think somebody has an agenda.<p>[1] 30k deaths per <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;nchs&#x2F;data&#x2F;nvsr&#x2F;nvsr64&#x2F;nvsr64_02.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;nchs&#x2F;data&#x2F;nvsr&#x2F;nvsr64&#x2F;nvsr64_02.pdf</a>, minus 23k suicides per <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;nchs&#x2F;data&#x2F;nhamcs&#x2F;web_tables&#x2F;2015_ed_web_tables.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;nchs&#x2F;data&#x2F;nhamcs&#x2F;web_tables&#x2F;2015_ed_web_...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drugabuse.gov&#x2F;related-topics&#x2F;trends-statistics&#x2F;overdose-death-rates" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drugabuse.gov&#x2F;related-topics&#x2F;trends-statistics&#x2F;o...</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;flu&#x2F;about&#x2F;burden&#x2F;faq.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;flu&#x2F;about&#x2F;burden&#x2F;faq.htm</a>
[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov&#x2F;Api&#x2F;Public&#x2F;ViewPublication&#x2F;812603" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov&#x2F;Api&#x2F;Public&#x2F;ViewPublication&#x2F;...</a>
[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;s&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;22&#x2F;medical-errors-third-leading-cause-of-death-in-america.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;s&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;22&#x2F;med...</a>
[6] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;heartdisease&#x2F;facts.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;heartdisease&#x2F;facts.htm</a></text></item><item><author>tootie</author><text>America has vast and currently unimpeachable rights to weaponry. There is a huge swath of policy space between that and banning gun ownership. We can reduce gun ownership, trafficking and weapon deadliness a thousand different ways while not adversely impacting legitimate usage. Universal background checks, limiting purchase frequency, banning 100-round barrels, increasing liability for dealers.</text></item><item><author>randallsquared</author><text>In the US, there are more firearms than people. About one-third of all households have at least one firearm [0]. The vast majority of these people have never had a serious brush with law enforcement, but some significant portion would refuse to part with their guns if a ban were enacted tomorrow. While it is said that nearly all Americans are felons [1], most Americans do not intentionally commit felonies or think of themselves as being on the opposite side of things from law enforcement. That would suddenly change for millions of ban-defying US citizens, and it&#x27;s hard for me to imagine a likely scenario where that decreases violence in the US.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;05&#x2F;462017461&#x2F;guns-in-america-by-the-numbers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;05&#x2F;462017461&#x2F;guns-in-america-by-...</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ips-dc.org&#x2F;three-felonies-day&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ips-dc.org&#x2F;three-felonies-day&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>ben_w</author><text>Is the American government position “Guns don’t kill people, encryption kills people”, or am I just combining the personal opinions of a bunch of unrelated people who work for the government?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>6gvONxR4sf7o</author><text>&gt;Many of the recently-publicized shootings in the US have occurred in California<p>Many <i>everything</i> occurs in California. It has 12% of the US population. To be representative, one in eight US things should occur here.<p>&gt;Why guns are the hot-button issue and heart disease isn’t plastered over the media 24&#x2F;7?<p>If someone went out one saturday and gave 20 random people (or immigrants) a heart attack, it would be too. A huge amount of resources are already spent on things like preventing flu deaths. We just all agree it&#x27;s the smart thing to do, for reasons you cited.<p>It&#x27;s not evidence to not ignore gun violence, it&#x27;s evidence to put as much effort into prevention as we do for e.g. flu and disease.</text></comment> | <story><title>FBI tells lawmakers it can't access Dayton gunman's phone</title><url>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/456742-fbi-tells-lawmakers-it-cant-access-phone-of-dayton-gunman</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whatthesmack</author><text>The trouble with those policies (aside from 100-round barrels... I have no idea what that means, and I don’t think you do either) is that they’re often-mentioned, but people forget to ask the question, “Have these policies actually improved anything where they’ve been implemented?” Many of the recently-publicized shootings in the US have occurred in California, which has some of the most strict firearms laws in the nation.<p>&gt; We can reduce gun ownership
Do we actually want that, though? There are murmurs of defensive firearms use instances in the millions annually, whilst there are around 7k non-suicide-related deaths by firearm annually (1) (significantly less if you remove big anti-gun cities from the picture).<p>Compare firearms deaths with other causes:<p>* 70,000+ die from a drug overdose (2)
* 49,000 people die per year from the flu (3)
* 37,000 people die per year in traffic fatalities (4)
* 250,000+ people die each year from preventable medical errors. (5)
* 610,000 people die per year from heart disease (6)<p>There are a lot of things that might sound reasonable on the surface that the media likes to tout in the firearms debate, but many of them don’t hold muster. Why guns are the hot-button issue and heart disease isn’t plastered over the media 24&#x2F;7? I think somebody has an agenda.<p>[1] 30k deaths per <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;nchs&#x2F;data&#x2F;nvsr&#x2F;nvsr64&#x2F;nvsr64_02.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;nchs&#x2F;data&#x2F;nvsr&#x2F;nvsr64&#x2F;nvsr64_02.pdf</a>, minus 23k suicides per <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;nchs&#x2F;data&#x2F;nhamcs&#x2F;web_tables&#x2F;2015_ed_web_tables.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;nchs&#x2F;data&#x2F;nhamcs&#x2F;web_tables&#x2F;2015_ed_web_...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drugabuse.gov&#x2F;related-topics&#x2F;trends-statistics&#x2F;overdose-death-rates" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drugabuse.gov&#x2F;related-topics&#x2F;trends-statistics&#x2F;o...</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;flu&#x2F;about&#x2F;burden&#x2F;faq.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;flu&#x2F;about&#x2F;burden&#x2F;faq.htm</a>
[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov&#x2F;Api&#x2F;Public&#x2F;ViewPublication&#x2F;812603" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov&#x2F;Api&#x2F;Public&#x2F;ViewPublication&#x2F;...</a>
[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;s&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;22&#x2F;medical-errors-third-leading-cause-of-death-in-america.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;s&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;22&#x2F;med...</a>
[6] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;heartdisease&#x2F;facts.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;heartdisease&#x2F;facts.htm</a></text></item><item><author>tootie</author><text>America has vast and currently unimpeachable rights to weaponry. There is a huge swath of policy space between that and banning gun ownership. We can reduce gun ownership, trafficking and weapon deadliness a thousand different ways while not adversely impacting legitimate usage. Universal background checks, limiting purchase frequency, banning 100-round barrels, increasing liability for dealers.</text></item><item><author>randallsquared</author><text>In the US, there are more firearms than people. About one-third of all households have at least one firearm [0]. The vast majority of these people have never had a serious brush with law enforcement, but some significant portion would refuse to part with their guns if a ban were enacted tomorrow. While it is said that nearly all Americans are felons [1], most Americans do not intentionally commit felonies or think of themselves as being on the opposite side of things from law enforcement. That would suddenly change for millions of ban-defying US citizens, and it&#x27;s hard for me to imagine a likely scenario where that decreases violence in the US.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;05&#x2F;462017461&#x2F;guns-in-america-by-the-numbers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;05&#x2F;462017461&#x2F;guns-in-america-by-...</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ips-dc.org&#x2F;three-felonies-day&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ips-dc.org&#x2F;three-felonies-day&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>ben_w</author><text>Is the American government position “Guns don’t kill people, encryption kills people”, or am I just combining the personal opinions of a bunch of unrelated people who work for the government?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wyldfire</author><text>&gt; Many of the recently-publicized shootings in the US have occurred in California, which has some of the most strict firearms laws in the nation<p>If California&#x27;s laws prevented some but not all of the shootings then it still should be considered a success.<p>&gt; Why guns are the hot-button issue and heart disease isn’t plastered over the media 24&#x2F;7? I<p>I don&#x27;t think this is honest. If your mother and father died in a mass shooting you would not feel the same as if they had died of heart disease. To treat the trauma of violent deaths differently from illness&#x2F;disease is very natural.<p>Rationally, if heart disease suddenly killed tens of people in a single event you had better believe it would make headlines.</text></comment> |
24,883,532 | 24,880,810 | 1 | 3 | 24,866,512 | train | <story><title>OldVersion.com software downloads for old versions of programs, drivers & games</title><url>http://www.oldversion.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oefrha</author><text>Broken certs:<p><pre><code> curl: (60) SSL: no alternative certificate subject name matches target host name &#x27;assets.oldversion.s3.amazonaws.com&#x27;
</code></pre>
That aside, an obvious problem with binary download sites like this is that you don&#x27;t know if what you&#x27;re getting is malicious. Hosting arbitrary binaries isn&#x27;t cheap, so the economics of sites like this almost encourages shady behavior, not to mention the possibility of malicious users.<p>Edit: I realize my broken certs problem must be caused by an extension (probably HTTPS Everywhere) here. Anyway, probably don&#x27;t want to download binaries over unencrypted channels in 2020...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oldversion</author><text>I&#x27;m the founder of the site. We are ad-supported, ideally would like to be community-supported. We take the responsibility of hosting these binaries seriously, but sometimes there are bad actors in terms of users which we work to address before the binaries become available for public download.<p>Now looking into a potential API that could at least link with virustotal or a site like that to give users more information about each binary. Any ideas&#x2F;tech solutions would be welcome.<p>Thanks - what an honor it is to see this passion project from 20 years ago still relevant (and would love to have it be more relevant to various communities).</text></comment> | <story><title>OldVersion.com software downloads for old versions of programs, drivers & games</title><url>http://www.oldversion.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oefrha</author><text>Broken certs:<p><pre><code> curl: (60) SSL: no alternative certificate subject name matches target host name &#x27;assets.oldversion.s3.amazonaws.com&#x27;
</code></pre>
That aside, an obvious problem with binary download sites like this is that you don&#x27;t know if what you&#x27;re getting is malicious. Hosting arbitrary binaries isn&#x27;t cheap, so the economics of sites like this almost encourages shady behavior, not to mention the possibility of malicious users.<p>Edit: I realize my broken certs problem must be caused by an extension (probably HTTPS Everywhere) here. Anyway, probably don&#x27;t want to download binaries over unencrypted channels in 2020...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ehPReth</author><text>This happens for s3 buckets with dots in the names as wildcard certificates (*.s3.amazonaws.com) only cover one &#x27;level&#x27;.<p>You can manually work around it via using the alternative URL to access a bucket with a dot in the name:<p><pre><code> https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s3.amazonaws.com&#x2F;assets.oldversion&#x2F;&lt;filepath&gt;</code></pre></text></comment> |
16,643,580 | 16,643,921 | 1 | 3 | 16,642,985 | train | <story><title>Zuckerberg Has No Way Out of Facebook's Quagmire</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-21/facebook-s-mark-zuckerberg-has-no-way-out-of-this-quagmire</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rhizome</author><text>Please stop spreading the &quot;Obama did it too!&quot; canard, they didn&#x27;t exceed authorization.</text></item><item><author>sverige</author><text>The Facebook outrage is interesting since it is tied to Trump. When Obama did it, no one cared. For example, there&#x27;s a video of Jim Messina, Obama&#x27;s 2012 campaign manager, talking about how they obtained the entire Facebook social graph and used it to target voters. [1] I don&#x27;t remember any &quot;delete Facebook&quot; campaigns back then.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=mZmcyHpG31A" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=mZmcyHpG31A</a></text></item><item><author>rectang</author><text>It&#x27;s fascinating that widespread outrage over privacy finally materializes when data is used for hated political causes. Commerce, law enforcement not so much... but &quot;Trump&quot; or &quot;Obama&quot; and suddenly people care.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickysielicki</author><text>See here for details of how CA&#x27;s data was aggregated: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theintercept.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;30&#x2F;facebook-failed-to-protect-30-million-users-from-having-their-data-harvested-by-trump-campaign-affiliate&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theintercept.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;30&#x2F;facebook-failed-to-prote...</a><p>You can find that this survey was listed on reddit: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;HITsWorthTurkingFor&#x2F;comments&#x2F;27nnaa&#x2F;ussurvey_on_personality_wellbeing_demographics&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;HITsWorthTurkingFor&#x2F;comments&#x2F;27nnaa...</a><p>Half the reddit commenters claim to have gave them fraudulent information, and they paid people $2 for completing the survey.<p>How is that fundamentally different from this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mbsimon&#x2F;status&#x2F;975231597183229953" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mbsimon&#x2F;status&#x2F;975231597183229953</a><p>&gt; I ran the Obama 2008 data-driven microtargeting team. How dare you! We didn’t steal private Facebook profile data from voters under false pretenses. OFA voluntarily solicited opinions of hundreds of thousands of voters. We didn’t commit theft to do our groundbreaking work.<p>So a bunch of MT users voluntarily gave their information over, for $2, knowing that it would be used for research purposes, and clearly (at least on reddit) skeptical of giving over their information. But that&#x27;s theft and that&#x27;s wrong.<p>A bunch of Obama for President enthusiasts voluntarily give their information to his campaign, knowing that it would be used for research purposes. That&#x27;s categorically different, for some reason.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zuckerberg Has No Way Out of Facebook's Quagmire</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-21/facebook-s-mark-zuckerberg-has-no-way-out-of-this-quagmire</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rhizome</author><text>Please stop spreading the &quot;Obama did it too!&quot; canard, they didn&#x27;t exceed authorization.</text></item><item><author>sverige</author><text>The Facebook outrage is interesting since it is tied to Trump. When Obama did it, no one cared. For example, there&#x27;s a video of Jim Messina, Obama&#x27;s 2012 campaign manager, talking about how they obtained the entire Facebook social graph and used it to target voters. [1] I don&#x27;t remember any &quot;delete Facebook&quot; campaigns back then.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=mZmcyHpG31A" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=mZmcyHpG31A</a></text></item><item><author>rectang</author><text>It&#x27;s fascinating that widespread outrage over privacy finally materializes when data is used for hated political causes. Commerce, law enforcement not so much... but &quot;Trump&quot; or &quot;Obama&quot; and suddenly people care.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>canoebuilder</author><text><i>Please stop spreading the &quot;Obama did it too!&quot; canard, they didn&#x27;t exceed authorization.</i><p>So in this formulation you&#x27;re making Facebook out to be some kind of super-governmental authority on the proper or improper use of this potentially civilization shifting cache of data.<p>This issue here isn&#x27;t, oh noes! Trump broke Facebook&#x27;s rules, bad Trump!<p>This issue here is that this cache of data <i>exists</i> and we&#x27;ve seen it put to use in a variety of ways that elicit dismay from a variety of people.<p>This issue here is that Facebook exists, has constructed this system, exploitative of human behaviour and psychology, and collected this data.<p>Think back to the Chamath and Parker stories a few months ago.
This is a much bigger issue than the doings of a single political campaign.<p>Are we just going to leave it up to Zuck and Sheryl to work out how they can best profit from this system and data while hoping they don&#x27;t destroy society in the process?<p>What if Zuckerberg were to die in a plane crash tomorrow and an <i>enfant terrible</i>, a young Maxima Rex were to subsequently rise to the throne while holding political views polar opposite to both you and her father, would you be just as enthusiastic about her deciding what are and aren&#x27;t &quot;authorizable&quot; uses of this data?<p><i>#deletefacebook</i></text></comment> |
34,703,950 | 34,697,216 | 1 | 3 | 34,690,788 | train | <story><title>Google and Mozilla are working on iOS browsers that aren't based on WebKit</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/07/mozilla_google_apple_webkit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drewg123</author><text>I&#x27;m looking forward to running &quot;real&quot; firefox on ios. If only so that there is another alternative if a page renders poorly in webkit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>petesergeant</author><text>&gt; If only so that there is another alternative if a page renders poorly in webkit<p>I have a less optimistic take. At the moment, the only thing standing between the world and a Chrome-only monoculture is iOS Safari. Nobody in a suit can make a business case for not supporting iOS Safari, given its market share, and also given the fact that the entire C-Suite and senior management team at any given company are using Safari on their iPhone and iPad. A page not working on iOS Safari is a serious business problem that people will take seriously, today.<p>If it gets displaced by Chrome on iOS, with a tiny sliver of us using Firefox, I worry &quot;works on Chrome&quot; will be the only thing that gets solved for.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google and Mozilla are working on iOS browsers that aren't based on WebKit</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/07/mozilla_google_apple_webkit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drewg123</author><text>I&#x27;m looking forward to running &quot;real&quot; firefox on ios. If only so that there is another alternative if a page renders poorly in webkit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldpie</author><text>Real Firefox is the thing I miss most when I switched from Android. Browsing the web without NoScript suuuucks.</text></comment> |
18,511,807 | 18,510,740 | 1 | 3 | 18,506,170 | train | <story><title>Slow Software</title><url>https://www.inkandswitch.com/slow-software.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dandare</author><text>Input latency, I can understand. Web latency, at least you know what you are paying for (trackers, fonts, bloated stylesheets, MBs of JS libraries...). But core software latency, that is pure madness.<p>Android share menu: what on earth takes 500ms-2000ms to display a menu??<p>Android scrolling: I could have a smoother scrolling if I rendered the view on a wall in Doom III. Why on earth is the scrolling process not prioritized above everything else?? iOS got this right.<p>Microsoft Outlook on Mac: it can teak easily 2000ms to close(!) a window, are you kidding me?<p>My new 2018 Touchbar Mac does not &quot;feel&quot; any faster than my old 2013 retina Mac, while the paper specs and benchmarks show at least 100% increase in computational power. They can both equally easily choke down on some unwanted Skype update or stupid WebEx video stream (yes, I work in corporate).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nugator</author><text>Amen, the Android share menu. Seems like it tries to go through the entire history of my previous shares to see what is most popular, then asks every app that enables sharing to list their respective sharing targets. Some of these apps also checks which of its own sharing targets are most popular (like the sms app and Messenger).
Finally it renders a long list that to me feels random each time and not always relevant. &#x2F;End rant</text></comment> | <story><title>Slow Software</title><url>https://www.inkandswitch.com/slow-software.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dandare</author><text>Input latency, I can understand. Web latency, at least you know what you are paying for (trackers, fonts, bloated stylesheets, MBs of JS libraries...). But core software latency, that is pure madness.<p>Android share menu: what on earth takes 500ms-2000ms to display a menu??<p>Android scrolling: I could have a smoother scrolling if I rendered the view on a wall in Doom III. Why on earth is the scrolling process not prioritized above everything else?? iOS got this right.<p>Microsoft Outlook on Mac: it can teak easily 2000ms to close(!) a window, are you kidding me?<p>My new 2018 Touchbar Mac does not &quot;feel&quot; any faster than my old 2013 retina Mac, while the paper specs and benchmarks show at least 100% increase in computational power. They can both equally easily choke down on some unwanted Skype update or stupid WebEx video stream (yes, I work in corporate).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lostgame</author><text>I also work in corporate - my 2017 Touchbar feels insanely slower than my partner&#x27;s 2013, or sometimes even my late 2011.<p>Not to mention the awful keyboard and non-upgradable parts.<p>Outlook is a nightmare - heck, the Office suite has been awful essentially since it&#x27;s rewrite from being PPC-only for 2008.<p>Not only did we have to wait way too long for a native Intel version &#x2F; Universal Binary - but when it arrived, it was slow and clunky on <i>both</i> pieces of hardware.<p>But worse than office - our entire team is now being migrated to cloud-based email that virtualizes itself in an <i>IE window</i>, and responds to clicks and scrolls about 40% of the time.<p>It looks awful, it performs awful, I&#x27;ve never experienced quite a terrible piece of software. Weird, virtualized, Office 365 - unless you&#x27;re on Windows, I couldn&#x27;t imagine this working for you.</text></comment> |
25,778,827 | 25,778,262 | 1 | 3 | 25,776,590 | train | <story><title>Facebook Has Been Showing Military Gear Ads Next to “Insurrection” Posts</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-profits-military-gear-ads-capitol-riot</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>That&#x27;s why the solution is liability: Companies will keep leaving unchecked algorithms responsible for this until they can go to jail for doing so.<p>Adtech is a cancer and it&#x27;s time to cut it out using every legislative and regulatory option we have.<p>Put Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai behind bars and the problem will correct after that.</text></item><item><author>brundolf</author><text>The unintuitive thing here (for the general population at least, possibly not the HN crowd) is that almost certainly nobody at Facebook saw, and approved (much less designed) this marketing strategy. It naturally emerged from the goals the system has been given. That doesn&#x27;t excuse it: in fact, it indicts automated targeted-advertisement as a category.<p><i>This software is working exactly as it was designed to.</i> I&#x27;m sure somebody could (and probably will, now that it&#x27;s made the news) add a rule that makes an exception in this case. But this is going to keep happening, and keep happening, and keep happening, as long as we continue allowing systems to automate our content-feeds, optimized for getting us to spend money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>manigandham</author><text>Liability for what exactly? How about people who actually commit bad acts are the ones responsible for it?<p>It seems like you haven&#x27;t really thought about this and are just personally against adtech and those companies. That&#x27;s not how rights and legislation should be decided.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook Has Been Showing Military Gear Ads Next to “Insurrection” Posts</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-profits-military-gear-ads-capitol-riot</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>That&#x27;s why the solution is liability: Companies will keep leaving unchecked algorithms responsible for this until they can go to jail for doing so.<p>Adtech is a cancer and it&#x27;s time to cut it out using every legislative and regulatory option we have.<p>Put Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai behind bars and the problem will correct after that.</text></item><item><author>brundolf</author><text>The unintuitive thing here (for the general population at least, possibly not the HN crowd) is that almost certainly nobody at Facebook saw, and approved (much less designed) this marketing strategy. It naturally emerged from the goals the system has been given. That doesn&#x27;t excuse it: in fact, it indicts automated targeted-advertisement as a category.<p><i>This software is working exactly as it was designed to.</i> I&#x27;m sure somebody could (and probably will, now that it&#x27;s made the news) add a rule that makes an exception in this case. But this is going to keep happening, and keep happening, and keep happening, as long as we continue allowing systems to automate our content-feeds, optimized for getting us to spend money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>newacct583</author><text>For clarity: liability solutions are civil and aren&#x27;t going to put anyone behind bars.<p>But yes, that&#x27;s absolutely part of the puzzle. Companies who made money by peddling armor and ammo and gear into an extremist community they were simultaneously trying to moderate need to be held partially responsible.<p>And that goes for the apocalyptic end-times mess that has infested the gun and gun-peripheral industries too. If you spend your advertising budget telling your customers they need your products to &quot;protect their freedoms&quot; then you don&#x27;t get a pass if they end up sacking congress to do it.</text></comment> |
3,094,948 | 3,094,625 | 1 | 2 | 3,094,360 | train | <story><title>An lsof Primer</title><url>http://danielmiessler.com/study/lsof/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>naner</author><text>The thing I use lsof for most often these days is watching Flash videos with mplayer (or VLC if you prefer). This allows me to pause/rewind/fullscreen easier. Or sometimes I save the file to watch later. You still have to start the video from within Flash and then pause it so it downloads the video file. Then you can do this:<p><pre><code> $ lsof | grep Flash
plugin-co 1038 naner 16w REG 254,2 4442164 7602188 /tmp/FlashXXfHeQqB (deleted)
$ mplayer /proc/1038/fd/16
</code></pre>
Oftentimes the output will give you duplicates for the same temporary flash file (FlashXXfHeQqB in this case) with an extra number after the process id, you can ignore all of that. I'm assuming those are child processes. All you need is the process id (1038) and the file descriptor (16). You can safely ingore the character (w) after the file descriptor.<p>Back in the day (Flash 9 or so?) the flash player used to just dump temporary flash video files in /tmp and delete them after you close the browser tab. I guess they figured it was too easy to copy the files out of /tmp so the newer flash player deletes the /tmp file immediately after it creates them. This is why we have to go and grab the open file descriptor.<p>This will work with most but not <i>all</i> websites. Some websites (Hulu) will use a streaming protocol (rtsp) among other things to make the content harder to get at outside of flash.<p>This works on Linux, I'm not sure about OSX or BSD.</text></comment> | <story><title>An lsof Primer</title><url>http://danielmiessler.com/study/lsof/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Udo</author><text>It's a good article. Beware though:<p><pre><code> lsof +L1 shows you all open files that have a link count less than 1,
often indicative of a cracker trying to hide something
</code></pre>
On OS X, lsof +L1 returns tons of files, this is normal.</text></comment> |
19,191,205 | 19,189,967 | 1 | 2 | 19,187,508 | train | <story><title>Muscle memory discovery ends 'use it or lose it' dogma</title><url>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190125084106.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IshKebab</author><text>That can&#x27;t be everything though because otherwise your body wouldn&#x27;t physically change when you train and they clearly do.<p>Also why wouldn&#x27;t evolution just make us all strong all the time if it only requires neurological changes?</text></item><item><author>CptFribble</author><text>Yes and no. Individual fibers are either On or Off, but individual fibers are grouped into bundles, and any one muscle is composed of many bundles. When you flex a muscle to move a thing, your brain only recruits some of the bundles. The exact amount is determined by some combination of your willpower, focus, training level, and adrenaline.<p>As you train (that is, try really hard to lift something heavy), you teach your brain that you&#x27;re going to be lifting heavy things a lot going forward, which makes your brain recruit more muscle fibers when you actually go ahead and lift the thing.<p>So you&#x27;re right in one sense, and incomplete in another.</text></item><item><author>__xjb__</author><text>If I&#x27;m not mistaken, muscle fibers can only fire maximally--a muscle fiber either fires (maximally) or it doesn&#x27;t fire. Isn&#x27;t muscle fiber recruitment what differentiates delicate, precise motions from gross, explosive motions?</text></item><item><author>Fricken</author><text>Developing muscle strength is mostly about training and growing the nerves in your muscles to engage more muscle cells when they fire. If your muscles could fire maximally they&#x27;d be strong enough to rip tendon from bone.</text></item><item><author>hirundo</author><text>From Wikipedia&#x27;s description of muscle memory:<p>&gt; When a movement is repeated over time, a long-term muscle memory is created for that task, eventually allowing it to be performed without conscious effort.<p>But this article is about enhanced muscle recovery and volume, not about motor learning. I wonder if that&#x27;s an abuse of the term &quot;muscle memory&quot; or just a different sense. I&#x27;m not finding that sense used in a quick search. But the term is also used in the review paper that this article is about, so apparently it has a specialized sense in that discipline.<p>According to Wikipedia muscle memory as retained skills isn&#x27;t about muscle fibers, but neurons.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Muscle_memory" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Muscle_memory</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PeterisP</author><text>Strength is generally an evolutionary drawback, in most cases the benefits of extra strength doesn&#x27;t outweigh the calorie cost of building maintaining it.<p>For very costly things like strength and brainpower, evolution is ensuring that we have as much as we require, and not a single bit more; and has all kinds of processes for actively <i>reducing</i> strength that you had unless you have <i>both</i> extra calories and the demonstrated need to use that strength; because it saves calories.</text></comment> | <story><title>Muscle memory discovery ends 'use it or lose it' dogma</title><url>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190125084106.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IshKebab</author><text>That can&#x27;t be everything though because otherwise your body wouldn&#x27;t physically change when you train and they clearly do.<p>Also why wouldn&#x27;t evolution just make us all strong all the time if it only requires neurological changes?</text></item><item><author>CptFribble</author><text>Yes and no. Individual fibers are either On or Off, but individual fibers are grouped into bundles, and any one muscle is composed of many bundles. When you flex a muscle to move a thing, your brain only recruits some of the bundles. The exact amount is determined by some combination of your willpower, focus, training level, and adrenaline.<p>As you train (that is, try really hard to lift something heavy), you teach your brain that you&#x27;re going to be lifting heavy things a lot going forward, which makes your brain recruit more muscle fibers when you actually go ahead and lift the thing.<p>So you&#x27;re right in one sense, and incomplete in another.</text></item><item><author>__xjb__</author><text>If I&#x27;m not mistaken, muscle fibers can only fire maximally--a muscle fiber either fires (maximally) or it doesn&#x27;t fire. Isn&#x27;t muscle fiber recruitment what differentiates delicate, precise motions from gross, explosive motions?</text></item><item><author>Fricken</author><text>Developing muscle strength is mostly about training and growing the nerves in your muscles to engage more muscle cells when they fire. If your muscles could fire maximally they&#x27;d be strong enough to rip tendon from bone.</text></item><item><author>hirundo</author><text>From Wikipedia&#x27;s description of muscle memory:<p>&gt; When a movement is repeated over time, a long-term muscle memory is created for that task, eventually allowing it to be performed without conscious effort.<p>But this article is about enhanced muscle recovery and volume, not about motor learning. I wonder if that&#x27;s an abuse of the term &quot;muscle memory&quot; or just a different sense. I&#x27;m not finding that sense used in a quick search. But the term is also used in the review paper that this article is about, so apparently it has a specialized sense in that discipline.<p>According to Wikipedia muscle memory as retained skills isn&#x27;t about muscle fibers, but neurons.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Muscle_memory" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Muscle_memory</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ashelmire</author><text>It’s not everything. See muscle hypertrophy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Muscle_hypertrophy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Muscle_hypertrophy</a></text></comment> |
41,402,383 | 41,400,465 | 1 | 2 | 41,395,413 | train | <story><title>The secret inside One Million Checkboxes</title><url>https://eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asolove</author><text>This part is so important:<p>&gt; The adults in my life were largely not mad at me. They asked me to knock it off, but also made me a t-shirt. I don’t think I’d be doing what I do now without the encouragement that I received then.<p>Teena need a place to be moderately mischievous, with semi-real social outcomes, but also some boundaries and help to not take it too far.<p>And adults who aren’t authorities over them except insofar that they have cool talents the kids want to learn.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sohcahtoa82</author><text>Back in 1999 while I was in high school, I played a goofy harmless prank on one of the school computers.<p>I created a 2-page slideshow presentation. Both of them had the same black background with grey text that appeared to be a DOS session indicating that Windows was deleted, except one had an underscore at the prompt. By telling the program to automatically advance the slides every second, and to loop the presentation, it gave the impression of a blinking cursor. It looked like a broken computer, but simply pressing Escape would get out of it.<p>Of course, it&#x27;s worth mentioning that these were Macs, so they didn&#x27;t even have DOS or Windows.<p>Anyways, a teacher saw it and thought I had hacked&#x2F;broken the computer and sent me to the principal that didn&#x27;t think it was funny and punished me by making me spend the second half of my lunch period with the school IT guy for the next 2 weeks so I could shadow him and see how much vandalism he has to deal with.<p>When I saw him the first time, he was like &quot;Wait, what did you do?&quot; and I recreated it. He thought it was funny as hell and thought it was ridiculous for them to act like I broke a computer.<p>We had a lot of fun hanging out. Even after my punishment was over, I still frequently went to his office to chat or walk around and fix computers.</text></comment> | <story><title>The secret inside One Million Checkboxes</title><url>https://eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asolove</author><text>This part is so important:<p>&gt; The adults in my life were largely not mad at me. They asked me to knock it off, but also made me a t-shirt. I don’t think I’d be doing what I do now without the encouragement that I received then.<p>Teena need a place to be moderately mischievous, with semi-real social outcomes, but also some boundaries and help to not take it too far.<p>And adults who aren’t authorities over them except insofar that they have cool talents the kids want to learn.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eythian</author><text>Yes, I had a similar experience in high school. I ended up modifying a virus that infected a bunch of computers and causing problems, so I got kicked out the lab until the next year (but this was late September, so no biggie.)<p>The next year I mentioned to the teacher that I had something I wanted to play with, can I please get access to a PC (the lab computers were Acorns), and so he gave me after school access to the accounting classroom, more storage on the network drive (50MB when everyone else had 5!), and basically free reign if I didn&#x27;t break things. So I didn&#x27;t, and was running Tierra on piles of machines overnight, just to see it doing cool things, and getting in in the morning to save everything and reboot them. It certainly set me up well for the future.<p>And didn&#x27;t break things, because I didn&#x27;t want to kill the golden goose!</text></comment> |
