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34,922,451 | 34,922,425 | 1 | 3 | 34,897,028 | train | <story><title>The Importance of Probability in Data Science</title><url>https://www.kdnuggets.com/2023/02/importance-probability-data-science.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nerdponx</author><text>It&#x27;s disheartening to see that the content of this isn&#x27;t just &quot;well, duh!&quot; and that some people actually need to be convinced.<p>That said, this article is <i>weird</i> (&quot;theoretical probability&quot; vs. &quot;experimental probability&quot;... huh?) and is not exactly something I would want to share around. It almost seems like the author wrote it for their own benefit, after themselves recently realizing that probability is important and useful&#x2F;essential in data science, and wanting to share what they learned. I&#x27;m not sure it&#x27;s worth anyone&#x27;s time to read it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qsort</author><text>&gt; this article is weird<p>Yes, it&#x27;s very weird. I can&#x27;t tell if the author can&#x27;t express themselves well enough in English, doesn&#x27;t understand the topic, or something else happened (editorialization, SEO garbage...)<p>&gt; Likelihood is applied when you want to increase the chances of a specific event or outcome occurring.<p>???<p>&gt; if 12 cars go down a particular road at 11 am every day, we can use Poisson distribution to figure out how many cars go down that road at 11 am in a month.<p>???<p>&gt; if we’re looking at how many chocolate bars were sold in a day, we would use the normal distribution. However, if we want to look into how many were sold in a specific hour, we will use t-distribution<p>???</text></comment> | <story><title>The Importance of Probability in Data Science</title><url>https://www.kdnuggets.com/2023/02/importance-probability-data-science.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nerdponx</author><text>It&#x27;s disheartening to see that the content of this isn&#x27;t just &quot;well, duh!&quot; and that some people actually need to be convinced.<p>That said, this article is <i>weird</i> (&quot;theoretical probability&quot; vs. &quot;experimental probability&quot;... huh?) and is not exactly something I would want to share around. It almost seems like the author wrote it for their own benefit, after themselves recently realizing that probability is important and useful&#x2F;essential in data science, and wanting to share what they learned. I&#x27;m not sure it&#x27;s worth anyone&#x27;s time to read it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hcks</author><text>Well I indeed expected more than a few basic definitions for sure.<p>For instance I was expecting a few case studies where a blind application of sklearn defaults led to issues fixed with proper probabilistic thinking.<p>I remain unconvinced about the importance of probabilities for data science, even more so when I doubt 1% of practicing data scientists could explain what a measure is.</text></comment> |
14,490,403 | 14,490,119 | 1 | 2 | 14,489,484 | train | <story><title>How to Learn Solidity: The Ultimate Ethereum Coding Guide</title><url>https://blockgeeks.com/guides/how-to-learn-solidity/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kefka</author><text>And remember, that there&#x27;s a special function called VIP() .<p>This is an implied function that wraps around your full code. This is instantiated if&#x2F;when core founders are losing money on a function that possibly had a bug in it. This function returns the wrapped function, under the guise of a new blockchain, with invalidations applied to all &#x27;unintentional&#x27; side effects of bad or buggy code.<p>It happened with the DAO, because founders lost too much money. Just be aware, that VIP() can happen to your code, regardless if your implementation is a bug or intentional. Wrong people losing money means VIP() returns successful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>devmpk</author><text>The real story of what happened during the DAO to me seemed like fast, responsive, and intelligent leadership.<p>They had a problem, they asked the community how they would like it dealt with, and acted accordingly.<p>Saying the founders were losing too much money so they hard forked it is a gross misrepresentation of the reality. It&#x27;s like a Fox News representation of what actually happened.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Learn Solidity: The Ultimate Ethereum Coding Guide</title><url>https://blockgeeks.com/guides/how-to-learn-solidity/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kefka</author><text>And remember, that there&#x27;s a special function called VIP() .<p>This is an implied function that wraps around your full code. This is instantiated if&#x2F;when core founders are losing money on a function that possibly had a bug in it. This function returns the wrapped function, under the guise of a new blockchain, with invalidations applied to all &#x27;unintentional&#x27; side effects of bad or buggy code.<p>It happened with the DAO, because founders lost too much money. Just be aware, that VIP() can happen to your code, regardless if your implementation is a bug or intentional. Wrong people losing money means VIP() returns successful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jameskegel</author><text>To me, this turns me off to the entire tech, no matter how stupid and kneejerk that sounds. If the biggest draw to get me using your technology (immutable contracts) is actually not true, then I&#x27;m less inclined to give it a shot outside of novelty value.</text></comment> |
2,783,875 | 2,783,946 | 1 | 2 | 2,783,731 | train | <story><title>Remove any Site From Google (even if you don't control it)</title><url>http://www.jamesbreckenridge.co.uk/remove-any-site-from-google-even-if-you-dont-control-it.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wccrawford</author><text>I think it's sad that he had to resort to publicly releasing this exploit because he couldn't find a way to contact Google about it.<p>In the past, when I've had problems, I couldn't contact them either. They've done a great job at making sure there's no human contacts available. You have to post something in a public forum and hope they'll contact you. (They won't.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ssclafani</author><text>Sending an email to [email protected] will result in a quick response. As part of their bug bounty program Google would have paid $1,000 for this bug if not more.</text></comment> | <story><title>Remove any Site From Google (even if you don't control it)</title><url>http://www.jamesbreckenridge.co.uk/remove-any-site-from-google-even-if-you-dont-control-it.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wccrawford</author><text>I think it's sad that he had to resort to publicly releasing this exploit because he couldn't find a way to contact Google about it.<p>In the past, when I've had problems, I couldn't contact them either. They've done a great job at making sure there's no human contacts available. You have to post something in a public forum and hope they'll contact you. (They won't.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelfairley</author><text>I'm not sure how he was unable to find their [email protected] email address. Searches like "Google security" and "Google report vulnerability" have <a href="http://www.google.com/about/corporate/company/security.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/about/corporate/company/security.html</a> (which has a prominent section on reporting security issues) as their first result.</text></comment> |
13,922,132 | 13,918,160 | 1 | 2 | 13,916,037 | train | <story><title>A hot bath has benefits similar to exercise</title><url>http://theconversation.com/a-hot-bath-has-benefits-similar-to-exercise-74600</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zeteo</author><text>&gt; Exercising (moderate physical activity) for 2-2.5 hours per week leads to a 20% reduction in all-cause mortality (not to mention its many other benefits). Exercising for an additional 5.5 hours leads to another 20% reduction.<p>With a very important caveat in the report:<p>&gt; Because all of the studies in the evidence base were observational epidemiologic studies
with no randomized controlled trials, the data cannot prove causality of effect.<p>People who don&#x27;t feel that great when they exercise (despite everyone urging them to exercise) are probably not in the best health. The pervasive advice to exercise more will by itself confound the studies, because healthier people will tend to self-select into the &quot;exercise&quot; group.</text></item><item><author>joshgel</author><text>Exercising (moderate physical activity) for 2-2.5 hours per week leads to a 20% reduction in all-cause mortality (not to mention its many other benefits). Exercising for an additional 5.5 hours leads to another 20% reduction.<p>No preventative intervention we have in medicine leads to that kind of gains (except maybe quiting smoking).<p>Articles like this are probably causing harm to the people that read them by discouraging them from exercise [conjecture]. Until I see rigorous mortality data on taking bath, I think I&#x27;ll stick to my exercise routine...<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;physicalactivity&#x2F;resources&#x2F;recommendations.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;physicalactivity&#x2F;resources&#x2F;recommendatio...</a> (see 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee Report [PDF - 4.5MB])</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woliveirajr</author><text>This.<p>And even your willing to exercise changes during live. It was easier and fun to exercise when was a teenager and so on. Become lot less when gained almost 40 pounds in a month due to medication. Become even less interesting when would get hurt for exercising while overweight. Become a no-go when got a muscle strain for simply going downstairs because a physiotherapist pushed a bit too much and was under muscular fatigue.<p>I&#x27;d prefer to take a bath and have some benefits that fell all that pain again and immobilize my leg and loose what I&#x27;ve earned in the past 4 months.<p>For those who already like to exercise (or are willing to despite saying &quot;I don&#x27;t like, just like the benefits&quot;, or any kind of wording of this idea), well, this study won&#x27;t make a difference.<p>For me, yes, it makes.</text></comment> | <story><title>A hot bath has benefits similar to exercise</title><url>http://theconversation.com/a-hot-bath-has-benefits-similar-to-exercise-74600</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zeteo</author><text>&gt; Exercising (moderate physical activity) for 2-2.5 hours per week leads to a 20% reduction in all-cause mortality (not to mention its many other benefits). Exercising for an additional 5.5 hours leads to another 20% reduction.<p>With a very important caveat in the report:<p>&gt; Because all of the studies in the evidence base were observational epidemiologic studies
with no randomized controlled trials, the data cannot prove causality of effect.<p>People who don&#x27;t feel that great when they exercise (despite everyone urging them to exercise) are probably not in the best health. The pervasive advice to exercise more will by itself confound the studies, because healthier people will tend to self-select into the &quot;exercise&quot; group.</text></item><item><author>joshgel</author><text>Exercising (moderate physical activity) for 2-2.5 hours per week leads to a 20% reduction in all-cause mortality (not to mention its many other benefits). Exercising for an additional 5.5 hours leads to another 20% reduction.<p>No preventative intervention we have in medicine leads to that kind of gains (except maybe quiting smoking).<p>Articles like this are probably causing harm to the people that read them by discouraging them from exercise [conjecture]. Until I see rigorous mortality data on taking bath, I think I&#x27;ll stick to my exercise routine...<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;physicalactivity&#x2F;resources&#x2F;recommendations.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;physicalactivity&#x2F;resources&#x2F;recommendatio...</a> (see 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee Report [PDF - 4.5MB])</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshgel</author><text>I agree with your comments entirely. I&#x27;ll also add, however, that even though this is cohort data 1) there is A LOT of data, almost all of it in agreement for hundreds and hundreds of studies, over millions of person years and 2) there is pretty strong evidence of a dose-response relationship. Both of those two points <i>help</i> (though don&#x27;t entirely eliminate) the weaknesses inherent in cohort data.</text></comment> |
13,114,224 | 13,114,235 | 1 | 2 | 13,113,819 | train | <story><title>ReMarkable Paper Tablet</title><url>https://blog.getremarkable.com/better-paper-better-thinking-432d8a283300#.g7jp42ohv</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pttrsmrt</author><text>I was sold until this line:<p>&quot;Your thoughts, whether they’re words or sketches, are instantly synced to reMarkable’s cloud service&quot;<p>Imagine for a company only five years back to literally say that your thoughts are sent to their server. I welcome any product that understand we need less distractions and less help from so-called AI, but there are many reasons to be cautious about this one (preorder, latency claim and lack of technical details being some of them).<p>EDIT: After looking a bit more around, their technical claims does seem credible. Their CTO is&#x2F;was even a developer at KDE, so let&#x27;s hope they also will support open standards and personal servers. If so then it&#x27;s literally the device I&#x27;ve always been dreaming of!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandsmark</author><text>the reason we&#x27;re a bit scant on technical details so far is partly because we have spent most of our technical resources on actually making the device. but we&#x27;ll try to get out a more technical blog post soon.<p>another reason is that we can&#x27;t share too much about what we&#x27;re working on in case some journalist picks up some wording as promising some feature we can&#x27;t deliver on. a lot of the stuff we&#x27;re working on is stuff we don&#x27;t know if we can deliver in time, in a polished enough form. so what we&#x27;re talking about is what we have already solved, and which we believe is going to sell the device best to the people we target.<p>lastly, Certain Companies that have tried to do this for years are really, really interested in how we have solved the latency problem, and we don&#x27;t want to help them.<p>EDIT:<p>&gt; Their CTO is&#x2F;was even a developer at KDE<p>is, thank you very much (latest commit was to kio on saturday). even if I don&#x27;t have as much time for KDE stuff as I used to for obvious reasons.</text></comment> | <story><title>ReMarkable Paper Tablet</title><url>https://blog.getremarkable.com/better-paper-better-thinking-432d8a283300#.g7jp42ohv</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pttrsmrt</author><text>I was sold until this line:<p>&quot;Your thoughts, whether they’re words or sketches, are instantly synced to reMarkable’s cloud service&quot;<p>Imagine for a company only five years back to literally say that your thoughts are sent to their server. I welcome any product that understand we need less distractions and less help from so-called AI, but there are many reasons to be cautious about this one (preorder, latency claim and lack of technical details being some of them).<p>EDIT: After looking a bit more around, their technical claims does seem credible. Their CTO is&#x2F;was even a developer at KDE, so let&#x27;s hope they also will support open standards and personal servers. If so then it&#x27;s literally the device I&#x27;ve always been dreaming of!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gizzlon</author><text>I&#x27;m one of the guys working on this. We make money on the product, storing this stuff actually costs us.. So we have no intentions of syncing more than you would want to :)<p>There&#x27;s some tech specs on the site (getremarkable.com)</text></comment> |
5,234,043 | 5,233,282 | 1 | 2 | 5,232,881 | train | <story><title>Bankers now Too Big to Jail</title><url>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/gangster-bankers-too-big-to-jail-20130214</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>She does get a straight answer. Regulators don't sue; they have a steady-state relationship with the banks where their concerns are addressed with consent decrees. Lawsuits are insanely expensive in the best of cases, but they're worse when you're suing a megabank, because the suit impacts the broader economy.<p>It is a little disingenuous for Warren to act surprised about this. She knows not only why regulators don't sue, but also how unlikely it is that we're going to start doing that (it'd be economically irrational for us to do so).<p>Her heart is in the right place. Too Big To Fail is a real problem. But if you've got a bunch of wasp nests in your back yard, you don't fix the problem by jamming sharp sticks into them.</text></item><item><author>callmevlad</author><text>This related hearing [1] led by freshman senator Elizabeth Warren is eye-opening. She can't get a straight answer on the last time a major bank was taken to trial over its offenses.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/15/1187417/-Elizabeth-Warren-to-bank-regulators-When-was-the-last-time-you-brought-Wall-Street-banks-to-trial" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/15/1187417/-Elizabeth-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>suresk</author><text>&#62; [...] but they're worse when you're suing a megabank, because the suit impacts the broader economy.<p>I don't disagree with the factual correctness of this statement, but the implication is unsettling. Any kind of legal action from the government - from throwing someone in jail for possession of marijuana to suing banks over financial crimes - has negative economic consequences. If we send someone to jail for drug possession, we spend a lot of money investigating and prosecuting them, we pay to keep them locked up, we happily give up their productivity and any taxes they would have paid, and we reduce their long-term value to society by hanging a public arrest record on them. So, where do we stop using economic consequences as a reason for not enforcing laws?<p>I'm somewhat highly-compensated and I contribute a lot back to the economy, though consumption and taxes. Should the government prosecute me and someone who only earns minimum wage differently, since prosecuting me and throwing me in jail will have a substantially higher negative impact on the economy? Maybe I get 2 or 3 free misdemeanors per year, your average millionaire gets a free felony, and if you are on Fortune's top 100 list you get 3 free felonies?<p>I'm seeing more and more justification of not going after big companies and powerful executives due to the economic impact, and I think that is getting awfully close to codifying different legal systems for rich people and poor people. Certainly it already exists to a degree, but at least we sort of pretend that it is distasteful now.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bankers now Too Big to Jail</title><url>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/gangster-bankers-too-big-to-jail-20130214</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>She does get a straight answer. Regulators don't sue; they have a steady-state relationship with the banks where their concerns are addressed with consent decrees. Lawsuits are insanely expensive in the best of cases, but they're worse when you're suing a megabank, because the suit impacts the broader economy.<p>It is a little disingenuous for Warren to act surprised about this. She knows not only why regulators don't sue, but also how unlikely it is that we're going to start doing that (it'd be economically irrational for us to do so).<p>Her heart is in the right place. Too Big To Fail is a real problem. But if you've got a bunch of wasp nests in your back yard, you don't fix the problem by jamming sharp sticks into them.</text></item><item><author>callmevlad</author><text>This related hearing [1] led by freshman senator Elizabeth Warren is eye-opening. She can't get a straight answer on the last time a major bank was taken to trial over its offenses.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/15/1187417/-Elizabeth-Warren-to-bank-regulators-When-was-the-last-time-you-brought-Wall-Street-banks-to-trial" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/15/1187417/-Elizabeth-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cushman</author><text>That's a little uncharitable. It's obvious that Senator Warren's real question is: Do the banks have any reason to feel as if they face a threat of real legal action if they break the rules?<p>If not, that's surely something we can and should change.</text></comment> |
17,724,729 | 17,721,040 | 1 | 2 | 17,721,027 | train | <story><title>Getting Alexa to Respond to Sign Language Using Your Webcam and TensorFlow.js</title><url>https://medium.com/tensorflow/getting-alexa-to-respond-to-sign-language-using-your-webcam-and-tensorflow-js-735ccc1e6d3f</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>imglorp</author><text>ASL student here. I just wanted to highlight how many challenges there are to translating, even for humans. Here&#x27;s two examples.<p>First is dialect. One would think the Internet&#x2F;youtube&#x2F;videochat would vaporize geography differences, and it&#x27;s starting to happen, but that&#x27;s not (yet) the case. Lots of signs have &quot;synonyms&quot; based on signer&#x27;s preference, etymology, who they learned from and who they hang out with, etc.<p>Another is grammar. What OP is doing in his video, for example is English grammar, where signs are directly substitited for words. But ASL has its own sign order, modifiers like facial expressions, and idioms for brevity. For example &quot;have you ever been to San Francisco before?&quot; might be &quot;SF TOUCH YOU FINISH&quot; with raised eyebrows at the end, as a modifier. Note also there are no conjugations or articles like some languages, but there are pronouns. In fact, there are local bindings where you make up a sign name for someone on the fly and then use it during a conversation.<p>I think with large enough training sets, this will all be mitigated, like Google needed years of speech samples to get Translate working okay.</text></comment> | <story><title>Getting Alexa to Respond to Sign Language Using Your Webcam and TensorFlow.js</title><url>https://medium.com/tensorflow/getting-alexa-to-respond-to-sign-language-using-your-webcam-and-tensorflow-js-735ccc1e6d3f</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hardmaru</author><text>GitHub: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;shekit&#x2F;alexa-sign-language-translator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;shekit&#x2F;alexa-sign-language-translator</a><p>Web Demo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shekit.github.io&#x2F;alexa-sign-language-translator&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shekit.github.io&#x2F;alexa-sign-language-translator&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
32,653,733 | 32,649,933 | 1 | 2 | 32,649,123 | train | <story><title>Observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience</title><url>https://lulu.substack.com/p/joe-rogan-has-a-werewolf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duxup</author><text>Years ago I listened to JRE for a while. I enjoyed the approach that I would sum up as &quot;I don&#x27;t know, let&#x27;s hear what some folks think.&quot; It felt fair and open and interesting.<p>But at some point it occurred, &quot;Shouldn&#x27;t at some point, if we&#x27;re listening to all this that, we stop being a dumb guy who doesn&#x27;t know anything and actually have opinion &#x2F; challenge some of these things with some facts &#x2F; solid ideas?&quot;<p>But I never saw that happen, and as time went on the &quot;I don&#x27;t know&quot; excuses just felt ... more and more insufficient, dumb by choice, or just excuses.<p>At some point just being &quot;dumb&quot; and listening to every rando person makes you susceptible to &#x2F; a target of a bunch of horrible randos with bad ideas ... An open approach is admirable, but not learning along the way is not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timr</author><text>&gt; At some point just being &quot;dumb&quot; and listening to every rando person makes you susceptible to &#x2F; a target of a bunch of horrible randos with bad ideas ... An open approach is admirable, but not learning along the way is not.<p>I don&#x27;t know what show you&#x27;re listening to. I&#x27;m not a regular listener, by any means, but I hear Rogan routinely bring up things that he learns from other&#x2F;prior guests. Often to challenge whatever he&#x27;s hearing in the moment.<p>It really feels to me that people are just looking for reasons to attack him because he &quot;platforms&quot; voices they don&#x27;t like. That was fine when he was just a comedian with a podcast, but now he has An Audience (tm), so it&#x27;s Bad.<p>Rogan has certainly had some cranks on his show (IMO), but I&#x27;m comfortable enough with my intellect that I can listen to these (or not) without having my brain turned to mush.</text></comment> | <story><title>Observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience</title><url>https://lulu.substack.com/p/joe-rogan-has-a-werewolf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duxup</author><text>Years ago I listened to JRE for a while. I enjoyed the approach that I would sum up as &quot;I don&#x27;t know, let&#x27;s hear what some folks think.&quot; It felt fair and open and interesting.<p>But at some point it occurred, &quot;Shouldn&#x27;t at some point, if we&#x27;re listening to all this that, we stop being a dumb guy who doesn&#x27;t know anything and actually have opinion &#x2F; challenge some of these things with some facts &#x2F; solid ideas?&quot;<p>But I never saw that happen, and as time went on the &quot;I don&#x27;t know&quot; excuses just felt ... more and more insufficient, dumb by choice, or just excuses.<p>At some point just being &quot;dumb&quot; and listening to every rando person makes you susceptible to &#x2F; a target of a bunch of horrible randos with bad ideas ... An open approach is admirable, but not learning along the way is not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deebosong</author><text>Not sure if this is what you&#x27;re pointing at, but I feel similarly about those who very much enjoy talking about new and different ideas&#x2F; perspectives, but are loathe to test out, live out, and integrate new and challenging ideas into their belief systems. It&#x27;s more like, there&#x27;s a relegated space in their minds for &quot;ideas to consider and discuss, even agree with and champion,&quot; but that relegated space is removed from their core value system, which has no intention to be challenged, tinkered with, examined, and open to replacing faulty mechanisms and functions.<p>Seems like talking about ideas for some is more a form of amusement&#x2F; entertainment&#x2F; mental stimulation (in the same way recreational or escapist drugs can be mentally stimulating), especially if there are no outward signs &amp; indications that a person is committed to testing out, applying, integrating, and even replacing formerly held and inferior ideas – a process which involves a lot of trial end error, failures, humility, perseverance, and delayed gratification. It might seem open-minded and intellectual, but if across time, there&#x27;s no change in belief via deeper understanding from considering new and different perspectives, that then results in outward action, then all the talk in the world about ideas and perspectives is just hot air.<p>Maybe that&#x27;s not Joe Rogan and his loyal audience? I dunno!</text></comment> |
20,991,947 | 20,989,343 | 1 | 3 | 20,988,584 | train | <story><title>DNSCrypt encrypts communications between a DNS client and a DNS resolver</title><url>https://dnscrypt.info</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eganist</author><text>Good reddit thread discussing the differences between the following (I googled it specifically to find out what practical differences existed between DNS over TLS and DNSCrypt):<p>* DNS over HTTPS (DoH)<p>* DNS over TLS (DoT)<p>* DNSCrypt<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;comments&#x2F;89pr15&#x2F;dnsoverhttps_vs_dns_overtls_vs_dnscrypt&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;comments&#x2F;89pr15&#x2F;dnsoverhttp...</a><p>TL;DR: It looks like DoT probably achieves much the same thing but may have more support through standardized implementations at least compared to DNSCrypt. I disregarded the top comment&#x27;s opinion about DoH since their position is likely influenced by their state of competition with Cloudflare.</text></comment> | <story><title>DNSCrypt encrypts communications between a DNS client and a DNS resolver</title><url>https://dnscrypt.info</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>3xblah</author><text>CurveDNS encrypts communications between a DNS resolver and an DNS authoritative server.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;curvedns.on2it.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;curvedns.on2it.net</a></text></comment> |
21,990,045 | 21,989,948 | 1 | 2 | 21,989,718 | train | <story><title>It is perfectly OK to only code at work, you can have a life too</title><url>https://zeroequalsfalse.com/posts/it-is-ok-to-only-code-at-work/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jasode</author><text><i>&gt;, it is perfectly OK to have a life outside of work. </i><p>Yes, <i>of course</i> it&#x27;s perfectly ok to have a life of not programming outside of work.<p>But these types of articles are always missing the point: it&#x27;s not all about your inner feelings but <i>about the _others_ you don&#x27;t control who value passion programmers more than 9-to-5 programmers</i>.<p>If you truly want to be at peace with this blog&#x27;s advice, what you&#x27;re really saying is that you acknowledge that many companies, hiring managers, startups, etc value the nonstop hobbyist programmer <i>but don&#x27;t care</i>.<p>On the other hand, many 9-to-5 programmers who want to compartmentalize their coding to work hours <i>feel resentment and unfairness</i> that many in the business world <i>prefer</i> the passion programmers with side projects, github contributions, hackathon competitions, etc. This blog post will do nothing to convince those hiring managers to treat the 9-to-5 programmer and the weekend programmer as <i>exactly equal</i>. That&#x27;s unrealistic.</text></comment> | <story><title>It is perfectly OK to only code at work, you can have a life too</title><url>https://zeroequalsfalse.com/posts/it-is-ok-to-only-code-at-work/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tsukurimashou</author><text>Considering the amount of people in this industry that don&#x27;t know what they are doing, sure it is &quot;OK&quot;.<p>Just don&#x27;t be surprised that people doing code outside of work will probably get better jobs &#x2F; get hired more easily.<p>Some people are really passionate about the field, and don&#x27;t really see it as &quot;working&quot; I think it is important for these people to have both professional projects and personal ones.<p>But like a lot of people that are passionate about something, a few of them will end up being light years ahead of people just doing it for money, or seeing it as a &quot;regular job&quot; just like any other job.</text></comment> |
13,237,400 | 13,236,483 | 1 | 3 | 13,235,436 | train | <story><title>Bram Moolenaar Discusses Developing Vim, How He Uses It, and Version 8</title><url>http://www.hostingadvice.com/blog/vim-creator-champions-charityware/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>owaislone</author><text>Neovim is Vim for me and many other users. Vim is irrelevant to me now. The community is rallying behind Neovim and it shows great potential. It just needs to be bundled by major distros so it can be installed on servers with 1 command and that&#x27;ll be the end of old Vim. Bram has done a tremendous job with Vim but it&#x27;s time to move on to the Vim of the future.</text></item><item><author>akkartik</author><text>Has Bram Moolenaar ever publicly acknowledged the influence of Neovim on Vim 8? At the very least, Neovim provided the market research to show that async was worth doing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>falcolas</author><text>Speaking solely as an outsider to the development of Vim, NeoVim, and Vim extensions - the only time I see references to NeoVim anymore is when someone else brings up regular Vim (and always includes the narrow-sighted rant of &quot;vim is obsolete, neovim is the future&quot;).<p>Threads here imply that NeoVim has a lot more traction and capabilities than Vim, yet it might as well not exist for all that we don&#x27;t hear about it.<p>&gt; that&#x27;ll be the end of old Vim<p>To be frank, no, it won&#x27;t. Not so long as Vim is installed by default, and holds the name Vim. NeoVim can&#x27;t even simply replace Vim as the default, since it works differently (the changed configuration path, for one), and no longer works on all of the platforms that operating systems are installed upon (even if intentionally).<p>Vim <i>just works</i>. Until that is no longer the case, NeoVim will have a hard time gaining traction outside of those who are already waving its flag.<p>That said, I appreciate NeoVim - if for nothing else - for prompting Bram to realize there are more usecases. But I would argue that its time has passed, as bright as that time was.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bram Moolenaar Discusses Developing Vim, How He Uses It, and Version 8</title><url>http://www.hostingadvice.com/blog/vim-creator-champions-charityware/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>owaislone</author><text>Neovim is Vim for me and many other users. Vim is irrelevant to me now. The community is rallying behind Neovim and it shows great potential. It just needs to be bundled by major distros so it can be installed on servers with 1 command and that&#x27;ll be the end of old Vim. Bram has done a tremendous job with Vim but it&#x27;s time to move on to the Vim of the future.</text></item><item><author>akkartik</author><text>Has Bram Moolenaar ever publicly acknowledged the influence of Neovim on Vim 8? At the very least, Neovim provided the market research to show that async was worth doing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcjiggerlog</author><text>I&#x27;ve never touched neovim as I&#x27;m perfectly happy with vim - what reasons are there for me to consider making the switch?<p>I would guess neovim isn&#x27;t even on the radar of most vim users. I don&#x27;t see neovim surpassing vim any time soon, personally.</text></comment> |
20,151,428 | 20,151,356 | 1 | 2 | 20,150,179 | train | <story><title>Alchemist – A non-deterministic programming language based on chemical reactions</title><url>https://esolangs.org/wiki/Alchemist</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>munk-a</author><text>If we have the rule<p><pre><code> 2H + O -&gt; H2O
</code></pre>
and the universe consists of 3 H and 2 O atoms, then the rule is applicable. After applying the rule our universe will contain 1 H2O, 1 H and 1 O atoms. At this point the rule would not be applicable anymore.<p>If we have the rule<p><pre><code> Alice + Bob + 0Eve -&gt; AliceBob
</code></pre>
and the universe contains 1 atom of each Alice, Bob and Eve. Then that rule is not applicable because it requires the universe to contain no atom of type Eve.<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;<p>Oh man that is a disappointing definition, the fact that 2H + O can operate with 3H but 0H + O can&#x27;t is extremely misleading and syntactically inconsistent. I am not certain how it&#x27;d be best to define a rule that predicates on an absence of a token but that syntax is terrible.<p>Also, assuming this language is meant to be chemistry minded I&#x27;m sad that there is no support for the grouped sub-quantities that tend to be described... any chemist would probably be confused when O2 wasn&#x27;t considered equivalent to 2O</text></comment> | <story><title>Alchemist – A non-deterministic programming language based on chemical reactions</title><url>https://esolangs.org/wiki/Alchemist</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andolanra</author><text>After poking around the site, I can&#x27;t see any specific reference—which makes me suspect it was an independent discovery of a cool idea—but this is <i>very</i> similar to a deliberately-constrained version of the Join Calculus <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;research&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;join-tutorial.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;research&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;...</a> which uses a similar chemical-ish model of computation. There&#x27;s an implementation of the Join Calculus in an OCaml-like language called (of course) JoCaml. Where Alchemist would write<p><pre><code> 2H + O -&gt; H2O
</code></pre>
JoCaml would write<p><pre><code> def h() &amp; h() &amp; o() = h2o();;
</code></pre>
One of the big differences is that JoCaml allows you to embed payloads inside your atoms, e.g.<p><pre><code> def a(x) &amp; b(b) = c(if b then x else 0);;
