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31,804,489 | 31,804,479 | 1 | 2 | 31,802,600 | train | <story><title>Solend seized $170M of user funds</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/vfszpt/solend_the_largest_lending_market_on_solana_is/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>3a2d29</author><text>Not to be super “arm chair psychologist” about this, but I always thought the whole “you deserve it if you got scammed” mentality comes from the people that believe crypto will replace all modern finance.<p>For crypto to replace modern finance, it needs to be better in every way (so it’s a total replacement).<p>Decentralized currency is better for some things, worse for things like preventing scams. If modern finance prevents scams better, than crypto won’t replace it in that area at least.<p>Solution? Easy: scams aren’t a problem. Modern finance isn’t better in fixing that problem, cause it’s not a problem. Now crypto is once again better in every way.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>One of the themes in pro-crypto writings has been the idea that as long as you “do your own research” then the bad things won’t happen on <i>your</i> chosen cryptocurrency. The prevailing idea (among pro-crypto spaces) is that bad things only happen to other people who deserve them because they didn’t do the right research.<p>Recently we’re seeing the bad things happen in more and more mainstream chains. Even famous NFT proponents have been losing their NFTs to scams at a shocking rate. I wonder if this will drive people back to simpler chains like Bitcoin, or if we’re going to see enough bad things (including crashes) that it just sucks the enthusiasm out of the crypto space entirely.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alach11</author><text>It&#x27;s a form of just-world fallacy. It&#x27;s comforting to think &quot;bad things happen only to stupid people, and I&#x27;m not stupid.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Just-world_hypothesis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Just-world_hypothesis</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Solend seized $170M of user funds</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/vfszpt/solend_the_largest_lending_market_on_solana_is/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>3a2d29</author><text>Not to be super “arm chair psychologist” about this, but I always thought the whole “you deserve it if you got scammed” mentality comes from the people that believe crypto will replace all modern finance.<p>For crypto to replace modern finance, it needs to be better in every way (so it’s a total replacement).<p>Decentralized currency is better for some things, worse for things like preventing scams. If modern finance prevents scams better, than crypto won’t replace it in that area at least.<p>Solution? Easy: scams aren’t a problem. Modern finance isn’t better in fixing that problem, cause it’s not a problem. Now crypto is once again better in every way.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>One of the themes in pro-crypto writings has been the idea that as long as you “do your own research” then the bad things won’t happen on <i>your</i> chosen cryptocurrency. The prevailing idea (among pro-crypto spaces) is that bad things only happen to other people who deserve them because they didn’t do the right research.<p>Recently we’re seeing the bad things happen in more and more mainstream chains. Even famous NFT proponents have been losing their NFTs to scams at a shocking rate. I wonder if this will drive people back to simpler chains like Bitcoin, or if we’re going to see enough bad things (including crashes) that it just sucks the enthusiasm out of the crypto space entirely.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fny</author><text>Modern finance is much better at handling fraud. Insurance exists, and recourse also exists since anonymity is not a requirement.<p>Decentralized finance has thus far been demonstrably worse than everything in modern finance. It&#x27;s illiquid, transaction costs are higher, full of scams, buggy, and recourseless.<p>The whole space needs to grow up fast.</text></comment> |
19,540,132 | 19,539,647 | 1 | 3 | 19,539,351 | train | <story><title>“Google just started mass banning/limiting Archive Team downloads”</title><url>https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1112494767601053696</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jpatokal</author><text>According to ArchiveTeam&#x27;s own tracker, there was a temporary dip around 1 AM PT (when this tweet was posted), but the speed has recovered and they are again crunching through 100k+ items&#x2F;hour.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tracker.archiveteam.org&#x2F;googleplus&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tracker.archiveteam.org&#x2F;googleplus&#x2F;</a><p>(the graphs show up in the pink block at the bottom, which can take a while to render)<p>Where is the graph in the tweet from? If it&#x27;s just measuring successful downloads, how did it conclude that it&#x27;s Google at fault? Is there another tracker of download failures that shows quota errors&#x2F;DOS blocking etc?</text></comment> | <story><title>“Google just started mass banning/limiting Archive Team downloads”</title><url>https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1112494767601053696</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>duxup</author><text>&gt;talk to Google<p>Is that even a thing?<p>Google doesn&#x27;t seem to want to be talk&#x27;n to outside of my information and in some cases credit card.</text></comment> |
37,736,725 | 37,735,965 | 1 | 3 | 37,733,184 | train | <story><title>VeraCrypt: Free open-source disk encryption for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux</title><url>https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>8fingerlouie</author><text>I&#x27;ve used countless encryption &quot;schemes&quot; over the years, from True&#x2F;Vera-Crypt to encrypted sparse bundles&#x2F;images, and none have ever really felt right.<p>These days i tend to use Cryptomator[0] instead. It accomplishes what none of the others could do, which is transparent encryption across devices.<p>With Cryptomator, i simply create a vault somewhere in the cloud, stuff data in it, and i can access it from my laptop, phone or tablet, and not think much about it. It integrates into the normal file browsing APIs, and doesn&#x27;t get in the way.<p>Because it does &quot;per file&quot; encryption, it also doesn&#x27;t need to download a 20-100MB chunk from the cloud before decrypting, so it&#x27;s rather fast (depending on file size of course).<p>Cryptomator is also open source[1], and free on the desktop, though the mobile apps costs a one time fee.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cryptomator.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cryptomator.org&#x2F;</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cryptomator">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cryptomator</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arsome</author><text>I used to use similar per-file cloud solutions, but SyncThing has been better in every way, especially if you already have a server you want to sync to or can use as an encrypted endpoint.</text></comment> | <story><title>VeraCrypt: Free open-source disk encryption for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux</title><url>https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>8fingerlouie</author><text>I&#x27;ve used countless encryption &quot;schemes&quot; over the years, from True&#x2F;Vera-Crypt to encrypted sparse bundles&#x2F;images, and none have ever really felt right.<p>These days i tend to use Cryptomator[0] instead. It accomplishes what none of the others could do, which is transparent encryption across devices.<p>With Cryptomator, i simply create a vault somewhere in the cloud, stuff data in it, and i can access it from my laptop, phone or tablet, and not think much about it. It integrates into the normal file browsing APIs, and doesn&#x27;t get in the way.<p>Because it does &quot;per file&quot; encryption, it also doesn&#x27;t need to download a 20-100MB chunk from the cloud before decrypting, so it&#x27;s rather fast (depending on file size of course).<p>Cryptomator is also open source[1], and free on the desktop, though the mobile apps costs a one time fee.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cryptomator.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cryptomator.org&#x2F;</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cryptomator">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cryptomator</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1696239517</author><text>Looks very similar to the &#x27;Crypt&#x27; remote offered by Rclone[0]<p>I use it to store &#x27;per file&#x27; encrypted data on Dropbox.
(I also keep a restic repository on there)<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rclone.org&#x2F;crypt&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rclone.org&#x2F;crypt&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
3,991,797 | 3,991,661 | 1 | 2 | 3,991,160 | train | <story><title>Gödel and the limits of logic</title><url>http://plus.maths.org/content/goumldel-and-limits-logic</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jaysonelliot</author><text>As an aside, if you look at the photo credit on that great color photo of Einstein and Gödel, it was snapped by Oskar Morgenstern, one of the fathers of game theory.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Morgenstern" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Morgenstern</a><p>Morgenstern and Einstein were Gödel's closest friends, I've just now learned. It gives me goosebumps looking at that photo and imagining the three of them on that lawn.<p>Semi-related, here's an account of Gödel's "pent-up lecture" about the inconsistencies in the American constitution that he told to his citizenship examiner: <a href="http://morgenstern.jeffreykegler.com/" rel="nofollow">http://morgenstern.jeffreykegler.com/</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Gödel and the limits of logic</title><url>http://plus.maths.org/content/goumldel-and-limits-logic</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vbtemp</author><text>When I first became fascinated with incompleteness (following initial coursework in theory of computation), it kind of became my "religion" of sorts for a while. But as many mathematicians lament, the Incompleteness Theorem is one of the most popularly abused proofs of all time - used for non-experts to assert their own half-baked pseudo-philosophy (of course, the same goes for quantum mechanics as well).<p>These are a few books I recommend:<p>"Incompleteness - The proof and paradox of Kurt Gödel" by Rebecca Goldstein<p>"Gödel's Proof" by Ernst Nagel (it's a tiny book, not too technical, but technical enough for anyone with a solid CS background to appreciate and understand)</text></comment> |
589,879 | 589,891 | 1 | 3 | 589,852 | train | <story><title>Can you trust 37signals with your password? </title><url>http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/05/can-you-trust-37signals-with-your.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mpk</author><text>Oh boy, that's an embarrassing newbie mistake to make.</text></comment> | <story><title>Can you trust 37signals with your password? </title><url>http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/05/can-you-trust-37signals-with-your.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bcl</author><text>This kind of beginner mistake makes you wonder how 'hacker safe' their system really is. You can bet that they will be improving their security soon -- making bold claims about security is one way to guarantee lots of free pen testing.</text></comment> |
21,242,000 | 21,242,014 | 1 | 3 | 21,241,395 | train | <story><title>LinkedIn loses appeal over access to user profiles</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-linkedin-profiles/microsofts-linkedin-loses-appeal-over-access-to-user-profiles-idUSKCN1VU21W</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pixelmonkey</author><text>The summary here is that LinkedIn tried to argue that it could prevent scraping of public LinkedIn profile data under their ToS, but the courts have ruled that if data is public and provided by users, it can be scraped&#x2F;crawled, that is, it isn’t LinkedIn property. This is generally a positive outcome for people&#x2F;companies turning web text and HTML into structured data, e.g. tools like Puppeteer and Scrapy can be used more freely on sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Reddit. Now, you might still get into trouble if you re-publish that data, but you can, at least, safely use the data ”internally”, and the act of scraping&#x2F;crawling (politely) is not, per se, something unlawful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eagsalazar2</author><text>Not sure &quot;isn&#x27;t LinkedIn property&quot; is accurate here. They still retain ownership and control of redistribution just like any other IP. This is more of a philosophical question about whether &quot;viewing&quot; itself is a violation of their ownership rights and really about the definitions of &quot;viewing&quot; and &quot;public&quot; in the context of the internet.<p>Seems like they&#x27;ve simply determined that viewing any freely accessible URL is &quot;public&quot; and that &quot;viewing&quot; does include scraping. This seems like a very reasonable determination as it maps pretty neatly to how we think about viewing public content IRL where I am free to drive down the road (for profit or pleasure) and record publicly viewable signage and activities and use that data any way I see fit.</text></comment> | <story><title>LinkedIn loses appeal over access to user profiles</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-linkedin-profiles/microsofts-linkedin-loses-appeal-over-access-to-user-profiles-idUSKCN1VU21W</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pixelmonkey</author><text>The summary here is that LinkedIn tried to argue that it could prevent scraping of public LinkedIn profile data under their ToS, but the courts have ruled that if data is public and provided by users, it can be scraped&#x2F;crawled, that is, it isn’t LinkedIn property. This is generally a positive outcome for people&#x2F;companies turning web text and HTML into structured data, e.g. tools like Puppeteer and Scrapy can be used more freely on sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Reddit. Now, you might still get into trouble if you re-publish that data, but you can, at least, safely use the data ”internally”, and the act of scraping&#x2F;crawling (politely) is not, per se, something unlawful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucb1e</author><text>This is about the copyright on the items that people post, i.e. creative works, right? But what if LinkedIn collects facts (where you work, your age, etc.), wouldn&#x27;t that be covered by sui generis property right (better known as database copyright)?<p>Does this judgement say anything about that, i.e. whether it matters that users contributed the <i>facts</i> in their collection (so I&#x27;m not talking about posts, descriptions, etc.) rather than that they collected it themselves and therefore get a form of property right?<p>Edit: wait, database copyright is not a thing in the USA. Of course they wouldn&#x27;t say anything about that.</text></comment> |
17,641,250 | 17,639,912 | 1 | 2 | 17,636,940 | train | <story><title>I created the exact same app in React and Vue</title><url>https://medium.com/javascript-in-plain-english/i-created-the-exact-same-app-in-react-and-vue-here-are-the-differences-e9a1ae8077fd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevebmark</author><text>As far as I can tell, Vue doesn&#x27;t introduce anything new over other front end technologies. It&#x27;s ironic developers who complain about React being the &quot;new hotness&quot; turn to Vue. It&#x27;s the same core concepts as Backbone, Knockout, Angular, Ember, and the countless private frameworks we&#x27;ve home-grown on top of jQuery in our front end jobs. This is highly stateful, object oriented, mutate-by-defualt, class based, imperative programming, with imperative DOM manual wirings, separate templates from view logic (probably the biggest sin), and programming by non-transferable conventions (v-model=&quot;todo&quot;, this.$parent.$emit). I don&#x27;t even want to know the implicit magic that makes list.push() update the view (notice how the author of the article doesn&#x27;t know either!), but this is again the same as all of the above.<p>While I don&#x27;t personally prefer any of the above style, the point is not a criticism, but to point out that fundamentally Vue doesn&#x27;t seem to offer any different core concepts than other frameworks. I think it just hit a sweet spot timing of being a React competitor, when developers who didn&#x27;t like (or, I suspect, don&#x27;t fully understand) React&#x27;s fundamentally paradigm and convention shift. As a biased pattern match, most times I see people comparing React to Vue, they&#x27;re new to both, and don&#x27;t get React.<p>I&#x27;m biased, but I&#x27;m biased through experience. Building Backbone apps where you glue events to DOMs written in strings with magic stateful data classes, and then scaling and debugging those apps, _sucked_. We didn&#x27;t know any better back then, though, because we didn&#x27;t have React to compare it too.<p>React can introduce problems (like any framework), but instead of trying to jump through hoops of convention, custom data binding and HTML tags, now my problems are my own. They&#x27;re problems of composing functions or structuring my data flow. React is so thin that it&#x27;s rare to have a &quot;React&quot; problem, now I have vanilla &quot;Javascript&quot; or even &quot;function&quot; problems, and it&#x27;s such a breath of fresh air. Even when I&#x27;m debugging performance problems, I don&#x27;t feel like I&#x27;m dealing with React, I&#x27;m dealing with comparing Javascript objects.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aeolun</author><text>Vue doesn&#x27;t really introduce anything we haven&#x27;t seen before indeed.<p>Fortunately it doesn&#x27;t regress from what we have learned before either.<p>The most important factor in favor of Vue however, is that it &#x27;just works&#x27;. When working in the reaction ecosystem I feel like I&#x27;m constantly trying to couple together chains that call functions on functions on objects.<p>Then there&#x27;s the components that have bugs that make them fail in the most basic of situations.<p>And lastly I have to write 3 times as much code to get all of it even running.<p>Give me Vue and it&#x27;s magic any time of the day.</text></comment> | <story><title>I created the exact same app in React and Vue</title><url>https://medium.com/javascript-in-plain-english/i-created-the-exact-same-app-in-react-and-vue-here-are-the-differences-e9a1ae8077fd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevebmark</author><text>As far as I can tell, Vue doesn&#x27;t introduce anything new over other front end technologies. It&#x27;s ironic developers who complain about React being the &quot;new hotness&quot; turn to Vue. It&#x27;s the same core concepts as Backbone, Knockout, Angular, Ember, and the countless private frameworks we&#x27;ve home-grown on top of jQuery in our front end jobs. This is highly stateful, object oriented, mutate-by-defualt, class based, imperative programming, with imperative DOM manual wirings, separate templates from view logic (probably the biggest sin), and programming by non-transferable conventions (v-model=&quot;todo&quot;, this.$parent.$emit). I don&#x27;t even want to know the implicit magic that makes list.push() update the view (notice how the author of the article doesn&#x27;t know either!), but this is again the same as all of the above.<p>While I don&#x27;t personally prefer any of the above style, the point is not a criticism, but to point out that fundamentally Vue doesn&#x27;t seem to offer any different core concepts than other frameworks. I think it just hit a sweet spot timing of being a React competitor, when developers who didn&#x27;t like (or, I suspect, don&#x27;t fully understand) React&#x27;s fundamentally paradigm and convention shift. As a biased pattern match, most times I see people comparing React to Vue, they&#x27;re new to both, and don&#x27;t get React.<p>I&#x27;m biased, but I&#x27;m biased through experience. Building Backbone apps where you glue events to DOMs written in strings with magic stateful data classes, and then scaling and debugging those apps, _sucked_. We didn&#x27;t know any better back then, though, because we didn&#x27;t have React to compare it too.<p>React can introduce problems (like any framework), but instead of trying to jump through hoops of convention, custom data binding and HTML tags, now my problems are my own. They&#x27;re problems of composing functions or structuring my data flow. React is so thin that it&#x27;s rare to have a &quot;React&quot; problem, now I have vanilla &quot;Javascript&quot; or even &quot;function&quot; problems, and it&#x27;s such a breath of fresh air. Even when I&#x27;m debugging performance problems, I don&#x27;t feel like I&#x27;m dealing with React, I&#x27;m dealing with comparing Javascript objects.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cageface</author><text>Seeing those quasi-JS expressions in HTML attributes is enough to put me off Vue.<p>I understand why people feel overwhelmed with the whole React&#x2F;Redux&#x2F;Router&#x2F;Saga stack but you really don&#x27;t need most of that when you&#x27;re just getting started and React itself is quite simple and elegant.</text></comment> |
7,726,429 | 7,726,450 | 1 | 3 | 7,725,794 | train | <story><title>Federal agents seek to loosen rules on hacking computers during investigations</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-09/federal-agents-seek-to-loosen-rules-on-hacking-computers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devconsole</author><text>A couple weeks ago, when I asked someone how to verify on demand that a BIOS isn&#x27;t compromised, someone else quipped &quot;Could be the processors too, better forge those by hand.&quot; <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609780" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7609780</a><p>In fact, it turns out the future is probably headed in that direction. All mobile phones are already compromised; every phone has a proprietary baseband chip with full remote DMA access that no amount of open software running on your phone can stop. And as laptops become more and more mobile, it&#x27;s going to seem strange that we&#x27;ve spent so long trying to tether our mobile phones to our laptops. Perhaps future laptops are going to have 3G access embedded right into them which consumers can subscribe to for some low monthly fee. Consumers would probably love it, because it&#x27;s very enticing: you get internet access in most of the world without having to find a public hotspot or tether your phone. No more dealing with hotel wifi; no more dealing with logging in to someone else&#x27;s.<p>The takeaway is that your children may grow up in a world where it&#x27;s impossible to guarantee the government can&#x27;t get into your computer if it really wanted to. Desktop computers aren&#x27;t ever going to go away, but hardware design seems to be trending towards having built-in theft prevention. One feature of theft prevention is having the ability to locate the computer, or send it remote kill signals. If trends like that do catch on with consumers, it&#x27;s &quot;gg no re,&quot; because once our hardware is compromised to the point of third parties being able to remotely access it on demand, we&#x27;ve all lost something precious, and there won&#x27;t be any opportunity to fix it. The more I think about it, the more it seems like it&#x27;s just a matter of time until this happens, precisely because once it&#x27;s here, it&#x27;s never going away.<p>More and more network adapters seem to have DMA access to your computer. It would be interesting if the protections afforded by open source software were defeated at the hardware level without most people noticing. There doesn&#x27;t seem to be any way to defend against it, because open source hardware simply can&#x27;t survive: no money is necessary to develop open source software, whereas large investment would be necessary for development of open source hardware down to the chip level.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DanBC</author><text>&gt; The takeaway is that your children may grow up in a world where it&#x27;s impossible to guarantee the government can&#x27;t get into your computer if it really wanted to.<p>If your adversary is a well funded government you need to have:<p>Secure software<p>Secure firmware<p>Secure hardware<p>Secure staff who follow procedure<p>Secure location<p>Armed guards<p>Etc<p>Most people can not do all of this and this have been vulnerable to governments for a long time.<p>Suggesting that your mobile communications data was ever secure when it was available to your telecoms provider seems odd to me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Federal agents seek to loosen rules on hacking computers during investigations</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-09/federal-agents-seek-to-loosen-rules-on-hacking-computers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devconsole</author><text>A couple weeks ago, when I asked someone how to verify on demand that a BIOS isn&#x27;t compromised, someone else quipped &quot;Could be the processors too, better forge those by hand.&quot; <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609780" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7609780</a><p>In fact, it turns out the future is probably headed in that direction. All mobile phones are already compromised; every phone has a proprietary baseband chip with full remote DMA access that no amount of open software running on your phone can stop. And as laptops become more and more mobile, it&#x27;s going to seem strange that we&#x27;ve spent so long trying to tether our mobile phones to our laptops. Perhaps future laptops are going to have 3G access embedded right into them which consumers can subscribe to for some low monthly fee. Consumers would probably love it, because it&#x27;s very enticing: you get internet access in most of the world without having to find a public hotspot or tether your phone. No more dealing with hotel wifi; no more dealing with logging in to someone else&#x27;s.<p>The takeaway is that your children may grow up in a world where it&#x27;s impossible to guarantee the government can&#x27;t get into your computer if it really wanted to. Desktop computers aren&#x27;t ever going to go away, but hardware design seems to be trending towards having built-in theft prevention. One feature of theft prevention is having the ability to locate the computer, or send it remote kill signals. If trends like that do catch on with consumers, it&#x27;s &quot;gg no re,&quot; because once our hardware is compromised to the point of third parties being able to remotely access it on demand, we&#x27;ve all lost something precious, and there won&#x27;t be any opportunity to fix it. The more I think about it, the more it seems like it&#x27;s just a matter of time until this happens, precisely because once it&#x27;s here, it&#x27;s never going away.<p>More and more network adapters seem to have DMA access to your computer. It would be interesting if the protections afforded by open source software were defeated at the hardware level without most people noticing. There doesn&#x27;t seem to be any way to defend against it, because open source hardware simply can&#x27;t survive: no money is necessary to develop open source software, whereas large investment would be necessary for development of open source hardware down to the chip level.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sliverstorm</author><text><i>The takeaway is that your children may grow up in a world where it&#x27;s impossible to guarantee the government can&#x27;t get into your computer if it really wanted to.</i><p>The government has always had access to everything if they a) really wanted to and b) had just cause. That&#x27;s why search warrants, tailing suspects, court-approved phone taps, bank account freezes, etc etc etc exist.<p>The notion that the government ought to not be allowed into your computer, <i>ever</i>, doesn&#x27;t seem grounded in either reality or historical precedent.</text></comment> |
32,090,489 | 32,090,481 | 1 | 2 | 32,089,522 | train | <story><title>Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment</title><url>https://www.arenaev.com/vw_creates_new_company_and_enters_global_battery_business-news-461.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jupp0r</author><text>&gt; PowerCo will use the prismatic unified cell architecture in its batteries which allows for use of different cell chemistries. The cells will be manufactured from 2025 with the factory planned capacity to be 40 GWh which is enough to supply 500,000 electric vehicles. By 2030 PowerCo plans to have all six European factories up and running with a combined capacity of 240 GWh. The unified prismatic cell harnesses synergy effects and can offer manufacturing savings of up to 50% when compared to current batteries.<p>Why can&#x27;t journalists use units correctly? I&#x27;m assuming the above is per year (but who knows?).<p>Side remark: it&#x27;s actually kind of cool that you can literally specify the battery output of these factories in Watts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Retric</author><text>Battery production is measured in Wh per year because you care about capacity to store energy. 40GWh = 40,000,000 kWh &#x2F; (80kWh per car) = 500,000 cars.<p>240 GWh = 3 million 80kWh cars.</text></comment> | <story><title>Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment</title><url>https://www.arenaev.com/vw_creates_new_company_and_enters_global_battery_business-news-461.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jupp0r</author><text>&gt; PowerCo will use the prismatic unified cell architecture in its batteries which allows for use of different cell chemistries. The cells will be manufactured from 2025 with the factory planned capacity to be 40 GWh which is enough to supply 500,000 electric vehicles. By 2030 PowerCo plans to have all six European factories up and running with a combined capacity of 240 GWh. The unified prismatic cell harnesses synergy effects and can offer manufacturing savings of up to 50% when compared to current batteries.<p>Why can&#x27;t journalists use units correctly? I&#x27;m assuming the above is per year (but who knows?).<p>Side remark: it&#x27;s actually kind of cool that you can literally specify the battery output of these factories in Watts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>csours</author><text>Watt is power, Watt hour is energy. 1 Watt hour is 3600 joules, which looks suspiciously like 1 joule = 1 Watt second.<p>Most batteries now advertise energy capacity in kWh or thousand Watt hour(s). 1 kWh would be 3,600,000 joules or 3.6 megajoules, which does honestly sound more badass.<p>In the past batteries would advertise capacity in Amp hours, but you have to know the voltage of the battery to convert Amp hours to energy.</text></comment> |
35,973,910 | 35,972,129 | 1 | 3 | 35,968,968 | train | <story><title>Beware offers of “help” with your projects</title><url>http://misc-stuff.terraaeon.com/articles/beware-help.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rob74</author><text>&gt; <i>Something I have noticed is that the more people join a project, the more it begins to go off the rails, and the less productive each member of the team becomes. [...] many of the newcomers spend the bulk of their time, if not actually sabotaging the project, doing the next best thing. They do their best to drive the project in the wrong direction. In so doing, they waste the valuable time of everyone around them who is forced to clean up the messes they leave behind. These are intelligent people, so I do not believe they are incapable of understanding the vision that caused the project to be born. I think, rather, they just don&#x27;t care. Some call this &quot;not being a team player&quot;, but I call it narcissism.</i><p>Er... reading this, I would rather suspect the author of &quot;not being a team player&quot;. Of course, if other developers find your project interesting and want to contribute, they may have their own features and use cases in mind that don&#x27;t necessarily overlap with what you have planned, which doesn&#x27;t however mean that it has to be a &quot;wrong direction&quot;. As the owner of the project, you are free to accept their contributions or not, and they are free to fork the project and take it into another direction if you don&#x27;t like that direction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Applejinx</author><text>&gt;Er... reading this, I would rather suspect the author of &quot;not being a team player&quot;<p>If he&#x27;s in charge of the project&#x27;s direction and has a specific vision that must be accomplished, that&#x27;s not his job.<p>Unfortunately, if random people passing by are able to steer the project into the ditch and cause it to fail its most basic requirements (as he describes) then he&#x27;s bad at his job (which isn&#x27;t &#x27;being a team player&#x27;).<p>He&#x27;s bad at his job because what he describes seems like a total inability to sell people on WHY to pursue his end goals. If proliferation of devs leads to the project going more and more off the rails, he&#x27;s getting people who are drawn in by something or other, and feel no connection to the basic purpose of the software. That&#x27;s on him. His job is to make them understand why his purpose matters, and it&#x27;s like he&#x27;s producing a codebase easily adapted to other purposes, but it somehow doesn&#x27;t get across his purpose.<p>Maybe he needs to hire a writer, not devs :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Beware offers of “help” with your projects</title><url>http://misc-stuff.terraaeon.com/articles/beware-help.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rob74</author><text>&gt; <i>Something I have noticed is that the more people join a project, the more it begins to go off the rails, and the less productive each member of the team becomes. [...] many of the newcomers spend the bulk of their time, if not actually sabotaging the project, doing the next best thing. They do their best to drive the project in the wrong direction. In so doing, they waste the valuable time of everyone around them who is forced to clean up the messes they leave behind. These are intelligent people, so I do not believe they are incapable of understanding the vision that caused the project to be born. I think, rather, they just don&#x27;t care. Some call this &quot;not being a team player&quot;, but I call it narcissism.</i><p>Er... reading this, I would rather suspect the author of &quot;not being a team player&quot;. Of course, if other developers find your project interesting and want to contribute, they may have their own features and use cases in mind that don&#x27;t necessarily overlap with what you have planned, which doesn&#x27;t however mean that it has to be a &quot;wrong direction&quot;. As the owner of the project, you are free to accept their contributions or not, and they are free to fork the project and take it into another direction if you don&#x27;t like that direction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Closi</author><text>There is a minor irony that the author has another blogpost on how micromanaging bosses are awful, because they insist that you should work their way rather than your own way.<p>Perhaps the learning here is just &quot;managing engineers to deliver something cohesive isn&#x27;t straightforward&quot;. It&#x27;s obviously true that an open source project can have good coding standards with multiple contributors of different skill levels, but you get there by managing the project really well.<p>And while more engineers can mean that an individual engineer is slower, the idea is that with good management and engineering the aggregate output can increase with each engineer (i.e. Having 10 engineers who only work at 25% of the pace of a standalone engineer will still output 2.5x as much as a single engineer. At scale it is the teams output that matters, not the output of an individual engineer).</text></comment> |
4,746,781 | 4,746,544 | 1 | 3 | 4,746,349 | train | <story><title>Neil deGrasse Tyson: If I Were President...</title><url>http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/read/2011/08/21/if-i-were-president</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>liber8</author><text>I find it amusing that almost every OP in this thread has cited the same quote as proof of NDT's arrogance, and then every response debates whether NDT is arrogant or voters stupid. All of this misses the actual ignorance of NDT's letter. The last half of that sentence is key:<p><i>As a scientist and educator, my goal, then, is not to become President and lead a dysfunctional electorate, but to enlighten the electorate so they might choose the right leaders in the first place.</i><p>NDT falls into the same trap as nearly everyone since the framers of the constitution. You're never going to elect the <i>right leaders</i>. They don't exist. The reason our government was set up the way it was, and not the way it exists now, was precisely because the greatest group of political scientists to ever congregate in one place and time realized that people are inherently flawed, weak, and susceptible to the intoxicating effects of power. <i>Because</i> you'll never have the "right leaders", you must structure the system to prevent abuse by the inevitable "wrong leaders" that will be elected.<p>NDT, like so many others, misses this point completely, even though nearly the entire letter pays lip service to the idea that the leaders are not the problem to focus on. While he's right, the solution won't appear even if he "enlightened the electorate" to Tysonian heights.</text></comment> | <story><title>Neil deGrasse Tyson: If I Were President...</title><url>http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/read/2011/08/21/if-i-were-president</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>maratd</author><text>&#62; As a scientist and educator, my goal, then, is not to become President and lead a dysfunctional electorate, but to enlighten the electorate so they might choose the right leaders in the first place.<p>This reeks of extreme arrogance. A type very common in academia. The presumption that the masses are ignorant, while you, anointed and blessed, are simply brilliant.<p>No.<p>If you get off your high-horse and actually talk to them, you'll find that they are just as brilliant as you, in their own ways.<p>Our problems don't stem from the majority wallowing in ignorance. They are not ignorant. Our problems stem from divergent interests. What is in the interest of one, is not in the interest of his neighbor. The path to a healthier nation is in finding creative ways in resolving those conflicts of interest.</text></comment> |
16,055,936 | 16,055,747 | 1 | 2 | 16,055,208 | train | <story><title>After Equifax breach, anger but no action in Congress</title><url>https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/01/equifax-data-breach-congress-action-319631</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikestew</author><text>Yeah, that&#x27;s why I bought Equifax call options a little bit after the breach was announced. Made good money on those options, and it pisses me off. It pisses me off that after an event that should bankrupt a company such as Equifax, I lay hard-earned on the table knowing that I have an extremely good chance of a healthy ROI simply because of vested interests and status quo.<p>Like other political hot topics, this is one of those things that causes me to ask, &quot;okay, then, how bad <i>does</i> it have to get before populist outrage brings about change?&quot; Something worse happens, and this is the time, right? Nope. And so on from one event to the next.<p>OTOH, in this case maybe the invalidation of vast amounts of data will alone bring about changes out of necessity. There will probably be a rough patch of lawsuits, debate, and perhaps a new law or two, but perhaps it will eventually shake out something better.</text></comment> | <story><title>After Equifax breach, anger but no action in Congress</title><url>https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/01/equifax-data-breach-congress-action-319631</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rossdavidh</author><text>In other words, there will have to be a bigger, more painful incident before anything gets done. In part, because a large committee composed mostly of lawyers is not probably the right group to even determine what needs to be done, in this particular case.</text></comment> |
2,203,805 | 2,203,869 | 1 | 2 | 2,203,697 | train | <story><title>Mubarak says that he will not be leaving office</title><url>http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/10/live-blog-feb-10-egypt-protests</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>obiefernandez</author><text>I'm glued to AlJazeera at the moment and have definitely been following the whole story with enthusiastic interest since the beginning.<p>BUT<p>Why are we discussing this topic here again? Seems completely off-topic...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robryan</author><text>Pretty much every piece of really significant world news gets discussed here, no matter what the topic. I find that fine, as long as the bar is high enough that it's not all the time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mubarak says that he will not be leaving office</title><url>http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/10/live-blog-feb-10-egypt-protests</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>obiefernandez</author><text>I'm glued to AlJazeera at the moment and have definitely been following the whole story with enthusiastic interest since the beginning.<p>BUT<p>Why are we discussing this topic here again? Seems completely off-topic...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeromec</author><text>You're right that according to the site's guidelines (<a href="http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a>) political stories are usually off-topic.<p><i>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.</i><p>However, there is an exception given for "interesting new phenomenon". I would say revolutions of a scale not seen in a region for thousands of years would qualify.</text></comment> |