11,864,183 | 11,863,672 | 1 | 2 | 11,862,786 | train | <story><title>DNS: Basic Concepts (2013)</title><url>https://www.petekeen.net/dns-the-good-parts</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>callmeed</author><text>If you want a startup&#x2F;side-project idea, here it is. I can tell you from 10+ years in website hosting and maintenance that most laypeople, designers, marketers, and even some technical people will <i>never</i> understand DNS. (and they shouldn&#x27;t have to)<p>A small business wants a website at SquareSpace, cloudflare CDN, email at Google Apps, landing pages on a subdomain with Unbounce, their blog on yet another subdomain, and DKIM&#x2F;SPF records for the email newsletter system.<p>Setting this up is not easy for most people. Most people aren&#x27;t even sure <i>where</i> to do it–let alone <i>how</i> to do it. (is your registrar handling your DNS? sometimes ...)<p>If you had a 1 or 2-click tool that setup these for people, maybe wrapped it around some domain search&#x2F;affiliate tools, I think you could make some money.<p>My 2¢</text></comment> | <story><title>DNS: Basic Concepts (2013)</title><url>https://www.petekeen.net/dns-the-good-parts</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aljones</author><text><i>&quot;Email is so important to the functioning of the Internet that it gets its own record type.&quot;</i><p>Well that is one way of looking at it. Probably the appropriate way if you&#x27;re teaching, but if you want to be critical then it reeks of poor design for a particular service to get special treatment by a fundamental part of the internet. It isn&#x27;t that MX records aren&#x27;t needed. They just shouldn&#x27;t only be useful for email.</text></comment> |
33,885,337 | 33,884,011 | 1 | 2 | 33,882,293 | train | <story><title>Why Is No One Asking SFB What Happened to the $3.3B He Borrowed?</title><url>https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/12/earth-to-reporters-why-is-no-one-asking-sfb-what-happened-to-the-3-3-billion-he-borrowed.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ethanbond</author><text>Seems to me people have completely unrealistic expectations of how financial crimes play out. This will take <i>years</i> to unwind.<p>Pretty obvious the &quot;why isn&#x27;t he in jail yet&quot; screaming is coming from the same place as &quot;why aren&#x27;t I rich yet,&quot; on which this entire empire was built. This stuff takes time. He&#x27;s very obviously going to prison.<p>For context: Enron, whose operations and collapse caused <i>way</i> more negative impact on the public, fell over in 2001. It wasn&#x27;t until 2004 that Skilling (CEO&#x2F;COO&#x2F;general bad actor) went into FBI custody. It wasn&#x27;t until <i>2006</i> that he was convicted.<p>Yeah, SBF is going out on a media tour and admitting to all his crimes, so hey maybe they should arrest him now - but why? He&#x27;s clearly too dumb&#x2F;narcissistic to run. Take him to court based on media appearances and he may claim he was hopped up on a boatload of amphetamines to the point of actual delusion. Then oops, guess we didn&#x27;t gather all the <i>hard evidence</i> needed to convict so we lose our shot! Jeez, people.</text></item><item><author>mikejulietbravo</author><text>Correct - the &quot;everyone&quot; is mainly NYT and some politicians. There are some questions there as it&#x27;s a bit sketchy why they&#x27;re treating him with such kid gloves.</text></item><item><author>tom-thistime</author><text>This may be a &quot;culture gap&quot; (or language gap) between crypto and traditional finance. The FT text directly addresses the question that we&#x27;re told &quot;No one [is] asking.&quot; They asked where&#x27;s the money, and they&#x27;re exposing the fact that no coherent response has been forthcoming.<p>That&#x27;s reporting. The likely interpretation of that piece of reporting is crystal clear to the intended readership. (I.e., the money is probably gone.)<p>[For people who really want to nerd out: If you read all available public filings, the stories in the financial press are much easier to understand accurately. However this one is not subtle.]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sangnoir</author><text>&gt; Seems to me people have completely unrealistic expectations of how financial crimes play out. This will take years to unwind.<p>I doubt there can be a group more perfectly self-selected for seeing TradFi, media and the government as corrupt than today&#x27;s crypto community. What they are experiencing is conformation bias, affirming things they always &quot;knew&quot; to be true all along, based on gut feel more than any real knowledge of how long investigations typically take.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Is No One Asking SFB What Happened to the $3.3B He Borrowed?</title><url>https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/12/earth-to-reporters-why-is-no-one-asking-sfb-what-happened-to-the-3-3-billion-he-borrowed.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ethanbond</author><text>Seems to me people have completely unrealistic expectations of how financial crimes play out. This will take <i>years</i> to unwind.<p>Pretty obvious the &quot;why isn&#x27;t he in jail yet&quot; screaming is coming from the same place as &quot;why aren&#x27;t I rich yet,&quot; on which this entire empire was built. This stuff takes time. He&#x27;s very obviously going to prison.<p>For context: Enron, whose operations and collapse caused <i>way</i> more negative impact on the public, fell over in 2001. It wasn&#x27;t until 2004 that Skilling (CEO&#x2F;COO&#x2F;general bad actor) went into FBI custody. It wasn&#x27;t until <i>2006</i> that he was convicted.<p>Yeah, SBF is going out on a media tour and admitting to all his crimes, so hey maybe they should arrest him now - but why? He&#x27;s clearly too dumb&#x2F;narcissistic to run. Take him to court based on media appearances and he may claim he was hopped up on a boatload of amphetamines to the point of actual delusion. Then oops, guess we didn&#x27;t gather all the <i>hard evidence</i> needed to convict so we lose our shot! Jeez, people.</text></item><item><author>mikejulietbravo</author><text>Correct - the &quot;everyone&quot; is mainly NYT and some politicians. There are some questions there as it&#x27;s a bit sketchy why they&#x27;re treating him with such kid gloves.</text></item><item><author>tom-thistime</author><text>This may be a &quot;culture gap&quot; (or language gap) between crypto and traditional finance. The FT text directly addresses the question that we&#x27;re told &quot;No one [is] asking.&quot; They asked where&#x27;s the money, and they&#x27;re exposing the fact that no coherent response has been forthcoming.<p>That&#x27;s reporting. The likely interpretation of that piece of reporting is crystal clear to the intended readership. (I.e., the money is probably gone.)<p>[For people who really want to nerd out: If you read all available public filings, the stories in the financial press are much easier to understand accurately. However this one is not subtle.]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stonemetal12</author><text>Is the media tour a defense plan? Anyone who might be a decent juror is now exposed to news of the crime and prejudice against him.</text></comment> |
37,863,618 | 37,860,946 | 1 | 2 | 37,859,659 | train | <story><title>YouTube TV, which costs $73 a month, agrees to end "$600 less than cable" ads</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/youtube-tv-which-costs-73-a-month-agrees-to-end-600-less-than-cable-ads/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>Are people here really so young that they never had to deal with traditional cable subscriptions? Let me tell you what it was like. You signed up for Comcast, paid a $50+ installation fee, prayed that the technician would even show up in the allotted window, paid $100-150 month for basic service, paid for a cable box&#x2F;modem rental, paid for HD, paid for DVR, paid for each extra TV in your house, paid for premium channels, paid for on-demand, paid for sports packages, and then watched a shit load of ads to cap it all off. Complaining that YouTube TV is too pricey or is making things worse just shows that you don&#x27;t know of the media world outside of YouTube and Netflix.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>time0ut</author><text>Ah, don’t forget the incredible experience of calling Comcast customer service because your special promotional rate expired and your monthly bill went up 25%, or the free HBO promotion that you couldn’t opt out of expired and you are paying $10 more, or any of half a dozen other anti consumer nonsense some scumbag at Comcast dreamt up. The most outrageous was one some Comcast rep called me to tell me I qualified for a free DVR upgrade because I was such a loyal customer. By loyal I guess they meant captive, but ok. I don’t watch TV and only had a TV package cause it was somehow cheaper than just internet due to some promotion, but sure whatever. Turns out by free he meant like an extra $30 per month. Took me a few billing cycles to notice. I had never even unboxed it. They refunded me after several hours on the phone. I should have invoiced them for my time. I got rid of them as soon as I had an alternative.</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube TV, which costs $73 a month, agrees to end "$600 less than cable" ads</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/youtube-tv-which-costs-73-a-month-agrees-to-end-600-less-than-cable-ads/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>Are people here really so young that they never had to deal with traditional cable subscriptions? Let me tell you what it was like. You signed up for Comcast, paid a $50+ installation fee, prayed that the technician would even show up in the allotted window, paid $100-150 month for basic service, paid for a cable box&#x2F;modem rental, paid for HD, paid for DVR, paid for each extra TV in your house, paid for premium channels, paid for on-demand, paid for sports packages, and then watched a shit load of ads to cap it all off. Complaining that YouTube TV is too pricey or is making things worse just shows that you don&#x27;t know of the media world outside of YouTube and Netflix.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NegativeK</author><text>We were paying about $350 for internet + the full package to get sports.<p>Now it&#x27;s $60 for faster internet and $73 for TV. The ads are infuriating, but it&#x27;s less than half the cost for pretty much the same TV experience. This is a very clear upgrade.</text></comment> |
35,524,899 | 35,524,571 | 1 | 2 | 35,523,859 | train | <story><title>Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/06/anthropics-5b-4-year-plan-to-take-on-openai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xena</author><text>The main reason why companies don&#x27;t allow NSFW content is because of puritan payment processors that see that stuff and then go absolute sicko mode and lock people out of the traditional finance system.</text></item><item><author>alexb_</author><text>If someone released a chatGPT&#x2F;characterAI with NSFW content enabled it would eat into a big share of their users (and for characterAI, maybe take all of them). Seriously, look into what people are posting about when it comes to characterAI, and it&#x27;s 80% &quot;here&#x27;s how to get around NSFW filters&quot;.<p>Unsure why nobody is taking this very very obvious hole in AI tech.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cubefox</author><text>It is amazing that in the year 2023, where things are possible that were science fiction until recently, we still rely on private payment processors, credit card companies, which extract fees for a service that doesn&#x27;t have any technical necessity anymore. I think the reason is just inertia. They work well enough in most cases, and the fees aren&#x27;t so high as to be painful, so there is little pressure to switch to something more modern.</text></comment> | <story><title>Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/06/anthropics-5b-4-year-plan-to-take-on-openai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xena</author><text>The main reason why companies don&#x27;t allow NSFW content is because of puritan payment processors that see that stuff and then go absolute sicko mode and lock people out of the traditional finance system.</text></item><item><author>alexb_</author><text>If someone released a chatGPT&#x2F;characterAI with NSFW content enabled it would eat into a big share of their users (and for characterAI, maybe take all of them). Seriously, look into what people are posting about when it comes to characterAI, and it&#x27;s 80% &quot;here&#x27;s how to get around NSFW filters&quot;.<p>Unsure why nobody is taking this very very obvious hole in AI tech.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dpkirchner</author><text>I think it&#x27;s equally likely that they just don&#x27;t want their product to be known as &quot;the porn bot&quot;.</text></comment> |
40,572,985 | 40,572,782 | 1 | 3 | 40,572,289 | train | <story><title>Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts</title><url>https://www.pcworld.com/article/2354686/microsoft-blocks-windows-11-workaround-local-accounts.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ta1243</author><text>&gt; The only thing holding me from Linux<p>I&#x27;ve spent the last 25 years using linux and seeing this statement.<p>There&#x27;s always something.</text></item><item><author>worewood</author><text>I recently had to install windows on 2 computers after some years without doing it.<p>Had to spend an entire day debloating the thing. Had to use a handful of tools and powershell scripts to do it.<p>I still can&#x27;t imagine how they managed to make a context menu open in almost a full second. In Windows 9x on a 200Mhz it was instant. A useless one too, because all the options that matter are in the old one.<p>The only thing holding me from Linux is ThrottleStop and MSI Afterburner, which are a must for gaming on my laptop</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deaddodo</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using Linux for a similar time. To be fair to those people, there were massive roadblocks for ages. 802.11b (then G, A, N, etc) support, Flash while it ruled the roost, DRM-video playback, GPU-acceleration, Bluetooth device support, proper sleep, functional multihead, application support, etc, etc, etc.<p>It&#x27;s not fair to say &quot;there&#x27;s always something&quot; in a sarcastic tone, when there legitimately <i>has</i> always been something holding people back. Especially on laptops.<p>Is it easier than ever to use? Definitely. Does it support a significant chunk of hardware these days? Yup. Are there actual proprietary&#x2F;commercial pieces of software on it? Yeah. Does it game now? Sure does. Are there still reasons people might not be able to use it? Definitely.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts</title><url>https://www.pcworld.com/article/2354686/microsoft-blocks-windows-11-workaround-local-accounts.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ta1243</author><text>&gt; The only thing holding me from Linux<p>I&#x27;ve spent the last 25 years using linux and seeing this statement.<p>There&#x27;s always something.</text></item><item><author>worewood</author><text>I recently had to install windows on 2 computers after some years without doing it.<p>Had to spend an entire day debloating the thing. Had to use a handful of tools and powershell scripts to do it.<p>I still can&#x27;t imagine how they managed to make a context menu open in almost a full second. In Windows 9x on a 200Mhz it was instant. A useless one too, because all the options that matter are in the old one.<p>The only thing holding me from Linux is ThrottleStop and MSI Afterburner, which are a must for gaming on my laptop</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darkwater</author><text>And to give a more Linux-positive spin<p>&quot;there is always something that holds you... which is actually not that vital in the end once you lose it&quot;</text></comment> |
22,069,039 | 22,062,955 | 1 | 2 | 22,062,472 | train | <story><title>An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t have (2019)</title><url>https://aeon.co/ideas/an-ant-colony-has-memories-that-its-individual-members-dont-have</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hansbo</author><text>&gt; Main takeaway, very interesting analogy. Ant colonies are great examples of complex systems with emergent large-scale behavior. Indeed the same could be said about networks of neurons. Interesting to think of an ant colony as the sum of oscillations of signals.<p>Indeed. I&#x27;ve long thought that an ant colony should be seen as a single individual, rather than a group. One part which can procreate, like the reproductive system. Another which can fight off invaders, like white blood cells, or perhaps muscles. The anthill, in turn, is like a body; constructed by the cells and neurons, and protecting the system as a whole.</text></item><item><author>anonytrary</author><text>&gt; Ants use the rate at which they meet and smell other ants, or the chemicals deposited by other ants, to decide what to do next. A neuron uses the rate at which it is stimulated by other neurons to decide whether to fire. In both cases, memory arises from changes in how ants or neurons connect and stimulate each other.<p>Main takeaway, very interesting analogy. Ant colonies are great examples of complex systems with emergent large-scale behavior. Indeed the same could be said about networks of neurons. Interesting to think of an ant colony as the sum of oscillations of signals.<p>&gt; Every morning, the shape of the colony’s foraging area changes, like an amoeba that expands and contracts.<p>Sounds like an emergent macroscopic &quot;heartbeat&quot; of the colony.<p>&gt; In an older, larger colony, each ant has more ants to meet than in a younger, smaller one, and the outcome is a more stable dynamic.<p>It makes sense that small perturbations would temporarily morph the heartbeat, but would probably snap back into the default oscillation pretty quickly. It would be interesting to see if a small colony is equally resilient to small perturbations as a large colony is to large perturbations, keeping some adjusted ratio of the perturbationSize&#x2F;colonySize constant.<p>&gt; individual ants live at most a year.<p>This comes as a surprise to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>soulofmischief</author><text>The emergent layers are organelles -&gt; cell -&gt; tissue -&gt; organ -&gt; organ system -&gt; organism -&gt; organization.<p>Consciousness is an emergent phenomenon and a collection of consciousness is the noosphere. Even though each of your organs make their own decisions and contribute individually to your &quot;consciousness&quot;, you still consider the entire thing your &quot;self&quot;. Your decisions are made based on analyzing multiple conflicting distributed signals given off by your organs.<p>Organizations are no different, assuming identity, autonomy, and motivation.</text></comment> | <story><title>An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t have (2019)</title><url>https://aeon.co/ideas/an-ant-colony-has-memories-that-its-individual-members-dont-have</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hansbo</author><text>&gt; Main takeaway, very interesting analogy. Ant colonies are great examples of complex systems with emergent large-scale behavior. Indeed the same could be said about networks of neurons. Interesting to think of an ant colony as the sum of oscillations of signals.<p>Indeed. I&#x27;ve long thought that an ant colony should be seen as a single individual, rather than a group. One part which can procreate, like the reproductive system. Another which can fight off invaders, like white blood cells, or perhaps muscles. The anthill, in turn, is like a body; constructed by the cells and neurons, and protecting the system as a whole.</text></item><item><author>anonytrary</author><text>&gt; Ants use the rate at which they meet and smell other ants, or the chemicals deposited by other ants, to decide what to do next. A neuron uses the rate at which it is stimulated by other neurons to decide whether to fire. In both cases, memory arises from changes in how ants or neurons connect and stimulate each other.<p>Main takeaway, very interesting analogy. Ant colonies are great examples of complex systems with emergent large-scale behavior. Indeed the same could be said about networks of neurons. Interesting to think of an ant colony as the sum of oscillations of signals.<p>&gt; Every morning, the shape of the colony’s foraging area changes, like an amoeba that expands and contracts.<p>Sounds like an emergent macroscopic &quot;heartbeat&quot; of the colony.<p>&gt; In an older, larger colony, each ant has more ants to meet than in a younger, smaller one, and the outcome is a more stable dynamic.<p>It makes sense that small perturbations would temporarily morph the heartbeat, but would probably snap back into the default oscillation pretty quickly. It would be interesting to see if a small colony is equally resilient to small perturbations as a large colony is to large perturbations, keeping some adjusted ratio of the perturbationSize&#x2F;colonySize constant.<p>&gt; individual ants live at most a year.<p>This comes as a surprise to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koonsolo</author><text>I was going to say you can also look at a country like this, with roads as veins, military as white blood cells, scientists&#x2F;universities for brains, etc.<p>But my theory falls apart with the reproduction system. We don&#x27;t really reproduce other &#x27;countries&#x27;. While with ant colonies, a single entity produces all the &quot;cells&quot;, and also all the &quot;embryos&quot; to start their own ant colonies.<p>In that sense an ant colony uses asexual reproduction if looked at as a whole.<p>Thanks for the new insights! :)</text></comment> |
9,513,156 | 9,512,688 | 1 | 2 | 9,511,676 | train | <story><title>Every freelancer starts out undervaluing their work</title><url>http://kenwestgaard.com/the-gurus-got-5-questions-set-rate/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>I don&#x27;t get why people are so keen on the per-hour model. This puts a lot of pressure on you to be fully productive and count hours like a lawyer. It also makes you think you&#x27;re losing money when you&#x27;re not billing, and the customer likewise feels the time&#x2F;money pressure.<p>I&#x27;ve negotiated fixed-price deals where I&#x27;m quite certain I can get the job done in x number of weeks, based on having done something similar before. And that&#x27;s a quite leisurely x weeks, where I&#x27;m not really feeling any uncertainty about any part of the project (ie I know what APIs will be used, business logic seems simple, research is done already). At the same time setting a leisurely schedule also means if there is something unexpected, you can spend a bit more time solving it. Or take a break when you&#x27;re ahead.<p>Regarding the customers, being choosy appears to be very important. Anyone who mentions outsourcing to (somewhere cheap) is politely moved on. Anyone who doesn&#x27;t grasp what they&#x27;re after (a social network, with an iOS and Android app, and videos, and ...) is quoted a longer timeframe. Customers also need to be made aware of the importance of feedback, as in the agile model. That way they always get what they asked for, and you don&#x27;t waste time on what didn&#x27;t come to mind.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcintyre1994</author><text>In Patrick (Patio11)&#x27;s blog with his consultancy rates [0] he switched very early from hourly payments to weekly - that seems like a really nice tradeoff. You&#x27;re not counting hours, if the scope changes you can adjust pretty fluidly, and you&#x27;re not having to go chasing gigs all the time.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kalzumeus.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;01&#x2F;talking-about-money&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kalzumeus.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;01&#x2F;talking-about-money&#x2F;</a> If you haven&#x27;t read this, it&#x27;s fantastic</text></comment> | <story><title>Every freelancer starts out undervaluing their work</title><url>http://kenwestgaard.com/the-gurus-got-5-questions-set-rate/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>I don&#x27;t get why people are so keen on the per-hour model. This puts a lot of pressure on you to be fully productive and count hours like a lawyer. It also makes you think you&#x27;re losing money when you&#x27;re not billing, and the customer likewise feels the time&#x2F;money pressure.<p>I&#x27;ve negotiated fixed-price deals where I&#x27;m quite certain I can get the job done in x number of weeks, based on having done something similar before. And that&#x27;s a quite leisurely x weeks, where I&#x27;m not really feeling any uncertainty about any part of the project (ie I know what APIs will be used, business logic seems simple, research is done already). At the same time setting a leisurely schedule also means if there is something unexpected, you can spend a bit more time solving it. Or take a break when you&#x27;re ahead.<p>Regarding the customers, being choosy appears to be very important. Anyone who mentions outsourcing to (somewhere cheap) is politely moved on. Anyone who doesn&#x27;t grasp what they&#x27;re after (a social network, with an iOS and Android app, and videos, and ...) is quoted a longer timeframe. Customers also need to be made aware of the importance of feedback, as in the agile model. That way they always get what they asked for, and you don&#x27;t waste time on what didn&#x27;t come to mind.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maratd</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t get why people are so keen on the per-hour model.<p>How many years have you been doing this? It doesn&#x27;t sound like you&#x27;ve been at this for too long.<p>&gt; I&#x27;ve negotiated fixed-price deals where I&#x27;m quite certain I can get the job done in x number of weeks<p>This works fine for a client who wants a very concrete x, y, or z.<p>There&#x27;s a problem with this sort of client. They only want x, y, or z and after you give it to them, well, you&#x27;re done.<p>If you have that sort of client and you&#x27;re charging by the hour, you&#x27;re an idiot. Quote them a fixed price at something like 500 per hour for what you estimate the work will take. They&#x27;ll go for it, you make bank.<p>At some point in your freelancing career you&#x27;re going to start feeling jealous. Of the &quot;normal&quot; guy. They guy who wakes up every morning knowing he has a full day of work and is working for the same person he worked for yesterday. He knows what to expect, how things operate, etc. Everything is <i>stable</i>.<p>Stability is an illusion, but it&#x27;s a nice one.<p>At this point, you&#x27;re going to start looking for clients who don&#x27;t want x, y, or z. You&#x27;re going to look for clients who need x. And some more x. Then some more x. They keep needing x and there&#x27;s no end.<p>These clients are professionals. They know the industry. They&#x27;re not really clients, they&#x27;re middle men. They&#x27;re agencies, marketing guys, whatever. They have a constant stream of work. They know it. And they know the best way to maximize their profit is to pay you by the hour. They will only pay you by the hour. They will laugh if you suggest anything else.<p>It&#x27;s alluring to you, because you get a ton of work, all the time and you&#x27;re still billing twice what you&#x27;d get working a regular job, and you still get to work from home, set your own hours, specify your own tooling, etc.<p>At some point, you&#x27;ll get tired of this and decide you want to be the middle man. You start getting your own clients, hiring other guys to do the work ... and guess what? You&#x27;re going to pay them by the hour. Because that&#x27;s how you maximize your profit.<p>Now, I know there are one-man armies out there who have their own clients, bill fixed price, do all the work themselves and are always busy. I know they&#x27;re out there because I used to do that. It&#x27;s exhausting. You have to constantly keep marketing yourself, keep working of course, and wear a bunch of hats at the same time. At some point, you&#x27;ll have the desire to &quot;outsource&quot; the marketing portion of the equation and that&#x27;s when you&#x27;ll start billing by the hour.</text></comment> |
3,028,801 | 3,028,635 | 1 | 2 | 3,028,467 | train | <story><title>Bill on CA Governor's desk would ban mobile device searches without a warrant</title><url>http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/09/smartphone-warrant/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sneak</author><text>Doesn't much matter, all mobile devices worth using are constantly sending their data up to "the cloud", which, thanks to the USA PATRIOT Act's provisions for National Security Letters (NSLs), the federal government can access at any time, in real-time, without a warrant or even post-hoc judicial review.<p>The time has come to leave America. No state law can change this. The fourth has been dead for TEN YEARS next month, it is nothing short of naïve now to believe that it will get any better.<p>There are lots of nice places to live in the first world where the government hasn't gone totally insane. Move there.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bill on CA Governor's desk would ban mobile device searches without a warrant</title><url>http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/09/smartphone-warrant/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dmfdmf</author><text>A state bill should be totally unnecessary. This is a constitutional right. If we accept this bill as the norm then its no longer a "right" and just a permission by the govt that can be rescinded at anytime.</text></comment> |
37,225,205 | 37,224,673 | 1 | 3 | 37,224,148 | train | <story><title>Show HN: FlakeHub – Discover and publish Nix flakes</title><url>https://flakehub.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>unshavedyak</author><text>Wow, i wasn&#x27;t interested at first because i&#x27;m already using flakes and i didn&#x27;t think this had much value to me - i don&#x27;t mind adding a flakes repo directly, for example. Then someone linked the discussion on Discourse[1] which has..:<p>&gt; FlakeHub not only indexes flakes, but provides a mechanism for fetching compatible versions based on Semantic versioning — and, unlike pinning tags in your flake.nix inputs, keeping them up to date.<p>&gt; This means that you can specify that you want your input to be compatible with whatever is the latest release at the time that you add it, and get bugfixes with every nix flake update, without manually having to keep track of the releases made upstream, nor follow a development branch which may introduce breaking changes at any time.<p>Which is stupidly sexy to me. Semver-like is something i&#x27;ve been wanting so badly from Flakes&#x2F;Nix. This has my attention now.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discourse.nixos.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;introducing-flakehub&#x2F;32044&#x2F;6" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discourse.nixos.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;introducing-flakehub&#x2F;32044&#x2F;6</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: FlakeHub – Discover and publish Nix flakes</title><url>https://flakehub.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rstarast</author><text>The reception on the nixos discourse is worth a look: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discourse.nixos.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;introducing-flakehub&#x2F;32044" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discourse.nixos.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;introducing-flakehub&#x2F;32044</a></text></comment> |
15,940,017 | 15,939,621 | 1 | 2 | 15,939,129 | train | <story><title>Luxembourg challenges EU order to recover tax from Amazon</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-amazon-luxembourg-taxavoidance/luxembourg-challenges-eu-order-to-recover-tax-from-amazon-idUSKBN1E917S</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jimnotgym</author><text>I got one am very pleased to see the EU doing good work against tax havens. It&#x27;s no wonder the British press hate the EU so much... the proprietors, in general, have an interesting record when it comes to paying tax</text></comment> | <story><title>Luxembourg challenges EU order to recover tax from Amazon</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-amazon-luxembourg-taxavoidance/luxembourg-challenges-eu-order-to-recover-tax-from-amazon-idUSKBN1E917S</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>expertentipp</author><text>As an individual person without an army of lawyers and accountants try having EUR 1000 of unregulated taxes and you&#x27;ll stir the wrath of the Olympus.</text></comment> |
18,325,430 | 18,325,318 | 1 | 3 | 18,323,844 | train | <story><title>Fidelity launches trade execution and custody for cryptocurrencies</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/15/fidelity-launches-trade-execution-and-custody-for-cryptocurrencies.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>corv</author><text>The comments reflect the (perceived) state of the technology.<p>One has to admit that the reputation of the entire space has been tarnished by snake oil salesmen. For some historical context it is worth looking at countless examples such as the Railway Mania[1] of the 1840s or the more recent Dot-Com bubble[2]. For more depth one can read Mackay[3].<p>Some of the most promising advancements in payment channels were only published as papers in 2016[4] and are understandably still being implemented. If anything the speed at which enthusiasts are willing to deploy experimental software at their own risk is breathtaking.<p>Regarding the environmental impact of the Bitcoin network, while being widely derided for its energy use, it is in fact using less electricity than the major credit card networks. It is also using less energy than global gold mining. There are ways to reduce consumption should a consensus accept the tradeoffs.<p>The term &quot;Blockchain&quot; as it is currently used often refers to private chains which are in vogue with corporate stakeholders. This appears to be a solution in search of a problem–I have not been able to identify a compelling use case here either.<p>Most ICOs are outright scams.<p>It is truly unfortunate that promising advancements of micropayments, smart contracts and the world&#x27;s closet thing to an incorruptible currency are lumped together with so much rubbish.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Railway_Mania" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Railway_Mania</a>
[2]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dot-com_bubble" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dot-com_bubble</a>
[3]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_Crowds" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Extraordinary_Popular_Delusion...</a>
[4]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lightning.network&#x2F;lightning-network-paper.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lightning.network&#x2F;lightning-network-paper.pdf</a></text></item><item><author>gotocake</author><text>The comments seem to honestly reflect the state of the technology, its environmental impact, the annoyance factor of its extreme adherents, the total lack of a really compelling non-ideological or criminal use case after more than a decade, and a deflating bubble. The insane gulf between the promises made by the “every day brings a new breakthrough” crowd and the reality of ICO’s and Bitcoin is vast, and hard to ignore. Blockchain is a neat idea, but presently it is used in ways that are far from compelling, and I’m yet to hear of a non-hypothetical application that could change that (apart from buying drugs, or money laundering).<p>It’s also hard to forget the last few years of relentless evangelism, which was equal parts annoying and ethically challenged.</text></item><item><author>corv</author><text>I&#x27;m disappointed of HN comments whenever cryptocurrency topics come up.<p>People are forgetting that Nakamoto Consensus is a legitimate CS breakthrough concerning the Byzantine Generals Problem.<p>Is it acceptable to bash every stock in the Nasdaq just because a second tech bubble popped and some SV companies are behaving unscrupulously?<p>Frenzied speculation brought about inadvertent side effects but these should not detract from the fact that significant advancements are continuously being researched and implemented.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timmaxw</author><text>&gt; using less electricity than the major credit card networks<p>I googled around for &quot;Bitcoin vs. VISA energy consumption&quot;; the only argument I found in favor of VISA using more is here [0]. This compares Bitcoin to the entire global banking system, including the cost of e.g. keeping the lights on at physical bank branches. It very approximately guesstimates that the entire global banking system requires ~100 TWh&#x2F;year, compared to Bitcoin&#x27;s ~30 TWh&#x2F;year [1].<p>For comparison: all data centers worldwide combined use about ~400 TWh&#x2F;year [2]. I very much doubt that the credit card networks account for 7% of all data center energy consumption.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackernoon.com&#x2F;the-bitcoin-vs-visa-electricity-consumption-fallacy-8cf194987a50" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackernoon.com&#x2F;the-bitcoin-vs-visa-electricity-consu...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2017&#x2F;12&#x2F;bitcoins-insane-energy-consumption-explained&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2017&#x2F;12&#x2F;bitcoins-insane-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;forbestechcouncil&#x2F;2017&#x2F;12&#x2F;15&#x2F;why-energy-is-a-big-and-rapidly-growing-problem-for-data-centers&#x2F;#701c2d815a30" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;forbestechcouncil&#x2F;2017&#x2F;12&#x2F;15&#x2F;wh...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Fidelity launches trade execution and custody for cryptocurrencies</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/15/fidelity-launches-trade-execution-and-custody-for-cryptocurrencies.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>corv</author><text>The comments reflect the (perceived) state of the technology.<p>One has to admit that the reputation of the entire space has been tarnished by snake oil salesmen. For some historical context it is worth looking at countless examples such as the Railway Mania[1] of the 1840s or the more recent Dot-Com bubble[2]. For more depth one can read Mackay[3].<p>Some of the most promising advancements in payment channels were only published as papers in 2016[4] and are understandably still being implemented. If anything the speed at which enthusiasts are willing to deploy experimental software at their own risk is breathtaking.<p>Regarding the environmental impact of the Bitcoin network, while being widely derided for its energy use, it is in fact using less electricity than the major credit card networks. It is also using less energy than global gold mining. There are ways to reduce consumption should a consensus accept the tradeoffs.<p>The term &quot;Blockchain&quot; as it is currently used often refers to private chains which are in vogue with corporate stakeholders. This appears to be a solution in search of a problem–I have not been able to identify a compelling use case here either.<p>Most ICOs are outright scams.<p>It is truly unfortunate that promising advancements of micropayments, smart contracts and the world&#x27;s closet thing to an incorruptible currency are lumped together with so much rubbish.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Railway_Mania" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Railway_Mania</a>