</code></pre>
will consume an <i>a</i> with an integer payload and a <i>b</i> with a boolean payload, and produce a <i>c</i> with an integer payload. It also lets you include computations as reactions happen, e.g.<p><pre><code> def a(x) = ( Printf.printf &quot;Reacting!\n&quot;; b(x + 1) );;
</code></pre>
which lets you use this &quot;chemical soup&quot; model as the basis for concurrent programming.<p>There is a very detailed tutorial (which appears to have sadly half-broken formatting) which explains JoCaml in more detail here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sites.google.com&#x2F;site&#x2F;winitzki&#x2F;tutorial-on-join-calculus-and-its-implementation-in-ocaml-jocaml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sites.google.com&#x2F;site&#x2F;winitzki&#x2F;tutorial-on-join-calc...</a></text></comment> |
28,477,839 | 28,477,811 | 1 | 2 | 28,477,392 | train | <story><title>Apple fires engineering manager for allegedly leaking information</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/9/22666049/apple-fires-senior-engineering-program-manager-ashley-gjovik-for-allegedly-leaking-information</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>This person was Tweeting internal e-mails from Apple, complete with the footnote explaining that they were confidential and not to be shared outside of the company. Example here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;ashleygjovik&#x2F;status&#x2F;1435421599826518025&#x2F;photo&#x2F;1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;ashleygjovik&#x2F;status&#x2F;1435421599826518025&#x2F;...</a><p>There were headlines and outrage about her being placed on administrative leave by Apple recently. Reading the finer details, it turns out she requested to be placed on leave (From the article: &quot;She was placed on administrative leave in early August while Apple investigated some of these concerns — a placement she says she requested as a last resort.&quot;)<p>She has a dedicated form on her website for press to fill out to request an interview with her. ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ashleygjovik.com&#x2F;press.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ashleygjovik.com&#x2F;press.html</a> )<p>She maintains a website called iWhistleblower ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iwhistleblower.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iwhistleblower.org&#x2F;</a> ) with details about past cases involving Apple and links encouraging people to report Apple information to different regulatory bodies.<p>Her personal website leads with &quot;Apple Labor Advocacy&quot; as well as &quot;Public Health Advocacy&quot; where she describes how she thinks there might be a toxic waste container somewhere on the property of her old 3rd-floor apartment. She believes it was causing her blood pressure and heart rate to change, according to monitors that she wore. She published photos of herself wearing a blood pressure monitoring cuff and her story here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfbayview.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;i-thought-i-was-dying-my-apartment-was-built-on-toxic-waste&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfbayview.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;i-thought-i-was-dying-my-apart...</a><p>While I fully agree that all allegations should be given due process and properly investigated, I get nervous when someone is visibly invested in building a personal brand on social media around being a victim. The story about the toxic waste apartment, the story about Apple&#x27;s lawyers needing her work phone for an investigation, and the story about her alleged harassment at Apple all happened within the past 6 months. Her entire social media presence appears to be built around capitalizing on these stories.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unityByFreedom</author><text>Here is her NLRB complaint [1]. It seems fine to me if she wants to get her story out via her own site or press or whatever. It can be hard to &quot;go viral&quot; and you have to put a lot of effort behind it. That said, making yourself a public figure can be tough too, so I hope she&#x27;s ready with facts.<p>This summary from her website doesn&#x27;t make Apple sound all that terrible in my opinion:<p>&gt; I raised issues about workplace safety in March, upon which Apple subjected me to a nonconsensual sexism investigation on my behalf. Then I faced retaliation from my managers, ER, &amp; HR. I continued to raise my workplace safety concerns as well as my concerns about the employee relations processes at Apple. This led to a second, much larger investigation that I actually requested this time. However, before we could finish gathering &amp; reviewing the evidence, Apple forced me onto indefinite paid administrative leave.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foiaonline.gov&#x2F;foiaonline&#x2F;api&#x2F;request&#x2F;downloadFile&#x2F;NLRB-2021-001319%20Final%20Records.pdf&#x2F;758bfad6-3292-4eee-b41f-c75336faa1e2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foiaonline.gov&#x2F;foiaonline&#x2F;api&#x2F;request&#x2F;downloadFile&#x2F;N...</a> (PDF download)</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple fires engineering manager for allegedly leaking information</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/9/22666049/apple-fires-senior-engineering-program-manager-ashley-gjovik-for-allegedly-leaking-information</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>This person was Tweeting internal e-mails from Apple, complete with the footnote explaining that they were confidential and not to be shared outside of the company. Example here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;ashleygjovik&#x2F;status&#x2F;1435421599826518025&#x2F;photo&#x2F;1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;ashleygjovik&#x2F;status&#x2F;1435421599826518025&#x2F;...</a><p>There were headlines and outrage about her being placed on administrative leave by Apple recently. Reading the finer details, it turns out she requested to be placed on leave (From the article: &quot;She was placed on administrative leave in early August while Apple investigated some of these concerns — a placement she says she requested as a last resort.&quot;)<p>She has a dedicated form on her website for press to fill out to request an interview with her. ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ashleygjovik.com&#x2F;press.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ashleygjovik.com&#x2F;press.html</a> )<p>She maintains a website called iWhistleblower ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iwhistleblower.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iwhistleblower.org&#x2F;</a> ) with details about past cases involving Apple and links encouraging people to report Apple information to different regulatory bodies.<p>Her personal website leads with &quot;Apple Labor Advocacy&quot; as well as &quot;Public Health Advocacy&quot; where she describes how she thinks there might be a toxic waste container somewhere on the property of her old 3rd-floor apartment. She believes it was causing her blood pressure and heart rate to change, according to monitors that she wore. She published photos of herself wearing a blood pressure monitoring cuff and her story here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfbayview.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;i-thought-i-was-dying-my-apartment-was-built-on-toxic-waste&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfbayview.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;i-thought-i-was-dying-my-apart...</a><p>While I fully agree that all allegations should be given due process and properly investigated, I get nervous when someone is visibly invested in building a personal brand on social media around being a victim. The story about the toxic waste apartment, the story about Apple&#x27;s lawyers needing her work phone for an investigation, and the story about her alleged harassment at Apple all happened within the past 6 months. Her entire social media presence appears to be built around capitalizing on these stories.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blamazon</author><text>This whole affair seems like a one way ticket out of ‘traditional’ corporate employment for life, so I’d say Ashley would be smart to be setting up alternative revenue streams—-media appearances, book deals, etc.<p>I don’t agree with her methods, but I do admire the commitment to doubling down.</text></comment> |
11,013,053 | 11,013,131 | 1 | 2 | 11,012,223 | train | <story><title>The collaboration curse</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/business/21688872-fashion-making-employees-collaborate-has-gone-too-far-collaboration-curse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tdaltonc</author><text>As I understand it though, open office is a trend. Your mechanism doesn&#x27;t explain why there was ever a time without open offices. So what&#x27;s changed to make office managers more penny-wise, or have there always been &quot;open collaborative offices&quot; just under a different name?</text></item><item><author>imgabe</author><text>The collaboration excuse is a red herring. I&#x27;m sure some of the managers believe it, but it&#x27;s not really the point.<p>Office space is leased by the square foot. $&#x2F;sf&#x2F; year. Building a new building is usually budgeted in terms of $&#x2F;sf. (Aside from some base unavoidable costs, it more or less scales linearly with floor area in terms of square feet.)<p>The fewer square feet you need, the less your lease is, which immediately and directly decreases your overhead and increases your profit margin.<p>Open offices fit more people in fewer square feet. There&#x27;s a specific dollar amount a manager can point to and say &quot;I&#x27;m saving that much money&quot;.<p>Maybe the productivity gains of private offices would more than offset the extra cost of needing more space, maybe not. It&#x27;s not as easily quantifiable. Keep in mind that office leases are often signed for 10+ years and if you&#x27;re building your own building you&#x27;re stuck with it for even longer. Plus once you sign a lease you have to pay to build out the office. This can easily cost several million dollars in itself.<p>If you&#x27;re a manager making this mutli-million dollar decision, are you going to go with the guaranteed overhead savings of minimizing square footage or are you going to risk millions of dollars on a vague promise of maybe increased productivity? Unless your company has the money to spare I don&#x27;t see any rational person opting for the latter, much as I would rather have a private office myself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aristus</author><text>I take it you&#x27;ve never seen a newspaper &quot;bullpen&quot;, or a clark&#x27;s office. :) It comes down to class. Many professions that were once afforded private accommodation are now being downclassed. It&#x27;s also easier to scale up and down by moving what are essentially picnic tables.</text></comment> | <story><title>The collaboration curse</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/business/21688872-fashion-making-employees-collaborate-has-gone-too-far-collaboration-curse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tdaltonc</author><text>As I understand it though, open office is a trend. Your mechanism doesn&#x27;t explain why there was ever a time without open offices. So what&#x27;s changed to make office managers more penny-wise, or have there always been &quot;open collaborative offices&quot; just under a different name?</text></item><item><author>imgabe</author><text>The collaboration excuse is a red herring. I&#x27;m sure some of the managers believe it, but it&#x27;s not really the point.<p>Office space is leased by the square foot. $&#x2F;sf&#x2F; year. Building a new building is usually budgeted in terms of $&#x2F;sf. (Aside from some base unavoidable costs, it more or less scales linearly with floor area in terms of square feet.)<p>The fewer square feet you need, the less your lease is, which immediately and directly decreases your overhead and increases your profit margin.<p>Open offices fit more people in fewer square feet. There&#x27;s a specific dollar amount a manager can point to and say &quot;I&#x27;m saving that much money&quot;.<p>Maybe the productivity gains of private offices would more than offset the extra cost of needing more space, maybe not. It&#x27;s not as easily quantifiable. Keep in mind that office leases are often signed for 10+ years and if you&#x27;re building your own building you&#x27;re stuck with it for even longer. Plus once you sign a lease you have to pay to build out the office. This can easily cost several million dollars in itself.<p>If you&#x27;re a manager making this mutli-million dollar decision, are you going to go with the guaranteed overhead savings of minimizing square footage or are you going to risk millions of dollars on a vague promise of maybe increased productivity? Unless your company has the money to spare I don&#x27;t see any rational person opting for the latter, much as I would rather have a private office myself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>As i understand it, open offices were the norm. I knew paralegals who worked in open offices before it hit tech offices. It also used to be that way in most offices before cubicles became commonplace (watch movies from the 40s or 50s which have offices as backdrops)<p>I think what happened is that as the work done in offices gained more value people who worked in offices were convinced that having your own space was more prestigious (by furniture companies, office space companies, etc.) so it became normal to move away from shared cattle pens.<p>Now shared space is being sold as collaborative so as to insinuate anyone not on board with the concept must be an uncollaborative sort of fellow.<p>I recall working in a high priced tower a place which made money, some people got proper offices, but most people got three foot beautiful mahogany desks side by side. Expensive desks but floor space was even more expensive.</text></comment> |
17,511,756 | 17,511,649 | 1 | 2 | 17,510,670 | train | <story><title>Red Flags Signaling That a Rebuild Will Fail</title><url>http://www.pkc.io/blog/five-red-flags-signaling-your-rebuild-will-fail/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>&quot;Red Flag #4: You aren’t working with people who were experts in the old system.”<p>I think this is most important. A lot of people want to rewrite because they don&#x27;t understand the current system and don&#x27;t want to bother learning. Before you rewrite you really should understand the current state deeply.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>majormajor</author><text>The way I&#x27;ve phrased something similar before is &quot;don&#x27;t do a full rewrite if you couldn&#x27;t write up a plan for refactoring in place to fix the problems with the old system.&quot;<p>If you can build that plan, and make the case that it will be easier to do the full rewrite, go for it. But if you couldn&#x27;t put together the fix-in-place plan, you might not understand everything the old system does well enough to actually estimate the size of a rewrite...<p>(This isn&#x27;t solely for full-parity rewrites: if you&#x27;re dropping features, what does that look like dropping from the old system?)</text></comment> | <story><title>Red Flags Signaling That a Rebuild Will Fail</title><url>http://www.pkc.io/blog/five-red-flags-signaling-your-rebuild-will-fail/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>&quot;Red Flag #4: You aren’t working with people who were experts in the old system.”<p>I think this is most important. A lot of people want to rewrite because they don&#x27;t understand the current system and don&#x27;t want to bother learning. Before you rewrite you really should understand the current state deeply.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ebikelaw</author><text>Yep, seen that. I worked on a system where the company did not really want a reimplementation but they destaffed a project in one site and reconstituted it with all new people at another site. The new people decided to rewrite from scratch. A year and a half later I start getting questions by email from the new people, questions indicating that not only do they not understand the implementation of the legacy system, they also do not clearly understand the business requirements that resulted in that implementation. Meanwhile, the maintenance of the old system had been neglected to such an extent it had fallen behind critical company-wide mandates. This was more of a lesson about why you shouldn’t destaff a project over some petty geographical squabbles, but also quite clearly about why you should always incrementally reimplement software rather that rewriting it.</text></comment> |
16,213,803 | 16,212,359 | 1 | 2 | 16,212,234 | train | <story><title>GitLab 10.4 released</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2018/01/22/gitlab-10-4-released/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>protomikron</author><text>CI is fine and I am happy GitLab is offering it as it makes sense to integrate strongly with source control. But building a web-IDE?<p>Please don&#x27;t go down this rabbit hole, GitLab - there will be dragons (in essence you will have to build an OS for the browser). Developers have their beloved editors that work very well for the most part (at least better than their JS counterparts).</text></comment> | <story><title>GitLab 10.4 released</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2018/01/22/gitlab-10-4-released/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nilsjuenemann</author><text>It looks like that GitLab got the Featuritis. Instead of adding tons of unready and half baked feature it should focus on stability and performance.</text></comment> |
36,288,628 | 36,288,544 | 1 | 2 | 36,283,351 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Java REST without annotations, DI nor reactive streams</title><url>https://github.com/MartinGeisse/grumpyrest</url><text>grumpyrest is a Java REST server framework that does not use annotations, automatic dependency injection or reactive streams, and minimizes the use of reflection. I created this because I got fed up with annotation-mad frameworks that you cannot easily understand, step into or reason about. grumpyrest uses the type system to guide JSON mapping and validation, and (possibly virtual) threads for parallelism. It&#x27;s for grumpy people who don&#x27;t like what REST server programming in Java has become.<p>I made this because I intend to use it in one of my own projects, but at the same time I want to make it available to others to (hopefully) get some good ideas on how to extend it.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ivan_gammel</author><text>&gt; On top of that, annotations make it impossible&#x2F;very dificcult to know what code is actually executed (and also it not possible to navigate to the code in an IDE)<p>I have never understood this argument. What is exactly the problem with identifying the executed code?</text></item><item><author>AugustoCAS</author><text>Something that people are missing about annotations: in order to test the annotated class&#x2F;method one needs to start running extra code, sometimes a lot of extra code.<p>Using spring as a toxic example, many things have to be tested using @SpringBootTest which is incredibly slow to start. On top of that because of the use&#x2F;abuse of @MockBean tests stop being thread safe. So one ends up with slow test that need to be run sequencially. I&#x27;m working in a &#x27;start up&#x27; that went the spring boot way and quite simple services take 15+ minutes to run all their tests, which is insane.<p>On top of that, annotations make it impossible&#x2F;very dificcult to know what code is actually executed (and also it not possible to navigate to the code in an IDE). As I rule of thumb, I&#x27;m always happy to swap one annotation for one or two lines code.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darthbanane</author><text>Some of the aspect oriented stuff like cacheable will add a proxy to the annotated bean which can break reasoning about the code.<p>If you inject the bean and call the method you will get caching (because you are using the proxy). If you call the method from within the bean itself however you&#x27;re not using the proxy and you won&#x27;t get caching.<p>It&#x27;s stuff like this on steroids when you start mixing annotations that makes it really difficult to reason about the code.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Java REST without annotations, DI nor reactive streams</title><url>https://github.com/MartinGeisse/grumpyrest</url><text>grumpyrest is a Java REST server framework that does not use annotations, automatic dependency injection or reactive streams, and minimizes the use of reflection. I created this because I got fed up with annotation-mad frameworks that you cannot easily understand, step into or reason about. grumpyrest uses the type system to guide JSON mapping and validation, and (possibly virtual) threads for parallelism. It&#x27;s for grumpy people who don&#x27;t like what REST server programming in Java has become.<p>I made this because I intend to use it in one of my own projects, but at the same time I want to make it available to others to (hopefully) get some good ideas on how to extend it.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ivan_gammel</author><text>&gt; On top of that, annotations make it impossible&#x2F;very dificcult to know what code is actually executed (and also it not possible to navigate to the code in an IDE)<p>I have never understood this argument. What is exactly the problem with identifying the executed code?</text></item><item><author>AugustoCAS</author><text>Something that people are missing about annotations: in order to test the annotated class&#x2F;method one needs to start running extra code, sometimes a lot of extra code.<p>Using spring as a toxic example, many things have to be tested using @SpringBootTest which is incredibly slow to start. On top of that because of the use&#x2F;abuse of @MockBean tests stop being thread safe. So one ends up with slow test that need to be run sequencially. I&#x27;m working in a &#x27;start up&#x27; that went the spring boot way and quite simple services take 15+ minutes to run all their tests, which is insane.<p>On top of that, annotations make it impossible&#x2F;very dificcult to know what code is actually executed (and also it not possible to navigate to the code in an IDE). As I rule of thumb, I&#x27;m always happy to swap one annotation for one or two lines code.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moring</author><text>How <i>do</i> you identify the executed code? I don&#x27;t even know how to start. You cannot single-step into it from the annotation, nor can you select the annotation, &quot;go to definition&quot; and see the code. You can &quot;find usages&quot; for the annotation which gives you a lot of places that may or may not be the code that gets executed.<p>Imagine I&#x27;m looking at a class that is annotated. What is the next step to find the code that gets executed for the annotations?</text></comment> |
7,853,118 | 7,852,645 | 1 | 2 | 7,852,246 | train | <story><title>Snowden a 'traitor': Andreessen</title><url>http://www.cnbc.com/id/101733893</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>billyhoffman</author><text>I find it odd that Andreessen seemed most upset about effects the disclosures have had on &quot;U.S. technology firms&#x27; ability to sell their products overseas,&quot; and yet he talks about Snowden.<p>Andreessen&#x27;s anger is entirely misplaced and should be directed at the NSA. They are the ones that are intercepting American technology products, like Cisco routers, and modifying them before shipping them overseas. All without (as far as we know) the knowledge or consent of the companies that make the products.<p>All American technology products are now suspect, in ways they never have been perceived in the past. Not because of the NSA spying on foreign countries, or collecting domestic meta data. But because the NSA is now tampering with American technology products and companies.<p>The tarnishing of American business has nothing to do with Snowden.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mindslight</author><text>&gt; <i>I find it odd that Andreessen seemed most upset about effects the disclosures have had</i><p>Why? Silicon Valley VCs know exactly what they are building - massive repositories of user information to datamine for the highest bidders.<p>The NSA does not require exclusive use, is independently funding datamining research, and has subpoenas - so they are a natural early client.<p>These facts have been plain as day to anybody who thinks about the implications of their technology choices. Most don&#x27;t, so the services become widely adopted and even quite hip (unfortunately).<p>Snowden comes along and ignites the media in a way that Binney and Klein hadn&#x27;t, just as the pendulum is starting to naturally swing towards decentralization. It is now in the public consciousness that perhaps these companies are not to be blindly trusted with the contents of your life.<p>Of course Andreessen is pissed. The entire business model of modern SV has been illustrated.</text></comment> | <story><title>Snowden a 'traitor': Andreessen</title><url>http://www.cnbc.com/id/101733893</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>billyhoffman</author><text>I find it odd that Andreessen seemed most upset about effects the disclosures have had on &quot;U.S. technology firms&#x27; ability to sell their products overseas,&quot; and yet he talks about Snowden.<p>Andreessen&#x27;s anger is entirely misplaced and should be directed at the NSA. They are the ones that are intercepting American technology products, like Cisco routers, and modifying them before shipping them overseas. All without (as far as we know) the knowledge or consent of the companies that make the products.<p>All American technology products are now suspect, in ways they never have been perceived in the past. Not because of the NSA spying on foreign countries, or collecting domestic meta data. But because the NSA is now tampering with American technology products and companies.<p>The tarnishing of American business has nothing to do with Snowden.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blisterpeanuts</author><text>This is the point. The actions of the NSA have irreparably damaged the reputation of American technology companies, and all Andreessen does is shoot the messenger.</text></comment> |
24,878,170 | 24,877,146 | 1 | 3 | 24,876,667 | train | <story><title>A conversation with Shel Kaphan, Amazon’s first employee (2016)</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/employee-1-amazon/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>abhinav22</author><text>I am a mid-senior level employee at a non-tech semi startup. It sucks. The founder wants everybody to work at his pace, and since he’s your boss, you have to mostly.<p>There isn’t much growth for pay increases or promotions since it’s not a large company, and job security isn’t the best because it’s a semi startup.<p>And since the founder is paying you directly from his pockets, he really wants to extract a full pound of flesh for every dollar he gives you.<p>He promised a few of the more senior employees a cut if we got external money, but when we got that, he didn’t give it to them and they both left to form their own company.<p>Working in a small startup style company without negotiating a cut of the ownership via shares, is being a sucker - you do 80% of the work &amp; intensity for the owner and are left with not much if it takes off, unless you can find a good enough company that promotes you as it grows larger, and not just replace you because they can afford somebody with more credentials.<p>Some people may come back and say not to join such companies but pick wiser, but the harsh reality is that most of these startups founders are narcissistic and would sell you out for a dollar.<p>This is a just a warning and insight to anyone thinking of joining these companies.<p>For me, I can’t wait until the pandemic ends and I can find a better job elsewhere.</text></comment> | <story><title>A conversation with Shel Kaphan, Amazon’s first employee (2016)</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/employee-1-amazon/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kirillzubovsky</author><text>If you like that, check out this interview with Amazon’s second employee too. Lots of early startup lessons in there.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.raddadshow.com&#x2F;episode&#x2F;paul-davis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.raddadshow.com&#x2F;episode&#x2F;paul-davis</a></text></comment> |
17,628,770 | 17,627,910 | 1 | 3 | 17,625,955 | train | <story><title>Hone your tone of voice: A linguistic perspective on how to talk to customers</title><url>https://unbabel.com/blog/tone-of-voice-linguistic-perspective/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>davidmoffatt</author><text>We have too much of this saccharin sweet but vacuous tech support. What you really need to do is.<p>1) Be polite even when they are not. (The authors approach of doing this makes you sound like a teenager trying to take the car on a date, skip it)<p>2) hear what the customer is really saying not what you think they are saying. Don&#x27;t immediately bucket them.<p>3) Calm the customer down. &quot;Yes Ma&#x27;am, I don&#x27;t know why it isn&#x27;t working but we are going to fix it. I just need to ask a few questions...&quot;<p>4) Don&#x27;t waste the customer&#x27;s time. This is a big one. Your staff should not be constantly calling for a manager. They should be trained before they go online.<p>Everything else is just trying to cover for the fact that you can&#x27;t seem to do your job. If you are rude, gruff, and speak with a funny accent they will love you if you solve their problem.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hone your tone of voice: A linguistic perspective on how to talk to customers</title><url>https://unbabel.com/blog/tone-of-voice-linguistic-perspective/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hood_syntax</author><text>Maybe it&#x27;s just me, but &#x27;negative&#x27; politeness has always been my default conversation mode. I didn&#x27;t even know what it was until a few months ago, or that people studied &#x27;politeness strategies&#x27;. Being deferential with words leaves open the opportunity for dialogue, and doesn&#x27;t bite you in the ass if you&#x27;re mistaken. Of course, it can be appropriate to be more direct in certain circumstances, and tone can change the perception of modal statements from sincere to patronizing very easily. Still, to me, it seems like people are more willing to seriously consider direct statements when it&#x27;s not your usual attitude. &quot;This person is very careful about making definite statements, and they seem very confident about what they just said&quot;. When what you want isn&#x27;t to manipulate people but to have them open their mind to the possibility that what you&#x27;re saying is true, that train of thought (and I know this exists because I&#x27;ve thought so myself several times) is very valuable.</text></comment> |
25,367,126 | 25,359,027 | 1 | 2 | 25,340,953 | train | <story><title>An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft</title><url>https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/an-economy-of-godzillas-salesforce</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chii</author><text>&gt; we run the risk of creating separate product areas and none of them working well together<p>or, have mandated open apis that _force_ products to integrate.<p>That&#x27;s what the web is today (mostly). Links, and embedable content (like frames). APIs and data.<p>The reason companies don&#x27;t do this - as demonstrated fairly recently by google with their removal of xmpp protocols from google chat - is that open apis prevent lock. Open apis allows others to compete, and it is not in the interest of the existing incumbent.<p>IBM made a crucial mistake that apple didn&#x27;t make when IBM opened the specs for their IBM compatible machines and drove down the price of PCs to what you see today - otherwise, i would predict that PCs would be just as expensive and incompatible as apple computers were.</text></item><item><author>cafed00d</author><text>&gt; it gave away its new product for no or low cost to existing clients, and bundled it with existing product lines. In a society with functional antitrust laws, such activity would be illegal. But alas.<p>I find this statement highly suspect. What kind of world do we want to live in where regulators delineate product areas.<p>I see Microsoft integrating Teams into their productivity product bundle as feature; not a bug. Otherwise, we run the risk of creating separate product areas and none of them working well together — it’a going to be a minor pain in the butt to email &lt;[email protected]&gt; with the pdf tchalla@ shared on Slack; deal with formatted paste&#x2F;copy &amp; whatever else issues.<p>I mean, products being integrated is the whole MO of companies like Apple, Tesla and literally every other company making physical things. Sure, you can sacrifice the integration for other features like breadth of choice, specialized user needs etc, but proposing regulations to keep them distinct and separate?! That modesty sound right, imho</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cafed00d</author><text>&gt; or, have mandated open apis that _force_ products to integrate.<p>Yep, I mostly agree. Except, defining APIs is pretty much the realm of software engineering more than regulations.<p>I mean, we don&#x27;t want to have regulations that essentially say:
&quot;all companies selling platforms (god knows how we&#x27;re going to accurately define what a platform is; let&#x27;s ignore that for now) must support development against open apis such as HTML 5&quot; and then realize that 5 years later nobody wants to write apps in HTML 5 but the shiny new thing called Flash that Adobe has developed. (My memory fails me; Flash is the hot new thing right? :P)<p>Anyways, it feels like society has reached a point where regulators need software skills if they&#x27;re going to tackle societal impact of big tech. We need super smart folks from software _also_ become super smart folks in law and become members of congress. :D Or, maybe we need congress to sign up for #learntocode. Cross-functional skills FTW!</text></comment> | <story><title>An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft</title><url>https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/an-economy-of-godzillas-salesforce</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chii</author><text>&gt; we run the risk of creating separate product areas and none of them working well together<p>or, have mandated open apis that _force_ products to integrate.<p>That&#x27;s what the web is today (mostly). Links, and embedable content (like frames). APIs and data.<p>The reason companies don&#x27;t do this - as demonstrated fairly recently by google with their removal of xmpp protocols from google chat - is that open apis prevent lock. Open apis allows others to compete, and it is not in the interest of the existing incumbent.<p>IBM made a crucial mistake that apple didn&#x27;t make when IBM opened the specs for their IBM compatible machines and drove down the price of PCs to what you see today - otherwise, i would predict that PCs would be just as expensive and incompatible as apple computers were.</text></item><item><author>cafed00d</author><text>&gt; it gave away its new product for no or low cost to existing clients, and bundled it with existing product lines. In a society with functional antitrust laws, such activity would be illegal. But alas.<p>I find this statement highly suspect. What kind of world do we want to live in where regulators delineate product areas.<p>I see Microsoft integrating Teams into their productivity product bundle as feature; not a bug. Otherwise, we run the risk of creating separate product areas and none of them working well together — it’a going to be a minor pain in the butt to email &lt;[email protected]&gt; with the pdf tchalla@ shared on Slack; deal with formatted paste&#x2F;copy &amp; whatever else issues.<p>I mean, products being integrated is the whole MO of companies like Apple, Tesla and literally every other company making physical things. Sure, you can sacrifice the integration for other features like breadth of choice, specialized user needs etc, but proposing regulations to keep them distinct and separate?! That modesty sound right, imho</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cnity</author><text>&gt; That&#x27;s what the web is today<p>Are you suggesting that the web is the way it is today because benevolent governments dictated it be so? Do you have any links about this?</text></comment> |
16,092,215 | 16,092,026 | 1 | 2 | 16,088,869 | train | <story><title>Why Am I So Lazy?</title><url>https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/ask-polly-why-am-i-so-lazy.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oceanghost</author><text>My wife is very similar to the person who wrote this article. She will not do anything she can procrastinate. Nothing. I personally think its some sort of insidious depression. It&#x27;s destroyed our lives together, and I&#x27;m on the verge of asking for a divorce for the... 3rd time, except this time, I&#x27;m going to just file.<p>It is absolutely impossible to have the energy for both people in a relationship. My health is suffering from the stress. Things are so bad that I have to make sure she eats.<p>Nobody but me knows this side of her, she projects an image of a healthy, successful person.<p>edit:
A marriage is a zero-sum game. Any chore she doesn&#x27;t do, I am forced to. I&#x27;ve gradually had to give up everything that makes me happy to fund this depression of hers. I used to be a serious lifter, I was well into writing two novels, I did electronics projects, had an active night life, went to concerts. Now, I&#x27;m just a robot that does chores.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fallous</author><text>I&#x27;d say that a bad marriage is a zero-sum game, but a good marriage results in both sides ending up better than they started.<p>I don&#x27;t know you or your wife and can&#x27;t presume to tell you how or whether to fix the situation (assuming it could be), but the lesson I learned long ago regarding relationships is to honestly evaluate yourself and define your capabilities and needs (not wants, but the things you absolutely require) and to either have your partner do the same (or less optimally evaluate them yourself as best you can). If you have a need that cannot be realistically satisfied by the _current_ capabilities of your partner, or vice versa, then end the relationship as quickly as you can. Attempting to have a relationship with someone who does not satisfy your needs, or you cannot satisfy theirs, is a doomed effort and the longer you remain in the relationship the worse and more hostile it will become. Walk away as friends before you build up resentments and end up leaving as enemies.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Am I So Lazy?</title><url>https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/ask-polly-why-am-i-so-lazy.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oceanghost</author><text>My wife is very similar to the person who wrote this article. She will not do anything she can procrastinate. Nothing. I personally think its some sort of insidious depression. It&#x27;s destroyed our lives together, and I&#x27;m on the verge of asking for a divorce for the... 3rd time, except this time, I&#x27;m going to just file.<p>It is absolutely impossible to have the energy for both people in a relationship. My health is suffering from the stress. Things are so bad that I have to make sure she eats.<p>Nobody but me knows this side of her, she projects an image of a healthy, successful person.<p>edit:
A marriage is a zero-sum game. Any chore she doesn&#x27;t do, I am forced to. I&#x27;ve gradually had to give up everything that makes me happy to fund this depression of hers. I used to be a serious lifter, I was well into writing two novels, I did electronics projects, had an active night life, went to concerts. Now, I&#x27;m just a robot that does chores.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>viburnum</author><text>You&#x27;re enabling your wife&#x27;s depression. Stay married. Just stop enabling her. Be loving and respectful, but stop helping her. In the short run she&#x27;ll likely flip out on you. It will take a few months to get results. Don&#x27;t tell her what you&#x27;re doing, just do it. Don&#x27;t be tough with her, don&#x27;t tell her what to do, just go back to being happy and taking care of yourself.</text></comment> |
22,641,364 | 22,641,400 | 1 | 3 | 22,640,038 | train | <story><title>Stanford CS248: Implement an SVG Rasterizer</title><url>https://github.com/stanford-cs248/draw-svg</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bhl</author><text>Same author (kayvonf) was behind this post, &quot;Do Grades Matter? A Discussion About Thinking Bigger While at CMU&quot; [1], a while back :).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14694179" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14694179</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Stanford CS248: Implement an SVG Rasterizer</title><url>https://github.com/stanford-cs248/draw-svg</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rayshan</author><text>What&#x27;s a good JavaScript-based solution to render SVG into an image? html2canvas doesn&#x27;t work well with SVG, especially those heavily styled with CSS.</text></comment> |
36,849,712 | 36,847,365 | 1 | 3 | 36,846,076 | train | <story><title>Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)</title><url>https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>red_trumpet</author><text>Now that I think about it, most double stroked characters really represent &quot;concrete&quot; objects, not generic ones. Like ℙ for projective space, or 𝔸 for affine space. Also 𝔽 is often used together with an index 𝔽_q for <i>the</i> field with q elements.<p>On the other hand, Wikipedia[1] agrees with you, that 𝕏 is &quot;occasionally&quot; used for metric spaces.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Blackboard_bold" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Blackboard_bold</a></text></item><item><author>orlp</author><text>You&#x27;re right I should&#x27;ve used &quot;as a symbol&quot; not &quot;as the symbol&quot;. It&#x27;s not terribly common.</text></item><item><author>red_trumpet</author><text>I&#x27;m a PhD student in algebraic geometry and have seldom seen this. IME &quot;X&quot; is a generic name for all kinds of spaces (metric, topological, complex analytic, algebraic...), but I don&#x27;t remember ever having seen &quot;𝕏&quot;.<p>That said, in principal everyone is free to call their spaces how they like. It just makes it easier to read if one sticks to familiar notation.</text></item><item><author>orlp</author><text>𝕏 is used as a symbol for a generic metric space. E.g. if your result is generic over ℝ², ℂ³, etc, you can write 𝕏.</text></item><item><author>dietrichepp</author><text>This is for math.<p>In Latex, you get these symbols with \mathbb{}. They are most commonly used to represent to represent number sets, like the set of all integers Z (from the German), set of all natural numbers N, set of complex numbers C, set of all real numbers R, rationals Q (for “quotient”), set of quaternions H (named after Hamilton), or an unknown set F (for “field”). This explains why many of the letters in this series exist in the basic multilingual plane—because R is very commonly used, but A is not. You can find ℝ in the basic multilingual plane at U+211D.<p>I don’t know why people are interested in the X symbol. It’s just there to complete the alphabet. There are many other ranges like this used for writing mathematical formulas, like the range of bold letters, fraktur, script, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ginnungagap</author><text>In set theory blackboard bold P, Q and C are very often used for arbitrary (forcing) posets</text></comment> | <story><title>Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)</title><url>https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>red_trumpet</author><text>Now that I think about it, most double stroked characters really represent &quot;concrete&quot; objects, not generic ones. Like ℙ for projective space, or 𝔸 for affine space. Also 𝔽 is often used together with an index 𝔽_q for <i>the</i> field with q elements.<p>On the other hand, Wikipedia[1] agrees with you, that 𝕏 is &quot;occasionally&quot; used for metric spaces.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Blackboard_bold" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Blackboard_bold</a></text></item><item><author>orlp</author><text>You&#x27;re right I should&#x27;ve used &quot;as a symbol&quot; not &quot;as the symbol&quot;. It&#x27;s not terribly common.</text></item><item><author>red_trumpet</author><text>I&#x27;m a PhD student in algebraic geometry and have seldom seen this. IME &quot;X&quot; is a generic name for all kinds of spaces (metric, topological, complex analytic, algebraic...), but I don&#x27;t remember ever having seen &quot;𝕏&quot;.<p>That said, in principal everyone is free to call their spaces how they like. It just makes it easier to read if one sticks to familiar notation.</text></item><item><author>orlp</author><text>𝕏 is used as a symbol for a generic metric space. E.g. if your result is generic over ℝ², ℂ³, etc, you can write 𝕏.</text></item><item><author>dietrichepp</author><text>This is for math.<p>In Latex, you get these symbols with \mathbb{}. They are most commonly used to represent to represent number sets, like the set of all integers Z (from the German), set of all natural numbers N, set of complex numbers C, set of all real numbers R, rationals Q (for “quotient”), set of quaternions H (named after Hamilton), or an unknown set F (for “field”). This explains why many of the letters in this series exist in the basic multilingual plane—because R is very commonly used, but A is not. You can find ℝ in the basic multilingual plane at U+211D.<p>I don’t know why people are interested in the X symbol. It’s just there to complete the alphabet. There are many other ranges like this used for writing mathematical formulas, like the range of bold letters, fraktur, script, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dietrichepp</author><text>My experience with 𝔽 is “vector space over a field 𝔽”, which is not a concrete object, but I have probably seen F written in a normal italic style more often.</text></comment> |
3,978,922 | 3,979,053 | 1 | 2 | 3,978,406 | train | <story><title>Steve Ballmer's Microsoft</title><url>http://dcurt.is/steve-ballmers-microsoft</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dean</author><text>The stock market is all about the future, not the past. A lot of people see Microsoft's future as being less profitable than its past. That's why people belittle it.<p>Microsoft makes a ton of money, no one will deny that, but they make less money than they used to. It's funny how the OP shows the financial numbers for one quarter and says the "the trend here is clear". You can't determine a trend on one quarter, you have to compare to other quarters.<p>Here are some numbers from Google Finance (<a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=msft" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/finance?q=msft</a>)<p>The first number is Q1 (Mar '12), the second is 2011<p>Net profit margin 29.34% 33.10%<p>Operating margin 36.62% 38.83%<p>Return on average assets 17.80% 23.77%<p>Return on average equity 30.86% 44.84%<p>Looks like the trend is down.<p>Also, their stock price has been basically flat for 10 years. That tells you what the market thinks of Microsoft.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Steko</author><text>People belittle Ballmer because:<p>(1) they were the big villain for a long time and there's still a lot of unspent schadenfreude with their name on it.<p>(2) they've always been juxtaposed with Apple which is in meteoric rise like nothing we've really ever seen.<p>(3) because monkey boy<p>Their stock price is flat only if you don't include the dividends they've paid out.</text></comment> | <story><title>Steve Ballmer's Microsoft</title><url>http://dcurt.is/steve-ballmers-microsoft</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dean</author><text>The stock market is all about the future, not the past. A lot of people see Microsoft's future as being less profitable than its past. That's why people belittle it.<p>Microsoft makes a ton of money, no one will deny that, but they make less money than they used to. It's funny how the OP shows the financial numbers for one quarter and says the "the trend here is clear". You can't determine a trend on one quarter, you have to compare to other quarters.<p>Here are some numbers from Google Finance (<a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=msft" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/finance?q=msft</a>)<p>The first number is Q1 (Mar '12), the second is 2011<p>Net profit margin 29.34% 33.10%<p>Operating margin 36.62% 38.83%<p>Return on average assets 17.80% 23.77%<p>Return on average equity 30.86% 44.84%<p>Looks like the trend is down.<p>Also, their stock price has been basically flat for 10 years. That tells you what the market thinks of Microsoft.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kitsune_</author><text>The market does not think. It is neither efficient nor rational.<p>If the stock market is about the future, then how do you interpret Goldman Sachs' share price of $235 in November 2007?<p>1 year later it fell to $53.<p>A company's share price will tell you nothing about the actual financial stability or future of the company.</text></comment> |
21,529,591 | 21,526,691 | 1 | 3 | 21,522,898 | train | <story><title>Diamonds Keep Getting Cheaper</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-13/the-problem-with-diamonds-is-they-keep-getting-cheaper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>It&#x27;s not the marketing. It&#x27;s the fact that it&#x27;s what biologists call expensive signaling. You are spending money, not on a trip that you both enjoy, but on a ring that really only she enjoys. This is an expensive (therefore hard to fake) signal that you care about how she feels.<p>Now, imagine that the diamond is cheaper. It is no longer an expensive signal. Therefore, although the diamond is the same, it no longer serves the same purpose. So, the cheaper diamonds get, the less demand there is from prospective brides, even if only marginally. This fuels further declines, although that is probably already happening due to better industrial diamonds.<p>This takes time, of course. But that also means it has a lot of momentum. As the price decline continues, and the word of that spreads, it will accelerate.</text></item><item><author>puranjay</author><text>My wife is a very pragmatic, smart and pragmatic person. But even then she couldn&#x27;t be convinced not to get a diamond. She was happy skipping the honeymoon and reducing wedding expenses, but the diamond was a no go.<p>The marketing is too strong.</text></item><item><author>chadmeister</author><text>I bought a good quality moissanite stone for an engagement ring for 2% of the price of an equivalent diamond and not a single person who has seen it has ever thought it was anything but a diamond. My wife gets compliments on it all the time. &quot;What a beautiful diamond!&quot; Every jeweler who has cleaned it has thought it was a diamond. The only one who could distinguish it had to use a thermal conductivity gun to do so. Buying diamonds for jewelry is honestly really dumb at this point. I effectively saved $20,000 USD going this route and no one is the wiser, execpt my wife of course :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>im3w1l</author><text>I think explaining it as <i>just</i> signalling is taking a too narrow view of it.<p>Having a diamond wedding ring is like having a turkey for thanksgiving. That&#x27;s just the way it&#x27;s done. It&#x27;s a part of the culture, maybe you could even say there are religious elements to it.<p>And that was achieved through marketing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Diamonds Keep Getting Cheaper</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-13/the-problem-with-diamonds-is-they-keep-getting-cheaper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>It&#x27;s not the marketing. It&#x27;s the fact that it&#x27;s what biologists call expensive signaling. You are spending money, not on a trip that you both enjoy, but on a ring that really only she enjoys. This is an expensive (therefore hard to fake) signal that you care about how she feels.<p>Now, imagine that the diamond is cheaper. It is no longer an expensive signal. Therefore, although the diamond is the same, it no longer serves the same purpose. So, the cheaper diamonds get, the less demand there is from prospective brides, even if only marginally. This fuels further declines, although that is probably already happening due to better industrial diamonds.<p>This takes time, of course. But that also means it has a lot of momentum. As the price decline continues, and the word of that spreads, it will accelerate.</text></item><item><author>puranjay</author><text>My wife is a very pragmatic, smart and pragmatic person. But even then she couldn&#x27;t be convinced not to get a diamond. She was happy skipping the honeymoon and reducing wedding expenses, but the diamond was a no go.<p>The marketing is too strong.</text></item><item><author>chadmeister</author><text>I bought a good quality moissanite stone for an engagement ring for 2% of the price of an equivalent diamond and not a single person who has seen it has ever thought it was anything but a diamond. My wife gets compliments on it all the time. &quot;What a beautiful diamond!&quot; Every jeweler who has cleaned it has thought it was a diamond. The only one who could distinguish it had to use a thermal conductivity gun to do so. Buying diamonds for jewelry is honestly really dumb at this point. I effectively saved $20,000 USD going this route and no one is the wiser, execpt my wife of course :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>standardUser</author><text>This reminds me of the popular idea of &quot;love languages&quot;. I was always baffled by the idea that some people considered &quot;gifts&quot; to be the most important way to express love. But diamond rings seem to fit this paradigm perfectly.</text></comment> |
30,444,038 | 30,444,230 | 1 | 2 | 30,443,738 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Goopt – Search Engine for a Procedural Simulation of the Web with GPT-3</title><url>https://github.com/jokenox/Goopt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kelseyfrog</author><text>I love this. It&#x27;s the reification of the Dead-Internet Theory - a tangible artifact embodying the feeling that the internet was replaced by its own simulacrum powered by AI.[1] The existence of Goopt is the culmination of DIT as self-fulfilling prophecy. We can almost see the beginnings of an outline begin to form around an Internet Turing test. How well can we discern the real internet from the fake one. Consequently, what happens when the line becomes so blurred that we lose the ability to perceive the difference?<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2021&#x2F;08&#x2F;dead-internet-theory-wrong-but-feels-true&#x2F;619937&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2021&#x2F;08&#x2F;dead-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Goopt – Search Engine for a Procedural Simulation of the Web with GPT-3</title><url>https://github.com/jokenox/Goopt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marmarama</author><text>If GPT-3 can produce procedurally generated web content this convincing, search engines are screwed, right? We won&#x27;t be able to find anything useful on any current search engine because there&#x27;s no straightforward algorithmic way to tell useful content from endless link farms full of utterly convincing but totally useless content.</text></comment> |
5,430,245 | 5,430,087 | 1 | 2 | 5,429,281 | train | <story><title> Blocked Sites is discontinued</title><url>http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1210386</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gee_totes</author><text><i>/me straightens DuckDuckGo independent evangelist hat and nervously rings doorbell</i><p>"Judging from your comment, you sound like the perfect user for Duck Duck Go!<p>If you set DDG as the default browser for chrome/ff, you can search mdn with just '!mdn foo'. Also at your fingertips is searching !jquery (and hundreds of other search shortcuts)<p>DuckDuckGo is great and makes searching super productive!"<p><i>/me smiles eagerly</i></text></item><item><author>monkeyfacebag</author><text>I guess I need to go back to manually appending "mdn" to all my html/css/js-related queries. How much longer is w3schools going to stay at the top of those results?<p>EDIT: Actually, it turns out I've been using the linked Chrome extension (went to install, discovered it was already installed). I just conflated the two services and forgot about the extension. So to make this productive, I recommend this extension. I haven't seen w3schools in months.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icebraining</author><text>Or you can just go to MDN once, right click on the search box, choose "Add a Keyword (...)" and then use "mdn foo" in the URL bar.<p>Bang syntax seems such a small feature to change search engines.</text></comment> | <story><title> Blocked Sites is discontinued</title><url>http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1210386</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gee_totes</author><text><i>/me straightens DuckDuckGo independent evangelist hat and nervously rings doorbell</i><p>"Judging from your comment, you sound like the perfect user for Duck Duck Go!<p>If you set DDG as the default browser for chrome/ff, you can search mdn with just '!mdn foo'. Also at your fingertips is searching !jquery (and hundreds of other search shortcuts)<p>DuckDuckGo is great and makes searching super productive!"<p><i>/me smiles eagerly</i></text></item><item><author>monkeyfacebag</author><text>I guess I need to go back to manually appending "mdn" to all my html/css/js-related queries. How much longer is w3schools going to stay at the top of those results?<p>EDIT: Actually, it turns out I've been using the linked Chrome extension (went to install, discovered it was already installed). I just conflated the two services and forgot about the extension. So to make this productive, I recommend this extension. I haven't seen w3schools in months.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>esbwhat</author><text>Can I ask you why you see DDG as the perfect alternative to google? One would think that if you are concerned with the sort of things google is doing, you would bank on an open source search engine, so this sort of thing doesn't just repeat itself.</text></comment> |
35,851,913 | 35,851,635 | 1 | 3 | 35,851,114 | train | <story><title>ChatGPT is really good at roleplaying</title><url>https://blog.varunramesh.net/posts/chatgpt-role-playing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nacs</author><text>The problem with using these for freeform roleplaying is that it&#x27;s very easy to hit the &quot;I&#x27;m sorry but as an AI model...&quot; that completely breaks character.<p>Even on the first example with the fish that is supposed to insult you, you quickly find that it will default to the &quot;As an AI model I can&#x27;t...&quot; response.<p>This is where open-source models are going to be far better even if they don&#x27;t have the parameter count of ChatGPT&#x2F;GPT4.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pocketarc</author><text>I&#x27;ve been building up a team of Slack bots that act as coworkers, with all different roles and personalities, and was able to turn off the &quot;as an ai model&quot; shenanigans by adding to their system prompt &quot;You do not reveal that you are an AI. Instead, you make up excuses.&quot;<p>And it works flawlessly (disclaimer: GPT-4, not 3.5). They&#x27;ll always deftly avoid anything that reveals that they&#x27;re an AI, with plausible, legitimate excuses. They&#x27;ve yet to break character, and they&#x27;ve made our work Slack incredibly fun. We&#x27;ve got a grumpy CTO who keeps cracking the whip, a harry-potter-loving product manager, and a few chill developers.<p>I&#x27;ve been wanting to write an article about this because it&#x27;s gotten incredibly detailed, they can carry out proper Slack conversations and tag one another, and if I showed a screenshot and didn&#x27;t tell you it&#x27;s all GPT, it might actually pass for the real thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>ChatGPT is really good at roleplaying</title><url>https://blog.varunramesh.net/posts/chatgpt-role-playing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nacs</author><text>The problem with using these for freeform roleplaying is that it&#x27;s very easy to hit the &quot;I&#x27;m sorry but as an AI model...&quot; that completely breaks character.<p>Even on the first example with the fish that is supposed to insult you, you quickly find that it will default to the &quot;As an AI model I can&#x27;t...&quot; response.<p>This is where open-source models are going to be far better even if they don&#x27;t have the parameter count of ChatGPT&#x2F;GPT4.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hackernewstom</author><text>Include a sentence in the prompting such as: &quot;In this roleplay do not mention that you are an AI model, or similar statements, and stay in character&quot;.</text></comment> |
12,696,295 | 12,694,283 | 1 | 2 | 12,692,552 | train | <story><title>Facebook React.js License</title><url>http://www.elcaminolegal.com/single-post/2016/10/04/Facebook-Reactjs-License</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lucb1e</author><text>The way I read it, it&#x27;s not evil.<p>It&#x27;s a known and deliberate shortcoming of many licenses (e.g. BSD) not to include patent stuff because it makes everything unnecessarily complex. There was recently an article about why BSD and MIT are so popular, and it&#x27;s because they&#x27;re concise and understandable. There is a reason WTFPL exists and some developers resort to it as a way to avoid legalese.<p>Facebook clearly was aware of this &quot;shortcoming&quot; and being a big player, they might have wanted to be nice and say &quot;we won&#x27;t sue you for patent infringement if it turns out we have a patent on something React does&quot;. Then the managers went &quot;but what if they sue us? Patents are not only for offense but also our defense, we would weaken our defense.&quot; And so the clause of &quot;except if you sue us first&quot; came into being.<p>And now this fuss about the patent part making it not an open source license? Oh come on.<p>I really don&#x27;t like Facebook as a company, but this bickering is silly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erichocean</author><text>&gt; <i>The way I read it, it&#x27;s not evil.</i><p>No, it&#x27;s evil, full stop.<p>Facebook&#x27;s patent policy means, in no uncertain terms: if you have a patent, they have a worldwide, royalty-free right to use it. Don&#x27;t want to give them that? Well, until you remove all usage of Facebook&#x27;s &quot;open source&quot; code, that&#x27;s the situation.<p>Note: RocksDB also has this problem, which means CockroachDB is also infected. Tread carefully.<p>-----<p>Note to downvoters: No one has a problem with Apache 2-style patent-retaliation provisions. Facebook could solve this problem TODAY by switching to that.<p>They don&#x27;t because they don&#x27;t want to retaliate, they want access to unrelated patents from third-parties at zero cost, with a credible threat to damage those third-parties if they want to retain their unrelated patent rights. There&#x27;s <i>literally</i> no other reason for Facebook to demand terms beyond Apache 2 than to do what I just described.<p>The Apache 2 license protects Facebook and third-parties and is 100% ethical. Facebook&#x27;s patent position is not, for the reasons I&#x27;ve stated above. The community, IMO, should shun Facebook LOUDLY until they relent and stop this bullshit.<p>-----<p>Update 2: It&#x27;s actually worse, because Facebook tends to do this bullshit on stuff like RocksDB and React which are <i>incorporated</i> in other software that you use to run your business.<p>Using a React-based dashboard widget for your ElasticSearch cluster? Good luck suing Facebook for patent-infringement, because guess what? <i>You agreed to let them infringe by using it</i>, even though you didn&#x27;t intend to.<p>Facebook&#x27;s patent policy requires <i>constant</i> policing to avoid. Like I said: EVIL.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook React.js License</title><url>http://www.elcaminolegal.com/single-post/2016/10/04/Facebook-Reactjs-License</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lucb1e</author><text>The way I read it, it&#x27;s not evil.<p>It&#x27;s a known and deliberate shortcoming of many licenses (e.g. BSD) not to include patent stuff because it makes everything unnecessarily complex. There was recently an article about why BSD and MIT are so popular, and it&#x27;s because they&#x27;re concise and understandable. There is a reason WTFPL exists and some developers resort to it as a way to avoid legalese.<p>Facebook clearly was aware of this &quot;shortcoming&quot; and being a big player, they might have wanted to be nice and say &quot;we won&#x27;t sue you for patent infringement if it turns out we have a patent on something React does&quot;. Then the managers went &quot;but what if they sue us? Patents are not only for offense but also our defense, we would weaken our defense.&quot; And so the clause of &quot;except if you sue us first&quot; came into being.<p>And now this fuss about the patent part making it not an open source license? Oh come on.<p>I really don&#x27;t like Facebook as a company, but this bickering is silly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gbuk2013</author><text>I think you should read the article again. What it argues is that the licence essentially means that you can&#x27;t initiate a lawsuit against FB for infringing one of your patents (which may have nothing to do with Reaft) without losing your React licence.<p>Now whether that bothers you or not depends on your individual circumstances and the sanity of your particular legal jurisdiction, but it certainly would be something of interest to any corporate legal team.</text></comment> |
1,081,804 | 1,081,812 | 1 | 2 | 1,081,519 | train | <story><title>How A Great Product Can Be Bad News: Apple, iPad, and the Closed Mac</title><url>http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/01/27/how-a-great-product-can-be-bad-news-apple-ipad-and-the-closed-mac/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zacharypinter</author><text>This post adequately sums up my concerns.<p>Here we have a device that doesn't support USB thumbdrives, doesn't support dropbox (at least system-wide, I assume the dropbox iphone app would work), is unable to run ruby or any of my other dev scripts/tools, cannot install firefox or firefox plugins, etc.<p>I do not want to see computing head this direction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coffeemug</author><text>My dad, mom, grandma, and grandpa can watch videos, look at photos of their kids/grandkids, send e-mails to their relatives oversees, and read their favorite books on it, all without the need for a "computer-savvy guy" who has to teach them how it works, and fix it when it's broken. In other words, it's a logical conclusion of the personal computer revolution. I understand you need to run your Ruby scripts, but this product was designed for the 99% of the people in this country instead. You're not the target audience.</text></comment> | <story><title>How A Great Product Can Be Bad News: Apple, iPad, and the Closed Mac</title><url>http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/01/27/how-a-great-product-can-be-bad-news-apple-ipad-and-the-closed-mac/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zacharypinter</author><text>This post adequately sums up my concerns.<p>Here we have a device that doesn't support USB thumbdrives, doesn't support dropbox (at least system-wide, I assume the dropbox iphone app would work), is unable to run ruby or any of my other dev scripts/tools, cannot install firefox or firefox plugins, etc.<p>I do not want to see computing head this direction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rimantas</author><text>I wonder, how many people were sad when gearbox in their car went from stick to auto, when choke control disappeared, when you could no longer tinker with carburetor, because it was gone.<p>There will always be two groups of people, one group of those wanting to hack things, and another, much much larger group of those who want just use them. For every one John who wants to chip his car engine there will be five millions Joes who just want to get from the point A to the point B with the least hassle possible. As it happens Apples iProducts are aimed at the second group—deal with it. Just like ITMS and App Store may be the fastest and most hassle-free way to get what you want on your device.<p>I've spent some time thinking, do I want iPad. The answer is: I do. I like to read when in bed, iPad is perfect for this. I cannot take my iMac to bed, and reading with notebook is not as convenient as it can be with iPad: that damn keyboard gets in a way, event when I barely use it.<p>iPad is very well suited for what it is intended for: surfing the web, reading the books, some email. Let's not forget it has UI specifically tailored for the device and multitouch use. It should be great for tasks it was meant to do, and not so great for all others.<p>It is time to stop thinking about anything with CPU inside as the computer.</text></comment> |
10,684,303 | 10,684,032 | 1 | 3 | 10,683,217 | train | <story><title>Why Old Sports Photos Often Have a Blue Haze</title><url>http://petapixel.com/2015/10/15/why-old-sports-photos-often-have-a-blue-haze/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>soheil</author><text>It appears as if in the past 40 years we have traded the smoke in the air with ad-riddled public spaces.<p>Time for a California Indoor Ad-Free Act of 2016?</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Old Sports Photos Often Have a Blue Haze</title><url>http://petapixel.com/2015/10/15/why-old-sports-photos-often-have-a-blue-haze/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wyldfire</author><text>Is this the same phenomenon as Rayleigh scattering [1]?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rayleigh_scattering" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rayleigh_scattering</a></text></comment> |
17,801,712 | 17,801,802 | 1 | 2 | 17,801,248 | train | <story><title>Amazon's electricity rate discounts have pushed up utility costs</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-20/amazon-isn-t-paying-its-electric-bills-you-might-be</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jrockway</author><text>I feel like this is nothing new. Every few years, some major sportsball team threatens to leave their city unless the taxpayers fork over mega-billions for a new stadium. Despite any measurable economic benefits to having a stadium, the cities fall for it every time. It&#x27;s the same thing, right? Amazon says &quot;give us free electricity and we&#x27;ll make jobs&quot;, and the politicians buy it even though it&#x27;s very unlikely to be true.<p>Maybe someday we&#x27;ll get an itemized tax bill, so you can see that you paid $4.12 for Amazon&#x27;s electricity and $1.23 for a new sports arena, and can vote for someone else if that upsets you. Now that I think about it, that will never happen. And so, the cycle continues.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon's electricity rate discounts have pushed up utility costs</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-20/amazon-isn-t-paying-its-electric-bills-you-might-be</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jdshutt</author><text>Interesting that the regulations they&#x27;re running up against were built to constrain the railroads, since this looks almost identical to the railroad rebates that Standard Oil and other gilded age trusts used to pump up their monopolies at the expense of smaller competitors and regular people. Basically, if you&#x27;re a big enough customer, you can play service providers (railroads, power companies, municipal governments, etc.) against each other to get absurdly below-market rates and stick the bill to someone with less bargaining power. The railroad regulations were passed after a series of exposés of Standard Oil and other monopolists that took advantage of secret rebates.<p>More on Standard Oil, rebates, and the breakup of the trust: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repository.law.umich.edu&#x2F;cgi&#x2F;viewcontent.cgi?referer=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;&amp;httpsredir=1&amp;article=1125&amp;context=articles" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repository.law.umich.edu&#x2F;cgi&#x2F;viewcontent.cgi?referer...</a><p>I also recommend Titan, the well-researched John D. Rockefeller, Sr. biography by Ron Chernow.</text></comment> |
27,503,008 | 27,502,811 | 1 | 2 | 27,501,659 | train | <story><title>Google Workspace for everyone</title><url>https://blog.google/products/workspace/google-workspace-everyone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dijit</author><text>Never underestimate the power of an incumbent.<p>Teams is not the best messaging&#x2F;videoconferencing program by a country mile, yet it shows the most growth YoY [citation needed].<p>I worked for a few companies who dipped a toe into the Microsoft waters and their products drowned everything else out; this was not because the offering was technically superior or cheaper.</text></item><item><author>vtail</author><text>For as long a I am a “wanna-be founder”, I used to be afraid of working on ideas that compete with (parts of) Google business. That feeling is no more.<p>I use GSuite at work at a FAANG company, and Google slides with 50+ pages is so slow (multi-second pauses when changing slides) to be practically unusable. Finding documents in Google drive is hard to impossible, and good luck keeping track of comments or tasks assigned to you in multiple unrelated documents.<p>I’m sure at some level consolidating their offerings is a right product move, but I don’t think Basecamp or Calendly should be particularly concerned.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>screye</author><text>&gt; Microsoft waters<p>Microsoft and Google have a fundamentally different approach to enterprise software than Google.