20,618,861 | 20,613,447 | 1 | 3 | 20,610,839 | train | <story><title>All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people</title><url>https://medium.com/@bellmar/all-the-best-engineering-advice-i-stole-from-non-technical-people-eb7f90ca2f5f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>michaelt</author><text>The First Transcontinental Railroad, 1868 mi in length, was built between 1863 and 1869. Six years - completing a route from the Atlantic to the Pacific.<p>California High-Speed Rail, 520 mi in length, began construction in 2015, cost 90x as much per mile, even after accounting for inflation, and.... was indefinitely postponed in 2019. For a rail line in a <i>single state</i>.<p>Admittedly, with much higher speed, and much more humane construction. But nonetheless, even with a much higher per-mile price they still couldn&#x27;t deliver it? I can see how someone someone might get the <i>impression</i> we aren&#x27;t able to successfully deliver large projects any more.</text></item><item><author>fnord123</author><text>&gt;I don&#x27;t have much hope for the future generation of megaprojects. And, you know, we&#x27;re not really doing them anymore. I wonder what changed.<p>We are still doing megaprojects just fine. And less people die doing them.</text></item><item><author>jrockway</author><text>I know exactly how it happens. Engineering projects take a long time. 90% of the effort lives in the basement where nobody can see it; getting data from some other system, optimizing queries, spinning up the servers... nothing at all user-facing. So to the untrained eye, 90% of the time, programmers are doing nothing. And that 90% can be weeks, months, even years.<p>I don&#x27;t think any of this is unique to software engineering, either. You don&#x27;t just one day decide to build a bridge and show up at the bank of the river with a cement mixer tomorrow. To someone that wants to drive over the river, it looks like no progress is being made on the project. Hence, lots of meetings (delaying the project further) to make sure everyone is working hard enough. (Because there is always &quot;that one guy&quot; who actually isn&#x27;t doing anything. And it looks the same as someone who is working hard to an outsider.)<p>As for why we spend money hiring people that don&#x27;t actually do anything, tracking the progress of other people&#x27;s work... I think it&#x27;s just loss aversion in action. If you spend 10% of the day working on timesheets and pay an additional employee to check up on them... you know where your money&#x27;s going. But if someone just shows up to work and does nothing, then they&#x27;re stealing from you and must be punished! It is human nature.<p>I don&#x27;t know what we did in the past that&#x27;s different from today. Somehow we got to the moon. But now companies are so bloated that even doing nothing seems like it requires 30,000 employees. I don&#x27;t have much hope for the future generation of megaprojects. And, you know, we&#x27;re not really doing them anymore. I wonder what changed. Or maybe looking back at the all the achievements of the entire human race at once makes it difficult to put the present day into perspective.</text></item><item><author>noonespecial</author><text><i>they have innate understanding that being observed working is more valuable than the results of their work.</i><p>I&#x27;ve seen coders who knew this by heart forget this less than 5 years after entering management and become champions of forcing everybody into the office for 8:30 stand-ups and time tracking systems that enforce minute by minute &quot;project accountability&quot;.<p>I don&#x27;t know exactly how this happens, all I know is its like a damn force of nature. The only thing I&#x27;ve ever seen kill morale and tank projects faster is random periodic layoffs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fnord123</author><text>Why not compare a functioning project with a functioning project? e.g. the Beijing-Shenzhen line (2230km (1390 miles to compare to the FTR)) that takes 8h34m and can hit 300km&#x2F;h: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Beijing%E2%80%93Guangzhou_high-speed_railway" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Beijing%E2%80%93Guangzhou_high...</a><p>Or we could compare successful project of today (A380) vs failed project (Spruce Goose).<p>Or, I know it&#x27;s not as romantic as a real living person on the Moon who then comes back home, but we have robots on Mars. And on comets.<p>&gt;I can see how someone someone might get the impression we aren&#x27;t able to successfully deliver large projects any more.<p>We&#x27;re all clever people and can convince ourselves of anything if we really try. Why not be positive? :)</text></comment> | <story><title>All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people</title><url>https://medium.com/@bellmar/all-the-best-engineering-advice-i-stole-from-non-technical-people-eb7f90ca2f5f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>michaelt</author><text>The First Transcontinental Railroad, 1868 mi in length, was built between 1863 and 1869. Six years - completing a route from the Atlantic to the Pacific.<p>California High-Speed Rail, 520 mi in length, began construction in 2015, cost 90x as much per mile, even after accounting for inflation, and.... was indefinitely postponed in 2019. For a rail line in a <i>single state</i>.<p>Admittedly, with much higher speed, and much more humane construction. But nonetheless, even with a much higher per-mile price they still couldn&#x27;t deliver it? I can see how someone someone might get the <i>impression</i> we aren&#x27;t able to successfully deliver large projects any more.</text></item><item><author>fnord123</author><text>&gt;I don&#x27;t have much hope for the future generation of megaprojects. And, you know, we&#x27;re not really doing them anymore. I wonder what changed.<p>We are still doing megaprojects just fine. And less people die doing them.</text></item><item><author>jrockway</author><text>I know exactly how it happens. Engineering projects take a long time. 90% of the effort lives in the basement where nobody can see it; getting data from some other system, optimizing queries, spinning up the servers... nothing at all user-facing. So to the untrained eye, 90% of the time, programmers are doing nothing. And that 90% can be weeks, months, even years.<p>I don&#x27;t think any of this is unique to software engineering, either. You don&#x27;t just one day decide to build a bridge and show up at the bank of the river with a cement mixer tomorrow. To someone that wants to drive over the river, it looks like no progress is being made on the project. Hence, lots of meetings (delaying the project further) to make sure everyone is working hard enough. (Because there is always &quot;that one guy&quot; who actually isn&#x27;t doing anything. And it looks the same as someone who is working hard to an outsider.)<p>As for why we spend money hiring people that don&#x27;t actually do anything, tracking the progress of other people&#x27;s work... I think it&#x27;s just loss aversion in action. If you spend 10% of the day working on timesheets and pay an additional employee to check up on them... you know where your money&#x27;s going. But if someone just shows up to work and does nothing, then they&#x27;re stealing from you and must be punished! It is human nature.<p>I don&#x27;t know what we did in the past that&#x27;s different from today. Somehow we got to the moon. But now companies are so bloated that even doing nothing seems like it requires 30,000 employees. I don&#x27;t have much hope for the future generation of megaprojects. And, you know, we&#x27;re not really doing them anymore. I wonder what changed. Or maybe looking back at the all the achievements of the entire human race at once makes it difficult to put the present day into perspective.</text></item><item><author>noonespecial</author><text><i>they have innate understanding that being observed working is more valuable than the results of their work.</i><p>I&#x27;ve seen coders who knew this by heart forget this less than 5 years after entering management and become champions of forcing everybody into the office for 8:30 stand-ups and time tracking systems that enforce minute by minute &quot;project accountability&quot;.<p>I don&#x27;t know exactly how this happens, all I know is its like a damn force of nature. The only thing I&#x27;ve ever seen kill morale and tank projects faster is random periodic layoffs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>defterGoose</author><text>We also live in an era where the government (federal, state, whatever) is seemingly viewed by many as less a benevolent force to be co-opted, and increasingly as a necessary evil to be thwarted and disempowered. Sure, the time period you mention is right around the heart of the civil war, with all the anti- and pro-establsihment sentiment that came along with it, but these feelings were rather new at the time. Most people were still farmers who valued &quot;getting shit done&quot; more highly than divorced-from-reality ideological barriers. The country was still needing to be connected and filled up.</text></comment> |
5,992,365 | 5,992,313 | 1 | 3 | 5,989,707 | train | <story><title>DecryptoCat</title><url>http://tobtu.com/decryptocat.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dobbsbob</author><text>You are exactly the kind of self absorbed, reckless person crypto projects want to weed out, so it&#x27;s great you take criticism personally and run off crying. No amount of hand holding or spoon feeding will make you understand it&#x27;s importance so the tried and true method of removing clueless, poisonous (and in your case dangerous due to your prejudice) time wasters via deflating their ego has been vindicated and you are the proof why it still works. The farther a fragile basketcase like you is kept away from critical protocols the better off humanity is.</text></item><item><author>ceol</author><text>There&#x27;s something wrong with someone who doesn&#x27;t want to get treated like shit? You&#x27;re not helping your case.<p><i>&gt; What&#x27;s needed is secure code to stop governments from rounding up Syrian and Bahraini dissidents and drilling holes into their knees during interrogation because they were duped into trusting cryptocat while planning their democracy protests.</i><p>Oh, get over yourself. We all know the vast majority of online cryptographic transmissions are for child pornography and drug purchases. Don&#x27;t act like Syrian rebels actually use these technologies when most of them don&#x27;t even have access to a computer, let alone the knowledge of how to use one.<p>This is seriously the problem. You sit there and think modern cryptography is something other than a rich white guy&#x27;s game, as though it&#x27;s nothing but a Righteous Endeavor, so you get to treat other people like shit. The fact that the paragraph before that one is all about how you&#x27;re getting drunk at some invite-only German hackathon is proof enough.</text></item><item><author>dobbsbob</author><text>I think there&#x27;s something wrong with you if you get all uppity and bent out of shape over a senior developer calling you out. I actually laugh when Theo De Raadt calls my device driver a flaming bag of of shit, and says my head must be so far up my ass I&#x27;m unable to understand the interfaces I&#x27;m coding to.<p>I rewrite it then submit it to somebody else to review before submission, then get a message saying thanks for doing it the proper way, thanks for using the proper channels, and hey you seem OK do you want to come to the invite only hackathon in Germany this year? If I cried about it instead, I&#x27;d still be a shitty programmer, and I wouldn&#x27;t be drinking gigantic beers in Hamburg learning invaluable methods from Henning Brauer how to properly design a program from the ground up with security in mind so you don&#x27;t have to dispose of everything half way through a major project, wasting everybody else&#x27;s time because you didn&#x27;t carefully design. If you think mailing list comments are bad, wait until a room full of developers has to delete six days worth of coding because you screwed up the design with a simple mistake. Wait until your boss finds out you wasted company resources and money for months and had to scrap a project. You will get worse than hurt feelings, you will be fired.<p>Almost all security&#x2F;crypto projects are open source. There&#x27;s no money involved, therefore no corporate sensitivity training or social skills needed. What&#x27;s needed is secure code to stop governments from rounding up Syrian and Bahraini dissidents and drilling holes into their knees during interrogation because they were duped into trusting cryptocat while planning their democracy protests.</text></item><item><author>ceol</author><text>This is a really gross attitude, and it&#x27;s even grosser that you dress it up like some macho rite-of-passage. Call it what it is: A bunch of bitter nerds taking their pent-up anger out on random newbies. It&#x27;s the fraternity hazing of the tech world, it&#x27;s bullshit, and it needs to stop. It doesn&#x27;t need other bitter nerds treating it like it&#x27;s normal.<p>Instead of expecting newbies to know they&#x27;re going to be met with a storm of putrid shit should they speak a syllable out of line, how about we expect our moderators and leaders have some degree of social skill?</text></item><item><author>dobbsbob</author><text>Years of linux kernel, theo de raadt&#x2F;bsd, and grsec mailing list total rage and various IRC hacker&#x2F;dev channel slamming of idiocy has hardened my skin and actually makes me thankful they are clear, concise and direct with their criticism instead of phony hand holding and passive aggressiveness. It&#x27;s a rite of passage to get your ass handed to you by other devs. Some people just don&#x27;t get it, you have to pummel them with a blast of anger on the mailing list or they&#x27;ll continue to waste everybody&#x27;s time with their idiocy.<p>It&#x27;s not the end of the world if somebody calls your insecure program a pile of shit and you a nerf herding waste of skin for inflicting said shit upon the world. That&#x27;s like standard behaviour since the days of Stallman at MIT labs</text></item><item><author>zainny</author><text>What is it with people in the crypto community always coming across as complete and utter jerks? Question for those in this space: is it possible for you to give constructive criticism for a project without calling people &quot;incompetent&quot;?<p>Seriously, if there any domain in CS more full of these types of personalities I can&#x27;t think of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ceol</author><text>I&#x27;ve taken some time away from this discussion, had something to eat, cooled down a bit, and I&#x27;d like to say that I&#x27;m sorry if I offended you. I didn&#x27;t realize how abrasive I was being.</text></comment> | <story><title>DecryptoCat</title><url>http://tobtu.com/decryptocat.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dobbsbob</author><text>You are exactly the kind of self absorbed, reckless person crypto projects want to weed out, so it&#x27;s great you take criticism personally and run off crying. No amount of hand holding or spoon feeding will make you understand it&#x27;s importance so the tried and true method of removing clueless, poisonous (and in your case dangerous due to your prejudice) time wasters via deflating their ego has been vindicated and you are the proof why it still works. The farther a fragile basketcase like you is kept away from critical protocols the better off humanity is.</text></item><item><author>ceol</author><text>There&#x27;s something wrong with someone who doesn&#x27;t want to get treated like shit? You&#x27;re not helping your case.<p><i>&gt; What&#x27;s needed is secure code to stop governments from rounding up Syrian and Bahraini dissidents and drilling holes into their knees during interrogation because they were duped into trusting cryptocat while planning their democracy protests.</i><p>Oh, get over yourself. We all know the vast majority of online cryptographic transmissions are for child pornography and drug purchases. Don&#x27;t act like Syrian rebels actually use these technologies when most of them don&#x27;t even have access to a computer, let alone the knowledge of how to use one.<p>This is seriously the problem. You sit there and think modern cryptography is something other than a rich white guy&#x27;s game, as though it&#x27;s nothing but a Righteous Endeavor, so you get to treat other people like shit. The fact that the paragraph before that one is all about how you&#x27;re getting drunk at some invite-only German hackathon is proof enough.</text></item><item><author>dobbsbob</author><text>I think there&#x27;s something wrong with you if you get all uppity and bent out of shape over a senior developer calling you out. I actually laugh when Theo De Raadt calls my device driver a flaming bag of of shit, and says my head must be so far up my ass I&#x27;m unable to understand the interfaces I&#x27;m coding to.<p>I rewrite it then submit it to somebody else to review before submission, then get a message saying thanks for doing it the proper way, thanks for using the proper channels, and hey you seem OK do you want to come to the invite only hackathon in Germany this year? If I cried about it instead, I&#x27;d still be a shitty programmer, and I wouldn&#x27;t be drinking gigantic beers in Hamburg learning invaluable methods from Henning Brauer how to properly design a program from the ground up with security in mind so you don&#x27;t have to dispose of everything half way through a major project, wasting everybody else&#x27;s time because you didn&#x27;t carefully design. If you think mailing list comments are bad, wait until a room full of developers has to delete six days worth of coding because you screwed up the design with a simple mistake. Wait until your boss finds out you wasted company resources and money for months and had to scrap a project. You will get worse than hurt feelings, you will be fired.<p>Almost all security&#x2F;crypto projects are open source. There&#x27;s no money involved, therefore no corporate sensitivity training or social skills needed. What&#x27;s needed is secure code to stop governments from rounding up Syrian and Bahraini dissidents and drilling holes into their knees during interrogation because they were duped into trusting cryptocat while planning their democracy protests.</text></item><item><author>ceol</author><text>This is a really gross attitude, and it&#x27;s even grosser that you dress it up like some macho rite-of-passage. Call it what it is: A bunch of bitter nerds taking their pent-up anger out on random newbies. It&#x27;s the fraternity hazing of the tech world, it&#x27;s bullshit, and it needs to stop. It doesn&#x27;t need other bitter nerds treating it like it&#x27;s normal.<p>Instead of expecting newbies to know they&#x27;re going to be met with a storm of putrid shit should they speak a syllable out of line, how about we expect our moderators and leaders have some degree of social skill?</text></item><item><author>dobbsbob</author><text>Years of linux kernel, theo de raadt&#x2F;bsd, and grsec mailing list total rage and various IRC hacker&#x2F;dev channel slamming of idiocy has hardened my skin and actually makes me thankful they are clear, concise and direct with their criticism instead of phony hand holding and passive aggressiveness. It&#x27;s a rite of passage to get your ass handed to you by other devs. Some people just don&#x27;t get it, you have to pummel them with a blast of anger on the mailing list or they&#x27;ll continue to waste everybody&#x27;s time with their idiocy.<p>It&#x27;s not the end of the world if somebody calls your insecure program a pile of shit and you a nerf herding waste of skin for inflicting said shit upon the world. That&#x27;s like standard behaviour since the days of Stallman at MIT labs</text></item><item><author>zainny</author><text>What is it with people in the crypto community always coming across as complete and utter jerks? Question for those in this space: is it possible for you to give constructive criticism for a project without calling people &quot;incompetent&quot;?<p>Seriously, if there any domain in CS more full of these types of personalities I can&#x27;t think of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foobarbazqux</author><text>From the guidelines:<p>&gt; Be civil. Don&#x27;t say things you wouldn&#x27;t say in a face to face conversation.<p>This was uncivil. I doubt you would say that to his face. Comments like this are likely to get flagged, and if it happens enough, your account will get banned. It doesn&#x27;t matter how good of a programmer you are, or how impolite RMS and Theo are.</text></comment> |
24,873,068 | 24,873,226 | 1 | 2 | 24,872,911 | train | <story><title>YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA</title><url>https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>molmalo</author><text>I was thinking the same thing:
The next step following this line of thinking would be trying to ban all torrent clients, because they CAN be used to download copyrighted material.<p>This is crazy.</text></item><item><author>jchw</author><text>Note that RIAA is making this takedown because the software CAN be used to download copyrighted music and videos, and it uses examples in the ~~README~~(unit tests, see correction[1]) as an example of that:<p>&gt; We also note that the source code prominently includes as sample uses of the source code the downloading of copies of our members’ copyrighted sound recordings and music videos, as noted in Exhibit A hereto. For example, as shown on Exhibit A, the source code expressly suggests its use to copy and&#x2F;or distribute the following copyrighted works owned by our member companies:<p>They could, of course, have asked for the code to have been changed. Instead, they attacked the project itself. IANAL, but this seems outrageous the same way DMCA&#x27;ing a Bittorrent client would be. This doesn&#x27;t circumvent DRM like Widevine. I don&#x27;t understand what leg they have to stand on here.<p>This feels like DeCSS all over again.<p>P.S.: They also took down youtube-dlc, even though it&#x27;s not listed.<p>[1]: It turns out I am wrong. It wasn&#x27;t in the readme, but in the <i>test cases</i>. See extractor&#x2F;youtube.py. To me this seems even more tenuous, but IANAL.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Andrew_nenakhov</author><text>Why stop with torrent clients? They should ban all browsers, because they CAN be used to download copyrighted materials!</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA</title><url>https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>molmalo</author><text>I was thinking the same thing:
The next step following this line of thinking would be trying to ban all torrent clients, because they CAN be used to download copyrighted material.<p>This is crazy.</text></item><item><author>jchw</author><text>Note that RIAA is making this takedown because the software CAN be used to download copyrighted music and videos, and it uses examples in the ~~README~~(unit tests, see correction[1]) as an example of that:<p>&gt; We also note that the source code prominently includes as sample uses of the source code the downloading of copies of our members’ copyrighted sound recordings and music videos, as noted in Exhibit A hereto. For example, as shown on Exhibit A, the source code expressly suggests its use to copy and&#x2F;or distribute the following copyrighted works owned by our member companies:<p>They could, of course, have asked for the code to have been changed. Instead, they attacked the project itself. IANAL, but this seems outrageous the same way DMCA&#x27;ing a Bittorrent client would be. This doesn&#x27;t circumvent DRM like Widevine. I don&#x27;t understand what leg they have to stand on here.<p>This feels like DeCSS all over again.<p>P.S.: They also took down youtube-dlc, even though it&#x27;s not listed.<p>[1]: It turns out I am wrong. It wasn&#x27;t in the readme, but in the <i>test cases</i>. See extractor&#x2F;youtube.py. To me this seems even more tenuous, but IANAL.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dvtrn</author><text><i>The next step following this line of thinking would be trying to ban all torrent clients, because they CAN be used to download copyrighted material</i><p>Didn&#x27;t the RIAA put up a considerable effort against torrenting in the early 2000&#x27;s? I remember quite vividly them going after just about anyone who made music available, even if you owned your own songs and were simply uploading them to a web UI to listen to in the browser (Remember Muxtape?)</text></comment> |
26,044,136 | 26,040,578 | 1 | 2 | 26,037,687 | train | <story><title>8 Bits Are Enough for a Version Number</title><url>http://kroah.com/log/blog/2021/02/05/8-bits-are-enough-for-a-version-number-dot-dot-dot/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>peterkelly</author><text>I like Donald Knuth&#x27;s approach to versioning. Each new release of TeX has one additional digit appended, the most recent version being 3.14159265. The version numbers asymptotically approach π, suggesting the code is converging towards (but never quite reaching) perfection.</text></comment> | <story><title>8 Bits Are Enough for a Version Number</title><url>http://kroah.com/log/blog/2021/02/05/8-bits-are-enough-for-a-version-number-dot-dot-dot/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Havoc</author><text>Rather OT, but I wish GKH would get more limelight. Guy comes across super charismatic while still having tech cred</text></comment> |
12,116,239 | 12,115,820 | 1 | 2 | 12,114,946 | train | <story><title>Become a 10x Programmer by Managing Your Time Better</title><url>http://nickjanetakis.com/blog/schedules-arent-a-constraint-on-life-they-let-you-live-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>M4v3R</author><text>&gt; It’s easy to fall into habits like slacking off with Youtube, HackerNews and other social platforms – but have you ever stepped back to think how destructive it is?<p>&gt; I call it the “social loop of death” where you make your rounds on various sites and before you know it, 3.5 hours have past and you haven’t gotten anything done.<p>&gt; You end up getting 60 minutes worth of actual work done in an 8 hour day.<p>I feel like someone installed cameras in my home. This is exactly me. What&#x27;s even worse, I know that I have this problem and nothing seems to help. Scheduling, website blocking, working out of home all failed after some brief time. Any other suggestions?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spaced_out</author><text>The only solution is to be more self-disciplined, and there is no magic trick for that. Discipline takes time and effort to develop, and you&#x27;ll be disappointed with yourself plenty of times along the way. The only secret is to keep trying.<p>To brag slightly, but maybe add some perspective, for many years I wanted to learn to speak Spanish. Now, I&#x27;m at the point where I can read the news in Spanish with hardly any difficulty, have read a few high-school level books, and can hold conversations, even on engineering topics, without too many mistakes.<p>For years it was just something I kind of wanted and put off, but at some point I wanted it bad enough, that I committed, and followed through, with spending a few hours every day studying. Sure, sometimes things just came up and I missed a day or so, other times I fell into my old patterns of playing video games after work and was disappointed in myself, but everyone gets disappointed in themselves sometimes (otherwise you must have no shame whatsoever). The important thing is to just try again tomorrow.<p>Anyways, I didn&#x27;t really mean for this to sound braggy, but I did want to answer your post. Things like working from home and organizing and&#x2F;or coming up with a scheduling system helps some people, it may even help you, but you won&#x27;t develop more discipline overnight. In my opinion, the only secret to becoming more productive with your time is not never give up trying to be more productive with your time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Become a 10x Programmer by Managing Your Time Better</title><url>http://nickjanetakis.com/blog/schedules-arent-a-constraint-on-life-they-let-you-live-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>M4v3R</author><text>&gt; It’s easy to fall into habits like slacking off with Youtube, HackerNews and other social platforms – but have you ever stepped back to think how destructive it is?<p>&gt; I call it the “social loop of death” where you make your rounds on various sites and before you know it, 3.5 hours have past and you haven’t gotten anything done.<p>&gt; You end up getting 60 minutes worth of actual work done in an 8 hour day.<p>I feel like someone installed cameras in my home. This is exactly me. What&#x27;s even worse, I know that I have this problem and nothing seems to help. Scheduling, website blocking, working out of home all failed after some brief time. Any other suggestions?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swsieber</author><text>Change your browser? There is research (I&#x27;d have to find it) that says addictive behavior is strongly attached to your environment.<p>The example I heard is that soldiers who got addicted to drugs overseas have a much better time at home if they quit before coming back - then the addiction is associated purely with where they served overseas, and not at all at home. We&#x27;re talking an order of magnitude more successful.<p>Sadly, I don&#x27;t remember many details - so take the above with a grain of salt. I think the above was in relation to vietnam, but I&#x27;m not sure.<p>Edit: You could probably do a lot with this - you could change your broswer theme, get a plugin that applies a theme to websites, switch up your desk layout, move your desk area, etc.</text></comment> |
38,123,553 | 38,118,435 | 1 | 2 | 38,111,483 | train | <story><title>EU data regulator bans personalised advertising on Facebook and Instagram</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/facebook-owner-faces-eu-ban-targeted-advertising-norway-says-2023-11-01/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arbuge</author><text>I might be in the minority here but I personally find personalized ads useful, and am far more annoyed by ads recommending products and services completely irrelevant to my interests and&#x2F;or needs.<p>(The latter still account for the ads I see most of the time, unfortunately.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Fice</author><text>Advertising does not simply suggest you something that you might need, it often tries to manipulate you into needing something, and with the amounts of personal data being collected and advancements in machine learning this manipulation becomes dangerously effective.</text></comment> | <story><title>EU data regulator bans personalised advertising on Facebook and Instagram</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/facebook-owner-faces-eu-ban-targeted-advertising-norway-says-2023-11-01/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arbuge</author><text>I might be in the minority here but I personally find personalized ads useful, and am far more annoyed by ads recommending products and services completely irrelevant to my interests and&#x2F;or needs.<p>(The latter still account for the ads I see most of the time, unfortunately.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imafish</author><text>Sure. As long as I don’t have to deliver (all) my private data to get those relevant ads.</text></comment> |
8,886,366 | 8,886,147 | 1 | 3 | 8,885,951 | train | <story><title>US segment of ISS evacuated due to possible cooling system leak</title><url>https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2015/01/14/space-station-update/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>Not following NASA and the ISS and well as I used to, I know there were plans to build a &#x27;lifeboat&#x27; for the crew. Is that a thing now? If something catastrophic happens, what does the crew <i>do</i>?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danepowell</author><text>There&#x27;s usually two three-person crews on the station at any given time, so two capsules are kept docked and ready to serve as lifeboats.<p>Since the Soyuz is the sole means of transportation to and from the station, they simply put the capsules into a rotation. When a new crew arrives, they leave their capsule docked and the departing crew rides the oldest capsule back to Earth.</text></comment> | <story><title>US segment of ISS evacuated due to possible cooling system leak</title><url>https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2015/01/14/space-station-update/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>Not following NASA and the ISS and well as I used to, I know there were plans to build a &#x27;lifeboat&#x27; for the crew. Is that a thing now? If something catastrophic happens, what does the crew <i>do</i>?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nnhtzgf</author><text>Currently there is a Dragon from SpaceX attached to the station. It is not equipped for but in a crisis it is capable of returning all crew members.</text></comment> |
18,446,346 | 18,445,917 | 1 | 2 | 18,445,340 | train | <story><title>Bill Godbout, a legend in the S-100 community, died in the Camp wildfire</title><url>http://vcfed.org/wp/2018/11/13/r-i-p-bill-godbout-79/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joering2</author><text>My heart goes out to them but I hate seeing Gofundme campaigns used for such purposes. All the time I see campaigns to cover someones medical bills or accident costs. No, we have insurance for that! What happened in California was a natural disaster and will be covered by what every home owner in Cali is forced to pay out every month in mandatory tax for such cathaclism. We as a society will be in very dengerous spot when people start ignoring obtaining reasonable insurance and just hope for successful Gofoundme campaign when things go south.</text></item><item><author>peepopeep</author><text>Family lost everything they own in the fire. Here is their Gofundme campaign: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gofundme.com&#x2F;godbouttuckcampfirerelieffund" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gofundme.com&#x2F;godbouttuckcampfirerelieffund</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ridgeguy</author><text>Your insurance coverage can vanish in a moment. A current anecdote..<p>I live in a neighborhood of ~80 small lots&#x2F;homes a few miles west of Palo Alto. Since Oct.1, nine of our neighbors have had their fire insurance policies terminated immediately on receipt of the mailed notices. Most of the nine had their policies in place for &gt;15 years. Not like they were dodging the need for insurance.<p>Gofundme has its uses. I hope it brings at lease a small measure of ease to the Godbout family.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bill Godbout, a legend in the S-100 community, died in the Camp wildfire</title><url>http://vcfed.org/wp/2018/11/13/r-i-p-bill-godbout-79/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joering2</author><text>My heart goes out to them but I hate seeing Gofundme campaigns used for such purposes. All the time I see campaigns to cover someones medical bills or accident costs. No, we have insurance for that! What happened in California was a natural disaster and will be covered by what every home owner in Cali is forced to pay out every month in mandatory tax for such cathaclism. We as a society will be in very dengerous spot when people start ignoring obtaining reasonable insurance and just hope for successful Gofoundme campaign when things go south.</text></item><item><author>peepopeep</author><text>Family lost everything they own in the fire. Here is their Gofundme campaign: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gofundme.com&#x2F;godbouttuckcampfirerelieffund" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gofundme.com&#x2F;godbouttuckcampfirerelieffund</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>from the perspective of a person that lives in a country with a single-payer healthcare system, that covers pretty much everybody, it is amazing to see Americans use GoFundMe for medical bills.<p>The fact that you can become completely bankrupt by getting cancer or any other &quot;expensive&quot; ailment is just... Ridiculous.<p>GoFundMe is a symptom of a much larger problem, not the problem itself.</text></comment> |
25,814,903 | 25,814,724 | 1 | 3 | 25,813,760 | train | <story><title>E Ink has developed a 2nd generation Advanced Color E-Paper</title><url>https://goodereader.com/blog/e-paper/e-ink-has-developed-acep-gallery-4100-color-e-paper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dsr_</author><text>Here&#x27;s an article from 2011 doing Moore&#x27;s Law extrapolation of RAM and disk prices: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;antranik.org&#x2F;using-moores-law-to-predict-future-memory-trends&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;antranik.org&#x2F;using-moores-law-to-predict-future-memo...</a><p>RAM, 2011:
&quot;A single 8GB stick of RAM is about $80 right now. In 2021, you’d be able to buy a single stick of RAM that contains 64GB for the same price.&quot;<p>Disks, 2011:
&quot;The price of a 1-terabyte hard drive is $80 now...<p>In 2013, a 2TB drive will be $80.<p>In 2015, a 4TB drive will be $80.<p>After that the doubling rate may lengthen to 3 years instead of 2 years so..<p>In 2018, an 8TB drive will be $80. And finally in 2021, for $80, you’d be able to buy a 16 terabyte hard drive&quot;</text></item><item><author>dragosmocrii</author><text>Can you elaborate on the memory pricing?</text></item><item><author>systemvoltage</author><text>Between 2007-2009, 80+ Stratasys patents expired. Think about this - a single company holding back the world in advancing forward in 3D printing. Orthogonally, ever wondered why memory on your PC is so expensive? Thanks to Micron, Hynix and Samsung triopoly.</text></item><item><author>_Microft</author><text>Don’t forget 3D printing that also only really started when patents expired.</text></item><item><author>listerOfSmeg</author><text>E-ink is one of those techs that only advanced when large batches of patents expire. E-ink the company has tied up the tech stack in so many patents, NDA&#x27;s, and exorbitant prices that no one wants to touch it. E-ink the technology wont go any where for 10-15 years when that next big batch of patents expire. Its just like 3D displays and VR there will be a massive consumer push new batches of patents will be filed progress will grind to a halt as no-one can afford everyone else&#x27;s patent licensing fees on a unproven market until the next wave expires and better products can be built again repeat</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone</author><text>I don’t think it’s fair to expect hard drive capacity&#x2F;$ to grow exponentially forever.<p>Certainly for consumer hard drives, there’s a cost of getting the drive to the customer (transport, shop rent, employee salaries, etc) which is, at best, fixed.<p>If manufacturing costs drop to zero, price will approach that fixed cost (plus any markup sellers manage to extract, for example by marketing their drives as better&#x2F;more hip&#x2F;etc.)</text></comment> | <story><title>E Ink has developed a 2nd generation Advanced Color E-Paper</title><url>https://goodereader.com/blog/e-paper/e-ink-has-developed-acep-gallery-4100-color-e-paper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dsr_</author><text>Here&#x27;s an article from 2011 doing Moore&#x27;s Law extrapolation of RAM and disk prices: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;antranik.org&#x2F;using-moores-law-to-predict-future-memory-trends&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;antranik.org&#x2F;using-moores-law-to-predict-future-memo...</a><p>RAM, 2011:
&quot;A single 8GB stick of RAM is about $80 right now. In 2021, you’d be able to buy a single stick of RAM that contains 64GB for the same price.&quot;<p>Disks, 2011:
&quot;The price of a 1-terabyte hard drive is $80 now...<p>In 2013, a 2TB drive will be $80.<p>In 2015, a 4TB drive will be $80.<p>After that the doubling rate may lengthen to 3 years instead of 2 years so..<p>In 2018, an 8TB drive will be $80. And finally in 2021, for $80, you’d be able to buy a 16 terabyte hard drive&quot;</text></item><item><author>dragosmocrii</author><text>Can you elaborate on the memory pricing?</text></item><item><author>systemvoltage</author><text>Between 2007-2009, 80+ Stratasys patents expired. Think about this - a single company holding back the world in advancing forward in 3D printing. Orthogonally, ever wondered why memory on your PC is so expensive? Thanks to Micron, Hynix and Samsung triopoly.</text></item><item><author>_Microft</author><text>Don’t forget 3D printing that also only really started when patents expired.</text></item><item><author>listerOfSmeg</author><text>E-ink is one of those techs that only advanced when large batches of patents expire. E-ink the company has tied up the tech stack in so many patents, NDA&#x27;s, and exorbitant prices that no one wants to touch it. E-ink the technology wont go any where for 10-15 years when that next big batch of patents expire. Its just like 3D displays and VR there will be a massive consumer push new batches of patents will be filed progress will grind to a halt as no-one can afford everyone else&#x27;s patent licensing fees on a unproven market until the next wave expires and better products can be built again repeat</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ivegotnoaccount</author><text>Is applying Moore&#x27;s law relevant, since the manufacturing process of DRAM is hugely different from the one for usual chips (limited by capacitor size, not transistor one) ?