[2]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dot-com_bubble" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dot-com_bubble</a>
[3]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_Crowds" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Extraordinary_Popular_Delusion...</a>
[4]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lightning.network&#x2F;lightning-network-paper.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lightning.network&#x2F;lightning-network-paper.pdf</a></text></item><item><author>gotocake</author><text>The comments seem to honestly reflect the state of the technology, its environmental impact, the annoyance factor of its extreme adherents, the total lack of a really compelling non-ideological or criminal use case after more than a decade, and a deflating bubble. The insane gulf between the promises made by the “every day brings a new breakthrough” crowd and the reality of ICO’s and Bitcoin is vast, and hard to ignore. Blockchain is a neat idea, but presently it is used in ways that are far from compelling, and I’m yet to hear of a non-hypothetical application that could change that (apart from buying drugs, or money laundering).<p>It’s also hard to forget the last few years of relentless evangelism, which was equal parts annoying and ethically challenged.</text></item><item><author>corv</author><text>I&#x27;m disappointed of HN comments whenever cryptocurrency topics come up.<p>People are forgetting that Nakamoto Consensus is a legitimate CS breakthrough concerning the Byzantine Generals Problem.<p>Is it acceptable to bash every stock in the Nasdaq just because a second tech bubble popped and some SV companies are behaving unscrupulously?<p>Frenzied speculation brought about inadvertent side effects but these should not detract from the fact that significant advancements are continuously being researched and implemented.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>minikomi</author><text>&gt; the Bitcoin network, while being widely derided for its energy use, it is in fact using less electricity than the major credit card networks<p>Isn&#x27;t this kind of like comparing a moped to a big rig in terms of transaction rate?</text></comment> |
41,741,611 | 41,740,963 | 1 | 2 | 41,740,568 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Chebyshev approximation calculator</title><url>https://stuffmatic.com/chebyshev/</url><text>Hi everyone,<p>here&#x27;s a web app I made that generates code for efficiently approximating mathematical functions. This is useful when performance matters more than perfect accuracy, for example in embedded systems.<p>The app uses Chebyshev expansions, which despite their theoretical depth result in suprisingly compact and readable code in practice. This code is generated for you and using it does not require any knowledge of the underlying theory.<p>Source code and more info:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stuffmatic&#x2F;chebyshev-calculator">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stuffmatic&#x2F;chebyshev-calculator</a></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>herodotus</author><text>Lovely. In about 1974 I was paid to write a function, in IBM 360 assembly language, to compute square roots. I was asked to make it as efficient as possible. I was in my last year as an undergraduate student. I used a Chebyshev approximation for the initial guess (after scaling the input to lie between 0 and 1), and then used two (or was it three) unrolled iterations of Newton&#x27;s method to get the solution. First money I ever received for writing code!</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Chebyshev approximation calculator</title><url>https://stuffmatic.com/chebyshev/</url><text>Hi everyone,<p>here&#x27;s a web app I made that generates code for efficiently approximating mathematical functions. This is useful when performance matters more than perfect accuracy, for example in embedded systems.<p>The app uses Chebyshev expansions, which despite their theoretical depth result in suprisingly compact and readable code in practice. This code is generated for you and using it does not require any knowledge of the underlying theory.<p>Source code and more info:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stuffmatic&#x2F;chebyshev-calculator">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stuffmatic&#x2F;chebyshev-calculator</a></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jaymzcampbell</author><text>This is really nicely done! Great work. I fell in love with just how efficient these can be and it explained a lot about why many of the trig and other mathematical functions implemented in 8-bit computers are they way they are.<p>Here&#x27;s a rather wonderful original document from the BBC Research Department (I had no idea that was a thing) back in 1969 going over just what makes them so great (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;downloads.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;rd&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;reports&#x2F;1969-10.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;downloads.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;rd&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;reports&#x2F;1969-10.pdf</a>).<p>If all you&#x27;ve come across are Taylor approximations, these things can seem a little like magic at first.</text></comment> |
39,461,579 | 39,460,991 | 1 | 2 | 39,460,148 | train | <story><title>Atuin – Magical shell history</title><url>https://atuin.sh</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kstrauser</author><text>Why is this better than a shell&#x27;s built-in history, possibly paired with fzf?<p>I&#x27;m not asking sarcastically, either. Is this something awesome I should be using? What about it is going to blow my mind?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cstrahan</author><text>I&#x27;ve recently switched from zsh&#x27;s built-in history + fzf, so perhaps I can answer.<p>First, a bit more about my zsh+fzf use: I use `share_history` so that my history is available across shells, allowing me to quickly find and re-run commands. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zsh.sourceforge.io&#x2F;Doc&#x2F;Release&#x2F;Options.html#index-SHARE_005fHISTORY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zsh.sourceforge.io&#x2F;Doc&#x2F;Release&#x2F;Options.html#index-SH...</a>)<p>Sometimes I want to switch back to some terminal tab&#x2F;window and find a command that I nkow I ran in that session, but now it&#x27;s flooded with 1000+ commands that I&#x27;ve entered elsewhere, making it difficult to find what I&#x27;m looking for. So the shared history is both useful <i>and</i> a hindrance, depending on the scenario.<p>Compare with atuin: I can filter by commands entered specifically within the current shell, or across all shell sessions, and possibly even across other hosts (when using atuin&#x27;s sync functionality -- haven&#x27;t tried that yet).<p>Given the metadata that atuin collects (current working directory, start time, exit status, duration, etc) I&#x27;m sure there are some other clever things that can be done with my shell history now, vs the the &quot;line per entry, with optional start timestamp&quot; approach used by zsh&#x27;s builtin history functionality. Actually, more on that first point: you can also filter by commands entered within the current directory.</text></comment> | <story><title>Atuin – Magical shell history</title><url>https://atuin.sh</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kstrauser</author><text>Why is this better than a shell&#x27;s built-in history, possibly paired with fzf?<p>I&#x27;m not asking sarcastically, either. Is this something awesome I should be using? What about it is going to blow my mind?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>probotect0r</author><text>The features listed on the site already tell you what it has that regular shell history + fzf doesn&#x27;t have. You can decide if that makes it better.</text></comment> |
23,036,616 | 23,034,225 | 1 | 3 | 23,031,388 | train | <story><title>Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ about education</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-pushes-colleges-to-the-breaking-point-forcing-hard-choices-about-education-11588256157</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wincy</author><text>If I’m a Republican legislator and I’m seeing my kids enroll at a state college where gender and queer studies classes are a requirement to get a computer science degree, I’m going to want to defund too. I remember my Republican high school peers arguing with our liberal debate coach, and he’d just laugh and say “wait until you go to college, then you’ll get it”. Sure enough, she went to Harvard Law and became a Democrat. The indoctrination is there and if monetary compensation isn’t the reason professors get into teaching, what is? If you have a mission to “educate young minds” to reject their “problematic” notions, that can be a strong motivator.<p>There’s a strong culture war aspect to defund colleges, because you’re essentially funding the opposition if you’re a conservative and you’re paying the salaries of the extremely liberal college professors. Then people say obnoxious, arrogant things like “well reality has a liberal bent” and other platitudes to explain away why conservatives voices have been systematically excluded from college campuses over decades.</text></item><item><author>ThrowawayR2</author><text>Because many (most?) states have been cutting state funding for public universities for years, IIRC. (See, for example, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;newshour&#x2F;education&#x2F;most-americans-dont-realize-state-funding-for-higher-ed-fell-by-billions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;newshour&#x2F;education&#x2F;most-americans-dont-r...</a>). It wouldn&#x27;t have been sensible to impose price caps while cutting funding at the same time.</text></item><item><author>lumost</author><text>One of the oddities in the college process is how public universities followed the price increases of their private counterparts. Why weren&#x27;t state governments able to dictate effective cost controls to keep costs down for residents?<p>Note that I&#x27;m aware of in-state tuition. The main campus of my state university charges 30k&#x2F;year instate, and 40k&#x2F;year out of state. Neither number is appropriate in a state with a median household income of 75k, and a median home price of 450k.</text></item><item><author>irishcoffee</author><text>The problem is the loans. I have a funny feeling if loans were capped at say, 10k&#x2F;year, colleges might all the sudden charge 11k&#x2F;year to attend instead of 30k...</text></item><item><author>matchbok</author><text>Agreed, sadly the demand is still there. It&#x27;s so easy to get huge loans and as a result, there is no downward pressure on price. My tiny college had 5 full-time staff for &quot;residence life&quot;, plus a dean of that department. Totally unnecessary.</text></item><item><author>xhkkffbf</author><text>I wish I could be more sympathetic to the college industrial complex, but they&#x27;ve been treat us poorly for years. Yes, I know it&#x27;s our fault for demanding gold plated educational experiences and then going into crazy debt to finance it. But who wants to blame himself&#x2F;herself?<p>The job can be done better for much less. Indeed, it used to be much cheaper in the past when the dorms weren&#x27;t so fancy and there were a bazillion deans waltzing around trying to look essential. The adjunct professors get paid next to nothing. Let&#x27;s give them a slight raise, fire 90% of the deans and we&#x27;ll get back to something sustainable and affordable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acbart</author><text>Perhaps if the conservative voices would stop saying stupid stuff like this, they wouldn&#x27;t be systematically excluded from the conversation. In my particular subfield of CS, there&#x27;s a &quot;self-identified conservative&quot; who&#x27;s been more or less utterly rejected from the community because, in addition to their bonkers political opinions, it turns out they also have bonkers scientific opinions. In fact, I&#x27;d go so far as to say that they reject the scientific process. It&#x27;s hard to find that compatible with doing science. Perhaps I have many secret conservative colleagues in my field, but the only one I&#x27;ve seen is not someone who I would ever wish to collaborate with.</text></comment> | <story><title>Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ about education</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-pushes-colleges-to-the-breaking-point-forcing-hard-choices-about-education-11588256157</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wincy</author><text>If I’m a Republican legislator and I’m seeing my kids enroll at a state college where gender and queer studies classes are a requirement to get a computer science degree, I’m going to want to defund too. I remember my Republican high school peers arguing with our liberal debate coach, and he’d just laugh and say “wait until you go to college, then you’ll get it”. Sure enough, she went to Harvard Law and became a Democrat. The indoctrination is there and if monetary compensation isn’t the reason professors get into teaching, what is? If you have a mission to “educate young minds” to reject their “problematic” notions, that can be a strong motivator.<p>There’s a strong culture war aspect to defund colleges, because you’re essentially funding the opposition if you’re a conservative and you’re paying the salaries of the extremely liberal college professors. Then people say obnoxious, arrogant things like “well reality has a liberal bent” and other platitudes to explain away why conservatives voices have been systematically excluded from college campuses over decades.</text></item><item><author>ThrowawayR2</author><text>Because many (most?) states have been cutting state funding for public universities for years, IIRC. (See, for example, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;newshour&#x2F;education&#x2F;most-americans-dont-realize-state-funding-for-higher-ed-fell-by-billions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;newshour&#x2F;education&#x2F;most-americans-dont-r...</a>). It wouldn&#x27;t have been sensible to impose price caps while cutting funding at the same time.</text></item><item><author>lumost</author><text>One of the oddities in the college process is how public universities followed the price increases of their private counterparts. Why weren&#x27;t state governments able to dictate effective cost controls to keep costs down for residents?<p>Note that I&#x27;m aware of in-state tuition. The main campus of my state university charges 30k&#x2F;year instate, and 40k&#x2F;year out of state. Neither number is appropriate in a state with a median household income of 75k, and a median home price of 450k.</text></item><item><author>irishcoffee</author><text>The problem is the loans. I have a funny feeling if loans were capped at say, 10k&#x2F;year, colleges might all the sudden charge 11k&#x2F;year to attend instead of 30k...</text></item><item><author>matchbok</author><text>Agreed, sadly the demand is still there. It&#x27;s so easy to get huge loans and as a result, there is no downward pressure on price. My tiny college had 5 full-time staff for &quot;residence life&quot;, plus a dean of that department. Totally unnecessary.</text></item><item><author>xhkkffbf</author><text>I wish I could be more sympathetic to the college industrial complex, but they&#x27;ve been treat us poorly for years. Yes, I know it&#x27;s our fault for demanding gold plated educational experiences and then going into crazy debt to finance it. But who wants to blame himself&#x2F;herself?<p>The job can be done better for much less. Indeed, it used to be much cheaper in the past when the dorms weren&#x27;t so fancy and there were a bazillion deans waltzing around trying to look essential. The adjunct professors get paid next to nothing. Let&#x27;s give them a slight raise, fire 90% of the deans and we&#x27;ll get back to something sustainable and affordable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>N1H1L</author><text><i>State schools in US are often the best STEM schools.</i><p>I have cried myself hoarse on HN trying to make this simple point - but except for Cornell, every Ivy League is ordinary in engineering and the hard sciences.</text></comment> |
6,407,728 | 6,407,913 | 1 | 2 | 6,407,321 | train | <story><title>Death of an adjunct professor</title><url>http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/death-of-an-adjunct-703773/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mathattack</author><text>It would seem like there would be some kind of middle ground where adjuncts should be paid a little more and get health care, and students pay less in tuition. $3,500 to teach 50 students? Where does all the tuition go? That&#x27;s enormous overhead for buildings and administration, especially in a low cost area. Even you turn the $3,500 to $10,000 with a raise and health care baked in, it&#x27;s only $200 per student. (I&#x27;m making assumptions on class size)</text></comment> | <story><title>Death of an adjunct professor</title><url>http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/death-of-an-adjunct-703773/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gngeal</author><text><i>Duquesne has claimed that the unionization of adjuncts like Margaret Mary would somehow interfere with its mission to inculcate Catholic values among its students.</i><p>I see. So treating old people in this way and leaving them in trouble after you squeeze them out is a part of those &quot;Catholic values&quot;?</text></comment> |
37,420,461 | 37,420,200 | 1 | 2 | 37,419,518 | train | <story><title>Running a 180B parameter LLM on a single Apple M2 Ultra</title><url>https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/1699791226780975439</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adam_arthur</author><text>Even a linear growth rate of average RAM capacity would obviate the need to run current SOTA LLMs remotely in short order.<p>Historically average RAM has grown far faster than linear, and there really hasn&#x27;t been anything pressing manufacturers to push the envelope here in the past few years... until now.<p>It could be that LLM model sizes keep increasing such that we continue to require cloud consumption, but I suspect the sizes will not increase as quickly as hardware for inference.<p>Given how useful GPT-4 is already. Maybe one more iteration would unlock the vast majority of practical use cases.<p>I think people will be surprised that consumers ultimately end up benefitting far more from LLMs than the providers. There&#x27;s not going to be much moat or differentiation to defend margins... more of a race to the bottom on pricing</text></comment> | <story><title>Running a 180B parameter LLM on a single Apple M2 Ultra</title><url>https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/1699791226780975439</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>logicchains</author><text>Pretty amazing that in such a short span of time we went from people being amazed how powerful GPT3.5 was upon its release to people being able to run something equivalently powerful locally.</text></comment> |
39,434,802 | 39,432,840 | 1 | 2 | 39,431,809 | train | <story><title>Hip to be square – 70 years of the Citroën H Van (2017)</title><url>https://www.adrianflux.co.uk/influx/culture/hip-square-70-years-citroen-h-van/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>quadcore</author><text>When I was a kid I&#x27;ve been taken in one of those - by the police. All painted black with some white stripes. I wasnt alone in the truck, they use to arrest people by the half-a-dozen back in the day (drunks, wanderers, brawlers, etc). They&#x27;d also release everybody after a while at a street corner with a big kick in the but.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hip to be square – 70 years of the Citroën H Van (2017)</title><url>https://www.adrianflux.co.uk/influx/culture/hip-square-70-years-citroen-h-van/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dieselgate</author><text>I’ve seen one of these my entire life - parked around a residential neighborhood in Seattle. It’s certainly different and exciting.<p>Citroens are very rare to see in the states but always fun to spot. They’re usually vintage models. One funny part of traveling in Europe is seeing modern Citroen models.<p>Comedians in Cars getting Coffee had an episode with a Citroen.</text></comment> |
36,825,602 | 36,824,867 | 1 | 2 | 36,823,605 | train | <story><title>Putting the “You” in CPU</title><url>https://cpu.land/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mgaunard</author><text>How can you call yourself a programmer if you don&#x27;t know the basics?<p>If you&#x27;re gonna skip education, you better make up for it by going above and beyond what they teach with your self-learning.</text></item><item><author>__bjoernd</author><text>Confirmation Bias. How many &quot;programmers&quot; went through a traditional university CS course?</text></item><item><author>mgaunard</author><text>wouldn&#x27;t any programmer already know this, assuming you studied for a bachelor&#x27;s degree or more?<p>At least if you didn&#x27;t skip the computer architecture and operating systems classes.<p>For me it was a common thing to define an ISA, implement a simulator and assembler, and hand-write some assembly as part of learning how computers work.
A dedicated man might go the extra mile and implement it in FPGA, or write a LLVM backend.<p>Then there is all the operating system aspect. It&#x27;s quite common to implement your own kernel there to learn, or at least to modify an existing one.</text></item><item><author>dwrodri</author><text>Love resources like this. I’m getting my feet wet in the RISC-V world, and it’s clear that people who want to push FOSS forward are going to need knowledge like this to get software working well on all of the SBCs that are coming out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xenocratus</author><text>This sort of gatekeeping is the kind of reason why a lot of people are put off by engineers - &quot;oh, you don&#x27;t know X? You&#x27;re clearly not a software engineer&quot;.<p>There&#x27;s a reason abstraction layers exist, perhaps you should try and figure out why your mental model of software does not account for that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Putting the “You” in CPU</title><url>https://cpu.land/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mgaunard</author><text>How can you call yourself a programmer if you don&#x27;t know the basics?<p>If you&#x27;re gonna skip education, you better make up for it by going above and beyond what they teach with your self-learning.</text></item><item><author>__bjoernd</author><text>Confirmation Bias. How many &quot;programmers&quot; went through a traditional university CS course?</text></item><item><author>mgaunard</author><text>wouldn&#x27;t any programmer already know this, assuming you studied for a bachelor&#x27;s degree or more?<p>At least if you didn&#x27;t skip the computer architecture and operating systems classes.<p>For me it was a common thing to define an ISA, implement a simulator and assembler, and hand-write some assembly as part of learning how computers work.
A dedicated man might go the extra mile and implement it in FPGA, or write a LLVM backend.<p>Then there is all the operating system aspect. It&#x27;s quite common to implement your own kernel there to learn, or at least to modify an existing one.</text></item><item><author>dwrodri</author><text>Love resources like this. I’m getting my feet wet in the RISC-V world, and it’s clear that people who want to push FOSS forward are going to need knowledge like this to get software working well on all of the SBCs that are coming out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zerodensity</author><text>If only this was how it worked :(<p>From my experience a substantial fraction of programmers learn the absolute minimum to get a job.<p>Then they either learn on the job or ask the same questions over and over again, never learning. The latter being the really annoying people to work with.</text></comment> |
41,596,907 | 41,597,043 | 1 | 3 | 41,596,319 | train | <story><title>Up to a Quarter of Rental Inflation Is Due to Price-Fixing</title><url>https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/up-to-a-quarter-of-rental-inflation</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JamesBarney</author><text>The middle case is that we are paying 2.6% higher rent due to RealPage.<p>I don&#x27;t think the aggressive piece is realistic. And if we break up RealPage I highly doubt we&#x27;ll see an significant drop in rent prices.<p>An interesting analysis would be looking at vacancy rate across different cities over time. If we saw a large increase in cities with a high penetration of RealPage I&#x27;d be more inclined to believe it&#x27;s having a significant impact.<p>For California and Text at least it looks like the price increase is classical supply and demand driven. We&#x27;re not building enough multifamily or apartments. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;TXRVAC" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;TXRVAC</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;CARVAC" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;CARVAC</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Up to a Quarter of Rental Inflation Is Due to Price-Fixing</title><url>https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/up-to-a-quarter-of-rental-inflation</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cousin_it</author><text>I think the biggest culprit behind rent inflation isn&#x27;t companies like RealPage (evil as they may be), nor landlords, but <i>homeowners</i>. Who vote for laws that make housing harder to build.</text></comment> |
35,243,585 | 35,243,411 | 1 | 3 | 35,242,193 | train | <story><title>Zero-1-to-3: Zero-shot One Image to 3D Object</title><url>https://zero123.cs.columbia.edu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nico</author><text>This is feeling like almost thought to launch.<p>In the last week, a lot of the ideas I’ve read about in the comments of HN, have then shown up as full blown projects in the front page.<p>As if people are building at an insane speed from idea to launch&#x2F;release.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>intelVISA</author><text>GPT4 + Python... the product basically writes itself!<p>Until the oceans boil...</text></comment> | <story><title>Zero-1-to-3: Zero-shot One Image to 3D Object</title><url>https://zero123.cs.columbia.edu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nico</author><text>This is feeling like almost thought to launch.<p>In the last week, a lot of the ideas I’ve read about in the comments of HN, have then shown up as full blown projects in the front page.<p>As if people are building at an insane speed from idea to launch&#x2F;release.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dimatura</author><text>People are definitely building at a high pace, but for what it&#x27;s worth, this isn&#x27;t the first work to tackle this problem, as you can see from the references. The results are impressive though!</text></comment> |
15,470,085 | 15,469,640 | 1 | 2 | 15,466,611 | train | <story><title>Is there an upside to having no social life?</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20171011-is-there-an-upside-to-having-no-social-life</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nilkn</author><text>During one of the happier periods of my life, I lived by myself in a small but very nice apartment. I had a girlfriend, but we didn&#x27;t live together. We&#x27;d hang out on the weekends a lot and maybe one weeknight out of the work week.<p>I really found this to be an excellent balance. I had a space that I was proud of and had complete control over, eliminating entire categories of possible conflicts in life. I had plenty of time for my own pursuits. I was in a very meaningful relationship. I went into the weekends excited to see people, and I went into the workweek feeling socially fulfilled and ready to be productive.<p>This is a very difficult balance to maintain. Indeed, it&#x27;s almost impossible. Most relationships either end or progress to the point of living together. In fact, most folks would say there&#x27;s something &quot;wrong&quot; with a relationship if the couple has been together for years but chooses not to live together.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidscolgan</author><text>I think I do need more human interaction than I&#x27;ve sometimes gotten, but what you described really sounds pretty nice. I seem to get worn out from too much alone time and from too much socializing, but get worn out faster from socializing.<p>A few years ago I decide to try out the whole digital nomad lifestyle thing. I was able to see lots of interesting places, but what I didn&#x27;t account for was how much of an introvert I am. Most of the celebrity nomad travelers seem to be pretty outgoing and I couldn&#x27;t figure out where they were finding all of these people they met.<p>Part of it might have been my strange preference for colder climates, but I spent an entire month in Vilnius Lithuania without talking to hardly anyone. The language barrier probably didn&#x27;t help either. My time was spent riding the bus, wandering the city, and working in coffee shops.<p>I&#x27;ve read accounts of other people who had experiences like this and how much they hated it, and while it was sometimes lonely, I do think I learned quite a bit about myself from the experience. Spending so much time alone meant a lot of time to think and reflect, and I think I was able to figure out some things about myself and work on bad habits that people who have lots of other people in their lives might not get a chance to or might not think about.<p>Some people just need more or less human interaction than others. There is a really good book called Quiet by Susan Cain that is a defense of introversion that was really helpful for me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is there an upside to having no social life?</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20171011-is-there-an-upside-to-having-no-social-life</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nilkn</author><text>During one of the happier periods of my life, I lived by myself in a small but very nice apartment. I had a girlfriend, but we didn&#x27;t live together. We&#x27;d hang out on the weekends a lot and maybe one weeknight out of the work week.<p>I really found this to be an excellent balance. I had a space that I was proud of and had complete control over, eliminating entire categories of possible conflicts in life. I had plenty of time for my own pursuits. I was in a very meaningful relationship. I went into the weekends excited to see people, and I went into the workweek feeling socially fulfilled and ready to be productive.<p>This is a very difficult balance to maintain. Indeed, it&#x27;s almost impossible. Most relationships either end or progress to the point of living together. In fact, most folks would say there&#x27;s something &quot;wrong&quot; with a relationship if the couple has been together for years but chooses not to live together.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PoachedSausage</author><text>I have lived with my girlfriend for around 5 years, but recently took a job in a different city. I have been living away during the week and it has been very much as you describe. I&#x27;m not sure she sees it that way though.</text></comment> |
19,522,501 | 19,521,773 | 1 | 2 | 19,520,272 | train | <story><title>Fulcro Developers Guide: Single-page full-stack web applications in clj/cljs</title><url>http://book.fulcrologic.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>manishsharan</author><text>Should I be using a Modern do-it-all frameworks for Clojure and Clojurescript? My opinion is of course colored by my years spent in JAVA&#x2F;J2EE&#x27;s world of web frameworks ( Wicket, Tapestry, JSF + Hibernate EJBs etc.). In this world, I found most of my time was spent in learning the deep intricacies of the framework and fitting it to my use case. I began to hate every minute I spent on these frameworks.<p>And then I discovered Clojure and Ring and later Liberator. What I like about my current setup is that I have full control over my framework and my team knows its ins and outs and the corresponding Clojure code is succinct enough to allow developers to come upto speed quickly. Our set up is not sexy but it works and we know how exactly it works.<p>I am not sure what I would miss if I did not use a framework like this. Is Liberator no longer good enough ?</text></comment> | <story><title>Fulcro Developers Guide: Single-page full-stack web applications in clj/cljs</title><url>http://book.fulcrologic.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mark_l_watson</author><text>Really good work. I spent 15 minutes reading through this book over my first cup of coffee this morning.<p>I stopped using Clojure about 5 years ago, after two long consulting jobs using Clojure. I decided Clojure was not a perfect fit for me (and, really, neither is Common Lisp, Racket, and Haskell - more favorite languages) but I am very happy to see the Clojure ecosystem still creating such great tools around the language and functional composition.</text></comment> |
19,580,630 | 19,580,600 | 1 | 2 | 19,579,832 | train | <story><title>Ecuador to Expel Assange Within ‘Hours to Days,’ WikiLeaks Says</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-05/ecuador-to-expel-assange-within-hours-to-days-wikileaks-says</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wurst_case</author><text>Clearly Manning is the most simpathetic of all mistreated &#x27;leakers&#x27;. Truly, what does anyone gain by having her locked up?</text></item><item><author>kzrdude</author><text>Thanks for the reminder - Manning is currently not free<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;2019&#x2F;mar&#x2F;08&#x2F;chelsea-manning-judge-jails-wikileaks-case" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;2019&#x2F;mar&#x2F;08&#x2F;chelsea-mann...</a></text></item><item><author>sschueller</author><text>Free Manning, free Assange and free Snowden.<p>These 3 individuals have shown the world the corruption and criminal activity our governments engage in and no matter how hard they try to silence them, eventually the truth will show through.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>She&#x27;s not locked up for leaking, she&#x27;s locked up for flagrant contempt in an active grand jury investigation, one which otherwise poses her no legal jeopardy, since she has both immunity and, for much of the subject matter, double jeopardy protection since she&#x27;s been tried, convicted, and served her sentence for her involvement.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ecuador to Expel Assange Within ‘Hours to Days,’ WikiLeaks Says</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-05/ecuador-to-expel-assange-within-hours-to-days-wikileaks-says</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wurst_case</author><text>Clearly Manning is the most simpathetic of all mistreated &#x27;leakers&#x27;. Truly, what does anyone gain by having her locked up?</text></item><item><author>kzrdude</author><text>Thanks for the reminder - Manning is currently not free<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;2019&#x2F;mar&#x2F;08&#x2F;chelsea-manning-judge-jails-wikileaks-case" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;2019&#x2F;mar&#x2F;08&#x2F;chelsea-mann...</a></text></item><item><author>sschueller</author><text>Free Manning, free Assange and free Snowden.<p>These 3 individuals have shown the world the corruption and criminal activity our governments engage in and no matter how hard they try to silence them, eventually the truth will show through.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GVIrish</author><text>I mean, Manning is in jail because Manning chooses to be in jail. Manning had an immunity deal to testify in front of a grand jury and refused to do so, leading to the contempt of court charge that currently has her in jail.<p>She says she doesn&#x27;t believe in the concept of being compelled to testify, which is fine, but the penalty for that is jail.</text></comment> |
33,512,554 | 33,512,619 | 1 | 2 | 33,511,494 | train | <story><title>Framework Laptops now have 4 Thunderbolt 4 ports</title><url>https://frame.work/gb/en/blog/framework-laptops-are-now-thunderbolt-4-certified</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kube-system</author><text>And they&#x27;ve introduced a new problem: rather than buying a standardized USB-C dongle, you&#x27;ve got a new one-off form factor.</text></item><item><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>Offtopic, it&#x27;s amusing and really interesting to me how Framework solved the &quot;dongle&quot; gripe by just... integrating the dongles into the frame.<p>From a HW I&#x2F;O perspective, they&#x27;re not much different than a Macbook Pro with all its USB-C ports. But but recessing them and creating a form-factor that gives you the dongle&#x27;s feature <i>within the laptop&#x27;s bounding-box</i>, they&#x27;ve effectively solved the problem.<p>Brilliant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nrp</author><text>The designs are available on GitHub under Creative Commons licensing: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FrameworkComputer&#x2F;ExpansionCards" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FrameworkComputer&#x2F;ExpansionCards</a><p>We&#x27;ve seen both community developed Expansion Cards and other device makers starting to adopt Expansion Cards.</text></comment> | <story><title>Framework Laptops now have 4 Thunderbolt 4 ports</title><url>https://frame.work/gb/en/blog/framework-laptops-are-now-thunderbolt-4-certified</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kube-system</author><text>And they&#x27;ve introduced a new problem: rather than buying a standardized USB-C dongle, you&#x27;ve got a new one-off form factor.</text></item><item><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>Offtopic, it&#x27;s amusing and really interesting to me how Framework solved the &quot;dongle&quot; gripe by just... integrating the dongles into the frame.<p>From a HW I&#x2F;O perspective, they&#x27;re not much different than a Macbook Pro with all its USB-C ports. But but recessing them and creating a form-factor that gives you the dongle&#x27;s feature <i>within the laptop&#x27;s bounding-box</i>, they&#x27;ve effectively solved the problem.<p>Brilliant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_duke</author><text>Why? You can just load the laptop with four USB-C adapters and stick to USB-C for everything if you want to.</text></comment> |