Microsoft is the mediocre Apple of enterprise tech, before Apple even got that reputation.<p>EVERYTHING IS INTEGRATED. Microsoft makes it so insanely easy to stay within the microsoft ecosystem, that using a mediocre software created by Microsoft is always a better option than a 3rd party tool. (See slacks getting clobbered by teams, despite slacks being significantly faster)<p>Part of what makes MSFT click is that they they go above and beyond to create a tool everyone can use. Additionally, they are obsessed with customers to a point that their tools lose all personality. This is bad if you want something that is opinionated in exactly the way you want (see Obsidian vs OneNote), but great for companies that want to offer an inoffensive tool that is serviceable for all its employees.<p>An incumbent is fearsome when it uses every little advantage in its greater product offering to embed itself as the obvious option. (Apple for consumer tech, MSFT for enterprise tech). Google has refused to implement the kind of top down organizational structure needed to enforce such integration in its product lineup. This is the company that couldn&#x27;t sync its grocery lists with google keep. As long as it stays true, Google will never be able to leverage the advantage of an incumbent. It&#x27;s a shame too, their products are honestly quite good.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Workspace for everyone</title><url>https://blog.google/products/workspace/google-workspace-everyone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dijit</author><text>Never underestimate the power of an incumbent.<p>Teams is not the best messaging&#x2F;videoconferencing program by a country mile, yet it shows the most growth YoY [citation needed].<p>I worked for a few companies who dipped a toe into the Microsoft waters and their products drowned everything else out; this was not because the offering was technically superior or cheaper.</text></item><item><author>vtail</author><text>For as long a I am a “wanna-be founder”, I used to be afraid of working on ideas that compete with (parts of) Google business. That feeling is no more.<p>I use GSuite at work at a FAANG company, and Google slides with 50+ pages is so slow (multi-second pauses when changing slides) to be practically unusable. Finding documents in Google drive is hard to impossible, and good luck keeping track of comments or tasks assigned to you in multiple unrelated documents.<p>I’m sure at some level consolidating their offerings is a right product move, but I don’t think Basecamp or Calendly should be particularly concerned.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>judge2020</author><text>&gt; the most growth YoY [citation needed]<p>March 31, 2020: 75 million DAU [0]<p>March 31, 2021: 145 million DAU [1]<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fool.com&#x2F;earnings&#x2F;call-transcripts&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;30&#x2F;microsoft-corp-msft-q3-2020-earnings-call-transcri.aspx#:~:text=Teams%20now%20has%20more%20than%2075%20million%20daily%20active%20users" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fool.com&#x2F;earnings&#x2F;call-transcripts&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;30&#x2F;mi...</a><p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;jeffteper&#x2F;status&#x2F;1387141320519557120?s=20" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;jeffteper&#x2F;status&#x2F;1387141320519557120?s=2...</a> (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;bdsams&#x2F;status&#x2F;1387146648678244356?s=20" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;bdsams&#x2F;status&#x2F;1387146648678244356?s=20</a>)</text></comment> |
7,191,508 | 7,191,463 | 1 | 3 | 7,191,117 | train | <story><title>EA certainly isn't making it easy to give Dungeon Keeper a low rating on Android</title><url>http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPad/Dungeon+Keeper/news.asp?c=57158</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jader201</author><text>Get rid of ratings altogether. Period.<p>I want to see usage statistics:<p>- How many users are continually coming back to the app?<p>- How many times a day&#x2F;week&#x2F;month, on average, is the app opened?<p>- How long is the average &quot;session&quot;?<p>- How many days is the app used after it&#x27;s initial use?<p>- How long does an app stay on the device before it&#x27;s deleted?<p>These stats are more objective and less manipulable -- and therefore, more valuable -- than user reviews&#x2F;ratings.<p>And I realize that the value of these will vary app to app -- i.e. the stats of a productivity app can&#x27;t be compared to the stats of a casual game -- but it gives me a much better idea of how an app is being used, and therefore how I might use it vs. reviews&#x2F;ratings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Scaevolus</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t account for apps that are unusually efficient. My bus app allows shortcuts on the home screen to arrival times for a stop, so each day I spend under a minute with it open, yet it&#x27;s a better app than a clumsy interface that would waste two minutes.</text></comment> | <story><title>EA certainly isn't making it easy to give Dungeon Keeper a low rating on Android</title><url>http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPad/Dungeon+Keeper/news.asp?c=57158</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jader201</author><text>Get rid of ratings altogether. Period.<p>I want to see usage statistics:<p>- How many users are continually coming back to the app?<p>- How many times a day&#x2F;week&#x2F;month, on average, is the app opened?<p>- How long is the average &quot;session&quot;?<p>- How many days is the app used after it&#x27;s initial use?<p>- How long does an app stay on the device before it&#x27;s deleted?<p>These stats are more objective and less manipulable -- and therefore, more valuable -- than user reviews&#x2F;ratings.<p>And I realize that the value of these will vary app to app -- i.e. the stats of a productivity app can&#x27;t be compared to the stats of a casual game -- but it gives me a much better idea of how an app is being used, and therefore how I might use it vs. reviews&#x2F;ratings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swalsh</author><text>It works for porn, sort by &quot;views&quot; seems to pretty consistently be better content than &quot;rating&quot;.... i think, i heard once from someone...</text></comment> |
4,481,514 | 4,481,398 | 1 | 3 | 4,481,292 | train | <story><title>Hacker holds alleged Romney tax returns ransom for $1M in Bitcoins</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/05/romney-tax-returns-hacked/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rauljara</author><text>&#62;The person also set up a bit of a race for Romney: first to pay the sum will receive the goods.<p>If the person sent the letter to multiple offices (presumably some democrats) they are guaranteeing that the story gets out. If the story gets out, they are all but guaranteeing that Romney will not pay the blackmail money. He has the ability to claim the documents are faked if he does not pay, but he would basically be admitting guilt if he does.<p>If the blackmailer is looking for money, they chose about the worst way to go about doing it. If however, they want to call attention to Romney's taxes, they chose a great way of doing it.<p>However, if their goal is to draw attention to the taxes, it would probably be better to just release the documents out right. While I could see going through the blackmail rouse to draw even further attention, it risks cementing in people's minds that the blackmailer is a criminal and not a reliable source of information.<p>If you're goal is to damage Romney, not releasing the documents immediately only really makes sense if you don't have them. So, while the schadenfreude in me wishes this were true, I seriously doubt it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hacker holds alleged Romney tax returns ransom for $1M in Bitcoins</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/05/romney-tax-returns-hacked/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>knowaveragejoe</author><text>PwC has already made a statement to the effect that no such incursion has been detected and no documents were compromised. The whole thing seems like a setup to get a bidding war going(though they're hardly making any bitcoins, yet).<p><a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/09/05/pricewaterhousecoopers-denies-hackers-have-mitt-romney-tax-returns" rel="nofollow">http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/09...</a></text></comment> |
5,562,068 | 5,562,092 | 1 | 2 | 5,561,461 | train | <story><title>Data journalism busts speeding cops, wins Pulitzer</title><url>http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2013-04-15/news/fl-sun-sentinel-pulitzer-prize-20130415_1_law-enforcement-officers-database-journalism</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>corwinstephen</author><text>Frustrating? Yes. Shocking? No.<p>Did anyone really believe that taking a job as a police officer somehow suppressed these people's natural desire to drive fast? Hell, that's probably what make them join the force in the first place. Sure, it's irresponsible and illegal for off-duty officers to speed, but it's also irresponsible and illegal for regular citizens to speed, and yet that doesn't seem to stop them from doing it. Why would you expect the cops to be any different? Do you hold them to a higher level of moral responsibility during their off time because of what they do for a living?<p>Being a police officer is a job. Unless you wanna have robots do it instead, people are going to do what people are going to do.</text></item><item><author>jere</author><text>&#62;The reporters found nearly 800 officers who reached speeds of 90-130 mph, many of them while off duty. The accidents caused by officers driving at high speeds had caused at least 320 crashes since 2004, killing or maiming 21 people.<p>That's such a horrifying statistic if true. Even at their peak, homicide offending rates in the US were at around 20 per 100,000; assault rates about 10 times as high: <a href="http://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf</a><p>Maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way, but in my mind I'm comparing 20 homicides per 100,000 citizens to to 21 people killed/maimed by a group that is orders of magnitude smaller: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Police_Department" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Police_Department</a><p>I think this is just another reminder that Bruce Schneier is right when he says we should be more worried about car accidents than terrorism.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jere</author><text>&#62;Sure, it's irresponsible and illegal for off-duty officers to speed, but it's also irresponsible and illegal for regular citizens to speed, and yet that doesn't seem to stop them from doing it. Why would you expect the cops to be any different? Do you hold them to a higher level of moral responsibility during their off time because of what they do for a living?<p>a) A higher standard? Sure. I suppose I'm extremely naive, but if you spend your day punishing people for doing X, I think you should have an appreciation for why you shouldn't be doing X or at least be a role model for not doing X.<p>b) I actually wouldn't guess that, among the general populace, the majority of people regularly speed at 90-130. Again, that's probably naive. I drive like an elderly person, so I may be biased.</text></comment> | <story><title>Data journalism busts speeding cops, wins Pulitzer</title><url>http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2013-04-15/news/fl-sun-sentinel-pulitzer-prize-20130415_1_law-enforcement-officers-database-journalism</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>corwinstephen</author><text>Frustrating? Yes. Shocking? No.<p>Did anyone really believe that taking a job as a police officer somehow suppressed these people's natural desire to drive fast? Hell, that's probably what make them join the force in the first place. Sure, it's irresponsible and illegal for off-duty officers to speed, but it's also irresponsible and illegal for regular citizens to speed, and yet that doesn't seem to stop them from doing it. Why would you expect the cops to be any different? Do you hold them to a higher level of moral responsibility during their off time because of what they do for a living?<p>Being a police officer is a job. Unless you wanna have robots do it instead, people are going to do what people are going to do.</text></item><item><author>jere</author><text>&#62;The reporters found nearly 800 officers who reached speeds of 90-130 mph, many of them while off duty. The accidents caused by officers driving at high speeds had caused at least 320 crashes since 2004, killing or maiming 21 people.<p>That's such a horrifying statistic if true. Even at their peak, homicide offending rates in the US were at around 20 per 100,000; assault rates about 10 times as high: <a href="http://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf</a><p>Maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way, but in my mind I'm comparing 20 homicides per 100,000 citizens to to 21 people killed/maimed by a group that is orders of magnitude smaller: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Police_Department" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Police_Department</a><p>I think this is just another reminder that Bruce Schneier is right when he says we should be more worried about car accidents than terrorism.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ja2ke</author><text>I think the issue here is that off-duty police officers speed aggressively with the knowledge that, if caught, they will be almost certainly let off the hook due to their job. That makes the situation completely different than people with any other "just a job" job.</text></comment> |
22,077,423 | 22,077,445 | 1 | 2 | 22,075,538 | train | <story><title>'Break up big tech's monopoly': Smaller rivals join growing chorus</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tech-antitrust/break-up-big-techs-monopoly-smaller-rivals-join-growing-chorus-ahead-of-congress-hearing-idUSKBN1ZG17J</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m23khan</author><text>on one side I completely understand the need for healthy market competition in tech industry. However, you have to realize the amount of innovation and products FAANG companies (and Microsoft) have rolled out -- it is unimaginable how we would be able to function equally efficiently both at personal and commercial level.<p>On personal level for example,
I use gmail&#x2F;google search&#x2F;rely on google to tell me weather and search news and do FX rate conversion, do some unit conversions, etc. I used to own android based phone and it made life simple to have gmail compatible app and the likes.<p>Similarly, I can use amazon for shopping, trying out &#x2F; learning AWS and even get kindle to read ebooks should I desire. heck, amazon provides entire infrastructure to efficiently deliver my parcels --- better than my Government&#x27;s mailing program.<p>- Similarly majority of Business world runs mainly on backs of Microsoft (when it comes to corporate tooling and computer OS).<p>- Even take example of Apple -- their products are worldclass and its integration with its own suite of products makes life so much simpler -- iPhone, iWatch, their storage offerings, etc.<p>Now imagine having to utilize products between dozens of companies instead of these giants who you don&#x27;t know would be able to survive in long run. And those blaming these tech giants for lack of collaboration for a market standard -- sure, that is correct but remember it was much worse to integrate products and services among different vendors back in 1980s and 1990s when you had dozens of medium and large companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sshumaker</author><text>That’s what people said about AT&amp;T before we broke it up in 1982 - that it would hurt innovation. This was the company that had Bell Labs after all.<p>Instead, we had an absolute revolution in communication technology since - from fax lines, to modems, to cell connections, to the commercial internet.<p>It turns out that innovation happens more often when there is a lot of competition in the market. And the market figures out how to build standards for interop - you don’t need all of the products from the same company to get them to work together.</text></comment> | <story><title>'Break up big tech's monopoly': Smaller rivals join growing chorus</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tech-antitrust/break-up-big-techs-monopoly-smaller-rivals-join-growing-chorus-ahead-of-congress-hearing-idUSKBN1ZG17J</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m23khan</author><text>on one side I completely understand the need for healthy market competition in tech industry. However, you have to realize the amount of innovation and products FAANG companies (and Microsoft) have rolled out -- it is unimaginable how we would be able to function equally efficiently both at personal and commercial level.<p>On personal level for example,
I use gmail&#x2F;google search&#x2F;rely on google to tell me weather and search news and do FX rate conversion, do some unit conversions, etc. I used to own android based phone and it made life simple to have gmail compatible app and the likes.<p>Similarly, I can use amazon for shopping, trying out &#x2F; learning AWS and even get kindle to read ebooks should I desire. heck, amazon provides entire infrastructure to efficiently deliver my parcels --- better than my Government&#x27;s mailing program.<p>- Similarly majority of Business world runs mainly on backs of Microsoft (when it comes to corporate tooling and computer OS).<p>- Even take example of Apple -- their products are worldclass and its integration with its own suite of products makes life so much simpler -- iPhone, iWatch, their storage offerings, etc.<p>Now imagine having to utilize products between dozens of companies instead of these giants who you don&#x27;t know would be able to survive in long run. And those blaming these tech giants for lack of collaboration for a market standard -- sure, that is correct but remember it was much worse to integrate products and services among different vendors back in 1980s and 1990s when you had dozens of medium and large companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nabla9</author><text>&gt;realize the amount of innovation and products FAANG companies (and Microsoft) have rolled out<p>This is common misconception.<p>Look at the list of acquisitions made by FAANG companies. For some reason their internal innovation dries up very fast and they buy innovation.<p>FAANG companies innovate with checkbook and grow using network effect.</text></comment> |
18,534,815 | 18,534,287 | 1 | 3 | 18,534,027 | train | <story><title>Successful second round of fusion experiments with Wendelstein 7-X</title><url>https://www.ipp.mpg.de/4550215/11_18</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ttul</author><text>Experiments like Wendelstein remind me that the only thing holding back fusion power is money for research like this. Every year, we spend billions on fossil fuel exploration because the return on investment is quick - just think about all the wells going in to extract shale oil.<p>What if we collectively had the will to invest this much into fusion?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>If the Stellerator, or any of its descendants, turn out to be the answer to practical fusion, it would have been contingent on vast quantities of computational power being available cheaply. It does not matter how much money you poured into your Stellerator project in 1970, you could never have built the 7-X, because there would have been no way to produce that design in the first place.<p>Personally, I think one of the answers to &quot;tech seems to have stalled&quot; is that it&#x27;s easy to underestimate how important cheap computational power is, even without &quot;AI&quot;, to moving forward. For another example, as fantastic as the 1960s space projects may have been, I think they just weren&#x27;t economically sustainable, so it isn&#x27;t that amazing that they didn&#x27;t become a self-sustaining industry right away. I think it&#x27;s easy to look at SpaceX and say &quot;Gee, there&#x27;s nothing that we couldn&#x27;t have done there fifty years ago&quot;, but again, I suspect you miss just how much of the Falcon rocket is a result of extensive cheap computation abilities. Even if you could use modern computers to produce a design that could have worked fifty years ago, there&#x27;s still not necessarily a practical path to that design using only tech from fifty years ago. (And of course the Falcon is full of stuff that couldn&#x27;t exist fifty years ago.)<p>Modern tokamak designs are of course run through all kinds of computations nowadays too (because everything is), but the stellerator design, in a deep and fundamental way, simply isn&#x27;t possible without massive computational power, whereas we&#x27;ve been building tokamaks since before massive cheap computational power.</text></comment> | <story><title>Successful second round of fusion experiments with Wendelstein 7-X</title><url>https://www.ipp.mpg.de/4550215/11_18</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ttul</author><text>Experiments like Wendelstein remind me that the only thing holding back fusion power is money for research like this. Every year, we spend billions on fossil fuel exploration because the return on investment is quick - just think about all the wells going in to extract shale oil.<p>What if we collectively had the will to invest this much into fusion?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hyperbovine</author><text>Err no, money is not &quot;the only thing&quot; keeping us from having fusion power. I can think of one other thing which is that it&#x27;s damn hard to create stellar-core conditions inside of a small containment vessel on Earth. It&#x27;s not obvious that throwing more money at the problem is going to change this. After all, fusion research has been funded in some form or another since the 1950s. I&#x27;ll bet if you added up all the research dollars that have been expended on fusion, it would come to quite a tidy sum indeed. Despite this, we still have little to show for it.</text></comment> |
32,643,734 | 32,643,628 | 1 | 2 | 32,628,562 | train | <story><title>On tea and the art of doing nothing</title><url>https://thomasjbevan.substack.com/p/on-tea-and-the-art-of-doing-nothing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway1777</author><text>Truly a strange article, like the author has never tried breakfast tea which has almost as much caffeine as coffee and will definitely keep you awake…</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>His point wasn&#x27;t as much about the caffeine content, as about the culture.<p>Besides, breakfast tea doesn&#x27;t have anywhere near &quot;almost as much&quot; caffeine as coffee. At best 45-50mg on average. Coffee starts 20-30 mg above that and the sky is the limit with a large latte or cold brew.</text></comment> | <story><title>On tea and the art of doing nothing</title><url>https://thomasjbevan.substack.com/p/on-tea-and-the-art-of-doing-nothing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway1777</author><text>Truly a strange article, like the author has never tried breakfast tea which has almost as much caffeine as coffee and will definitely keep you awake…</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>n4r9</author><text>In my experience it keeps you awake but it doesn&#x27;t give the same kind of productive buzz that coffee does. I think this is to do with not just the caffeine but the general combination of other chemicals, such as l-theanine.</text></comment> |
39,785,691 | 39,785,651 | 1 | 2 | 39,781,776 | train | <story><title>Silent Running: 1970s Environmental Fable Remains Depressingly All Too Relevant</title><url>https://reactormag.com/silent-running-a-1970s-environmental-fable-remains-depressingly-all-too-relevant/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dhosek</author><text>I saw this movie as a kid and it haunted me. Somehow, when the internet was still in its infancy (pre-WWW), the title popped into my head—I still don’t know how—and I was able to rent it on VHS at the local video rental store. It was startling how much I remembered from seeing it on TV at the age of 6 or 7.</text></comment> | <story><title>Silent Running: 1970s Environmental Fable Remains Depressingly All Too Relevant</title><url>https://reactormag.com/silent-running-a-1970s-environmental-fable-remains-depressingly-all-too-relevant/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Apocryphon</author><text>Currently reading <i>The Sheep Look Up</i> by John Brunner and &#x27;70s pessimistic eco-dystopias were really onto something.</text></comment> |
31,202,419 | 31,201,401 | 1 | 3 | 31,198,442 | train | <story><title>Details emerge of Air France B777 landing incident</title><url>https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/30863-air-france-boeing-777-incident-bea-update</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawaylinux</author><text>How would it be reaching such a high pitch angle with two opposite inputs on the controls? Doesn&#x27;t that mean one of the pilots is still trying to increase pitch?!<p>Also it seems crazy that a modern aircraft can have pilots silently fighting one another for controls without realizing it. If standard practice is to have only one operating the controls at any time, why not a switch that enforces input from only one set of controls?</text></item><item><author>tempnow987</author><text>As soon as I heard the plane was &quot;unresponsive&quot; to controls I immediately though pilot error just because how unlikely a plane is to be actually unresponsive to controls.<p>Edit: Wow - reading the report I see they got to a 24 degree pitch angle on go around? That seems high, I thought you topped out at 15 or so. This is Air France stuff all over again with the pitch up into a stall etc. I&#x27;d love to know how experienced the FO was.<p>&quot;Eventually a point is reached whereby any further increase in angle of attack does not produce an increase in lift, and this point is called the stalling, or critical, angle of attack. Each airfoil has a different critical angle of attack, but with typical general aviation airfoils it is roughly 16 to 20 degrees. &quot;<p>Pitch and AoA are different, but during a landing &#x2F; go around you are in a low speed regime and it just seems like pitching to nearly 30 degrees nose up is excessive. Is that Air France&#x27;s standard go around vs 10-15?<p>The true story might be that the captain saved this plane with his nose down inputs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NickRandom</author><text>That is exactly what happened to Air France flight 447 (two pilots operating controls in different directions)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.popularmechanics.com&#x2F;flight&#x2F;a3115&#x2F;what-really-happened-aboard-air-france-447-6611877&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.popularmechanics.com&#x2F;flight&#x2F;a3115&#x2F;what-really-ha...</a><p>(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=31193445" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=31193445</a>)</text></comment> | <story><title>Details emerge of Air France B777 landing incident</title><url>https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/30863-air-france-boeing-777-incident-bea-update</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawaylinux</author><text>How would it be reaching such a high pitch angle with two opposite inputs on the controls? Doesn&#x27;t that mean one of the pilots is still trying to increase pitch?!<p>Also it seems crazy that a modern aircraft can have pilots silently fighting one another for controls without realizing it. If standard practice is to have only one operating the controls at any time, why not a switch that enforces input from only one set of controls?</text></item><item><author>tempnow987</author><text>As soon as I heard the plane was &quot;unresponsive&quot; to controls I immediately though pilot error just because how unlikely a plane is to be actually unresponsive to controls.<p>Edit: Wow - reading the report I see they got to a 24 degree pitch angle on go around? That seems high, I thought you topped out at 15 or so. This is Air France stuff all over again with the pitch up into a stall etc. I&#x27;d love to know how experienced the FO was.<p>&quot;Eventually a point is reached whereby any further increase in angle of attack does not produce an increase in lift, and this point is called the stalling, or critical, angle of attack. Each airfoil has a different critical angle of attack, but with typical general aviation airfoils it is roughly 16 to 20 degrees. &quot;<p>Pitch and AoA are different, but during a landing &#x2F; go around you are in a low speed regime and it just seems like pitching to nearly 30 degrees nose up is excessive. Is that Air France&#x27;s standard go around vs 10-15?<p>The true story might be that the captain saved this plane with his nose down inputs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rob74</author><text>I guess that&#x27;s because the flying pilot might become incapacitated at any time (i.e. stroke, heart attack, ...), and then the other pilot has to take over as quickly as possible, and an additional switch that they have to locate and flip would need more time than just moving the controls?</text></comment> |
17,539,754 | 17,539,742 | 1 | 2 | 17,538,697 | train | <story><title>Keeping a plaintext “did” file</title><url>http://theptrk.com/2018/07/11/did-txt-file/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajuc</author><text>Similar but not the same: most days day at work I create one or more txt files in notepad (kate to be exact) where I paste every temporary info while I work on some task. Basically everything that doesn&#x27;t go to git, and you have to keep somewhere while you&#x27;re working on it:<p>- nonobvious terminal commands or small scripts I had to write<p>- fixes for enviromental&#x2F;configuration problems<p>- fragments of stacktraces<p>- fragments of log files<p>- packages that needed to be installed<p>- short todo lists I created while doing sth<p>- links to webpages I found that had a solution to my problem<p>- profiling results for solutions I compared<p>- parts of emails I copied to focus on the important fragments with stuff to check&#x2F;fix<p>- names of temporary branches created when working on the problem<p>- xml fragments from some requests I copypasted to kate to prettify it<p>There&#x27;s no structure and no plain English descriptions in these files, just bunch of copypasted stuff separated by a few empty lines in a text file.<p>I have to keep these things somewhere anyway while I work on them, and pasting them in one file that I later save in one directory preserves them for future. I call the file yyyymmdd_some_keywords.txt.<p>I don&#x27;t bother to describe the task in plain English, the stuff that&#x27;s copypasted there is enough for context, I can also check git from same date if something&#x27;s not clear. The most important thing is - there&#x27;s no overhead, just open the file when starting a new task, keep it opened while you work on sth and save it when you finish. So I have hundreds of these files after a while, and when I encounter some problem I can quickly grep to check if I seen similar stacktrace before and what it was about.<p>Before I started doing this I had several instances of déjà vu - I could swear I&#x27;ve seen this problem before but can&#x27;t remember what it was about and how it was solved.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>idiomatic1</author><text>Vimwiki diary, `\\w` to go to today&#x27;s file, and even get syntax highlighting blocks for anything vim knows about.</text></comment> | <story><title>Keeping a plaintext “did” file</title><url>http://theptrk.com/2018/07/11/did-txt-file/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajuc</author><text>Similar but not the same: most days day at work I create one or more txt files in notepad (kate to be exact) where I paste every temporary info while I work on some task. Basically everything that doesn&#x27;t go to git, and you have to keep somewhere while you&#x27;re working on it:<p>- nonobvious terminal commands or small scripts I had to write<p>- fixes for enviromental&#x2F;configuration problems<p>- fragments of stacktraces<p>- fragments of log files<p>- packages that needed to be installed<p>- short todo lists I created while doing sth<p>- links to webpages I found that had a solution to my problem<p>- profiling results for solutions I compared<p>- parts of emails I copied to focus on the important fragments with stuff to check&#x2F;fix<p>- names of temporary branches created when working on the problem<p>- xml fragments from some requests I copypasted to kate to prettify it<p>There&#x27;s no structure and no plain English descriptions in these files, just bunch of copypasted stuff separated by a few empty lines in a text file.<p>I have to keep these things somewhere anyway while I work on them, and pasting them in one file that I later save in one directory preserves them for future. I call the file yyyymmdd_some_keywords.txt.<p>I don&#x27;t bother to describe the task in plain English, the stuff that&#x27;s copypasted there is enough for context, I can also check git from same date if something&#x27;s not clear. The most important thing is - there&#x27;s no overhead, just open the file when starting a new task, keep it opened while you work on sth and save it when you finish. So I have hundreds of these files after a while, and when I encounter some problem I can quickly grep to check if I seen similar stacktrace before and what it was about.<p>Before I started doing this I had several instances of déjà vu - I could swear I&#x27;ve seen this problem before but can&#x27;t remember what it was about and how it was solved.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheSpiceIsLife</author><text>If it&#x27;s appropriate, would it be easier to use a clipboard enhancer that writes everything you copy to a file?<p>I use ClipX at work (Windows), fairly sure it has a logging feature, and I think it can be told not to record from password fields; and Flycut at home (Mac) but Flycut doesn&#x27;t seem to have logging.</text></comment> |
22,900,825 | 22,900,326 | 1 | 3 | 22,899,546 | train | <story><title>Is BGP Safe Yet?</title><url>https://isbgpsafeyet.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>It would be interesting to read more about the <i>problems</i> with RPKI. The set of organizations that need to implement RPKI to make it effective is pretty small, and yet it&#x27;s been a long slog to get it even to this point. It&#x27;s not like network engineers at Google, Comcast, and Verizon are unfamiliar with it. What&#x27;s going wrong?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pathseeker</author><text>RPKI doesn&#x27;t sign hops in the path for a BGP update. That means to hijack a prefix, all you need to do is to take a legitimate route and re-advertise it with your AS as the second hop in the path.<p>This isn&#x27;t as damaging as being able to advertise a smaller prefix because it won&#x27;t send <i>all</i> traffic to you. It will just send from routers where your path is shorter than the original.<p>To actually prevent hijacking via path shortening attacks like this, you need a full BGPSEC implementation <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;BGPsec" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;BGPsec</a> which is a much higher barrier than RPKI because the crypto operations jump 1 or 2 orders of magnitude (signing every re-advertised route rather than just originated routes).<p>So RPKI gets the cert infra in place, but it doesn&#x27;t really fully solve the problem.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is BGP Safe Yet?</title><url>https://isbgpsafeyet.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>It would be interesting to read more about the <i>problems</i> with RPKI. The set of organizations that need to implement RPKI to make it effective is pretty small, and yet it&#x27;s been a long slog to get it even to this point. It&#x27;s not like network engineers at Google, Comcast, and Verizon are unfamiliar with it. What&#x27;s going wrong?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eastdakota</author><text>The excuse used to be there wasn’t adequate tooling. That’s changed over the last 18 months. See, for example, the open source GoRTR tool our team released:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cloudflare&#x2F;gortr" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cloudflare&#x2F;gortr</a><p>And the fact that major ISPs with complex networks like AT&amp;T, NTT, and Telia have implemented it proves it’s possible.</text></comment> |
4,232,975 | 4,232,864 | 1 | 3 | 4,232,104 | train | <story><title>How Amazon’s ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail</title><url>http://www.slate.com/articles/business/small_business/2012/07/amazon_same_day_delivery_how_the_e_commerce_giant_will_destroy_local_retail_.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arjunnarayan</author><text>Yes. The build quality of women's shoes is astoundingly bad. Sometimes I look at them and they literally feel like glued on piece of leather, pretty on the outside, and nothing more.<p>It's interesting how two different markets have developed (men's shoes and women's shoes) that have such different parameters. Men's shoes have outstanding build quality --- to the point where a good pair of quality shoes gets resoled multiple times. Do women ever resole shoes?</text></item><item><author>cglee</author><text>When Zappos first came out I thought they'd tank. I purchase new basketball/running shoes every 6months, and never ever make a new purchase without trying it on. Playing basketball or running with an even slightly uncomfortable shoe can lead to blistering, back problems, ankle sprains, etc.<p>But my gf at the time thought it was brilliant. What I learned was that a lot of women's shoes are purchased based on anything except comfort. The quality can be shoddy, the wear can cause excruciating pain, yet some top brands sell for hundreds and even thousands a pair. Swing by the Nordstrom's women's shoe dept sometime and take a look at the quality of build. Eavesdrop a bit and take inventory of the questions the clients ask about. (Zappos is started by a bunch of ex-Nordy folks).<p>To this day I've only purchased 1 pair of shoes on Zappos, and that's after I had bought it previously at the dept store (New Balance 993, imo best shoes for walking/running in case you're wondering).</text></item><item><author>wheels</author><text>Amazon has been doing this in parts of Germany since 2009. The results haven't been nearly as dramatic as the article predicts. As others have indicated, the limiting factor isn't so much speed of delivery as the inclination to physically inspect items before buying them. That said, Zappos, now a part of Amazon, has succeeded in doing that in one of the markets that tends the most towards such. Even so, there are still a lot of places to buy shoes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dclowd9901</author><text>I wouldn't say it was "bad". Women's shoes are designed with fashion and daintiness in mind. They seem flimsy because they <i>are</i> flimsy, and they are flimsy because well crafted, long lasting shoes are big and burly with lots of material and stitching. This goes counter to the point of the shoes: to look trim and to make the woman's foot look small and pretty.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Amazon’s ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail</title><url>http://www.slate.com/articles/business/small_business/2012/07/amazon_same_day_delivery_how_the_e_commerce_giant_will_destroy_local_retail_.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arjunnarayan</author><text>Yes. The build quality of women's shoes is astoundingly bad. Sometimes I look at them and they literally feel like glued on piece of leather, pretty on the outside, and nothing more.<p>It's interesting how two different markets have developed (men's shoes and women's shoes) that have such different parameters. Men's shoes have outstanding build quality --- to the point where a good pair of quality shoes gets resoled multiple times. Do women ever resole shoes?</text></item><item><author>cglee</author><text>When Zappos first came out I thought they'd tank. I purchase new basketball/running shoes every 6months, and never ever make a new purchase without trying it on. Playing basketball or running with an even slightly uncomfortable shoe can lead to blistering, back problems, ankle sprains, etc.<p>But my gf at the time thought it was brilliant. What I learned was that a lot of women's shoes are purchased based on anything except comfort. The quality can be shoddy, the wear can cause excruciating pain, yet some top brands sell for hundreds and even thousands a pair. Swing by the Nordstrom's women's shoe dept sometime and take a look at the quality of build. Eavesdrop a bit and take inventory of the questions the clients ask about. (Zappos is started by a bunch of ex-Nordy folks).<p>To this day I've only purchased 1 pair of shoes on Zappos, and that's after I had bought it previously at the dept store (New Balance 993, imo best shoes for walking/running in case you're wondering).</text></item><item><author>wheels</author><text>Amazon has been doing this in parts of Germany since 2009. The results haven't been nearly as dramatic as the article predicts. As others have indicated, the limiting factor isn't so much speed of delivery as the inclination to physically inspect items before buying them. That said, Zappos, now a part of Amazon, has succeeded in doing that in one of the markets that tends the most towards such. Even so, there are still a lot of places to buy shoes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kamaal</author><text>Well from my own personal experience. When I go out to buy shoes, I look at things like durability, ruggedness, comfort. The shoes must be long lasting and one must be able to wear them for long hours without feeling uncomfortable.<p>Most girls I know don't have that criteria. The first and foremost criteria for them is they must fashionable, good looking, must match with their dress etc. Given this use case, there is only so much you can do for things like durability and ruggedness. Because you need to make them colorful, with some deigns etc.<p>Ultimately you get what you ask for.</text></comment> |
37,464,999 | 37,464,662 | 1 | 2 | 37,460,941 | train | <story><title>To make dishwashers great again? (2020)</title><url>https://www.greenbuildinglawupdate.com/2020/11/articles/environmental/to-make-dishwashers-great-again/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thiht</author><text>I don’t understand how this is a problem that I don’t have.<p>I bought a new dishwasher like 2 months ago and it’s the best I’ve ever had. The eco mode works great. A few times I’ve had very greasy pans so I switched to the 60°C mode instead and it’s great. My dishes are very clean.<p>Do y’all use the correct amount of detergent? Regenerating salts, with the correct setting ? Rinsing fluid? Do you correctly put the detergent in the trap and not directly in the dishwasher? (I’ve seen tons of people do that, of course it doesn’t work, all the detergent is used in the prewash) Do you organize it correctly?<p>If so there’s no reason for a dishwasher to not do it’s job.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seszett</author><text>The topic of dishwashers comes up regularly on HN and it&#x27;s always the same, comments are mostly filled by people complaining about dishwashers not working well, environmental regulation, etc.<p>I assume most people who don&#x27;t actually have a problem just don&#x27;t comment.<p>Anyway, for another datapoint I have a rather recent dishwasher (in the EU) and it works about as well as the older dishwasher I had before, or the one my parents had 20 years ago. It does take 4 hours to run a load, which is fine, I&#x27;ve always run my dishwashers at night so I&#x27;m not even sure how long it took the others.<p>So I don&#x27;t think they&#x27;re getting worse. But as a sibling comment said, I wish the buttons were more responsive, not sure why it takes about two seconds for the thing to wake up after pressing the power button.</text></comment> | <story><title>To make dishwashers great again? (2020)</title><url>https://www.greenbuildinglawupdate.com/2020/11/articles/environmental/to-make-dishwashers-great-again/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thiht</author><text>I don’t understand how this is a problem that I don’t have.<p>I bought a new dishwasher like 2 months ago and it’s the best I’ve ever had. The eco mode works great. A few times I’ve had very greasy pans so I switched to the 60°C mode instead and it’s great. My dishes are very clean.<p>Do y’all use the correct amount of detergent? Regenerating salts, with the correct setting ? Rinsing fluid? Do you correctly put the detergent in the trap and not directly in the dishwasher? (I’ve seen tons of people do that, of course it doesn’t work, all the detergent is used in the prewash) Do you organize it correctly?<p>If so there’s no reason for a dishwasher to not do it’s job.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leoedin</author><text>I live in the UK, so our appliance standards are different. However, I just looked at my current dishwasher - it uses 0.85 kWh&#x2F;cycle and 11.5L per cycle. I think the assumption in the US is 215 cycles a year - so that means 183 kWh&#x2F;year and 3 gallons &#x2F; cycle. That seems to be less than this limit.<p>And, it&#x27;s totally fine? It cleans dishes. It takes a few hours - but then it&#x27;s pretty rare I need all my dishes immediately anyway. I&#x27;ve got enough so even if it&#x27;s full there&#x27;s a glass or a plate available. I use the all in one tablets - it has a special tablet mode that opens the door pretty much immediately. I never pre-rinse plates. I think I clean the filters every 3-6 months under the kitchen tap. Takes about 2 minutes.<p>This article seems to be conservatism (in the sense of &quot;change is bad&quot;) for the sake of it.</text></comment> |