Same goes for hard drives.
Not saying that price gouging has nothing to do with this, but simply saying &quot;Moore&#x27;s law was not followed&quot; does in no way imply something interfered with it.</text></comment> |
29,660,263 | 29,660,369 | 1 | 2 | 29,659,689 | train | <story><title>Does the Bronze Garbage Collector Make Rust Easier to Use?</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01098</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>symmetricsaurus</author><text>&gt; A key tradeoff is that Bronze does not guarantee thread safety<p>Not having data races is one of the key benefits of using Rust, “fearless concurrency” and all that. So by throwing away a key guarantee of Rust (no aliasing mutable references), it can become easier for learners to program in. It becomes a bit of an apples and oranges situation at that point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hawk_</author><text>Yes pretty much like taking a statically typed language, making compile time type annotations optional and claiming victory that it&#x27;s easier for beginners. Now they would get runtime exceptions instead.</text></comment> | <story><title>Does the Bronze Garbage Collector Make Rust Easier to Use?</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01098</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>symmetricsaurus</author><text>&gt; A key tradeoff is that Bronze does not guarantee thread safety<p>Not having data races is one of the key benefits of using Rust, “fearless concurrency” and all that. So by throwing away a key guarantee of Rust (no aliasing mutable references), it can become easier for learners to program in. It becomes a bit of an apples and oranges situation at that point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>luckystarr</author><text>True, yet in the context of the experiment that part of the language was not used, so they could compare the two approaches.<p>I think this research highlights a important strategy to make all software safer.<p>A quote from the discussion section:<p>&gt; Encouraging adoption of safer languages by reducing stress.</text></comment> |
2,841,739 | 2,841,537 | 1 | 3 | 2,840,440 | train | <story><title>Scalability</title><url>http://gregor-wagner.com/?p=79</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Flam</author><text>I'm afraid I disagree. There's no way you could multi-task all 30 open tabs at the same time. Read what you need and close the tab when you're done. Leave only the topmost page of the documentation open so you can find your way back down again if you need to. You should be able to tell whether a page has value to you or not within the first 30 seconds of skimming through it. Do you open every result on google for the first 3 pages of all your searches or something? Baffling.</text></item><item><author>cbs</author><text>How you feel doesn't really matter when you're doing anything other than idle browsing.<p>This morning I had about 30 tabs open when I came into work, all documentation or reference of some sort that I will use in the next few hours. And thats about the lowest I ever get, if I'm looking up something new to me or complex it will easily shoot over 100.</text></item><item><author>Flam</author><text>W.T.F.
I can't go over 6 without feeling messy.</text></item><item><author>rmccue</author><text>&#62; The real question is whether you would ever have that many tabs open, and how much memory do you have on your desktop?<p>I have 60 tabs open now (in FF), and this is after closing most of them, on a 32-bit system with 4GB of RAM. I regularly hit over 200 tabs when browsing.</text></item><item><author>tytso</author><text>Performance is the side-effect, not the cause. The cause is the fact that chrome uses separate processes both for security, and so if one tab crashes, you don't lose them all.<p>The fact that it uses more memory is a design tradeoff (although with shared text pages it's not as bad as one might think). The real question is whether you would ever have that many tabs open, and how much memory do you have on your desktop?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dredmorbius</author><text>It's called context / state.<p>The more state I can leave up on my desktop, the better.<p>If there were better management within the browser -- non-visible tabs were eventually unloaded, with any page-state (forms data, etc.) saved -- then you wouldn't have the memory bloat problems that occur.<p>The thing is that it's a very large virtual workspace to spread things out over. So long as it's organized, it's really useful.<p>Look to movies especially of researchers in the 1970s or 1980s who'd spread clippings and papers over all horizontal surfaces in an office, tape/pin them to a wall, etc. You want to be able to scan quickly through the space at eye-speed, not have to dig into files / organizers / storage / regenerate the information every time you want to look at it.<p>It's why you'd rather have a large monitor -- you can strew windows over it and see more, rather than have to manage windows and go through them repeatedly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Scalability</title><url>http://gregor-wagner.com/?p=79</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Flam</author><text>I'm afraid I disagree. There's no way you could multi-task all 30 open tabs at the same time. Read what you need and close the tab when you're done. Leave only the topmost page of the documentation open so you can find your way back down again if you need to. You should be able to tell whether a page has value to you or not within the first 30 seconds of skimming through it. Do you open every result on google for the first 3 pages of all your searches or something? Baffling.</text></item><item><author>cbs</author><text>How you feel doesn't really matter when you're doing anything other than idle browsing.<p>This morning I had about 30 tabs open when I came into work, all documentation or reference of some sort that I will use in the next few hours. And thats about the lowest I ever get, if I'm looking up something new to me or complex it will easily shoot over 100.</text></item><item><author>Flam</author><text>W.T.F.
I can't go over 6 without feeling messy.</text></item><item><author>rmccue</author><text>&#62; The real question is whether you would ever have that many tabs open, and how much memory do you have on your desktop?<p>I have 60 tabs open now (in FF), and this is after closing most of them, on a 32-bit system with 4GB of RAM. I regularly hit over 200 tabs when browsing.</text></item><item><author>tytso</author><text>Performance is the side-effect, not the cause. The cause is the fact that chrome uses separate processes both for security, and so if one tab crashes, you don't lose them all.<p>The fact that it uses more memory is a design tradeoff (although with shared text pages it's not as bad as one might think). The real question is whether you would ever have that many tabs open, and how much memory do you have on your desktop?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cbs</author><text>You're right. My workflow sucks and there is no way it could be the most efficient way for me to work. All those tabs are useless. Re-navigating to a document multiple times a day is easier than leaving it open scrolled to where I need it.<p>I guess I just suck at my job.</text></comment> |
13,034,044 | 13,032,407 | 1 | 3 | 13,031,012 | train | <story><title>The limitations of Android N Encryption</title><url>https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2016/11/24/android-n-encryption/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tytso</author><text>So I only worked on the ext4 encryption feature in the Linux kernel which was used to implement Android FBE, and so I&#x27;m not an expert on vold, but there shouldn&#x27;t be a reason why vold needs to hang on to the key. Vold is responsible for pushing the keys into the kernel, but what ext4 uses to do the per-file encryption is stored on a kernel keyring, <i>not</i> in userspace. So vold should be destroying the key after it loads it into memory --- it certainly can&#x27;t use the key for anything useful.<p>As far as being able to remove the keys while the phone is locked --- I can&#x27;t comment on future product directions, but it&#x27;s fair to say that the people working on the upper layers of the Android security system aren&#x27;t idiots, and the limitations of what was landed in the Android N release was known to them. It is no worse than what we had in older versions of Android (with FDE, we were using dm-crypt, and the keys were living in the kernel as well), and while it doesn&#x27;t help improve security with respect to the &quot;evil maid&quot; attack, it does significantly improve the user experience.<p>I agree that there is certainly room to improve, and note that future changes will require applications to make changes in how they access files, which does make it a much trickier change to introduce into the ecosystem without breaking backwards compatibility with existing applications.<p>As far as why different keys are being used for different profiles --- this makes it much easier to securely remove a corporate, &quot;work&quot; profile from a phone without needing to do a secure erase on the entire flash device --- either because an employee is leaving their existing employer and there is corp data on a BYOD phone&#x2F;tablet, or because the phone has been lost, and corporate security policy about how quickly corp data should be zapped from the phone might be different from what the user might want to exercise when they have temporarily misplaced the phone. (e.g., you might have a different tradeoff of losing unbacked-up data from your personal files versus their getting compromised while you hope that someone turns in your phone to lost+found than your company&#x27;s security policies might require.)</text></comment> | <story><title>The limitations of Android N Encryption</title><url>https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2016/11/24/android-n-encryption/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arkadiyt</author><text>For a really in-depth dive about the iOS class keys system he mentions I recommend this 2016 blackhat talk by Ivan Krstic (head of security at Apple): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=BLGFriOKz6U" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=BLGFriOKz6U</a> (relevant portion starts at 6:56)</text></comment> |
39,802,676 | 39,802,217 | 1 | 2 | 39,801,991 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Rotary Phone Project</title><url>https://github.com/mnutt/rotary</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>justinlloyd</author><text>As a child growing up in the UK I was allowed to call up, each evening, the bedtime stories phone line run by British Telecom. I used to call that bedtime story phone line from an an old 1970&#x27;s era rotary Snoopy telephone from British Telecom which I still own.<p>I ever so carefully updated the phone with a new RJ-30 jack (the original was bare wires), so that in a custom built base that the phone sits on is an Nvidia Jetson running an LLM and trained on Charlie Brown&#x27;s voice and a voice recognition model.<p>Dialing 1 will answer questions about Snoopy and Peanuts history and Charles Schultz in Charlie Brown&#x27;s voice. You can just talk to it. Dial 2 and a very nice lady with a British accent will read you a bedtime story, interactively, like a choose your own adventure of sorts, from a large database of stories. Dial 3 and Lucy will pick up, announce that the therapist is in, and talk with you about what&#x27;s troubling you, again, voice recognition and an LLM. Dial 4 and you get Woodstock. Any other number gets you an &quot;adult&quot; from the Peanuts cartoon that is impossible to understand, again, voice recognition to understand what you&#x27;re asking, but the response is unintelligible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Rotary Phone Project</title><url>https://github.com/mnutt/rotary</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tornquist</author><text>Very cool project. I was really struck by this comment:<p>&gt; Dial out to a short list of family contacts. It&#x27;s not something I think about much, but when I was a kid there was a phone on the wall and once I could reach it, I could use it. Now, if you&#x27;re not old enough to have a cell phone, you also can&#x27;t call anyone at all.<p>That&#x27;s not something I&#x27;ve ever thought about, but is a really huge change in what kids can do. I was always allowed to call over to a friend&#x27;s house and see if they could play.</text></comment> |
6,962,910 | 6,962,797 | 1 | 2 | 6,961,782 | train | <story><title>0 A.D. Alpha 15 - Osiris</title><url>http://play0ad.com/alpha-15-osiris/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frik</author><text>It&#x27;s a open source RTS (real time strategy) game similar to the Age of Empires game series. It&#x27;s great that 0 A.D. is coming along fine :)<p>Microsoft closed Ensemble Studios (the maker of Age of Empires). And EA canceled &quot;Command &amp; Conquer: Generals 2&quot; as of October 29, 2013.<p>Sadly, beside Star Craft 2 (its SciFi theme is not for everyone) no triple-A RTS games are in active development :( Back in 2000 there was the last RTS hype and one had troubles to find a new roleplaying game.<p>As more and more players are moving back to PC&#x2F;notebooks and tablets that all have better navigation interfaces than the bad controllers, I hope RTS games come back :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>renekooi</author><text>Ensemble Studios might be closed, but Age of Empires 2 is still very much alive. For one, a 50,000$ team tournament is scheduled for March 2014[1], and a 20,000$ 1v1 tourney has just finished a week ago!<p>There is a UserPatch that is in active development, adding such things as widescreen, multi-monitor support and fixing tons of bugs that have existed for 14 years[2].<p>Of course there&#x27;s also the new HD version, which is in active development, but also kind of bug-ridden. A popular AoE2 caster and commentator by the name of ZeroEmpires has a nice quick video on the current AoE scene[3].<p>AoE2 is still a triple-A RTS game, even after more than a decade of abandonment ;)<p>[1] <a href="http://www.aoczone.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&amp;t=96960" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aoczone.net&#x2F;viewtopic.php?f=3&amp;t=96960</a>
[2] <a href="http://userpatch.aiscripters.net/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;userpatch.aiscripters.net&#x2F;</a>
[3] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_uOIV3SkAc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=F_uOIV3SkAc</a><p>e; 0ad is really nice as well. Actually, I&#x27;ve not played it a lot at all, but from what I&#x27;ve experienced it&#x27;s better than Age of Empires 3. It lacks some of the strategic aspect of AoE<i>2</i> but wins in other areas (such as, not having archaic graphics, and supporting monitors &gt; 1280x800 out of the box.)</text></comment> | <story><title>0 A.D. Alpha 15 - Osiris</title><url>http://play0ad.com/alpha-15-osiris/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frik</author><text>It&#x27;s a open source RTS (real time strategy) game similar to the Age of Empires game series. It&#x27;s great that 0 A.D. is coming along fine :)<p>Microsoft closed Ensemble Studios (the maker of Age of Empires). And EA canceled &quot;Command &amp; Conquer: Generals 2&quot; as of October 29, 2013.<p>Sadly, beside Star Craft 2 (its SciFi theme is not for everyone) no triple-A RTS games are in active development :( Back in 2000 there was the last RTS hype and one had troubles to find a new roleplaying game.<p>As more and more players are moving back to PC&#x2F;notebooks and tablets that all have better navigation interfaces than the bad controllers, I hope RTS games come back :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stonith</author><text>Company of Heroes 2 was released this year, so while it&#x27;s true none are in active developement, one did come out very recently from a non-Blizzard source. It would be most sad if SC2 effectively killed off competition, since it&#x27;s going downhill in terms of popularity.<p>I think kickstarter is a decent chance of filling the gap - there are a lot of RTS fans who are dissatisfied with SC2 for a variety of reasons and don&#x27;t like Dota.</text></comment> |
17,827,982 | 17,827,923 | 1 | 2 | 17,826,912 | train | <story><title>The Dark Reality Behind America’s Greatest Thrift Store Empire</title><url>https://medium.com/@aliceminium/the-dark-reality-behind-americas-greatest-thrift-store-empire-183967087a1e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sverige</author><text>The Salvation Army is similarly exploitive. I knew a manager of one of their facilities and had a tour that was (probably unintentionally) eye-opening. For example, he talked about how any clothes they didn&#x27;t sell in a certain amount of time were sent to their &quot;ragging operation,&quot; made into bales, and then shipped to Africa.<p>The only difference from Goodwill as described here is that the population being exploited are addicts and ex-cons rather than mostly disabled folks. I want to like these organizations, I even think they started out with the right intentions, but greed takes over and ruins them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dpeck</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure that ragging operation in and of itself is a bad thing. If the clothes aren&#x27;t useful, that seems to be the next phase of life for textile.<p>I&#x27;ve done some work with smaller charitable orgs sorting through donations and the policy was essentially that if it wasn&#x27;t at minimum something you&#x27;d wear to a job interview at a fast food restaurant (think clean jeans&#x2F;polo shirts) then it went in the trash. Sadly this was the vast majority of donations as people tended to use the donations as a dumping ground for things they couldn&#x27;t throw out themselves vs giving items that would actually help people down on their luck.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Dark Reality Behind America’s Greatest Thrift Store Empire</title><url>https://medium.com/@aliceminium/the-dark-reality-behind-americas-greatest-thrift-store-empire-183967087a1e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sverige</author><text>The Salvation Army is similarly exploitive. I knew a manager of one of their facilities and had a tour that was (probably unintentionally) eye-opening. For example, he talked about how any clothes they didn&#x27;t sell in a certain amount of time were sent to their &quot;ragging operation,&quot; made into bales, and then shipped to Africa.<p>The only difference from Goodwill as described here is that the population being exploited are addicts and ex-cons rather than mostly disabled folks. I want to like these organizations, I even think they started out with the right intentions, but greed takes over and ruins them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ssharp</author><text>Genuinely curious, regarding this as well as the complaint in the article -- what should these stores do with the clothes that don&#x27;t sell? It sounds like shipping them overseas is bad and throwing them away is bad.<p>I&#x27;d assume there are large amounts clothes that don&#x27;t end up selling and the only thing I know what to do with clothes I don&#x27;t want anymore is donate them to Goodwill!</text></comment> |
26,696,698 | 26,696,240 | 1 | 3 | 26,686,926 | train | <story><title>PostGIS – Spatial and Geographic Objects for PostgreSQL</title><url>https://postgis.net/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Ahmed90</author><text>4 years ago one of my clients wanted to &quot;donate&quot; a system for the local fire department to help them do a quick proximity search to find the fire hydrants and quickly choose the healthy one near the fire.<p>And since it was charity and had a bunch of private data Google was not an option ($$$$), so I (just a full-stack developer back then) was like &quot;listen I have no idea what is this GIS stuff, but I&#x27;ll give it a try&quot;, after a quick research boom PostGIS, reading the docs and testing things, plus QGIS to visualize and to help understand it better 10&#x2F;10!<p>That was my unintentional &quot;career&quot; shift, thanks to PostGIS I&#x27;m now a senior dev at the largest food delivery company (local), specialized in GIS and realtime data driven systems using PostGIS everyday lol</text></comment> | <story><title>PostGIS – Spatial and Geographic Objects for PostgreSQL</title><url>https://postgis.net/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gardaani</author><text>Here&#x27;s an interesting performance comparison of PostgreSQL with PostGIS and MongoDB. PostgreSQL outperformed MongoDB in almost all their cases. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;10.1007&#x2F;s10707-020-00407-w" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;10.1007&#x2F;s10707-020-00407-w</a><p>I&#x27;ve decided to use PostgreSQL in my projects.</text></comment> |
39,715,790 | 39,715,277 | 1 | 3 | 39,714,053 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Matrix Multiplication with Half the Multiplications</title><url>https://github.com/trevorpogue/algebraic-nnhw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>halflings</author><text>This looks pretty cool! What&#x27;s the catch? e.g. why isn&#x27;t this already implemented in accelerators, is it really just a forgotten algorithm, or this has some implications on the cost of building the accelerator or else?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lupire</author><text>It&#x27;s not just a software algorithm. It&#x27;s a hardware architecture optimization. To benefit, you have to build hardware that matches the dimensions of the algorithm. That&#x27;s an expensive commitment.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Matrix Multiplication with Half the Multiplications</title><url>https://github.com/trevorpogue/algebraic-nnhw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>halflings</author><text>This looks pretty cool! What&#x27;s the catch? e.g. why isn&#x27;t this already implemented in accelerators, is it really just a forgotten algorithm, or this has some implications on the cost of building the accelerator or else?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pclmulqdq</author><text>There are a lot of matrix multiplication algorithms out there with a lot of pluses and minuses. It&#x27;s always a balance of accuracy, runtime, and scaling. This one probably has bad accuracy in floating point.</text></comment> |
2,527,182 | 2,527,199 | 1 | 2 | 2,527,086 | train | <story><title>Twitter and Facebook Both Quietly Kill RSS</title><url>http://www.staynalive.com/2011/05/twitter-and-facebook-both-quietly-kill.html?q=1</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bradleyland</author><text>The title is a bit of a double entendre. At first reading, I thought the claim was that (once again), Organization X had killed RSS (figuratively). As it turns out, Facebook and Twitter have, quite literally, killed RSS within the scope of their own systems by removing it from key locations.<p>In my view, RSS was never the right tool for this application anyway. Social networks are naturally conversational in nature, but you're only a part of the conversation while you're there.<p>In the economy of my attention, both Facebook and Twitter occupy a different position than the RSS feeds I follow. Facebook and Twitter are there for when I want them, but my RSS feed is the kind of thing where I try to at least review every headline. I don't want to miss anything in my RSS reader, but I'm perfectly content to miss out on large portions of what occurs on Facebook and Twitter.<p>Twitter is probably closer in function to RSS -- for me, anyway -- than Facebook, in that I rely on it for "pushed" information that I rarely respond to (think service outages and status updates). This could, theoretically, have been fulfilled by RSS, but for some reason, I never made use of RSS that way.<p>I think one of the reasons for this (Twitter as a popular info-push medium) is that you <i>can</i> respond easily through Twitter, even if I only do it on rare occasions. Status blogs provided an avenue for response, but you often had to have an account on every blog... Ugh. Twitter is also great because you don't have to dig through the service website; you simply search Twitter for their company name and follow.<p>Facebook, on the other hand, is purely entertainment for me. I use it to keep up with friends and converse in a time-shifted manner. I cannot imagine collecting RSS feeds from Facebook streams.<p>Based my usage patterns, I don't see this as "killing" RSS for me in a general sense. Maybe I'm a dying breed though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter and Facebook Both Quietly Kill RSS</title><url>http://www.staynalive.com/2011/05/twitter-and-facebook-both-quietly-kill.html?q=1</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pstack</author><text>I have no interest in ever directly using Twitter and there's not enough content on there for me to bother with any workarounds. I currently use RSS for the one Twitter feed I bother to follow and if they ever really do get rid of RSS for their site, I'll just stop using even that. Not that much of a loss.<p>My habits are such that if you don't offer RSS feeds of information I want, I probably won't ever get your information <i>or</i> go to your site. You're not going to sucker me into "visiting regularly", just because you don't offer an RSS feed. I'll just move on and get what I want somewhere else.</text></comment> |
17,166,866 | 17,166,801 | 1 | 2 | 17,165,483 | train | <story><title>Toshiba’s loss of star engineer tells tale of company's decline</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Toshiba-in-Turmoil/Toshiba-s-loss-of-star-engineer-tells-tale-of-company-s-decline</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lettergram</author><text>It&#x27;s really not much better in the U.S. or elsewhere. I believe it was Nokia which had a patent program where it was a $500 bonus per patent. Meaning, even if you invented something - that was your bonus.<p>In my current role we have a similar program, beyond the relatively small bonus I think the only benefit is bragging rights. Patenting or inventing something means little to superiors. Large companies focus on the short term stategic initiatives, often being unable to capitalize on long term or even short term opportunities. That&#x27;s why more nimble startups are more effective.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ptaipale</author><text>The patent bonus at Nokia was just that, a patent bonus; the purpose of the program was to systematically collect a large portfolio of patents; such a patent mass is used in IPR negotiations with other technology giants. Those patents were mass-produced - I got paid for one too - but I wouldn&#x27;t call them &quot;inventions&quot;.<p>There were other, substantially larger bonuses for innovations made by staff, when these innovations had larger economical impact (for instance, optimizing the production line).</text></comment> | <story><title>Toshiba’s loss of star engineer tells tale of company's decline</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Toshiba-in-Turmoil/Toshiba-s-loss-of-star-engineer-tells-tale-of-company-s-decline</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lettergram</author><text>It&#x27;s really not much better in the U.S. or elsewhere. I believe it was Nokia which had a patent program where it was a $500 bonus per patent. Meaning, even if you invented something - that was your bonus.<p>In my current role we have a similar program, beyond the relatively small bonus I think the only benefit is bragging rights. Patenting or inventing something means little to superiors. Large companies focus on the short term stategic initiatives, often being unable to capitalize on long term or even short term opportunities. That&#x27;s why more nimble startups are more effective.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>Patents aren’t really equivalent to inventions. In companies where they are thought to be the same, abuse with frivolous patent applications is rife.</text></comment> |
9,007,583 | 9,006,246 | 1 | 3 | 9,003,351 | train | <story><title>New High-Tech Farm Equipment Is a Nightmare for Farmers</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2015/02/new-high-tech-farm-equipment-nightmare-farmers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm</author><text>A DRM exception for farmers? Why them and not the rest of us?<p>Farmers are the classic American go-to for everything politics. Be it guns, corn in Coke, pollution standards, healthcare, immigration ... everyone is ready to pity the poor farmer. I understand the rational. Farmers make the food we eat. They also embody an American fantasy harkening back to the old west. But this is also who I see red flags whenever I hear farmers brought up in reference to a law.<p>Farmers are the purchasers of equipment used in their business. Why give them a pass to bypass DRM but not the fishermen? Fishermen make food. Maritime law affords them special treatment in a similar manner as land use laws treat farmers. Surely fishermen have an equal tradition of self-sufficiency and are also deserving of an exception. And then come the taxi companies who have long maintained their own fleets. Soldiers? Surely we first need an exemption for the armed forces.<p>I cannot think of any profession without a tradition of maintaining its own equipment. That&#x27;s probably because DRM is new tech. So it&#x27;s impossible for anyone to have a tradition of accommodating and obeying DRM. As we all suffer it, we should all be free of it. No exemptions.<p>Let us instead pity the poor metal worker whose CNC machine cannot be moved across the shop floor without triggering its GPS-dependant DRM.<p><a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140109/03060325817/latest-twist-drm-lockdown-geolocation.shtml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20140109&#x2F;03060325817&#x2F;lates...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>New High-Tech Farm Equipment Is a Nightmare for Farmers</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2015/02/new-high-tech-farm-equipment-nightmare-farmers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Trisell</author><text>The other issue I think will be longevity. I grew up on a farm, and every piece of machinery that we used was older then I was by about 10 years, at least. Farmer&#x27;s expect to purchase a tractor, and then run that piece of equipment for the entire life of the FARMER.<p>It feels like the tractor manufactures today are catering to the mega farms, not the smaller farms that make up a larger portion of our farming infrastructure. And the small farms only buy a new tractor every 10 - 20 years. Not every 3 - 5 years for a tax break.</text></comment> |
17,671,730 | 17,671,249 | 1 | 3 | 17,670,979 | train | <story><title>Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity firm Duo Security for $2.35B</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/02/cisco-buys-security-start-up.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yawgmoth</author><text>Congratulations to my neighbors at Duo! That&#x27;s a crazy amount of money and I hope that many Ann Arborites pay it forward in the tech scene from which Duo came.<p>Lots of good tech in A2 in general - Deepfield acquired by Nokia, SkySpecs, Trove, FarmLogs (a YC startup), LLamasoft (my employer!), IBM is here, Toyota, Hyundai, a rapidly increasing number of medtech companies, and plenty of boutique consulting. It makes for a healthy life - a strong tech scene drives wages up, yet the cost of living is still fairly low (downtown A2 is very expensive already, but you can live in the nearby areas for considerably less). There were four companies from A2 in the who&#x27;s hiring page the other day. Take a look! :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity firm Duo Security for $2.35B</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/02/cisco-buys-security-start-up.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>youdontknowtho</author><text>I really hope that Duo survives this. Cisco isn&#x27;t necessarily known for handling acquisitions well...or software...but who knows. Maybe it&#x27;s the shot in the arm that many companies will need to move to token based auth. Lot&#x27;s of enterprise IT departments take Cisco&#x27;s word as divine. I have had some bad experiences with Cisco the company, but the devices have always been really good even if they lag behind some of the more aggressive competitors in features or speeds.</text></comment> |
23,520,889 | 23,520,418 | 1 | 2 | 23,517,663 | train | <story><title>Performance/Avoid SQLite in Your Next Firefox Feature (2014)</title><url>https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Avoid_SQLite_In_Your_Next_Firefox_Feature</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Yoric</author><text>Wow, that is old. The last meaningful edit to this document is 2014.<p>Everything has changed several times since then. Please ignore this link :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theamk</author><text>What exactly has changed? It’s not like sqlite suddenly stopped calling fsync all the time, and the memory consumption is still relevant.<p>It might be just the opposite, in fact - faster SSDs may mean that directories with many files are faster, and packing many objects into one big sqlite archive does not have as many benefits as before.</text></comment> | <story><title>Performance/Avoid SQLite in Your Next Firefox Feature (2014)</title><url>https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Avoid_SQLite_In_Your_Next_Firefox_Feature</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Yoric</author><text>Wow, that is old. The last meaningful edit to this document is 2014.<p>Everything has changed several times since then. Please ignore this link :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ampersandy</author><text>What&#x27;s the latest, then? Preferably this document could be updated to point to more up-to-date advice on using SQLite, while retaining the old information for historical reference.</text></comment> |
20,548,107 | 20,547,886 | 1 | 2 | 20,546,231 | train | <story><title>Burnout</title><url>https://johnnyrodgers.is/burnout</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dawhizkid</author><text>I think there&#x27;s two types of work-induced burnout. &quot;White collar&quot; burnout is generally self-inflicted, and to me less about working oneself to exhaustion and more about working any amount of hours on something that you subconsciously believe is fundamentally misaligned with your core principles&#x2F;true self. My hypothesis on why this seems to be happening at higher rates is because without a focus on raising a family and&#x2F;or participation in organized religion, our careers&#x2F;workplace have become the &quot;things&quot; that we now try to put all this meaning behind, and what was once separated from our &quot;life&quot; (e.g. work&#x2F;life balance) <i>has</i> become our life, and the psychological burden of being forced to be 100% emotionally invested&#x2F;devoted to our work has consequences.<p>&quot;Blue collar&quot; burnout, to me, is the archetypal fast food worker making minimum wage working paycheck to paycheck, who not only has to deal with financial insecurity that comes with the job but the physical (actual manual &quot;work&quot;) and psychological (rude customers) burdens that come with those types of jobs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Burnout</title><url>https://johnnyrodgers.is/burnout</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>didgeoridoo</author><text>My wife is a clinical psychologist focusing on the mental health impact of high-pressure jobs. She had me build this “Burnout Calculator” based on a self-evaluation protocol they use in their practice. Leaving it here in case it’s helpful for anyone: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;azimuthpsych.com&#x2F;burnout-calculator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;azimuthpsych.com&#x2F;burnout-calculator</a></text></comment> |
24,146,647 | 24,146,762 | 1 | 3 | 24,145,665 | train | <story><title>Jira Is a Microcosm of What’s Broken in Software Development</title><url>https://linearb.io/blog/jira-is-a-microcosm-of-whats-broken-in-software-development/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tensor</author><text>&quot;Though I think of Jira more like a spreadsheet. Very useful once upon a time. Outdated now. Static. Manual.&quot;<p>This statement is so blatantly wrong that it actually put me off even reading the rest. Spreadsheets are stronger than they&#x27;ve ever been and are never going away, let alone being &quot;outdated.&quot; Sure there are products that claim to be &quot;the next spreadsheet&quot; but most of those actually serve a different purpose: no-code app dev.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GordonS</author><text>Jira is a hot mess - I&#x27;m genuinely offended in behalf of spreadsheets that the OP would make that comparison.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jira Is a Microcosm of What’s Broken in Software Development</title><url>https://linearb.io/blog/jira-is-a-microcosm-of-whats-broken-in-software-development/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tensor</author><text>&quot;Though I think of Jira more like a spreadsheet. Very useful once upon a time. Outdated now. Static. Manual.&quot;<p>This statement is so blatantly wrong that it actually put me off even reading the rest. Spreadsheets are stronger than they&#x27;ve ever been and are never going away, let alone being &quot;outdated.&quot; Sure there are products that claim to be &quot;the next spreadsheet&quot; but most of those actually serve a different purpose: no-code app dev.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hector_vasquez</author><text>I assumed the author really meant that using a spreadsheet for <i>project tracking</i> is outdated, static, and manual. Which I agree with. But spreadsheets in general of course are tremendously useful!</text></comment> |
32,258,193 | 32,257,652 | 1 | 2 | 32,235,158 | train | <story><title>Building a fast all-SSD NAS on a budget</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/building-fast-all-ssd-nas-on-budget</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>erulabs</author><text>Jeff previously reviewed our all-SSD NAS, which is far more budget, if anyone is interested: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jeffgeerling.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2021&#x2F;kubesails-pibox-mini-2-16-tb-ssd-storage-on-pi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jeffgeerling.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2021&#x2F;kubesails-pibox-mini-...</a><p>Love seeing these projects from him, but this is a rare miss in my opinion. This is the strange middle ground where it&#x27;s closer to professional than &quot;budget&quot;, by quite a bit. At some point, only a tiny tiny fraction of users need 40TB of space. I guess what I&#x27;m saying is, this isn&#x27;t so much a NAS as a specialized youtuber video recording appliance. We have a number of home-hosting users on our platform that run entire racks filled to the brim - and while that&#x27;s awesome - it&#x27;s just not what &quot;budget&quot; or &quot;NAS&quot; implies, and it&#x27;s an extremely limited audience.</text></comment> | <story><title>Building a fast all-SSD NAS on a budget</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/building-fast-all-ssd-nas-on-budget</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>liuliu</author><text>TBH, not sure if spending $3500 on 40TB storage v.s. ~$800 with rotating disks at the same storage capacity. You can put $200 on top with a 2TB NVMe SSD as cache.<p>The reason to question this is that 40TB seems small if you want to have a NAS for small video editing studios. And for personal use, you probably not going to need more than 2TB work set paged in at any given moment.</text></comment> |