18,455,896 | 18,455,813 | 1 | 2 | 18,455,462 | train | <story><title>When Hospitals Merge to Save Money, Patients Often Pay More</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/health/hospital-mergers-health-care-spending.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blakesterz</author><text>I see what you&#x27;re saying there, but I&#x27;m not positive artificially capping the number of doctors minted is a terrible idea. Don&#x27;t we want to make sure only the best and brightest end up being doctors? If there&#x27;s a spot for everyone who applies to med school, wouldn&#x27;t that leave us with far more incompetent doctors?<p>There should probably be more doctors, but it doesn&#x27;t seem wise to lower the bar too far down.</text></item><item><author>seibelj</author><text>Even worse is that some states have legally mandated monopolies that prevent competition from opening up. See this doctor who has to fight in court to allow his clinic to offer MRI&#x27;s <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;policy-and-politics&#x2F;2018&#x2F;7&#x2F;31&#x2F;17629526&#x2F;mri-cost-certificate-of-need-north-carolina-lawsuit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;policy-and-politics&#x2F;2018&#x2F;7&#x2F;31&#x2F;17629526&#x2F;m...</a><p>New medical schools must be allowed by the American Medical Association, artificially capping the number of doctors minted. This is why it&#x27;s so difficult to get into medical school - the supply of spaces is constrained, unlike law school, where there is a spot for everyone who applies.<p>Dentists in Maine vehemently opposed allowing dental hygienists with a special kind of license to fill cavities without needing a full DMD. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;the-unexpected-political-power-of-dentists&#x2F;2017&#x2F;07&#x2F;01&#x2F;ee946d56-54f3-11e7-a204-ad706461fa4f_story.html?utm_term=.6ef22f2853d1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;the-unexpected-polit...</a><p>If we want to fix the medical and legal professions, and by fix I mean make it cheaper, we need to remove the warped incentives caused by the government that prevent natural competition from fixing the issues.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nowarninglabel</author><text>This is the same broken logic as people who think they need to go to the &quot;world&#x27;s best X doctor&quot; for care. That inevitably leads to sub-standard care because everyone is trying to go to the same person for a service and getting rushed in and rushed out. Most of us don&#x27;t need the best doctor at X in the world to perform our services. It&#x27;s like thinking you need James Gosling or John Carmack to write the code for your small business website.</text></comment> | <story><title>When Hospitals Merge to Save Money, Patients Often Pay More</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/health/hospital-mergers-health-care-spending.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blakesterz</author><text>I see what you&#x27;re saying there, but I&#x27;m not positive artificially capping the number of doctors minted is a terrible idea. Don&#x27;t we want to make sure only the best and brightest end up being doctors? If there&#x27;s a spot for everyone who applies to med school, wouldn&#x27;t that leave us with far more incompetent doctors?<p>There should probably be more doctors, but it doesn&#x27;t seem wise to lower the bar too far down.</text></item><item><author>seibelj</author><text>Even worse is that some states have legally mandated monopolies that prevent competition from opening up. See this doctor who has to fight in court to allow his clinic to offer MRI&#x27;s <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;policy-and-politics&#x2F;2018&#x2F;7&#x2F;31&#x2F;17629526&#x2F;mri-cost-certificate-of-need-north-carolina-lawsuit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;policy-and-politics&#x2F;2018&#x2F;7&#x2F;31&#x2F;17629526&#x2F;m...</a><p>New medical schools must be allowed by the American Medical Association, artificially capping the number of doctors minted. This is why it&#x27;s so difficult to get into medical school - the supply of spaces is constrained, unlike law school, where there is a spot for everyone who applies.<p>Dentists in Maine vehemently opposed allowing dental hygienists with a special kind of license to fill cavities without needing a full DMD. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;the-unexpected-political-power-of-dentists&#x2F;2017&#x2F;07&#x2F;01&#x2F;ee946d56-54f3-11e7-a204-ad706461fa4f_story.html?utm_term=.6ef22f2853d1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;the-unexpected-polit...</a><p>If we want to fix the medical and legal professions, and by fix I mean make it cheaper, we need to remove the warped incentives caused by the government that prevent natural competition from fixing the issues.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seibelj</author><text>By that logic, we should artificially cap everything. Why allow just anyone to be a programmer? Don&#x27;t we only want the <i>best</i> programmers to write our software?<p>Any entrepreneur should be able to open up a licensed medical school. Anyone who graduates should be able to get certified as an MD. This is how markets should work - not capping doctors on the hope that we get &quot;better&quot; ones.<p>Also, I have seen some awful doctors, so I&#x27;m not sure the system is working.</text></comment> |
37,382,514 | 37,382,363 | 1 | 3 | 37,381,979 | train | <story><title>An effort to ban caste discrimination in California has touched a nerve</title><url>https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/04/ban-caste-discrimination-california-bill-00113817</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whats_a_quasar</author><text>I&#x27;m legitimately confused about the strength of opposition to the measure. It seems like it should be a small, uncontroversial, update to protected categories. Are people opposing the term &quot;caste&quot; appearing in U.S. law? Is the concern that the law will cause other Americans to judge Indian&#x2F;Nepalese&#x2F;Sri Lankan communities?<p>If anyone here can explain the emotional significance of the bill to someone who is not South Asian, I&#x27;d appreciate it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slowmovintarget</author><text>It appears that the South Asian community in California is angry that the bill would mean that caste discrimination exists, and there seems to be the implication that many in that community want to bring that aspect of their culture with them to America.<p>The actual bill: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;leginfo.legislature.ca.gov&#x2F;faces&#x2F;billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB403" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;leginfo.legislature.ca.gov&#x2F;faces&#x2F;billTextClient.xhtm...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>An effort to ban caste discrimination in California has touched a nerve</title><url>https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/04/ban-caste-discrimination-california-bill-00113817</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whats_a_quasar</author><text>I&#x27;m legitimately confused about the strength of opposition to the measure. It seems like it should be a small, uncontroversial, update to protected categories. Are people opposing the term &quot;caste&quot; appearing in U.S. law? Is the concern that the law will cause other Americans to judge Indian&#x2F;Nepalese&#x2F;Sri Lankan communities?<p>If anyone here can explain the emotional significance of the bill to someone who is not South Asian, I&#x27;d appreciate it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>margalabargala</author><text>What&#x27;s mentioned in the article is that as caste is a primarily SE Asian phenomenon, this is a bill that targets SE Asians. People tend not to like being singled out on the basis of their race.<p>Mentioned in the article was one person who tried to address this by banning discrimination &quot;on the basis of ancestry, including caste&quot; which seems to me to be a completely reasonable adjustment.</text></comment> |
21,484,163 | 21,483,147 | 1 | 2 | 21,481,305 | train | <story><title>Delays in Boeing Max Return Began with Near-Crash in Simulator</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-08/delays-in-boeing-max-return-began-with-near-crash-in-simulator</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zaroth</author><text>The can of worms has been officially opened, and this may turn out to be a case study in how bad software and outsourcing your centers of excellence can bankrupt a company.<p>If TFA is to believed, Boeing has embarked on a project to take what is currently a master-slave failover design and jury-rig it into a master-master real-time system. This is based on bad performance in the simulator—not because of MCAS—but while testing errant memory errors from a simulated gamma ray strike!<p>The obvious question of how can dual-master ever work when they disagree if there isn’t a 3rd source of truth to vote out the failure? This means the software running in both computers has to somehow agree which one is wrong, while one of them is in a potential failure state. This... isn’t how flight control systems are designed from first principals.<p>I’m not a flight system designer, but there must be hundreds of physical, electrical, and architectural considerations taken at every point in the design process which enable multi-master controllers with the ability to vote out a failure. Everything from the particular sensor suite, the number of sensors, the way they are wired, the way data is acquired and bused through the system, the timing and synchronization of the system clocks, the way that control outputs are calculated, queued, and ultimately issued to downstream controllers... none of the necessary pieces will be in place in a system which up until now makes you select a single master controller before embarking on your flight.<p>The only conclusion I can reach is that Boeing has lost its mind, and this project is absolutely doomed to fail. The architecture that Boeing has apparently committed itself to now is extremely difficult to design from first principals and a blank slate. I just don’t see how it’s something that can realistically be papered onto a legacy dual-computer system after the fact.<p>The part in TFA about “adding a wire” practically made me spit out my coffee. The sheer level of arrogance that Boeing management must have to think this would be possible - is just a classic example of an elitist MBA management group totally disconnected from any technical domain expertise. Boeing said they would have this ready for certification <i>by the end of this year</i>?!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drawkbox</author><text>Classic case of hitting the date but crunched out with technical debt and buggy software, a tell that management&#x2F;finance&#x2F;marketing is driving the decision over the engineer&#x2F;designer&#x2F;product people.<p>People forget a project was late if it succeeds, they never forget a project on time that failed because it was rushed, buggy and not polished production.<p>MBA&#x2F;business and marketing need to go back to letting the product people and engineers create value, <i>then</i> they can extract the value and sell it. It is much easier to sell value of a good product, it basically sells itself. For some reason American business has completely forgotten the rule this millennia, product then marketing and selling.<p>You see this same thing happen at game companies when they put a date out there and it is driven by management and marketing over reality of engineering&#x2F;product&#x2F;design that makes a fun and solid game.<p>Boeing was greatly diminished in engineering&#x2F;product excellence by the McDonnell Douglas management control takeover, everything newly produced since has the tell of this.</text></comment> | <story><title>Delays in Boeing Max Return Began with Near-Crash in Simulator</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-08/delays-in-boeing-max-return-began-with-near-crash-in-simulator</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zaroth</author><text>The can of worms has been officially opened, and this may turn out to be a case study in how bad software and outsourcing your centers of excellence can bankrupt a company.<p>If TFA is to believed, Boeing has embarked on a project to take what is currently a master-slave failover design and jury-rig it into a master-master real-time system. This is based on bad performance in the simulator—not because of MCAS—but while testing errant memory errors from a simulated gamma ray strike!<p>The obvious question of how can dual-master ever work when they disagree if there isn’t a 3rd source of truth to vote out the failure? This means the software running in both computers has to somehow agree which one is wrong, while one of them is in a potential failure state. This... isn’t how flight control systems are designed from first principals.<p>I’m not a flight system designer, but there must be hundreds of physical, electrical, and architectural considerations taken at every point in the design process which enable multi-master controllers with the ability to vote out a failure. Everything from the particular sensor suite, the number of sensors, the way they are wired, the way data is acquired and bused through the system, the timing and synchronization of the system clocks, the way that control outputs are calculated, queued, and ultimately issued to downstream controllers... none of the necessary pieces will be in place in a system which up until now makes you select a single master controller before embarking on your flight.<p>The only conclusion I can reach is that Boeing has lost its mind, and this project is absolutely doomed to fail. The architecture that Boeing has apparently committed itself to now is extremely difficult to design from first principals and a blank slate. I just don’t see how it’s something that can realistically be papered onto a legacy dual-computer system after the fact.<p>The part in TFA about “adding a wire” practically made me spit out my coffee. The sheer level of arrogance that Boeing management must have to think this would be possible - is just a classic example of an elitist MBA management group totally disconnected from any technical domain expertise. Boeing said they would have this ready for certification <i>by the end of this year</i>?!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zbrozek</author><text>&quot;Dual-dual&quot; is a thing in this space. There are safety-intent microprocessors which have a couple of cores running a couple of cycles out of sync with a delay and comparison on registers. If they disagree after that delay, the processor concludes it&#x27;s insane and you can take action based on that hardware-level signal.<p>It&#x27;s not my favorite solution for every application, but it&#x27;s a good tool for a handful of situations. And it&#x27;s a good way to avoid having to think about picking who to trust with only two sockets. There are other approaches, of course. For example, if your system can afford more than a couple clock cycles of latency (e.g., if you don&#x27;t believe you can crash a plane with a couple milliseconds of control error) you can do the same thing with well-designed software and a bit of extra hardware. It gives you more freedom since there&#x27;s more hardware to buy, at the expense of engineering and test effort to prove that your solution does what you want.<p>Doing this over large physical distances also adds some challenges. There are debates around dedicated signal wires direct between control centers vs data networks. Every situation is a little different, so there aren&#x27;t really easy answers that you can swoop in and prescribe as best-practices. In general I find that people are more-skeptical of packet-switched solutions (e.g., Ethernet) than I would be. But most folks are also better at reasoning about the failure modes there than they are at thinking about the lower-level issues that Ethernet solves for you. And of course there are tons of different signaling systems - not just Ethernet - to consider.<p>Consider just a few different possible applications and the constraints that they impose. A car has less severe failure modes (many crashes are nonfatal) but less freedom in time. Your trajectory is simply more cluttered. A passenger plane has dramatically more energy, so failures are typically more severe, but you have a lot more time to deal with them because your trajectory is empty (much of the time, anyway). And if you&#x27;re sane, you&#x27;ve designed it to be passively aerodynamically stable because twitchy maneuverability isn&#x27;t critical when you&#x27;re not a fighter jet. A rocket is a different animal altogether. Those are often rigged with self-destruct explosives, and you don&#x27;t really get much time to change your mind if you erroneously choose to trigger them. Plus they&#x27;re typically less stable (performance is more dear, gravity isn&#x27;t helping you, and purely aerodynamic solutions don&#x27;t take you outside the atmosphere) and are thus more dependent on their control systems.</text></comment> |
30,737,627 | 30,733,898 | 1 | 2 | 30,729,109 | train | <story><title>First images from James Webb telescope exceed expectations</title><url>https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/exploration/first-photos-james-webb-telescope/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mysterypie</author><text>I was wondering why the star has 6 crisp points and found an explanation here (a 3 minute video):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=VVAKFJ8VVp4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=VVAKFJ8VVp4</a><p>The most interesting part of the video explains why even your naked eye viewing the sky at night will cause this effect -- it&#x27;s due to imperfections in the lens of your eye.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hatsunearu</author><text>I think the wikipedia explanation is much better.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Diffraction_spike" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Diffraction_spike</a><p>One deficiency is why apertures (effectively, the support structure in a telescope is an aperture) observe this behavior.<p>&gt; No matter how fine these support rods are they diffract the incoming light from a subject star and this appears as diffraction spikes which are the Fourier transform of the support struts.<p>Like why is that the case?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Airy_disk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Airy_disk</a><p>Read this if you don&#x27;t immediately understand why. This is the shape of the image you see when the aperture is circular. This is the Fourier transform of a circular aperture, which, in 1D, is a sinc function.<p>I can&#x27;t give a straightfoward answer to elucidate further, but if you&#x27;ve done signal processing stuff before you can probably handwavey explain that if there is a Fourier-transform relationship with one function, due to linearity and spacial invariance, you can say that it holds for all functions.</text></comment> | <story><title>First images from James Webb telescope exceed expectations</title><url>https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/exploration/first-photos-james-webb-telescope/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mysterypie</author><text>I was wondering why the star has 6 crisp points and found an explanation here (a 3 minute video):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=VVAKFJ8VVp4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=VVAKFJ8VVp4</a><p>The most interesting part of the video explains why even your naked eye viewing the sky at night will cause this effect -- it&#x27;s due to imperfections in the lens of your eye.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>staindk</author><text>Good summary but I found it a bit weird how only 2 seconds were spent on the &#x27;camera aperture&#x27; explanation - as AFAIK that&#x27;s the main cause for photos of stars and lights to have &#x27;points&#x27; - it depends on how many &#x27;leaves&#x27; (? term) your camera&#x2F;lens aperture has -&gt; the more leaves the &quot;more-sided&quot; a shape the aperture makes (hexagon, octagon...) thus the more points you get when photographing lights.</text></comment> |
22,641,925 | 22,641,560 | 1 | 2 | 22,638,764 | train | <story><title>MIT to no longer consider SAT subject tests in admissions decisions</title><url>https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/a-special-announcement-about-sat-subject-tests/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quartzite</author><text>This is exactly correct.<p>Those who fight for fair admissions on the basis of intellectual ability and academic potential should hold up the SAT and standardized testing as a cornerstone of the admissions process.<p>Standardized testing significantly levels the playing field for students across income brackets. Returns on study investment quickly diminish, and reaching a plateau on returns doesn&#x27;t require much investment at all (internet connection and the purchase of a few large study manuals).<p>At my high school in sophomore year I remember speaking with a wealthy friend whose father had signed him up for flying lessons so he could &quot;stand out in college admissions&quot;. There are many, many cases like this.<p>Admissions should disregard such superficial peacocking and focus on metrics like the SAT that disentangle intellectual and academic potential from wealth.</text></item><item><author>knzhou</author><text>Anybody cheering the exclusion of some test or other, because it was a pain to study for in high school, is simply not noticing the frog-boiling secondary effects going on. Every bit of emphasis taken out of objective results mean more advantage for smooth talking, photogenic, well-connected people.<p>Yes, some misguided parents waste thousands of dollars on SAT courses. But students can also prep using the $20 official book, which is what I did, and what I still regard as the best option. Even if money helps incrementally for tests, it helps for everything else even more. International volunteer work? An inspiring (i.e. college counselor approved) essay? Recommendation letters from authoritative people? Anything that requires equipment, like computer labs or robotics? It all costs money -- and in many cases literally measures nothing besides how much money you have.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mekoka</author><text>The premise of your answer is that MIT wants good &quot;students&quot; and &quot;test takers&quot;. What if that&#x27;s not what they want so much anymore? A test is supposed to be a metric, an <i>indicator</i> of something. But metrics tend to become target as soon as they&#x27;re exposed. Maybe then they still remain an indicator of something, but not necessarily what they were originally intended to filter for.<p>I understand that it might feel like the goalposts are being moved for people who optimize to score high on such metrics, but such is the nature of this type of games. That&#x27;s also why search engine companies have to keep refining their algorithms.</text></comment> | <story><title>MIT to no longer consider SAT subject tests in admissions decisions</title><url>https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/a-special-announcement-about-sat-subject-tests/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quartzite</author><text>This is exactly correct.<p>Those who fight for fair admissions on the basis of intellectual ability and academic potential should hold up the SAT and standardized testing as a cornerstone of the admissions process.<p>Standardized testing significantly levels the playing field for students across income brackets. Returns on study investment quickly diminish, and reaching a plateau on returns doesn&#x27;t require much investment at all (internet connection and the purchase of a few large study manuals).<p>At my high school in sophomore year I remember speaking with a wealthy friend whose father had signed him up for flying lessons so he could &quot;stand out in college admissions&quot;. There are many, many cases like this.<p>Admissions should disregard such superficial peacocking and focus on metrics like the SAT that disentangle intellectual and academic potential from wealth.</text></item><item><author>knzhou</author><text>Anybody cheering the exclusion of some test or other, because it was a pain to study for in high school, is simply not noticing the frog-boiling secondary effects going on. Every bit of emphasis taken out of objective results mean more advantage for smooth talking, photogenic, well-connected people.<p>Yes, some misguided parents waste thousands of dollars on SAT courses. But students can also prep using the $20 official book, which is what I did, and what I still regard as the best option. Even if money helps incrementally for tests, it helps for everything else even more. International volunteer work? An inspiring (i.e. college counselor approved) essay? Recommendation letters from authoritative people? Anything that requires equipment, like computer labs or robotics? It all costs money -- and in many cases literally measures nothing besides how much money you have.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bsder</author><text>I suspect this is just getting rid of redundancy. Everyone taking the SAT subject tests is probably taking the equivalent Advanced Placement test anyhow.<p>However, the biggest problems with these tests (and the AP tests) is that they are <i>expensive</i>--they cost a non-trivial amount of money to sign up for and they cost a lot of time to prepare for if your school doesn&#x27;t offer direct AP classes.<p>The expensiveness is the barrier.</text></comment> |
36,922,618 | 36,922,527 | 1 | 2 | 36,920,622 | train | <story><title>If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignity</title><url>https://streets.mn/2023/07/19/if-we-want-a-shift-to-walking-we-need-to-prioritize-dignity/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>voisin</author><text>If we want a shift to walking, we need cities to plant around 100x the number of trees they have.<p>Ever walk through an old, mature neighbourhood? Usually there are tons of people on the sidewalks, and a primary reason is that there are mature trees providing plenty of shade.<p>Then try walking in a new neighbourhood with barely any shade. It is awful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ericmay</author><text>&gt; Then try walking in a new neighbourhood with barely any shade. It is awful.<p>Neighborhoods you’d typically want to walk in do have shade because they were all built a long time ago and there is somewhere for you to walk to. Suburban neighborhoods aren’t designed that way which is why even if there was shade there’s still nowhere to walk to.<p>I do agree we need more trees planted and more shade. Unfortunately a lot of space near and around places people would want to walk or bike to us instead covered in pavement for cars and parking.<p>We can do more than one thing at once though. We can make areas more walkable while we also plant trees. And we can flip state highway departments [1] so that they focus on serving the people and their needs instead of themselves or a small, vocal minority.<p>[1] Note that departments of transportation in nearly all states are highway and road transit departments first and do next to nothing w.r.t better means of transportation. Their entire context is cars and drivers and you can confirm this by looking at the budget.</text></comment> | <story><title>If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignity</title><url>https://streets.mn/2023/07/19/if-we-want-a-shift-to-walking-we-need-to-prioritize-dignity/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>voisin</author><text>If we want a shift to walking, we need cities to plant around 100x the number of trees they have.<p>Ever walk through an old, mature neighbourhood? Usually there are tons of people on the sidewalks, and a primary reason is that there are mature trees providing plenty of shade.<p>Then try walking in a new neighbourhood with barely any shade. It is awful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philips</author><text>100%l the lack of tree cover everywhere is criminal.<p>Three sticking points in my experience trying to help manage street trees in a neighborhood of 400 homes:<p>1. Planter strips are too small. This leads to infrastructure conflicts that are costly like lifting sidewalks and exploding irrigation lines. The problem is many municipalities simply have standard streets too wide and planters too narrow.<p>2. Maintaining trees is an ongoing expense and if not managed by an HOA or municipality the costs explode as individuals have to pay a crew to drag out equipment for just a few trees.<p>3. Lack of mandatory diversity- my neighborhood is 60% ash because the builder got a good deal 15 years ago after the emerald ash borer was found out east and wasn’t top of mind in the west yet. If the EAB makes a strong foothold entire blocks will be starting from zero again.</text></comment> |
37,579,710 | 37,578,091 | 1 | 3 | 37,575,204 | train | <story><title>Fixing for loops in Go 1.22</title><url>https://go.dev/blog/loopvar-preview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>travisd</author><text>It&#x27;s worth noting that it&#x27;s much less of a problem in Python due to the lack of ergonomic closures&#x2F;lambdas. You have to construct rather esoteric looking code for it to be a problem.<p><pre><code> add_n = []
for n in range(10):
add_n.append(lambda x: x + n)
add_n[9](10) # 19
add_n[0](10) # 19
</code></pre>
This isn&#x27;t to say it&#x27;s *not* a footgun (and it has bit me in Python before), but it&#x27;s much worse in Go due to the idiomatic use of goroutines in a loop:<p><pre><code> for i := 0; i &lt; 10; i++ {
go func() { fmt.Printf(&quot;num: %d\n&quot;, i) }()
}</code></pre></text></item><item><author>nerdponx</author><text>Meanwhile Python has received this same feature request many times over the years, and the answer is always that it would break existing code for little major benefit <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.python.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;make-lambdas-proper-closures&#x2F;10553" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.python.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;make-lambdas-proper-closures&#x2F;10...</a><p>Given how much of an uproar there was over changing the string type in the Python 2 -&gt; 3 transition, I can&#x27;t imagine this change would ever end up in Python before a 4.0.<p>Cue someone arguing about how bad Python is because it won&#x27;t fix these things, and then arguing about how bad Python is because their scripts from 2003 stopped working...</text></item><item><author>AaronFriel</author><text>The C# language team encountered this as well, after introducing lightweight closures in C# 4.0 it quickly became apparent that this was a footgun. Users almost always used loop variables incorrectly, and C# 5.0 made the breaking change.<p>Eric Lippert has a wonderful blog on the &quot;why&quot; from their perspective: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ericlippert.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;11&#x2F;12&#x2F;closing-over-the-loop-variable-considered-harmful-part-one&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ericlippert.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;11&#x2F;12&#x2F;closing-over-the-loop-var...</a><p>I had a bit of trouble finding the original C# 5 announcement; that&#x27;s hopefully not been lost in the (several?) blog migrations on the Microsoft domain since 2012.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eru</author><text>In Python you are much more likely to hit that problem not with closures constructed with an explicit &#x27;lambda&#x27;, but with generator-comprehension expressions.<p><pre><code> (((i, j) for i in &quot;abc&quot;) for j in range(3))
</code></pre>
The values of the above depends on in which order you evaluate the whole thing.<p>(Do take what I wrote with a grain of salt. Either the above is already a problem, or perhaps you also need to mix in list-comprehension expressions, too, to surface the bug.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Fixing for loops in Go 1.22</title><url>https://go.dev/blog/loopvar-preview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>travisd</author><text>It&#x27;s worth noting that it&#x27;s much less of a problem in Python due to the lack of ergonomic closures&#x2F;lambdas. You have to construct rather esoteric looking code for it to be a problem.<p><pre><code> add_n = []
for n in range(10):
add_n.append(lambda x: x + n)
add_n[9](10) # 19
add_n[0](10) # 19
</code></pre>
This isn&#x27;t to say it&#x27;s *not* a footgun (and it has bit me in Python before), but it&#x27;s much worse in Go due to the idiomatic use of goroutines in a loop:<p><pre><code> for i := 0; i &lt; 10; i++ {
go func() { fmt.Printf(&quot;num: %d\n&quot;, i) }()
}</code></pre></text></item><item><author>nerdponx</author><text>Meanwhile Python has received this same feature request many times over the years, and the answer is always that it would break existing code for little major benefit <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.python.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;make-lambdas-proper-closures&#x2F;10553" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.python.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;make-lambdas-proper-closures&#x2F;10...</a><p>Given how much of an uproar there was over changing the string type in the Python 2 -&gt; 3 transition, I can&#x27;t imagine this change would ever end up in Python before a 4.0.<p>Cue someone arguing about how bad Python is because it won&#x27;t fix these things, and then arguing about how bad Python is because their scripts from 2003 stopped working...</text></item><item><author>AaronFriel</author><text>The C# language team encountered this as well, after introducing lightweight closures in C# 4.0 it quickly became apparent that this was a footgun. Users almost always used loop variables incorrectly, and C# 5.0 made the breaking change.<p>Eric Lippert has a wonderful blog on the &quot;why&quot; from their perspective: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ericlippert.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;11&#x2F;12&#x2F;closing-over-the-loop-variable-considered-harmful-part-one&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ericlippert.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;11&#x2F;12&#x2F;closing-over-the-loop-var...</a><p>I had a bit of trouble finding the original C# 5 announcement; that&#x27;s hopefully not been lost in the (several?) blog migrations on the Microsoft domain since 2012.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hinkley</author><text>Everyone else solved this problem by using list comprehensions instead. Rob has surely heard of those.</text></comment> |
31,201,853 | 31,201,905 | 1 | 2 | 31,200,650 | train | <story><title>Airbnb’s design to live and work anywhere</title><url>https://news.airbnb.com/airbnbs-design-to-live-and-work-anywhere/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ultimoo</author><text>&gt;Most companies don’t do this because of the mountain of complexities with taxes, payroll, and time zone availability, but I hope we can open-source a solution so other companies can offer this flexibility as well.<p>I think this is a genius growth play for Airbnb. Make it easier for _other_ companies to operate in a similar way so that _their_ employees can travel and live in an... Airbnb! Next, they should lobby to get US and EU to make short-term &quot;tourism + wfh&quot; visas more accessible so that this becomes even more popular. I think everyone wins here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>I&#x27;m not an immigration&#x2F;tax lawyer and could be completely wrong but if you&#x27;re from EU&#x2F;US&#x2F;UK&#x2F;AUS etc I&#x27;m fairly sure you can work in another one of those countries for up to 90 days (and sometimes upto 183) without paying tax there or getting a work visa - as long as you&#x27;re still resident and being paid in your home country under the Visa Waiver program.<p>I&#x27;ve worked in NY offices and got paid in UK (admittedly a while ago and for less than 90 days) - but can&#x27;t see why working in an Airbnb would be different.<p>Has anyone experience of this recently?</text></comment> | <story><title>Airbnb’s design to live and work anywhere</title><url>https://news.airbnb.com/airbnbs-design-to-live-and-work-anywhere/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ultimoo</author><text>&gt;Most companies don’t do this because of the mountain of complexities with taxes, payroll, and time zone availability, but I hope we can open-source a solution so other companies can offer this flexibility as well.<p>I think this is a genius growth play for Airbnb. Make it easier for _other_ companies to operate in a similar way so that _their_ employees can travel and live in an... Airbnb! Next, they should lobby to get US and EU to make short-term &quot;tourism + wfh&quot; visas more accessible so that this becomes even more popular. I think everyone wins here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lultimouomo</author><text>&gt; I think everyone wins here.<p>Everyone except the cities that have already lost a quantity of apartments and offices that have been repurposed as AirBnBs...</text></comment> |
13,960,740 | 13,960,860 | 1 | 2 | 13,960,372 | train | <story><title>An Indian Ocean island with a community that has been there for 60K years (2015)</title><url>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3049022/The-island-dangerous-visit-Mysterious-Sentinelese-tribe-rejected-outsiders-60-000-years-try-kill-sets-foot-land.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bunderbunder</author><text>The &quot;avoid contact for 60,000 years&quot; bit is quite the embellishment. We only have detailed history being recorded about the island going back for, what, a couple centuries, maybe? For the rest of that time, we&#x27;ve got nothing.<p>Other sources tell a very different story from this site, which seems to be cherry-picking the historical record. The Wikipedia article documents several probable periods of contact in relatively recent history. That time in the 19th century where a large group of people shipwrecked on the island and lived there for a while before being rescued certainly counts. It wasn&#x27;t peaceful contact at all, but it was prolonged, and a couple decades later British explorers were able to land on the island and explore - finding a largely depopulated landscape, presumably as a result of disease.<p>See also this account of peaceful contact a couple decades ago: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;islanders-running-out-of-isolation-tim-mcgirk-in-the-andaman-islands-reports-on-the-fate-of-the-1477566.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;islanders-running-ou...</a><p>(edit: Looks like the title and link have both been updated. The &quot;avoid contact for 60,000 years&quot; was a direct quote from the original title, and the original link went to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;themindunleashed.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;the-people-of-this-isolated-tribe-kill-anyone-approaching-their-island.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;themindunleashed.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;the-people-of-this-isola...</a>)</text></comment> | <story><title>An Indian Ocean island with a community that has been there for 60K years (2015)</title><url>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3049022/The-island-dangerous-visit-Mysterious-Sentinelese-tribe-rejected-outsiders-60-000-years-try-kill-sets-foot-land.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lando2319</author><text>I originally heard about North Sentinel Island right here on Hacker News via this story [1]. One thing I found really interesting is how people credit their proximity to more desirable islands as one of the reason they have survived in (relative) isolation so long, since the other Andaman Islands were first to be exploited.<p>Also interesting is how the Sentelese didn&#x27;t sail great distances like many Polynesian groups, they used small boats with long sticks which could only be operated in shallow waters. This kept them relatively tethered to the island.<p>I can&#x27;t help but wonder what it&#x27;s like there, what&#x27;s the day to day like? I understand the ethical concerns, nevertheless I can&#x27;t help but wonder what we could learn from a youtube live feed of the main camp site.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.neatorama.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;07&#x2F;08&#x2F;The-Forbidden-Island&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.neatorama.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;07&#x2F;08&#x2F;The-Forbidden-Island&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