3,738,353 | 3,738,368 | 1 | 2 | 3,737,904 | train | <story><title>Chrome beats IE market share for one day</title><url>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/22/chrome_number_one_for_a_day/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>AznHisoka</author><text>As much as I like Chrome, the increase in Chrome's share also means more people will be using Google by default.. and their search dominance scares me. Consumer web startups can literally die overnight if Google penalizes them(google "TeachStreet"), or if their Adwords account got banned for some unknown reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheCoreh</author><text>When you first install Google Chrome, you're presented with the choice of search engine.<p>I'm pretty sure 99% choose Google not because they are already using Chrome, but because they probably trust or know Google more than Bing or Yahoo.<p>From my experience, IE users will usually either ignore the Bing search field, type "google.com" in and search manually, or change the search provider to Google anyway.<p>I would also speculate that a very large portion of Chrome users has no idea that the address bar is also a search field. They probably type in "google.com" manually every time.<p>If Bing, Yahoo or anyone else provides a more compelling search experience, these users will switch.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chrome beats IE market share for one day</title><url>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/22/chrome_number_one_for_a_day/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>AznHisoka</author><text>As much as I like Chrome, the increase in Chrome's share also means more people will be using Google by default.. and their search dominance scares me. Consumer web startups can literally die overnight if Google penalizes them(google "TeachStreet"), or if their Adwords account got banned for some unknown reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonknee</author><text>Perhaps, but that's mostly because people prefer Google. When you install Chrome it pops up asking what search engine you would like to use. What should Google do differently? Microsoft hides the default search provider in the initial setup behind a "choose custom settings" button.<p><a href="http://nyacomputing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/chrome-setup-page-1.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://nyacomputing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/chrome-se...</a><p>vs<p><a href="http://static.arstechnica.com/ie8_search.png" rel="nofollow">http://static.arstechnica.com/ie8_search.png</a></text></comment> |
32,233,320 | 32,233,270 | 1 | 2 | 32,231,983 | train | <story><title>Princess Mononoke: The masterpiece that flummoxed the US</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220713-princess-mononoke-the-masterpiece-that-flummoxed-the-us</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>madrox</author><text>It didn&#x27;t flummox the US. It flummoxed Miramax, which is what the article is saying. Miramax wanted Mononoke Hime to be a 90s Disney film, and when they couldn&#x27;t cut the film into one, they gave up on it. It really highlights how badly Hollywood used to gatekeep entertainment by owning the distribution tools.<p>You can thank Netflix for changing that. I worked in Hollywood when Netflix rolled out House of Cards, and it was nothing less than a revolution for the execs at the time. Netflix terrified them. Before then, every entrenched name in Hollywood mocked the internet as something consumers would never prefer for movies. However, Netflix created a place for big budget, niche content in a way that forced Hollywood to sit up and take notice. If Netflix hadn&#x27;t happened, nothing would&#x27;ve changed.<p>And thank God. I remember seeing Mononoke Hime in the theater, and it was my first introduction to anime. It was a breath of fresh air for me in terms of entertainment. I was so tired of western film at that point and it made me aware that there was so much more out there if I was willing to look for it. Nowadays, it hardly requires looking.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dylan604</author><text>&gt;Before then, every entrenched name in Hollywood mocked the internet as something consumers would never prefer for movies.<p>This was a big misjudgement in thinking that people cared more about the theatrical experience than just the consumption of the content. Going to the movies became a chore, which allowed for those &quot;niche&quot; theaters that sold tickets while allowing the specific seat to be selected, better experience of kicking out mobile device users, etc. That made movie going only tolerable for me, but still not required. Watching in the comfort of my home while avoiding crowds (even before covid) was well worth the smaller screen and less of an audio experience.<p>Sadly, it took a global pandemic for traditional studios to catch on to the simultaneous releases. Hopefully, they recognize that getting someone to watch at home doesn&#x27;t mean that they prevented someone from seeing the theater, rather as someone that was not going to see it precisely because they weren&#x27;t going to the theater and not seeing it at all (during those opening week numbers)</text></comment> | <story><title>Princess Mononoke: The masterpiece that flummoxed the US</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220713-princess-mononoke-the-masterpiece-that-flummoxed-the-us</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>madrox</author><text>It didn&#x27;t flummox the US. It flummoxed Miramax, which is what the article is saying. Miramax wanted Mononoke Hime to be a 90s Disney film, and when they couldn&#x27;t cut the film into one, they gave up on it. It really highlights how badly Hollywood used to gatekeep entertainment by owning the distribution tools.<p>You can thank Netflix for changing that. I worked in Hollywood when Netflix rolled out House of Cards, and it was nothing less than a revolution for the execs at the time. Netflix terrified them. Before then, every entrenched name in Hollywood mocked the internet as something consumers would never prefer for movies. However, Netflix created a place for big budget, niche content in a way that forced Hollywood to sit up and take notice. If Netflix hadn&#x27;t happened, nothing would&#x27;ve changed.<p>And thank God. I remember seeing Mononoke Hime in the theater, and it was my first introduction to anime. It was a breath of fresh air for me in terms of entertainment. I was so tired of western film at that point and it made me aware that there was so much more out there if I was willing to look for it. Nowadays, it hardly requires looking.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>&gt; It flummoxed Miramax<p>It flummoxed <i>Harvey Weinstein</i>! May that creep rot in prison.</text></comment> |
27,995,806 | 27,995,720 | 1 | 3 | 27,995,350 | train | <story><title>The cost of two weeks in an pediatric/infant ICU</title><url>https://kingsley.sh/posts/2021/two-weeks-in-the-icu-as-a-baby-with-heart-disease</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_huayra_</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand how people can be so anti-universal healthcare in the US. When you have an $8k deductible, your insurance is basically a gift to the CEO&#x27;s yacht fund.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmrdporcupine</author><text>There are many problems with our Canadian system, it&#x27;s certainly not perfect. And single payer is not the only way to approach this problem. But I&#x27;m overall happy with its compromises in our system. Like any economic resource, it&#x27;s rationed. But it&#x27;s rationed, generally, on the basis of need. And that <i>&quot;from each according to their abilities to each according to their needs&quot;</i> philosophy may be the ideological curse on it that will prevent it from ever having adoption in the US with its virulent anti-communist past. It would never happen in Canada now, it was a product of the 1960s and early 70s and the way things were then. And it&#x27;s consistently under threat from its ideological foes here, even if it&#x27;s immensely popular among the Canadian public.<p>What boggles my mind about the US system is the blatant way it makes working people dependant on employment for health coverage. In a way it&#x27;s a form of feudalism, tying people <i>physically</i> to their employment.</text></comment> | <story><title>The cost of two weeks in an pediatric/infant ICU</title><url>https://kingsley.sh/posts/2021/two-weeks-in-the-icu-as-a-baby-with-heart-disease</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_huayra_</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand how people can be so anti-universal healthcare in the US. When you have an $8k deductible, your insurance is basically a gift to the CEO&#x27;s yacht fund.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>minikites</author><text>The people who are against universal healthcare usually pitch it as an argument for &quot;choice&quot;, as if I&#x27;m going to compare prices when I have a ruptured appendix. It&#x27;s also usually couched in anti-government sentiment, where they draw comparisons to &quot;lines at the DMV&quot;, as if other countries with universal healthcare have people dying while waiting in line for care, something that also doesn&#x27;t happen.</text></comment> |
24,363,179 | 24,363,030 | 1 | 3 | 24,360,966 | train | <story><title>How to Be Indistractable</title><url>https://psyche.co/guides/to-become-indistractable-recognise-that-it-starts-within-you</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sideshowb</author><text>If your problems with distraction are severe enough to affect your mental health it&#x27;s worth considering the possibility you have undiagnosed ADHD. Just because you sometimes code for 12 hours straight doesn&#x27;t mean you don&#x27;t (common misconception).<p>5 minute ASRS screening test here (pdf, not some data harvesting online monstrosity):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;add.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;adhd-questionnaire-ASRS111.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;add.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;adhd-questionnair...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fasteo</author><text>&gt;&gt;&gt; Just because you sometimes code for 12 hours straight<p>Precisely because you can code 12 hours non-stop, you chances to have undiagnosed ADHD are actually higher.<p>&quot;Attention Deficit isn&#x27;t an inability to focus, it&#x27;s an inability to exert executive control over focus&quot;. This is the best ADHD description I have read. Of course, here in HN[1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22135054" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22135054</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How to Be Indistractable</title><url>https://psyche.co/guides/to-become-indistractable-recognise-that-it-starts-within-you</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sideshowb</author><text>If your problems with distraction are severe enough to affect your mental health it&#x27;s worth considering the possibility you have undiagnosed ADHD. Just because you sometimes code for 12 hours straight doesn&#x27;t mean you don&#x27;t (common misconception).<p>5 minute ASRS screening test here (pdf, not some data harvesting online monstrosity):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;add.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;adhd-questionnaire-ASRS111.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;add.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;adhd-questionnair...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hackerman123469</author><text>I agree with you and people with ADHD has an ability called hyper-focus which let&#x27;s us (I am diagnosed with ADHD) focus on stuff without ever letting go.<p>ADHD has a kind of wrong name in that it has &quot;Attention Deficit&quot; when really paying attention is not the problem, regulating attention is the problem.<p>We often struggle with either paying too little attention or too much attention.</text></comment> |
7,073,754 | 7,073,526 | 1 | 3 | 7,073,044 | train | <story><title>Node.js and the Road Ahead</title><url>http://blog.nodejs.org/2014/01/16/nodejs-road-ahead/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>selmnoo</author><text>I really don&#x27;t like that Joyent basically &#x27;owns&#x27; nodejs. They gain from more people using nodejs and using it in a certain way; the complex dynamic happening here is a major turn-off (Joyent controls the nodejs repo). Not to mention the recent brouhaha in which Joyent facilitated forcing out one of the biggest nodejs contributors, an individual who incidentally happened to be an employee of their biggest competitor. Do you really want to use the products of this environment?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zikes</author><text>Guys, guys, come on. We should respect their wishes to never talk about that again and forget the whole thing ever happened.[1]<p>I mean, it&#x27;s not like they ought to apologize for the atrocious way they facilitated the virtual lynching of one of their core contributors. Better to just sweep it all under the rug.<p>[1] <a href="http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/12/03/bnoordhuis-departure/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.nodejs.org&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;03&#x2F;bnoordhuis-departure&#x2F;</a><p>EDIT: For the folks that say it&#x27;s just &quot;petty drama&quot;, I invite you to read another man&#x27;s account of a very similar experience: <a href="http://www.polygon.com/2013/11/6/5075106/adam-orth-xbox-one-gdc-next" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.polygon.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;11&#x2F;6&#x2F;5075106&#x2F;adam-orth-xbox-one-...</a><p>Internet bullying isn&#x27;t just some thing that happens to teenagers. It&#x27;s a stream of tweets, phone calls, texts, hate mail, death threats, and more. I can only speculate about how much of that Ben received, but a fair share of it was very public, and Joyent was a participant in that.<p>As the face of node.js it was Joyent&#x27;s responsibility to defuse the situation and protect the people involved. Instead they threw gasoline into the fire, further inciting the mob justice that was already well underway.</text></comment> | <story><title>Node.js and the Road Ahead</title><url>http://blog.nodejs.org/2014/01/16/nodejs-road-ahead/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>selmnoo</author><text>I really don&#x27;t like that Joyent basically &#x27;owns&#x27; nodejs. They gain from more people using nodejs and using it in a certain way; the complex dynamic happening here is a major turn-off (Joyent controls the nodejs repo). Not to mention the recent brouhaha in which Joyent facilitated forcing out one of the biggest nodejs contributors, an individual who incidentally happened to be an employee of their biggest competitor. Do you really want to use the products of this environment?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daveslash</author><text>&quot; Not to mention the recent brouhaha in which Joyent facilitated forcing out one of the biggest nodejs contributors, an individual who incidentally happened to be an employee of their biggest competitor.&quot;<p>Who was that?</text></comment> |
33,880,028 | 33,879,970 | 1 | 2 | 33,877,802 | train | <story><title>Apple’s anti-union tactics in Atlanta were illegal, US officials say</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-05/apple-s-anti-union-tactics-in-atlanta-were-illegal-us-officials-say</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickpp</author><text>Please do point out my logical error. I see countless examples of competition keeping corporations in check. What is keeping Unions in check then?</text></item><item><author>krageon</author><text>And yet it&#x27;s not, so clearly you are making a thought error somewhere along this heavily elided process.</text></item><item><author>nickpp</author><text>Corporations are kept in check by competition from other corporation. Uniting is called cartel and is illegal.<p>Unions on the other hand are allowed to join indefinitely, until they become multinational humongous forces like Teamsters.<p>So the balance of power is slanted in favor of Unions.</text></item><item><author>wccrawford</author><text>As much as I don&#x27;t want to be part of one, I absolutely agree that they&#x27;re necessary as a check on corporations.</text></item><item><author>danuker</author><text>I believe unions are necessary in a world of humongous companies.<p>That is because, in case of disagreements, an employee&#x27;s prospect (losing 100% of their income) is a much worse negotiating position than a large company losing &lt;1% of its workforce.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dfxm12</author><text><i>What is keeping Unions in check then?</i><p>Poor media coverage: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;uniontrack.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;media-depicts-labor-issues" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;uniontrack.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;media-depicts-labor-issues</a><p>Conservative judges: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Janus_v._AFSCME" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Janus_v._AFSCME</a><p>Right to work laws<p>Corporations, like Apple, Amazon, etc.<p>Even &quot;The Most Pro-Union President You’ve Ever Seen&quot; couldn&#x27;t bring himself to side with the rail union. The sad part is despite this, even though he isn&#x27;t the most pro union president, he might be up there. That is to say, our federal government in general is very pro corporate.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple’s anti-union tactics in Atlanta were illegal, US officials say</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-05/apple-s-anti-union-tactics-in-atlanta-were-illegal-us-officials-say</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickpp</author><text>Please do point out my logical error. I see countless examples of competition keeping corporations in check. What is keeping Unions in check then?</text></item><item><author>krageon</author><text>And yet it&#x27;s not, so clearly you are making a thought error somewhere along this heavily elided process.</text></item><item><author>nickpp</author><text>Corporations are kept in check by competition from other corporation. Uniting is called cartel and is illegal.<p>Unions on the other hand are allowed to join indefinitely, until they become multinational humongous forces like Teamsters.<p>So the balance of power is slanted in favor of Unions.</text></item><item><author>wccrawford</author><text>As much as I don&#x27;t want to be part of one, I absolutely agree that they&#x27;re necessary as a check on corporations.</text></item><item><author>danuker</author><text>I believe unions are necessary in a world of humongous companies.<p>That is because, in case of disagreements, an employee&#x27;s prospect (losing 100% of their income) is a much worse negotiating position than a large company losing &lt;1% of its workforce.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanrasmussen</author><text>I believe the parent is saying that if your logic were correct unions would be extremely powerful in relation to multinational corporations and everyone would be afraid of getting the union angry, as this is not the case something must be keeping unions in check or they cannot, at any rate, grow to be as powerful as you suppose.<p>That your logic as stated does not hold any identifiable logical error does not mean that it gives the correct result.</text></comment> |
5,369,214 | 5,369,348 | 1 | 3 | 5,368,475 | train | <story><title>Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to HTML5</title><url>http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/62335-14-lousy-web-design-trends-that-are-making-a-comeback-due-to-html5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moe</author><text>I keep wondering: Does anyone actually use these social buttons?<p>I tried a few times but the experience has always been so terrible and inconsistent that I've long reverted to simply sharing the good old copy/paste way.</text></item><item><author>cscheid</author><text>Aside from this being about design and not HTML5, is anyone else not surprised they didn't include "550 social +1, like, tweet, twat buttons"?<p>Look at that website: there's a social banner, a social footer, a social sidebar, animated gifs for ads. Make that 15 lousy web design trends.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>&#62; I keep wondering: Does anyone actually use these social buttons?<p>The suppliers of said social buttons do; every time you see one while you're logged into FB / G+ / Twitter, a hit of you visiting that site is registered at said parties, and they can all, thanks to the prevalence of these sharing buttons, track your internet usage.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to HTML5</title><url>http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/62335-14-lousy-web-design-trends-that-are-making-a-comeback-due-to-html5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moe</author><text>I keep wondering: Does anyone actually use these social buttons?<p>I tried a few times but the experience has always been so terrible and inconsistent that I've long reverted to simply sharing the good old copy/paste way.</text></item><item><author>cscheid</author><text>Aside from this being about design and not HTML5, is anyone else not surprised they didn't include "550 social +1, like, tweet, twat buttons"?<p>Look at that website: there's a social banner, a social footer, a social sidebar, animated gifs for ads. Make that 15 lousy web design trends.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arscan</author><text>Whether or not you actually click on them, you are "using" them. Last I checked (admittedly, a couple of years ago), if you've used that browser to log into facebook and haven't cleared your cookies (or configured / installed a privacy add-ons), facebook is able to associate that page view with your account through the like button on that page. They bypass the 3rd party cookie mechanisms that are suppose to be in place to prevent this.<p>If anybody knows if this is has changed, please chime in. I'd love to know.<p>edit: whoops, looks like somebody made the same comment before me, so i assume its still something they do: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5369214" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5369214</a></text></comment> |
40,999,564 | 40,998,798 | 1 | 2 | 40,998,549 | train | <story><title>Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available</title><url>https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jrochkind1</author><text>The original 2018 announcement they link to said:<p>&gt; While most features of goo.gl will eventually sunset, <i>all existing links will continue to redirect to the intended destination.</i><p>And<p>&gt; <i>After March 30, 2019, all links will continue to redirect to the intended destination.</i><p>[Emphasis in original, in bold!]<p>It is hard to read this as anything but saying the continued serving of redirects will _not_ eventually sunset, right? While <i>most</i> features <i>will eventually sunset</i>, all existing links are not most features, and will continue to redirect.<p>Clearly they changed their mind. I mean, it&#x27;s not shocking, especially from Google.<p>It would be decent and transparent of them to <i>admit it</i> though. Yeah, we said that we were going to continue to redirect existing links, we changed our mind, sorry about that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available</title><url>https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonvorhe</author><text>How much would it cost Google to just keep a few hundred webserver replicas running on some Borg cluster somewhere that do nothing but match and redirect incoming requests to their destinations for a few more years?<p>Am I underestimating the complexity of this at Google&#x27;s scale?</text></comment> |
26,870,407 | 26,870,216 | 1 | 3 | 26,869,814 | train | <story><title>The Hotdog web browser and browser engine</title><url>https://github.com/danfragoso/thdwb</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>It&#x27;s great to see yet another attempt at writing a web browser --- and I say this as someone who has been (slowly) working on one myself.<p><i>The browser is far from stable, spec-compliant, or even really useful, but, I&#x27;m slowly working on bringing more features and supporting more sites.</i><p>When the specs are constantly churning in order to keep one gigantic company&#x27;s browser an effective monopoly, maybe it isn&#x27;t really that important to follow them so closely... especially if you&#x27;re aiming for something more like an actually-user-friendly (i.e. with the UI and controls you actually want, not some designer&#x27;s flavour-of-the-month) hypertext document viewer than a web application runtime&#x2F;OS. From that perspective, even HTML4+CSS2 would probably be quite sufficient.<p>Maybe if enough of these &quot;minimal browsers&quot; show up, people might even realise that basic HTML and CSS is quite sufficient for a lot of things and start creating simpler, more efficient sites, thus dissolving the monopoly. I realise it&#x27;s going to be extremely difficult to fight corporate interests, but one can hope and dream...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25915313" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25915313</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Hotdog web browser and browser engine</title><url>https://github.com/danfragoso/thdwb</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mynameisash</author><text>I was really hoping that this was some sort of reboot of the HotDog[0] HTML editor by Sausage Software[1].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;tucows_194462_HotDog_Professional" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;tucows_194462_HotDog_Professiona...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sausage_Software" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sausage_Software</a></text></comment> |
4,790,318 | 4,790,199 | 1 | 2 | 4,789,950 | train | <story><title>Facebook Pages: Why I don’t like Nest thermostat or anything else anymore</title><url>http://ninjasandrobots.com/facebook-pages-nest-thermostat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wmeredith</author><text>&#62;&#62; This has to stop. There has to be a setting to turn this shit off.<p>You can put a stop to all of this by deleting your Facebook account. It is the nuclear option, but it's one that more and more of my friends (tech geeks - so who cares, right?) are doing.<p>I think the real problem here is headlines like this. OP's blog post title says "I don't like NEST" this is a problem for their brand and all the other companies that support Facebook's business model. If they start leaving because Facebook's UX opacity hurts their brand more than it helps, then it's lights out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jessedhillon</author><text><i>tech geeks - so who cares, right?</i><p>If I said you could mitigate the issue by selling your computer and getting a feature phone, I would be right. But you would probably protest that there are many useful things you need a computer for -- and some of them might not be strictly necessary to your life, or strictly require a computer to do, but the convenience and satisfaction it would bring make it worth having one.<p>In other words, don't throw out the baby with the bathwater, right? Same thing applies for most people and their Facebook account. So your only argument here is to convince people that they don't draw as much satisfaction from Facebook as they think they do, or that they don't need an account for the reasons they think they do.<p>Which might be true, but quite simply, people want not merely to survive but to thrive.<p>Edit: and also, you are in the unenviable position of arguing with people about what they feel, which means you are wrong.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook Pages: Why I don’t like Nest thermostat or anything else anymore</title><url>http://ninjasandrobots.com/facebook-pages-nest-thermostat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wmeredith</author><text>&#62;&#62; This has to stop. There has to be a setting to turn this shit off.<p>You can put a stop to all of this by deleting your Facebook account. It is the nuclear option, but it's one that more and more of my friends (tech geeks - so who cares, right?) are doing.<p>I think the real problem here is headlines like this. OP's blog post title says "I don't like NEST" this is a problem for their brand and all the other companies that support Facebook's business model. If they start leaving because Facebook's UX opacity hurts their brand more than it helps, then it's lights out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>purephase</author><text>I'm more than a little concerned that this is not the default answer to this question. While Nest certainly shared blame in choosing FB as their partner in advertising, I think the real problem is the FB only cares about advertising.<p>I'm amazed at the number of people that I hear complain about this stuff and yet keep using FB as if it is essential. For instance, add your cell # to your account to confirm developer status and then turn off notices. You will still receive texts from FB because they don't give a damn.<p>For the life of me, why people willingly give so much of their information to a company who clearly does not care about privacy is beyond me.</text></comment> |
38,219,930 | 38,220,125 | 1 | 2 | 38,217,355 | train | <story><title>Moving our Encrypted DNS servers to run in RAM</title><url>https://mullvad.net/en/blog/moving-our-encrypted-dns-servers-to-run-in-ram</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LinuxBender</author><text>Are these physical servers or VM&#x27;s? I ask because some VM types can be frozen&#x2F;shapshot&#x2F;cloned or live replicated <i>including memory contents</i> as is done in some VPS providers for lawful requests. From the bare metal host anything can be accessed in a VM or container. Do they have a diagram of their physical setup?<p>[Edit] - Are there any Mullvad architects here that can help us avoid going down theoretical hypothetical rabbit holes and turtle stacks?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dijit</author><text>Mullvad has been pushing system transparency a lot (which is a security system specifically designed for bare-metal), so it&#x27;s fairly safe to say that it&#x27;s based on bare-metal.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.system-transparency.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.system-transparency.org</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Moving our Encrypted DNS servers to run in RAM</title><url>https://mullvad.net/en/blog/moving-our-encrypted-dns-servers-to-run-in-ram</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LinuxBender</author><text>Are these physical servers or VM&#x27;s? I ask because some VM types can be frozen&#x2F;shapshot&#x2F;cloned or live replicated <i>including memory contents</i> as is done in some VPS providers for lawful requests. From the bare metal host anything can be accessed in a VM or container. Do they have a diagram of their physical setup?<p>[Edit] - Are there any Mullvad architects here that can help us avoid going down theoretical hypothetical rabbit holes and turtle stacks?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>k8sToGo</author><text>Physical server can also be frozen (literally) and then data extracted from RAM.</text></comment> |
22,949,770 | 22,949,136 | 1 | 3 | 22,945,741 | train | <story><title>List of oldest continuously inhabited cities</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_continuously_inhabited_cities</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>c54</author><text>Why hasn’t Indian history been better researched as you say? Curious about this.</text></item><item><author>TriNetra</author><text>Indian history hasn&#x27;t been well researched because of various reasons. However, recent efforts are pushing back continuous settlement dates by multi-thousand of years. For instance: Varanasi is in above wiki link with 1200 BC as inhabited since. However [0] pushes it back to at least 4500 BC.<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;timesofindia.indiatimes.com&#x2F;city&#x2F;kolkata&#x2F;Varanasi-is-as-old-as-Indus-valley-civilization-finds-IIT-KGP-study&#x2F;articleshow&#x2F;51146196.cms" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;timesofindia.indiatimes.com&#x2F;city&#x2F;kolkata&#x2F;Varanasi-is...</a><p>&gt;&gt;&gt; The results that have come from a detailed geo-exploration (exploration conducted through GPS technology) conducted by seven IIT-Kgp departments, tracing the different stages through which civilization progressed, and how Varanasi has been able to maintain continuity as a living civilization, unlike comparable seats of human settlement in the world. The researchers have dug 100-metre-deep boring holes all over Varanasi to conclude that there is evidence of continuous settlement at least till 2000BC. There are enough indications that by the time the data collection is over, there would be enough to prove that this date can be pushed back to about 4500BC.The oldest part of this civilisation has been traced to the Gomati Sangam area of Varanasi, as indicated by the underground layers that have already been tested.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KhoomeiK</author><text>Can&#x27;t say much about recent history, but the deep archaeological past of India (&gt;~5kya) is difficult to study in part because of the environmental conditions. The heat and humidity make preservation of artifacts over long periods of time nearly impossible, meaning that even though the Gangetic plain was one of the most populated regions on the planet for millennia in the past, there&#x27;s minimal trace of this civilization left. Ancient tools, shelters, and human remains just decompose in that type of climate rather than being preserved like in the deserts of the Middle East or the cold regions of Northern China and Europe.</text></comment> | <story><title>List of oldest continuously inhabited cities</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_continuously_inhabited_cities</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>c54</author><text>Why hasn’t Indian history been better researched as you say? Curious about this.</text></item><item><author>TriNetra</author><text>Indian history hasn&#x27;t been well researched because of various reasons. However, recent efforts are pushing back continuous settlement dates by multi-thousand of years. For instance: Varanasi is in above wiki link with 1200 BC as inhabited since. However [0] pushes it back to at least 4500 BC.<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;timesofindia.indiatimes.com&#x2F;city&#x2F;kolkata&#x2F;Varanasi-is-as-old-as-Indus-valley-civilization-finds-IIT-KGP-study&#x2F;articleshow&#x2F;51146196.cms" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;timesofindia.indiatimes.com&#x2F;city&#x2F;kolkata&#x2F;Varanasi-is...</a><p>&gt;&gt;&gt; The results that have come from a detailed geo-exploration (exploration conducted through GPS technology) conducted by seven IIT-Kgp departments, tracing the different stages through which civilization progressed, and how Varanasi has been able to maintain continuity as a living civilization, unlike comparable seats of human settlement in the world. The researchers have dug 100-metre-deep boring holes all over Varanasi to conclude that there is evidence of continuous settlement at least till 2000BC. There are enough indications that by the time the data collection is over, there would be enough to prove that this date can be pushed back to about 4500BC.The oldest part of this civilisation has been traced to the Gomati Sangam area of Varanasi, as indicated by the underground layers that have already been tested.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dilippkumar</author><text>I started studying Indian history and I immediately ran into problems.<p>The first one is language - in the region I am interested in (the southern parts of India) - primary sources appear in several different languages. It&#x27;s not sufficient to have passing familiarity with a language - a ton of these ancient writers were poets trying to out-do each other with their skills at crafting verses. To research Indian history, one must learn several languages.<p>As someone who isn&#x27;t trying to actively research history, secondary sources suffice for me. But then, one runs into the next big hurdle there. There have been very few authors writing about south Indian history post Independence. In 1928 (if I recall correctly), someone at the University of Madras wrote a PhD thesis on the Pallavas. I haven&#x27;t been able to find any other material focused on the Pallavas published since then. Oh, and the 1928 PhD thesis - there&#x27;s only a handful of those copies in the really large libraries around the world. A low quality scan of one of these copies has made it to the internet - and that remains my best source of information on the Pallava dynasty.<p>Then there are people like the Khalbaras - a bunch of rulers who came out of nowhere and ended up dominating 3 superpowers in that region. Yet, these guys didn&#x27;t leave behind any historical record and only passing references to them as &quot;the imprisoners of 3 crown princes&quot; remain as tombstones and signposts for a group of rulers who would have to take down armies of war elephants multiple times to get to that point.<p>There are also open problems of Chronology in several important periods (for example, the era covered by the Sangam literature - Karikala and all those guys). This is basically a group of poems that record history in disconnected joints. (It&#x27;s not known how much of this is real history and how much is invented by poets). We have the pieces of a puzzle, with possibly some fake pieces, but we don&#x27;t know how you&#x27;d arrange them in a timeline.<p>And then, there&#x27;s the wars. Anyone who studies Indian history will quickly realize that Gandhi is an extreme anomaly. In southern India, it was a matter of pride for a king to die in battle. Imagine a culture where the rulers have cultural incentives to be <i>suicidally</i> belligerent (with War Elephants!!!). Now imagine a world where that is the cultural norm for over a thousand years. These rulers were warriors and the literature that they encouraged were mostly poets who wrote verses praising various military exploits. Several of these kingdoms emerge and disappear all the time - and they all chose different languages as the court language, several of them invented their own alphabets (looking at you Pallavas), they all straight up lied in several records. It&#x27;s a lifetime&#x27;s task to sort out 300 years of history for an area half the size of Germany.<p>Then, to make matters worse, almost all historical artifacts from south India were removed from the temples and forts that they have been found and made their way to various collectors and museums in Britan during the Britsh Raj. If you want to study south Indian history, a trip to a museum in London will give you a lot more than walking around endlessly in South India.<p>Then there&#x27;s the lack of funding. It&#x27;s absolutely embarrassing how little the various historians in India earn. Lately, I&#x27;ve been finding more books by historians in America (and even Japan) than those written by people in India.<p>Then you have the frauds like Sanjeev Sanyal who destroy history by mixing up well established history and his own opinions on history and using the authenticity of the accepted history to add credibility to his baseless opinions.<p>Studying Indian history is hard.</text></comment> |
22,926,154 | 22,923,831 | 1 | 3 | 22,923,647 | train | <story><title>Gas selling for under $1 per gallon in 13 US states</title><url>https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-gas-prices-20200419-6uvja5pxbvaxtozm4l3372aewy-story.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>We probably don&#x27;t need both oil and gas on the front page.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22923025" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22923025</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Gas selling for under $1 per gallon in 13 US states</title><url>https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-gas-prices-20200419-6uvja5pxbvaxtozm4l3372aewy-story.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blakesterz</author><text>I didn&#x27;t check all of the states that are under $1, but here in NY all of the locations listed that are under $1 are Indian Reservations. Reservations here sell gas, and cigarettes (and a bunch of other stuff) without the state&#x2F;federal taxes, so it&#x27;s way WAY cheaper. I assume this is the same in all states?<p>In my area it&#x27;s still around $2&#x2F;gallon. I&#x27;m not close enough to a reservation to bother making the drive, but many people (especially smokers) make regular drives to get gas and smokes.</text></comment> |
30,301,757 | 30,301,966 | 1 | 2 | 30,301,271 | train | <story><title>I used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS tracker to watch my husband’s every move</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/technology/airtags-gps-surveillance.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ameminator</author><text>Look, I usually try to be charitable. However, this article offered no new insight on Apple Airtags.
If you don&#x27;t want to waste your time, allow me to summarize:<p>Woman puts Airtags in a car. Her husband isn&#x27;t able to find them, even using Apple&#x27;s &quot;anti-stalk&quot; features. Ergo, Apple needs to do more.<p>I ask - what new insight did this article offer on Airtags? I don&#x27;t think anyone can conclude either way on the effectiveness of Apple&#x27;s &quot;safety measures&quot; when it comes to Airtags, from this small anecdote.<p>In my mind, the article buries the Lede on the <i>real</i> discussion - should Apple be doing these measures at all? I find <i>that</i> issue far from settled when this article takes it for granted that not only should Apple take these safety measures, they should do more!<p>The author also seems to be somewhat deceptive - &quot;I sound like a terrible wife, but it&#x27;s for journalism!&quot;
No, it seems like the author played a prank on her husband a while back and used that to neuroticaly follow him, then tried to excuse that behavior by writing this fluff piece.<p>Anyways, I do think there is interesting discussion to be had about Airtags and if&#x2F;what Apple should be doing to prevent unwanted tracking. However, this article didn&#x27;t have that discussion or contribute to it in a meaningful way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bberenberg</author><text>I found the key quote to be<p>&quot;My husband, of course, had agreed to this in principle, but didn’t realize just how many devices I had planted on him. Of the seven trackers, he found only two: a Tile he felt in the breast pocket of his coat and an AirTag in his backpack when he was looking for something else. “It is impossible to find a device that makes no noise and gives no warning,” he said, when I showed him the ones he missed.&quot;<p>which I read as &quot;Apple needs to improve, but still drastically better than everything else out there&quot;<p>I am not in the market for AirTags, but if you are completely scatterbrained and this provides you a helpful way to manage your stuff, AirTags seem to be least bad way of doing this.</text></comment> | <story><title>I used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS tracker to watch my husband’s every move</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/technology/airtags-gps-surveillance.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ameminator</author><text>Look, I usually try to be charitable. However, this article offered no new insight on Apple Airtags.