7,280,858 | 7,280,749 | 1 | 2 | 7,279,087 | train | <story><title>Voynich Manuscript partially decoded, text is not a hoax, scholar finds</title><url>http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/20/voynich-manuscript-partially-decoded-text-hoax-scholar-finds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Renaud</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure why we only consider that this manuscript is either a hoax or a forgotten language. Why can&#x27;t it be an expression of whimsical fantasy?<p>When I was 12, as an introvert kid with too much imagination, I started inventing my own language. I would make up words, sometimes based off various other languages, sometime simply based on how they sounded.<p>It had a couple of different writing systems, one was a slightly modified version of Greek alphabet, another, more complex, was made of dots and small squiggles that were fast to write (I was fascinated with the Arabic writing system at the time and took inspiration from it even though it didn&#x27;t look anything like that).<p>I would write pages of nonsense in that writing system, just to see how it would flow or change over time, just to find patterns, just to have fun.<p>I even invented my own calendar, using the 88 day revolution of Mercury around the Sun as the year.<p>When I look at the Voynich Manuscript, all I see is the product of a fertile imagination that went a lot farther than my early teenage attempts at building a coherent world for myself.<p>I believe that these unconvincing attempts at finding meaning elsewhere -or degrading the object by calling it a hoax- are distracting us from the real beauty of this work of love and imagination.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavanky</author><text>Unlike late 20th century, Writing in the 15th century was rare and a costly endeavor. It is possible that it is an expression of whimsical fantasy. But it would be highly unlikely for this reason.</text></comment> | <story><title>Voynich Manuscript partially decoded, text is not a hoax, scholar finds</title><url>http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/20/voynich-manuscript-partially-decoded-text-hoax-scholar-finds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Renaud</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure why we only consider that this manuscript is either a hoax or a forgotten language. Why can&#x27;t it be an expression of whimsical fantasy?<p>When I was 12, as an introvert kid with too much imagination, I started inventing my own language. I would make up words, sometimes based off various other languages, sometime simply based on how they sounded.<p>It had a couple of different writing systems, one was a slightly modified version of Greek alphabet, another, more complex, was made of dots and small squiggles that were fast to write (I was fascinated with the Arabic writing system at the time and took inspiration from it even though it didn&#x27;t look anything like that).<p>I would write pages of nonsense in that writing system, just to see how it would flow or change over time, just to find patterns, just to have fun.<p>I even invented my own calendar, using the 88 day revolution of Mercury around the Sun as the year.<p>When I look at the Voynich Manuscript, all I see is the product of a fertile imagination that went a lot farther than my early teenage attempts at building a coherent world for myself.<p>I believe that these unconvincing attempts at finding meaning elsewhere -or degrading the object by calling it a hoax- are distracting us from the real beauty of this work of love and imagination.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bunderbunder</author><text>Perhaps not unlike the Codex Seraphinianus: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Codex_Seraphinianus</a></text></comment> |
7,748,267 | 7,748,301 | 1 | 2 | 7,747,768 | train | <story><title>Thomas Edison and the Cult of Sleep Deprivation</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/05/thomas-edison-and-the-cult-of-sleep-deprivation/370824/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dasil003</author><text>One thing that having a kid taught me is that sleep deprivation really hurts my productivity as a programmer. It may be that some people can sleep 5 hours and function just fine, I&#x27;m not going to say everybody needs the same amount of sleep. But when it comes to work ridiculous hours I&#x27;ve yet to see someone regularly claiming 100 hours work weeks outperform me over any length of time.<p>If I can get in the zone and achieve peak productivity for 8 hours that is an extremely successful day. If I do that and then get 16 hours of exercise, healthy eating, and sleep then the next day I&#x27;ll have made more progress in my unconscious and hit a positive feedback loop where elegant solutions to difficult problems present themselves effortlessly.<p>Contrast to my youth where I&#x27;d regularly &quot;work&quot; 12-16 hour days. Then I had the mentality that 5pm is a half-day, so if progress wasn&#x27;t great by then I still had another 7 hours! This can lead to a negative feedback loop where you spend more hours trying to compensate for poor performance earlier.<p>I&#x27;m not claiming this as a universal truth, some people probably have greater capacity than me, but I know how easy it is to fool oneself.</text></comment> | <story><title>Thomas Edison and the Cult of Sleep Deprivation</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/05/thomas-edison-and-the-cult-of-sleep-deprivation/370824/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>klipt</author><text>&quot;Sleep Drives Metabolite Clearance from the Adult Brain<p>The conservation of sleep across all animal species suggests that sleep serves a vital function. We here report that sleep has a critical function in ensuring metabolic homeostasis ... the restorative function of sleep may be a consequence of the enhanced removal of potentially neurotoxic waste products that accumulate in the awake central nervous system.&quot;<p><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6156/373" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencemag.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;342&#x2F;6156&#x2F;373</a><p>TL;DR: sleep is necessary, otherwise it probably wouldn&#x27;t have evolved in so many different species. If you&#x27;re really lucky (and a dolphin), you can get by with only sleeping one hemisphere of your brain at a time: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unihemispheric_slow-wave_sleep" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Unihemispheric_slow-wave_sleep</a></text></comment> |
24,408,945 | 24,408,550 | 1 | 3 | 24,407,706 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Free hosted open-source alternative to Zapier/Airflow</title><url>https://cloud.titanoboa.io/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sixhobbits</author><text>I&#x27;ve used Zapier a fair amount and I wrote an article about Airflow so I have a fairly good understanding of that too.<p>I would never really consider them alternatives though? To me Zapier is a low&#x2F;no code tool that offers a bazillion integrations and Airflow is a workflow orchestration tool.<p>So comparing to both of them confuses me and I guess choosing one would give you a more nieche audience but one that you can connect better to as well.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Free hosted open-source alternative to Zapier/Airflow</title><url>https://cloud.titanoboa.io/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>newcrobuzon</author><text>Wow, this has blown up a bit, so I have added few more servers (now two servers on the West coast and two in Europe), but ultimately I think there is a limit cap of 100 Titanoboa instances in each geography in parallel.<p>So if we break that level please don&#x27;t be mad if you don&#x27;t get your instance :)<p>Instead give me a star on github and come back later :)<p>Cheers
Miro</text></comment> |
15,096,323 | 15,096,234 | 1 | 2 | 15,095,460 | train | <story><title>Goby: A new Ruby-inspired language written in Go</title><url>https://github.com/goby-lang/goby</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anilgulecha</author><text>Crystal-lang has also been around with similar ruby syntax and features like green threads, and a larger standard library. Performance is at par with golang.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;crystal-lang.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;crystal-lang.org</a><p>PS: Notably, websocket support is still lacking in Goby.</text></comment> | <story><title>Goby: A new Ruby-inspired language written in Go</title><url>https://github.com/goby-lang/goby</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jwilliams</author><text>Interesting. The goal is &quot;small and handy environment that mainly focusing on creating API servers or microservices&quot;. Having moved from Ruby to Go in the last year or two I&#x27;d be really interested in what language features they&#x27;re pushing with that goal. I really enjoyed my work with Ruby, but I have found Golang pretty quick at these &quot;backend&quot; type work.<p>On the back of this, I dug around a bit around for other transpilers to&#x2F;from Golang. So far:<p>- <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;havelang.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;havelang.org&#x2F;</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jcla1&#x2F;gisp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jcla1&#x2F;gisp</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;google&#x2F;grumpy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;google&#x2F;grumpy</a> (Python to Go)<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tardisgo.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tardisgo.github.io&#x2F;</a> (Go to Hexe)<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gopherjs&#x2F;gopherjs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gopherjs&#x2F;gopherjs</a> (Go to JavaScript)<p>If there are any others, be keen to find out.</text></comment> |
29,634,996 | 29,633,418 | 1 | 2 | 29,633,002 | train | <story><title>Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week</title><url>https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>walterbell</author><text>785 Omicron cases in Denmark, Dec 16 report for Nov 22 to Dec 7, Table 2, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eurosurveillance.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;10.2807&#x2F;1560-7917.ES.2021.26.50.2101146" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eurosurveillance.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;10.2807&#x2F;1560-7917.E...</a><p><pre><code> 0% fatal, 0.13% ICU, 1.2% hospital
4.3% Covid-recovered
76% double vax, 7% booster
14% unvax, 2% single vax
77% no travel history
</code></pre>
Edit: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnn.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;12&#x2F;18&#x2F;politics&#x2F;white-house-omicron-warning-joe-biden&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnn.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;12&#x2F;18&#x2F;politics&#x2F;white-house-omicron-...</a><p><i>&gt; Some of Biden&#x27;s advisers are encouraging the administration to begin discussing publicly how to live alongside a virus that shows no signs of disappearing ...
Steering public attention away from the total number of infections and toward serious cases only -- as some Biden advisers have encouraged -- could prove a challenge after nearly two years of intense focus on the pandemic&#x27;s every up and down.</i><p>Edit2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29633899" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29633899</a><p><i>&gt; The CDC’s Nowcast algorithm has some kind of bug, and the prevalence of Omicron nationwide wasn’t really 73% in the week ending December 18. Take that to the bank ... You will see this walked back. The CDC will explain what happened. The Twitter experts will have to walk back their initial tweets. The press will have to publish a new round of articles clarifying their prior wave of headlines. It might happen tomorrow, later this week, or some time next week, but it will happen. This result won’t stand.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>6tZAfJuXT2LL</author><text>Here are more up to date numbers from Denmark in English and Danish:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ssi.dk&#x2F;-&#x2F;media&#x2F;cdn&#x2F;files&#x2F;covid19&#x2F;omikron&#x2F;statusrapport&#x2F;rapport-omikronvarianten-20122021-9j51.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ssi.dk&#x2F;-&#x2F;media&#x2F;cdn&#x2F;files&#x2F;covid19&#x2F;omikron&#x2F;statusr...</a><p>23038 Omicron cases in total.
On December 15 44.1% of confirmed cases were Omicron.<p>The last page has a comparison with Delta on hospitalizations.
It finds 1.4% of Delta infections led to hospitalizations compared to 0.5% for Omicron.
However, this could be due to the fact that most of the Omicron cases were reported in the last week, and haven&#x27;t yet &#x27;had the time&#x27; to lead to hospitalizations.<p>There&#x27;s also a lot more infected who has received two or three doses compared to Delta.</text></comment> | <story><title>Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week</title><url>https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>walterbell</author><text>785 Omicron cases in Denmark, Dec 16 report for Nov 22 to Dec 7, Table 2, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eurosurveillance.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;10.2807&#x2F;1560-7917.ES.2021.26.50.2101146" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eurosurveillance.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;10.2807&#x2F;1560-7917.E...</a><p><pre><code> 0% fatal, 0.13% ICU, 1.2% hospital
4.3% Covid-recovered
76% double vax, 7% booster
14% unvax, 2% single vax
77% no travel history
</code></pre>
Edit: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnn.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;12&#x2F;18&#x2F;politics&#x2F;white-house-omicron-warning-joe-biden&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnn.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;12&#x2F;18&#x2F;politics&#x2F;white-house-omicron-...</a><p><i>&gt; Some of Biden&#x27;s advisers are encouraging the administration to begin discussing publicly how to live alongside a virus that shows no signs of disappearing ...
Steering public attention away from the total number of infections and toward serious cases only -- as some Biden advisers have encouraged -- could prove a challenge after nearly two years of intense focus on the pandemic&#x27;s every up and down.</i><p>Edit2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29633899" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29633899</a><p><i>&gt; The CDC’s Nowcast algorithm has some kind of bug, and the prevalence of Omicron nationwide wasn’t really 73% in the week ending December 18. Take that to the bank ... You will see this walked back. The CDC will explain what happened. The Twitter experts will have to walk back their initial tweets. The press will have to publish a new round of articles clarifying their prior wave of headlines. It might happen tomorrow, later this week, or some time next week, but it will happen. This result won’t stand.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>Yeah, but it is really too early to tell. The cases in that update are largely in young people (age &lt;= 65) and it takes about a week from symptom onset to end up in hospital. That data seems to be as at 9 Dec, even if the hospitalisations were high the data would not necessarily show them.</text></comment> |
11,369,800 | 11,369,298 | 1 | 3 | 11,369,170 | train | <story><title>Concurrency in Rust</title><url>http://doc.rust-lang.org/book/concurrency.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gregwebs</author><text>Send + Sync are great. The downside of concurrency in Rust is:<p>1) There isn&#x27;t transparent integration with IO in the runtime as in Go or Haskell. Rust probably won&#x27;t ever do this because although such a model scales well in general, it does create overhead and a runtime.<p>2) OS threads are difficult to work with compared to a nice M:N threading abstraction (which again are the default in Go or Haskell). OS threads leads to lowest common denominator APIs (there is no way to kill a thread in Rust) and some difficulty in reasoning about performance implications. I am attempting to solve this aspect by using the mioco library, although due to point #1 IO is going to be a little awkward.</text></comment> | <story><title>Concurrency in Rust</title><url>http://doc.rust-lang.org/book/concurrency.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nindalf</author><text>I think Steve Klabnik could clarify this, but the book at that link is in the process of being rewritten. I think it might be good to wait until it is. I personally found it slightly difficult to follow compared to other options like the soon to be published Programming Rust.</text></comment> |
14,719,401 | 14,717,742 | 1 | 2 | 14,715,384 | train | <story><title>I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/6lmotf/i_make_10000_per_month_with_the_amazon_affiliate/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rdslw</author><text>For me, number one takeaway is, &quot;he has a worker paid 600&#x2F;700 usd per month (superstar)&quot; who I suppose is generating much more value than 7% (700 of 10000).</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>Some interesting takeaways further down in the OP&#x27;s answers:<p>- Has &quot;zero&quot; web dev experience; everything is built on Wordpress and plugins.<p>- Gets &quot;a couple hundred thousand PV&#x2F;mo&quot;<p>- He picked an broad niche that he himself doesn&#x27;t particularly care about.<p>- Amazon&#x27;s change to their commission rates last month hurt his income by about 25-30%<p>I found this part amusing:<p>&gt; <i>I filled my site with a few dozen high quality pieces of content, then started outreaching to other bloggers in my niche, either asking for a guest post or asking them to check out a piece of content&#x2F;infographic I just created and asking them if they&#x27;d &quot;share&quot; (link) it with their audience (aka the skyscraper technique).</i><p>I get these goddamned emails every week, sometimes a dozen from the same person asking me to mention their blog post about SQL because I happen to have a page that ranks fairly high for some general SQL info apparently. Never thought the SEO actually paid off (these request emails look like they&#x27;re generated from a template that can be easily automated(.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acveilleux</author><text>In the beginning, his copywriter made the same 0.05$&#x2F;word and the poster was making 0$&#x2F;month.<p>So the copywriter has shouldered no risk either. He&#x27;s also free to try and get more per word but he might be in a place where 0.05USD&#x2F;word is actually pretty decent income.</text></comment> | <story><title>I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/6lmotf/i_make_10000_per_month_with_the_amazon_affiliate/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rdslw</author><text>For me, number one takeaway is, &quot;he has a worker paid 600&#x2F;700 usd per month (superstar)&quot; who I suppose is generating much more value than 7% (700 of 10000).</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>Some interesting takeaways further down in the OP&#x27;s answers:<p>- Has &quot;zero&quot; web dev experience; everything is built on Wordpress and plugins.<p>- Gets &quot;a couple hundred thousand PV&#x2F;mo&quot;<p>- He picked an broad niche that he himself doesn&#x27;t particularly care about.<p>- Amazon&#x27;s change to their commission rates last month hurt his income by about 25-30%<p>I found this part amusing:<p>&gt; <i>I filled my site with a few dozen high quality pieces of content, then started outreaching to other bloggers in my niche, either asking for a guest post or asking them to check out a piece of content&#x2F;infographic I just created and asking them if they&#x27;d &quot;share&quot; (link) it with their audience (aka the skyscraper technique).</i><p>I get these goddamned emails every week, sometimes a dozen from the same person asking me to mention their blog post about SQL because I happen to have a page that ranks fairly high for some general SQL info apparently. Never thought the SEO actually paid off (these request emails look like they&#x27;re generated from a template that can be easily automated(.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elmigranto</author><text>That is working for someone vs owning something. It wouldn&#x27;t make much sense otherwise for either party.<p>I mean, imagine you work for a company and come up with a change that saves a million a year. Surely you don&#x27;t expect to receive that million, do you? On the other hand, it&#x27;s not your problem if sales go down this quarter, since your contract pays fixed salary.</text></comment> |
29,411,686 | 29,411,367 | 1 | 2 | 29,409,753 | train | <story><title>My worst tech interview experience</title><url>https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2021/12/01/my-worst-tech-interview-experience/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cowmoo728</author><text>My impression of the facebook interview experience was that it is specifically selecting people that were calm under pressure and well rehearsed. They are testing for people that put in the effort to crank out a bunch of algorithms practice because they want to ace an interview. FB and Amazon were also explicit that they were looking for people with a particular &quot;get things done and promote myself&quot; attitude. Whether or not those people make good employees, I don&#x27;t know.<p>When I interviewed at FB, every round was something that I had drilled on leetcode or similar sites. Yes, the wording was changed and the problems were altered a bit, but they were the same algorithms. And there were also two &quot;lightning&quot; rounds of 15 minutes each to solve two simpler algorithms problems (maybe easy&#x2F;medium difficulty on leetcode). This experience gave me the impression that facebook&#x27;s goals in hiring were to select people who really wanted the job and could pass quizzes well.</text></item><item><author>avl999</author><text>I generally don&#x27;t mind whiteboard programming interviews but even so asking someone to implement merge sort is a bad question.<p>My sanity check for any question I ask is- Is the question I&#x27;m asking something that someone in the past published a paper about? If so then that&#x27;s probably not a good fit for a 45 minute whiteboarding interview. This question falls in that category. Generally those algorithms are complex enough that it is unrealistic to expect someone to get them right from first principles so at that point you are just selecting for people who just happened to have dealt with them, memorized them or implemented them recently.<p>I have a co-worker who used to ask people to past to parse and evaluate infix notation expressions in interviews (and there are companies that ask that question). Always stuck me as weird as multiple papers have been written about that problem, are you really expecting someone to implement a solution to a problem that people spend weeks (months?) thinking about before publishing? Could even Djikstra have come up with the Shunting Yard Algorithm in a 45 minute interview (with implementation on whiteboard) if that was his first exposure to the problem of expression parsing?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lhorie</author><text>One bit of dirty laundry to keep in mind with FAANG and friends is that the interview process is somewhat self-selecting. Often times, the very people that crammed leetcode in the hopes of landing FAANG roles are the ones interviewing candidates three months later. So there this sort of twisted feedback cycle where the interviewers think that leetcode solving ability is a sort of badge of honor or whatever.<p>Obviously not all interviewers are like that, and at more senior levels, interviewers do place more emphasis on other criteria, but for entry&#x2F;L4&#x2F;L5-ish roles, it&#x27;s a pretty rampant thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>My worst tech interview experience</title><url>https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2021/12/01/my-worst-tech-interview-experience/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cowmoo728</author><text>My impression of the facebook interview experience was that it is specifically selecting people that were calm under pressure and well rehearsed. They are testing for people that put in the effort to crank out a bunch of algorithms practice because they want to ace an interview. FB and Amazon were also explicit that they were looking for people with a particular &quot;get things done and promote myself&quot; attitude. Whether or not those people make good employees, I don&#x27;t know.<p>When I interviewed at FB, every round was something that I had drilled on leetcode or similar sites. Yes, the wording was changed and the problems were altered a bit, but they were the same algorithms. And there were also two &quot;lightning&quot; rounds of 15 minutes each to solve two simpler algorithms problems (maybe easy&#x2F;medium difficulty on leetcode). This experience gave me the impression that facebook&#x27;s goals in hiring were to select people who really wanted the job and could pass quizzes well.</text></item><item><author>avl999</author><text>I generally don&#x27;t mind whiteboard programming interviews but even so asking someone to implement merge sort is a bad question.<p>My sanity check for any question I ask is- Is the question I&#x27;m asking something that someone in the past published a paper about? If so then that&#x27;s probably not a good fit for a 45 minute whiteboarding interview. This question falls in that category. Generally those algorithms are complex enough that it is unrealistic to expect someone to get them right from first principles so at that point you are just selecting for people who just happened to have dealt with them, memorized them or implemented them recently.<p>I have a co-worker who used to ask people to past to parse and evaluate infix notation expressions in interviews (and there are companies that ask that question). Always stuck me as weird as multiple papers have been written about that problem, are you really expecting someone to implement a solution to a problem that people spend weeks (months?) thinking about before publishing? Could even Djikstra have come up with the Shunting Yard Algorithm in a 45 minute interview (with implementation on whiteboard) if that was his first exposure to the problem of expression parsing?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whatshisface</author><text>I got asked to parse infix notation and figured it out in the 45 minutes despite having no prior experience with parsing anything more complicated than CSV. I am not bragging or anything, I just know these discussions are biased towards kvetching so someone has to weigh in for it being possible to accomplish. My field is not computer science and if anything I&#x27;m the perfect example of who the infix notation question should be biased against.<p>To be fair the interviewer described my performance as &quot;muscling through it&quot; (exact phrasing changed to protect the innocent) so take it as you will. :)<p>I am aware that there is no way to write this comment without sounding like a boast, but that&#x27;s just more reason to write it because there are probably a large number of people with the same story who can&#x27;t balance out the discussion by telling it.</text></comment> |
29,844,431 | 29,844,250 | 1 | 3 | 29,844,098 | train | <story><title>Launch HN: Homestead (YC W20) – Lot-splitting to build new housing supply</title><text>Hi HN, we’re Sean &amp; Sam, the founders of Homestead (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;homestead.is" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;homestead.is</a>). We enable homeowners to split their lot, build a new home, and sell it for a profit.<p>We’re taking advantage of a new California law called SB9, which is designed to expand housing supply (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cayimby.org&#x2F;sb-9&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cayimby.org&#x2F;sb-9&#x2F;</a>) in the state. SB9 allows homeowners to split their single-family residential lot into two separate lots and build up to two new housing units on each. It just went into effect on January 1.<p>The new development opportunity opened by SB9 is only available to homeowners, most of whom are under-resourced to take advantage of it. That’s where we come in. We take care of splitting your lot, financing the new development, managing construction, and selling the new home. You receive 80% of the net profit. You can see whether your property qualifies here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;search.homestead.is" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;search.homestead.is</a>.<p>We’re a couple of architects who have been working on large scale urban plans, affordable housing financing, and increasing housing supply for a while now. Our first idea was to help homeowners create lifelong revenue streams by building ADUs (Accessory Dwelling Units) on their property. We figured out how to manage builds that finish up to 5x faster than normal builders and are 2x faster than prefab from first touch to a turnkey unit. Homeowners have used the income from our ADUs to start a business, move to a different country during the pandemic, become cash flow positive on their mortgage, house grandparents, and move out renters to reclaim their home for the first time in a decade.<p>The problem was that over 70% of our leads could not afford the upfront costs of construction. With Homestead, our latest iteration, we solve this by taking on the risk of funding the project. We provide a way for homeowners to finance $400k+ of construction without risking their home or credit as collateral. We split the lot, bring financing, and our expert team of architects and project managers oversee the project until sale.<p>In high value markets, that means a homeowner could make over $1M without risking, or spending, a dollar. Under normal circumstances, this would be too good to be true, but that’s how crazy the housing market has become. SB9 represents a $6T (!) opportunity in California alone. For example, a 1-mile radius of San Fernando Valley has $3.35B in untapped development equity—4,600 opportunities to add new homes and duplexes through SB9.<p>Capturing the opportunity of SB9 requires developing new financing products, development expertise, and customer-facing sales. Development is an incredibly regulatory-heavy and location-specific industry. Homestead is based in Los Angeles (by far the best market for SB9) and we have sold 80 ADUs (59 since March) with 10 built and 17 projects underway.<p>Here’s an example (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zillow.com&#x2F;homes&#x2F;4511-Sally-Dr-San-Jose,-CA-95124_rb&#x2F;19674282_zpid&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zillow.com&#x2F;homes&#x2F;4511-Sally-Dr-San-Jose,-CA-9512...</a>) of how this could work for a typical San Jose home — footsteps away from one of our customers. The new house on the split lot has a sale value of $1.5M, based on a same-sized new-build home on the block. The total cost for building the new unit, including permitting, local fees, and financing, is $700k. That’s a net profit of $800k, of which the homeowner’s 80% share is $640k.<p>Our mission is to increase the housing supply in California. In contrast to the develop-and-flip approach, we add new housing while sharing profit and keeping communities in place. We want to change the lives of teachers, nurses, social workers—doubling or tripling their liquid net worth—so they can do things like early retirement and paying off their kids&#x27; student debt or helping them make their first down payment.<p>We know that a lot of you share our passion for the housing supply problem, so we’re looking forward to a good discussion. Please share your questions, feedback, ideas, and experiences in this area!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>halpert</author><text>Now that SB9 is in effect, shouldn&#x27;t the ability to split a lot and build on it be priced in to the price of the original lot? It seems like you would just be extracting your 20% from wealth the owner already has, leaving them poorer. I guess this could be good if they really didn&#x27;t want to move.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sam_schneider</author><text>Great Q! For a sb9 lot split, the homeowner legally must intend to stay in place on one of the lots for 3 years—we haven&#x27;t seen a measurable price hike for SB9 eligible lots. We&#x27;ve built a lot of ADUs and they rent about 40% above market, so combined with our better pricing and more efficient &amp; automated processes, we&#x27;ll definitely create more value for the homeowners than if they did it on their own. If they do elect to do it on their own—it&#x27;s a full time job—they&#x27;d have to price in that labor in a cost-benefit analysis.</text></comment> | <story><title>Launch HN: Homestead (YC W20) – Lot-splitting to build new housing supply</title><text>Hi HN, we’re Sean &amp; Sam, the founders of Homestead (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;homestead.is" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;homestead.is</a>). We enable homeowners to split their lot, build a new home, and sell it for a profit.<p>We’re taking advantage of a new California law called SB9, which is designed to expand housing supply (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cayimby.org&#x2F;sb-9&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cayimby.org&#x2F;sb-9&#x2F;</a>) in the state. SB9 allows homeowners to split their single-family residential lot into two separate lots and build up to two new housing units on each. It just went into effect on January 1.<p>The new development opportunity opened by SB9 is only available to homeowners, most of whom are under-resourced to take advantage of it. That’s where we come in. We take care of splitting your lot, financing the new development, managing construction, and selling the new home. You receive 80% of the net profit. You can see whether your property qualifies here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;search.homestead.is" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;search.homestead.is</a>.<p>We’re a couple of architects who have been working on large scale urban plans, affordable housing financing, and increasing housing supply for a while now. Our first idea was to help homeowners create lifelong revenue streams by building ADUs (Accessory Dwelling Units) on their property. We figured out how to manage builds that finish up to 5x faster than normal builders and are 2x faster than prefab from first touch to a turnkey unit. Homeowners have used the income from our ADUs to start a business, move to a different country during the pandemic, become cash flow positive on their mortgage, house grandparents, and move out renters to reclaim their home for the first time in a decade.<p>The problem was that over 70% of our leads could not afford the upfront costs of construction. With Homestead, our latest iteration, we solve this by taking on the risk of funding the project. We provide a way for homeowners to finance $400k+ of construction without risking their home or credit as collateral. We split the lot, bring financing, and our expert team of architects and project managers oversee the project until sale.<p>In high value markets, that means a homeowner could make over $1M without risking, or spending, a dollar. Under normal circumstances, this would be too good to be true, but that’s how crazy the housing market has become. SB9 represents a $6T (!) opportunity in California alone. For example, a 1-mile radius of San Fernando Valley has $3.35B in untapped development equity—4,600 opportunities to add new homes and duplexes through SB9.<p>Capturing the opportunity of SB9 requires developing new financing products, development expertise, and customer-facing sales. Development is an incredibly regulatory-heavy and location-specific industry. Homestead is based in Los Angeles (by far the best market for SB9) and we have sold 80 ADUs (59 since March) with 10 built and 17 projects underway.<p>Here’s an example (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zillow.com&#x2F;homes&#x2F;4511-Sally-Dr-San-Jose,-CA-95124_rb&#x2F;19674282_zpid&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zillow.com&#x2F;homes&#x2F;4511-Sally-Dr-San-Jose,-CA-9512...</a>) of how this could work for a typical San Jose home — footsteps away from one of our customers. The new house on the split lot has a sale value of $1.5M, based on a same-sized new-build home on the block. The total cost for building the new unit, including permitting, local fees, and financing, is $700k. That’s a net profit of $800k, of which the homeowner’s 80% share is $640k.<p>Our mission is to increase the housing supply in California. In contrast to the develop-and-flip approach, we add new housing while sharing profit and keeping communities in place. We want to change the lives of teachers, nurses, social workers—doubling or tripling their liquid net worth—so they can do things like early retirement and paying off their kids&#x27; student debt or helping them make their first down payment.<p>We know that a lot of you share our passion for the housing supply problem, so we’re looking forward to a good discussion. Please share your questions, feedback, ideas, and experiences in this area!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>halpert</author><text>Now that SB9 is in effect, shouldn&#x27;t the ability to split a lot and build on it be priced in to the price of the original lot? It seems like you would just be extracting your 20% from wealth the owner already has, leaving them poorer. I guess this could be good if they really didn&#x27;t want to move.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frakkingcylons</author><text>That extra value of the lot isn&#x27;t exactly liquid on its own. That&#x27;s what you get in exchange for 20%.</text></comment> |
13,242,539 | 13,242,234 | 1 | 3 | 13,241,865 | train | <story><title>Building and Linking Libraries in C</title><url>https://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~newhall/unixhelp/howto_C_libraries.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saticmotion</author><text>Increasingly popular are the &quot;single header libraries&quot;, which were popularised by Sean Barrett[0]. It&#x27;s as simple as downloading the header, putting it somewhere in your tree and #including it where you need it. It&#x27;s especially useful for redistributing libraries, but I&#x27;ve also found it useful to create these in my own projects.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nothings&#x2F;stb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nothings&#x2F;stb</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>naner</author><text>Is having large amounts of code in headers common in real world C code (aside from stb)? Seems like it would be a nightmare to chase down issues, though maybe compiler error messages have gotten smarter since I&#x27;ve last dealt with C.</text></comment> | <story><title>Building and Linking Libraries in C</title><url>https://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~newhall/unixhelp/howto_C_libraries.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saticmotion</author><text>Increasingly popular are the &quot;single header libraries&quot;, which were popularised by Sean Barrett[0]. It&#x27;s as simple as downloading the header, putting it somewhere in your tree and #including it where you need it. It&#x27;s especially useful for redistributing libraries, but I&#x27;ve also found it useful to create these in my own projects.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nothings&#x2F;stb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nothings&#x2F;stb</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chj</author><text>truetype font rendering: stb_truetype.h: LOC=3287<p>Wow. I am speechless. Going to dive in another day.</text></comment> |
30,235,388 | 30,235,195 | 1 | 2 | 30,233,221 | train | <story><title>The Hypermedia-Driven Application (HDA) Architecture</title><url>https://htmx.org/essays/hypermedia-driven-applications/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arbenpurben</author><text>We have htmx &amp; hyperscript running in production powering a fintech saas.