6,735,056 | 6,734,603 | 1 | 2 | 6,733,518 | train | <story><title>Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL</title><url>http://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adrianh</author><text>This is HUGE!<p>I&#x27;m using the AWS stack for <a href="http://www.soundslice.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.soundslice.com&#x2F;</a> and I&#x27;ve been using MySQL instead of Postgres, purely because my hatred for MySQL is less than my hatred for being a sysadmin. It was a tradeoff, and I miss Postgres dearly every time I use MySQL.<p>This new Amazon offering solves that.<p>I wrote a little more about my AWS setup here: <a href="http://www.holovaty.com/writing/aws-notes/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.holovaty.com&#x2F;writing&#x2F;aws-notes&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fat0wl</author><text>Yea I was using MySQL on RDS just to escape the Heroku monolith. Funny that Heroku announced a new Postgres pricing model that is VERY expensive compared to old setup (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6712570" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6712570</a>) just in time to be wiped off the map by RDS.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL</title><url>http://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adrianh</author><text>This is HUGE!<p>I&#x27;m using the AWS stack for <a href="http://www.soundslice.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.soundslice.com&#x2F;</a> and I&#x27;ve been using MySQL instead of Postgres, purely because my hatred for MySQL is less than my hatred for being a sysadmin. It was a tradeoff, and I miss Postgres dearly every time I use MySQL.<p>This new Amazon offering solves that.<p>I wrote a little more about my AWS setup here: <a href="http://www.holovaty.com/writing/aws-notes/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.holovaty.com&#x2F;writing&#x2F;aws-notes&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sync</author><text>Hey, just took a look at soundslice, looks super nice.<p>FYI, it doesn&#x27;t look your payment modal works on smaller browser windows: <a href="https://www.monosnap.com/image/UvJbxMQEwkzqLH5btNJ7a9G6Q" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.monosnap.com&#x2F;image&#x2F;UvJbxMQEwkzqLH5btNJ7a9G6Q</a> ... no visible pay button, and the modal itself scrolls when you scroll the page.</text></comment> |
27,373,898 | 27,373,159 | 1 | 3 | 27,370,984 | train | <story><title>California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is Approved by Senate</title><url>https://openstates.org/ca/bills/20212022/SB519/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bluepanda928752</author><text>I hope one day we will have a Nuremberg-style trial for all those friendly chaps who orchestrated (and profited from) this pointless life-destruction machine called war on drugs</text></item><item><author>beepbooptheory</author><text>As someone whose life was very much thrown into turmoil and difficulty for getting caught with a relatively small amount of mushrooms in Texas, to the point that it will soon be a decade and I have not really completely recovered financially or emotionally, and also still blocked from a lot of jobs, news like this is so good but hard to hear on a personal level.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heavyset_go</author><text>I know of a police chief who just retired with a $250k&#x2F;year pension whose primary contribution to the community was arresting high school kids for smoking joints.</text></comment> | <story><title>California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is Approved by Senate</title><url>https://openstates.org/ca/bills/20212022/SB519/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bluepanda928752</author><text>I hope one day we will have a Nuremberg-style trial for all those friendly chaps who orchestrated (and profited from) this pointless life-destruction machine called war on drugs</text></item><item><author>beepbooptheory</author><text>As someone whose life was very much thrown into turmoil and difficulty for getting caught with a relatively small amount of mushrooms in Texas, to the point that it will soon be a decade and I have not really completely recovered financially or emotionally, and also still blocked from a lot of jobs, news like this is so good but hard to hear on a personal level.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aerostable_slug</author><text>How does that address those who voted for many of those men and women, knowing their policies and completely agreeing with them?<p>I am acquainted with people who firmly believe the Devil&#x27;s Plant is terrible and shouldn&#x27;t be legal anywhere — what then?</text></comment> |
17,572,467 | 17,572,093 | 1 | 2 | 17,571,219 | train | <story><title>How the Car Keeps Americans Apart</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/07/how-cars-divide-america/565148/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roymurdock</author><text>What happens if&#x2F;when you have kids. I’ve seen many people biking around Amsterdam with their kids in protective bike high seats. But this is unheard of in many US cities. Minivans are the usual solution. Would you teach them to take public transport or try to live within walking distance of everything?<p>Obvs doesn’t apply if u don’t plan on it, but curious if anyone has found a solution in US cities.</text></item><item><author>yosito</author><text>Anecdotally, I always loved having a car and the sense of independence and freedom that came with it. Then at the age of 25, I moved out of the country to a small, walkable town in Latin America where I either walked, drove my scooter, or took motorcycle taxis everywhere. After two years of living there, I moved back to the US, bought a Jeep, and was super excited to have the autonomy and ability to travel between cities easily in a day. I didn&#x27;t have a commute at the time, so I never really had to drive in traffic. A year later, I ditched my car again and spent a whole year traveling around the world. I got around by walking and taking trains and taxis. By the time I got back to the US, I hated driving. It felt so isolating and boring. Then I got a job where I had to commute for an hour and a half a day in heavy traffic. It was one of the most miserable periods of my life. I started resenting having to drive anywhere. I started resenting places that weren&#x27;t walkable. I started resenting how roads designed for cars break up and eliminate public space. Finally, two months ago I sold my car and committed to a car-free lifestyle, probably for life. It&#x27;s completely changed how I do things; I spend more time out of the house, I spend more time socializing, and of course, I walk more. I went from walking less than a mile a day to walking an average of five miles a day. I&#x27;m much happier with this lifestyle, and I hope I&#x27;m never forced to go back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ef4</author><text>It&#x27;s precisely because I have kids that I prioritize a walkable place. Because kids can&#x27;t drive!<p>So in car-dependent places, they have no autonomy until they&#x27;re nearly adults. I think it&#x27;s much more healthy for them to slowly and steadily expand their autonomy, rather than a sudden discontinuous break when they learn to drive.<p>The same argument applies in reverse to old people too. In places with good transit and walkability they can stay independent and active longer, with no sudden loss of freedom when they can no longer safely drive vehicles at high speed.<p>Walking and transit are both overwhelmingly safer than cars (most things are).<p>When kids are small you just push them in a stroller. Once they&#x27;re too big for a stroller, they&#x27;re big enough to walk everywhere that you can walk. It&#x27;s really not that complicated. Suburban kids who never walk anywhere may whine about needing to walk two miles, but my kids have been doing that since before they could walk unassisted, it&#x27;s perfectly normal to them.<p>I do also have a Dutch-style cargo bike which we use a lot around our neighborhood. It&#x27;s wonderful.</text></comment> | <story><title>How the Car Keeps Americans Apart</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/07/how-cars-divide-america/565148/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roymurdock</author><text>What happens if&#x2F;when you have kids. I’ve seen many people biking around Amsterdam with their kids in protective bike high seats. But this is unheard of in many US cities. Minivans are the usual solution. Would you teach them to take public transport or try to live within walking distance of everything?<p>Obvs doesn’t apply if u don’t plan on it, but curious if anyone has found a solution in US cities.</text></item><item><author>yosito</author><text>Anecdotally, I always loved having a car and the sense of independence and freedom that came with it. Then at the age of 25, I moved out of the country to a small, walkable town in Latin America where I either walked, drove my scooter, or took motorcycle taxis everywhere. After two years of living there, I moved back to the US, bought a Jeep, and was super excited to have the autonomy and ability to travel between cities easily in a day. I didn&#x27;t have a commute at the time, so I never really had to drive in traffic. A year later, I ditched my car again and spent a whole year traveling around the world. I got around by walking and taking trains and taxis. By the time I got back to the US, I hated driving. It felt so isolating and boring. Then I got a job where I had to commute for an hour and a half a day in heavy traffic. It was one of the most miserable periods of my life. I started resenting having to drive anywhere. I started resenting places that weren&#x27;t walkable. I started resenting how roads designed for cars break up and eliminate public space. Finally, two months ago I sold my car and committed to a car-free lifestyle, probably for life. It&#x27;s completely changed how I do things; I spend more time out of the house, I spend more time socializing, and of course, I walk more. I went from walking less than a mile a day to walking an average of five miles a day. I&#x27;m much happier with this lifestyle, and I hope I&#x27;m never forced to go back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>couchand</author><text>I&#x27;m a parent to a one-and-a-half year old in New York City, and I grew up in a mid-sized midwestern city. I&#x27;m obviously biased, but I think we&#x27;ve got it much better off here.<p>A block and a half away is one of the best playgrounds in the city, and three blocks the other direction is another fine playground. Both of them are packed with kids at all hours of the day. When we go visit family in the midwest, we make a point to take walks and visit the neighborhood playgrounds. We&#x27;re almost always the only people there. Of course people have their yards so nobody needs the playground... I think something is lost.<p>Walk a few blocks in any direction from our house and you&#x27;ll see tons of wonderful daycares, family-friendly restaurants, and other parents&#x27; necessities, most of them locally owned and operated by another member of the community.<p>We travel all around the city, we take the train. My son passes the time on the ride charming the other passengers and subway surfing. It&#x27;s much more civilized than strapping him into a car seat and not looking at him for an hour every day.<p>I&#x27;ll grant you that New York City is something of an outlier as far as American cities go.</text></comment> |
18,054,731 | 18,049,755 | 1 | 3 | 18,049,153 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: How much did you, as an employee, make when your startup exited?</title></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubicon33</author><text>&quot;Third job was not a startup, but it was a fairly small company, and I&#x27;ve made nearly two million in tax deferred accounts&quot;<p>I would love to know how. Am I just stupid? How am I missing these opportunities? Someone above posted that 4 years at FAANG would net you $1,000,000 savings. And you&#x27;re saying that a &quot;fairly small&quot; company netted you $2,000,000 savings?<p>I am failing at life, apparently.</text></item><item><author>civility</author><text>First startup, I traded nearly all of my salary over four years for stock options: $0<p>Second startup, I was told I&#x27;d get 5% of the company (no contract though). I quit after a year without pushing the topic: $0<p>Third job was not a startup, but it was a fairly small company, and I&#x27;ve made nearly two million in tax deferred accounts having made a healthy salary the entire time. I&#x27;m retiring this year.<p>I learned a lot of great things at those first two companies, but I would never recommend a startup from a financial point of view. I almost joined a third startup, but I didn&#x27;t, and they folded as well. I suspect you&#x27;ve got better odds going to Vegas and putting your salary on a number from the roulette table.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>faangthrowaway</author><text>Just to add some concrete FAANG numbers for comparison...<p>I started at BigCo four years ago as a SWE, after my phd in a not-cs hard science. My starting salary was $130k, with about $30k for signing bonus and moving fees. At my first full year, I received an additional $60k in vesting equity, for about $200k total.<p>Last year I made Senior SWE, which gave a bump to $165k base pay. Meanwhile, stock equity trickle has continued to grow, and looks like ~$100k this year. And an additional $40k from bonuses for performance, recruiting and general &#x27;company has too much money&#x27; put the projected total for the year at about $300k pre-tax (and not including health or other benefits).<p>I live afaict unusually frugally. I don&#x27;t drive, live in a shared house, and don&#x27;t have short humans to worry about. But I occasionally travel to interesting places and give ~$8-$10k a year to stuff I care about. After four years at BigCo, I&#x27;ve got about $450k in the bank+investments. So, not a million, but probably way better than I would have done with the startup scene... and it sounds like the one recruitment bonus I&#x27;ve gotten so far is better than most people ever see from a startup exit.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: How much did you, as an employee, make when your startup exited?</title></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubicon33</author><text>&quot;Third job was not a startup, but it was a fairly small company, and I&#x27;ve made nearly two million in tax deferred accounts&quot;<p>I would love to know how. Am I just stupid? How am I missing these opportunities? Someone above posted that 4 years at FAANG would net you $1,000,000 savings. And you&#x27;re saying that a &quot;fairly small&quot; company netted you $2,000,000 savings?<p>I am failing at life, apparently.</text></item><item><author>civility</author><text>First startup, I traded nearly all of my salary over four years for stock options: $0<p>Second startup, I was told I&#x27;d get 5% of the company (no contract though). I quit after a year without pushing the topic: $0<p>Third job was not a startup, but it was a fairly small company, and I&#x27;ve made nearly two million in tax deferred accounts having made a healthy salary the entire time. I&#x27;m retiring this year.<p>I learned a lot of great things at those first two companies, but I would never recommend a startup from a financial point of view. I almost joined a third startup, but I didn&#x27;t, and they folded as well. I suspect you&#x27;ve got better odds going to Vegas and putting your salary on a number from the roulette table.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>civility</author><text>I&#x27;ve never worked for a &quot;big&quot; company, much less one of FAANG. Although, I knew a kid who went to Apple, and he did well. I also had a friend from Intel, and he did well too.<p>My situation was much more than 4 years, but it was steady (exponential) growth at a nice rate, and I&#x27;m exiting in my mid 40s. Maybe I could&#x27;ve done better, but to the point of this topic, my one stable job did much better than the three startups I was exposed to.</text></comment> |
25,584,116 | 25,583,901 | 1 | 2 | 25,579,236 | train | <story><title>SBCL: New in Version 2.1.0</title><url>http://www.sbcl.org/all-news.html#2.1.0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gautamcgoel</author><text>Anyone here use SBCL or Common Lisp? Curious what you guys think of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heisig</author><text>I use Common Lisp for most of my daily programming, and SBCL is a big reason why. Once you get over the initial hassle (getting used to the Emacs+SLIME tool chain and learning to read the compiler diagnostics) it really gives you the productivity of Python with the performance of C++. And a lot of that performance is thanks to the tireless effort of the SBCL developers, who have been churning out a new release every few months for the last decades.<p>Kudos to all SBCL contributors!</text></comment> | <story><title>SBCL: New in Version 2.1.0</title><url>http://www.sbcl.org/all-news.html#2.1.0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gautamcgoel</author><text>Anyone here use SBCL or Common Lisp? Curious what you guys think of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>susam</author><text>I do. I post about it often here, so instead of repeating myself, I will add a few links to my earlier comments and posts here:<p>* Recommendations on learning Common Lisp: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25442155" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25442155</a><p>* On Lisp communities on Reddit r&#x2F;lisp and Freenode #lisp: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25543565" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25543565</a><p>* Observations on State of Common Lisp Survey 2020: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25291780" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25291780</a><p>* Lisp in Vim with Slimv&#x2F;Vlime: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21735148" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21735148</a><p>* Emacs4CL (a tiny quick starter ~&#x2F;.emacs): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25440690" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25440690</a><p>Like many others commenting here, I too use SBCL because of its good performance. I keep CLISP around mainly for nostalgia&#x27;s sake. I began learning Common Lisp in Sep 2007 during a long layover at an airport using CLISP 2.41 on Debian 4.0 (Etch). Also, having another implementation helps me to test that my code is portable and does not rely on any SBCL-specific features.</text></comment> |
27,533,851 | 27,533,586 | 1 | 3 | 27,533,174 | train | <story><title>Today we’re eating the winners of the 1948 Chicken of Tomorrow contest</title><url>https://modernfarmer.com/2014/05/today-eating-winners-1948-chicken-tomorrow-contest/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanwilson</author><text>&gt; And that life keeps getting shorter and shorter – four to seven weeks, to be exact. In the 1950s, a broiler chicken lived a full 16 weeks. The faster and heavier method that won the contest was amplified by confinement, and while the chickens come out of those cages fatter, they tend to get sicker, too. They have insatiable appetites, which leaves them stressed, as evidenced in their poor reproduction capabilities, cardiovascular failure and skeletal problems. They’ve been pumped with so many antibiotics, they’ve developed resistances. The chickens’ weak legs and overworked hearts strain every week their lives are extended.<p>Chickens are meant to be able to live to around 10 years old as well which makes this even worse to me. There&#x27;s nothing humane or natural about it. I think consumers need to take more personal responsibility in what kind of practices their wallets are supporting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brutal_chaos_</author><text>&gt; I think consumers need to take more personal responsibility in what kind of practices their wallets are supporting.<p>Consumers aren&#x27;t making the choice to treat the animals that way, the business are. And (most likely) without regulation, that will not change. Not enough people&#x2F;consumers have enough discretionary spending to make a change (I believe). I for one don&#x27;t even know where I can buy meat from well-treated chickens. Sure I can look it up, but most consumers will need to as well, which will probably not happen. It&#x27;s about high time we stop putting things on the consumer (see recycling) and make the businesses do better for our ecosystem. I hope not to add too many more regulations, the fewer the better IMHO, but damn, there still needs to be some.</text></comment> | <story><title>Today we’re eating the winners of the 1948 Chicken of Tomorrow contest</title><url>https://modernfarmer.com/2014/05/today-eating-winners-1948-chicken-tomorrow-contest/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanwilson</author><text>&gt; And that life keeps getting shorter and shorter – four to seven weeks, to be exact. In the 1950s, a broiler chicken lived a full 16 weeks. The faster and heavier method that won the contest was amplified by confinement, and while the chickens come out of those cages fatter, they tend to get sicker, too. They have insatiable appetites, which leaves them stressed, as evidenced in their poor reproduction capabilities, cardiovascular failure and skeletal problems. They’ve been pumped with so many antibiotics, they’ve developed resistances. The chickens’ weak legs and overworked hearts strain every week their lives are extended.<p>Chickens are meant to be able to live to around 10 years old as well which makes this even worse to me. There&#x27;s nothing humane or natural about it. I think consumers need to take more personal responsibility in what kind of practices their wallets are supporting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tlarkworthy</author><text>Chicken is relatively friendly to climate. I would consider it a good thing if people ate more chicken and less red meat. They are our top animal protein source at scale for least greenhouse gas emissions [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;extension.uga.edu&#x2F;publications&#x2F;detail.html?number=B1382" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;extension.uga.edu&#x2F;publications&#x2F;detail.html?number=B1...</a></text></comment> |
36,357,783 | 36,357,974 | 1 | 2 | 36,356,957 | train | <story><title>Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-ceo-will-change-rules-to-make-mods-less-powerful-2023-6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BlargMcLarg</author><text>&gt;If those moderators leave,<p>Then they will find new ones. As long as Reddit has usecases, as long as the powertrip is worth the lack of ownership and poor tooling, there will be mods willing to moderate subs and feeling powerful and getting drunk off of it. &#x27;Historically&#x27;, this has happened in every social medium with moderation so far.<p>There&#x27;s no anarchy here. Most Redditors don&#x27;t care for the mods in particular. If the underlying reason doesn&#x27;t move them, a new generation of mods will take place and the cycle continues.</text></item><item><author>guardiangod</author><text>The difference between Musk&#x2F;Twitter and spez&#x2F;Reddit is that the value of Reddit lies in its army of unpaid moderators, and Twitter&#x27;s value lies in its brand recognition.<p>When Musk took over and pissed off everyone, the only protest the users can do is to leave the platform. Some did but not enough to hurt Twitter. That&#x27;s because the management (ie modding) is done by Twitter staff already. With a strong brand, Twitter survived.<p>For reddit, the core value is the unpaid moderators. If those moderators leave, you now have a bunch of communities with no management. History shows any communities entering an anarchy (or worse sycophants assigned by Reddit) will not last long, or at least, will stop their organic growth and decline.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guardiangod</author><text>&gt;Most Redditors don&#x27;t care for the mods in particular.<p>Because the current batch of moderation work well enough.<p>Now imagine the current batch leave, and the new ones take over are worse (and they will be worse since Reddit has shown that Reddit has direct control over the Moderators&#x27; position safety, if the actions are not aligned with Reddit&#x27;s CEO. Some reasonable people will not like that.)<p>Eventually the remaining good ones will be replace again, and after a few generation, only the bad moderators are left.<p>For example, just look at every dictatorship government in the world. No dictator starts out hiring only bad officials. Everyone&#x27;s benevolent with good intention. Eventually, the good officials gradually get push out and sycophants fill the rank.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-ceo-will-change-rules-to-make-mods-less-powerful-2023-6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BlargMcLarg</author><text>&gt;If those moderators leave,<p>Then they will find new ones. As long as Reddit has usecases, as long as the powertrip is worth the lack of ownership and poor tooling, there will be mods willing to moderate subs and feeling powerful and getting drunk off of it. &#x27;Historically&#x27;, this has happened in every social medium with moderation so far.<p>There&#x27;s no anarchy here. Most Redditors don&#x27;t care for the mods in particular. If the underlying reason doesn&#x27;t move them, a new generation of mods will take place and the cycle continues.</text></item><item><author>guardiangod</author><text>The difference between Musk&#x2F;Twitter and spez&#x2F;Reddit is that the value of Reddit lies in its army of unpaid moderators, and Twitter&#x27;s value lies in its brand recognition.<p>When Musk took over and pissed off everyone, the only protest the users can do is to leave the platform. Some did but not enough to hurt Twitter. That&#x27;s because the management (ie modding) is done by Twitter staff already. With a strong brand, Twitter survived.<p>For reddit, the core value is the unpaid moderators. If those moderators leave, you now have a bunch of communities with no management. History shows any communities entering an anarchy (or worse sycophants assigned by Reddit) will not last long, or at least, will stop their organic growth and decline.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cocojumbo123</author><text>&gt; Then they will find new ones.<p>Looks easier than it actually is. Here&#x27;s how a mod routine looks like:<p>check modqueue (that&#x27;s the place where all reports come). Some are fake because one user has some beef with another, some trolls, some spam, some user insulting each-other.<p>you work through the queue, by the time you are done users who were banned are already complaining on modmail, you take your time to read all complaints and try to shrug the threats and the attempted doxing. you get a thank you for each 100 threats.<p>rinse and repeat. whereas it might look glamorous from the outside in practice is boring, repetitive and tedious. in large subs you also have to coordinate with other mods to make sure there is some consistency in modding actions.<p>finding new mods is easy, having them stick around, I&#x27;d say not so much.</text></comment> |
33,936,566 | 33,936,619 | 1 | 2 | 33,935,566 | train | <story><title>Yale’s 367-year-old water bond still pays interest (2015)</title><url>https://news.yale.edu/2015/09/22/living-artifact-dutch-golden-age-yale-s-367-year-old-water-bond-still-pays-interest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>The part about &quot;Harvard is immune to eminent domain&quot; is definitely apocryphal.<p>I&#x27;m quite positive the United States doesn&#x27;t give legal credence to &quot;dusty old letters from King George&quot;.</text></item><item><author>kibwen</author><text>Similar fun fact: Harvard is immune to eminent domain, because the original constitution of Massachusetts ensured that all of Harvard&#x27;s then-existing rights would remain in effect &quot;forever&quot;, and apparently that includes a dusty old letter from King George or something stating that Harvard cannot be subject to eminent domain. Harvard has used this to reroute a subway tunnel that would otherwise have run under Harvard Yard. So the next time you&#x27;re on the red line and wondering why the train slows to a crawl as it passes that sharp turn around the Harvard stop, now you know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beambot</author><text>Actually, it&#x27;s entirely possible. I have friends out in California who still have Spanish land grants that predate the US and California statehood. They have successfully prosecuted their rights (eg water) again &amp; again.<p>For example, see the section about the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on this wiki page:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ranchos_of_California" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ranchos_of_California</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Yale’s 367-year-old water bond still pays interest (2015)</title><url>https://news.yale.edu/2015/09/22/living-artifact-dutch-golden-age-yale-s-367-year-old-water-bond-still-pays-interest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>The part about &quot;Harvard is immune to eminent domain&quot; is definitely apocryphal.<p>I&#x27;m quite positive the United States doesn&#x27;t give legal credence to &quot;dusty old letters from King George&quot;.</text></item><item><author>kibwen</author><text>Similar fun fact: Harvard is immune to eminent domain, because the original constitution of Massachusetts ensured that all of Harvard&#x27;s then-existing rights would remain in effect &quot;forever&quot;, and apparently that includes a dusty old letter from King George or something stating that Harvard cannot be subject to eminent domain. Harvard has used this to reroute a subway tunnel that would otherwise have run under Harvard Yard. So the next time you&#x27;re on the red line and wondering why the train slows to a crawl as it passes that sharp turn around the Harvard stop, now you know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Spooky23</author><text>In some cases, we do. I worked for a farmer who won an eminent domain action on the basis of a Dutch deed covenant. There’s a lot of crusty old law that protected the rights of landowners and others whose title predates the state or nation. In my boss’s case, his title predated both the state and country.<p>It worked in negative ways too. The Dutch setup a feudal system, but the state limited the ability of the landowner to collect rent in the 19th century. (Baltimore has a system like this too) In this case, the landlords abandoned the title, but many homeowners were in a legal limbo where they didn’t have a clean title.</text></comment> |
28,588,795 | 28,584,876 | 1 | 2 | 28,583,457 | train | <story><title>Banks beware, Amazon and Walmart are cracking the code for finance</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/banks-beware-outsiders-are-cracking-code-finance-2021-09-17/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text>There&#x27;s been a long history of non-finance companies branching out into finance.<p>- Sears: had Allstate for insurance and Discover Card for credit. Unlike most &quot;branded&quot; credit-cards, Sears did its own underwriting for the Discover Card i.e. they owned the Greentrust bank behind that card. (That is unlike Amazon Prime card being underwritten by Chase Bank.)<p>- G.E. General Electric: financial services GE Capital like loans and leases<p>I remember finding out that many music stores use GE Capital to finance the inventory of all their guitars hanging on the wall. (Industry lingo of &quot;floor planning&quot;.[1]) Sort of strange to realize that a lightbulb company has a bigger subsidiary that sells financial services. It&#x27;s more profitable to make money by selling money than by manufacturing lightbulbs.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=ge+capital+floorplan+financing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=ge+capital+floorplan+financi...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MomoXenosaga</author><text>I see a lot of fintech startups but there is absolutely 0 money in providing basic bank accounts for paupers.<p>It&#x27;s why companies like Revolut and Bunq always end up doing what ordinary banks are doing: upselling. Shitty insurance and expensive creditcards is where the money is. Also transaction fees up the wazoo.
Looking into it made me realize traditional banks aren&#x27;t really evil- they are kept under tight government regulations that forces them to take any customer. Even the ones that make them no money. No I&#x27;ll be sticking with €15 per year account.</text></comment> | <story><title>Banks beware, Amazon and Walmart are cracking the code for finance</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/banks-beware-outsiders-are-cracking-code-finance-2021-09-17/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text>There&#x27;s been a long history of non-finance companies branching out into finance.<p>- Sears: had Allstate for insurance and Discover Card for credit. Unlike most &quot;branded&quot; credit-cards, Sears did its own underwriting for the Discover Card i.e. they owned the Greentrust bank behind that card. (That is unlike Amazon Prime card being underwritten by Chase Bank.)<p>- G.E. General Electric: financial services GE Capital like loans and leases<p>I remember finding out that many music stores use GE Capital to finance the inventory of all their guitars hanging on the wall. (Industry lingo of &quot;floor planning&quot;.[1]) Sort of strange to realize that a lightbulb company has a bigger subsidiary that sells financial services. It&#x27;s more profitable to make money by selling money than by manufacturing lightbulbs.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=ge+capital+floorplan+financing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=ge+capital+floorplan+financi...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JackFr</author><text>Don’t forget GMAC - General Motors Acceptance Corp. The joke back then was that GM was a perennial money loser and only existed as a loss leader, just so GMAC could make loans.</text></comment> |
35,642,603 | 35,642,691 | 1 | 2 | 35,640,002 | train | <story><title>SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/spacex-starship-launch-elon-musk-d9989401e2e07cdfc9753f352e44f6e2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sbuttgereit</author><text>I agree with this assessment and probably the biggest problem in the test. After that, they still have a fair way to go on Raptor reliability; I was a bit disappointed with the number of engine outs: clearly the engines have not arrived. I think the big win of the day was the overall resilience of the vehicle. It seemed to handle (what looked to be) possibly explosive engine failures and kept going and stayed intact... even through the tumbling.<p>I think this is a case where the engineers can look at the numbers and calculate for a limited variety of well defined (and foreseen) scenarios, but that they continue to fail to have an intuitive sense of the power of the thing that they built. Given the complexity of the real world, they can &quot;engineer&quot; themselves into an undue sense of certainty about what will happen when they light a rocket of this power... and I think we see the result of that. As an aside, this is precisely where I think we&#x27;ll some of the biggest failings for LLM based AI... it can get you some nice words to describe a situation and may be able to do all the calculations... but having that gut feeling that maybe there&#x27;s more to a situation than the numbers would have you believe is still something that humans can do better (though not SpaceX this time around).<p>In closing, if I had a binary choice of &quot;successful&quot; or &quot;unsuccessful&quot; for this test... I&#x27;d still probably call it successful. But only just; it&#x27;s a very qualified success given some of the test parameters SpaceX had set for themselves.<p>(of course we could find out about even more damage to &quot;stage 0&quot; which might shift my assessment... but we know that they&#x27;re in the process of putting in a deluge system at least already, so I&#x27;m being a bit more charitable regarding expectations than I might otherwise be.)</text></item><item><author>samwillis</author><text>Exactly, the two untested things were stage zero (all the new ground infrastructure) and stage one (booster).<p>I think it&#x27;s clear one of their biggest lessons is that the construction of the launch mount is wrong, and it REALY needs a flame diverter. Take a look at this photo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;LabPadre&#x2F;status&#x2F;1649062784167030785" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;LabPadre&#x2F;status&#x2F;16490627841670307...</a><p>That massive hole in the ground should not have happed, and I suspect that was not an expected possibility. It is a very costly mishap and could mean completely rebuilding the launch mount. With the excavation and rebuild, that could be months or even as long as a year.<p>On top of that there was significantly more debris making its way to South Padre, the political fallout (pun intended) will be significant, and could cause issues with launch licenses going forward.</text></item><item><author>kortex</author><text>Initially posted this as a reply, but going top-level, cause the hot takes are too spicy for my liking.<p>So the plan was to test x, y, and z. Launch sequence and takeoff, stage separation and Starship engine light, and the post-launch stuff like booster wet landing, reentry, and heat tiles. The booster by itself is not aerodynamic, so the only way to test x is with a starship on top. And if you have starship, you might as well test y and z. But it&#x27;s not a primary goal. Any more effort in polishing y and z is &quot;premature optimization&quot;. X was the test. SpaceX did the X, we got max Q.<p>On the most recent SmarterEveryDay video on encasing a Prince Rupert&#x27;s drop in glass, sculptor Cal Breed talks about the moment when a process fails. He could stop there and restart, saving some time, but instead all the pressure is off, and he &quot;makes as many mistakes as possible&quot; for the rest of the build.