If you don&#x27;t want to waste your time, allow me to summarize:<p>Woman puts Airtags in a car. Her husband isn&#x27;t able to find them, even using Apple&#x27;s &quot;anti-stalk&quot; features. Ergo, Apple needs to do more.<p>I ask - what new insight did this article offer on Airtags? I don&#x27;t think anyone can conclude either way on the effectiveness of Apple&#x27;s &quot;safety measures&quot; when it comes to Airtags, from this small anecdote.<p>In my mind, the article buries the Lede on the <i>real</i> discussion - should Apple be doing these measures at all? I find <i>that</i> issue far from settled when this article takes it for granted that not only should Apple take these safety measures, they should do more!<p>The author also seems to be somewhat deceptive - &quot;I sound like a terrible wife, but it&#x27;s for journalism!&quot;
No, it seems like the author played a prank on her husband a while back and used that to neuroticaly follow him, then tried to excuse that behavior by writing this fluff piece.<p>Anyways, I do think there is interesting discussion to be had about Airtags and if&#x2F;what Apple should be doing to prevent unwanted tracking. However, this article didn&#x27;t have that discussion or contribute to it in a meaningful way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BeefWellington</author><text>&gt; I ask - what new insight did this article offer on Airtags? I don&#x27;t think anyone can conclude either way on the effectiveness of Apple&#x27;s &quot;safety measures&quot; when it comes to Airtags, from this small anecdote.<p>While I understand where you&#x27;re coming from, I think there&#x27;s value in adding to the chorus when it comes to putting pressure on a company to rethink a strategy.<p>Certainly, while articles such as this may not be news to you or I, they are likely to be news to a number of people on HN, their friends &amp; family, etc.<p>&gt; The author also seems to be somewhat deceptive - &quot;I sound like a terrible wife, but it&#x27;s for journalism!&quot; No, it seems like the author played a prank on her husband a while back and used that to neuroticaly follow him, then tried to excuse that behavior by writing this fluff piece.<p>This point misses the mark IMO. The issue with AirTags at their core is that they permit people who are deceptive and shady to do bad things much easier than they could before.<p>I think the cat&#x27;s out of the bag now on this type of tech though. Tile&#x27;s been around for a while, AirTags are now everywhere, the goal now should be developing detection systems (which shouldn&#x27;t be too hard).</text></comment> |
28,454,474 | 28,454,018 | 1 | 2 | 28,453,012 | train | <story><title>The SEC has told us it wants to sue us over Lend. We don’t know why</title><url>https://blog.coinbase.com/the-sec-has-told-us-it-wants-to-sue-us-over-lend-we-have-no-idea-why-a3a1b6507009</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dustintrex</author><text>Agreed, and this line pretty much sums it up:<p>&gt; <i>Customers won’t be “investing” in the program, but rather lending the USDC they hold on Coinbase’s platform in connection with their existing relationship.</i><p>&quot;Give me money for a fixed period of time and I&#x27;ll pay a guaranteed return on your principal. No, it&#x27;s not an &quot;investment&quot;, you&#x27;re just lending it in connection with our existing relationship!&quot;</text></item><item><author>uncomputation</author><text>I actually initially wanted to be on Coinbase’s side here, but after a quick google of “Howey test” and reading even just the introduction on Wikipedia, I cannot imagine how they don’t see the SEC’s reasoning about Lend wrt Howey. If you want to argue that Howey does not apply or fight the decision&#x2F;lawsuit, then fine. But feigning ignorance of something a (non-legal expert) programmer can connect the dots of instantly just makes me feel like they’re playing a PR game. Seeing as they are already offering APY on staked Ethereum, I don’t see “concern” reflected in their actions. Seems like they are trying to get out to the public before the SEC does to farm some good will.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bjackman</author><text>I&#x27;m not an expert here but I read their argument as they don&#x27;t expect this lending to be regulated as &quot;investment&quot; because the capital is not in theory at risk. So it&#x27;s more like a savings account than an investment account.<p>That&#x27;s the impression I got from the article, but reading other comments in the thread it doesn&#x27;t seem like that&#x27;s an at all relevant definition of the term!</text></comment> | <story><title>The SEC has told us it wants to sue us over Lend. We don’t know why</title><url>https://blog.coinbase.com/the-sec-has-told-us-it-wants-to-sue-us-over-lend-we-have-no-idea-why-a3a1b6507009</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dustintrex</author><text>Agreed, and this line pretty much sums it up:<p>&gt; <i>Customers won’t be “investing” in the program, but rather lending the USDC they hold on Coinbase’s platform in connection with their existing relationship.</i><p>&quot;Give me money for a fixed period of time and I&#x27;ll pay a guaranteed return on your principal. No, it&#x27;s not an &quot;investment&quot;, you&#x27;re just lending it in connection with our existing relationship!&quot;</text></item><item><author>uncomputation</author><text>I actually initially wanted to be on Coinbase’s side here, but after a quick google of “Howey test” and reading even just the introduction on Wikipedia, I cannot imagine how they don’t see the SEC’s reasoning about Lend wrt Howey. If you want to argue that Howey does not apply or fight the decision&#x2F;lawsuit, then fine. But feigning ignorance of something a (non-legal expert) programmer can connect the dots of instantly just makes me feel like they’re playing a PR game. Seeing as they are already offering APY on staked Ethereum, I don’t see “concern” reflected in their actions. Seems like they are trying to get out to the public before the SEC does to farm some good will.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justincormack</author><text>Securities lending, the repo market, is a large well understood and regulated existing market.</text></comment> |
27,199,873 | 27,199,919 | 1 | 2 | 27,196,382 | train | <story><title>Companies may be punished for paying ransoms to sanctioned hackers</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-treasury-cyber/companies-may-be-punished-for-paying-ransoms-to-sanctioned-hackers-u-s-treasury-idUSKBN26M77U</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawaygh</author><text><i>&gt; It will be a long, long time before the marketplace evolves sufficient technological measures to guard against state-sanctioned&#x2F;possibly-state-sponsored malicious actors operating with impunity in a lawless environment. </i><p>Unfortunately, the marketplace -- at least certain segments of it -- are <i>far</i> beyond .mil&#x2F;.gov in terms of capacity and sophistication. E.g., AWS&#x27;s formal tools for code-level security is what DARPA&#x27;s been yelling about doing for decades, but gov&#x27;t contractors and the branches&#x2F;agencies are unable&#x2F;unwilling to catch.<p>I&#x27;m not sure how to fix gov or mil, but a good starting point within mil is to stop making career officers with theology and polisci degrees but zero CS training the first-line managers of cyber commands.</text></item><item><author>rectang</author><text>This is a national security issue — malicious actors based in other nation-states are raiding American companies. It seems that US defense forces are not up to the task of repelling these invaders — yet we&#x27;re expecting individual companies to go up against them??<p>It will be a long, long time before the marketplace evolves sufficient technological measures to guard against state-sanctioned&#x2F;possibly-state-sponsored malicious actors operating with impunity in a lawless environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>StrictDabbler</author><text>The first time I ran into somebody who was in charge of a technical department but had only degree in Applied Theology my jaw hit the floor.<p><i>Applied</i> theology.<p>By the third time I had to seek out existential comfort.</text></comment> | <story><title>Companies may be punished for paying ransoms to sanctioned hackers</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-treasury-cyber/companies-may-be-punished-for-paying-ransoms-to-sanctioned-hackers-u-s-treasury-idUSKBN26M77U</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawaygh</author><text><i>&gt; It will be a long, long time before the marketplace evolves sufficient technological measures to guard against state-sanctioned&#x2F;possibly-state-sponsored malicious actors operating with impunity in a lawless environment. </i><p>Unfortunately, the marketplace -- at least certain segments of it -- are <i>far</i> beyond .mil&#x2F;.gov in terms of capacity and sophistication. E.g., AWS&#x27;s formal tools for code-level security is what DARPA&#x27;s been yelling about doing for decades, but gov&#x27;t contractors and the branches&#x2F;agencies are unable&#x2F;unwilling to catch.<p>I&#x27;m not sure how to fix gov or mil, but a good starting point within mil is to stop making career officers with theology and polisci degrees but zero CS training the first-line managers of cyber commands.</text></item><item><author>rectang</author><text>This is a national security issue — malicious actors based in other nation-states are raiding American companies. It seems that US defense forces are not up to the task of repelling these invaders — yet we&#x27;re expecting individual companies to go up against them??<p>It will be a long, long time before the marketplace evolves sufficient technological measures to guard against state-sanctioned&#x2F;possibly-state-sponsored malicious actors operating with impunity in a lawless environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bilbo0s</author><text><i>career officers with theology and polisci degrees but zero CS training the first-line managers of cyber commands.</i><p>Is this true?<p>This can&#x27;t be true. Surely they must have some CS experience?<p>I took my last bus off a USMC base so long ago I&#x27;ve raised a kid who&#x27;s in med school since. Can someone with more recent experience chime in on whether or not this is hyperbole?</text></comment> |
27,112,042 | 27,111,798 | 1 | 2 | 27,107,820 | train | <story><title>Why does every advert look the same? Corporate Memphis</title><url>https://www.wired.co.uk/article/corporate-memphis-design-tech</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Tsiklon</author><text>This document is insane. It feels like everyone involved in the production of it is so utterly disconnected from reality.<p>That first page “Trajectory of innovation” with the pseudograph is an utterly hilarious distillation of the madness yet to come. The deeper I read into the document the worse it got.<p>Golden ratio, Patterns being found where there were none to begin with (“perimeter oscillations”), Pepsi Energy fields, Pepsi Universe.<p>This reads like a pamphlet buckling under the excited and emphatic pointing of a disheveled man with a tinfoil hat on saying “SEE, SEE THE TRUTH IS ALL IN HERE!”<p>What learning can be taken from this? Is it a case of the train of thought being very poorly explained? Or is it a case of self absorbed people surrounded by “yes-men” basking in the glory of their own brilliance?</text></item><item><author>jihadjihad</author><text>reminds me of the now-infamous Pepsi &quot;Breathtaking&quot; design document <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.goldennumber.net&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;pepsi-arnell-021109.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.goldennumber.net&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;pepsi-arnell...</a></text></item><item><author>saagarjha</author><text>I hate Corporate Memphis as much as the next person but<p>&gt; “Isometric perspective is interesting, because nothing recedes to a vanishing point,” Rudnick says, “and therefore it also eliminates the variable of time.” He points out that this type of design is particularly popular with fintech and mortgage companies – playing down the passage of time is particularly advantageous to firms selling financial products that you may end up paying off for years.<p>seems like it’s reading a bit too much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munificent</author><text><i>&gt; What learning can be taken from this?</i><p>If a giant corporation offers up millions of dollars to have a design agency blow smoke up their ass, they will find an agency willing to generate as much smoke as needed to separate them from their cash.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why does every advert look the same? Corporate Memphis</title><url>https://www.wired.co.uk/article/corporate-memphis-design-tech</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Tsiklon</author><text>This document is insane. It feels like everyone involved in the production of it is so utterly disconnected from reality.<p>That first page “Trajectory of innovation” with the pseudograph is an utterly hilarious distillation of the madness yet to come. The deeper I read into the document the worse it got.<p>Golden ratio, Patterns being found where there were none to begin with (“perimeter oscillations”), Pepsi Energy fields, Pepsi Universe.<p>This reads like a pamphlet buckling under the excited and emphatic pointing of a disheveled man with a tinfoil hat on saying “SEE, SEE THE TRUTH IS ALL IN HERE!”<p>What learning can be taken from this? Is it a case of the train of thought being very poorly explained? Or is it a case of self absorbed people surrounded by “yes-men” basking in the glory of their own brilliance?</text></item><item><author>jihadjihad</author><text>reminds me of the now-infamous Pepsi &quot;Breathtaking&quot; design document <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.goldennumber.net&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;pepsi-arnell-021109.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.goldennumber.net&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;pepsi-arnell...</a></text></item><item><author>saagarjha</author><text>I hate Corporate Memphis as much as the next person but<p>&gt; “Isometric perspective is interesting, because nothing recedes to a vanishing point,” Rudnick says, “and therefore it also eliminates the variable of time.” He points out that this type of design is particularly popular with fintech and mortgage companies – playing down the passage of time is particularly advantageous to firms selling financial products that you may end up paying off for years.<p>seems like it’s reading a bit too much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lammy</author><text>&gt; What learning can be taken from this?<p>That being stupidly outrageous is a great marketing strategy considering we&#x27;re still all discussing a branding document from 2009. The gravitational pull of Pepsi is real! :)</text></comment> |
12,516,374 | 12,516,083 | 1 | 3 | 12,514,971 | train | <story><title>Investing for Geeks</title><url>https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/investing-for-geeks?__s=esaiz3kazigwidftsigk</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Stratoscope</author><text>&gt; Consider investing all your money in the company you work for.<p>Since that phrase is somewhat ambiguous, let me clarify for anyone who misunderstood it on first reading, like I did. :-)<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure you don&#x27;t mean &quot;It may be a good idea to invest all your money in the company you work for.&quot;<p>But rather &quot;Consider this very bad thing that may happen if you invest all your money in the company you work for.&quot;</text></item><item><author>chollida1</author><text>Great post!!<p>I&#x27;d add a few things that I&#x27;ve learned over the years:<p>1) Always be invested in the market. Corollary, don&#x27;t time the market. This is by far the largest mistake people make.<p>Investors typically pull money out at the bottom after they&#x27;ve suffered a physiologically devastating loss, like at the end of 2008 and hence they miss the rebound, like 2009-now.
This isn&#x27;t quite the same but it shows what missing the top 25 days in the market over the past 45 years does to your returns.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marketwatch.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;how-missing-out-on-25-days-in-the-stock-market-over-45-years-costs-you-dearly-2016-01-25" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marketwatch.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;how-missing-out-on-25-days-...</a><p>If you are an investor you need to be in the market, period.<p>2) Accept that you will lose money some years. If you are buying index funds then you will get market performance, ex fees. Markets go down sometimes. Stay the course.<p>3) Don&#x27;t look every day or you will go nuts.<p>Keep in mind that the largest draw down (top to bottom) will be larger than what the returns look like if you just look year over year. Ie if you look and see the S&amp;P lost 28% in 2008, understand that if you watched the S&amp;P every day of 2008 then it probably lost more than 28% from its top to its bottom but rebounded slightly at the end of the year to make the year over year loss less than the maximum loss.<p>4) Have some exposure to outside of the US markets. Consider the scenario of investing all your money in the company you work for. In a rough time for your company you get the double whammy of losing money and possibly your job at the same time.<p>Similarly to how you are told to not invest all your money in the company you shouldn&#x27;t invest solely in the country you live in, same principle.<p><i></i>EDIT<i></i> see child comment, I mangled the English language in point 4</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chollida1</author><text>Yuck!!<p>Yep, I really mangled that sentence. Sorry to everyone who just invested their life savings into the company they work for.<p>I guess I really meant...<p>&gt; Consider the scenario of investing all your money in the company you work for.</text></comment> | <story><title>Investing for Geeks</title><url>https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/investing-for-geeks?__s=esaiz3kazigwidftsigk</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Stratoscope</author><text>&gt; Consider investing all your money in the company you work for.<p>Since that phrase is somewhat ambiguous, let me clarify for anyone who misunderstood it on first reading, like I did. :-)<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure you don&#x27;t mean &quot;It may be a good idea to invest all your money in the company you work for.&quot;<p>But rather &quot;Consider this very bad thing that may happen if you invest all your money in the company you work for.&quot;</text></item><item><author>chollida1</author><text>Great post!!<p>I&#x27;d add a few things that I&#x27;ve learned over the years:<p>1) Always be invested in the market. Corollary, don&#x27;t time the market. This is by far the largest mistake people make.<p>Investors typically pull money out at the bottom after they&#x27;ve suffered a physiologically devastating loss, like at the end of 2008 and hence they miss the rebound, like 2009-now.
This isn&#x27;t quite the same but it shows what missing the top 25 days in the market over the past 45 years does to your returns.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marketwatch.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;how-missing-out-on-25-days-in-the-stock-market-over-45-years-costs-you-dearly-2016-01-25" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marketwatch.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;how-missing-out-on-25-days-...</a><p>If you are an investor you need to be in the market, period.<p>2) Accept that you will lose money some years. If you are buying index funds then you will get market performance, ex fees. Markets go down sometimes. Stay the course.<p>3) Don&#x27;t look every day or you will go nuts.<p>Keep in mind that the largest draw down (top to bottom) will be larger than what the returns look like if you just look year over year. Ie if you look and see the S&amp;P lost 28% in 2008, understand that if you watched the S&amp;P every day of 2008 then it probably lost more than 28% from its top to its bottom but rebounded slightly at the end of the year to make the year over year loss less than the maximum loss.<p>4) Have some exposure to outside of the US markets. Consider the scenario of investing all your money in the company you work for. In a rough time for your company you get the double whammy of losing money and possibly your job at the same time.<p>Similarly to how you are told to not invest all your money in the company you shouldn&#x27;t invest solely in the country you live in, same principle.<p><i></i>EDIT<i></i> see child comment, I mangled the English language in point 4</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>infinite8s</author><text>I think he meant &#x27;Reconsider...&#x27;</text></comment> |
14,222,735 | 14,222,750 | 1 | 3 | 14,222,337 | train | <story><title>The Arctic as it is known today is almost certainly gone</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21721379-current-trends-arctic-will-be-ice-free-summer-2040-arctic-it-known-today</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>Global warming aside, as a Canadian, I&#x27;m disappointing in what our government has down to protect our sovereignty in the Canadian northern archipelago.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Canadian_Arctic_Archipelago" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Canadian_Arctic_Archipelago</a><p>Had we invested in a navy base in the north, and a few ice breakers, then we could have been the owner of the &quot;panama canal of the arctic&quot;.<p>We would have a monopoly on what traffic goes through the Canadian archipelago which would help offset the cost of policing the north.<p>We would be able to do things like prohibit oil tankers and other hazardous materials if we wanted.<p>At this point I think we&#x27;ve all but given away any claim to being able to dictate who travels through our northern islands. The arctic will be policed by the American&#x27;s and Russians, and used heavily by ships travelling to the east coast of the US and Europe from China.<p>Hopefully at the least, we&#x27;ll be able to push for things to protect the arctic waters like no resource mining, think offshore oil rigs, and no oil tankers travelling through those waters.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>niftich</author><text>Harper&#x27;s administration, though losing focus on the issue by the end, was keen on enforcing the Canadian Internal Waters claim [1][2]. Trudeau, not at all [3].<p>To the detriment of Canadians, major players around the rest of the world consider these waters international waters, and on the international level, might (or the lack of response thereof) leads to facts-on-the-ground, as we&#x27;ve seen time and time again.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theglobeandmail.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;national&#x2F;the-north&#x2F;myth-versus-reality-in-stephen-harpers-northern-strategy&#x2F;article16397458&#x2F;?page=all" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theglobeandmail.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;national&#x2F;the-north&#x2F;myth-...</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;canada&#x2F;north&#x2F;franklin-find-as-much-about-sovereignty-as-solving-a-mystery-1.2763117" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;canada&#x2F;north&#x2F;franklin-find-as-much-ab...</a>
[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;politics&#x2F;trudeau-obama-arctic-1.3905933" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;politics&#x2F;trudeau-obama-arctic-1.39059...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Arctic as it is known today is almost certainly gone</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21721379-current-trends-arctic-will-be-ice-free-summer-2040-arctic-it-known-today</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>Global warming aside, as a Canadian, I&#x27;m disappointing in what our government has down to protect our sovereignty in the Canadian northern archipelago.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Canadian_Arctic_Archipelago" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Canadian_Arctic_Archipelago</a><p>Had we invested in a navy base in the north, and a few ice breakers, then we could have been the owner of the &quot;panama canal of the arctic&quot;.<p>We would have a monopoly on what traffic goes through the Canadian archipelago which would help offset the cost of policing the north.<p>We would be able to do things like prohibit oil tankers and other hazardous materials if we wanted.<p>At this point I think we&#x27;ve all but given away any claim to being able to dictate who travels through our northern islands. The arctic will be policed by the American&#x27;s and Russians, and used heavily by ships travelling to the east coast of the US and Europe from China.<p>Hopefully at the least, we&#x27;ll be able to push for things to protect the arctic waters like no resource mining, think offshore oil rigs, and no oil tankers travelling through those waters.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>desdiv</author><text>As long as the US thinks the northwest passage is an international passage then no amount of bases or ships would matter. Canada simply can&#x27;t win that fight.<p>There are just too many ways for US to exert soft pressure on Canada: softwood lumber, NAFTA repeal, extra tariff and transit charges for oil sand output. (admittedly that last one might be a good thing for Earth)</text></comment> |
24,787,226 | 24,787,257 | 1 | 2 | 24,786,908 | train | <story><title>The persecution of the Uyghurs is a crime against humanity</title><url>https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/10/17/the-persecution-of-the-uyghurs-is-a-crime-against-humanity</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>goku99</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand what&#x27;s the point of UN when these things are happening in a permanent UNSC member country. This C<i></i><i></i> has been causing nuisance to their neighbors all the time. They Debt-Trap poor nations and exploit them. From Mongols to India, every neighbor has a problem, they are probably most worst neighbor you could get. Recently it was in news with yet another conflict with India[1]. This needs to stop. Entire World is Struggling to contain COVID while 600 million Chinese are on <i>Vacation</i> [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;06&#x2F;16&#x2F;india-says-officer-two-soldiers-killed-on-border-with-china.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;06&#x2F;16&#x2F;india-says-officer-two-soldi...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;09&#x2F;china-attractions-630-million-people-travel-during-golden-week.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;09&#x2F;china-attractions-630-millio...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PeterisP</author><text>The point of UN and UNSC is as a venue to talk about these things and negotiate solutions - it&#x27;s not like it ever was an option to have an UN that can make binding decisions on the major powers, no major sovereign power would ever agree to that.<p>The default position is that a sovereign nation can do as it pleases; if other nations does not like it, they are welcome to try and force it to change with military power - but having nuclear deterrent significantly limits such options.<p>Since you need essentially voluntary compliance, it makes all sense that any &quot;misbehaving&quot; major nations have a seat on the councils (such as the Human Rights Council), since any decision made without involving them would be just completely worthless empty words.</text></comment> | <story><title>The persecution of the Uyghurs is a crime against humanity</title><url>https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/10/17/the-persecution-of-the-uyghurs-is-a-crime-against-humanity</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>goku99</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand what&#x27;s the point of UN when these things are happening in a permanent UNSC member country. This C<i></i><i></i> has been causing nuisance to their neighbors all the time. They Debt-Trap poor nations and exploit them. From Mongols to India, every neighbor has a problem, they are probably most worst neighbor you could get. Recently it was in news with yet another conflict with India[1]. This needs to stop. Entire World is Struggling to contain COVID while 600 million Chinese are on <i>Vacation</i> [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;06&#x2F;16&#x2F;india-says-officer-two-soldiers-killed-on-border-with-china.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;06&#x2F;16&#x2F;india-says-officer-two-soldi...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;09&#x2F;china-attractions-630-million-people-travel-during-golden-week.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;09&#x2F;china-attractions-630-millio...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>preommr</author><text>People need to be realistic about what the UN is.<p>It&#x27;s not some global authority that will deal with all issues with fairness and justice.<p>It&#x27;s pretty much a way to keep countries connected and acts as a common medium for countries to interoperate. It&#x27;s pretty toothless and obviously so - sovereign countries aren&#x27;t just going to hand over power like that.</text></comment> |
33,560,114 | 33,557,717 | 1 | 3 | 33,540,091 | train | <story><title>Seeing through hardware counters: A journey to 3x performance increase</title><url>https://netflixtechblog.com/seeing-through-hardware-counters-a-journey-to-threefold-performance-increase-2721924a2822</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fnordpiglet</author><text>These posts both make me violently aroused as well as profoundly depressed basically every employer I’ve ever had in 30 years doesn’t value such analysis. This is what engineering looks like, and it’s something no product manager can ever comprehend.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>In my limited experience, there&#x27;s not many companies that actually have the load that requires this level of fine-tuning. Or they don&#x27;t actually own the software involved; we&#x27;ve had performance issues at the company I work for at the moment (as a consultant &#x2F; contractor), caused by SAP and a product called Tibco, a visual editor to query and assemble data. Lack of transparency there.<p>Anyway my point with that is that there are a lot more high level things that needed to be fixed - and this is the case in most, if not all organizations I&#x27;ve worked at - before you get to the lower levels of performance. And this probably applies everywhere.<p>In this example, they have their software so optimized and tweaked already that it ended up being a low level JVM issue.<p>Mind you &#x2F; on the other hand, they mentioned something about subclasses and the like, it might be that a change in their Java code would have solved or amortized this issue as well.</text></comment> | <story><title>Seeing through hardware counters: A journey to 3x performance increase</title><url>https://netflixtechblog.com/seeing-through-hardware-counters-a-journey-to-threefold-performance-increase-2721924a2822</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fnordpiglet</author><text>These posts both make me violently aroused as well as profoundly depressed basically every employer I’ve ever had in 30 years doesn’t value such analysis. This is what engineering looks like, and it’s something no product manager can ever comprehend.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>harha</author><text>PM here: I actually also got pretty excited reading this. The challenge is selling analyses with unknown outcomes to the bean counters who end up deciding. Blog posts like this help.</text></comment> |
37,115,871 | 37,115,533 | 1 | 2 | 37,113,415 | train | <story><title>If you succeed you will fail</title><url>https://boyter.org/posts/if-you-succeed-you-will-fail/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>don-code</author><text>As an engineer, I&#x27;ve never personally understood the desire to release anyway, even when a system has known critical deficiencies like this one. Sure, perfect is the enemy of good, but I&#x27;d also argue that inoperable is the enemy of good - it only serves to erode trust in your product, if your team chose to release an unusable product.<p>Some years ago, I worked on a system not quite as bad as what the author described, but close. We released a new product with a known, quite bad security vulnerability (I&#x27;d made sure our product team was _extremely_ aware of this), as well as no monitoring to speak of. The deadline had been communicated for around one year, but nobody had ever really discussed the significance of the date, other than it was what we were all death-marching to, and we needed to deliver.<p>What did that date turn out to be? The head of product management&#x27;s birthday, which was revealed to the rest of the company on the highly-celebrated the launch date. People were just kissing ass. I left several months later.<p>It feels unconscionable to me that a company could have launched an incomplete, insecure, customer-facing product just to give a birthday gift to a leader, but I suspect this sort of thing is common.</text></comment> | <story><title>If you succeed you will fail</title><url>https://boyter.org/posts/if-you-succeed-you-will-fail/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ttr2021</author><text>&quot;Fall back on blaming the process when failure comes around and avoid ever pointing fingers or owning it.&quot;<p>Some organisations can do this, but I&#x27;ve see plenty that might outwardly try to avoid pointing fingers, but you can tell that despite warnings given, they do blame.<p>I told several leaders that one of their systems was literally on the brink and we were fighting fires on it every other day, and the processes in place were horribly broken.<p>12 months later shit hit the fan, my feedback was that I wasn&#x27;t proactive enough, and they basically threw me and my team under the bus.<p>This despite budget under cutting, limits in hiring, enormous optimisation, education of other teams, research. Just getting &#x27;No&#x27; or no real outcomes all the time on any escalation.<p>The leaders did this serially across the business, and lacked ownership on this aspect to even give people the resources and autonomy to do anything about it, yet would come looking when it came time, to throw other teams under the bus like this</text></comment> |
38,496,460 | 38,495,473 | 1 | 2 | 38,493,821 | train | <story><title>A medieval Gothic monastery built using CAD / CAM</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2023/01/13/a-medieval-gothic-monastery-built-using-cad-cam/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vintagedave</author><text>I could not find out how much a stone CNC milling machine costs. Does anyone know?<p>It would be amazing to build a house with decorative elements like this. I&#x27;ve considered it for wood before -- but external carved stone would be amazing.</text></comment> | <story><title>A medieval Gothic monastery built using CAD / CAM</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2023/01/13/a-medieval-gothic-monastery-built-using-cad-cam/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WorkerBee28474</author><text>I believe this site has hit HN before: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;carmelitegothic.com&#x2F;cnc-stone-carving&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;carmelitegothic.com&#x2F;cnc-stone-carving&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
36,327,658 | 36,327,494 | 1 | 3 | 36,326,677 | train | <story><title>SimulaVR's Reaction to Apple</title><url>https://simulavr.com/blog/seeking-investment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubicon33</author><text>&gt; While a premium VR headset built over iOS apps is a step in the right direction, we worry it could seriously hinder the device&#x27;s ability to serve as a true laptop replacement.<p>This remains the holy grail for work focussed headsets. Can I truly replace my laptop with it?<p>It seems the Vision Pro allows you to pair and cast screens, but not replace an entire macbook pro. A disappointment for sure but maybe it will be available in V2, V3, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>n8cpdx</author><text>Except for software dev workflows, I think iPad&#x2F;iOS app ecosystem is a more viable laptop replacement than the Linux app ecosystem.<p>They claim full desktop office suite support, but it won’t run Excel. iPad runs Excel - and Logic and Final Cut and Photoshop and Affinity Designer and Outlook and…<p>But regardless, VP is clearly positioned as a laptop display replacement, which is I think more realistic; iPhone can also be a laptop replacement (it is for many iOS users who don’t have computers) but realistically many people find a lot of value in both computing paradigms.</text></comment> | <story><title>SimulaVR's Reaction to Apple</title><url>https://simulavr.com/blog/seeking-investment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubicon33</author><text>&gt; While a premium VR headset built over iOS apps is a step in the right direction, we worry it could seriously hinder the device&#x27;s ability to serve as a true laptop replacement.<p>This remains the holy grail for work focussed headsets. Can I truly replace my laptop with it?<p>It seems the Vision Pro allows you to pair and cast screens, but not replace an entire macbook pro. A disappointment for sure but maybe it will be available in V2, V3, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SkyPuncher</author><text>With the direction they&#x27;re taking all of the &quot;Continuity&quot; stuff, I suspect the line won&#x27;t really matter in the future.<p>You&#x27;ll work near to your laptop. Programs will run directly on the laptop, but the windows (not the entire desktop) will stream to the headset. Vision Pro will manage &quot;the space&quot; and your laptop&#x2F;desktop will run the heavy lifting.</text></comment> |
27,155,776 | 27,155,091 | 1 | 3 | 27,152,920 | train | <story><title>Rust Weird Expressions</title><url>https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/test/ui/weird-exprs.rs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iudqnolq</author><text>I&#x27;d like to nominate anything by Mara Bos (@m_ou_se) on Twitter. For example:<p>&gt; What&#x27;s your favourite @rustlang boolean? Option&lt;()&gt;, Option&lt;Option&lt;!&gt;&gt;, std::iter::Once&lt;()&gt;, std::fmt::Result<p>&gt; tired: u16, wired: BTreeSet&lt;BTreeSet&lt;BTreeSet&lt;BTreeSet&lt;()&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<p>&gt; What&#x27;s your favourite @rustlang integer? &amp;[()], Enumerate&lt;Repeat&lt;()&gt;&gt;, Poll&lt;File&gt;, *const PhantomData&lt;usize&gt;<p>@jaaaarwr&gt; How is Vec&lt;()&gt; not in this poll?<p>&gt; That&#x27;s just the owning version of &amp;[()], right? Why would you need to own ()s? ;)<p>Edit: She&#x27;s also the author of inline_python!, a serious macro for interspersing code that calls python (including local variable interop), and whichever_compiles!, a joke macro that takes multiple expressions, forks the compiler (as in a fork syscall), and compiles the first one that compiles to valid rust.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rust Weird Expressions</title><url>https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/test/ui/weird-exprs.rs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Zababa</author><text>I&#x27;d like to add the &quot;Bastion of the Turbofish&quot;, which is my personal favorite: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;test&#x2F;ui&#x2F;bastion-of-the-turbofish.rs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;test&#x2F;ui&#x2F;ba...</a></text></comment> |
28,384,107 | 28,376,058 | 1 | 3 | 28,373,944 | train | <story><title>Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom</title><url>https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/MusicTheory.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jedimastert</author><text>A gentle reminder that this is <i>a</i> theory of music, not &quot;the&quot; music theory, or more specifically Western European music theory, rooted in 17th century Germany. A problem for many &quot;21st century classrooms&quot; is how they VASTLY over-state the universality and &quot;superiority&quot; of this form of music theory.<p>Thing about the snooty elitist vibes of the &quot;classical&quot; chamber music world, then realize that almost every base assumption made have real-world counter-examples. 12 equal-tempered subdivisions to an octave is (possibly) obvious one, but most people don&#x27;t realize that many musical cultures don&#x27;t subdivide measures into even pulses, or have even&#x2F;equal-sized measures (see &quot;additive rhythm&quot;).</text></comment> | <story><title>Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom</title><url>https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/MusicTheory.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Slow_Hand</author><text>This looks like a very thoughtful and well laid out introduction to theory for anyone who wants to teach themselves. Well done.<p>Something like this should probably still be supplemented with an instructor who can provide the student with some immediate, fun, and practical exercises to make the process more exploratory and engaging, though. Something that will get them thinking musically right away.</text></comment> |