It is fantastic in the way that all really good technology is: it just does what it&#x27;s supposed to do so simply and efficiently that you kinda forget it&#x27;s there, so you end up spending time where it counts (UX and business logic), instead of fighting finicky frameworks.
No-one in the real world cares about the supposedly great framework powering a web app - they just care that the app is fast, easy to use and saves them time and money.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Hypermedia-Driven Application (HDA) Architecture</title><url>https://htmx.org/essays/hypermedia-driven-applications/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jonathan-adly</author><text>I have htmx running in production with a Django backend. It’s honestly like having a cheat code for web development. Simple, scalable code that does the job perfectly!</text></comment> |
34,348,924 | 34,348,929 | 1 | 2 | 34,347,962 | train | <story><title>The Collapse of U.S. Healthcare – The Perspective of a Primary Care Physician</title><text>I am a Millennial primary care physician. I began training before COVID hit, so I have perspective as someone who practiced medicine before, during, and after the pandemic. There are multiple, long-standing issues in medicine, many that have been unmasked by COVID but have been festering for a long time:<p>Doctors don’t run hospitals. Due to EMTALA, every single patient that shows up to your emergency department has to be treated. When insurance companies and private equity realized that you can’t say no to doing the work, then why should they pay you? Ultra lean staffing prior to covid led to the sh*tshow during the pandemic and, now that everyone is quitting, things are now in total collapse.<p>Go to any hospital in the country and, even if you have a serious problem like a heart attack, sepsis, a kidney stone blocking off your ureter while your kidney fills up with pus and you’re turning grey and shivering because you’re dying, well, chances are you’re going to be lying in a bed in the hallway.<p>Up in the ICU hopeless 95 year olds will sit on ventilators and other life support machines for weeks because doctors don’t have any discretion in stopping futile care. You can be a 30 year old pregnant woman, and you will die waiting for your ICU bed in the emergency room. There are 30 rooms in the ER, but 3 nurses overnight…what do you think happens if you have an accident and urinate or have a bowel movement in the bed? That’s exactly what happens. Good luck getting pain medicine for your kidney stone, there’s 10 other patients and they’re all sicker than you.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>wrp</author><text>I&#x27;ve read that a single-payer system is very unlikely in the USA, due to political forces. The tremendous inefficiency of the American medical system increases costs, but also provides more jobs, and those job-holders vote.</text></item><item><author>orbz</author><text>I’ve been working in the health tech space for awhile now and it’s sad how you’re not alone in noticing this. It’s the dirty secret of the entire industry, and there’s too many things disincentivizing any fixes.<p>The more I witness this the more I realize that having a single payer is necessary to actually break up enough of the monopoly to get some traction on this problem. Until then there are too many middle men and bureaucrats blocking this change.<p>Thanks for fighting the good fight so far.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bruce511</author><text>In the USA its all about the money. Those &quot;political forces&quot; are not a grassroots movement, people in the street demanding insurance-based healthcare.<p>No, it&#x27;s well organizes, very well paid, lobbying on behalf of a profit-based health system. A system that generates lots of profits for nice big companies.<p>And make no mistake, they&#x27;re not going to roll over.<p>And sure, doctors are depressed because they&#x27;re finally coming to realise that medical care (in the US) is not about &quot;helping sick people&quot; (despite their good intentions.)<p>Doctors and nurses set out with the noblest goals, then find themselves inside a system where the one true goal is to separate people from their money. They rile against &quot;adminustrators&quot; while at the same time failing to note that those administrators are the _reason_ for yhd business, and actual doctoring is just medical janitoring.<p>Yay free markets!</text></comment> | <story><title>The Collapse of U.S. Healthcare – The Perspective of a Primary Care Physician</title><text>I am a Millennial primary care physician. I began training before COVID hit, so I have perspective as someone who practiced medicine before, during, and after the pandemic. There are multiple, long-standing issues in medicine, many that have been unmasked by COVID but have been festering for a long time:<p>Doctors don’t run hospitals. Due to EMTALA, every single patient that shows up to your emergency department has to be treated. When insurance companies and private equity realized that you can’t say no to doing the work, then why should they pay you? Ultra lean staffing prior to covid led to the sh*tshow during the pandemic and, now that everyone is quitting, things are now in total collapse.<p>Go to any hospital in the country and, even if you have a serious problem like a heart attack, sepsis, a kidney stone blocking off your ureter while your kidney fills up with pus and you’re turning grey and shivering because you’re dying, well, chances are you’re going to be lying in a bed in the hallway.<p>Up in the ICU hopeless 95 year olds will sit on ventilators and other life support machines for weeks because doctors don’t have any discretion in stopping futile care. You can be a 30 year old pregnant woman, and you will die waiting for your ICU bed in the emergency room. There are 30 rooms in the ER, but 3 nurses overnight…what do you think happens if you have an accident and urinate or have a bowel movement in the bed? That’s exactly what happens. Good luck getting pain medicine for your kidney stone, there’s 10 other patients and they’re all sicker than you.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>wrp</author><text>I&#x27;ve read that a single-payer system is very unlikely in the USA, due to political forces. The tremendous inefficiency of the American medical system increases costs, but also provides more jobs, and those job-holders vote.</text></item><item><author>orbz</author><text>I’ve been working in the health tech space for awhile now and it’s sad how you’re not alone in noticing this. It’s the dirty secret of the entire industry, and there’s too many things disincentivizing any fixes.<p>The more I witness this the more I realize that having a single payer is necessary to actually break up enough of the monopoly to get some traction on this problem. Until then there are too many middle men and bureaucrats blocking this change.<p>Thanks for fighting the good fight so far.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noobermin</author><text>That is far too simple, as if citizens voting made a difference. Today, single-payer systems are overwhelmingly popular in the US, but one has yet to be implemented. The political corruption (known as &quot;campaign contributions&quot; which is &quot;free speech&quot; in the US after the citizens united decision) ensures that it won&#x27;t happen, despite it being overwhelmingly positive in polling year after year on both sides of the aisle.</text></comment> |
24,052,510 | 24,052,316 | 1 | 2 | 24,048,786 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Find HN threads about the page you're browsing</title><url>https://github.com/pinoceniccola/what-hn-says-webext</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshstrange</author><text>Love the idea, I have thought about this before and the main issue is training my self to click an extension to check. If an icon flashed when there was a HN submission (ideally only if I didn&#x27;t come directly from HN since I already know) it would be way more useful.<p>That said we all know the big issue with that is privacy. I don&#x27;t want an extension sending every url I visit to any service (directly to the API or through some third-party). I&#x27;ve mulled over this issue before and I&#x27;m not sure how much space it would take up to store a list of urls that have been submitted to HN (Maybe keep 1 month plus all submissions that got over 100 upvotes or something) and check against that local list.<p>Then, and only then, when you get a match you can call out to the Algolia API to get the HN url (or store that as well depending on size).<p>I have no idea, off the top of my head, what the storage requirements for this look like but I don&#x27;t think they would be huge. The other issue (which I want to look into the source to see how this handles it) is the stupid social&#x2F;ads tracking params that are added to URLs. Maybe there is a good list of these that you can remove (from both the current URL and the HN submission) so you can see if it&#x27;s the same base URL.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oefrha</author><text>Every day there are at most around a hundred articles that generate any meaningful discussion at all (see past). Let’s say each article takes up &lt;=200 bytes (URL + title + some stats, a very generous limit actually), then one year worth of data is at most ~7 MB. That might be a bit too much but not by far. If you gate submissions by votes&#x2F;comments threshold as a function of time, it’s conceivable to store metadata of all the good discussions on HN within 20 MB or even 10 MB.<p>Chrome and Firefox extensions can request the unlimitedStorage permission, btw. (Chrome has a 5MB default limit, Firefox doesn’t seem to have one.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Find HN threads about the page you're browsing</title><url>https://github.com/pinoceniccola/what-hn-says-webext</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshstrange</author><text>Love the idea, I have thought about this before and the main issue is training my self to click an extension to check. If an icon flashed when there was a HN submission (ideally only if I didn&#x27;t come directly from HN since I already know) it would be way more useful.<p>That said we all know the big issue with that is privacy. I don&#x27;t want an extension sending every url I visit to any service (directly to the API or through some third-party). I&#x27;ve mulled over this issue before and I&#x27;m not sure how much space it would take up to store a list of urls that have been submitted to HN (Maybe keep 1 month plus all submissions that got over 100 upvotes or something) and check against that local list.<p>Then, and only then, when you get a match you can call out to the Algolia API to get the HN url (or store that as well depending on size).<p>I have no idea, off the top of my head, what the storage requirements for this look like but I don&#x27;t think they would be huge. The other issue (which I want to look into the source to see how this handles it) is the stupid social&#x2F;ads tracking params that are added to URLs. Maybe there is a good list of these that you can remove (from both the current URL and the HN submission) so you can see if it&#x27;s the same base URL.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>relate</author><text>You could allow for errors and use a bloom filter to avoid the space issue:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bloom_filter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bloom_filter</a></text></comment> |
12,556,886 | 12,555,259 | 1 | 2 | 12,553,936 | train | <story><title>It Costs $30 to Make a DIY EpiPen</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602422/it-costs-30-to-make-a-diy-epipen-and-heres-the-proof</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>googamooga</author><text>Medicine is probably the second best place after military where we can observe how greed and corruption are literally killing people.<p>I&#x27;m living in Russia and recently have been involved in medical devices market here. The local market for cardiology stents (little springs they insert non-surgically into your heart to remove artery clogging and prevent heart attack or stroke) has been long occupied by the three US companies. The Russian company I invested in, made their own stent design and launched a production factory in Western Siberia. Our prices are three to four times lower that prices for the same class of stents from the US competitors and the quality is the same or higher. We fought out 15% or the market for the last two years.<p>I have to say, that almost 99% of all stents in Russia are installed at the cost of the state medical insurance - every person in Russia is covered by this insurance, and that insurance is just sponsored by the state or local budget. The budget allocated to this kind of medical support is fixed, so if the yearly budget is 100M rubles (our local currency) and cost of a manipulation and a stent is 100K rubles then you can install stents in 1000 patients in one year. If the price goes down four-fold, then it will be 4000 patients. And this stent manipulation is a life saver in true sense of this word. So, basically with our stents we can save four times more people&#x27;s lives, which on a scale of Russia would be tens of thousands of people.<p>Here enters the greed and corruption. One of the US companies approached one of the most powerful Russian oligarchs with good ties in the government. He lobbied a government decree stating that this US company will be single supplier for cardiology stents starting Jan, 2017. So, all hospitals and clinics are obliged to buy stents only from them, at the price they set. Tens of thousands of Russian people will die each year because of the greed and corruption - and we can&#x27;t do much about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GFischer</author><text>Exactly the same thing happened here in Uruguay, with the exact same product (stents).<p>A company named Nafferton, distributor of Boston Scientific, managed to drive all other companies out of the market via legislation:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elobservador.com.uy&#x2F;con-monopolio-stents-otros-fabricantes-se-iran-uruguay-n239789" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elobservador.com.uy&#x2F;con-monopolio-stents-otros-fa...</a><p>A year ago, the Court of Appeals annulled that, and we now can have more that one supplier (not sure if that&#x27;s in practice now)<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elpais.com.uy&#x2F;informacion&#x2F;gobierno-se-encamina-anular-monopolio.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elpais.com.uy&#x2F;informacion&#x2F;gobierno-se-encamina-an...</a><p>Edit: Court of Appeals, not Supreme Court. Not sure if it reached the Supreme Court.</text></comment> | <story><title>It Costs $30 to Make a DIY EpiPen</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602422/it-costs-30-to-make-a-diy-epipen-and-heres-the-proof</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>googamooga</author><text>Medicine is probably the second best place after military where we can observe how greed and corruption are literally killing people.<p>I&#x27;m living in Russia and recently have been involved in medical devices market here. The local market for cardiology stents (little springs they insert non-surgically into your heart to remove artery clogging and prevent heart attack or stroke) has been long occupied by the three US companies. The Russian company I invested in, made their own stent design and launched a production factory in Western Siberia. Our prices are three to four times lower that prices for the same class of stents from the US competitors and the quality is the same or higher. We fought out 15% or the market for the last two years.<p>I have to say, that almost 99% of all stents in Russia are installed at the cost of the state medical insurance - every person in Russia is covered by this insurance, and that insurance is just sponsored by the state or local budget. The budget allocated to this kind of medical support is fixed, so if the yearly budget is 100M rubles (our local currency) and cost of a manipulation and a stent is 100K rubles then you can install stents in 1000 patients in one year. If the price goes down four-fold, then it will be 4000 patients. And this stent manipulation is a life saver in true sense of this word. So, basically with our stents we can save four times more people&#x27;s lives, which on a scale of Russia would be tens of thousands of people.<p>Here enters the greed and corruption. One of the US companies approached one of the most powerful Russian oligarchs with good ties in the government. He lobbied a government decree stating that this US company will be single supplier for cardiology stents starting Jan, 2017. So, all hospitals and clinics are obliged to buy stents only from them, at the price they set. Tens of thousands of Russian people will die each year because of the greed and corruption - and we can&#x27;t do much about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>metafunctor</author><text>Which company, which oligarch? Can you reveal more details, proof, anything?<p>Perhaps the easiest way we can do something about this is make some noise. But we need indisputable facts in order to do that.<p>Edit: If you do decide to blow the whistle, please try to stay anonymous as best you can.</text></comment> |
32,015,338 | 32,013,903 | 1 | 2 | 32,011,439 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What's is your go to toolset for simple front end development?</title><text>I&#x27;m quite firmly in back end development. Often times I find myself wanting to have a simple front end to which I can attach some new experiments for home brew coding such as Flask.<p>I&#x27;d not mind if my front end looked a little bit nice, but don&#x27;t want to spend forever learning, hand coding, and trouble shooting html, css, JavaScript.<p>What&#x27;s in your toolkit for some simple front end drag and drop style block building that gives you enough of a template to get started? I&#x27;ve seen the odd one posted on HN over the years, but never had the foresight to save one.<p>Given its home lab style stuff I don&#x27;t really want to dive into the likes of Webflow, Canva, etc.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonnycat</author><text>If you need any kind of interactivity on the frontend, but are more comfortable with the backend, I would suggest looking at Phoenix LiveView [0] or a similar server-rendered HTML technology for your language of your choice [1].<p>In short, these solutions take JavaScript out of the mix entirely and basically let you deal with a single logical &quot;app&quot;, rather than a separate frontend &amp; backend.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;phoenixframework&#x2F;phoenix_live_view" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;phoenixframework&#x2F;phoenix_live_view</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dbohdan&#x2F;liveviews" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dbohdan&#x2F;liveviews</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dhucerbin</author><text>I&#x27;ve been involved in two projects that use LiveView and both of them have similar path.<p>First, engineers build application using just LiveView and it works just fine. You click a link you have table with your data, you click button you have filtered table, click another link you see a chart.<p>But then UX concerns are raised from PO&#x2F;PM&#x2F;users. Users find it jarring that they need to wait a little to see a loading spinner on clicked button. And we litter our views with some alpine.js DSL in attributes or load stimulus controllers. Some stuff is moved to hooks and kept in ad-hoc global variables.<p>Finally, most of the live views evolve into single html node, with mini-SPA written in some lightweight javascript framework. And everything is wired with phoenix websocket.<p>LiveView is still a fantastic and very productive tool to quickly create applications but I&#x27;m not sure if it scales to users expectations.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What's is your go to toolset for simple front end development?</title><text>I&#x27;m quite firmly in back end development. Often times I find myself wanting to have a simple front end to which I can attach some new experiments for home brew coding such as Flask.<p>I&#x27;d not mind if my front end looked a little bit nice, but don&#x27;t want to spend forever learning, hand coding, and trouble shooting html, css, JavaScript.<p>What&#x27;s in your toolkit for some simple front end drag and drop style block building that gives you enough of a template to get started? I&#x27;ve seen the odd one posted on HN over the years, but never had the foresight to save one.<p>Given its home lab style stuff I don&#x27;t really want to dive into the likes of Webflow, Canva, etc.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonnycat</author><text>If you need any kind of interactivity on the frontend, but are more comfortable with the backend, I would suggest looking at Phoenix LiveView [0] or a similar server-rendered HTML technology for your language of your choice [1].<p>In short, these solutions take JavaScript out of the mix entirely and basically let you deal with a single logical &quot;app&quot;, rather than a separate frontend &amp; backend.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;phoenixframework&#x2F;phoenix_live_view" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;phoenixframework&#x2F;phoenix_live_view</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dbohdan&#x2F;liveviews" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dbohdan&#x2F;liveviews</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluehatbrit</author><text>I&#x27;m in the same camp, I&#x27;ve slowly &quot;regressed&quot; backwards from overcomplicated SPA&#x27;s back to server side rendering. When LiveView hit and I was already using Phoenix it was just perfect. It&#x27;s a slight embelishment on top of multi-page server rendered pages which gives all the benefits I need and nothing more.<p>If I _really_ need something to be driven by the frontend like a transition then I&#x27;ll use Alpine.js.<p>For CSS I tend to use tailwindcss &#x2F; tailwindui because I know it well and it doens&#x27;t need npm. If I didn&#x27;t know tailwind I&#x27;d probably look at something like bootstrap or something I can build on top of with vanilla css.</text></comment> |
10,456,597 | 10,455,240 | 1 | 2 | 10,453,850 | train | <story><title>Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS</title><url>https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Turing_Machine</author><text>The whole idea of using (at least) three separate languages (HTML, JavaScript, CSS) would seem weird if it were proposed <i>de novo</i>.<p>Consider that LaTeX manages to carry out all of those functions (layout, styling, and computation) using only one language.</text></item><item><author>Cshelton</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t even get to the overall design of css in the first place and the problems it has...
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.vjeux.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;javascript&#x2F;react-css-in-js-nationjs.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.vjeux.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;javascript&#x2F;react-css-in-js-nation...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>A_COMPUTER</author><text>XML to the rescue! The alternate future of the web! XML + XSLT (stylesheet)-&gt; XSL:FO (intermediate XML language for formatting) -&gt; FOP (program to convert formatting objects to output) -&gt; rendered format. XML all the way down! (One mistake, zero output.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS</title><url>https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Turing_Machine</author><text>The whole idea of using (at least) three separate languages (HTML, JavaScript, CSS) would seem weird if it were proposed <i>de novo</i>.<p>Consider that LaTeX manages to carry out all of those functions (layout, styling, and computation) using only one language.</text></item><item><author>Cshelton</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t even get to the overall design of css in the first place and the problems it has...
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.vjeux.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;javascript&#x2F;react-css-in-js-nationjs.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.vjeux.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;javascript&#x2F;react-css-in-js-nation...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wodenokoto</author><text>In your latex equation, you are missing where the data goes. The idea for html&#x2F;css&#x2F;js is that data goes into the html, layout and styling into CDs and interactivity is defined in JavaScript.<p>That makes sense. The problem is that we never got anything close to that.</text></comment> |
38,927,355 | 38,927,242 | 1 | 2 | 38,922,657 | train | <story><title>DARPA Moves Forward on X-65: Plane with no moving control surfaces</title><url>https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2024-01-03</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foobiekr</author><text>HN is not actually good at programming and CS, either.</text></item><item><author>7thaccount</author><text>HN is really good at programming language, IT, and computer science discussions. It really varies once you get outside that bubble.<p>Sometimes you get a topic on mathematics and a few mathematicians are on there answering questions directly and it&#x27;s great. In my own field of energy markets and power grid operation, I&#x27;ve noticed the comments have a good mixture of informed folks and those that are way off base. I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s much worse on some topics and that I&#x27;m just as guilty at times :)<p>Hopefully there are enough experts in an area to drown out the noise.</text></item><item><author>LargeTomato</author><text>Darpa is testing a completely novel type of flight control and all these HN comments are just nitpicking irrelevant things, missing the forest through the trees, and saying &quot;it won&#x27;t work on propeller drones&quot;.<p>The quality of discussion on this website is abysmal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>7thaccount</author><text>I&#x27;m not aware of any better place for people to chat about programming languages including esoteric stuff like APL where someone actively developing the main commercial offering and another writing an open source alternative are actively contributing to the conversation and explaining how low level operations work.<p>I&#x27;ve seen plenty of experts here on stuff like Prolog, Lisp, Forth, Smalltalk (Alan Kay has posted on here), tons on Java, Python, R, C++, Julia...it goes on and on.</text></comment> | <story><title>DARPA Moves Forward on X-65: Plane with no moving control surfaces</title><url>https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2024-01-03</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foobiekr</author><text>HN is not actually good at programming and CS, either.</text></item><item><author>7thaccount</author><text>HN is really good at programming language, IT, and computer science discussions. It really varies once you get outside that bubble.<p>Sometimes you get a topic on mathematics and a few mathematicians are on there answering questions directly and it&#x27;s great. In my own field of energy markets and power grid operation, I&#x27;ve noticed the comments have a good mixture of informed folks and those that are way off base. I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s much worse on some topics and that I&#x27;m just as guilty at times :)<p>Hopefully there are enough experts in an area to drown out the noise.</text></item><item><author>LargeTomato</author><text>Darpa is testing a completely novel type of flight control and all these HN comments are just nitpicking irrelevant things, missing the forest through the trees, and saying &quot;it won&#x27;t work on propeller drones&quot;.<p>The quality of discussion on this website is abysmal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bunderbunder</author><text>No large, well-known open discussion venue is really very good at discussing any topic.<p>I&#x27;m not sure it&#x27;s even possible for one to be. As the saying goes, &quot;None of us is as dumb as all of us.&quot;</text></comment> |
17,092,847 | 17,092,908 | 1 | 3 | 17,092,485 | train | <story><title>College May Not Be Worth It Anymore</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/opinion/college-useful-cost-jobs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mkirklions</author><text>People hate when I talk about working fulltime in the factory on the midnight shift and going to school fulltime.<p>I didnt get &#x27;the college experience&#x27;. But I didnt have any college debt, I became a hardened adult that didnt cry when plant people got pissed. I dont complain. If something needs to get done, I do it.<p>Graduated in 3 years with my chem engineering degree at age 21.<p>People will always complain about something. &quot;You should pay for a dorm, food, education from top individuals, books, knowledge, all for spending 200 hours in the summer at a clothing store&quot;.<p>I did a factory full time midnight shift job, all year, lived off campus + commuted. Ate at home too.<p>This comes at the cost of the &#x27;College Experience&quot;</text></item><item><author>anoncoward111</author><text>it&#x27;s already a shame that the answer isn&#x27;t 100% yes, 100% of the time.<p>back in the 70s, tuition was payable with a summer job and job prospects were decent enough despite geopolitical and economic headwinds<p>these days, the same problems plague the job market, but every year of college costs 1 year of salary, unless you qualify for stackable forms of financial aid</text></item><item><author>paulpauper</author><text>The NYTimes republishes a variant of this articles almost every month<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=site:nytimes.com+college+worth+it&amp;rlz=1C1CHBF_enTR752TR752&amp;ei=h6j9WuawLeba6ASAvKu4DA&amp;start=10&amp;sa=N&amp;biw=1745&amp;bih=818" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=site:nytimes.com+college+wor...</a><p>The usual answer is &quot;it depends&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dilap</author><text>Not saying it&#x27;s true for you, but everyone I knew at college that was working full-time was in my opinion getting far less out of college than they would have. You need time to ponder, to explore, to be curious.<p>Having to grind insane hours just to get in the game might be workable for the very dedicated and tough, but it&#x27;s certainly not an optimal experience, and something we should strive to make not necessary.</text></comment> | <story><title>College May Not Be Worth It Anymore</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/opinion/college-useful-cost-jobs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mkirklions</author><text>People hate when I talk about working fulltime in the factory on the midnight shift and going to school fulltime.<p>I didnt get &#x27;the college experience&#x27;. But I didnt have any college debt, I became a hardened adult that didnt cry when plant people got pissed. I dont complain. If something needs to get done, I do it.<p>Graduated in 3 years with my chem engineering degree at age 21.<p>People will always complain about something. &quot;You should pay for a dorm, food, education from top individuals, books, knowledge, all for spending 200 hours in the summer at a clothing store&quot;.<p>I did a factory full time midnight shift job, all year, lived off campus + commuted. Ate at home too.<p>This comes at the cost of the &#x27;College Experience&quot;</text></item><item><author>anoncoward111</author><text>it&#x27;s already a shame that the answer isn&#x27;t 100% yes, 100% of the time.<p>back in the 70s, tuition was payable with a summer job and job prospects were decent enough despite geopolitical and economic headwinds<p>these days, the same problems plague the job market, but every year of college costs 1 year of salary, unless you qualify for stackable forms of financial aid</text></item><item><author>paulpauper</author><text>The NYTimes republishes a variant of this articles almost every month<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=site:nytimes.com+college+worth+it&amp;rlz=1C1CHBF_enTR752TR752&amp;ei=h6j9WuawLeba6ASAvKu4DA&amp;start=10&amp;sa=N&amp;biw=1745&amp;bih=818" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=site:nytimes.com+college+wor...</a><p>The usual answer is &quot;it depends&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mtberatwork</author><text>The point is that there was a time when you could have worked that factory job during the summer to pay for the next year&#x27;s tuition. I&#x27;m sure you would concede that this is much more reasonable than working a full time job on top of a full time university load.</text></comment> |
5,838,828 | 5,838,390 | 1 | 2 | 5,838,066 | train | <story><title>Anonymous releases NSA documents</title><url>http://pastebin.com/MPpT7xaf</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bradfordarner</author><text>What a waste of my eyes!<p>As someone who spent years working in government-ese, there is nothing new here at all. None of the documents are actually classified. They are standard policy propositions layered with heavy technical&#x2F;government jargon. The intelligence community and DOD is meticulous about properly classifying even the most mundane information that could be connected to anything of consequence for national security. Hence, it has been the standard for decades that every single classified document must have a header and footer with its classification level clearly posted. I was put on the spot once in a brief for not having a footer with the brief&#x27;s classification on one slide in a PowerPoint. None of these documents have the required headers or footers. Logical conclusion, none of them require it because none of them are classified.<p>The real government is far more boring than the one that appears in popular conspiracy theories and movies. Trust me, the real government is a boring employer...great health insurance though!</text></comment> | <story><title>Anonymous releases NSA documents</title><url>http://pastebin.com/MPpT7xaf</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nikcub</author><text>If you don&#x27;t want to download all the docs to view, there is a mirror on Google Docs with web based viewers:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drive.google.com&#x2F;folderview?id=0Bx25s45t4-d_eE0xbklZN183ME0&amp;usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drive.google.com&#x2F;folderview?id=0Bx25s45t4-d_eE0xbklZ...</a></text></comment> |
6,879,283 | 6,879,306 | 1 | 2 | 6,878,565 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Minecraft clone in 2500 lines of C - even supports multiplayer online</title><url>https://github.com/fogleman/Craft</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DanielRibeiro</author><text>Cool. From the same author of Minecraft clone with Python: <a href="https://github.com/fogleman/Minecraft" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fogleman&#x2F;Minecraft</a><p>The python version uses only 894 lines of code: <a href="https://github.com/fogleman/Minecraft/blob/master/main.py" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fogleman&#x2F;Minecraft&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;main.py</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Minecraft clone in 2500 lines of C - even supports multiplayer online</title><url>https://github.com/fogleman/Craft</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandrake</author><text>Not to be a party pooper, but there doesn&#x27;t seem to be much in the way of error checking, null pointer checking, etc. e.g. Apparently library calls like calloc() and fopen() never fail. I guess if your goal is &quot;few lines of code&quot; it&#x27;s understandable to leave that stuff out.<p>If your brain has the tendency to automatically go into &quot;code review&quot; mode, I recommend against browsing the source :)</text></comment> |
21,333,072 | 21,332,036 | 1 | 3 | 21,330,984 | train | <story><title>We are leaving the Apple App Store and all its problems</title><url>https://exactscan.com/MAS/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dijit</author><text>Actually; now that I think about it, from a user perspective I also really dislike the App Store.<p>I used to _love_ it, I would check weekly for new things, maybe there was some new shiny (often beautiful) program to do something really well. The experience was on the &#x27;better than passable&#x27; side, nobodies favourite interface maybe, but certainly not terrible.<p>But I actually avoid the App Store these days, both on MacOS and my iPhone. I never really noticed but I just slowly stopped installing new applications from there (unless sent there by a company website in the case of iOS); this was around the time that Apple Music was being foisted down my throat. I&#x27;m not sure if there&#x27;s a correlation there.<p>I always suspected there were dark patterns at play in the App Store though. Although every program is reviewed, probably only 2% or less of them become popular, and if you are popular, boy, are you popular. the design paradigm is self-fulfilling. (&quot;most popular&quot;&#x2F;&quot;highest grossing&quot;).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cytzol</author><text>&gt; I also really dislike the App Store. [...] I used to _love_ it, I would check weekly for new things<p>I used to do this too, and like you, I&#x27;ve now grown to really dislike it. My reason is different, though: the App Store app has _plummeted_ in quality. It&#x27;s now so hard to use, I don&#x27;t bother using it.<p>1. The UI is all over the place. Some UI controls cause pages to swipe up from the bottom. Some cause pages to swipe in from the right. Some cause modals. Whenever I click something, I have no idea what it&#x27;s going to do. Here are some examples: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grumpy.website&#x2F;post&#x2F;0RsaxCu3P" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grumpy.website&#x2F;post&#x2F;0RsaxCu3P</a><p>2. It&#x27;s full of bugs. I have witnessed the App Store lose track of whether an app is bought or not, downloaded or not, or installing or not. Another example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grumpy.website&#x2F;post&#x2F;0SU9WNFXB" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grumpy.website&#x2F;post&#x2F;0SU9WNFXB</a><p>3. It makes the rest of my system worse. Every week or so, I get a message like &quot;Fantastical cannot be updated because it is open&quot;. I didn&#x27;t set it to update. I had no idea it was even updating. I just get an obnoxious dialog interrupting my work.<p>The App Store used to be like a shopping mall — I&#x27;d browse the shelves, see what was new, and maybe buy a small app I liked the look of once in a while. But now it&#x27;s become so hard to browse, I don&#x27;t bother paying. Everyone loses out.</text></comment> | <story><title>We are leaving the Apple App Store and all its problems</title><url>https://exactscan.com/MAS/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dijit</author><text>Actually; now that I think about it, from a user perspective I also really dislike the App Store.<p>I used to _love_ it, I would check weekly for new things, maybe there was some new shiny (often beautiful) program to do something really well. The experience was on the &#x27;better than passable&#x27; side, nobodies favourite interface maybe, but certainly not terrible.<p>But I actually avoid the App Store these days, both on MacOS and my iPhone. I never really noticed but I just slowly stopped installing new applications from there (unless sent there by a company website in the case of iOS); this was around the time that Apple Music was being foisted down my throat. I&#x27;m not sure if there&#x27;s a correlation there.<p>I always suspected there were dark patterns at play in the App Store though. Although every program is reviewed, probably only 2% or less of them become popular, and if you are popular, boy, are you popular. the design paradigm is self-fulfilling. (&quot;most popular&quot;&#x2F;&quot;highest grossing&quot;).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fiblye</author><text>I’ve only ever opened the App Store when there’s one particular tool I need to use. I’ve tried casually browsing maybe 3 times in 10 years (because it seems most people do this often) and it just seemed like endless fluff and garbage. I’ve never downloaded anything that I didn’t go in thinking “I need this.”</text></comment> |