Quote is towards the end, but the whole vid is worth a watch.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;C1KT8PS6Zs4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;C1KT8PS6Zs4</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.calbreed.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.calbreed.com&#x2F;</a><p>Edit: also, they <i>needed</i> the flight plan all the way through &quot;total success&quot; in order to file with the FAA. You can&#x27;t just have &quot;oh sweet, 100% of booster things worked, we now have a suborbital craft careening on a parabolic trajectory&quot;. I didn&#x27;t read a flight plan, but I imagine they must have spelled out each possible outcome exhaustively.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samwillis</author><text>&gt; After that, they still have a fair way to go on Raptor reliability<p>I suspect the debris from blowing a whole in the ground was the biggest contributing factor for the engines out. It looked like at lease 4 we&#x27;re gone before it left the pad.</text></comment> | <story><title>SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/spacex-starship-launch-elon-musk-d9989401e2e07cdfc9753f352e44f6e2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sbuttgereit</author><text>I agree with this assessment and probably the biggest problem in the test. After that, they still have a fair way to go on Raptor reliability; I was a bit disappointed with the number of engine outs: clearly the engines have not arrived. I think the big win of the day was the overall resilience of the vehicle. It seemed to handle (what looked to be) possibly explosive engine failures and kept going and stayed intact... even through the tumbling.<p>I think this is a case where the engineers can look at the numbers and calculate for a limited variety of well defined (and foreseen) scenarios, but that they continue to fail to have an intuitive sense of the power of the thing that they built. Given the complexity of the real world, they can &quot;engineer&quot; themselves into an undue sense of certainty about what will happen when they light a rocket of this power... and I think we see the result of that. As an aside, this is precisely where I think we&#x27;ll some of the biggest failings for LLM based AI... it can get you some nice words to describe a situation and may be able to do all the calculations... but having that gut feeling that maybe there&#x27;s more to a situation than the numbers would have you believe is still something that humans can do better (though not SpaceX this time around).<p>In closing, if I had a binary choice of &quot;successful&quot; or &quot;unsuccessful&quot; for this test... I&#x27;d still probably call it successful. But only just; it&#x27;s a very qualified success given some of the test parameters SpaceX had set for themselves.<p>(of course we could find out about even more damage to &quot;stage 0&quot; which might shift my assessment... but we know that they&#x27;re in the process of putting in a deluge system at least already, so I&#x27;m being a bit more charitable regarding expectations than I might otherwise be.)</text></item><item><author>samwillis</author><text>Exactly, the two untested things were stage zero (all the new ground infrastructure) and stage one (booster).<p>I think it&#x27;s clear one of their biggest lessons is that the construction of the launch mount is wrong, and it REALY needs a flame diverter. Take a look at this photo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;LabPadre&#x2F;status&#x2F;1649062784167030785" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;LabPadre&#x2F;status&#x2F;16490627841670307...</a><p>That massive hole in the ground should not have happed, and I suspect that was not an expected possibility. It is a very costly mishap and could mean completely rebuilding the launch mount. With the excavation and rebuild, that could be months or even as long as a year.<p>On top of that there was significantly more debris making its way to South Padre, the political fallout (pun intended) will be significant, and could cause issues with launch licenses going forward.</text></item><item><author>kortex</author><text>Initially posted this as a reply, but going top-level, cause the hot takes are too spicy for my liking.<p>So the plan was to test x, y, and z. Launch sequence and takeoff, stage separation and Starship engine light, and the post-launch stuff like booster wet landing, reentry, and heat tiles. The booster by itself is not aerodynamic, so the only way to test x is with a starship on top. And if you have starship, you might as well test y and z. But it&#x27;s not a primary goal. Any more effort in polishing y and z is &quot;premature optimization&quot;. X was the test. SpaceX did the X, we got max Q.<p>On the most recent SmarterEveryDay video on encasing a Prince Rupert&#x27;s drop in glass, sculptor Cal Breed talks about the moment when a process fails. He could stop there and restart, saving some time, but instead all the pressure is off, and he &quot;makes as many mistakes as possible&quot; for the rest of the build.
Quote is towards the end, but the whole vid is worth a watch.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;C1KT8PS6Zs4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;C1KT8PS6Zs4</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.calbreed.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.calbreed.com&#x2F;</a><p>Edit: also, they <i>needed</i> the flight plan all the way through &quot;total success&quot; in order to file with the FAA. You can&#x27;t just have &quot;oh sweet, 100% of booster things worked, we now have a suborbital craft careening on a parabolic trajectory&quot;. I didn&#x27;t read a flight plan, but I imagine they must have spelled out each possible outcome exhaustively.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jackmott42</author><text>&gt; but having that gut feeling that maybe there&#x27;s more to a situation than the numbers would have you believe is still something that humans can do better<p>In my life experience so far, humans having gut feelings it 99% of the time complete nonsense. But people forget the 99 times and that one time their gut was right they tell that story forever about how smart they were.</text></comment> |
24,381,470 | 24,381,396 | 1 | 2 | 24,379,210 | train | <story><title>FBI examined Google records to see if anyone had knowledge of Guccifer persona</title><url>https://twitter.com/kpoulsen/status/1255585290380443648</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmroanirgo</author><text>As an Aussie it&#x27;s becoming increasingly clear that my wish to run my own servers in order to maintain some semblance of privacy is quite likely going to become a massive liability to my freedom, if the current state of affairs continues much longer.
To be clear, by hosting a website I&#x27;m liable to &quot;authorities&quot; wanting to access everything anyway. By using a website in this increasingly fascist world, it becomes increasingly likely that my websites&#x2F;mail servers will look &quot;interesting&quot;, simply because I&#x27;m not &quot;toeing the line&quot;</text></item><item><author>analyte123</author><text>Everybody’s worst nightmares when it comes to surveillance keep coming true. I’ve started to suspect the “I got nothing to hide” attitude that many privacy advocates criticize is at some level a defense mechanism for the realization that you’re completely owned and completely powerless. In other words, they know that if they really sat down and thought about what was in their Google searches, DNS lookups, or credit card purchases they would be very disturbed, so they choose not to think about it to maintain sanity. People are smarter than we give them credit for.<p>Because many on HN know and consciously recognize the facts here, my question would be: how do you all cope with surveillance?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kebman</author><text>Could the answer be encrypted hird-party de-centralized mini-services being sprinkled accross various locations through-out the world? Perhaps the &quot;authorities&quot; would be able to crack one such mini-service, but it would never get them all due to how it limits jurisdictional access. I&#x27;m just thinking out aloud... Does things like this already exist (outside TOR nodes, of course)?</text></comment> | <story><title>FBI examined Google records to see if anyone had knowledge of Guccifer persona</title><url>https://twitter.com/kpoulsen/status/1255585290380443648</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmroanirgo</author><text>As an Aussie it&#x27;s becoming increasingly clear that my wish to run my own servers in order to maintain some semblance of privacy is quite likely going to become a massive liability to my freedom, if the current state of affairs continues much longer.
To be clear, by hosting a website I&#x27;m liable to &quot;authorities&quot; wanting to access everything anyway. By using a website in this increasingly fascist world, it becomes increasingly likely that my websites&#x2F;mail servers will look &quot;interesting&quot;, simply because I&#x27;m not &quot;toeing the line&quot;</text></item><item><author>analyte123</author><text>Everybody’s worst nightmares when it comes to surveillance keep coming true. I’ve started to suspect the “I got nothing to hide” attitude that many privacy advocates criticize is at some level a defense mechanism for the realization that you’re completely owned and completely powerless. In other words, they know that if they really sat down and thought about what was in their Google searches, DNS lookups, or credit card purchases they would be very disturbed, so they choose not to think about it to maintain sanity. People are smarter than we give them credit for.<p>Because many on HN know and consciously recognize the facts here, my question would be: how do you all cope with surveillance?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grugagag</author><text>Let them work hard even if you have nothing to hide. I&#x27;d refuse to disclose any private info up until the law requires me to. Intimidation is a trick they use to cut down on work.</text></comment> |
9,900,009 | 9,899,990 | 1 | 3 | 9,899,548 | train | <story><title>Let's talk content. AMA</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3djjxw/lets_talk_content_ama/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thisisdallas</author><text>From the comments:<p>Q: In Ellen Pao&#x27;s op-ed in the Washington Post today, she said &quot;But to attract more mainstream audiences and bring in the big-budget advertisers, you must hide or remove the ugly.&quot;<p>How much of the push toward removing &quot;ugly&quot; elements of Reddit comes from the motivation to monetize Reddit?<p>A: Zero.<p>_____________________<p>His reply currently has -1022 points. The censorship of Reddit for advertisement purposes has been a topic of discussion in a select few subreddits for quite awhile. It looks like the rest of reddit is finally realizing what is going on.<p>I don&#x27;t have anything against it, people have to make money and with free services like reddit, the users are the product that is sold to advertisers.<p>What I don&#x27;t understand is, why not just admit it? From my ~20 years of internet usage, I have learned the one constant is you never lie to the internet.<p>Also, from the list of prohibited content:<p>&gt;Anything that harasses, bullies, or abuses an individual or group of people<p>This sounds like a rule that some teenager made up for guild forums. How in the world does Huffman think using something so vague as an actual punishable rule will turn out well?<p>Anyway, good luck to Huffman he is going to need it. I feel like voat.co is going to see a very huge increase in numbers during the next few months.</text></comment> | <story><title>Let's talk content. AMA</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3djjxw/lets_talk_content_ama/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nl</author><text>Prohibited: <i>Anything that harasses, bullies, or abuses an individual or group of people (these behaviors intimidate others into silence)</i><p>About time.</text></comment> |
27,977,245 | 27,976,015 | 1 | 2 | 27,972,990 | train | <story><title>WeChat suspends new user registration for security compliance</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/tencents-wechat-suspends-new-user-registration-cites-technical-upgrade-2021-07-27/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>starfallg</author><text>&gt;My experience of people in China-- admittedly a long time ago-- was they are generally very patriotic or nationalistic, like Americans. They appreciate the CCP and what it has accomplished. They have a strong domestic arts industry making movies, books, games. Sure lots of people disagree with the party, but that doesn&#x27;t that they want a western liberal democracy.<p>Having been on the inside, it&#x27;s not that they don&#x27;t want a different system, it&#x27;s that they see the real or perceived problems of our system as highlighted by their domestic media and generally from their point of view. This makes them substantially less enthusiastic than we think they would be.<p>The only way to convince them is to show them that liberal democracy does indeed yield better results, with people feeling more secure and leading happier lives. In order to do that we need to ensure that our democratic processes lead to solidarity and not division. That&#x27;s why the last 4 years have been so damaging to our system, the fabric of the system has been damaged by extreme partisanship, without considering that standing together with our neighbours is in many cases more important than being &#x27;right&#x27;.</text></item><item><author>georgeecollins</author><text>&gt;&gt; The problem is that the CCP has nothing to replace this cultural vacuum with.<p>I am no expert, but I disagree and I think this is the kind of thinking that has failed the west for the last thirty years. I think the idea started with the fall of the Soviet Union. That culture and ideology was bankrupt. So a lot of western people thought that when there was a free exchange of ideas with China, the Chinese would eventually reject the CCP.<p>My experience of people in China-- admittedly a long time ago-- was they are generally very patriotic or nationalistic, like Americans. They appreciate the CCP and what it has accomplished. They have a strong domestic arts industry making movies, books, games. Sure lots of people disagree with the party, but that doesn&#x27;t that they want a western liberal democracy. So lots of people will speak in favor of a benevolent elite and against populism or what they see as western chaos or oppression. When people are against the government, they aren&#x27;t wishing for a different government system, just less corrupt or more benevolent authoritarians.<p>Anyway, that is the way I am thinking about these days. But I could be very wrong and I would love to hear from people who are from or spend time in China.</text></item><item><author>vehemenz</author><text>The problem is that the CCP has nothing to replace this cultural vacuum with. They want to legislate a return to &quot;old&quot; (post 1949) values by banning foreign tutors, suppressing dissent on WeChat and Weibo, and doing generally authoritarian shit to encourage nationalism. Meanwhile, young, educated people almost exclusively consume the cultural products of the West, Korea, and Japan. And they find the North Korean style propaganda embarrassing. The disconnect really cannot be understated.</text></item><item><author>mc32</author><text>Naively, it looks like the CCP sees the influence and heft US tech exercises on the US population and world at large.<p>The CCP will forgo economic might (in this sector) for social stability and control every time. They do not want these titans to have more power or influence than they have so they rein them in and let them know who holds the straps.</text></item><item><author>throwaway4good</author><text>&quot;Shares in Tencent plunged 9.0% in Hong Kong on Tuesday amid widespread market jitters over Chinese regulatory crackdowns on high-growth sectors, including online platforms and, most recently, private tutoring. Hong Kong&#x27;s benchmark Hang Seng Index (.HSI) fell 4.2%.&quot;<p>Fascinating how the Chinese authorities seem to be regulating the these companies with complete disregard on how the stock market might react.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ypzhang2</author><text>Anecdotally, western democracy was seen as a means to an end for many “common folk Chinese”. The end is prosperity. Now that the prosperity gap has drastically closed (also there are more clear paths to prosperity), the desire has also dissipated. China has also seen a China-like society in Singapore achieve a very strong economic and social outcome with authoritarian government, so western style democracies aren’t the only “role model” so to speak anymore</text></comment> | <story><title>WeChat suspends new user registration for security compliance</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/tencents-wechat-suspends-new-user-registration-cites-technical-upgrade-2021-07-27/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>starfallg</author><text>&gt;My experience of people in China-- admittedly a long time ago-- was they are generally very patriotic or nationalistic, like Americans. They appreciate the CCP and what it has accomplished. They have a strong domestic arts industry making movies, books, games. Sure lots of people disagree with the party, but that doesn&#x27;t that they want a western liberal democracy.<p>Having been on the inside, it&#x27;s not that they don&#x27;t want a different system, it&#x27;s that they see the real or perceived problems of our system as highlighted by their domestic media and generally from their point of view. This makes them substantially less enthusiastic than we think they would be.<p>The only way to convince them is to show them that liberal democracy does indeed yield better results, with people feeling more secure and leading happier lives. In order to do that we need to ensure that our democratic processes lead to solidarity and not division. That&#x27;s why the last 4 years have been so damaging to our system, the fabric of the system has been damaged by extreme partisanship, without considering that standing together with our neighbours is in many cases more important than being &#x27;right&#x27;.</text></item><item><author>georgeecollins</author><text>&gt;&gt; The problem is that the CCP has nothing to replace this cultural vacuum with.<p>I am no expert, but I disagree and I think this is the kind of thinking that has failed the west for the last thirty years. I think the idea started with the fall of the Soviet Union. That culture and ideology was bankrupt. So a lot of western people thought that when there was a free exchange of ideas with China, the Chinese would eventually reject the CCP.<p>My experience of people in China-- admittedly a long time ago-- was they are generally very patriotic or nationalistic, like Americans. They appreciate the CCP and what it has accomplished. They have a strong domestic arts industry making movies, books, games. Sure lots of people disagree with the party, but that doesn&#x27;t that they want a western liberal democracy. So lots of people will speak in favor of a benevolent elite and against populism or what they see as western chaos or oppression. When people are against the government, they aren&#x27;t wishing for a different government system, just less corrupt or more benevolent authoritarians.<p>Anyway, that is the way I am thinking about these days. But I could be very wrong and I would love to hear from people who are from or spend time in China.</text></item><item><author>vehemenz</author><text>The problem is that the CCP has nothing to replace this cultural vacuum with. They want to legislate a return to &quot;old&quot; (post 1949) values by banning foreign tutors, suppressing dissent on WeChat and Weibo, and doing generally authoritarian shit to encourage nationalism. Meanwhile, young, educated people almost exclusively consume the cultural products of the West, Korea, and Japan. And they find the North Korean style propaganda embarrassing. The disconnect really cannot be understated.</text></item><item><author>mc32</author><text>Naively, it looks like the CCP sees the influence and heft US tech exercises on the US population and world at large.<p>The CCP will forgo economic might (in this sector) for social stability and control every time. They do not want these titans to have more power or influence than they have so they rein them in and let them know who holds the straps.</text></item><item><author>throwaway4good</author><text>&quot;Shares in Tencent plunged 9.0% in Hong Kong on Tuesday amid widespread market jitters over Chinese regulatory crackdowns on high-growth sectors, including online platforms and, most recently, private tutoring. Hong Kong&#x27;s benchmark Hang Seng Index (.HSI) fell 4.2%.&quot;<p>Fascinating how the Chinese authorities seem to be regulating the these companies with complete disregard on how the stock market might react.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sudosysgen</author><text>I think this position is very valuable. By far the best way for us to effect change in China politically, and every other major ideologically opposed nation, is to effect change at home, and be so sucessful that the superiority of our approach cannot be refuted.<p>Bonus point that there is a lot less chance of war this way.</text></comment> |
6,622,460 | 6,621,914 | 1 | 3 | 6,621,679 | train | <story><title>C--</title><url>http://www.cminusminus.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>carterschonwald</author><text>Hey everyone,
I&#x27;d like to point out that the c-- domain is no longer cminusminus.org, the historical site can be found on norman ramsey&#x27;s homepage here <a href="http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/c--/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.tufts.edu&#x2F;~nr&#x2F;c--&#x2F;</a> ! It also has actual reading material &#x2F; papers!<p>The cminusminus domain is no longer valid (though it has more modern CSS), also it lacks links to all the informative papers!<p>C-- is very similar overall to LLVM IR, though there are crucial differences, but overall you could think of them as equivalent representations you can map between trivially (albeit thats glossing over some crucial details).<p>In fact, a few people have been mulling the idea of writing a LLVM IR frontend that would basically be a C-- variant. LLVM IR has a human readable format, but its not quite a programmer writable format!<p>C-- is also the final rep in the ghc compiler before code gen (ie the &quot;native&quot; backend, the llvm backend, and the unregisterized gcc C backend).<p>theres probably a few other things I could say, but that covers the basics. I&#x27;m also involved in GHC dev and have actually done a teeny bit of work on the c-- related bits of the compiler.<p>relatedly: i have a few toy C-- snippets you can compile and benchmark using GHC, in a talk I gave a few months ago <a href="https://bitbucket.org/carter/who-ya-gonna-call-talk-may-2013-ny-haskell" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitbucket.org&#x2F;carter&#x2F;who-ya-gonna-call-talk-may-2013...</a> <a href="https://vimeo.com/69025829" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;69025829</a><p>I should also add that C-- in GHC &lt;= 7.6 doesn&#x27;t have function arguments, but in GHC HEAD &#x2F; 7.7 and soon 7.8, you can have nice function args in the C-- functions. See <a href="https://github.com/ghc/ghc/blob/master/rts/PrimOps.cmm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ghc&#x2F;ghc&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;rts&#x2F;PrimOps.cmm</a> for GHC HEAD examples, vs <a href="https://github.com/ghc/ghc/blob/ghc-7.6/rts/PrimOps.cmm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ghc&#x2F;ghc&#x2F;blob&#x2F;ghc-7.6&#x2F;rts&#x2F;PrimOps.cmm</a> for the old style.</text></comment> | <story><title>C--</title><url>http://www.cminusminus.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>peapicker</author><text>When I first entered college in 1988 there was a small DOS compiler floating around called C-- back then, which I got from some BBS (yes, a BBS, how antiquated!), probably in 1989. It was a mix of a subset of C and proto-assembly. I have looked for it a few times over the years, and this one isn&#x27;t it, although it has some similar ideas. It makes me wonder how many other little-known C-- projects there are.</text></comment> |
23,852,223 | 23,847,743 | 1 | 2 | 23,843,813 | train | <story><title>The accidentally resilient design of Athens apartments</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-15/the-design-history-of-athens-iconic-apartments</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>istjohn</author><text>That part jumped out at me, too.<p>&gt; “There were wealthier people on the upper floors,” says Dragonas, “people who had just arrived from the countryside further down and poor students in the basement. That sort of vertical stratification inside a five-story building helped Athens to avoid horizontal stratification — there weren’t really neighborhoods that were only rich or only poor.<p>In the US before Brown v. Board, many cities were similarly integrated along racial and economic lines. It wasn&#x27;t necessarily integrated within individual apartment buildings, but Blacks and whites would live in the same neighborhoods. When Brown v. Board mandated that schools integrate, racist whites, unwilling to let their children go to the same schools as Black children, fled to the suburbs, taking with them their disproportionate share of wealth and leaving behind impoverished Black ghettoes. Any Black families with the means soon made their own escape, and the downward spiral continued.<p>In many states, the vast majority of school funding comes from property taxes. So schools in wealthy neighborhoods are better funded than schools in poor neighborhoods, and this guarantees homes in wealthy school districts maintain their value since everyone wants their kids in those schools.<p>Here in Ohio, the state Supreme Court ruled that the system of public school funding relying on property taxes is unconstitutional over a decade ago, but nothing has changed.<p>I agree with you that economic segregation is huge societal ill. Studies show that poor folks are vastly better off when they live in economically diverse areas.</text></item><item><author>psds2</author><text>The part of the article that mentioned vertical stratification to avoid horizontal stratification hit a chord with me. I personally come from a family of great means but due to unique circumstances spent much of my childhood living in low income areas and having friends whose parents worked fast food jobs. I think it&#x27;s the best thing that ever happened to me and I think we would have a better society if more people had close interactions with people going through a different experience than themselves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>viburnum</author><text>This is false. Redlining and racist covenants predate Brown by decades.</text></comment> | <story><title>The accidentally resilient design of Athens apartments</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-15/the-design-history-of-athens-iconic-apartments</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>istjohn</author><text>That part jumped out at me, too.<p>&gt; “There were wealthier people on the upper floors,” says Dragonas, “people who had just arrived from the countryside further down and poor students in the basement. That sort of vertical stratification inside a five-story building helped Athens to avoid horizontal stratification — there weren’t really neighborhoods that were only rich or only poor.<p>In the US before Brown v. Board, many cities were similarly integrated along racial and economic lines. It wasn&#x27;t necessarily integrated within individual apartment buildings, but Blacks and whites would live in the same neighborhoods. When Brown v. Board mandated that schools integrate, racist whites, unwilling to let their children go to the same schools as Black children, fled to the suburbs, taking with them their disproportionate share of wealth and leaving behind impoverished Black ghettoes. Any Black families with the means soon made their own escape, and the downward spiral continued.<p>In many states, the vast majority of school funding comes from property taxes. So schools in wealthy neighborhoods are better funded than schools in poor neighborhoods, and this guarantees homes in wealthy school districts maintain their value since everyone wants their kids in those schools.<p>Here in Ohio, the state Supreme Court ruled that the system of public school funding relying on property taxes is unconstitutional over a decade ago, but nothing has changed.<p>I agree with you that economic segregation is huge societal ill. Studies show that poor folks are vastly better off when they live in economically diverse areas.</text></item><item><author>psds2</author><text>The part of the article that mentioned vertical stratification to avoid horizontal stratification hit a chord with me. I personally come from a family of great means but due to unique circumstances spent much of my childhood living in low income areas and having friends whose parents worked fast food jobs. I think it&#x27;s the best thing that ever happened to me and I think we would have a better society if more people had close interactions with people going through a different experience than themselves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zip1234</author><text>The current system zoning still reinforces racial and socioeconomic division. Wealthy neighborhoods keep out less wealthy people by only allowing certain types of housing (more expensive housing).</text></comment> |
20,555,580 | 20,555,849 | 1 | 2 | 20,555,249 | train | <story><title>Slack was down</title><url>https://status.slack.com/2019-07/b31a6510b8caabcc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>allana</author><text>2GB of RAM use for 6 open tabs in Slack is pretty awful, their desktop client has set the bar to compete with Slack on performance very low.<p>This abusive resource usage has created a dislike of Slack among a subset of its users.</text></item><item><author>nixgeek</author><text>Wish we wouldn’t use such language, “sucks less” is highly subjective and your opinion but we don’t need to disparage Slack in order to make a point that alternatives like Zulip are available.<p>Seems like especially poor tone on an outage thread... “Don’t kick them while they’re down” or something?</text></item><item><author>anaphor</author><text>If you&#x27;re a community driven project or organization using Slack, then take a look at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zulipchat.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zulipchat.com&#x2F;</a> for something that sucks less, and is open source software. I&#x27;ve found it much more pleasant to use and less buggy than Slack.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timdorr</author><text>They actually just fixed that in 4.0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slackhq.com&#x2F;introducing-a-more-efficient-slack-desktop-experience" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slackhq.com&#x2F;introducing-a-more-efficient-slack-deskt...</a><p>I&#x27;m currently sitting at 400MB total usage (including helpers) for 4 workspaces.</text></comment> | <story><title>Slack was down</title><url>https://status.slack.com/2019-07/b31a6510b8caabcc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>allana</author><text>2GB of RAM use for 6 open tabs in Slack is pretty awful, their desktop client has set the bar to compete with Slack on performance very low.<p>This abusive resource usage has created a dislike of Slack among a subset of its users.</text></item><item><author>nixgeek</author><text>Wish we wouldn’t use such language, “sucks less” is highly subjective and your opinion but we don’t need to disparage Slack in order to make a point that alternatives like Zulip are available.<p>Seems like especially poor tone on an outage thread... “Don’t kick them while they’re down” or something?</text></item><item><author>anaphor</author><text>If you&#x27;re a community driven project or organization using Slack, then take a look at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zulipchat.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zulipchat.com&#x2F;</a> for something that sucks less, and is open source software. I&#x27;ve found it much more pleasant to use and less buggy than Slack.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DangerousPie</author><text>I can honestly say that I have never checked or cared about how much RAM Slack uses. Or any other software for that matter. It&#x27;s certainly not an issue that I&#x27;d use as the basis for deciding which team communication tool to use.</text></comment> |
34,568,012 | 34,567,768 | 1 | 3 | 34,566,502 | train | <story><title>'We Are Being Levelled Down’: Why the UK’s Wealth Gap Is Widening</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/uk-levelling-up/inflation-government-delays-why-wealth-gap-widens.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pharmakom</author><text>I blame the fetish that the UK has for Oxbridge graduates. The evidence shows they are not very good, perhaps even worse than the Russell Group average. We need to find better indicators of ability; this cannot go on.</text></item><item><author>mmarq</author><text>The UK has entered the institutional reform phase. Like Italy in the early 90s, it has become convinced that the country does not work because some random institutions need changing. In Italy it was `equal bicameralism`, the organisation of administrative divisions (regions and provinces), and other stuff not worth discussing here. In the UK, the institutional reform phase consists of Brexit, Scottish independence and, more recently, &#x27;charter cities&#x27; and the abolition of the House of Lords. All this while taxes on productive activities (let it be labour or corporation tax) are increased, public investments are cut and the quality of public services is declining on a daily basis. The country is wondering why the NHS can&#x27;t hire personnel, while a junior doctor in the UK has less purchasing power than a German janitor and nurses resort to food banks.<p>The fact that since 2010 this country has been ruled by people whose main qualification is being children or husbands of rich people, doesn&#x27;t help. From this cold island, Ursula von der Leyen, a failed German politician, looks like a monumental stateswoman.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>morbia</author><text>Some anecdotal evidence ahead.<p>I&#x27;ve been interviewing graduates in the UK for many years now from a very broad range of universities, all focused on CS or stem degrees.<p>In my experience, I&#x27;ve yet to interview an oxbridge graduate who wasn&#x27;t at least great academically, and this is speaking as someone who went to a lesser university. Clearly whatever standards they have for teaching and entry selection criteria really work.<p>That said, graduates from other universities are easily on par with oxbridge, just that there were some total morons amongst their peers as well.<p>In my opinion, the problem is not that the UK fetishes oxbridge candidates, the problem is politics is dominated by arts and ppe graduates which does not offer the problem solving skills stem degrees do. I genuinely think we&#x27;d be in a much better place if our leaders weren&#x27;t trained just in communication, but instead on actually logically thinking through problems and resolving them.</text></comment> | <story><title>'We Are Being Levelled Down’: Why the UK’s Wealth Gap Is Widening</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/uk-levelling-up/inflation-government-delays-why-wealth-gap-widens.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pharmakom</author><text>I blame the fetish that the UK has for Oxbridge graduates. The evidence shows they are not very good, perhaps even worse than the Russell Group average. We need to find better indicators of ability; this cannot go on.</text></item><item><author>mmarq</author><text>The UK has entered the institutional reform phase. Like Italy in the early 90s, it has become convinced that the country does not work because some random institutions need changing. In Italy it was `equal bicameralism`, the organisation of administrative divisions (regions and provinces), and other stuff not worth discussing here. In the UK, the institutional reform phase consists of Brexit, Scottish independence and, more recently, &#x27;charter cities&#x27; and the abolition of the House of Lords. All this while taxes on productive activities (let it be labour or corporation tax) are increased, public investments are cut and the quality of public services is declining on a daily basis. The country is wondering why the NHS can&#x27;t hire personnel, while a junior doctor in the UK has less purchasing power than a German janitor and nurses resort to food banks.<p>The fact that since 2010 this country has been ruled by people whose main qualification is being children or husbands of rich people, doesn&#x27;t help. From this cold island, Ursula von der Leyen, a failed German politician, looks like a monumental stateswoman.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>The hiring is not being driven by ability, it&#x27;s being driven by connections. Oxford PPE graduates are being hired .. by other Oxford PPE graduates. And then promoted in the newspapers by the same.</text></comment> |
13,357,217 | 13,356,996 | 1 | 2 | 13,354,329 | train | <story><title>Software Developers Should Have Sysadmin Experience</title><url>http://blog.professorbeekums.com/2017/01/software-developers-should-have.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jstimpfle</author><text>Counter-wit: Why can&#x27;t people get their software to work with the existing libs? Hint: It&#x27;s very rarely that the existing libs disqualify.</text></item><item><author>awinder</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt; 15 years ago, when a project would kick-off, as a sysadmin
&gt; I&#x27;d be invited in and the developers and I would hash out
&gt; what versions of each language and library involved the
&gt; project would use
</code></pre>
To wit: the new ideologies in infrastructure management are actually designed to solve the underlying problem that necessitated that kind of working setup. Why should the version of a lib in one part of the software somehow pose existential threat to the infrastructure? Engrain the dependencies into contained, independently deployable pieces, and make it so that app-level code can evolve without bringing down the world with it. Make it easy to revert back, and&#x2F;or utilize phased rollouts, and you&#x27;ve got the ability to iterate quickly, keep pace with external dependencies, and it no longer has to be some scary thing that requires big back-and-forth meetings over mundane details.<p>(As for software that releases often, maybe it&#x27;s an over-correction, but there&#x27;s a reason things don&#x27;t work as they did in the glory days, and that&#x27;s because they were never really that glorious.)<p>This doesn&#x27;t necessarily rule out the expertise of systems administration, because the platforms for all of this need to be built &amp; maintained, and there&#x27;s still a lot of work to be done on network boarder security, etc. It&#x27;s a movement that focuses systems administration to systems administration, instead of having to be this big org arbiter of microdecisions, and all the baggage that goes along with trying to be the gatekeeper of all.</text></item><item><author>bandrami</author><text>As a grumpy evil sysadmin, I think the good Professor misses where the real disconnect is, at least nowadays: stack management.<p>Why do things like Docker exist? Because developers got tired of sysadmins saying &quot;sorry, you can&#x27;t upgrade Ruby in the middle of this project&quot;. Why does virtualenv exist? A similar reason.<p>Containerized ecosystems (which is to say basically all of them now) are really a sign of those of us on the sysadmin side of the aisle capitulating and saying that developers can&#x27;t be stopped from having the newest version of things, and I think that&#x27;s a bad idea.<p>15 years ago, when a project would kick-off, as a sysadmin I&#x27;d be invited in and the developers and I would hash out what versions of each language and library involved the project would use. This worked well with Perl; once the stacks started gravitating to Ruby and Python it was a dismal failure.<p>Why? Because those two ecosystems release like hummingbirds off of their ritalin. Take the release history for pip[1] (and I&#x27;m not calling pip out as particularly bad; I&#x27;m calling pip out as particularly average, which is the problem): in the year 2015, pip went from version 1.5.6 to 8.1.1 (!) through 24 version bumps, introducing thirteen (documented) backwards incompatibilities. Furthermore, there were more regression fixes from previous bumps than feature additions. You&#x27;ll also notice that none of these releases are tagged &quot;-rc1&quot;, etc., though the fact that regressions were fixed in a new bump the next day means they <i>were</i> release candidates rather than releases. Ruby is just as bad; the famous (and I&#x27;ve experienced this) example is that an in-depth tutorial can be obsoleted in the two weeks it takes you to work through it.<p>Devs are chasing a moving target, and devs who haven&#x27;t been sysadmins may have trouble seeing why that&#x27;s a bad idea.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pip.pypa.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;news&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pip.pypa.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;news&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluejekyll</author><text>this is the core of the problem between Devs and sysadmins. Sysadmins come from a mindset of a polished working system which never needs to change. They deliver stability and reliability to the business.<p>Devs come from a mindset to actively create change. This is to add new features and deliver new value and product to the business. As a Dev I do have to say that many Devs don&#x27;t have enough experience in operations to understand properly how to help sysadmins, many don&#x27;t understand the complexities of that job.<p>These two perspectives are at odds, and they should be. The new tools, like docker, start giving everyone what they want... Devs pick their dependencies, and in theory, can&#x27;t stomp on the sysadmins pristine environment.<p>To respond directly to your question: because there are new things available in new libraries that allow us to develop new features!</text></comment> | <story><title>Software Developers Should Have Sysadmin Experience</title><url>http://blog.professorbeekums.com/2017/01/software-developers-should-have.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jstimpfle</author><text>Counter-wit: Why can&#x27;t people get their software to work with the existing libs? Hint: It&#x27;s very rarely that the existing libs disqualify.</text></item><item><author>awinder</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt; 15 years ago, when a project would kick-off, as a sysadmin