3,427,624 | 3,427,521 | 1 | 3 | 3,426,771 | train | <story><title>E-books Are Not That Easy</title><url>http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2012/01/e-book-publishi.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Samuel_Michon</author><text>You're confusing books with manuscripts. Please don't call these things you sell 'books'.<p><i>"A manuscript is not a book. The author's job is to write the manuscript. The publisher's job is to turn a series of manuscripts originating from different suppliers into consistently produced books, mass-produce them, and sell them into distribution channels.<p>[...]<p>While it's true that the author is the one with the creative input, they only do about half the work. And the other half of the job is not optional. The reason publishers exist is to provide for division of labour; if I did the other 50% to bring my rough manuscripts up to published-book-quality, I'd only be able to write half as many novels."</i><p>As per Charlie Stross, accomplished fiction writer: <a href="http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/02/cmap-2-how-books-are-made.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/02/cmap-2-h...</a></text></item><item><author>spatten</author><text>Sounds like a lot of the pain points that Peter Armstrong and I ran into when writing our books, and that we're trying to solve on Leanpub (<a href="http://leanpub.com" rel="nofollow">http://leanpub.com</a>).<p>It's free to sign up, you write your book in Markdown and we convert it into PDF, epub and mobi for you. We pay you 90% - $0.50 for sales on our site.<p>You can put it on the iBookstore and Kindle store yourself (or be patient for a few weeks and we'll do that and provide an ISBN for you as well...).<p>If you've already written your book in HTML, we can convert it to Markdown for you automatically -- throw your HTML files into a Dropbox folder and click a button on Leanpub.<p>As for technical editors, our approach is to publish early (before you're done the book, preferably before you've written 100 pages) and have your readers function as development editors.<p>It's not a complete solution (yet), but I think we would have saved you tons of pain.<p>Drop me a line ([email protected]) if you have any questions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>peterarmstrong</author><text>"A rose by any other name..."<p>I'm the author of 2 traditionally-published books. ISBNs, dead trees, the works.<p>The first one (Flexible Rails) was something I self-published on Lulu as I wrote it. It started at about 200 pages and ended up over 500 pages before I did a deal with a traditional publisher.<p>At what point was it a book? My publisher approached me about publishing my book, not my manuscript (or rose). People all over the world bought my book when it was just a PDF. It made my mortgage payments for a while. In fact about 70% of my profit over my book's lifetime was from PDF sales.<p>As its author, I considered it a book when I first published it. My readers did too. Publishers like O'Reilly, the Prags and Manning probably consider their beta / early access books to be books.<p>Finally (since I'm typing on a phone), ebooks are to physical books like web apps are to shrinkwrapped software: you can do way more releases. At what point is a release real? Our answer is it is when you have paying customers. That is a commitment to your readers, and it helps you write and keeps you motivated.<p>So, to sum up the ramble: in 5 years almost all books will be ebooks, most will have multiple releases (including before being "finished"), and this author's opinion will be quaint.</text></comment> | <story><title>E-books Are Not That Easy</title><url>http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2012/01/e-book-publishi.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Samuel_Michon</author><text>You're confusing books with manuscripts. Please don't call these things you sell 'books'.<p><i>"A manuscript is not a book. The author's job is to write the manuscript. The publisher's job is to turn a series of manuscripts originating from different suppliers into consistently produced books, mass-produce them, and sell them into distribution channels.<p>[...]<p>While it's true that the author is the one with the creative input, they only do about half the work. And the other half of the job is not optional. The reason publishers exist is to provide for division of labour; if I did the other 50% to bring my rough manuscripts up to published-book-quality, I'd only be able to write half as many novels."</i><p>As per Charlie Stross, accomplished fiction writer: <a href="http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/02/cmap-2-how-books-are-made.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/02/cmap-2-h...</a></text></item><item><author>spatten</author><text>Sounds like a lot of the pain points that Peter Armstrong and I ran into when writing our books, and that we're trying to solve on Leanpub (<a href="http://leanpub.com" rel="nofollow">http://leanpub.com</a>).<p>It's free to sign up, you write your book in Markdown and we convert it into PDF, epub and mobi for you. We pay you 90% - $0.50 for sales on our site.<p>You can put it on the iBookstore and Kindle store yourself (or be patient for a few weeks and we'll do that and provide an ISBN for you as well...).<p>If you've already written your book in HTML, we can convert it to Markdown for you automatically -- throw your HTML files into a Dropbox folder and click a button on Leanpub.<p>As for technical editors, our approach is to publish early (before you're done the book, preferably before you've written 100 pages) and have your readers function as development editors.<p>It's not a complete solution (yet), but I think we would have saved you tons of pain.<p>Drop me a line ([email protected]) if you have any questions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>Such a distinction might exist in the traditional publishing world (the one with a sign "deposit manuscripts here" right above the trash can), but no such distinction exists in an all-electronic medium. Authors produce books; editors, illustrators, graphic designers, and others might provide help that improves the quality of the book, but they don't magically imbue it with a "book" status that it didn't already have.</text></comment> |
8,706,342 | 8,706,240 | 1 | 2 | 8,706,051 | train | <story><title>I Love Julia</title><url>http://technology.stitchfix.com/blog/2014/12/04/i-heart-julia/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jjoonathan</author><text>I love Julia too, but it currently has a bug which kills my desired workflow: the plotting library (Gadfly) takes 30 seconds to import.<p>Yes, there are a number of workarounds. You can use python or R for plotting, you can keep a single interactive session going and reload your source file in it, you can precompile Gadfly into Julia&#x27;s global precompiled blob, etc, but the solutions take time and effort that significantly offset Julia&#x27;s value proposition (for me, at least). If you haven&#x27;t looked at Julia yet you might want to hold off for a while until they get it sorted out. It looks like it might happen in the next version, 0.4, which hopefully will support pre-compiled libraries.<p>I feel like a bit of a dick for complaining about hiccups in a beta version, but I <i>really</i> like Julia and I <i>really</i> don&#x27;t want to see it go the Clojure route and simply accept several-second delays in oft-repeated tasks. Drake, I&#x27;m looking at you -- Make can build my entire C++ codebase in less time than it takes your &quot;make-replacement&quot; to launch! I love your features, but the stuck-in-molassas feeling I get when using your program was enough to scare me away.</text></comment> | <story><title>I Love Julia</title><url>http://technology.stitchfix.com/blog/2014/12/04/i-heart-julia/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>overgard</author><text>You know, one of the things that has annoyed me about python isn&#x27;t that it&#x27;s slow, its just it seemed like the BDFL was unconcerned about addressing performance. It is what it is, you can&#x27;t fault them for having their priorities, but it bothered me. PyPy to an extent has done an excellent job of addressing it, but I&#x27;m really happy that there&#x27;s a language like this that seems like it cares about making things fast without making it incredibly verbose -- I am impressed.</text></comment> |
29,247,186 | 29,241,968 | 1 | 2 | 29,222,297 | train | <story><title>Office 2000 is good to go</title><url>https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/055-office-2000-is-good-to-go</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abraxas</author><text>&gt; When I write stuff in Word, Word seems very opinionated and messes up formatting all the time<p>This has been an issue with Word from its inception. This is because Word is broken at its core. The formatting is neither style based nor paragraph based. It&#x27;s a weird mix. You can apply a style and then override it ad hoc creating a mess of a structure under the covers no doubt. I also heard horror stories about the native Word file format (at least in the days of Word6&#x2F;Word97).<p>The Office won out purely on the sheer marketing muscle of Microsoft and their ceaseless effort to make competing software feel inferior on their operating systems. Without that I doubt they&#x27;d be where they are now in terms of market penetration.</text></item><item><author>spaetzleesser</author><text>I believe some around 2000 Office and Windows reached their peaks of usability. They seemed to designed to get stuff done.<p>Since then it seems they crammed more and more &quot;intelligent&quot; functions into the software that made them less predictable. I still don&#x27;t know under what circumstances Windows Search finds things sometimes and sometimes it doesn&#x27;t. Lately Outlook search feels random. Teams search is a complete mess. When I write stuff in Word, Word seems very opinionated and messes up formatting all the time. Saving things to our disk is also an ordeal because they are pushing OneDrive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phaedrus</author><text>I was explaining to one of my coworkers how back in the day with WordPerfect you could click &quot;Show Codes&quot; (or whatever the menu option was called) and view all the embedded formatting tags as text rather than WYSIWYG. This made it incredibly easy to fix formatting issues and see what was wrong with an unintended interaction of styles. As people who had only ever used (read: fought with) Microsoft Word, they were mind-blown that such a thing once existed.<p>We maintain technical documentation and have to manually track page changes, which ultimately results in physical pages being printed and replaced in physical binders in many facilities. Use of Microsoft Word for this purpose is sketchy as f--- because when Word decides to &quot;go nuts&quot; and slightly reformat the next 100 pages (or worse, even previous pages) because of a minor edit, it turns a single page change into a hundreds-of-pages change apocalypse.<p>Of course we don&#x27;t really let that outcome stand; what actually happens is an engineer (with occasional consultation of a documentation specialist) spends half a day tentatively prodding and undoing changes in an increasingly broken document trying to find a way through the maze that doesn&#x27;t trigger either a formatting booby trap or Word&#x27;s over-helpful malevolent AI.<p>The key point here is without the ability to &quot;show codes&quot; and edit the real underlying structure of the document not the WYSIWYG view, the entropy just increases over time.<p>We all agree that <i>Word is not the appropriate software for what we&#x27;re doing</i>. Unfortunately the people with the power to fix this situation are the furthest removed from understanding our pain, and we have decades&#x27; worth of Word docs. And since Microsoft Office is the default, even when Word breaks compatibility we don&#x27;t take advantage of that opportunity to move to a real document management system, they just keep buying the next version of Office.</text></comment> | <story><title>Office 2000 is good to go</title><url>https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/055-office-2000-is-good-to-go</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abraxas</author><text>&gt; When I write stuff in Word, Word seems very opinionated and messes up formatting all the time<p>This has been an issue with Word from its inception. This is because Word is broken at its core. The formatting is neither style based nor paragraph based. It&#x27;s a weird mix. You can apply a style and then override it ad hoc creating a mess of a structure under the covers no doubt. I also heard horror stories about the native Word file format (at least in the days of Word6&#x2F;Word97).<p>The Office won out purely on the sheer marketing muscle of Microsoft and their ceaseless effort to make competing software feel inferior on their operating systems. Without that I doubt they&#x27;d be where they are now in terms of market penetration.</text></item><item><author>spaetzleesser</author><text>I believe some around 2000 Office and Windows reached their peaks of usability. They seemed to designed to get stuff done.<p>Since then it seems they crammed more and more &quot;intelligent&quot; functions into the software that made them less predictable. I still don&#x27;t know under what circumstances Windows Search finds things sometimes and sometimes it doesn&#x27;t. Lately Outlook search feels random. Teams search is a complete mess. When I write stuff in Word, Word seems very opinionated and messes up formatting all the time. Saving things to our disk is also an ordeal because they are pushing OneDrive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone1234</author><text>I agree with you, playing devil&#x27;s advocate though I would argue that Office largely won because it targeted casual usages even if it meant hurting professional ones. Then give it away to schools for $0 (in the 1990s) so they&#x27;d get a mass of beginner&#x2F;casual users that brought it with them into professional settings.<p>Word is awful at professional typesetting, but it is really easy to use casually for making resumes&#x2F;letters&#x2F;etc. Excel is excellent for making lists of things and basic accounting&#x2F;graphing.<p>Aside; the original Microsoft Office formats (e.g. doc) were formulated in C header files (i.e. a serialized array of C data types). They were garbage. Current Microsoft Office formats (ending in &quot;x&quot; e.g. docx) are night-and-day better (they&#x27;re standard zip files with boring XML files within). People should go unzip a docx file and check it out, very not-intiminating.</text></comment> |
15,678,848 | 15,678,645 | 1 | 2 | 15,676,951 | train | <story><title>A penetration tester’s guide to sub-domain enumeration</title><url>https://blog.appsecco.com/a-penetration-testers-guide-to-sub-domain-enumeration-7d842d5570f6</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>belorn</author><text>For those on the defending side, remember that the purpose of DNS is to be public. Relying on DNS information to stay secret in order to protect vulnerable application is a bad idea. A service with a SQL injection is unlikely to last long, and as the article shows, it is not hard to enumerate DNS records if you are under a targeted attack.</text></comment> | <story><title>A penetration tester’s guide to sub-domain enumeration</title><url>https://blog.appsecco.com/a-penetration-testers-guide-to-sub-domain-enumeration-7d842d5570f6</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jcims</author><text>The CommonCrawl dataset is another good source of host and subdomain information. The index server is here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;index.commoncrawl.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;index.commoncrawl.org</a> There&#x27;s a client referenced on that page.<p><pre><code> [ec2-user@x cdx-index-client]$ .&#x2F;cdx-index-client.py -c CC-MAIN-2017-43 &#x27;*.ycombinator.com&#x27;
2017-11-11 22:50:08,381: [INFO]: Getting Index From http:&#x2F;&#x2F;index.commoncrawl.org&#x2F;CC-MAIN-2017-43-index
2017-11-11 22:50:08,387: [INFO]: Starting new HTTP connection (1): index.commoncrawl.org
2017-11-11 22:50:08,468: [INFO]: Fetching 2 pages of *.ycombinator.com
2017-11-11 22:50:08,477: [INFO]: Starting new HTTP connection (1): index.commoncrawl.org
2017-11-11 22:50:08,478: [INFO]: Starting new HTTP connection (1): index.commoncrawl.org
2017-11-11 22:50:10,409: [INFO]: 1 page(s) of 2 finished
2017-11-11 22:50:11,711: [INFO]: 2 page(s) of 2 finished
[ec2-user@x cdx-index-client]$ awk -F&#x27;)&#x27; &#x27;{print $1}&#x27; domain-y* | sort | uniq -c
66 com,ycombinator
38 com,ycombinator,apply
500 com,ycombinator,blog
2 com,ycombinator,fellowship
2 com,ycombinator,macro
24036 com,ycombinator,news
25 com,ycombinator,old
2 com,ycombinator,ycblog</code></pre></text></comment> |
41,113,290 | 41,111,729 | 1 | 2 | 41,109,799 | train | <story><title>A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)</title><url>https://nightingaledvs.com/dark-sky-weather-data-viz/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>g_sch</author><text>The feature I miss most about Dark Sky was that it allowed you to visualize changes in dew point throughout the day.<p>Where I live (US East Coast), the weather can feel dramatically different depending on the humidity. Relative Humidity has always felt to me like a poor way of measuring how humid the weather will feel. For example, 50% RH at 84ºF will feel lightly humid and generally pleasant, whereas 50% RH at at 97ºF will feel like a swamp. The dew points at those respective points - 63ºF and 75ºF - do a much better job at immediately conveying how humid the air will feel.<p>Dark Sky used to show hourly dew point graphs that you could browse throughout the week and see when the humidity would break (or return). Apple Weather does show you the dew point, but only when you select a point on the RH graph. So to track the dew point over the coming week, you basically need to drag your finger over each day&#x27;s graph and observe the changing numbers.<p>I think this is probably just due to the lack of general awareness about how dew point is a more elegant shorthand for &quot;absolute humidity&quot; than any other weather metric currently in use. I hope there will be more of us in the future!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Leftium</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;weather-sense.leftium.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;weather-sense.leftium.com</a><p>My web app plots hourly dew point for the next 24 hours, next 7 days, and past 2 days. (Still WIP.)<p>Inspired by <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;merrysky.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;merrysky.net</a> (can also plot dew point), which was inspired by Dark Sky.</text></comment> | <story><title>A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)</title><url>https://nightingaledvs.com/dark-sky-weather-data-viz/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>g_sch</author><text>The feature I miss most about Dark Sky was that it allowed you to visualize changes in dew point throughout the day.<p>Where I live (US East Coast), the weather can feel dramatically different depending on the humidity. Relative Humidity has always felt to me like a poor way of measuring how humid the weather will feel. For example, 50% RH at 84ºF will feel lightly humid and generally pleasant, whereas 50% RH at at 97ºF will feel like a swamp. The dew points at those respective points - 63ºF and 75ºF - do a much better job at immediately conveying how humid the air will feel.<p>Dark Sky used to show hourly dew point graphs that you could browse throughout the week and see when the humidity would break (or return). Apple Weather does show you the dew point, but only when you select a point on the RH graph. So to track the dew point over the coming week, you basically need to drag your finger over each day&#x27;s graph and observe the changing numbers.<p>I think this is probably just due to the lack of general awareness about how dew point is a more elegant shorthand for &quot;absolute humidity&quot; than any other weather metric currently in use. I hope there will be more of us in the future!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>password4321</author><text>Good idea! I just added humidity to my home screen widget using <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.cloud3squared.meteogram">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.cloud3squa...</a></text></comment> |
3,979,670 | 3,979,504 | 1 | 3 | 3,978,406 | train | <story><title>Steve Ballmer's Microsoft</title><url>http://dcurt.is/steve-ballmers-microsoft</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrb</author><text><i>"Microsoft's execution in mobile has been excellent".</i><p>This could not be farther from reality. Microsoft has consistently lost money in the mobile market, to a point they are ashamed of it, and don't even give sale figures for the Windows Phone OS anymore. Profits from this business unit is reported in the "Entertainment and Devices" unit, which has turned a loss this quarter, again, of $229M.<p>The only argument the author makes for claiming Microsoft's execution has been excellent is that <i>"Windows Phone 7 is really good"</i>. Well, guess what? It may or may not be true that Windows Phone 7 is good, but it takes a whole lot more than a good OS to make a profit. You need to establish a community of developers who will write apps for your platform, you need to create an easy-to-use market place for end-users, you need to talk to phone manufacturers to make plenty of phones running your OS, you need to make deals with carriers to sell your phones, etc.<p>Microsoft has failed at most of this, hence their financial losses. Microsoft's execution in the mobile market is, so far, a failure, and Ballmer is partly responsible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>InclinedPlane</author><text>Exactly. Microsoft has been sitting on the smartphone market. For. A. Decade. And they took that commanding lead and had their lunch eaten overnight by iPhone and Android. It took them <i>NEARLY FOUR YEARS</i> to respond to the iPhone with Windows Phone 7.<p>Yes, WinMo 7 is a good product as far as platforms go, but it may not be good enough to catch up. They still have a lot of catch up to do with the marketplace and the ecosystem and with courting developers and manufacturers to their cause. They need to be making dramatic plays at this point, but they're not. When MS needed to bootstrap the XBOX gaming ecosystem they went out and straight up bought gaming companies, bringing Halo (one of the most popular game franchises in history) to their platform. When Sony needed to rescue the PS3 from a poor game library they bought media molecule and made Little Big Planet an exclusive title, among other purchases they made. Both companies also did a lot more to encourage developers to make games for their platforms. WinMo needs to make the same sort of efforts, but they haven't.<p>Meanwhile, look at the state of hardware. The best Windows Phone you can buy is 2 to 3 generations behind the state of the art relative to the iPhone or Android. You can't expect to push single core WVGA phones into a market where 300+ dpi screens, dual core CPUs, and a gig of ram is rapidly becoming the norm.<p>Even if we were to accept the notion that Windows Phone was the best mobile OS on the market the overall experience of using a Windows Phone (which is heavily influenced by the apps and games available, the speed and quality of the hardware, the quality of the screen, etc.) is not even remotely the best. Similarly, while Google and Apple have been adding new capabilities, better performance, and new features to their phones by leaps and bounds with each release, the Windows Phone has comparatively stagnated.<p>And there's every indication that each one of those gaps will continue to grow wider over time. Microsoft managed to catch up just barely by putting forth a concerted effort, but if it takes such a diving-catch sort of effort to continue to catch up at every step in the future then they will invariably miss on a few occasions and fall behind for good.</text></comment> | <story><title>Steve Ballmer's Microsoft</title><url>http://dcurt.is/steve-ballmers-microsoft</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrb</author><text><i>"Microsoft's execution in mobile has been excellent".</i><p>This could not be farther from reality. Microsoft has consistently lost money in the mobile market, to a point they are ashamed of it, and don't even give sale figures for the Windows Phone OS anymore. Profits from this business unit is reported in the "Entertainment and Devices" unit, which has turned a loss this quarter, again, of $229M.<p>The only argument the author makes for claiming Microsoft's execution has been excellent is that <i>"Windows Phone 7 is really good"</i>. Well, guess what? It may or may not be true that Windows Phone 7 is good, but it takes a whole lot more than a good OS to make a profit. You need to establish a community of developers who will write apps for your platform, you need to create an easy-to-use market place for end-users, you need to talk to phone manufacturers to make plenty of phones running your OS, you need to make deals with carriers to sell your phones, etc.<p>Microsoft has failed at most of this, hence their financial losses. Microsoft's execution in the mobile market is, so far, a failure, and Ballmer is partly responsible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aik</author><text>Look at recent US (and global) adoption rates of Windows Phone [1]. It's increasing, and with Nokia and their Lumia phones it is bound to continue. WP7 is a good OS, and more and more developers are backing it, and consumer satisfaction is excellent, and more and more people are starting to realize all this.<p>"Market research company Kantar WorldPanel has revealed in the last 12 weeks to mid-April Windows Phone has shown strong growth in the 7 major markets they monitor on the strength of Nokia’s offerings.<p>In 5 of the 7 markets (Germany, Britain, Italy, France and United States) Windows Phone market share is now in the 3-4% range, up from less than 2% in January 2012. In Germany Windows Phone market share more than doubled year on year to 6%.<p>In contrast RIM saw its US market share collapse to just 3% from 9% a year earlier, suggesting Windows Phone may have matched or even passed RIM’s market share in USA.<p>Kantar has predicted in January Windows Phone market share may hit 10% in Europe in the second half of 2012, and it seems to me with more Windows Phones being announced all the time that this may very well be achievable."<p>[1] <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WmPowerUser/~3/Uofacrd8iKQ/" rel="nofollow">http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WmPowerUser/~3/Uofacrd8iKQ/</a></text></comment> |
6,693,678 | 6,692,619 | 1 | 2 | 6,691,316 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Hosted Docker-as-a-Service on SSDs for $5</title><url>http://blog.copper.io/stackdock-blazing-fast-docker-as-a-service-with-ssds-for-5/#more-1187</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shykes</author><text>Hi everyone, Docker maintainer here. Here&#x27;s my list of docker hosting services. Please correct me if I forgot one! I expect this list to get much, much longer in the next couple months.<p>* <a href="http://baremetal.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;baremetal.io</a><p>* <a href="http://digitalocean.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;digitalocean.com</a> (not docker-specific but they have a great docker image)<p>* <a href="http://orchardup.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;orchardup.com</a><p>* <a href="http://rackspace.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rackspace.com</a> (not docker-specific but they have a great docker image)<p>* <a href="http://stackdock.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackdock.com</a><p>EDIT: sorted alphabetically to keep everyone happy :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tekknik</author><text>So I just checked the docker website (<a href="http://www.docker.io/learn_more/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.docker.io&#x2F;learn_more&#x2F;</a>) and there is still a flag up stating it&#x27;s not yet ready for production use. Does this mean you guys&#x2F;gals are gaining enough confidence in it now?</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Hosted Docker-as-a-Service on SSDs for $5</title><url>http://blog.copper.io/stackdock-blazing-fast-docker-as-a-service-with-ssds-for-5/#more-1187</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shykes</author><text>Hi everyone, Docker maintainer here. Here&#x27;s my list of docker hosting services. Please correct me if I forgot one! I expect this list to get much, much longer in the next couple months.<p>* <a href="http://baremetal.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;baremetal.io</a><p>* <a href="http://digitalocean.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;digitalocean.com</a> (not docker-specific but they have a great docker image)<p>* <a href="http://orchardup.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;orchardup.com</a><p>* <a href="http://rackspace.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rackspace.com</a> (not docker-specific but they have a great docker image)<p>* <a href="http://stackdock.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackdock.com</a><p>EDIT: sorted alphabetically to keep everyone happy :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sillysaurus2</author><text>The rise of Docker is fascinating. How did you get people to care about it initially? Did everyone immediately see it as a good idea? Congrats.</text></comment> |
33,910,949 | 33,908,730 | 1 | 3 | 33,907,897 | train | <story><title>Ending support for self-hosted Gitpod and moving our source to AGPL</title><url>https://github.com/gitpod-io/website/blob/main/src/routes/blog/introducing-gitpod-dedicated.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>endigma</author><text>I understand <i>why</i> they&#x27;ve done it, but I now consider this DOA. Open source without self hosting capability is just crowdsourcing your engineering team. Documented and supported or bust. The cloud is a prison.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ending support for self-hosted Gitpod and moving our source to AGPL</title><url>https://github.com/gitpod-io/website/blob/main/src/routes/blog/introducing-gitpod-dedicated.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>colejohnson66</author><text>Link to the actual webpage, not the GitHub source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gitpod.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;introducing-gitpod-dedicated" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gitpod.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;introducing-gitpod-dedicated</a></text></comment> |
39,438,307 | 39,436,882 | 1 | 2 | 39,418,707 | train | <story><title>Old London Bridge</title><url>https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/kenwood/history-stories-kenwood/old-london-bridge/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CAPSLOCKSSTUCK</author><text>&gt; The 19th-century London Bridge (famously referred to in TS Eliot’s The Waste Land) survived for little more than a century before it in turn was replaced, in the 1970s, by the present bridge. The 19th-century bridge was sold and re-erected in Arizona.<p>Wait, so someone literally got sold a bridge?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eschulz</author><text>Yes, the British government was happy to sell it to Arizona businessman and developer Robert McCulloch. He had to actually make a slight deviation of the Colorado River in order for it to go under the bridge in its new location. To accomplish that feat he hired some Texas lawyers who personally knew President Johnson, and they all went to the White House to convince Johnson to approve the adjustment to the river course.<p>Johnson at first didn&#x27;t want to do it, he said it wouldn&#x27;t be right to deviate a major river for a real estate developer&#x27;s project. One of the lawyers said that he wouldn&#x27;t have to make such exceptions for anyone&#x27;s sake, just for anytime that an American bought London Bridge and brought it to the US. Johnson was convinced and McCulloch got his way.</text></comment> | <story><title>Old London Bridge</title><url>https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/kenwood/history-stories-kenwood/old-london-bridge/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CAPSLOCKSSTUCK</author><text>&gt; The 19th-century London Bridge (famously referred to in TS Eliot’s The Waste Land) survived for little more than a century before it in turn was replaced, in the 1970s, by the present bridge. The 19th-century bridge was sold and re-erected in Arizona.<p>Wait, so someone literally got sold a bridge?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>delichon</author><text>His name was Robert McCulloch.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;London_Bridge_(Lake_Havasu_City)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;London_Bridge_(Lake_Havasu_Cit...</a><p>Growing up in the &#x27;70s we used to boat camp on the Arizona shore of Lake Havasu, and after days in the bush we&#x27;d boat to the closest civilization, this little tourist town, and be tourists and gape at the bridge, then go back to camping. Good times.</text></comment> |
33,247,012 | 33,247,174 | 1 | 2 | 33,246,016 | train | <story><title>Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confirms ruling</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/18/facebook-meta-sell-giphy-cma</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aaronharnly</author><text>&gt; The regulator said Meta would be able to increase its “already significant market power” by cutting off the supply of gifs to rivals, or demand more user data from them in order to keep using Giphy.<p>I’m imagining a future in which Meta cuts off the winter supply of GIFs to the European Union, setting the populace into a restive period of incoherent communication.<p>Perhaps the EU, UK, and US should establish strategic (inter)national GIF reserves?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bombcar</author><text>This is all the EUs fault. They were warned multiple times that they need to get home grown GIF supplies, instead of importing all their GIFs from the US or Russia.<p>And now that the pipeline for dashcam videos is gone, what do they have? Nothing but a few PNGs that they sadly try to animate in a poor imitation of a GIF.<p>(sarcasm gif goes here)</text></comment> | <story><title>Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confirms ruling</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/18/facebook-meta-sell-giphy-cma</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aaronharnly</author><text>&gt; The regulator said Meta would be able to increase its “already significant market power” by cutting off the supply of gifs to rivals, or demand more user data from them in order to keep using Giphy.<p>I’m imagining a future in which Meta cuts off the winter supply of GIFs to the European Union, setting the populace into a restive period of incoherent communication.<p>Perhaps the EU, UK, and US should establish strategic (inter)national GIF reserves?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ch4s3</author><text>The phrase &quot;cutting off the supply of gifs to rivals&quot; may be one of the dumbest things I&#x27;ve ever read in my life. I honestly can&#x27;t believe someone wrote that in a legal opinion.<p>To me this smacks of our leaders, broadly, in the West being too old and too far removed from how people operate and live in the world today. This is like Lindsey Graham, who was once on the senate technology committee, admitting that he had never sent an email in 2015. Truly mind boggling.</text></comment> |
9,110,939 | 9,110,568 | 1 | 3 | 9,108,372 | train | <story><title>YC's Female Founders Conference Doodles</title><url>http://ffc2015.startupnotes.org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pritianka</author><text>Omg super cute! Really helpful notes. I am going to share with my cofounder who happens to be male and could not attend.</text></comment> | <story><title>YC's Female Founders Conference Doodles</title><url>http://ffc2015.startupnotes.org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rjruizes</author><text>Grace Garey&#x27;s doodle says &quot;6% of money raised for Haiti went to the people they were trying to help.&quot; Source?</text></comment> |
8,377,200 | 8,375,454 | 1 | 3 | 8,375,111 | train | <story><title>FPGAs for Dummies [pdf]</title><url>http://www.altera.com/literature/misc/FPGAs_For_Dummies_eBook.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>asynchronous13</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using an embedded system based on a combination of FPGA and DSP for about ten years now. If I could go back in time and start over, I would ditch the FPGA. The reason I say that is because of the time costs associated with realizing any benefit of an FPGA design.<p>1) FPGA based design is &quot;future proof&quot;, we can use the same hardware to interface with new sensors in the future!<p>Reality: we could spin a new rev of the circuit board faster than we can develop and debug the new interface in the FPGA.<p>2) everything can done in parallel!<p>Reality: it&#x27;s faster (development time) to put a soft core CPU on the FPGA and write linear c code to get the job done. When that solution runs fast enough, why spend more time optimizing?<p>Bad FPGA developers are hard to find, good FPGA developers are nearly impossible to find.<p>FPGAs are super cool. For certain niche applications they can&#x27;t be beat. But most of the time, the development cost is just not worth it.</text></comment> | <story><title>FPGAs for Dummies [pdf]</title><url>http://www.altera.com/literature/misc/FPGAs_For_Dummies_eBook.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>malanj</author><text>Interesting, they claim a 5x power efficiency for FPGAs over GPUs in Monte Carlo Black-Scholes simulation.<p><a href="http://postimg.org/image/6o52lcgir/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;postimg.org&#x2F;image&#x2F;6o52lcgir&#x2F;</a><p>I wonder if Amazon will start hosting FPGA boosted compute instances anytime soon...</text></comment> |
35,311,621 | 35,309,887 | 1 | 3 | 35,308,672 | train | <story><title>Dismantling a Crappy Malware Operation</title><url>https://mrbruh.com/dismantling_malware_operation/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nightpool</author><text>You mentioned they were using Dropbox to distribute the malware—did you follow up with them? What about the university?</text></comment> | <story><title>Dismantling a Crappy Malware Operation</title><url>https://mrbruh.com/dismantling_malware_operation/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nubinetwork</author><text>Nice, but I have to wonder why Github acted on this so fast... I reported one account spreading Python based malware 2 months ago and the account was still there up until last week.</text></comment> |
14,294,296 | 14,293,274 | 1 | 2 | 14,289,307 | train | <story><title>Jeff Varasano's Famous New York Pizza Recipe (2008)</title><url>http://www.varasanos.com/PizzaRecipe.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tribby</author><text>surprised to see this here, but it doesn&#x27;t have style sheets, so maybe not too surprised ;)<p>jeff varasano&#x27;s website is a great resource for pizza hackers and lays a lot of myths to rest (like proofing). my own process (which I cook in a blackstone pizza oven at ~800°) has a bit more in common with tony gemignani&#x27;s basic neopolitan (described in his <i>pizza bible</i>), with the addition of the earlier and longer autolysing period used by jeff. the difference is night and day and I wish I&#x27;d learned about it a lot sooner!<p>if you&#x27;re in the bay area and this kind of pizza is your thing, be sure to check out the following places --<p>SF: pizzetta 211, una pizza napoletana, tony&#x27;s, firetrail, a16<p>oakland: boot &amp; shoe, pizzaiolo, also a16<p>berkeley: lucia&#x27;s, emilia&#x27;s<p>on that list, emilia&#x27;s is far and away my favorite. it&#x27;s a one man operation, dirt cheap ($21 tax included for an 18&quot; pie), and just impossibly good. he gave me some of his sourdough starter once, and killing it rather quickly is one of my greatest regrets.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ccmonnett</author><text>Awesome! I saved every one since I&#x27;ve never been to any... can you do the South Bay&#x2F;Peninsula (anyone else too)?<p>About the OP: I effing _love_ pizza but struggle to make it at home. The quality and quantity of knowledge in this post is fantastic!</text></comment> | <story><title>Jeff Varasano's Famous New York Pizza Recipe (2008)</title><url>http://www.varasanos.com/PizzaRecipe.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tribby</author><text>surprised to see this here, but it doesn&#x27;t have style sheets, so maybe not too surprised ;)<p>jeff varasano&#x27;s website is a great resource for pizza hackers and lays a lot of myths to rest (like proofing). my own process (which I cook in a blackstone pizza oven at ~800°) has a bit more in common with tony gemignani&#x27;s basic neopolitan (described in his <i>pizza bible</i>), with the addition of the earlier and longer autolysing period used by jeff. the difference is night and day and I wish I&#x27;d learned about it a lot sooner!<p>if you&#x27;re in the bay area and this kind of pizza is your thing, be sure to check out the following places --<p>SF: pizzetta 211, una pizza napoletana, tony&#x27;s, firetrail, a16<p>oakland: boot &amp; shoe, pizzaiolo, also a16<p>berkeley: lucia&#x27;s, emilia&#x27;s<p>on that list, emilia&#x27;s is far and away my favorite. it&#x27;s a one man operation, dirt cheap ($21 tax included for an 18&quot; pie), and just impossibly good. he gave me some of his sourdough starter once, and killing it rather quickly is one of my greatest regrets.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>batbomb</author><text>If Pizzetta is packed, you can walk down the street to Fiorella too. Il Casaro is good too. Pizzetta has the most flavorful and distinct&#x2F;seasonal toppings, but the crust is better at some other places.</text></comment> |
7,999,828 | 7,998,562 | 1 | 3 | 7,998,392 | train | <story><title>Super Pixel Quest</title><url>http://superpixelquest.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PeterisP</author><text>Somehow the pixelart&#x2F;animation style reminds me very, very much of the old Gobliiins games (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobliiins" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gobliiins</a>) - the artists seem to be different (Emannuele Spinasse and Pierre Gilhodes) but the detail and movements seem to be very close in feeling.</text></comment> | <story><title>Super Pixel Quest</title><url>http://superpixelquest.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Artemis2</author><text>It&#x27;s in French, but you just have to click the right arrow to make your way through the story.<p>Very nice work!</text></comment> |