16,332,184 | 16,332,127 | 1 | 3 | 16,331,757 | train | <story><title>The Kubernetes Effect</title><url>https://www.infoq.com/articles/kubernetes-effect</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>archgrove</author><text>I&#x27;ll stand by my assertion that for 99% of users (maybe even 99.99%), Kubernetes offers entirely the wrong abstraction. They don&#x27;t want to run a container, they want to run an application (Node, Go, Ruby, Python, Java, whatever). The prevailing mythology is you should &quot;containerize&quot; everything and give it to a container orchestrator to run, but why? They had one problem, &quot;Run an app&quot;. Now they have two, &quot;Run a container that runs an app&quot; <i>and</i> &quot;maintain a container&quot;. Just give the app to a PAAS, and go home early.<p>Most startups - most large companies - would be far better served with a real PAAS, rather than container orchestration. My encounters with container orchestrators is that ops teams spent inordinate amounts of time trying to bend them <i>into</i> a PAAS, rather than just starting with one. This is why I don&#x27;t understand why this article lumps, e.g. Cloud Foundry in with K8S - they solve entirely different problems. My advice to almost every startup I speak to is &quot;Just use Heroku; solve your business problems first&quot;.<p>The article also mentions it enables &quot;new set of distributed primitives and runtime for creating distributed systems that spread across multiple processes and nodes&quot;. I&#x27;ll throw out my other assertion, which I always though was axiomatic - you want your system to be the <i>least</i> distributed you can make it at all times. Distributed systems are harder to reason about, harder to write, and harder to maintain. They fail in strange ways, and are so hard to get right, I&#x27;d bet I can find a hidden problem in yours within an hour of starting code review. Most teams running a non-trivial distributed system are coasting on luck rather than skill. This is not a reflection on them - just an inherent problem with building distributed logic.<p>Computers are fast, and you are not Google. I&#x27;ve helped run multiple thousand TPS using Cloudfoundry, driving one of Europe&#x27;s biggest retailers using just a few services. I&#x27;m now helping a startup unpick it&#x27;s 18 &quot;service&quot; containerised system back to something that can actually be maintained.<p>TLDR; containers as production app deployment artefacts have, in the medium and long term, caused more problems than they&#x27;ve solved for almost every case I&#x27;ve seen.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Kubernetes Effect</title><url>https://www.infoq.com/articles/kubernetes-effect</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sacheendra</author><text>A consequence of the &quot;Kubernetes Effect&quot; is that while distributed systems are easy to build and use, a lot of developers lose sight of the fundamental problems which make distributed systems difficult.<p>For example, the sidecar in a sidecar pattern might fail while the application is running and the system can get stuck in weird states. The developer still needs to understand fundamentally how the system works.<p>Eschewing deeper knowledge just because it is easy to use is trap in this case. While the article compares Kubernetes to JVM, Kubernetes can fail in a lot more hard to debug ways than the JVM right now. I don&#x27;t know if this semantic gap between distributed systems like Kubernetes and monolithic systems like JVM can ever be bridged.</text></comment> |
25,220,642 | 25,220,438 | 1 | 2 | 25,217,270 | train | <story><title>Java is better than C++ for high speed trading systems</title><url>https://news.efinancialcareers.com/uk-en/3004875/low-latency-java-trading-systems</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Karellen</author><text>^^This^^ is why you shouldn&#x27;t call software developers &quot;engineers&quot; (disclaimer, am software developer).<p>&quot;No-one ever explicitly <i>specified</i> that the bridge shouldn&#x27;t fall down and kill everyone who was on it at the time&quot;, said no engineer, ever.</text></item><item><author>angry_octet</author><text>The worst (messiest, laziest and most chaotic) engineer I know works at a brokerage, coding obscenely large and unreliable edifices (and in a number of languages, from C++ to Excel+VB)... He does what he is asked, and doesn&#x27;t worry about telling them what they need. They never demand code that doesn&#x27;t crash, they see that as a fact of life, and developers are an overhead. Basically someone else owns the risk, the brokers don&#x27;t, so why should he?<p>People who don&#x27;t like this style (or the code) leave.<p>The direction for quality has to come from the top and be supported by systematic mechanisms. In fact that would be a question to ask in interviews.</text></item><item><author>vgatherps</author><text>I’ve seen this sentiment before and worked on both a “low latency Java” team and low latency C++ teams.<p>I have some sympathy for the idea that the JVM is better since it means you won’t spend all your time chasing crash reports. The thing is, like another comment hinted at, is that this issue is generally more reflective of the environment you build in than the technology choice.<p>Here’s a good talk on the reasons for and limits of using C++ for low latency systems: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=NH1Tta7purM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=NH1Tta7purM</a><p>If I had to rank in terms of reliability of trading infrastructure I’ve used&#x2F;worked on,<p>* Low Latency C &#x2F; C++ infra at fully automated trading firm. Very much run by the programmers and quants and also fairly small. By far the fastest (near limits of what you could do) and also most reliable.<p>* Low Latency Java execution infrastructure. Pretty reliable, not that fast, had some issues with GC battling and manual memory management to avoid GC, etc. There was a pretty clear latency floor (still quite low) even when “doing everything right” that serious native infrastructure beat.<p>* C++ market making infra at a firm run by manual traders. It was by far the slowest and least reliable. Echos the experience of “spent hours debugging weird crashes”. The culture was very “A trader asked for this and needs it done yesterday. Also this refactoring business doesn’t sound like adding new features, drop it”.<p>What I saw is that if you hire people who have a good idea of what they’re doing and keep a culture of technical excellence, C++ is definitely a better choice if you care about latency. You really have to maintain a culture of high quality code, testing, and in general caring about the technology.<p>This is only really possible when all of the stakeholders are involved in the technology, or at least understand the benefits. Once you start down the path of “well this feature could be done a day quicker if...” this goes down the drain, and a few years later you find yourself getting run over on latency AND with an impossible to use trading system. It’s really the worst of both worlds.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derefr</author><text>I think it’s not that software engineers aren’t engineers; but more that they’re most equivalent to <i>combat engineers</i> — engineers operating under time-pressure and shipping-pressure, where the systems they build need to “work” (in the sense of a bridge getting people across a ravine) but may only need to work <i>once</i>; and where it may be perfectly fine&#x2F;expected&#x2F;required to need to “baby” the resulting engineered system along (i.e. letting a batch of people over the bridge, then closing it to traffic, examining the piles for faults, and shoring up the ones that are slipping; then reopening the bridge, in a cycle.)<p>It’s not that this type of engineering is “not engineering”; it’s that it’s engineering where the engineer themselves (and their ability to actively re-stabilize the system) is considered a load-bearing element in the design, such that the system will very likely fall apart once that element is removed.<p>Combat engineering is still engineering, in the sense that there are still tolerances to be achieved, and it’s still a disaster if the bridge falls over while it’s in active use for the mission it was built for. It’s just not considered a problem if it falls over <i>later</i>, once that mission is accomplished.</text></comment> | <story><title>Java is better than C++ for high speed trading systems</title><url>https://news.efinancialcareers.com/uk-en/3004875/low-latency-java-trading-systems</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Karellen</author><text>^^This^^ is why you shouldn&#x27;t call software developers &quot;engineers&quot; (disclaimer, am software developer).<p>&quot;No-one ever explicitly <i>specified</i> that the bridge shouldn&#x27;t fall down and kill everyone who was on it at the time&quot;, said no engineer, ever.</text></item><item><author>angry_octet</author><text>The worst (messiest, laziest and most chaotic) engineer I know works at a brokerage, coding obscenely large and unreliable edifices (and in a number of languages, from C++ to Excel+VB)... He does what he is asked, and doesn&#x27;t worry about telling them what they need. They never demand code that doesn&#x27;t crash, they see that as a fact of life, and developers are an overhead. Basically someone else owns the risk, the brokers don&#x27;t, so why should he?<p>People who don&#x27;t like this style (or the code) leave.<p>The direction for quality has to come from the top and be supported by systematic mechanisms. In fact that would be a question to ask in interviews.</text></item><item><author>vgatherps</author><text>I’ve seen this sentiment before and worked on both a “low latency Java” team and low latency C++ teams.<p>I have some sympathy for the idea that the JVM is better since it means you won’t spend all your time chasing crash reports. The thing is, like another comment hinted at, is that this issue is generally more reflective of the environment you build in than the technology choice.<p>Here’s a good talk on the reasons for and limits of using C++ for low latency systems: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=NH1Tta7purM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=NH1Tta7purM</a><p>If I had to rank in terms of reliability of trading infrastructure I’ve used&#x2F;worked on,<p>* Low Latency C &#x2F; C++ infra at fully automated trading firm. Very much run by the programmers and quants and also fairly small. By far the fastest (near limits of what you could do) and also most reliable.<p>* Low Latency Java execution infrastructure. Pretty reliable, not that fast, had some issues with GC battling and manual memory management to avoid GC, etc. There was a pretty clear latency floor (still quite low) even when “doing everything right” that serious native infrastructure beat.<p>* C++ market making infra at a firm run by manual traders. It was by far the slowest and least reliable. Echos the experience of “spent hours debugging weird crashes”. The culture was very “A trader asked for this and needs it done yesterday. Also this refactoring business doesn’t sound like adding new features, drop it”.<p>What I saw is that if you hire people who have a good idea of what they’re doing and keep a culture of technical excellence, C++ is definitely a better choice if you care about latency. You really have to maintain a culture of high quality code, testing, and in general caring about the technology.<p>This is only really possible when all of the stakeholders are involved in the technology, or at least understand the benefits. Once you start down the path of “well this feature could be done a day quicker if...” this goes down the drain, and a few years later you find yourself getting run over on latency AND with an impossible to use trading system. It’s really the worst of both worlds.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>travisporter</author><text>I think software developers have a range in terms of responsibility from plumbers&#x2F;electricians to civil engineers. We could save the designation “software engineer” for someone who has to go through the requisite ethics and case study courses like all other engineers. Otherwise maybe programmer&#x2F;developer. (I’m gatekeeping I guess)</text></comment> |
38,378,580 | 38,378,393 | 1 | 2 | 38,371,808 | train | <story><title>In the gut's 'second brain,' key agents of health emerge</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-the-guts-second-brain-key-agents-of-health-emerge-20231121</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>armada651</author><text>&quot;your brain is reducible to a computer with inputs&#x2F;outputs like any other, all we have to do is reimplement it&quot;<p>It still is though, you will reach human intelligence by just modeling the brain. The problem is that you probably won&#x27;t reach an emotionally stable human since you&#x27;ll be missing all the emotional&#x2F;hormonal signaling that comes from the rest of the body, but we can emulate that without having to model the full complexity of the gut.</text></item><item><author>belugacat</author><text>This is why the reductionist argument of &quot;your brain is reducible to a computer with inputs&#x2F;outputs like any other, all we have to do is reimplement it&quot; of AGI proponents always fell flat to me.<p>It&#x27;s now becoming clear that we can&#x27;t just take the brain in isolation, treating the spinal nerve like a PCI-E lane - the gut has to come with it. And if the gut comes with it, all the other organs (skin top of the list) probably do as well.<p>Now to model a human brain, you need to model an entire human, along with all the complexity of the microbiota, interactions of the organs with the environment... it all just falls apart.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>plufz</author><text>&gt; you will reach human intelligence by just modeling the brain<p>I&#x27;m not so sure. I mean obviously this is very complicated and we still know very little of the brain.<p>Just one example (from what I understand) you can&#x27;t really separate intelligence from emotions. There are researchers in emotions that explain our whole system of affect&#x2F;feeling&#x2F;emotion&#x2F;mood&#x2F;etc. as a very effective abstraction of all the inputs from our whole body (both direct inputs, cognitive processes and stored data). So without a working system of emotions I don&#x27;t think you will have a working brain at all.</text></comment> | <story><title>In the gut's 'second brain,' key agents of health emerge</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-the-guts-second-brain-key-agents-of-health-emerge-20231121</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>armada651</author><text>&quot;your brain is reducible to a computer with inputs&#x2F;outputs like any other, all we have to do is reimplement it&quot;<p>It still is though, you will reach human intelligence by just modeling the brain. The problem is that you probably won&#x27;t reach an emotionally stable human since you&#x27;ll be missing all the emotional&#x2F;hormonal signaling that comes from the rest of the body, but we can emulate that without having to model the full complexity of the gut.</text></item><item><author>belugacat</author><text>This is why the reductionist argument of &quot;your brain is reducible to a computer with inputs&#x2F;outputs like any other, all we have to do is reimplement it&quot; of AGI proponents always fell flat to me.<p>It&#x27;s now becoming clear that we can&#x27;t just take the brain in isolation, treating the spinal nerve like a PCI-E lane - the gut has to come with it. And if the gut comes with it, all the other organs (skin top of the list) probably do as well.<p>Now to model a human brain, you need to model an entire human, along with all the complexity of the microbiota, interactions of the organs with the environment... it all just falls apart.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chiefalchemist</author><text>Shortened: Modeling how the brain works is not synonymous with how humans work.<p>We just need to maintain our awareness of that difference.<p>The good news is, it makes replacing humans - trait for trait - far more more complicated.</text></comment> |
18,449,743 | 18,448,721 | 1 | 2 | 18,439,577 | train | <story><title>Non cogito, ergo sum</title><url>https://www.1843magazine.com/content/ideas/ian-leslie/non-cogito-ergo-sum</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>motohagiography</author><text>Driving is a perfect and mundane example of unconscious competence most people have. If you could perform with the simple confidence of driving to work,you would probably be very good at what you were doing.<p>A friend once rhetorically asked me what trying to be funny meant, and of course it means being not funny, yet when we want to achieve some other end we approach it by trying. Yoda summed it up well, but we don&#x27;t really get a chance to understand what it really means. Trying to drive on a highway is farcically dangerous, but simply driving on one is among the safest ways to drive.<p>There is a mental change that comes from physical competence where you no longer fear failure, and I&#x27;d argue its that lack of fear that makes the difference at elite levels where skills are largely equal. It also makes the difference in the rate at which you learn. The try&#x2F;humiliate style of teaching is a way to produce industrial scale mediocrity, and so few can appreciate the difference that there is often no reason to change.</text></comment> | <story><title>Non cogito, ergo sum</title><url>https://www.1843magazine.com/content/ideas/ian-leslie/non-cogito-ergo-sum</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GarvielLoken</author><text>This is one of the goals of Judo. It combines rational thinking, &quot;How does this throw work? Why did not my attempt work?&quot; with the end goal of not needing the thinking in practice. No Mind. It&#x27;s what allows any musician or performance artist, race car driver, to be effective; Because they need to operate creatively at speeds that are faster then rational thinking. And this in our field is of course known as &quot;being in the flow&quot;.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mushin_(mental_state)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mushin_(mental_state)</a>
&quot;Once mushin is attained through the practice or study of martial arts (although it can be accomplished through other arts or practices that refine the mind and body), the objective is to then attain this same level of complete awareness in other aspects of the practitioner&#x27;s life. &quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;budobum.blogspot.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;02&#x2F;states-of-mind-mushin.html?m=1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;budobum.blogspot.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;02&#x2F;states-of-mind-mushin.ht...</a></text></comment> |
29,790,362 | 29,789,882 | 1 | 3 | 29,789,417 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: Rise in AWS accounts getting hacked and owner being stuck with the bill</title><text>I have been seeing a lot of posts on Reddit and other forums of mostly students setting up an AWS account only for them to be hacked and account owner being stuck with a significant bill.<p>Most likely scenario is hackers are trying leaked username&#x2F;password pairs from other breaches against AWS and gaining access to those accounts.<p>They then spin up EC2 instances in all sorts of regions on the compromised accounts<p>PSA set up MFA on your account if you haven&#x27;t already.<p>Some examples:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;aws&#x2F;comments&#x2F;rv3lm5&#x2F;i_lost_55k_from_hackers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;aws&#x2F;comments&#x2F;rv3lm5&#x2F;i_lost_55k_from...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;aws&#x2F;comments&#x2F;rvbncu&#x2F;account_hacked_unable_to_sign_in_4000_in&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;aws&#x2F;comments&#x2F;rvbncu&#x2F;account_hacked_...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;aws&#x2F;comments&#x2F;qx8i02&#x2F;got_hacked_and_found_a_30k_bill_please_turn_on&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;aws&#x2F;comments&#x2F;qx8i02&#x2F;got_hacked_and_...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;aws&#x2F;comments&#x2F;rv4mnq&#x2F;my_account_was_hacked_and_now_my_bill_is_over&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;aws&#x2F;comments&#x2F;rv4mnq&#x2F;my_account_was_...</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ujetin</author><text>I deleted my AWS account yesterday. It is obviously catered towards large organisations - very complicated tools and pricing that I couldn&#x27;t really fit into my use case. I tried to just shut down the services that were using money but wasn&#x27;t even sure I had found them all so I just closed the whole account.<p>I don&#x27;t even like the idea of any of this stuff. I want to run my own little raspberry pi server or whatever, it seems much more fun and startupish than aws, which appears to be all of the corporate stuff I left (AIMs etc). This is funny because I remember AWS being thought of as great for &quot;just experimenting with stuff&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stackbutterflow</author><text>It says here that closing your account isn&#x27;t enough:<p>&gt; Closing your account might not automatically terminate all your active resources. You might continue to incur charges for some of your active resources even after you close your account.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;premiumsupport&#x2F;knowledge-center&#x2F;terminate-resources-account-closure&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;premiumsupport&#x2F;knowledge-center&#x2F;termi...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: Rise in AWS accounts getting hacked and owner being stuck with the bill</title><text>I have been seeing a lot of posts on Reddit and other forums of mostly students setting up an AWS account only for them to be hacked and account owner being stuck with a significant bill.<p>Most likely scenario is hackers are trying leaked username&#x2F;password pairs from other breaches against AWS and gaining access to those accounts.<p>They then spin up EC2 instances in all sorts of regions on the compromised accounts<p>PSA set up MFA on your account if you haven&#x27;t already.<p>Some examples:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;aws&#x2F;comments&#x2F;rv3lm5&#x2F;i_lost_55k_from_hackers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;aws&#x2F;comments&#x2F;rv3lm5&#x2F;i_lost_55k_from...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;aws&#x2F;comments&#x2F;rvbncu&#x2F;account_hacked_unable_to_sign_in_4000_in&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;aws&#x2F;comments&#x2F;rvbncu&#x2F;account_hacked_...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;aws&#x2F;comments&#x2F;qx8i02&#x2F;got_hacked_and_found_a_30k_bill_please_turn_on&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;aws&#x2F;comments&#x2F;qx8i02&#x2F;got_hacked_and_...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;aws&#x2F;comments&#x2F;rv4mnq&#x2F;my_account_was_hacked_and_now_my_bill_is_over&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;aws&#x2F;comments&#x2F;rv4mnq&#x2F;my_account_was_...</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ujetin</author><text>I deleted my AWS account yesterday. It is obviously catered towards large organisations - very complicated tools and pricing that I couldn&#x27;t really fit into my use case. I tried to just shut down the services that were using money but wasn&#x27;t even sure I had found them all so I just closed the whole account.<p>I don&#x27;t even like the idea of any of this stuff. I want to run my own little raspberry pi server or whatever, it seems much more fun and startupish than aws, which appears to be all of the corporate stuff I left (AIMs etc). This is funny because I remember AWS being thought of as great for &quot;just experimenting with stuff&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thejosh</author><text>Yep, the only way to do this is using aws-nuke [0], and the billing is such a mess for small use cases.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rebuy-de&#x2F;aws-nuke" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rebuy-de&#x2F;aws-nuke</a></text></comment> |
22,524,622 | 22,524,485 | 1 | 2 | 22,524,176 | train | <story><title>Generating MIDI melody from lyrics using LSTM-GANs</title><url>https://github.com/yy1lab/Lyrics-Conditioned-Neural-Melody-Generation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thomasfl</author><text>Oh no, they&#x27;re ruining popular music as we know it. Anybody can just push some buttons and generate the next hit song. All you need is some with artificial lyrics, artificial melody, artificial vocal (Yamaha vocaloid), on top of a beat bought on the net.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nkrisc</author><text>I know you&#x27;re being sarcastic but I always thought the concern over the provenance of art is strange. If a computer can generate good music, why does it matter that a computer created it if it&#x27;s good music? And if computers are just spitting out terrible music, who cares?<p>Same goes for computer generated visual art, painting created by elephants, or whatever else you can think of that challenges the position of humans as the sole creators of art.</text></comment> | <story><title>Generating MIDI melody from lyrics using LSTM-GANs</title><url>https://github.com/yy1lab/Lyrics-Conditioned-Neural-Melody-Generation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thomasfl</author><text>Oh no, they&#x27;re ruining popular music as we know it. Anybody can just push some buttons and generate the next hit song. All you need is some with artificial lyrics, artificial melody, artificial vocal (Yamaha vocaloid), on top of a beat bought on the net.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>narrator</author><text>People idolizing pop stars is something I would be glad to get rid of. Democratize the idols I say. Everyone gets to be a idol!</text></comment> |
31,104,118 | 31,103,722 | 1 | 2 | 31,075,622 | train | <story><title>Overhauling Mario 64's code to reach 30 FPS and render 6x faster on N64 [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_rzYnXEQlE</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Lerc</author><text>This is a good lesson about the benefit of time when it comes to software development. Mario 64 could have been a much much better game on the same hardware, but the time cost would have resulted in a release late enough that the entire game might have been considered irrelevant.<p>Game consoles have had the benefit of the platform freezing for a few years allowing improvements to accumulate and later titles utilizing knowledge gained from the earlier titles.<p>Much of the software we use every day could benefit from this level of scrutiny but the pressure to deliver on time means we won&#x27;t get to see such benefits unless it becomes a crazy persons labour of love.</text></comment> | <story><title>Overhauling Mario 64's code to reach 30 FPS and render 6x faster on N64 [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_rzYnXEQlE</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>phillipcarter</author><text>&quot;roll those loops back up and don&#x27;t compile in debug mode to achieve significant performance gains&quot; is not the takeaway I thought I&#x27;d have going in, heh.</text></comment> |
7,013,490 | 7,013,433 | 1 | 2 | 7,012,648 | train | <story><title>Apple Acquires Rapid-Fire Camera App Developer SnappyLabs</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/04/snappylabs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>miles</author><text><i>would Apple just steal his idea (NOT implementation) and bake it into the iPhone regardless? I think Microsoft did something like this</i><p>Apple has certainly done this before:<p>Apple Literally Stole My Thunder <a href="https://medium.com/wwdc-round-up/253aed27a455" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;wwdc-round-up&#x2F;253aed27a455</a><p>Apple rips off student&#x27;s rejected iPhone app - iOS 5 lifts idea, name, even logo
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/08/apple_copies_rejected_app/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&#x2F;2011&#x2F;06&#x2F;08&#x2F;apple_copies_rejecte...</a><p>Konfabulator, Dashboard controversy flows out of WWDC
<a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/1035200/konfabulator.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macworld.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;1035200&#x2F;konfabulator.html</a><p>Apple stole Karelia Watson
<a href="http://forums.macworld.com/index.php?/topic/2477-apples-stole-karelia-watson/page__st__-13" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.macworld.com&#x2F;index.php?&#x2F;topic&#x2F;2477-apples-stol...</a></text></item><item><author>sergiotapia</author><text><i>Major</i> congratulations to him! What an achievement!<p>I wonder though: in these situations if he were to refuse the acquisition would Apple just steal his idea (NOT implementation) and bake it into the iPhone regardless? I think Microsoft did something like this, no? Any thoughts?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ceejayoz</author><text>&gt; Apple Literally Stole My Thunder <a href="https://medium.com/wwdc-round-up/253aed27a455" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;wwdc-round-up&#x2F;253aed27a455</a><p>The article states &quot;I’m not naive enough to claim Apple actually took my idea.&quot; You apparently are, though.<p>&gt; Apple rips off student&#x27;s rejected iPhone app - iOS 5 lifts idea, name, even logo<p>C&#x27;mon. &quot;Wi-Fi Sync&quot; is hardly a surprising name for such a feature, and making its logo the bog-standard Wifi logo with a bog-standard Sync logo superimposed is hardly a surprising choice either. It was a long-expected and long-awaited feature.<p>&gt; Konfabulator, Dashboard controversy flows out of WWDC<p>A controversy about the bog-standard term &quot;widget&quot;.<p>&gt; Apple stole Karelia Watson<p>Well, it made its own version and named it cheekily. This seems to be the one mostly valid case in your post.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Acquires Rapid-Fire Camera App Developer SnappyLabs</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/04/snappylabs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>miles</author><text><i>would Apple just steal his idea (NOT implementation) and bake it into the iPhone regardless? I think Microsoft did something like this</i><p>Apple has certainly done this before:<p>Apple Literally Stole My Thunder <a href="https://medium.com/wwdc-round-up/253aed27a455" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;wwdc-round-up&#x2F;253aed27a455</a><p>Apple rips off student&#x27;s rejected iPhone app - iOS 5 lifts idea, name, even logo
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/08/apple_copies_rejected_app/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&#x2F;2011&#x2F;06&#x2F;08&#x2F;apple_copies_rejecte...</a><p>Konfabulator, Dashboard controversy flows out of WWDC
<a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/1035200/konfabulator.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macworld.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;1035200&#x2F;konfabulator.html</a><p>Apple stole Karelia Watson
<a href="http://forums.macworld.com/index.php?/topic/2477-apples-stole-karelia-watson/page__st__-13" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.macworld.com&#x2F;index.php?&#x2F;topic&#x2F;2477-apples-stol...</a></text></item><item><author>sergiotapia</author><text><i>Major</i> congratulations to him! What an achievement!<p>I wonder though: in these situations if he were to refuse the acquisition would Apple just steal his idea (NOT implementation) and bake it into the iPhone regardless? I think Microsoft did something like this, no? Any thoughts?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>threeseed</author><text>Three of those four are pretty poor examples.<p>It was a different time when the images&#x2F;weather app was rejected by Apple. They were deliberately trying to prevent people creating thin wrappers around websites and calling it an app. And at the start it made a lot of sense.<p>Syncing over WiFi was a feature that users had demanded long before that app had been around and the name&#x2F;logo are not distinctive. They are the most common sense choices you would use.<p>And widgets existed decades before Konfabulator thought to bring them to OSX. They were available as Desk Accessories in the previous versions of Mac OS as well as on Windows&#x2F;Linux.</text></comment> |
3,981,367 | 3,980,941 | 1 | 2 | 3,980,753 | train | <story><title>Facebook now informs the sender if you've read their message</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=316575021742112#How-do-I-know-if-a-friend-has-seen-a-message-I-sent?</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikeleeorg</author><text>Here's a way to get around letting Facebook know you've read someone's message:<p>I'm one of those people who likes the little red notifications showing when I've received a FB message. I don't check FB's messages often, so without that notification, I forget to follow up on FB messages.<p>My work-around is to have FB send me an email notification whenever someone writes me a message via FB. Then I read that message in my email reader instead of through the FB UI.<p>I also have all email images turned off for performance and privacy reasons.<p>It seems to me you could do this too, and avoid having FB inform the sender that you've read their message.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>okamiueru</author><text>Wasn't there a post on FB using some kind of hidden sound file, which bypasses the "don't show images" protection?<p>Edit: Yes, here we go: <a href="http://pandodaily.com/2012/03/06/facebook-knows-when-you-open-their-emails-how-creepy-silent-sounds/" rel="nofollow">http://pandodaily.com/2012/03/06/facebook-knows-when-you-ope...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook now informs the sender if you've read their message</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=316575021742112#How-do-I-know-if-a-friend-has-seen-a-message-I-sent?</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikeleeorg</author><text>Here's a way to get around letting Facebook know you've read someone's message:<p>I'm one of those people who likes the little red notifications showing when I've received a FB message. I don't check FB's messages often, so without that notification, I forget to follow up on FB messages.<p>My work-around is to have FB send me an email notification whenever someone writes me a message via FB. Then I read that message in my email reader instead of through the FB UI.<p>I also have all email images turned off for performance and privacy reasons.<p>It seems to me you could do this too, and avoid having FB inform the sender that you've read their message.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gaving</author><text>Here's another way to get around letting Facebook know you've read someone's message:<p>Delete your facebook account.</text></comment> |
12,538,586 | 12,538,434 | 1 | 2 | 12,538,067 | train | <story><title>When Blind People Do Algebra, the Brain's Visual Areas Light Up</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/09/19/494593600/when-blind-people-do-algebra-the-brain-s-visual-areas-light-up</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rvense</author><text>When people see, the brain&#x27;s algebra area lights up.</text></comment> | <story><title>When Blind People Do Algebra, the Brain's Visual Areas Light Up</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/09/19/494593600/when-blind-people-do-algebra-the-brain-s-visual-areas-light-up</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>OskarS</author><text><i>A functional MRI study of 17 people blind since birth found that areas of visual cortex became active when the participants were asked to solve algebra problems, a team from Johns Hopkins reports in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.</i><p>Yeah, I&#x27;m gonna take this study with a grain of salt. Too many &quot;fMRI studies of 17 people&quot; have turned out to be barely disguised hooey.</text></comment> |
38,999,549 | 38,999,097 | 1 | 3 | 38,988,948 | train | <story><title>Dynamic programming is not black magic</title><url>https://qsantos.fr/2024/01/04/dynamic-programming-is-not-black-magic/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akoboldfrying</author><text>It&#x27;s good that the article points out that DP algorithms are &quot;just&quot; clever ways to cache a recursion. Looking for a recursive solution is certainly the best way to start out looking for a DP solution, in my experience -- if you can find one, memoising it is trivial and may give a big speedup (and may even be faster than a &quot;bottom-up&quot; DP, since it only ever computes solutions that we definitely need).<p>With enough practice, it&#x27;s usually possible to come up with a (correct but slow) recursive solution. When turning this into a DP, it doesn&#x27;t matter if there are large numbers of subproblems in the call tree -- what&#x27;s important is that there are a relatively small number of <i>distinct</i> subproblems. (Since there&#x27;s no point caching a result that&#x27;s only ever needed one time.) And that&#x27;s where the difficulty tends to lie: Figuring out how to partition the original problem into <i>few enough distinct subproblems</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vishnugupta</author><text>&gt; what&#x27;s important is that there are a relatively small number of distinct subproblems.<p>This is the crucial part IMO. Whether the larger algorithm is recursive or iterative etc is secondary. But yes DP usually tends to show up in recursive algorithms most often.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dynamic programming is not black magic</title><url>https://qsantos.fr/2024/01/04/dynamic-programming-is-not-black-magic/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akoboldfrying</author><text>It&#x27;s good that the article points out that DP algorithms are &quot;just&quot; clever ways to cache a recursion. Looking for a recursive solution is certainly the best way to start out looking for a DP solution, in my experience -- if you can find one, memoising it is trivial and may give a big speedup (and may even be faster than a &quot;bottom-up&quot; DP, since it only ever computes solutions that we definitely need).<p>With enough practice, it&#x27;s usually possible to come up with a (correct but slow) recursive solution. When turning this into a DP, it doesn&#x27;t matter if there are large numbers of subproblems in the call tree -- what&#x27;s important is that there are a relatively small number of <i>distinct</i> subproblems. (Since there&#x27;s no point caching a result that&#x27;s only ever needed one time.) And that&#x27;s where the difficulty tends to lie: Figuring out how to partition the original problem into <i>few enough distinct subproblems</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Shorel</author><text>Agree. When I first learned the subject, my first thought was:<p>As fancy as that feature is, it should be called array memoization, or call stack memoization.<p>The term &quot;dynamic programming&quot; should be reserved for something better. IMO.</text></comment> |
8,198,121 | 8,198,297 | 1 | 3 | 8,197,717 | train | <story><title>Cider Project: Run iOS apps on Android</title><url>http://engineering.columbia.edu/sync-columbia-engineering-team-first-run-ios-apps-android-platform</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fidotron</author><text>“Users no longer need to be locked into one platform. Being able to write an app once and run it anywhere has been a long-sought-after goal and a very hard problem to solve.”<p>This is naive, stupid, or both. There never was a technical cause of lock in (as indeed the Apportable people are not alone in demonstrating), it&#x27;s purely an artificial business construct with the surmountable technical hurdles being very convenient.<p>It&#x27;s well within Apple&#x27;s capabilities to launch the media consumption parts of iTunes on Android, like on Windows PCs, but it should be kind of telling that they don&#x27;t.<p>One of the lessons of my career so far is never underestimate the ability of people to assume that problems are primarily technical in nature when actually the real problem is something else. Technical excuses can often be used for after the fact justification of management decisions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cider Project: Run iOS apps on Android</title><url>http://engineering.columbia.edu/sync-columbia-engineering-team-first-run-ios-apps-android-platform</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nokiaman</author><text>Can Apple can stop the research team releasing the source code?<p>The research project was partly funded by NSF grants, so does that mean the public have the right to see all work related to the project?<p>I ask because the lead researcher, Jeremy Andrus, is now employed by Apple and wrote this on the YouTube video:<p><i>&quot;I have started a job with Apple, and will not be continuing work on this project.