&gt; I&#x27;d be invited in and the developers and I would hash out
&gt; what versions of each language and library involved the
&gt; project would use
</code></pre>
To wit: the new ideologies in infrastructure management are actually designed to solve the underlying problem that necessitated that kind of working setup. Why should the version of a lib in one part of the software somehow pose existential threat to the infrastructure? Engrain the dependencies into contained, independently deployable pieces, and make it so that app-level code can evolve without bringing down the world with it. Make it easy to revert back, and&#x2F;or utilize phased rollouts, and you&#x27;ve got the ability to iterate quickly, keep pace with external dependencies, and it no longer has to be some scary thing that requires big back-and-forth meetings over mundane details.<p>(As for software that releases often, maybe it&#x27;s an over-correction, but there&#x27;s a reason things don&#x27;t work as they did in the glory days, and that&#x27;s because they were never really that glorious.)<p>This doesn&#x27;t necessarily rule out the expertise of systems administration, because the platforms for all of this need to be built &amp; maintained, and there&#x27;s still a lot of work to be done on network boarder security, etc. It&#x27;s a movement that focuses systems administration to systems administration, instead of having to be this big org arbiter of microdecisions, and all the baggage that goes along with trying to be the gatekeeper of all.</text></item><item><author>bandrami</author><text>As a grumpy evil sysadmin, I think the good Professor misses where the real disconnect is, at least nowadays: stack management.<p>Why do things like Docker exist? Because developers got tired of sysadmins saying &quot;sorry, you can&#x27;t upgrade Ruby in the middle of this project&quot;. Why does virtualenv exist? A similar reason.<p>Containerized ecosystems (which is to say basically all of them now) are really a sign of those of us on the sysadmin side of the aisle capitulating and saying that developers can&#x27;t be stopped from having the newest version of things, and I think that&#x27;s a bad idea.<p>15 years ago, when a project would kick-off, as a sysadmin I&#x27;d be invited in and the developers and I would hash out what versions of each language and library involved the project would use. This worked well with Perl; once the stacks started gravitating to Ruby and Python it was a dismal failure.<p>Why? Because those two ecosystems release like hummingbirds off of their ritalin. Take the release history for pip[1] (and I&#x27;m not calling pip out as particularly bad; I&#x27;m calling pip out as particularly average, which is the problem): in the year 2015, pip went from version 1.5.6 to 8.1.1 (!) through 24 version bumps, introducing thirteen (documented) backwards incompatibilities. Furthermore, there were more regression fixes from previous bumps than feature additions. You&#x27;ll also notice that none of these releases are tagged &quot;-rc1&quot;, etc., though the fact that regressions were fixed in a new bump the next day means they <i>were</i> release candidates rather than releases. Ruby is just as bad; the famous (and I&#x27;ve experienced this) example is that an in-depth tutorial can be obsoleted in the two weeks it takes you to work through it.<p>Devs are chasing a moving target, and devs who haven&#x27;t been sysadmins may have trouble seeing why that&#x27;s a bad idea.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pip.pypa.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;news&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pip.pypa.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;news&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianN</author><text>People could do great things just with punch cards, yet somehow technology kept marching on.<p>If developers want to use newer stuff usually they have a good reason. The ability to hack around the deficiencies of old dependencies does not mean that one couldn&#x27;t get a better, cheaper solution with newer technology.</text></comment> |
19,636,668 | 19,636,654 | 1 | 2 | 19,634,987 | train | <story><title>Cambridge's Ambitious Protected Bike Lane Law</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/04/protected-bike-lanes-traffic-safety-cambridge-bicycle-plan/586876/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>&gt; We need to slow down auto-traffic and encourage more non-vehicular use of the roads, while making those roads safer for pedestrians, cyclists, scooter riders, skate boarders, etc.<p>Is that the most efficient use of the roads? Especially in a place like Boston, where most people in the metro area don’t live in (and can’t afford to live in) the city itself. At a certain point doesn’t creating a preference for pedestrians and cyclists actually end up being a preference for wealthier people who can afford to live downtown, versus those who need to access the city but can’t live within walking or biking distance? (Note that bicyclists and skateboarders also slow down busses, which are what lower income people use to get around.)</text></item><item><author>bluejekyll</author><text>I&#x27;ve experienced this same anecdote in similar situations for the past 20 years as well. There has been a long push by auto manufacturers to make anything other than cars that use the roads seen as both illegitimate and illegal. For example, see the history of Jaywalking laws: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;magazine-26073797" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;magazine-26073797</a>. Starting around 1920&#x27;s the auto-industry encouraged laws around the US to make crossing the street illegal. These laws have the downside of making car drivers feel entitled to the road.<p>Cyclists and other non-car users of roads have a deep hole to climb out of to change these laws, and to change the perception that streets are only for cars. Infrastructure is probably the only real mechanism we have that can make tangible changes, that don&#x27;t allow the personal feelings of car drivers to get angry at being inconvenienced by cyclists and other road users.<p>We need to slow down auto-traffic and encourage more non-vehicular use of the roads, while making those roads safer for pedestrians, cyclists, scooter riders, skate boarders, etc.</text></item><item><author>just_steve_h</author><text>I&#x27;ve lived in Cambridge or neighboring Somerville every year but one since 1989. The cycling infrastructure is much improved and still deadly.<p>Just yesterday, I approached an arterial Street from a side street at 6pm. Cars on the arterial were moving about 8 MPH. I dismounted my bike, and began walking across the arterial in the crosswalk. As I re-mounted on the other side and resumed riding, a white man in a mid-size SUV leaned out his window and said loudly to me, &quot;I hope you get hit!&quot;<p>This morning on my way to work, a driver popped out of a side street from my left side directly in front of me. As I was along side of him, he swerved hard to the right and into a parking lot (no signal of course).<p>I&#x27;ve been a daily bike commuter in Cambridge for 12 years. We desperately need infrastructure that forces drivers to respect cyclists as equal road users. There is hardly a day that I don&#x27;t <i>almost</i> get hit by car while cycling.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluejekyll</author><text>It depends on what you mean by efficient, I guess. I like the graphic on this article, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.treehugger.com&#x2F;urban-design&#x2F;how-much-space-do-people-take-different-modes-transport.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.treehugger.com&#x2F;urban-design&#x2F;how-much-space-do-pe...</a><p>It shows how many more people can efficiently use roads while on bikes than in cars. So, if we define efficiency by that measure (obviously this matters more in cities and congested areas), then yes, it&#x27;s more efficient.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cambridge's Ambitious Protected Bike Lane Law</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/04/protected-bike-lanes-traffic-safety-cambridge-bicycle-plan/586876/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>&gt; We need to slow down auto-traffic and encourage more non-vehicular use of the roads, while making those roads safer for pedestrians, cyclists, scooter riders, skate boarders, etc.<p>Is that the most efficient use of the roads? Especially in a place like Boston, where most people in the metro area don’t live in (and can’t afford to live in) the city itself. At a certain point doesn’t creating a preference for pedestrians and cyclists actually end up being a preference for wealthier people who can afford to live downtown, versus those who need to access the city but can’t live within walking or biking distance? (Note that bicyclists and skateboarders also slow down busses, which are what lower income people use to get around.)</text></item><item><author>bluejekyll</author><text>I&#x27;ve experienced this same anecdote in similar situations for the past 20 years as well. There has been a long push by auto manufacturers to make anything other than cars that use the roads seen as both illegitimate and illegal. For example, see the history of Jaywalking laws: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;magazine-26073797" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;magazine-26073797</a>. Starting around 1920&#x27;s the auto-industry encouraged laws around the US to make crossing the street illegal. These laws have the downside of making car drivers feel entitled to the road.<p>Cyclists and other non-car users of roads have a deep hole to climb out of to change these laws, and to change the perception that streets are only for cars. Infrastructure is probably the only real mechanism we have that can make tangible changes, that don&#x27;t allow the personal feelings of car drivers to get angry at being inconvenienced by cyclists and other road users.<p>We need to slow down auto-traffic and encourage more non-vehicular use of the roads, while making those roads safer for pedestrians, cyclists, scooter riders, skate boarders, etc.</text></item><item><author>just_steve_h</author><text>I&#x27;ve lived in Cambridge or neighboring Somerville every year but one since 1989. The cycling infrastructure is much improved and still deadly.<p>Just yesterday, I approached an arterial Street from a side street at 6pm. Cars on the arterial were moving about 8 MPH. I dismounted my bike, and began walking across the arterial in the crosswalk. As I re-mounted on the other side and resumed riding, a white man in a mid-size SUV leaned out his window and said loudly to me, &quot;I hope you get hit!&quot;<p>This morning on my way to work, a driver popped out of a side street from my left side directly in front of me. As I was along side of him, he swerved hard to the right and into a parking lot (no signal of course).<p>I&#x27;ve been a daily bike commuter in Cambridge for 12 years. We desperately need infrastructure that forces drivers to respect cyclists as equal road users. There is hardly a day that I don&#x27;t <i>almost</i> get hit by car while cycling.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stefan_</author><text>You mean the roads downtown should be inaccessible to people living downtown so suburban people can commute in on 2 ton steel boxes that they then store for the day in downtown?<p>No, that is indeed not the most efficient use of the roads. The most efficient use of the roads would be to rip them out and use the space for vastly more efficient public transport.<p>(Bus transport is also not slowed down by cyclists, or of all things, <i>skateboarders</i>.)</text></comment> |
28,079,536 | 28,078,660 | 1 | 3 | 28,078,115 | train | <story><title>Expanded Protections for Children</title><url>https://www.apple.com/child-safety/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Syonyk</author><text>Don&#x27;t shit in my hand and call it chocolate ice cream.<p>&quot;We&#x27;re going to scan your photos, on your encrypted device, to look for badness. Right now, we&#x27;re going to claim that&#x27;s only for the really icky people that nobody is going to defend, but, hey, once the tech is in place, who&#x27;s to say we can&#x27;t scan for dank memes and stuff?&quot;<p>I think I&#x27;m done with Apple. Sad, really. I was hoping that their bowing to China with iCloud wasn&#x27;t a sign of what&#x27;s to come, but apparently it was. They had done such nice stuff with privacy too.<p>Demote my phone to a house phone and go without, I suppose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>voldacar</author><text>These processes seem to only move in one direction. In 5 years this exact comment will probably make you sound like an &quot;extremist&quot; if you say it to a random person. &quot;What, why wouldn&#x27;t you be okay with apple searching through your photos?&quot;<p>I see it everywhere and it literally seems like some kind of one-way entropic process. I can&#x27;t think of anything that would reverse it. It would be like turning an omelet into an egg.<p>Is there something about modern life that just inescapably creates this complacent, servile temperament in most of the population? Or has it always been there and I&#x27;m just overthinking it? It&#x27;s really depressing either way so I try not to think about it</text></comment> | <story><title>Expanded Protections for Children</title><url>https://www.apple.com/child-safety/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Syonyk</author><text>Don&#x27;t shit in my hand and call it chocolate ice cream.<p>&quot;We&#x27;re going to scan your photos, on your encrypted device, to look for badness. Right now, we&#x27;re going to claim that&#x27;s only for the really icky people that nobody is going to defend, but, hey, once the tech is in place, who&#x27;s to say we can&#x27;t scan for dank memes and stuff?&quot;<p>I think I&#x27;m done with Apple. Sad, really. I was hoping that their bowing to China with iCloud wasn&#x27;t a sign of what&#x27;s to come, but apparently it was. They had done such nice stuff with privacy too.<p>Demote my phone to a house phone and go without, I suppose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>narrator</author><text>Who has access to update what are considered bad images and when to alert the authorities? This could very easily be made into an anti-wikileaks feature.</text></comment> |
38,088,259 | 38,087,570 | 1 | 3 | 38,084,572 | train | <story><title>.io considered harmful</title><url>https://www.beep.blog/io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>teddyh</author><text>I would go further and say this: Never treat foreign ccTLD’s (two-letter domains) as anything you can just register and use a domain in. You should only ever use a ccTLD of your own country or region you actually have your main presence in.<p>Your domain name is often your most secure key to your entire online identity, and you want that to be on as a secure legal footing as possible.<p>Older discussion here: &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32797286#32801880">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32797286#32801880</a>&gt;<p>Disclaimer: I work at a domain name registrar.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ak217</author><text>People look at me like I&#x27;m crazy when I suggest that Notion&#x27;s use of the Somalia TLD is a security concern that should give pause to anyone looking to store confidential data. This includes Notion&#x27;s own recruiters.<p>I still think that&#x27;s probably the biggest mistake that company has made. It seems baked in to their architecture now. But I think any company using a vanity domain in this manner is acting irresponsibly.<p>FWIW I don&#x27;t think the &quot;colonialism&quot; argument makes sense for this or other vanity domains. But the use of vanity ccTLDs is still a huge, underappreciated security concern. Companies willingly expose themselves to the risk of their domain being hijacked (or &quot;legally&quot; taken away) with zero recourse - or worse, putting their government in a situation where they have to choose between trying to intervene or having a bunch of their citizens&#x27; data compromised. It betrays a security naivete, oblivious to what state-sponsored APTs out there are capable of once enough is at stake.</text></comment> | <story><title>.io considered harmful</title><url>https://www.beep.blog/io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>teddyh</author><text>I would go further and say this: Never treat foreign ccTLD’s (two-letter domains) as anything you can just register and use a domain in. You should only ever use a ccTLD of your own country or region you actually have your main presence in.<p>Your domain name is often your most secure key to your entire online identity, and you want that to be on as a secure legal footing as possible.<p>Older discussion here: &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32797286#32801880">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32797286#32801880</a>&gt;<p>Disclaimer: I work at a domain name registrar.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thiht</author><text>I used to work at a registrar and I completely agree with you. This is exactly my take as well (with a small exception for .eu, just don&#x27;t use it)<p>For your online identity (ie email address) I&#x27;d even go as far as suggesting not using a ccTLD at all, no matter if you check all the boxes. No fancy gTLD either, just use a .com. I don&#x27;t think any TLD is remotely as reliable as this one (maybe .net because they&#x27;re both Verisign, but that&#x27;s it)</text></comment> |
32,473,383 | 32,473,180 | 1 | 3 | 32,472,398 | train | <story><title>Toptal trying to sue us for saying there are Toptal alternatives that cost less</title><url>https://twitter.com/caan_al/status/1559220800342966272</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tothrowaway</author><text>I wonder if this person knows that you do not have to respond to a C&amp;D or submit to its demands? If a party makes a frivolous demand like this, yes, they can file a lawsuit against you. But the chances of that happening are quite slim. Even the most unethical lawyers hesitate to bring junk like this in front of a judge.<p>Unfortunately, if you talk to a typical lawyer, they will always say that it is in your best (legal) interest to send a strong response back (at a mere $300 hour, or $3000 flat fee).</text></comment> | <story><title>Toptal trying to sue us for saying there are Toptal alternatives that cost less</title><url>https://twitter.com/caan_al/status/1559220800342966272</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway81523</author><text>One word: SLAPP. See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;SLAPP" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;SLAPP</a></text></comment> |
31,392,006 | 31,390,819 | 1 | 2 | 31,387,233 | train | <story><title>Minoan language Linear A linked to Linear B in new research</title><url>https://greekreporter.com/2022/04/20/minoan-language-linear-a-linear-b/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcranmer</author><text>I spent basically the entire article trying to figure out <i>what</i> the &quot;groundbreaking&quot; research actually was... this is a pretty mangled press release rendering of the scientific research, even worse than the kinds you normally see from university research.<p>To its credit, this doesn&#x27;t promise that we can (or will shortly be able to) actually read Linear A texts, and it actually explicates that we won&#x27;t be able to do that. But that&#x27;s pretty much the limit of credit due to this article.<p>Linear A&#x27;s connection to Linear B has been hypothesized since... well, at least as far back as when I was taught it in school, which considering how long it takes textbooks to update themselves to state-of-the-art archaeology may as well be time immemorial.<p>What it looks like the actual &quot;groundbreaking&quot; research here is, based on the sleuthing done in the previous version of the article that leads to an academic review of the work in question (here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bmcr.brynmawr.edu&#x2F;2021&#x2F;2021.04.30&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bmcr.brynmawr.edu&#x2F;2021&#x2F;2021.04.30&#x2F;</a>). The layman&#x27;s version is that it&#x27;s a detailed analysis of the structural elements of the script to propose how the (unknown) language was encoded into Linear A, combined with some analysis of how individual glyphs varied in time and space--and this results in the conclusion that Linear B is actually a version of a regional [script, not linguistic] dialect of Linear A that was used to write a different language.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tremon</author><text><i>this results in the conclusion that Linear B is actually a version of a regional [script, not linguistic] dialect of Linear A that was used to write a different language.</i><p>I&#x27;m having trouble understanding this. To me this says that Linear A and Linear B are different scripts that express different [spoken] languages, but might share common heritage. Which sounds obvious to me, not groundbreaking, unless they&#x27;ve now identified the common source.<p>Or are you saying that Linear A and Linear B might be the same script (as in phoneme-&gt;symbol encoding), but used to express a different language?</text></comment> | <story><title>Minoan language Linear A linked to Linear B in new research</title><url>https://greekreporter.com/2022/04/20/minoan-language-linear-a-linear-b/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcranmer</author><text>I spent basically the entire article trying to figure out <i>what</i> the &quot;groundbreaking&quot; research actually was... this is a pretty mangled press release rendering of the scientific research, even worse than the kinds you normally see from university research.<p>To its credit, this doesn&#x27;t promise that we can (or will shortly be able to) actually read Linear A texts, and it actually explicates that we won&#x27;t be able to do that. But that&#x27;s pretty much the limit of credit due to this article.<p>Linear A&#x27;s connection to Linear B has been hypothesized since... well, at least as far back as when I was taught it in school, which considering how long it takes textbooks to update themselves to state-of-the-art archaeology may as well be time immemorial.<p>What it looks like the actual &quot;groundbreaking&quot; research here is, based on the sleuthing done in the previous version of the article that leads to an academic review of the work in question (here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bmcr.brynmawr.edu&#x2F;2021&#x2F;2021.04.30&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bmcr.brynmawr.edu&#x2F;2021&#x2F;2021.04.30&#x2F;</a>). The layman&#x27;s version is that it&#x27;s a detailed analysis of the structural elements of the script to propose how the (unknown) language was encoded into Linear A, combined with some analysis of how individual glyphs varied in time and space--and this results in the conclusion that Linear B is actually a version of a regional [script, not linguistic] dialect of Linear A that was used to write a different language.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lsrinivas</author><text>I too was scratching my head about as you put it , &quot;what the groundbreaking research was&quot;. The academic review link that you posted was rather useful though it was a little technical.<p>I think the book needs to be read. But thanks a ton.</text></comment> |
5,620,642 | 5,618,715 | 1 | 3 | 5,618,523 | train | <story><title>Show HN: A url-based API for images (my weekend project)</title><url>http://mebe.co/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>r4vik</author><text>seems a lot like jpg.to
<a href="http://optimus_prime.jpg.to/" rel="nofollow">http://optimus_prime.jpg.to/</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TazeTSchnitzel</author><text>Wait, since when could hostnames have underscores?<p>EDIT: Hey, IDNs seem to work! <a href="http://café.jpg.to/" rel="nofollow">http://café.jpg.to/</a><p>EDIT 2: Or maybe not. <a href="http://schlüssel.jpg.to/" rel="nofollow">http://schlüssel.jpg.to/</a><p>(Schlüssel means "key" in German. Google Image Search it and you get pictures of keys. Search for "Schlussel", though, and you get that girl. So presumably it searched for the punycode, something like --schlussel-blah.)<p>EDIT 3: Wait. the IDN for "Schlüssel" is xn--schlssel-95a. If I Google that, I don't get pictures of Ms. Schlussel. It must be decoding it and stripping the accents? That said, searching for schlssel does yield pictures of her.<p>EDIT 4: café is --xn-caf-dma. Google Image Search "caf" won't find cafés. Nor will "--xn-caf-dma". So it must understand IDNs but strip or be accent-insensitive</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: A url-based API for images (my weekend project)</title><url>http://mebe.co/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>r4vik</author><text>seems a lot like jpg.to
<a href="http://optimus_prime.jpg.to/" rel="nofollow">http://optimus_prime.jpg.to/</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iSloth</author><text>Arrrh... <a href="http://facebook.jpg.to/" rel="nofollow">http://facebook.jpg.to/</a></text></comment> |
17,046,791 | 17,046,323 | 1 | 2 | 17,043,816 | train | <story><title>Librem 5 design report</title><url>https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-11/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbk</author><text>I, for one, don&#x27;t understand the push for Gnome here. I am a backer of librem, and I really don&#x27;t get it.<p>KDE Plasma Mobile is something that actually cares about mobile, is developed by an actual community and still needs a lot of work. Developing another Mobile Shell, on Gnome (that don&#x27;t seem to care about anything else than Linux desktop) feels like NIH and a waste of time and resources...<p>Doing a Mobile Shell (+toolkits +all basic applications) that works reliably is a lot of work and doing it twice is a bit sad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrismorgan</author><text>The impression that I get, with no basis in data whatsoever, is that these days, people that explicitly like KDE use KDE, a few people with strong opinions or definite resource restrictions use other environments like XFCE, LXDE or a tiling window manager, and pretty much everyone else is using GNOME, and so the momentum is behind GNOME, with even Ubuntu recently switching back to GNOME.<p>I think that this is targeting the sorts of people that are more likely to be familiar with and like GNOME than KDE, so there is advantage in using the same software, and producing software that will be able to, as depicted, run on a laptop as well as a phone without feeling out of place anywhere.<p>Note also that they’re working with both GNOME and KDE, so that both will have first-class support:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puri.sm&#x2F;posts&#x2F;librem5-gnome-and-kde-collaboration&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puri.sm&#x2F;posts&#x2F;librem5-gnome-and-kde-collaboration&#x2F;</a>,
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puri.sm&#x2F;posts&#x2F;gnome-and-kde-in-pureos-diversity-across-devices&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puri.sm&#x2F;posts&#x2F;gnome-and-kde-in-pureos-diversity-acro...</a> (that latter link includes content very similar in meaning to my remarks above).</text></comment> | <story><title>Librem 5 design report</title><url>https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-11/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbk</author><text>I, for one, don&#x27;t understand the push for Gnome here. I am a backer of librem, and I really don&#x27;t get it.<p>KDE Plasma Mobile is something that actually cares about mobile, is developed by an actual community and still needs a lot of work. Developing another Mobile Shell, on Gnome (that don&#x27;t seem to care about anything else than Linux desktop) feels like NIH and a waste of time and resources...<p>Doing a Mobile Shell (+toolkits +all basic applications) that works reliably is a lot of work and doing it twice is a bit sad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Fnoord</author><text>Nokia already tried this with Maemo&#x2F;MeeGo, and they eventually <i>bought</i> Trolltech (and hence Qt) and went that route. Ubuntu Touch (although not a community project) also used Qt5. Sailfish OS (successor of Maemo&#x2F;MeeGo&#x2F;Moblin) also uses Qt. And both use libphys by Carsten Munk et al for the Android emulation layer (you are going to need backwards compatibility for your users). Why not follow the footsteps of giants instead of trying to reinvent your own path? Why not base your OS on either of these?</text></comment> |
11,753,762 | 11,753,799 | 1 | 2 | 11,753,439 | train | <story><title>Why do we have allergies?</title><url>http://mosaicscience.com/story/why-do-we-have-allergies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LionessLover</author><text>Well... time for anecdotal sample-of-1 &quot;science&quot;:<p>About two decades ago I got a <i>huge</i> case of almost-asthma pollen allergy out of nowhere, almost overnight. I got the usual treatment (desensitization + meds) and it got somewhat better over the years. Simultaneously I developed other allergies though, for example, suddenly I was <i>very</i> allergic to cats (I had had cats earlier, so that was new).<p>A few years ago I was diagnosed with a case of chronic heavy-metal poisoning.<p>Now, many treatments with DMPS (the main chelator for mercury) and DMSA later, I have completely lost all allergies (and a long list of other &quot;strange&quot; problems, including a real medical miracle that left the endocrinologist repeating &quot;I&#x27;m amazed&quot; over and over after checking his ultrasound results <i>twice</i>, after asking me to lie down again because he did not trust his results).<p>End of anecdote.<p>------------------------------<p>EDIT: As someone who has taken hundreds of hours of anatomy, physiology, org. chem, statistics (focus on public health and use in medicine), neuroscience, I am aware that there is not &quot;one path that explains all&quot;. There are soooooo many pathways, and different things can affect different parts leading to similar results. So I am NOT saying &quot;this is the one and only way to get an allergy&quot;. In fact it is highly unlikely that there is only one possible cause. So if you have found an anecdote that seems to show that something else helped and&#x2F;or caused it than &quot;heavy metals&quot; that&#x27;s just fine and normal - and has nothing to do with <i>my</i> anecdote. You can get a flesh wound not just by cutting yourself with a kitchen knife, there are endless possibilities.</text></item><item><author>ph0rque</author><text>Here&#x27;s a summary if you&#x27;re in a hurry:<p>&quot;Why do we get allergies? No one has a firm answer, but what is arguably the leading theory suggests that allergies are a misfiring of a defense against parasitic worms. In the industrialized world, where such infections are rare, this system reacts in an exaggerated fashion to harmless targets, making us miserable in the process.<p>Medzhitov thinks that’s wrong. Allergies are not simply a biological blunder. Instead, they’re an essential defense against noxious chemicals–a defence that has served our ancestors for tens of millions of years and continues to do so today.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xenophonf</author><text>I vaguely recall reading something on Usenet or something that would have made it onto Slashdot or Plastic in the late 90s&#x2F;early 00s, where someone treated their allergies or asthma or something by deliberately infecting themselves with a parasitic worm---I forget which, maybe hookworm. They actually went to so far as to cultivate the worm in some medium that they could apply to their stomach using a custom-made patch, started pooping oocytes, and then completed the usual treatment course for whatever it was they infected themselves with. I can&#x27;t recall if it cleared up the condition from which they were suffering, and obviously, this wasn&#x27;t any kind of controlled trial. Lord knows that such a study would give an IRB six fits, and rightly so!</text></comment> | <story><title>Why do we have allergies?</title><url>http://mosaicscience.com/story/why-do-we-have-allergies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LionessLover</author><text>Well... time for anecdotal sample-of-1 &quot;science&quot;:<p>About two decades ago I got a <i>huge</i> case of almost-asthma pollen allergy out of nowhere, almost overnight. I got the usual treatment (desensitization + meds) and it got somewhat better over the years. Simultaneously I developed other allergies though, for example, suddenly I was <i>very</i> allergic to cats (I had had cats earlier, so that was new).<p>A few years ago I was diagnosed with a case of chronic heavy-metal poisoning.<p>Now, many treatments with DMPS (the main chelator for mercury) and DMSA later, I have completely lost all allergies (and a long list of other &quot;strange&quot; problems, including a real medical miracle that left the endocrinologist repeating &quot;I&#x27;m amazed&quot; over and over after checking his ultrasound results <i>twice</i>, after asking me to lie down again because he did not trust his results).<p>End of anecdote.<p>------------------------------<p>EDIT: As someone who has taken hundreds of hours of anatomy, physiology, org. chem, statistics (focus on public health and use in medicine), neuroscience, I am aware that there is not &quot;one path that explains all&quot;. There are soooooo many pathways, and different things can affect different parts leading to similar results. So I am NOT saying &quot;this is the one and only way to get an allergy&quot;. In fact it is highly unlikely that there is only one possible cause. So if you have found an anecdote that seems to show that something else helped and&#x2F;or caused it than &quot;heavy metals&quot; that&#x27;s just fine and normal - and has nothing to do with <i>my</i> anecdote. You can get a flesh wound not just by cutting yourself with a kitchen knife, there are endless possibilities.</text></item><item><author>ph0rque</author><text>Here&#x27;s a summary if you&#x27;re in a hurry:<p>&quot;Why do we get allergies? No one has a firm answer, but what is arguably the leading theory suggests that allergies are a misfiring of a defense against parasitic worms. In the industrialized world, where such infections are rare, this system reacts in an exaggerated fashion to harmless targets, making us miserable in the process.<p>Medzhitov thinks that’s wrong. Allergies are not simply a biological blunder. Instead, they’re an essential defense against noxious chemicals–a defence that has served our ancestors for tens of millions of years and continues to do so today.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sageikosa</author><text>My teenage daughter developed peanut allergies in her mid teens while traveling with a drum corps one summer. She had noticed how ill she was feeling and systematically cut out foods until she narrowed the peanut butter sandwiches (she had been an avid peanut butter eater for years before). When she got back from tour and was tested she was confirmed for strong peanut allergies and had to carry an epi-pen. However, after about a year she got tested again and now had no reaction.<p>I still attribute this to something else was in her system that triggered reaction in conjunction with the peanut proteins.</text></comment> |
19,537,623 | 19,536,020 | 1 | 2 | 19,535,608 | train | <story><title>Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder? (2017)</title><url>http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/marshall-steinbaum-why-are-economists-giving-piketty-cold-shoulder</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mordymoop</author><text>Are we still talking about this? Within months of the book’s release, readers had found many examples where his data selections had been incomplete. To the extent that the main points were invalidated or made far less convincing. When you include the full data in his analysis, the main conclusions are drawn into question. There are many very thorough blog posts by economists you can easily Google.<p>It’d be like if Origin of Species came out, but evolution was actually wrong, and Darwin had only seemed right at first because he left out the species that didn’t fit his model.<p>I don’t think Piketty did this on purpose, by the way. He just didn’t push hard enough on the data that he didn’t want to find fault with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m0llusk</author><text>This is not accurate. Piketty has continued to refine the data and add more as it comes available. The main point was that capital flows are interesting and that is beyond contest at this point. The book Capital has some tentative analysis at the end but doesn&#x27;t make any strong conclusions and avoids taking the focus away from measuring flows of capital.<p>Because it is possible to use this data about capital to come to conclusions that are politically unpopular among some subgroups people have piled on this false critical narrative emphasizing supposed errors and gaps in the data and keeping the focus on some brief remarks at the end of a very large work that has a range of applications.<p>I don&#x27;t think critics of Piketty did this on purpose. They just pushed unreasonably hard on the data they wanted to find fault with.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder? (2017)</title><url>http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/marshall-steinbaum-why-are-economists-giving-piketty-cold-shoulder</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mordymoop</author><text>Are we still talking about this? Within months of the book’s release, readers had found many examples where his data selections had been incomplete. To the extent that the main points were invalidated or made far less convincing. When you include the full data in his analysis, the main conclusions are drawn into question. There are many very thorough blog posts by economists you can easily Google.<p>It’d be like if Origin of Species came out, but evolution was actually wrong, and Darwin had only seemed right at first because he left out the species that didn’t fit his model.<p>I don’t think Piketty did this on purpose, by the way. He just didn’t push hard enough on the data that he didn’t want to find fault with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KirinDave</author><text>This would be an excellent time to cite sources.</text></comment> |
34,852,457 | 34,852,243 | 1 | 2 | 34,849,967 | train | <story><title>Steam now allows you to copy games over a local network to another PC</title><url>https://twitter.com/OnDeck/status/1626693524489121793</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aquova</author><text>They&#x27;ve been rumored to be working on this for some time; I think it&#x27;s an excellent feature. I know people who live in areas with poor internet speed, and this type of thing is a godsend. It may seem simple to people on here how to simply transfer game files or set up a network cache, but to many users it&#x27;s akin to dark magic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bootloop</author><text>Steam had an option to recover a game from a backup for a long time. If you really needed this you knew about it. This new feature seems to just save a few clicks and the need for a shared drive &#x2F; flash drive.<p>It still doesn&#x27;t help me with games releasing a 20 GB patch every 7 days unfortunately.</text></comment> | <story><title>Steam now allows you to copy games over a local network to another PC</title><url>https://twitter.com/OnDeck/status/1626693524489121793</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aquova</author><text>They&#x27;ve been rumored to be working on this for some time; I think it&#x27;s an excellent feature. I know people who live in areas with poor internet speed, and this type of thing is a godsend. It may seem simple to people on here how to simply transfer game files or set up a network cache, but to many users it&#x27;s akin to dark magic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>capableweb</author><text>I&#x27;m one of those people. I have a gaming PC filled with games and a Steam Deck with some games. Some of the things I want to play on the Steam Deck I&#x27;ve yet to play just because the download would take forever (intermittent internet access combined with horrible latency and terrible bandwidth). Really happy about this feature.</text></comment> |
13,305,220 | 13,304,861 | 1 | 2 | 13,303,912 | train | <story><title>Cheap and Painless eGPU Thrills on a 2013 MacBook Pro</title><url>http://beta-blog.archagon.net/2016/12/31/cheap-and-painless-egpu-thrills-on-a-2013-macbook-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hendersoon</author><text>This is interesting academically, but I wouldn&#x27;t buy a hacked-together TB2 enclosure.<p>Thunderbolt 3 eGPU enclosures are available now, and are fully supported by Intel and windows. They started at $500 with the Razer Core, but new models like the AkiTiO Node and Powercolor Devil Box are coming in at $299, shipping Q1 2017. More will likely be announced at CES this week.<p>These TB3 enclosures have 400w+ power supplies, better cooling, and are large enough to fit large enthusiast GPUs like the Nvidia GTX 1080. You can plug a TB3 device into a TB2 laptop with a simple adapter. Apple sells theirs for $29; Chinese versions will be cheaper.<p>Depending on what features the manufacturer decides to add to their device, TB3 eGPU enclosures can also charge your laptop, offer USB3 ports, gigabit ethernet, audio jacks, etc. The $299 models tend to be very bare-bones but there&#x27;s no doubt that competition will lead to cheaper prices and more features over time. Again, watch for more at CES this week.<p>Current list of TB3 eGPU enclosures:<p>AKiTiO Node ($300)
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.akitio.com&#x2F;expansion&#x2F;node" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.akitio.com&#x2F;expansion&#x2F;node</a><p>Asus ROG XG Station 2 (price unknown)
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.asus.com&#x2F;Graphics-Cards-Accessory&#x2F;ROG-XG-STATION-2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.asus.com&#x2F;Graphics-Cards-Accessory&#x2F;ROG-XG-STATION...</a><p>BizonBOX 3 ($650, probably because it says it works with Macs)
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bizon-tech.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;bizonbox3-egpu.html&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bizon-tech.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;bizonbox3-egpu.html&#x2F;</a><p>Powercolor Devil Box ($300. Ugly, though.)