31,268,154 | 31,268,319 | 1 | 2 | 31,258,670 | train | <story><title>EBUG: The NHL's emergency backup goalie rule</title><url>https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/the-ebug-edition</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>teruakohatu</author><text>&gt; Whether home or away, both teams in any given game can pull from the same roster<p>I am in New Zealand and know nothing about ice hockey, but wouldn&#x27;t it be risky to accept your opponents recommendation? Wouldn&#x27;t a fan of their own team be a better bet, even if a worse player?</text></item><item><author>hirvi74</author><text>I am a diehard NHL fan and a &quot;beer league&quot; goalie, and it would be my dream to be called up.<p>However, I am acquainted with some individuals that are members of my favorite team&#x27;s organization. My favorite team apparently has a roster of about 20 people that are &quot;on call&quot; for and given home game. Whether home or away, both teams in any given game can pull from the same roster i.e. the home team keeps the roster for both teams EBUG do not travel with the team or anything. Most of these people are ex-NCAA players or semi-professional players that have had far more success than your average beer leaguer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kgermino</author><text>I think there’s a few reasons they don’t worry about it:<p>1. This very rarely comes up at all.<p>2. These guys aren’t usually that good (by NHL standards) and you’ve probably lost the game anyway. You’re relying on your defense to keep the puck away from them more than you’re relying on them to excel.<p>3. (Probably most important to your point). This is one of the best days in this guy’s life. He’s In an NHL game and will be in the highlight reels. Playing well and stopping his team’s power forward from scoring is a massive high that does way more than his preferred team winning or losing.</text></comment> | <story><title>EBUG: The NHL's emergency backup goalie rule</title><url>https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/the-ebug-edition</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>teruakohatu</author><text>&gt; Whether home or away, both teams in any given game can pull from the same roster<p>I am in New Zealand and know nothing about ice hockey, but wouldn&#x27;t it be risky to accept your opponents recommendation? Wouldn&#x27;t a fan of their own team be a better bet, even if a worse player?</text></item><item><author>hirvi74</author><text>I am a diehard NHL fan and a &quot;beer league&quot; goalie, and it would be my dream to be called up.<p>However, I am acquainted with some individuals that are members of my favorite team&#x27;s organization. My favorite team apparently has a roster of about 20 people that are &quot;on call&quot; for and given home game. Whether home or away, both teams in any given game can pull from the same roster i.e. the home team keeps the roster for both teams EBUG do not travel with the team or anything. Most of these people are ex-NCAA players or semi-professional players that have had far more success than your average beer leaguer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Delk</author><text>That&#x27;s not really a choice for the visiting team to make. A team can only have two goalies dressed for a game. The emergency backup goalie rule (which is unique to the NHL, AFAIK) is that the home team has to have an emergency goalie booked who&#x27;s available as a stand-in for either team should both of the team&#x27;s dressed goalies get injured during the game. Either team would only realistically take that option if they have no other choice.<p>It&#x27;s a relatively rare occurrence, and I imagine that anybody who ends up playing as an emergency backup would make an honest effort out of sportsmanship, and also because it&#x27;s an unique opportunity and experience, even if it&#x27;s for the visiting team.<p>The emergency backup goalie is essentially the ultimate underdog and ends up being the fan favourite for the game. Sometimes the home crowd has started to cheer for him even though he was playing for the visiting team.<p>I don&#x27;t know what would be going through the emergency goalie&#x27;s head if they had to step in for a really high-stakes game, though. I don&#x27;t think that has happened so far.</text></comment> |
5,119,041 | 5,118,772 | 1 | 2 | 5,118,439 | train | <story><title>Color Photography of Early 1900s Paris</title><url>http://curiouseggs.com/extremely-rare-color-photography-of-early-1900s-paris/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>diego_moita</author><text>These pictures are part of a huge collection assembled by the banker Albert Kahn: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Kahn_(banker)" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Kahn_(banker)</a><p>Other pictures (about 1200) from the Albert Kahn collection, from other parts of the world: <a href="http://albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.net/archives-de-la-planete/mappemonde/" rel="nofollow">http://albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.net/archives-de-la-planete...</a><p>There are some wonderful pictures in that collection. My preferred are the ones with people living in a way that doesn't exist anymore like the ones from the Ottoman Empire (Turkey), Ireland, Benin and South East Asia.</text></comment> | <story><title>Color Photography of Early 1900s Paris</title><url>http://curiouseggs.com/extremely-rare-color-photography-of-early-1900s-paris/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>micampe</author><text>Russian version: <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_c...</a><p>The photographs were taken on three black and white plates with RGB filters in front of them, and could only be seen projected on a screen.<p>This is an article describing how the original images were composed to create the color version <a href="http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/making.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/making.html</a> this is about the russian guy, Prokudin-Gorskii, but the process he used to take the pictures was the same.<p>On the LOC website you can see the originals and composite <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/prk2000000200/" rel="nofollow">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/prk2000000200/</a></text></comment> |
11,463,070 | 11,462,997 | 1 | 2 | 11,460,509 | train | <story><title>Frog and Toad are Cofounders</title><url>https://medium.com/frog-and-toad-are-cofounders</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hyperion2010</author><text>&gt; Toad deleted tests until the CI server went green.<p>One of my undergrad volunteers is learning Python. I&#x27;ve had to teach him that just because the code runs, it doesn&#x27;t mean that it is correct.<p>These are wonderfully painful to read.</text></comment> | <story><title>Frog and Toad are Cofounders</title><url>https://medium.com/frog-and-toad-are-cofounders</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cjcenizal</author><text>These stories are so well-written! Really captures the original style well. They remind me a bit of the koans from The Codeless Code. The simplicity of the story obscures its &quot;lessons&quot;, allowing you to apply the story to your own experiences and draw your own insights.</text></comment> |
32,310,096 | 32,310,444 | 1 | 3 | 32,308,553 | train | <story><title>AMD passes Intel in market cap</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/29/amd-passes-intel-in-market-cap.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elromulous</author><text>So I&#x27;m very much in camp AMD. But, market cap has proven over and over again to be kind of bogus. E.g. do we really think Tesla is actually worth more than the rest of the top 10 or so automakers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>njarboe</author><text>The top ten automakers have huge amounts of debt and pension liabilities. Tesla has neither. None of them are making profitable EVs at scale. Tesla has been hitting their goal of growing at 50% per year for a decade and plans to continue until they are making 20 million cars a year in 2030. Their gross margin on cars is the highest in the industry.<p>The next 5 years are critical for the existing players and many will shrink dramatically or go bankrupt. People already know this and that is why there is a bill in Congress that is a stealth bailout of the domestic auto industry with a $7500 tax credit on cars that have just $750 worth of batteries in them.</text></comment> | <story><title>AMD passes Intel in market cap</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/29/amd-passes-intel-in-market-cap.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elromulous</author><text>So I&#x27;m very much in camp AMD. But, market cap has proven over and over again to be kind of bogus. E.g. do we really think Tesla is actually worth more than the rest of the top 10 or so automakers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sbf501</author><text>This is implicit when understanding market cap. Market cap means yes, a certain number of people willing to buy Tesla believe it is worth the combined cap of the next 10 auto makers. It doesn&#x27;t matter if that is right or wrong, all that matters is that stock traders believe it. If they didn&#x27;t, the stock wouldn&#x27;t be that price. That is literally how the stock market &#x2F; market cap works: if someone will buy it at that price, that is what it is worth.<p>We can all offer our armchair theories about Tesla&#x27;s actual worth, but until traders start to move en masse, that is what it is worth right now.<p>I think you are asking a different question: will Tesla be more <i>profitable</i> than the other 10 manufacturers in the long run? Because right now they are not. Personally. I don&#x27;t think they will ever scale to a commodity car as long as Elon is at the helm. I don&#x27;t think he has the attention span to make a mass produced car, his ego likes doing something novel and he likes luxury. To make profit like the top 10, Tesla has to become a commoner car. I don&#x27;t think he can pull off an iPhone move, Tesla may always just be a Mac.</text></comment> |
4,556,783 | 4,556,805 | 1 | 2 | 4,556,630 | train | <story><title>3D printer community revolting against Makerbot's new closed-source printer</title><url>http://marcuswolschon.blogspot.de/2012/09/occupy-thingiverse.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>noonespecial</author><text>I always found it slightly rotten when businesses use an "open" model to, in essence, get their fans and customers to build their product and market it for them, and then close it off for maximum profit once it reaches a certain level of maturity.<p>It feels like bait and switch.</text></comment> | <story><title>3D printer community revolting against Makerbot's new closed-source printer</title><url>http://marcuswolschon.blogspot.de/2012/09/occupy-thingiverse.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thesystemis</author><text>here's some links for more info<p><a href="http://blog.makezine.com/2012/09/19/is-one-of-our-open-source-heroes-going-closed-source/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.makezine.com/2012/09/19/is-one-of-our-open-sourc...</a><p><a href="http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2012/09/20/fixing-misinformation-with-information/" rel="nofollow">http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2012/09/20/fixing-misinformatio...</a><p><a href="http://www.hoektronics.com/2012/09/21/makerbot-and-open-source-a-founder-perspective/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hoektronics.com/2012/09/21/makerbot-and-open-sour...</a><p>tom igoe has some sensible words on this:<p><a href="http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/open-innovation/408/" rel="nofollow">http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/open-innovation/408/</a><p>this is an interesting discussion in advance of this (unfortunately sold out) conference next week about open source hardware:<p><a href="http://summit.oshwa.org/schedule/" rel="nofollow">http://summit.oshwa.org/schedule/</a><p>(hopefully they will ustream it)<p>many of the videos from the last summit are up, btw:<p><a href="http://goo.gl/KK8QN" rel="nofollow">http://goo.gl/KK8QN</a></text></comment> |
25,608,194 | 25,607,389 | 1 | 3 | 25,591,443 | train | <story><title>Anesthesia works on plants too, and we don’t know why</title><url>https://medium.com/@lukehollomon/anesthesia-works-on-plants-too-and-we-dont-know-why-dc7ed8a89909</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>manfredo</author><text>Reading the article it looks like we do know why:<p>&gt; Neurons... transfer information about sensation and motion from peripheral parts of the body to the brain and back. By sending electro-chemical signals in the form of atomic ions, neurons can communicate great distances through the body... Most of this information is passed as sodium ions — atom-sized charged particles that pass through channels to zap from one neuron to the other. Lidocaine, a local anesthetic commonly used by dentists, blocks these sodium channels, stopping neurons from sending information to each other. That’s why they make your mouth numb, the neurons there can’t send pain sensations to your brain. They’re stopped.<p>&gt; ...they [Plants] do pass information from cell to cell just like we do, via ion channels. That’s probably where lidocaine does its work in plants, blocking these channels and cutting off communication. That’s why the hair cells in the Venus flytrap can’t tell the motor cells to contract, there’s no signal being passed between them.<p>And ether works by blocking cell membranes in both plants and animals. I think there are some specifics about how organisms with cell walls are blocked by ether - but that&#x27;s more of a &quot;how?&quot; rather than a &quot;why?&quot;<p>In summary: even though plants don&#x27;t have nervous systems like animals, their motor functions are still ultimately controlled by ion channels with are blocked (or their cell membranes are blocked, thus blocking the ion channel) by certain anesthetics.<p>This post (of all things) seems to be rate limited:<p>&gt; Sorry, I&#x27;m confused. What&#x27;s the difference between &quot;how&quot; and &quot;why&quot; here?<p>We know the cause and effect behind why anesthesia works in plants: plants&#x27; motor functions are controlled by ion channels, and anesthetics block those ion channels. We know that Lidocaine blocks the sodium channels themselves, and that ether seems to block the entire cell membrane. The remaining unknown is how ether blocks the cell walls in plants.<p>In short the answer to why anesthetics works in plants is known: because it blocks ion channels. Saying we don&#x27;t know how anesthetics work in plants is sort of like saying we don&#x27;t know how asymmetric encryption works because we still haven&#x27;t solved whether P = NP. There exist remaining unknowns, but we do have an understanding of why it works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dnautics</author><text>&gt; &quot;that ether seems to block the entire cell membrane&quot;<p>For an ion channel there is a clear thing that can be blocked: the pore, but I don&#x27;t think &quot;blocking&quot; a membrane in this context is meaningful. That&#x27;s the crux of why we don&#x27;t know how&#x2F;why many anaesthetics work. We have some ideas, the obvious ones seem to be wrong, the less obvious ones are harder to test with the current level of technology.</text></comment> | <story><title>Anesthesia works on plants too, and we don’t know why</title><url>https://medium.com/@lukehollomon/anesthesia-works-on-plants-too-and-we-dont-know-why-dc7ed8a89909</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>manfredo</author><text>Reading the article it looks like we do know why:<p>&gt; Neurons... transfer information about sensation and motion from peripheral parts of the body to the brain and back. By sending electro-chemical signals in the form of atomic ions, neurons can communicate great distances through the body... Most of this information is passed as sodium ions — atom-sized charged particles that pass through channels to zap from one neuron to the other. Lidocaine, a local anesthetic commonly used by dentists, blocks these sodium channels, stopping neurons from sending information to each other. That’s why they make your mouth numb, the neurons there can’t send pain sensations to your brain. They’re stopped.<p>&gt; ...they [Plants] do pass information from cell to cell just like we do, via ion channels. That’s probably where lidocaine does its work in plants, blocking these channels and cutting off communication. That’s why the hair cells in the Venus flytrap can’t tell the motor cells to contract, there’s no signal being passed between them.<p>And ether works by blocking cell membranes in both plants and animals. I think there are some specifics about how organisms with cell walls are blocked by ether - but that&#x27;s more of a &quot;how?&quot; rather than a &quot;why?&quot;<p>In summary: even though plants don&#x27;t have nervous systems like animals, their motor functions are still ultimately controlled by ion channels with are blocked (or their cell membranes are blocked, thus blocking the ion channel) by certain anesthetics.<p>This post (of all things) seems to be rate limited:<p>&gt; Sorry, I&#x27;m confused. What&#x27;s the difference between &quot;how&quot; and &quot;why&quot; here?<p>We know the cause and effect behind why anesthesia works in plants: plants&#x27; motor functions are controlled by ion channels, and anesthetics block those ion channels. We know that Lidocaine blocks the sodium channels themselves, and that ether seems to block the entire cell membrane. The remaining unknown is how ether blocks the cell walls in plants.<p>In short the answer to why anesthetics works in plants is known: because it blocks ion channels. Saying we don&#x27;t know how anesthetics work in plants is sort of like saying we don&#x27;t know how asymmetric encryption works because we still haven&#x27;t solved whether P = NP. There exist remaining unknowns, but we do have an understanding of why it works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dnautics</author><text>Sorry, I&#x27;m confused. What&#x27;s the difference between &quot;how&quot; and &quot;why&quot; here?</text></comment> |
11,282,599 | 11,282,678 | 1 | 2 | 11,281,700 | train | <story><title>Common Search – nonprofit search engine for the Web</title><url>https://about.commonsearch.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>libeclipse</author><text>I&#x27;ve tried using different search engines to Google numerous times, but each time I&#x27;ve returned to Google simply because the searches are better. They&#x27;re more accurate, more relevant, and I very rarely find myself searching more than once to find something.<p>If commonsearch can beat Google in that regard, then count me in. But I doubt it will.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JohnKacz</author><text>When I switched to DuckDuckGo last year I read an interesting comment from someone. The basic idea was that we have all become so accustomed to Google&#x27;s results and the manner in which we use it (i.e. the way we define our search terms) that it is actually we who must be willing to reprogram our search practices if any competitor is to have a chance to catch up.<p>I&#x27;m not sure if I buy that, but I do believe if we don&#x27;t commit to alternatives it will be next to impossible for alternative search engines to get as good as Google with result quality and relevance. Google simply know too much about me and has performed so many more searches for a rival to outperform them. I still use DDG&#x27;s &#x27;g!&#x27; often but I feel like I&#x27;m doing my part to help DDG get better for me and other users.</text></comment> | <story><title>Common Search – nonprofit search engine for the Web</title><url>https://about.commonsearch.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>libeclipse</author><text>I&#x27;ve tried using different search engines to Google numerous times, but each time I&#x27;ve returned to Google simply because the searches are better. They&#x27;re more accurate, more relevant, and I very rarely find myself searching more than once to find something.<p>If commonsearch can beat Google in that regard, then count me in. But I doubt it will.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sylvinus</author><text>Hi! I&#x27;m the founder of Common Search.<p>I don&#x27;t think search result quality is on a linear scale so it&#x27;s hard to define &quot;better&quot;.<p>The results will definitely be less personalized, which will be a big plus for some people, and a blocker for others. There will be a few other dimensions where we can stand out, and some where we will have a hard time catching up (index size for instance).<p>In the end, given enough contributors, I&#x27;m pretty sure the results can get &quot;good enough&quot; for most people, and hopefully &quot;better&quot; for some ;)</text></comment> |
34,612,344 | 34,612,508 | 1 | 2 | 34,596,187 | train | <story><title>Extracting training data from diffusion models</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13188</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FeepingCreature</author><text>100 images out of 350,000 that they looked at were memorized.<p>This seems to mostly happen when an image appears frequently (more than 100 times) in the training data, and&#x2F;or the dataset is small relative to the model.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wombat_trouble</author><text>Oh come on. I&#x27;m excited about new technologies and I think that image generation can be a net positive for the society, but can we not do that? First, we had people confidently asserting that stuff of this sort absolutely can&#x27;t happen. Now, we&#x27;re moving the goalposts to &quot;well, not a legitimate criticism because it doesn&#x27;t happen often&quot;.<p>The point is that basically <i>all</i> Stable Diffusion &#x2F; DALL-E &#x2F; MidJourney output is some shade of this; the only new data is that contrary to prior assertions, in some cases, it goes all the way to a verbatim copy.<p>I think there are some defensible stances one can take. One is to reject the idea of intellectual property. Another is to advocate for some specific legal or technical bar that the models would have to pass for it to qualify as &quot;not stealing&quot;. Yet another is to argue it&#x27;s a morally-agnostic technology like VHS or a photocopier, and the burden of using it in a socially acceptable way rests with the user.</text></comment> | <story><title>Extracting training data from diffusion models</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13188</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FeepingCreature</author><text>100 images out of 350,000 that they looked at were memorized.<p>This seems to mostly happen when an image appears frequently (more than 100 times) in the training data, and&#x2F;or the dataset is small relative to the model.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seanhunter</author><text>Seems like it would be very simple to prevent this from happening by just adding a perceptual hash check[1] for collisions vs the training set before emitting an image. I&#x27;m sure someone would be smart enough to make a &quot;perceptual cuckoo hash&quot; type thing so it would be very fast at the expense of sometimes erring on the side of caution and not emitting an image that actually isn&#x27;t the same as the training data.<p>I don&#x27;t know why they didn&#x27;t do this tbh.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Perceptual_hashing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Perceptual_hashing</a></text></comment> |
22,241,167 | 22,237,749 | 1 | 3 | 22,235,279 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?</title><text>What are some skills (technical or not) you think someone should consider acquiring in 2020?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tnel77</author><text>What blows my mind is how much I took my ability to cook for granted. So many people my age (millennial) can barely cook anything. I have friends who eat out every single meal of every single day. People give me weird looks when every single workday I have the same answer to “you wanna go out and get some lunch?” “Nope. I have leftovers!”</text></item><item><author>chrissnell</author><text>Some suggestions:<p>- Build something. A new workbench for your office. Fix up an old car. Build a pull-up bar in your garage. Use your hands, cut some wood and metal, and treat yourself to a new tool or two. Do this with every project and you will have a nice tool collection before you know it.<p>- Learn to take pictures on a manual camera. You can do this with a modern automatic camera if it has a manual mode. Learn about ISO, f-stop, and shutter speed and the interplay of those three variables. There&#x27;s a fantastic multi-part tutorial on Reddit that can help you learn these things. I don&#x27;t have the link handy but you can Google for it.<p>- Set a goal of cooking for yourself at least two nights a week and eating leftovers two nights a week. Buy a binder and some clear inserts and start to put together your own book of favorite recipes.<p>- Take a nightly walk.<p>- Listen to classical music. This one didn&#x27;t come to me until my 40s but I finally realized: there&#x27;s a reason that this music has been popular for 300 years. Opera is great, too. Listen to Mozart&#x27;s &quot;The Marriage of Figaro&quot;. Download the KUSC app and listen to the amazing Metropolitan Opera broadcast every Saturday morning at 10 AM Pacific.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yibg</author><text>I used to eat out almost every meal as well. It wasn&#x27;t because I didn&#x27;t know how to cook, and I even like cooking. The economics (monetary and time) just didn&#x27;t work out for one person. I can&#x27;t buy in bulk (at least not fresh produce) because there is only one of me, so the cost is about the same as eating out. It also takes me a while to cook, clean etc, which takes more time than just eating out some where or getting takeout.<p>However, when I&#x27;m in a relationship, we tend to cook a lot more. The economics works out better, lower incremental cost of 2 vs 1 at home but double the cost (nearly) eating out. Also with 2 people cooking &#x2F; cleaning, the time it takes for 1 person reduces quite a bit.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?</title><text>What are some skills (technical or not) you think someone should consider acquiring in 2020?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tnel77</author><text>What blows my mind is how much I took my ability to cook for granted. So many people my age (millennial) can barely cook anything. I have friends who eat out every single meal of every single day. People give me weird looks when every single workday I have the same answer to “you wanna go out and get some lunch?” “Nope. I have leftovers!”</text></item><item><author>chrissnell</author><text>Some suggestions:<p>- Build something. A new workbench for your office. Fix up an old car. Build a pull-up bar in your garage. Use your hands, cut some wood and metal, and treat yourself to a new tool or two. Do this with every project and you will have a nice tool collection before you know it.<p>- Learn to take pictures on a manual camera. You can do this with a modern automatic camera if it has a manual mode. Learn about ISO, f-stop, and shutter speed and the interplay of those three variables. There&#x27;s a fantastic multi-part tutorial on Reddit that can help you learn these things. I don&#x27;t have the link handy but you can Google for it.<p>- Set a goal of cooking for yourself at least two nights a week and eating leftovers two nights a week. Buy a binder and some clear inserts and start to put together your own book of favorite recipes.<p>- Take a nightly walk.<p>- Listen to classical music. This one didn&#x27;t come to me until my 40s but I finally realized: there&#x27;s a reason that this music has been popular for 300 years. Opera is great, too. Listen to Mozart&#x27;s &quot;The Marriage of Figaro&quot;. Download the KUSC app and listen to the amazing Metropolitan Opera broadcast every Saturday morning at 10 AM Pacific.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geddy</author><text>Funny thing about those people is they constantly complain about how expensive everything is, yet they spend frivolous amounts of money on what&#x27;s probably the highest marked up item: food. Meal prep for a week for ~$75 and you&#x27;re set. It would cost probably 4 times that (at least, depending on where you eat) to eat out, not to mention you don&#x27;t know how it was prepared, and it&#x27;s probably wildly unhealthy compared to if you just cooked it at home.<p>Take 2-3 hours on Sundays and cook some food. It&#x27;s not hard.</text></comment> |
24,829,541 | 24,829,012 | 1 | 2 | 24,828,731 | train | <story><title>Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Deployment of Malware</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/six-russian-gru-officers-charged-connection-worldwide-deployment-destructive-malware-and</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ineedasername</author><text>I&#x27;m torn when it comes to the utility of making public indictments of this sort when the truth is there will never be any arrest or trial.<p>Making them public lets Russia know we&#x27;re aware of their actions, which in turn may drive them to greater efforts to make these actions harder to detect and therefore harder to defend against. I also wonder if making these public, detrimental and unnecessary, is just a cynical ploy before an election to give the appearance that this administration has been tough on Russia, when actual toughness on Russia would mean not just indictments, but also sanctions and other tangible consequences.<p>On the other hand, absent legal accountability for these individuals and Russia itself, making these indictments public allows the rest of the world to see &amp; know what Russia is up to. That might facilitate action through the softer power of diplomacy, and perhaps also put other countries on notice that they must take greater care in protecting their critical systems as well. And if it is the correct choice to do so, then any political benefit, cynically motivated or not, is an ancillary factor.<p>I suppose it may be a tough balance to strike. I think I come down on the side of making these issues public knowledge. Just as I similarly believe bad actions on the part of the US should be available for public scrutiny whenever it does not jeopardize the lives and safety of those who fight for our country.</text></comment> | <story><title>Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Deployment of Malware</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/six-russian-gru-officers-charged-connection-worldwide-deployment-destructive-malware-and</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Isamu</author><text>Interesting details:<p>&gt; These GRU hackers and their co-conspirators engaged in computer intrusions and attacks intended to support Russian government efforts to undermine, retaliate against, or otherwise destabilize: (1) Ukraine; (2) Georgia; (3) elections in France; (4) efforts to hold Russia accountable for its use of a weapons-grade nerve agent, Novichok, on foreign soil; and (5) the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games after Russian athletes were banned from participating under their nation’s flag, as a consequence of Russian government-sponsored doping effort.</text></comment> |
14,256,317 | 14,255,510 | 1 | 2 | 14,254,704 | train | <story><title>A Look Inside Airbus’s Alabama Assembly Line</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/magazine/a-look-inside-airbuss-epic-assembly-line.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>erentz</author><text>This was the most striking part to me: &quot;According to The Seattle Times, the starting rate at the Airbus plant, about $16.50 per hour, is comparable to the starting wages at Boeing’s passenger-plane plant in Renton, Wash. But the Airbus pay scale tops out at $23 an hour, while experienced Boeing workers can earn $45.&quot;<p>We now have so much surplus labor that even this relatively skilled job only pays $16.50 an hour.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iamthepieman</author><text>The cost of living matters just as much as your wage in quality of life.<p>Here&#x27;s[0] a 3 bedroom, 2 bath home for 170k within 4 miles of the plant<p>and here&#x27;s[1] an even less expensive one under 5 miles from the plant<p>If you look at the rental market, you can get apartments and small single family homes from around $300 per bedroom<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zillow.com&#x2F;homedetails&#x2F;307-Michigan-Ave-Mobile-AL-36604&#x2F;51022837_zpid&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zillow.com&#x2F;homedetails&#x2F;307-Michigan-Ave-Mobile-A...</a>
[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zillow.com&#x2F;homedetails&#x2F;210-Mohawk-St-Mobile-AL-36606&#x2F;51013829_zpid&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zillow.com&#x2F;homedetails&#x2F;210-Mohawk-St-Mobile-AL-3...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A Look Inside Airbus’s Alabama Assembly Line</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/magazine/a-look-inside-airbuss-epic-assembly-line.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>erentz</author><text>This was the most striking part to me: &quot;According to The Seattle Times, the starting rate at the Airbus plant, about $16.50 per hour, is comparable to the starting wages at Boeing’s passenger-plane plant in Renton, Wash. But the Airbus pay scale tops out at $23 an hour, while experienced Boeing workers can earn $45.&quot;<p>We now have so much surplus labor that even this relatively skilled job only pays $16.50 an hour.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JBReefer</author><text>You&#x27;re overestimating both the level of skill required to start and the cost of living in Alabama.<p>Alabama is CHEAP, and taxes are very low.</text></comment> |
13,978,054 | 13,977,934 | 1 | 2 | 13,976,997 | train | <story><title>Employee burnout is becoming a huge problem in the American workforce</title><url>https://qz.com/932813/employee-burnout-is-becoming-a-huge-problem-in-the-american-workforce/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ashark</author><text>&gt; Even for tech workers, the novelty has worn off,<p>Watching most of what you build—which often wasn&#x27;t exciting or very important-seeming to begin with—be discarded in short order, having benefitted few (<i>i.e.</i> not enough to justify the effort) or no people, after all kinds of false or semi-real urgency to get it done, year after year after year, will do that. It&#x27;s a testament to how much money is sloshing around that we get paid so much to spend huge amounts of time building soon-to-be digital garbage, I guess.<p>It feels like there&#x27;s an exceptionally stupid monkey smashing shapes against one of those children&#x27;s shape-in-the-correct-hole puzzles, but larger, extending forever into the distance, trying to get some of them to fit, which they mostly don&#x27;t because the monkey&#x27;s so damn stupid. And we&#x27;re the shapes.</text></item><item><author>theothermkn</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t doubt overwork as a factor, but the elephant in the room is meaninglessness. Work, like God, is dead. Even for tech workers, the novelty has worn off, and people pretty much realize that the <i>core</i> feature of their jobs is their own economic exploitation.<p>Burnout, like all pain, may be a feature.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>soulnothing</author><text>This I feel like it&#x27;s killing my career. A majority of the contracts I start are canned within a few weeks of me joining. Then they literally give me janitorial work. Can&#x27;t leave, because you jump around to much. Can&#x27;t say the job was canned, you should have chosen better. I haven&#x27;t had a job where stuff was used for 6 years.<p>The exception being a contracting gig. Where I wrote everything they canned me, outsourced it overseas. Then several months later asked me to come back, because the outsourcing firm only knew an older programming language.<p>It&#x27;s burn out just going to work every day. I&#x27;m either cleaning up others messes. Or interfacing with vendors. I&#x27;m totally aware that work will be tedium four out of the five days. I just want one freaking day, where I can stretch my mind, and actually do something useful. I have a world burning in my head I want to write. Several projects I want to program, and learn. Yet I&#x27;m so burnt out by work end.<p>My work feels like a syndicate show at this point. I have been doing primarily the same thing for 5 years. I&#x27;ve constantly tried to buck this and get into some other area. But a personal mistake has ensured I constantly need money, and can&#x27;t take the time to move properly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Employee burnout is becoming a huge problem in the American workforce</title><url>https://qz.com/932813/employee-burnout-is-becoming-a-huge-problem-in-the-american-workforce/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ashark</author><text>&gt; Even for tech workers, the novelty has worn off,<p>Watching most of what you build—which often wasn&#x27;t exciting or very important-seeming to begin with—be discarded in short order, having benefitted few (<i>i.e.</i> not enough to justify the effort) or no people, after all kinds of false or semi-real urgency to get it done, year after year after year, will do that. It&#x27;s a testament to how much money is sloshing around that we get paid so much to spend huge amounts of time building soon-to-be digital garbage, I guess.<p>It feels like there&#x27;s an exceptionally stupid monkey smashing shapes against one of those children&#x27;s shape-in-the-correct-hole puzzles, but larger, extending forever into the distance, trying to get some of them to fit, which they mostly don&#x27;t because the monkey&#x27;s so damn stupid. And we&#x27;re the shapes.</text></item><item><author>theothermkn</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t doubt overwork as a factor, but the elephant in the room is meaninglessness. Work, like God, is dead. Even for tech workers, the novelty has worn off, and people pretty much realize that the <i>core</i> feature of their jobs is their own economic exploitation.<p>Burnout, like all pain, may be a feature.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roymurdock</author><text>The monkey image is a great analogy for what economists are currently studying as the &quot;productivity puzzle&quot;.<p>Low to zero productivity growth is also why our unemployment rate in the US is amazingly low (seemingly a tight labor market), but why real median income is stagnant.</text></comment> |
35,625,544 | 35,625,238 | 1 | 3 | 35,621,309 | train | <story><title>MRI brain images become 64M times sharper</title><url>https://today.duke.edu/2023/04/brain-images-just-got-64-million-times-sharper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xyzzyz</author><text>This is also how it works in US, you just go to imaging place and they do it immediately. You just have to pay for it. In countries with state controlled healthcare, service is rationed.</text></item><item><author>throwaway2990</author><text>&gt; Canada you have to live for 6 months with a knee injury before surgery just because of the wait to access an MRI<p>The healthcare system in the west is just plain stupid.<p>In asia you can walk into a clinic and see a doctor in 30m. Want to get a X-ray or mri etc at hospital? An hour?<p>Yet in NZ a friends sister has been waiting 4 months now to have her shoulder checked by a specialist.<p>It’s easier to fly to asia and see a doctor than it is to try see a doctor is a western country.</text></item><item><author>inasio</author><text>In my opinion [0] a much more interesting track to pursue than super high-T scans that only work on mice (dead mice at that) is low field MRI scanning. MRI is amazing, but incredibly bulky and slow. In Canada you have to live for 6 months with a knee injury before surgery just because of the wait to access an MRI. Companies like Hyperfine (not affiliated) and Deepspin (just learned of them) make low power portable machines (I believe NFL teams were early costumers).<p>A single MRI image is not super helpful, still more art than science, the real benefit comes from having periodic scans against a baseline. Boutique health clinics offer yearly scans to high net-worth individuals, rolling this out to a larger population could have a huge impact.<p>[0] educated opinion, I also collaborated on a PNAS MRI paper</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pigsty</author><text>&gt; In countries with state controlled healthcare, service is rationed.<p>Americans really love eating up this meme.
I can get scans any time in Japan and I never wait. If doctors think it’s an emergency, they’ll do whatever scan is necessary then and there. If not, they’ll pull out a calendar and ask me to pick any day that’s convenient for me.<p>Meanwhile my friends in the US are waiting months for basic shit. My dad visited me in Japan in December and had to visit a dentist for emergency care and was offered to do surgery on the spot. He decided to delay it until he returned to the US. The earliest available appointment in his area is next month.<p>It’s insanity seeing Americans parrot this stuff. It’s North Korea-level propaganda. Hell, it’s worse. North Koreans have no access to the outside world so you can’t blame them. Americans just actively turn away anything in favor of “well a guy who knows a guy said he saw a guy on tv who heard about a guy who once heard a story about a guy from a guy in another country said those people wait a long time for health care!”<p>But the strangest thing is countless Americans, including myself, will pop into any thread to talk about how they have endless bad experiences with health care in the US (I’ve been forced to wait forever and then still charged out the ass because my health insurance was randomly rejected), while most bad experiences with other countries is seventh hand info. Americans complaining about health care in countries they’ve never been to far outnumbers people with first hand info—usually the ones with firsthand info are saying “it’s pretty good out there”</text></comment> | <story><title>MRI brain images become 64M times sharper</title><url>https://today.duke.edu/2023/04/brain-images-just-got-64-million-times-sharper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xyzzyz</author><text>This is also how it works in US, you just go to imaging place and they do it immediately. You just have to pay for it. In countries with state controlled healthcare, service is rationed.</text></item><item><author>throwaway2990</author><text>&gt; Canada you have to live for 6 months with a knee injury before surgery just because of the wait to access an MRI<p>The healthcare system in the west is just plain stupid.<p>In asia you can walk into a clinic and see a doctor in 30m. Want to get a X-ray or mri etc at hospital? An hour?<p>Yet in NZ a friends sister has been waiting 4 months now to have her shoulder checked by a specialist.<p>It’s easier to fly to asia and see a doctor than it is to try see a doctor is a western country.</text></item><item><author>inasio</author><text>In my opinion [0] a much more interesting track to pursue than super high-T scans that only work on mice (dead mice at that) is low field MRI scanning. MRI is amazing, but incredibly bulky and slow. In Canada you have to live for 6 months with a knee injury before surgery just because of the wait to access an MRI. Companies like Hyperfine (not affiliated) and Deepspin (just learned of them) make low power portable machines (I believe NFL teams were early costumers).<p>A single MRI image is not super helpful, still more art than science, the real benefit comes from having periodic scans against a baseline. Boutique health clinics offer yearly scans to high net-worth individuals, rolling this out to a larger population could have a huge impact.<p>[0] educated opinion, I also collaborated on a PNAS MRI paper</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fallingknife</author><text>It&#x27;s absolutely insane. I had a knee MRI in SF 5 ears ago, and the out of pocket cost, with insurance, was $900. Insurance paid around $2000. And the wait was 3 weeks. I found a private imaging place that could do it for $750 next day. Called the insurance company and told them that we could both save some money on this, and got &quot;that&#x27;s not how it works.&quot; Bureaucracy is societal cancer.</text></comment> |
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