The team at Columbia will probably be doing some follow up work, but I won&#x27;t be involved from here on out.&quot;</i><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uaple0Ec1Dg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Uaple0Ec1Dg</a><p><a href="http://systems.cs.columbia.edu/files/wpid-asplos2014-cider.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;systems.cs.columbia.edu&#x2F;files&#x2F;wpid-asplos2014-cider.p...</a></text></comment> |
11,557,776 | 11,557,876 | 1 | 2 | 11,557,641 | train | <story><title>William Shakespeare, Playwright and Poet, Is Dead at 52</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/23/arts/shakespeare-obituary.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>themartorana</author><text><i>&quot;Shakespeare was the most commonly used spelling in his day, but by the 18th century, the version most favored was Shakespear, and only in the 20th century did Shakespeare become the standard. Interestingly, of the six surviving signatures the great man himself left behind, not one is spelled Shakespeare.&quot;</i><p>He must have gotten it wrong. Thank goodness we&#x27;ve corrected it for him. Not like he was particularly good at English.</text></comment> | <story><title>William Shakespeare, Playwright and Poet, Is Dead at 52</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/23/arts/shakespeare-obituary.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>icebraining</author><text>In an intersection of recent topics in HN, I highly recommend the Globe&#x27;s 2012 rendition of <i>Twelfth Night</i>, in which Stephen Fry plays Malvolio. I was never so much a fan of his as most seem to be around here, but his performance was frankly good, if somewhat similar to the character from <i>Blackadder II</i>. As for the rest of the cast, they range from solid to excellent.</text></comment> |
35,547,228 | 35,546,972 | 1 | 2 | 35,535,407 | train | <story><title>List of Citogenesis Incidents</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_incidents</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>irrational</author><text>I swear this kind of stuff is only going to get worse as people come to use and rely on ChatGPT and its ilk more broadly.<p>Dystopia? Idiocracy? I don&#x27;t know, but I don&#x27;t like it.</text></comment> | <story><title>List of Citogenesis Incidents</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_incidents</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>petercooper</author><text>I just asked ChatGPT who made the first cardboard box, and it too believes the first story on this list: &quot;The first cardboard box was invented by Sir Malcolm Thornhill in England in 1817. He created a machine that could make sheets of paper and then fold them into boxes.&quot;</text></comment> |
34,458,827 | 34,458,811 | 1 | 2 | 34,457,663 | train | <story><title>NRC Certifies First U.S. Small Modular Reactor Design</title><url>https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/nrc-certifies-first-us-small-modular-reactor-design</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prottog</author><text>To put in other units: a rise from previous targets of $58&#x2F;MWh to $89&#x2F;MWh, more than 50%, not including a $30&#x2F;MWh subsidy (so the true cost is actually $119&#x2F;MWh).<p>To be fair, it says the cost increases are mainly due to the rise in construction material prices as well as financing costs; nothing inherent to nuclear power or the novel technology itself.</text></item><item><author>pfdietz</author><text>NuScale recently announced large cost increases at the project with UAMPS. The cost per unit of capacity is now on par with the new reactors at Vogtle (~$20&#x2F;W). This is outside the range at which the project could be competitive.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ieefa.org&#x2F;resources&#x2F;eye-popping-new-cost-estimates-released-nuscale-small-modular-reactor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ieefa.org&#x2F;resources&#x2F;eye-popping-new-cost-estimates-r...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coder543</author><text>To provide more context, wind and solar were both in the low $30&#x27;s&#x2F;MWh of LCOE (levelized cost of energy) 3 years ago[0], with that number predicted to continue falling rapidly.<p>Combined cycle (natural gas) is a bit higher[1] than solar and wind, with that number expected to rise over time, and I&#x27;m fairly sure the current numbers don&#x27;t really reflect the substantial cost of the carbon emissions, which we will all have to pay for sooner or later. Either way, the number utilities see is currently much lower than SMRs.<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure every prediction I&#x27;ve ever seen for how quickly the cost of wind and solar will fall has underestimated the speed in retrospect.<p>That&#x27;s the kind of thing these reactors have to compete with.<p>Grids have also repeatedly been shown to handle more renewables than every previous prediction would make, and we haven&#x27;t hit the limit. At this point, fossil fuel sources more frequently a source of blackouts than than renewables from everything I&#x27;ve seen, despite certain people blaming renewables at every turn.<p>What we <i>need</i> is more energy storage, whether that&#x27;s in the form of traditional batteries or more novel forms of energy storage.<p>I think nuclear is a fine source of energy if you have it, but evidence over the last several decades shows that it is virtually impossible to build for myriad reasons. The Vogtle nuclear reactors have been one giant boondoggle. New nuclear is not cost competitive, unfortunately.<p>This was also an interesting article yesterday: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cleantechnica.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;01&#x2F;19&#x2F;michael-bloomberg-backs-renewable-energy-in-new-op-ed&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cleantechnica.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;01&#x2F;19&#x2F;michael-bloomberg-backs...</a><p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eenews.net&#x2F;articles&#x2F;doe-heres-where-renewable-costs-are-heading&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eenews.net&#x2F;articles&#x2F;doe-heres-where-renewable-co...</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;todayinenergy&#x2F;detail.php?id=46856" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;todayinenergy&#x2F;detail.php?id=46856</a></text></comment> | <story><title>NRC Certifies First U.S. Small Modular Reactor Design</title><url>https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/nrc-certifies-first-us-small-modular-reactor-design</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prottog</author><text>To put in other units: a rise from previous targets of $58&#x2F;MWh to $89&#x2F;MWh, more than 50%, not including a $30&#x2F;MWh subsidy (so the true cost is actually $119&#x2F;MWh).<p>To be fair, it says the cost increases are mainly due to the rise in construction material prices as well as financing costs; nothing inherent to nuclear power or the novel technology itself.</text></item><item><author>pfdietz</author><text>NuScale recently announced large cost increases at the project with UAMPS. The cost per unit of capacity is now on par with the new reactors at Vogtle (~$20&#x2F;W). This is outside the range at which the project could be competitive.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ieefa.org&#x2F;resources&#x2F;eye-popping-new-cost-estimates-released-nuscale-small-modular-reactor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ieefa.org&#x2F;resources&#x2F;eye-popping-new-cost-estimates-r...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timerol</author><text>Producer price index on steel pipe and structural steel are bonkers: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;PCU3312103312100" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;PCU3312103312100</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;PCU33231233231211" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;PCU33231233231211</a></text></comment> |
37,595,274 | 37,594,794 | 1 | 3 | 37,592,699 | train | <story><title>UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/today-uk-parliament-undermined-privacy-security-and-freedom-all-internet-users</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bowsamic</author><text>I’m British, living in Germany now, and one thing that moving here made me realise is that in the UK almost everyone, even young generations, act as if the blitz is still going on. Somehow the British psyche became mortally wounded from WW2 and hasn’t recovered since. Everything is still “keep calm and carry on”. Any attempt at having a political effect is met with dismissal or even total anger</text></item><item><author>gambiting</author><text>I&#x27;ve said it before and I&#x27;ll repeat it here - as someone who lives in the UK the thing that bothers me the most about it is a complete apathy from everyone I know, and I work in IT. People just go &quot;meh what are you going to do&quot;, or recently very common &quot;I don&#x27;t have strength to be angry at this government all the time over everything, I just carry on forward and hope things improve&quot;. And of course the fact that this is getting 0 coverage from mainstream media doesn&#x27;t help.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yakubin</author><text>I’m currently reading a book about the history of the British Empire and I think this temperament is older. When Australian and Kiwi troops were called to support Britain in the first World War, they were baffled by how much shit the Brits were ok with taking from their superiors, while the Brits were surprised how undisciplined and prone to protest their Australian and Kiwi counterparts were. You can look even earlier. While France at the end of the XVIIIth century had a bloody revolution, which did make some people in Britain think about their lot in life, they ended up mostly just talking things over, making some mild reforms and that’s it.<p>So I don’t think it’s blitz. It’s an older trait of avoiding internal confrontation (which doesn’t seem to extend to the Irish who on a number of occasions throughout British history decided to either leave Britain for greener pastures, or were more willing to be a bit more aggressive).</text></comment> | <story><title>UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/today-uk-parliament-undermined-privacy-security-and-freedom-all-internet-users</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bowsamic</author><text>I’m British, living in Germany now, and one thing that moving here made me realise is that in the UK almost everyone, even young generations, act as if the blitz is still going on. Somehow the British psyche became mortally wounded from WW2 and hasn’t recovered since. Everything is still “keep calm and carry on”. Any attempt at having a political effect is met with dismissal or even total anger</text></item><item><author>gambiting</author><text>I&#x27;ve said it before and I&#x27;ll repeat it here - as someone who lives in the UK the thing that bothers me the most about it is a complete apathy from everyone I know, and I work in IT. People just go &quot;meh what are you going to do&quot;, or recently very common &quot;I don&#x27;t have strength to be angry at this government all the time over everything, I just carry on forward and hope things improve&quot;. And of course the fact that this is getting 0 coverage from mainstream media doesn&#x27;t help.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>conjectures</author><text>I a fellow Brit, I note that you still bring up the war! But yeah, this is true.<p>Honestly, I don&#x27;t think we get out of this hole until demographic churn (ugly phrase yeah) rebalances the electorate.<p>If we look at the 1992 election there&#x27;s a 13% gap in conservative votes between the youngest and oldest brackets [1]. By 2019 that&#x27;s a 36-46% gap [2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ipsos.com&#x2F;en-uk&#x2F;how-britain-voted-1992" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ipsos.com&#x2F;en-uk&#x2F;how-britain-voted-1992</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yougov.co.uk&#x2F;politics&#x2F;articles&#x2F;26925-how-britain-voted-2019-general-election" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yougov.co.uk&#x2F;politics&#x2F;articles&#x2F;26925-how-britain-vot...</a></text></comment> |
23,600,118 | 23,599,970 | 1 | 3 | 23,597,403 | train | <story><title>ARM Mac Impact on Intel</title><url>https://mondaynote.com/arm-mac-impact-on-intel-9641a8e73dca</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reitzensteinm</author><text>While Graviton is impressive and probably an indication of things to come, you can&#x27;t outright use &quot;Amazon rents them cheaper to me&quot; as an indication of the price performance of the chips themselves.<p>Amazon is exactly the kind of company that would take 50% margin on their x86 servers and 0% margin on their Graviton servers in order to engineer a long term shift that&#x27;s in their favor - the end of x86 server duopoly (or monopoly depending on how the wind is blowing).</text></item><item><author>quadhome</author><text><i>Intel’s real money is in high-end CPUs sold to prosperous Cloud operators, not in supplying lower-end chips to cost-cutting laptop makers.</i><p>I keep searching for &quot;Graviton&quot; in these thinkpieces. I keep getting &quot;no results found.&quot;<p>Mac ARM laptops mean cloud ARM VMs.<p>And Amazon&#x27;s Graviton2 VMs are best in class for price-performance. As Anandtech said:<p><i>If you’re an EC2 customer today, and unless you’re tied to x86 for whatever reason, you’d be stupid not to switch over to Graviton2 instances once they become available, as the cost savings will be significant.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;15578&#x2F;cloud-clash-amazon-graviton2-arm-against-intel-and-amd&#x2F;10" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;15578&#x2F;cloud-clash-amazon-grav...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>013a</author><text>I don&#x27;t feel as sure about this; there&#x27;s very little evidence that Amazon is putting a &quot;50% margin&quot;, or any significant percent, on x86 servers. Sure, they&#x27;re more expensive than, just for comparisons&#x27; sake, Linode or DigitalOcean, but EC2 instances are also roughly the same cost per-core and per-gb as Azure compute instances, which is a far more accurate comparison.<p>Many people complain about AWS&#x27; networking costs, but I also suspect these are generally at-cost. A typical AWS region has terabits upon terabits of nano-second scale latency fiber ran between its AZs and out to the wider internet. Networking is an exponential problem; AWS doesn&#x27;t overcharge for egress, they just simply haven&#x27;t invested in building a solution that sacrifices quality for cost.<p>Amazon really does not have a history of throwing huge margins on raw compute resources. What Amazon does is build valuable software and services around those raw resources, then put huge margins on those products. EC2 and S3 are likely very close to 0% margin; but DynamoDB, EFS, Lambda, etc are much higher margin. I&#x27;ve found AWS Transfer for SFTP [1] to be the most egregious and <i>actually</i> exploitative example of this; it effectively puts an SFTP gateway in front of an S3 bucket, and they&#x27;ll charge you $216&#x2F;month + egress AND ingress at ~150% the standard egress rate for that benefit (SFTP layers additional egress charges on-top-of the standard AWS transfer rates).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;aws-transfer-family&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;aws-transfer-family&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>ARM Mac Impact on Intel</title><url>https://mondaynote.com/arm-mac-impact-on-intel-9641a8e73dca</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reitzensteinm</author><text>While Graviton is impressive and probably an indication of things to come, you can&#x27;t outright use &quot;Amazon rents them cheaper to me&quot; as an indication of the price performance of the chips themselves.<p>Amazon is exactly the kind of company that would take 50% margin on their x86 servers and 0% margin on their Graviton servers in order to engineer a long term shift that&#x27;s in their favor - the end of x86 server duopoly (or monopoly depending on how the wind is blowing).</text></item><item><author>quadhome</author><text><i>Intel’s real money is in high-end CPUs sold to prosperous Cloud operators, not in supplying lower-end chips to cost-cutting laptop makers.</i><p>I keep searching for &quot;Graviton&quot; in these thinkpieces. I keep getting &quot;no results found.&quot;<p>Mac ARM laptops mean cloud ARM VMs.<p>And Amazon&#x27;s Graviton2 VMs are best in class for price-performance. As Anandtech said:<p><i>If you’re an EC2 customer today, and unless you’re tied to x86 for whatever reason, you’d be stupid not to switch over to Graviton2 instances once they become available, as the cost savings will be significant.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;15578&#x2F;cloud-clash-amazon-graviton2-arm-against-intel-and-amd&#x2F;10" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;15578&#x2F;cloud-clash-amazon-grav...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>delfinom</author><text>Long term, Amazon is also the exact kind of company that would start making &quot;modifications&quot; to Graviton requiring you to purchase&#x2F;use&#x2F;license a special compiler to run ;)</text></comment> |
7,716,410 | 7,716,281 | 1 | 3 | 7,715,901 | train | <story><title>An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java, Part 2</title><url>http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2014/05/08/modern-java-pt2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cmicali</author><text>Nice article - Many of the suggestions (single-jar deployment, metrics, slf4j logging, etc) are all wrapped up for you in Dropwizard <a href="http://dropwizard.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dropwizard.io</a>, which we use and love.</text></comment> | <story><title>An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java, Part 2</title><url>http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2014/05/08/modern-java-pt2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>benjaminpv</author><text>&quot;Java application servers are dead&quot; and since there&#x27;s no alternative to Java application servers here&#x27;s a solution I cooked up myself.<p>Like I mentioned last time I appreciate an overview of modern Java practices but boy howdy I can&#x27;t discern if this is clever trolling or a cheap way to make me read Part 3.</text></comment> |
30,573,420 | 30,573,086 | 1 | 3 | 30,571,990 | train | <story><title>Finding an authorization bypass on my own website</title><url>https://maxwelldulin.com/BlogPost?post=9185867776</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PeterisP</author><text>The key point is that an abstraction layer trying to implement an API that looks like parametrized queries is not equivalent to actual parametrized queries where the query and parameters are kept separately, and the SQL text is parsed and execution plan is formed by the DB engine <i>before</i> the parameters are even considered. If your DB library is inserting the parameters in a text query before sending it off to the server to be parsed as arbitrary SQL, that&#x27;s not a parametrized query, but just fake smoke and mirrors.</text></comment> | <story><title>Finding an authorization bypass on my own website</title><url>https://maxwelldulin.com/BlogPost?post=9185867776</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>88913527</author><text>Is there any plausible reason why mysqljs should accept anything other than a string for the parameters array (second argument)?<p><pre><code> connection.query(&quot;SELECT * FROM accounts WHERE username = ? AND password = ?&quot;, [{username: {username: 1}}, &quot;secret&quot;]);
</code></pre>
Without looking at the implementation details, I would expect this code to throw an exception. A &quot;garbage in, garbage out&quot; philosophy seems dangerous for a SQL statement.</text></comment> |
37,509,452 | 37,508,596 | 1 | 3 | 37,492,663 | train | <story><title>I got paid to live in Antarctica</title><url>https://wandereatwrite.com/how-i-got-paid-to-live-in-antarctica/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phrotoma</author><text>I had a colleague once who worked in antarctica for a while. She told me that according to a long standing tradition, every year after the last supply plane left for the winter and the base was buttoned up for a long dark wait until spring, the whole crew would gather in the lounge together to watch The Thing.<p>That&#x27;s all I got, I just love this story and mention it every chance I get.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacoblambda</author><text>Yeah this is a thing at the South Pole Station however it&#x27;s normally in the gym. They drag all the recliners, couches, and mattresses they can into the gym and settle in to watch all three versions of The Thing on the projector back to back.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;icecube.wisc.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;life-at-the-pole&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;2016-week-7-at-pole&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;icecube.wisc.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;life-at-the-pole&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;2016-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>I got paid to live in Antarctica</title><url>https://wandereatwrite.com/how-i-got-paid-to-live-in-antarctica/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phrotoma</author><text>I had a colleague once who worked in antarctica for a while. She told me that according to a long standing tradition, every year after the last supply plane left for the winter and the base was buttoned up for a long dark wait until spring, the whole crew would gather in the lounge together to watch The Thing.<p>That&#x27;s all I got, I just love this story and mention it every chance I get.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sidlls</author><text>They had a betamax version of the original movie when I was there. Didn&#x27;t get a chance to make use of the lounge to watch it, though.</text></comment> |
16,739,462 | 16,738,889 | 1 | 3 | 16,737,583 | train | <story><title>Massive Breach in Panera Bread</title><url>https://pastebin.com/21H28TA1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>deft</author><text>A similar flaw exists in the Denny&#x27;s Canada app. Reveals usernames, email, full name and phone number. The API is entirely unauthenticated and account hijacking is very easy. The app is used for reward points that grant you free meals.<p>I tried reaching out to them multiple times and was ignored. I tried contacting the firm that developed the app, and they ignored me. Maybe I should have made a pastebin dump :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Massive Breach in Panera Bread</title><url>https://pastebin.com/21H28TA1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dsl</author><text>Verified the vulnerability, but it looks like they have taken down the API now.<p>Hopefully they will publicly acknowledge.</text></comment> |
29,291,963 | 29,290,972 | 1 | 3 | 29,287,616 | train | <story><title>Is it stealing to read by the light of your neighbour’s lamp?</title><url>https://mymisanthropicmusings.org.uk/is-it-stealing-to-read-by-the-light-of-your-neighbours-lamp/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elliekelly</author><text>My first apartment in Boston was like this. I was on the top floor and I’d have to leave the windows open all winter because it was so unbearably hot from the heat being cranked up in the units below me. I remember nearly sweating to death during a major snowstorm because I had closed the windows to keep the snow out but keeping the snow out meant I kept all of the hot air in!</text></item><item><author>aflag</author><text>I think that&#x27;s a stronger example than the one proposed. But the outcome is similar. The neighbors are forcibly giving you heat. It just happens that you are ok with 19C. However, if you wanted your home to be cooler than that, to be the same as outside, you&#x27;d then have to pay for an AC to do that because your neighbors are making the environment around them hotter. I think stealing is not only taking something that&#x27;s not yours, but taking something that&#x27;s not yours without permission. As soon as they start irradiating the heat all over the place, they are effectively giving everyone permission to use it. It&#x27;s not like you can somehow easily stop or give them back the heat. If they didn&#x27;t want the heat to escape, then they need to invest in better insulation.</text></item><item><author>kmm</author><text>I have the thermostat in my apartment turned to about 19°, which is a bit lower than is usual here, to save money and the environment, and I&#x27;m still perfectly comfortable at that temperature. At some point, after I had rented it for a bit, I had to be gone for a few weeks, so I turned the thermostat and all the radiators completely off. The outside temperature was about 5-10°, which I what expected to find on my return. Yet when I came back, it was still at 19.5°. I have only rarely had to turn on my radiators since, even during Winter.<p>Of course, the place can&#x27;t be that well-isolated, and I regularly open the windows to let in fresh air, so that energy must be coming from somewhere. I assume it&#x27;s heat leaking in from my upstairs, downstairs, left and right neighbors. They probably have their thermostats set to a balmy 21-22°, and the heat flux through my walls must be enough to keep the place at around 19°.<p>I often wonder whether this constitutes stealing. It&#x27;s not exactly parallel to the light of my neighbor&#x27;s lamp, since due to the temperature differential their thermostats are working harder than they would be if I heated my place to 22°. In effect, they&#x27;re all paying for the energy to keep my place at 19°, and I&#x27;m presumably paying only a pittance for heat. But on the other hand, I have no need for a higher temperature, nor do I want to pay or incur the environmental cost for unnecessary heating. Nineteen degrees seems like a perfectly reasonable temperature to me, and it&#x27;s their choice (again, I&#x27;m assuming, but where else can it come from?) to keep it a few degrees hotter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mensetmanusman</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;10&#x2F;945136599&#x2F;how-spanish-flu-pandemic-changed-home-heat-radiators" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;10&#x2F;945136599&#x2F;how-spanish-flu-pan...</a><p>It was actually designed for this, so you could have fresh air during a pandemic in the winter :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Is it stealing to read by the light of your neighbour’s lamp?</title><url>https://mymisanthropicmusings.org.uk/is-it-stealing-to-read-by-the-light-of-your-neighbours-lamp/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elliekelly</author><text>My first apartment in Boston was like this. I was on the top floor and I’d have to leave the windows open all winter because it was so unbearably hot from the heat being cranked up in the units below me. I remember nearly sweating to death during a major snowstorm because I had closed the windows to keep the snow out but keeping the snow out meant I kept all of the hot air in!</text></item><item><author>aflag</author><text>I think that&#x27;s a stronger example than the one proposed. But the outcome is similar. The neighbors are forcibly giving you heat. It just happens that you are ok with 19C. However, if you wanted your home to be cooler than that, to be the same as outside, you&#x27;d then have to pay for an AC to do that because your neighbors are making the environment around them hotter. I think stealing is not only taking something that&#x27;s not yours, but taking something that&#x27;s not yours without permission. As soon as they start irradiating the heat all over the place, they are effectively giving everyone permission to use it. It&#x27;s not like you can somehow easily stop or give them back the heat. If they didn&#x27;t want the heat to escape, then they need to invest in better insulation.</text></item><item><author>kmm</author><text>I have the thermostat in my apartment turned to about 19°, which is a bit lower than is usual here, to save money and the environment, and I&#x27;m still perfectly comfortable at that temperature. At some point, after I had rented it for a bit, I had to be gone for a few weeks, so I turned the thermostat and all the radiators completely off. The outside temperature was about 5-10°, which I what expected to find on my return. Yet when I came back, it was still at 19.5°. I have only rarely had to turn on my radiators since, even during Winter.<p>Of course, the place can&#x27;t be that well-isolated, and I regularly open the windows to let in fresh air, so that energy must be coming from somewhere. I assume it&#x27;s heat leaking in from my upstairs, downstairs, left and right neighbors. They probably have their thermostats set to a balmy 21-22°, and the heat flux through my walls must be enough to keep the place at around 19°.<p>I often wonder whether this constitutes stealing. It&#x27;s not exactly parallel to the light of my neighbor&#x27;s lamp, since due to the temperature differential their thermostats are working harder than they would be if I heated my place to 22°. In effect, they&#x27;re all paying for the energy to keep my place at 19°, and I&#x27;m presumably paying only a pittance for heat. But on the other hand, I have no need for a higher temperature, nor do I want to pay or incur the environmental cost for unnecessary heating. Nineteen degrees seems like a perfectly reasonable temperature to me, and it&#x27;s their choice (again, I&#x27;m assuming, but where else can it come from?) to keep it a few degrees hotter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>101008</author><text>My God, I think I was crazy. It happened to me in several hotels in USA and Europe, I had to leave window open in winter because it was unbereable to be in the hotel room, even with the heating turned off. Glad I am not the only one!</text></comment> |
25,840,619 | 25,840,659 | 1 | 3 | 25,833,639 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Anyone else burnt out due to extended lockdown and work-from-home?</title><text>I&#x27;m no more productive at work. I produce in a week the same amount of code I used to produce in a day before the pandemic.<p>Am I alone to feel work-from-home made things worse?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrburton</author><text>Personally, I&#x27;m not burnt out.<p>To void burn out, I did a few things which I feel are extremely helpful.<p>1. Have a room that is a dedicated office. When I leave this room, I leave the &quot;office&quot;.<p>2. Establish communication throughout the day. This means having slack conversations (typed and video) that are casual. It&#x27;s okay to vent on these calls.<p>3. Have a defined schedule - Awake at 6am, washed&#x2F;dressed by 6:30am, Red Bull (or if you like food) and at my desk by 7am. I do work long hours, but I enjoy it because I&#x27;m accomplishing something.<p>4. Work on something that excites you or find joy in your work somehow.<p>5. Lastly, realize most of the mental stress can be managed with a little mindfulness, learning to accept that you still can grow and find joy even when at home and cut back on social media; or if you&#x27;re like me, I cut out 99% of social media.<p>I hope everyone remains positive. Do something today, that makes you better tomorrow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>endymi0n</author><text>6. Don‘t have young kids at home.<p>Sorry for the unqualified snark here, just couldn‘t resist. The realities couldn‘t be more different for different people at this time.<p>Someone recently asked me whether I enjoyed my Corona free time as well.<p>I didn’t know what to answer as could not even comprehend the concept.<p>I‘m missing everything. Time for myself. Silence. Holidays. Physical movement. Sanity.<p>Work and Noise, non-stop, around the clock. Still falling behind on all projects with limited understanding of single colleagues with more time to kill than Netflix has content.<p>I love those rascals, but I‘m crashing on the couch every night and barely make it out of bed the next day. Just functioning and surviving.<p>Never been more exhausted in my life before.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Anyone else burnt out due to extended lockdown and work-from-home?</title><text>I&#x27;m no more productive at work. I produce in a week the same amount of code I used to produce in a day before the pandemic.<p>Am I alone to feel work-from-home made things worse?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrburton</author><text>Personally, I&#x27;m not burnt out.<p>To void burn out, I did a few things which I feel are extremely helpful.<p>1. Have a room that is a dedicated office. When I leave this room, I leave the &quot;office&quot;.<p>2. Establish communication throughout the day. This means having slack conversations (typed and video) that are casual. It&#x27;s okay to vent on these calls.<p>3. Have a defined schedule - Awake at 6am, washed&#x2F;dressed by 6:30am, Red Bull (or if you like food) and at my desk by 7am. I do work long hours, but I enjoy it because I&#x27;m accomplishing something.<p>4. Work on something that excites you or find joy in your work somehow.<p>5. Lastly, realize most of the mental stress can be managed with a little mindfulness, learning to accept that you still can grow and find joy even when at home and cut back on social media; or if you&#x27;re like me, I cut out 99% of social media.<p>I hope everyone remains positive. Do something today, that makes you better tomorrow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>e9</author><text>1. Kicked out my roommate and made an office. Didn&#x27;t help.<p>2. It&#x27;s very hard to do casual check-in with another person.I feel like I&#x27;m bothering them too much. I can&#x27;t get over it. Too stressful. Was way easier in person. Just feel the room and interrupt as needed.<p>3. I wake up early, take my pre-workout or red bull or 5h energy but just stare at the screen for 4 hours between 8 and noon and can&#x27;t start.<p>4. I love the product but I can&#x27;t start working wihtout others around me.<p>5. I hired multiple therapists. They put me on meds. I took medical leave. Nothing helped.<p>For me, work is for work and home is for home or for &quot;work on autopilot&quot;</text></comment> |
14,510,815 | 14,509,899 | 1 | 2 | 14,508,921 | train | <story><title>Americans from Both Political Parties Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/06/06/new-mozilla-poll-americans-political-parties-overwhelmingly-support-net-neutrality/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cubano</author><text>Who, when asked, wouldn&#x27;t support &quot;Net Neutrality?&quot;<p>It <i>sounds</i> like something everyone should be for..&quot;hey, Net Neutrality hell yeah and we shouldn&#x27;t club baby seals either!&quot;<p>As always, its the policies that really matter...having a catchy must-be-for-it-for-virtue-signaling moniker hardly explains what going on in the back rooms where the legislation is being written.<p>It&#x27;s like the &quot;Affordable Care Act&quot;...who doesn&#x27;t want affordable-fucking-care?<p>We are all currently learning, however, that this &quot;care&quot; is hardly that and &quot;affordable&quot; is nowhere in sight.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>int_19h</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s like the &quot;Affordable Care Act&quot;...who doesn&#x27;t want affordable-fucking-care? We are all currently learning, however, that this &quot;care&quot; is hardly that and &quot;affordable&quot; is nowhere in sight<p>The polls show the opposite of what you&#x27;re claiming, though. If they ask people whether they support ACA by name, the result is lower than when they ask whether they support specific provisions and programs that together add up to ACA.</text></comment> | <story><title>Americans from Both Political Parties Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/06/06/new-mozilla-poll-americans-political-parties-overwhelmingly-support-net-neutrality/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cubano</author><text>Who, when asked, wouldn&#x27;t support &quot;Net Neutrality?&quot;<p>It <i>sounds</i> like something everyone should be for..&quot;hey, Net Neutrality hell yeah and we shouldn&#x27;t club baby seals either!&quot;<p>As always, its the policies that really matter...having a catchy must-be-for-it-for-virtue-signaling moniker hardly explains what going on in the back rooms where the legislation is being written.<p>It&#x27;s like the &quot;Affordable Care Act&quot;...who doesn&#x27;t want affordable-fucking-care?<p>We are all currently learning, however, that this &quot;care&quot; is hardly that and &quot;affordable&quot; is nowhere in sight.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tinalumfoil</author><text>&gt; Most Americans do not trust the U.S. government to protect access to the Internet<p>Net neutrality is regulated by the FCC, a government agency under Donald Trump. By this article&#x27;s own admission people have very little faith in the government. There&#x27;s an interesting sentiment on HN that more regulation is the correct response to distrusting the government but I&#x27;d imagine lessening executive power is the more common response.</text></comment> |