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.powercolor.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;products_DevilBox_features.asp?id=1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.powercolor.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;products_DevilBox_features.asp?...</a><p>Razer Core ($500)
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.razerzone.com&#x2F;gaming-systems&#x2F;razer-blade-stealth" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.razerzone.com&#x2F;gaming-systems&#x2F;razer-blade-stealth</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>newhouseb</author><text>I spent a while trying to convince myself I could get away with a Mac Pro (Trashcan) hooked up to an external GPU to do VR &amp; Deep Learning using a TB2 enclosure. After fighting for hours (days?) with how the PCI lanes were allocated on Windows, I finally got output to an external display, but it still ran below VR spec according to the various benchmarks. If you wanted to switch back and forth between Windows and Mac, it always required a few power cycles because Windows was constantly thinking it was reconfigured.<p>I returned the whole thing and bought a beefy gaming PC, which now has an absurd amount of power in it (a 1080 + 2x970... I had forgotten how much fun it is to continually upgrade a machine). For power on the go, I have a Razer Blade with a 1060 in it. It&#x27;s a shame, because I prefer to develop on a Mac, but I need modern hardware ¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cheap and Painless eGPU Thrills on a 2013 MacBook Pro</title><url>http://beta-blog.archagon.net/2016/12/31/cheap-and-painless-egpu-thrills-on-a-2013-macbook-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hendersoon</author><text>This is interesting academically, but I wouldn&#x27;t buy a hacked-together TB2 enclosure.<p>Thunderbolt 3 eGPU enclosures are available now, and are fully supported by Intel and windows. They started at $500 with the Razer Core, but new models like the AkiTiO Node and Powercolor Devil Box are coming in at $299, shipping Q1 2017. More will likely be announced at CES this week.<p>These TB3 enclosures have 400w+ power supplies, better cooling, and are large enough to fit large enthusiast GPUs like the Nvidia GTX 1080. You can plug a TB3 device into a TB2 laptop with a simple adapter. Apple sells theirs for $29; Chinese versions will be cheaper.<p>Depending on what features the manufacturer decides to add to their device, TB3 eGPU enclosures can also charge your laptop, offer USB3 ports, gigabit ethernet, audio jacks, etc. The $299 models tend to be very bare-bones but there&#x27;s no doubt that competition will lead to cheaper prices and more features over time. Again, watch for more at CES this week.<p>Current list of TB3 eGPU enclosures:<p>AKiTiO Node ($300)
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.akitio.com&#x2F;expansion&#x2F;node" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.akitio.com&#x2F;expansion&#x2F;node</a><p>Asus ROG XG Station 2 (price unknown)
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.asus.com&#x2F;Graphics-Cards-Accessory&#x2F;ROG-XG-STATION-2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.asus.com&#x2F;Graphics-Cards-Accessory&#x2F;ROG-XG-STATION...</a><p>BizonBOX 3 ($650, probably because it says it works with Macs)
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bizon-tech.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;bizonbox3-egpu.html&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bizon-tech.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;bizonbox3-egpu.html&#x2F;</a><p>Powercolor Devil Box ($300. Ugly, though.)
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.powercolor.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;products_DevilBox_features.asp?id=1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.powercolor.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;products_DevilBox_features.asp?...</a><p>Razer Core ($500)
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.razerzone.com&#x2F;gaming-systems&#x2F;razer-blade-stealth" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.razerzone.com&#x2F;gaming-systems&#x2F;razer-blade-stealth</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>archagon</author><text>I would have certainly preferred to do this, but it would have involved a $2000 upgrade first! (Well, barring the TB3-to-TB2 adaptor approach, but I&#x27;ve seen almost no builds doing this.) Also, from what I&#x27;ve seen, there&#x27;s a lot of uncertainty regarding eGPU support with TB3; many people have reported problems on TechInferno etc., and even AKiTiO is unclear about Mac support. (If you check the specs for the Node, you&#x27;ll see that Macs are listed as unsupported. Does this mean OSX-only or BootCamp as well? Who knows?) Might be worth waiting a year for things to shake out.<p>Also, I was optimizing in part for cheapness. Truly great gaming cards cost $300 and up, and $400 total was about as much as I was willing to pay for an upgrade.</text></comment> |
37,870,318 | 37,869,314 | 1 | 3 | 37,868,388 | train | <story><title>Populating the page: how browsers work (2020)</title><url>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Performance/How_browsers_work</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bloopernova</author><text>That was really informative, but it raised a question for me:<p>It described the browser as single threaded, but then talked about multiple concurrent tasks. Aren&#x27;t those threads?<p>One more question: are there any browsers that use multiple threads to lay out the various object models and render the page? If it&#x27;s been found to be too difficult, what were the issues?</text></comment> | <story><title>Populating the page: how browsers work (2020)</title><url>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Performance/How_browsers_work</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kaon123</author><text>Fun read that puts a lot of things together that I &quot;sort of knew&quot; but never really knew.</text></comment> |
7,405,430 | 7,405,408 | 1 | 2 | 7,405,325 | train | <story><title>Prominent GitHub Engineer Quits, Alleging Gender-Based Harassment</title><url>http://recode.net/2014/03/15/prominent-github-engineer-julie-ann-horvath-quits-claiming-gender-based-harassment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>apetresc</author><text>How can I take the article seriously when it says that &quot;GitHub has been embroiled in a series of diversity controversies, such as programmers adding racial and sexist slurs into their code&quot;, which links to an article where someone took GitHub search and found random people putting bad words into their public repos?<p>This author can&#x27;t seem to distinguish between the code employees at GitHub write, and code users put onto GitHub.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codelap</author><text>Zero percent of this conversation should be about the article, and should entirely be on the validity of the claim against the unhealthy work environment.</text></comment> | <story><title>Prominent GitHub Engineer Quits, Alleging Gender-Based Harassment</title><url>http://recode.net/2014/03/15/prominent-github-engineer-julie-ann-horvath-quits-claiming-gender-based-harassment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>apetresc</author><text>How can I take the article seriously when it says that &quot;GitHub has been embroiled in a series of diversity controversies, such as programmers adding racial and sexist slurs into their code&quot;, which links to an article where someone took GitHub search and found random people putting bad words into their public repos?<p>This author can&#x27;t seem to distinguish between the code employees at GitHub write, and code users put onto GitHub.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>Interesting point.<p>Let&#x27;s say I am an open source developer and I put some crazy stuff on Github.<p>Some journalist does a profile on me. Am I a &quot;Github Software Developer&quot; to them?<p>* Google Name -- &quot;aha, link to Github&quot;<p>* Find crazy stuff checked into Github repos.<p>* Google Github -- &quot;aha, technology company something something distributed ... eyes glaze over technical mumbo jumbo&quot;.<p>* Claim I am a &quot;Github Engineer&quot;<p>It is obvious to us how it works, but say someone who has no idea about repos or open source will not quite understand the separation between user content and platform.</text></comment> |
14,622,164 | 14,621,703 | 1 | 3 | 14,620,787 | train | <story><title>Why Choose Vue.js</title><url>http://hire.jonasgalvez.com.br/2017/Jun/23/Why-Choose-Vue</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>graysonk</author><text>Love the article! But wow this site hurts my eyes. Yellow and red font on a black background aligned very far right?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmytrish</author><text>Firefox reading mode (⌥⌘R) to the rescue!<p>I find myself increasingly using it even on decently designed websites when I need to read a lot of text.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Choose Vue.js</title><url>http://hire.jonasgalvez.com.br/2017/Jun/23/Why-Choose-Vue</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>graysonk</author><text>Love the article! But wow this site hurts my eyes. Yellow and red font on a black background aligned very far right?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dabernathy89</author><text>I actually like the yellow on black (not so much the red). There is a reason highway signs often combine yellow and black, the contrast makes it very easy to read.</text></comment> |
36,621,762 | 36,621,219 | 1 | 3 | 36,620,536 | train | <story><title>Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads</title><url>https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2023/twitter-is-threatening-to-sue-meta-over-threads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>Between this and Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino&#x27;s weird tweet about how great Twitter is (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;lindayacc&#x2F;status&#x2F;1676965566597464065" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;lindayacc&#x2F;status&#x2F;1676965566597464065</a>), the arrival of Threads is <i>definitely</i> an existential threat for Twitter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edavis</author><text>&gt; the arrival of Threads is definitely an existential threat for Twitter<p>I had a similar thought when I joined Threads last night and within 30 seconds saw the accounts of Adam Schefter, Adrian Wojnarowski, and Shams Charania all actively posting.<p>If you follow NFL and NBA news you&#x27;ll know these names but for anybody that doesn&#x27;t, these insider accounts are firmly at the center of the NFL and NBA breaking news universe and for going on a decade now Twitter was where you went to follow them.<p>What Threads has done is break that monopoly Twitter had on this sort of thing. It gives regular users a clean, familiar, functional, working UI with a simple onboard process and it gives high-profile accounts a stable platform, a verified badge, and a boatload of users.<p>Could Twitter survive if it was no longer the epicenter of North American sports discussion? Probably, but it would be a big loss and would signal to other communities on there that Twitter&#x27;s expiration date is rapidly approaching.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads</title><url>https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2023/twitter-is-threatening-to-sue-meta-over-threads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>Between this and Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino&#x27;s weird tweet about how great Twitter is (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;lindayacc&#x2F;status&#x2F;1676965566597464065" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;lindayacc&#x2F;status&#x2F;1676965566597464065</a>), the arrival of Threads is <i>definitely</i> an existential threat for Twitter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>3cats-in-a-coat</author><text>I don&#x27;t know Linda Yaccarino well, but so far all her statements, internal and public, read like cringe parody of corporate mediocrity.</text></comment> |
11,318,933 | 11,318,834 | 1 | 2 | 11,318,156 | train | <story><title>Somali Law</title><url>http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Legal_Systems_Draft/Systems/SomaliLawChapter.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Sniffnoy</author><text>Note that this is just one chapter in the larger book, &quot;Legal Systems Very Different From Ours&quot;:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.daviddfriedman.com&#x2F;Academic&#x2F;Course_Pages&#x2F;legal_systems_very_different_12&#x2F;LegalSystemsDraft.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.daviddfriedman.com&#x2F;Academic&#x2F;Course_Pages&#x2F;legal_sy...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Somali Law</title><url>http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Legal_Systems_Draft/Systems/SomaliLawChapter.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>exratione</author><text>You might also compare this with the traditional system of distributed dispute resolution that held sway in Iceland at the time of the sagas. While quite different cultures, many similar solutions and incentives acted to minimize violence between familial groups. In that case the system failed when it fell out of decentralization and into control of a sufficiently small elite for them to become a defacto government, but it took 300 years to reach that failure case.<p>A very high-level summary: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mises.org&#x2F;library&#x2F;medieval-iceland-and-absence-government" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mises.org&#x2F;library&#x2F;medieval-iceland-and-absence-gover...</a></text></comment> |
31,288,689 | 31,288,131 | 1 | 2 | 31,284,031 | train | <story><title>Stripe responds to the Financial Connections/Plaid kerfuffle</title><url>https://twitter.com/collision/status/1522541067777753090</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eins1234</author><text>A lot of comments here saying that this is the death knell for Plaid, but I wouldn&#x27;t be so sure. Stripe has launched competitors to existing fintech products and failed to gain traction plenty of times before.<p>Example: Remember the Stripe Corporate Card? It was &quot;launched&quot; as invite-only 3 years ago and is still invite only today, with little signs of traction. Meanwhile both Brex and Ramp have become decacorns through crazy revenue growth.<p>It&#x27;s not really just a Stripe thing either. I think people are way under-estimating how hard it is for a large company to launch and succeed with a product outside of their core offering, especially when the competition is a small nimble startup with a singlular focus on that one product.<p>Startups die all the time, for all sorts of reasons, but &quot;large company started competing with it&quot; is a rather rare one.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stripe responds to the Financial Connections/Plaid kerfuffle</title><url>https://twitter.com/collision/status/1522541067777753090</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kbos87</author><text>I don’t know all the specifics of the interaction that happened here, but the hard truth is that if you aren’t eventually expecting this to happen to your business - regardless of the space you are in - you aren’t being realistic about the nature of competition in SaaS.<p>Plaid has enjoyed years of life without much direct competition. My hunch is that few other businesses were interested in the space because it feels inherently fragile, and Plaid has had the benefit from having spent years doing a lot of sausage making.<p>The inevitable dynamics of competition are finally catching up to them. In established corners of SaaS a vendor with a unique idea barely gets 6 months before their competitors have replicated anything that shows signs of product market fit. Not saying it doesn’t sting, but that’s reality.</text></comment> |
12,446,830 | 12,446,943 | 1 | 2 | 12,445,994 | train | <story><title>iPhone 7</title><url>http://www.apple.com/iPhone7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tebruno99</author><text>I&#x27;m not even upset about the headphone jack. Whatever. I&#x27;m really upset because you won&#x27;t be able to do the following:<p>1.) Audio+GPS+Charging in non-Bluetooth Car.<p>2.) Listening to music at desk and still have enough charge for the Audio+GPS for the drive home.<p>3.) No more listening to music&#x2F;audiobooks as I fall asleep because in the morning the iPhone won&#x27;t be charged for my desk usage the next day unless I wake up and plug it back in during my sleep.<p>They can do whatever they want with the headphone jack, but pretending like we don&#x27;t need to plug the phone in!! Thats daft.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shawkinaw</author><text>Not justifying the removal of the port, but Apple&#x27;s Dock [0] has its own standard audio-out port, and I&#x27;m sure others out there do as well.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;shop&#x2F;product&#x2F;MGRM2AM&#x2F;A&#x2F;iphone-lightning-dock-white?fnode=97&amp;fs=f%3Ddock%26fh%3D458e%252B45e3" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;shop&#x2F;product&#x2F;MGRM2AM&#x2F;A&#x2F;iphone-lightning...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>iPhone 7</title><url>http://www.apple.com/iPhone7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tebruno99</author><text>I&#x27;m not even upset about the headphone jack. Whatever. I&#x27;m really upset because you won&#x27;t be able to do the following:<p>1.) Audio+GPS+Charging in non-Bluetooth Car.<p>2.) Listening to music at desk and still have enough charge for the Audio+GPS for the drive home.<p>3.) No more listening to music&#x2F;audiobooks as I fall asleep because in the morning the iPhone won&#x27;t be charged for my desk usage the next day unless I wake up and plug it back in during my sleep.<p>They can do whatever they want with the headphone jack, but pretending like we don&#x27;t need to plug the phone in!! Thats daft.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rimantas</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt; Audio+GPS+Charging in non-Bluetooth Car.
</code></pre>
I can do this with iPhone 6 already. And could do with iPhone 5. In a 2013 model year car. There is an USB port in my car, connect lightning cable and thats it: phone is charging, music is playing.</text></comment> |
8,801,273 | 8,800,500 | 1 | 2 | 8,798,874 | train | <story><title>JavaScript Equality Table</title><url>http://dorey.github.io/JavaScript-Equality-Table/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Xophmeister</author><text>Your rephrasing is better. For example, there&#x27;s no reason to do:<p><pre><code> typeof someVar === &#x27;number&#x27;
</code></pre>
...because `typeof` always returns a string, by spec[1]<p>1. <a href="http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-11.4.3" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ecma-international.org&#x2F;ecma-262&#x2F;5.1&#x2F;#sec-11.4.3</a></text></item><item><author>judah</author><text>I like the end of the article. &quot;Use three equals unless you fully understand the conversions that take place for two-equals.&quot;<p>Or better said, &quot;Always use 3 equals unless you have a good reason to use 2.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hajile</author><text>Removing a single character is hardly worth the issues that may arise from not using it. The only quasi-acceptable use of &#x27;==&#x27; IMHO is:<p><pre><code> myVar == null
</code></pre>
as it is a little easier than:<p><pre><code> myVar === undefined || myVar === null
</code></pre>
That said, I use only &#x27;===&#x27; as I don&#x27;t want to ever worry about my code (plus, the use of a maybe monad makes this and other problems go away).</text></comment> | <story><title>JavaScript Equality Table</title><url>http://dorey.github.io/JavaScript-Equality-Table/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Xophmeister</author><text>Your rephrasing is better. For example, there&#x27;s no reason to do:<p><pre><code> typeof someVar === &#x27;number&#x27;
</code></pre>
...because `typeof` always returns a string, by spec[1]<p>1. <a href="http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-11.4.3" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ecma-international.org&#x2F;ecma-262&#x2F;5.1&#x2F;#sec-11.4.3</a></text></item><item><author>judah</author><text>I like the end of the article. &quot;Use three equals unless you fully understand the conversions that take place for two-equals.&quot;<p>Or better said, &quot;Always use 3 equals unless you have a good reason to use 2.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattdesl</author><text>Well, there is a reason: consistency. ;)<p>I hate seeing &quot;==&quot; in code because it&#x27;s rarely clear whether the programmer intends it to coerce or just didn&#x27;t bother with the third keystroke. So &quot;===&quot; is just enforced everywhere through jshint.</text></comment> |
30,898,081 | 30,897,361 | 1 | 2 | 30,896,837 | train | <story><title>Why to care about privacy after years of sharing data</title><url>https://blog.thenewoil.org/why-to-care-about-privacy-after-years-of-sharing-data</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spansoa</author><text>I used to have a large online presence pre-Snowden leaks and was signed up to hundreds of services, some even in my legal name. Gradually I attempted to &#x27;go dark&#x27; and delete all those accounts, which was tedious, but worth it.<p>There&#x27;s two extremes to being online: you can wear your heart on your shirt sleeve and post under your legal name, and share details about your private life, or you can be a ghost and leave no traces, or at least minimize your footprint.<p>There is this thing: some people are just so famous online, that reverting back to some private mode is nearly impossible for them. They&#x27;re so out there and involved with so many services, that &#x27;going dark&#x27; for them would be very difficult, but there are steps you can take to minimize your footprint. It&#x27;s not too late to take those initial steps.<p>I encourage everyone to attempt to &#x27;go dark&#x27; gradually and make it very expensive for people to dox you. If you turn it into a game, it&#x27;s even better. I said it was tedious, but honestly I kind of like becoming a ghost. I&#x27;m so opaque to big tech now, that it must really piss them off, including dragnet surveillance.<p>It&#x27;s not a life for everyone however, and sometimes I have to participate in big tech like using my smartphone to do online banking, or buying something on Amazon, but 99% of my activities online are all more-or-less anonymous and private now, and I&#x27;m happy with that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why to care about privacy after years of sharing data</title><url>https://blog.thenewoil.org/why-to-care-about-privacy-after-years-of-sharing-data</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>narush</author><text>This is a cool article. I like the narrative of &quot;Change to a life where you are in control of your direction.&quot;<p>I am probably the most privacy conscious person of my friends (not that I do a particularly good job of it), so I spent lots of time thinking about how to communicate about privacy in a way that is effective. [We&#x27;re all mid-twenties, for context.] The main issue, I find, is that people just mostly don&#x27;t care.<p>That being said, most of my friends do relate (and dislike) the loss of agency that comes with giving your brain to an algorithmic feed that decides what you eat. The narrative of &quot;control your life and decisions&quot; would be an effective piece of rhetoric, I think!<p>The other argument I&#x27;ve found really effective is one that convinced me after reading Edward Snowden&#x27;s memoir Permanent Record. A sketch of the point:<p>Person 1: privacy matters.
Person 2: I don&#x27;t care about privacy, because I don&#x27;t have anything to hide.
Person 1: Historically, the folks who were hurt because of a lack of privacy weren&#x27;t us (young professionals), but rather the civil rights movement in the 1960s and the Vietnam anti-war movement, etc. Privacy is about protecting those people who the government&#x2F;institutions&#x2F;etc already squash down.<p>It&#x27;s an argument that comes from Permanent Record, pretty much, and I think for me it is the most compelling reason that I care about privacy! Not as much for myself (although that&#x27;s nice), but mostly for the people that privacy protects who really need it.<p>In my experience, it goes over very well, as people can see that privacy isn&#x27;t just about doomsday preppers not wanting anyone to know where they bury their gold, but rather about protecting those people who need&#x2F;deserve&#x2F;would benefit from protection!<p>P.S. I&#x27;d recommend reading Permanent Record. I was only 15 or so when all that stuff went down, and really didn&#x27;t know anything about it except &quot;Snowden good or bad idk,&quot; but the book is a fantastically interesting and well-written story. I think he&#x27;s kinda awesome.</text></comment> |
39,535,405 | 39,532,467 | 1 | 2 | 39,512,912 | train | <story><title>Show HN: AI dub tool I made to watch foreign language videos with my 7-year-old</title><url>https://speakz.ai</url><text>Hey HN!<p>I love watching YouTube with my 7-year-old daughter. Unfortunately, the best stuff is often in English (we&#x27;re German). So I made an AI tool that translates videos directly, using the original voices. All other sounds, as well as background music, are preserved, too.<p>Turns out that it works for many other language pairs, too. So far, it can create dubs in English, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, French, Russian, German, Italian, Korean, Polish and Dutch.<p>The main challenge in building this was to get the balance right between translating the original meaning and getting the timing right. Especially for language pairs like English -&gt; German, where the target ist often longer than the source (&quot;bat&quot; -&gt; &quot;Fle-der-maus&quot;, &quot;speed&quot; -&gt; &quot;Ge-schwin-dig-keit&quot;).<p>Let me know what you think! :)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>sorenjan</author><text>I know Germany dub most video, but wouldn&#x27;t a seven year old be able to read subtitles? It&#x27;s a great way for her to learn English, it&#x27;s how most Swedes learn it before starting school. I think there&#x27;s a pretty strong correlation between countries&#x27; average English proficiency and how common dubbing is.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;haonowshaokao.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;05&#x2F;18&#x2F;does-dubbing-tv-harm-language-learning&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;haonowshaokao.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;05&#x2F;18&#x2F;does-dubbing-tv-harm-la...</a><p>Edit: I forgot to mention that the samples on the website is impressive and well made. How do you do the speaker diarization and voice cloning?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leobg</author><text>Yeah, this isn&#x27;t really helpful for her to learn English. This is more when we watch The Anatomy Lab, or BBC&#x27;s &quot;The Incredible Human Journey&quot;. She&#x27;ll already be asking me a lot of questions about the content. So if I had to translate on top of that, it would be tedious.<p>Subtitles - those are actually being generated as well. I&#x27;ve generated SRT files during development. Color coded by speaker, and on a per-word basis, for me to get the timing right.<p>Basically, if you have a YouTube channel, you can take any video from your channel, run it through Speakz.ai, and you&#x27;ll get 15+ additional audio tracks in different languages, plus 15+ subtitle files (SRT).<p>Voice cloning and speaker diarization was a bit of a challenge. On the one hand, I want to duplicate the voice that is being spoken right now. On the other hand, sometimes &quot;right now&quot; is just a short &quot;Yeah&quot; (like in the Elon interview) which doesn&#x27;t give you a lot of &quot;meat&quot; to work with in terms of embedding the voice&#x27;s characteristics.<p>Right now, I&#x27;m using a mix of signals:<p>- Is the utterance padded by pauses before&#x2F;after?
- Is the utterance a complete sentence?
- Does the voice of the utterance sound significantly different from the voice of the previous utterance?<p>It&#x27;s a deep, deep rabbit hole. I was tempted to go much deeper. But I thought I better check if anybody besides myself actually cares before I do that... :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: AI dub tool I made to watch foreign language videos with my 7-year-old</title><url>https://speakz.ai</url><text>Hey HN!<p>I love watching YouTube with my 7-year-old daughter. Unfortunately, the best stuff is often in English (we&#x27;re German). So I made an AI tool that translates videos directly, using the original voices. All other sounds, as well as background music, are preserved, too.<p>Turns out that it works for many other language pairs, too. So far, it can create dubs in English, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, French, Russian, German, Italian, Korean, Polish and Dutch.<p>The main challenge in building this was to get the balance right between translating the original meaning and getting the timing right. Especially for language pairs like English -&gt; German, where the target ist often longer than the source (&quot;bat&quot; -&gt; &quot;Fle-der-maus&quot;, &quot;speed&quot; -&gt; &quot;Ge-schwin-dig-keit&quot;).<p>Let me know what you think! :)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>sorenjan</author><text>I know Germany dub most video, but wouldn&#x27;t a seven year old be able to read subtitles? It&#x27;s a great way for her to learn English, it&#x27;s how most Swedes learn it before starting school. I think there&#x27;s a pretty strong correlation between countries&#x27; average English proficiency and how common dubbing is.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;haonowshaokao.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;05&#x2F;18&#x2F;does-dubbing-tv-harm-language-learning&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;haonowshaokao.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;05&#x2F;18&#x2F;does-dubbing-tv-harm-la...</a><p>Edit: I forgot to mention that the samples on the website is impressive and well made. How do you do the speaker diarization and voice cloning?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>supafastcoder</author><text>I think it’s a cultural difference. I’m also from a non-dubbing country (Netherlands) and I can’t stand dubbed content either. On the other hand people tell me they can’t stand subtitles because it “reveals” what they’re going to say before they say it.</text></comment> |
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