13,381,276 | 13,380,212 | 1 | 3 | 13,379,597 | train | <story><title>Blender for Hackers – 3D modeling is just like using VIM</title><url>https://learntemail.sam.today/blog/blender-for-hackers-3d-modeling-is-just-like-using-vim/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rollulus</author><text>Blender is a nice project. But a 3D modeler that is a bit easier to learn, and deserves a bit more attention imo, is Wings 3D [1]. It might excite some part of the audience here that it is written in Erlang. Internally it uses the winged-edge data structure [2], something that is also worth a read if that doesn&#x27;t ring a bell.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wings3d.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wings3d.com&#x2F;</a>
[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.mtu.edu&#x2F;~shene&#x2F;COURSES&#x2F;cs3621&#x2F;NOTES&#x2F;model&#x2F;winged-e.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.mtu.edu&#x2F;~shene&#x2F;COURSES&#x2F;cs3621&#x2F;NOTES&#x2F;model&#x2F;win...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Blender for Hackers – 3D modeling is just like using VIM</title><url>https://learntemail.sam.today/blog/blender-for-hackers-3d-modeling-is-just-like-using-vim/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>Yes, Blender is a lot like using VIM. The hotkey chart is about ten pages long, and it&#x27;s very keyboard oriented. Most modern 3D programs are more mouse-oriented, but not Blender.<p>At the other extreme is Autodesk Inventor. Unless you&#x27;re typing in a numeric dimension, you seldom touch the keyboard.</text></comment> |
38,078,876 | 38,078,602 | 1 | 2 | 38,078,143 | train | <story><title>Xbox will block third-party controllers to "preserve the console experience"</title><url>https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/xbox-will-block-third-party-controllers-to-preserve-the-console-experience-3525752</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0x500x79</author><text>I think that this is a response to the rising usage of the Cronus and&#x2F;or other controller modification tools that give players advantages (cheats).<p>For example one of these &quot;Mods&quot; for Cronus state that they are:<p>a dynamic, fully-automated Anti-Recoil system that transforms your in-game character into a laser-guided juggernaut we&#x27;ve affectionately dubbed as [BEAM]<p>Battling cheaters in video games is a never-ending chase, but I appreciate that they are attempting something.<p>I wish that a gaming company could figure out a less invasive way to detect these cheaters.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>donatj</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this is even going to stop the Cronus. The Cronus already requires an OEM controller plugged into it to authenticate. If it does, a Cronus firmware update will probably figure out a way around it as it has an OEM device to work with.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth, I own a Cronus and it&#x27;s not nearly as much of an advantage as they sell it as. I bought it just to use as a fightstick adapter and it&#x27;s kind of mediocre at that too.</text></comment> | <story><title>Xbox will block third-party controllers to "preserve the console experience"</title><url>https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/xbox-will-block-third-party-controllers-to-preserve-the-console-experience-3525752</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0x500x79</author><text>I think that this is a response to the rising usage of the Cronus and&#x2F;or other controller modification tools that give players advantages (cheats).<p>For example one of these &quot;Mods&quot; for Cronus state that they are:<p>a dynamic, fully-automated Anti-Recoil system that transforms your in-game character into a laser-guided juggernaut we&#x27;ve affectionately dubbed as [BEAM]<p>Battling cheaters in video games is a never-ending chase, but I appreciate that they are attempting something.<p>I wish that a gaming company could figure out a less invasive way to detect these cheaters.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>harry8</author><text>They&#x27;ve gone into every xbox owner&#x27;s house and destroyed their property with prejudice. 3rd party controllers, all of them, including all never used to cheat become non-functional and worthless.<p>At that point I don&#x27;t give a flying fig what excuse they are using. Neither should the law when it comes to wanton destruction of property. Property rights are a thing!</text></comment> |
37,021,278 | 37,020,942 | 1 | 2 | 37,019,228 | train | <story><title>The Sad Bastard Cookbook</title><url>https://traumbooks.itch.io/the-sad-bastard-cookbook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maerF0x0</author><text>When It&#x27;s really bad I just buy multiple costco rotisserie chickens, some frozen veggies, put food on plate, microwave, cover in sauce, eat. Add in premier proteins, fit crunch, and clif builders and you can shop for like 2 weeks in a single run and not die.<p>My &quot;I cant be bothered&quot; template is the following. is essentially pick one from each category<p><pre><code> * 1&#x2F;2 LB (225g) veggies
* 1&#x2F;2 LB or 1 fruit
* 1 protein
* Caloric load if I&#x27;m not trying to lose weight
* Condiments &#x2F; spices to taste
</code></pre>
Veggies: Frozen mixed (peas, carrots, corn, green beans, soy beans), pre-roasted costco bags, &quot;california mix&quot; etc. Frozen veggies often are nutritionally superior to fresh due to halting nutritional decay.<p>Fruit: Apple, orange, banana, Water&#x2F;other melons, Straw&#x2F;other berries<p>Protein: look for 35-70g protein -- 1 skin on chicken breast, 2 boneless skinless chicken thighs, ~150g tilapia, 1 tin of tuna, 1 pork chop&#x2F;steak, 1 egg + 300g whites, 1 hand size of salmon, 1&#x2F;2lb shrimp<p>Calories: 1 slice of bread, 1&#x2F;2c cooked rice, 1 cup cooked pasta, 1&#x2F;2 avocado, 1&#x2F;4c mixed nuts<p>Sauces &#x2F; Condiments: Bachan&#x27;s Japanese BBQ, Kinder Honey Hot BBQ, Kinder Lemon pepper (esp. for tilapia)<p>Edit: Would love recommendations for other sauces that allow me to squeeze a nationality of cuisine over my template to make it taste like that country&#x27;s food (kinda).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CSMastermind</author><text>&gt;Would love recommendations for other sauces that allow me to squeeze a nationality of cuisine over my template to make it taste like that country&#x27;s food (kinda).<p>Yeah I got you:<p>We&#x27;re going to use two different basic techniques. The first is extremely simple: throw everything into a blender and then blend until your desired consistency (normally smooth).<p>Mexican: Combine tomatoes, jalapeños, cilantro, lime juice, and salt for a fresh salsa.<p>Mediterranean: Blend olives, capers, lemon juice, and olive oil for a tapenade.<p>South American: Mix parsley, garlic, vinegar, oil, and chili flakes for chimichurri.<p>Greek: Yogurt, cucumber, garlic, lemon juice, and dill for tzatziki.<p>Middle Eastern: Blend tahini, garlic, lemon juice, and water for a basic tahini sauce.<p>Technique 2 is a little more complicated but once you get the hang of it trust me it&#x27;s worth it. Call it stovetop simmering.<p>In a saucepan, combine the base ingredients and bring to a simmer. Add primary flavor agents&#x2F;spices and continue to simmer for the desired time until flavors meld. Adjust consistency if needed (e.g., with a slurry or additional liquid).<p>Italian: Start with crushed tomatoes, add garlic, basil, and oregano for a marinara sauce.<p>Chinese: Combine soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, garlic, and ginger; thicken with a cornstarch slurry for a basic stir-fry sauce.<p>Indian: Start with tomatoes and onions, add garam masala, turmeric, and cumin for a basic curry sauce.<p>French: Start with a roux (butter + flour), then add broth and reduce; season with herbs for a basic velouté.<p>Thai: Coconut milk with red curry paste, simmer and season with fish sauce and sugar for a basic Thai curry.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Sad Bastard Cookbook</title><url>https://traumbooks.itch.io/the-sad-bastard-cookbook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maerF0x0</author><text>When It&#x27;s really bad I just buy multiple costco rotisserie chickens, some frozen veggies, put food on plate, microwave, cover in sauce, eat. Add in premier proteins, fit crunch, and clif builders and you can shop for like 2 weeks in a single run and not die.<p>My &quot;I cant be bothered&quot; template is the following. is essentially pick one from each category<p><pre><code> * 1&#x2F;2 LB (225g) veggies
* 1&#x2F;2 LB or 1 fruit
* 1 protein
* Caloric load if I&#x27;m not trying to lose weight
* Condiments &#x2F; spices to taste
</code></pre>
Veggies: Frozen mixed (peas, carrots, corn, green beans, soy beans), pre-roasted costco bags, &quot;california mix&quot; etc. Frozen veggies often are nutritionally superior to fresh due to halting nutritional decay.<p>Fruit: Apple, orange, banana, Water&#x2F;other melons, Straw&#x2F;other berries<p>Protein: look for 35-70g protein -- 1 skin on chicken breast, 2 boneless skinless chicken thighs, ~150g tilapia, 1 tin of tuna, 1 pork chop&#x2F;steak, 1 egg + 300g whites, 1 hand size of salmon, 1&#x2F;2lb shrimp<p>Calories: 1 slice of bread, 1&#x2F;2c cooked rice, 1 cup cooked pasta, 1&#x2F;2 avocado, 1&#x2F;4c mixed nuts<p>Sauces &#x2F; Condiments: Bachan&#x27;s Japanese BBQ, Kinder Honey Hot BBQ, Kinder Lemon pepper (esp. for tilapia)<p>Edit: Would love recommendations for other sauces that allow me to squeeze a nationality of cuisine over my template to make it taste like that country&#x27;s food (kinda).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>biztos</author><text>If you can find a tamarind sauce, that’s “instant interesting” for chicken IMO. Also great with shrimp.<p>And if you like Indian-ish flavors, a few different jars of chutney&#x2F;pickle go a long way towards un-blanding that kind of food.<p>Not vouching for these per se but for example:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.traderjoes.com&#x2F;home&#x2F;products&#x2F;pdp&#x2F;tamarind-sauce-072128" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.traderjoes.com&#x2F;home&#x2F;products&#x2F;pdp&#x2F;tamarind-sauce-...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pataks.co.uk&#x2F;products&#x2F;chutneys-and-pickles&#x2F;mango-chutney" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pataks.co.uk&#x2F;products&#x2F;chutneys-and-pickles&#x2F;mango...</a></text></comment> |
9,557,762 | 9,557,265 | 1 | 3 | 9,556,654 | train | <story><title>Engineers of addiction</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/6/8544303/casino-slot-machine-gambling-addiction-psychology-mobile-games</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>downandout</author><text>Casinos like to say that roughly 2% of players become addicted. What they fail to mention is that approximately <i>half</i> of all their revenue comes from these 2%. A more telling statistic is that approximately 10% of players account for <i>90%</i> of all casino revenue [1]. The numbers are quite similar for games with IAP [2].<p>While every casino in the US displays signage claiming to support &quot;responsible gaming&quot; and claims to have policies in place to stop addicts from gambling, the reality is that if addicts were stopped, all casinos would be closed and bankrupt within a month. No capital-intensive industry could survive if 90% of their revenue suddenly vanished. And with that, we arrive at the truth: casinos are built explicitly for the creation and exploitation of addiction.<p>This is pretty evil, but it will continue happening as long as politicians can be bought to keep it legal. The only meaningful way to address it is to focus resources on treatment and prevention.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;SB10001424052702304626104579123383535635644" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;SB100014240527023046261045791233...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gamesindustry.biz&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2012-12-12-monetizing-games-crucial-advice-from-key-players" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gamesindustry.biz&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2012-12-12-monetizing-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wdr1</author><text>&gt; This is pretty evil, but it will continue happening as long as politicians can be bought to keep it legal.<p>You could make this exact same argument for liquor sales.<p>The top 10% of regular drinkers have 10 drinks a day. If they reduced their consumption to that of the next decile, total ethanol sales would fall by 60 percent.[1]<p>We tried banning alcohol sales. It didn&#x27;t work very well.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.the-american-interest.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;05&#x2F;the-alcohol-industry-needs-alcoholism-to-thrive&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.the-american-interest.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;05&#x2F;the-alcohol-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Engineers of addiction</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/6/8544303/casino-slot-machine-gambling-addiction-psychology-mobile-games</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>downandout</author><text>Casinos like to say that roughly 2% of players become addicted. What they fail to mention is that approximately <i>half</i> of all their revenue comes from these 2%. A more telling statistic is that approximately 10% of players account for <i>90%</i> of all casino revenue [1]. The numbers are quite similar for games with IAP [2].<p>While every casino in the US displays signage claiming to support &quot;responsible gaming&quot; and claims to have policies in place to stop addicts from gambling, the reality is that if addicts were stopped, all casinos would be closed and bankrupt within a month. No capital-intensive industry could survive if 90% of their revenue suddenly vanished. And with that, we arrive at the truth: casinos are built explicitly for the creation and exploitation of addiction.<p>This is pretty evil, but it will continue happening as long as politicians can be bought to keep it legal. The only meaningful way to address it is to focus resources on treatment and prevention.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;SB10001424052702304626104579123383535635644" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;SB100014240527023046261045791233...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gamesindustry.biz&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2012-12-12-monetizing-games-crucial-advice-from-key-players" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gamesindustry.biz&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2012-12-12-monetizing-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Red_Tarsius</author><text>&gt; <i>it will continue happening as long as politicians can be bought to keep it legal.</i><p>It&#x27;s quite a complex issue. How do politicians regulate games without infringing on players&#x27; freedom? How do they discern lawful play from illegal play? Treatment, prevention and awareness is the only practical solution.</text></comment> |
20,555,021 | 20,555,139 | 1 | 3 | 20,546,955 | train | <story><title>RISC Is Unscalable</title><url>https://blackhole12.com/blog/risc-is-fundamentally-unscalable/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dgacmu</author><text>The article is conflating three separate issues:<p>(1) The amount of compute and&#x2F;or data motion that can be achieved with a single instruction. This is really about amortizing the cost of decode and allowing the pipeline to be kept full by producing a lot of work from a single instruction.<p>(2) efficiency gains from vector processing. This both amortizes the cost of decode and produces the amount of control circuitry relative to the number of ALUs --&gt; more flops&#x2F;area. it also generally favors larger sequential memory accesses which is good for bandwidth.<p>(3) extracting parallelism from the instruction stream. The VLIW debate is about whether that should be done by the CPU itself, e.g., in the form of out-of-order execution, or whether it should be handled by the compiler. VLIW allows the compiler to do this work, which keeps the CPU simpler.<p>It&#x27;s been clear for several years that larger vectors are a win, and that&#x27;s been happening in the Intel and arm space, not to mention GPU. The VLIW debate is less clear, and has been going back and forth. I think that we have been doing a better job of getting a handle on when instruction complexity and diversity is beneficial versus not - remember that the initial RISC proposal was in contrast to the PDP instruction set, which was kind of ridiculously over specialized for the technology of the time.</text></comment> | <story><title>RISC Is Unscalable</title><url>https://blackhole12.com/blog/risc-is-fundamentally-unscalable/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>teton_ferb</author><text>The author fundamentally misunderstands what RISC is, what CISC is, what SIMD is and what VLIW is apart from misunderstanding every major computer architecture concept<p>RISC was invented as an alternative approach in an era when processors had really complex instructions, with an idea that high level languages could be efficiently compiled to them and assembly programmers would be efficient if they can do many things with one instruction. RISC philosophy was to make simpler instructions, let compilers figure out how to map high level languages to simple instructions, and therefore fit the processor on one die (yes, &quot;processors&quot; used to be several chips) and therefore run it at high clock speeds. RISC is not a dogma, it is a design philosophy.<p>On top of that exception handling in complex instructions is hard. Implementing complex instructions in hardware consumes considerable design and validation effort. RISC has won for these reasons.<p>Some things have changed, we can fit really complicated processors on a single die. Memory access is the bottleneck. The downsides of RISC in this reality is well known: It takes many more instructions to do the same thing, which means instruction cache is used inefficiently (anyone remember the THUMB instruction set of ARM?). It might be useful to add application-specific hardware acceleration features, because we now have the transistors to do it. How does that make RISC unscalable?<p>Many CISC machines (eg Intel&#x27;s) are CISC in name only. The instructions are translated to micro-ops in the hardware. The micro-ops and the hardware itself, is RISC.<p>Register re-naming was invented to ensure that we enjoy the benefits of improvements in hardware without having to recompile. Let us assume you have a processor with 16 registers. You compiled software for it. Now we can put in 32. What do you do? Recompile everything out there or implement register re-naming?<p>VLIW failed because they took the stance that if we remove hardware-based scheduling, the extra transistors can be used for computation and cache. Scheduling can be done by compilers anyway. The reason they werent successful is because if a load misses the cache, you wait. Instead of superscalars which would have found other instructions to execute. On top of it, if you had a 4-wide VLIW and then you wanted to make a 8-wide one, you had to recompile. And oh, the &quot;rotating registers&quot; in VLIW is a form of register re-naming.<p>Poorly informed article.</text></comment> |
25,893,288 | 25,891,472 | 1 | 2 | 25,880,414 | train | <story><title>Is it better to use cat, dd, pv or another procedure to copy a CD/DVD? (2015)</title><url>https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/224277/is-it-better-to-use-cat-dd-pv-or-another-procedure-to-copy-a-cd-dvd/224314#224314</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nemosaltat</author><text>The “simple GUI” tool I keep seeing pushed Maker forums is Etcher. I needed to flash something from my work PC so I gave it a shot- 90MB of Electron bloat, while offering no extra functionality over dd . Plus, dd doesn’t advertise to me during the flash, and certainly doesn’t phone home to balena.<p>For folks just getting started or more comfortable with a GUI, I’d recommend giving USBimager[0] a look. It does exactly what’d you’d expect based on the name, it performant, and they have native apps. No affiliation, just a fan of a KISS app done right.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;bztsrc&#x2F;usbimager" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;bztsrc&#x2F;usbimager</a></text></item><item><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>The prospect of using dd for imaging terrifies me to this day, primarily because you <i>still</i> hear horror stories of people trying to write a Linux installer to their flash drive to try out, and accidentally overwriting their main drive instead because they mangled &#x2F;dev&#x2F;sda instead of &#x2F;dev&#x2F;sdb.<p>I don&#x27;t know why dd remains the standard for so many tutorials when there are competent GUI tools that can take all the guesswork out of it. It&#x27;s like a perpetual hazing ritual for new Linux users.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sp1rit</author><text>I can also recommend Fedora Media Writer[0]. It can, despite the name, install other images too and it&#x27;s fairly intuetive.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flathub.org&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details&#x2F;org.fedoraproject.MediaWriter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flathub.org&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details&#x2F;org.fedoraproject.MediaWrit...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Is it better to use cat, dd, pv or another procedure to copy a CD/DVD? (2015)</title><url>https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/224277/is-it-better-to-use-cat-dd-pv-or-another-procedure-to-copy-a-cd-dvd/224314#224314</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nemosaltat</author><text>The “simple GUI” tool I keep seeing pushed Maker forums is Etcher. I needed to flash something from my work PC so I gave it a shot- 90MB of Electron bloat, while offering no extra functionality over dd . Plus, dd doesn’t advertise to me during the flash, and certainly doesn’t phone home to balena.<p>For folks just getting started or more comfortable with a GUI, I’d recommend giving USBimager[0] a look. It does exactly what’d you’d expect based on the name, it performant, and they have native apps. No affiliation, just a fan of a KISS app done right.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;bztsrc&#x2F;usbimager" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;bztsrc&#x2F;usbimager</a></text></item><item><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>The prospect of using dd for imaging terrifies me to this day, primarily because you <i>still</i> hear horror stories of people trying to write a Linux installer to their flash drive to try out, and accidentally overwriting their main drive instead because they mangled &#x2F;dev&#x2F;sda instead of &#x2F;dev&#x2F;sdb.<p>I don&#x27;t know why dd remains the standard for so many tutorials when there are competent GUI tools that can take all the guesswork out of it. It&#x27;s like a perpetual hazing ritual for new Linux users.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trinix912</author><text>There&#x27;s also Rufus, sadly it&#x27;s Windows-only.</text></comment> |
16,242,567 | 16,241,428 | 1 | 2 | 16,240,874 | train | <story><title>Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M: NHK</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-cryptocurrency/tokyo-based-cryptocurrency-exchange-hacked-losing-530-million-nhk-idUSKBN1FF29C</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ReverseCold</author><text>Posting this as a top level comment as well (probably a better idea):<p>The coins stolen are XEM (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nem.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nem.io&#x2F;</a>) not Bitcoin. They&#x27;re currently tracking the stolen coins to ensure they are not sold.<p>Preliminary evidence suggests that it was a private key stolen and not a network problem.<p>Disclaimer: Am somewhat associated with the team, and I hold a small amount of XEM.<p>Feel free to ask questions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justboxing</author><text>Over 100 Million XRP ( Ripple ) worth 130 Million USD was also allegedly stolen.<p>Source:<p>Here&#x27;s the original tweet from Bloomberg Tech Reporter in Toyko, Yuji Nakamura. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;ynakamura56&#x2F;status&#x2F;956790270036619265" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;ynakamura56&#x2F;status&#x2F;956790270036619265</a><p>Tweet In English:<p>&gt; Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck halts withdrawals, deposits, trading in NEM. Rumors is a big chunk was moved from their wallet. Also seems &gt;$130m of XRP moved out too. I called Coincheck, but they wouldn&#x27;t answer questions and asked me to email them<p>Here&#x27;s the actual Ripple XRP Transaction that is moving the 101-ish Million XRP out of the Coincheck account. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xrpcharts.ripple.com&#x2F;#&#x2F;transactions&#x2F;FC32DBF1C0CE6780A669349FEDF7BD9EC18033EB79B3DC8F1ADBAE9B5EAD3EF8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xrpcharts.ripple.com&#x2F;#&#x2F;transactions&#x2F;FC32DBF1C0CE6780...</a><p>Here&#x27;s a news page &#x2F; story that is following this and updating it frequently. It mentions that XRP was also stolen in addition to NEM. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitpinas.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;coincheck-suspends-nem-trading-rumor-460m-xem-lost&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitpinas.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;coincheck-suspends-nem-trading-rum...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M: NHK</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-cryptocurrency/tokyo-based-cryptocurrency-exchange-hacked-losing-530-million-nhk-idUSKBN1FF29C</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ReverseCold</author><text>Posting this as a top level comment as well (probably a better idea):<p>The coins stolen are XEM (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nem.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nem.io&#x2F;</a>) not Bitcoin. They&#x27;re currently tracking the stolen coins to ensure they are not sold.<p>Preliminary evidence suggests that it was a private key stolen and not a network problem.<p>Disclaimer: Am somewhat associated with the team, and I hold a small amount of XEM.<p>Feel free to ask questions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onewhonknocks</author><text>&#x27;Am somewhat associated with the team&#x27;<p>Can you please be more specific? It was almost not worth saying unless you&#x27;ll be more specific IMHO.</text></comment> |
31,712,603 | 31,712,771 | 1 | 2 | 31,708,366 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?</title><text>The definition of cool is, of course, at your discretion.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>cookiengineer</author><text>The coolest website I&#x27;m using is a very practical one.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geizhals.de" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geizhals.de</a> is a German search website that allows you to very narrowly specify all kinds of things.<p>Searching for a mainboard with minimum 4x SATA ports and 64GB RAM support in mini ITX format? Easy peasy.<p>For example, take a look at the laptop category and its filters: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geizhals.de&#x2F;?cat=nb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geizhals.de&#x2F;?cat=nb</a><p>I wish every e-commerce website was built like this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RealStickman_</author><text>I use this site all the time to find tech. Their filters are just insane.<p>Here are some filters I find interesting to use.<p>You can filter HDDs by recording technology: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geizhals.de&#x2F;?cat=hde7s&amp;xf=8457_Conventional+Magnetic+Recording+(CMR)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geizhals.de&#x2F;?cat=hde7s&amp;xf=8457_Conventional+Magnetic...</a><p>Similarly, it&#x27;s possible to specify the storage cell type for SSDs. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geizhals.de&#x2F;?cat=hdssd&amp;xf=16325_3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geizhals.de&#x2F;?cat=hdssd&amp;xf=16325_3</a><p>For RAM you can specify which memory rank you want and the actual ns operation times for most primary ram timings: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geizhals.eu&#x2F;?cat=ramddr3&amp;xf=15554_10.6%7E439_dual" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geizhals.eu&#x2F;?cat=ramddr3&amp;xf=15554_10.6%7E439_dual</a><p>Sadly I don&#x27;t buy through them very often, as they only show stores for Germany, Austria, Poland and the UK.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?</title><text>The definition of cool is, of course, at your discretion.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>cookiengineer</author><text>The coolest website I&#x27;m using is a very practical one.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geizhals.de" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geizhals.de</a> is a German search website that allows you to very narrowly specify all kinds of things.<p>Searching for a mainboard with minimum 4x SATA ports and 64GB RAM support in mini ITX format? Easy peasy.<p>For example, take a look at the laptop category and its filters: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geizhals.de&#x2F;?cat=nb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geizhals.de&#x2F;?cat=nb</a><p>I wish every e-commerce website was built like this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vbrandl</author><text>I also applaud their user-respecting design choices. E.g. if your browser sets the DNT (do not track) header, they won&#x27;t show a cookie consent banner and just assume you selected &quot;reject all&quot;</text></comment> |
38,030,202 | 38,028,075 | 1 | 2 | 38,025,767 | train | <story><title>The negative impact of mobile-first web design on desktop</title><url>https://www.nngroup.com/articles/content-dispersion/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blooalien</author><text>Yeah, it&#x27;s <i>not</i> really &quot;easy to say stuff like this&quot; because everyone who thinks they know better than <i>actual real honest-to-goodness web designers</i> will <i>instantly</i> want to argue with you to the bitter end why their fantasy web design has to be 100% &quot;pixel perfect&quot; layout <i>exactly</i> as they envision it on <i>every single device or browser</i> ever invented. It&#x27;s a huge part of why I&#x27;m no longer a web designer. More of my time was wasted fixing literal one pixel differences in layout between browsers (and browser versions) than almost any other part of the process.</text></item><item><author>klysm</author><text>It&#x27;s easy to say stuff like this, but go try and implement it. It&#x27;s really hard.</text></item><item><author>blooalien</author><text>The problem sadly isn&#x27;t even mobile-first vs. desktop, but rather designers who <i>still</i> haven&#x27;t figured out that the web is <i>dynamic</i> content that should be allowed to <i>flow</i> according to the <i>user&#x27;s</i> display device size and shape. It&#x27;s <i>not</i> and <i>never has been</i> a static medium like paper. It&#x27;s not limited to a specific size and shape like paper, and should not be treated as if it were. Web &quot;designers&quot; should not be trying to <i>force</i> the content into any specific size or pixel resolution, as there&#x27;s just <i>too many</i> different resolutions of screens and width vs. height layouts of those screens to <i>ever</i> be able to cover them all appropriately without adapting to the idea that the content <i>must</i> be able to flow accordingly. It also severely harms accessibility for folks with vision issues who might scale up their fonts to compensate if doing so causes the content to break in horrible ways that make it unreadable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>levmiseri</author><text>There is pixel-perfection and &#x27;pixel-perfection&#x27;. One is a pointless fight against the nature of the medium while the other is love for the craft, sophistication, and actually giving a fuck that something isn&#x27;t needlessly 2 pixels off of where it should have been. A certain attitude that will show its mark throughout the UI.</text></comment> | <story><title>The negative impact of mobile-first web design on desktop</title><url>https://www.nngroup.com/articles/content-dispersion/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blooalien</author><text>Yeah, it&#x27;s <i>not</i> really &quot;easy to say stuff like this&quot; because everyone who thinks they know better than <i>actual real honest-to-goodness web designers</i> will <i>instantly</i> want to argue with you to the bitter end why their fantasy web design has to be 100% &quot;pixel perfect&quot; layout <i>exactly</i> as they envision it on <i>every single device or browser</i> ever invented. It&#x27;s a huge part of why I&#x27;m no longer a web designer. More of my time was wasted fixing literal one pixel differences in layout between browsers (and browser versions) than almost any other part of the process.</text></item><item><author>klysm</author><text>It&#x27;s easy to say stuff like this, but go try and implement it. It&#x27;s really hard.</text></item><item><author>blooalien</author><text>The problem sadly isn&#x27;t even mobile-first vs. desktop, but rather designers who <i>still</i> haven&#x27;t figured out that the web is <i>dynamic</i> content that should be allowed to <i>flow</i> according to the <i>user&#x27;s</i> display device size and shape. It&#x27;s <i>not</i> and <i>never has been</i> a static medium like paper. It&#x27;s not limited to a specific size and shape like paper, and should not be treated as if it were. Web &quot;designers&quot; should not be trying to <i>force</i> the content into any specific size or pixel resolution, as there&#x27;s just <i>too many</i> different resolutions of screens and width vs. height layouts of those screens to <i>ever</i> be able to cover them all appropriately without adapting to the idea that the content <i>must</i> be able to flow accordingly. It also severely harms accessibility for folks with vision issues who might scale up their fonts to compensate if doing so causes the content to break in horrible ways that make it unreadable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spookthesunset</author><text>I haven&#x27;t encountered a &quot;pixel perfect&quot; designer for at least 15 years now, if not more. Virtually every single UX designer I&#x27;ve worked with provides flexible designs that scale with screen size.</text></comment> |
12,733,719 | 12,733,644 | 1 | 3 | 12,733,445 | train | <story><title>The Linux Foundation Unites the JavaScript Community for Open Web Development</title><url>https://js.foundation/announcements/2016/10/17/Linux-Foundation-Unites-JavaScript-Community-Open-Web-Development/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>omegote</author><text>How can you find the js fragmentation a feature and not a stinking pile of shit? Seriously.</text></item><item><author>kowdermeister</author><text>I don&#x27;t see the need for this to cherry pick a few project and push them with the Linux brand. The JS landscape is fragmented for a good reason and I don&#x27;t see that as problem in fact, rather as a feature. With NPM and YARN we already have a good enough package management system and their platform can help me evaluate if a package is community supported enough. I&#x27;m talking about the stats that I can just check: number of stars, contributors and open&#x2F;closed issue ratios.<p>If someone understood it better than me please add your thoughts.<p>I also don&#x27;t see faces here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;js.foundation&#x2F;members&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;js.foundation&#x2F;members&#x2F;</a> Who runs the show?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kowdermeister</author><text>First the term. By fragmentation I mean two things: 1) we have many libraries doing the same thing. 2) the implementation is JS is not the same in every environment.<p>If you are spending most of your time writing other languages which have a standard library, I can understand your opinion.<p>However, I see fragmentation as:<p>1) It introduces the opportunity everyone on the planet to give a shot at implementing something that may or may not be better than we consider today the best. For example I used a datepicker in my latest project but in the current it failed and I could replace it in 15 minutes rather than spending hours finding the issue with the &quot;standard one&quot;. I&#x27;m not really experienced in the C++ world, but I guess people would call me crazy if I proposed a new stdio lib. Maybe there could be better libraries, who knows. It&#x27;s a settled game there. See jQuery in JS land, it was for many years, &quot;the golden tool&quot;. Now we have alternatives for more specialized workflows. Not everybody wears the same hat all the time.<p>2) EcmaScript is constantly evolving, that causes another fragmentation, but this also allows the dev community to propose changes, implement new features and create a really vibrant feedback loop. If you stick to the latest stable (currently ES5) you are safe to build whatever you like with great stability.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Linux Foundation Unites the JavaScript Community for Open Web Development</title><url>https://js.foundation/announcements/2016/10/17/Linux-Foundation-Unites-JavaScript-Community-Open-Web-Development/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>omegote</author><text>How can you find the js fragmentation a feature and not a stinking pile of shit? Seriously.</text></item><item><author>kowdermeister</author><text>I don&#x27;t see the need for this to cherry pick a few project and push them with the Linux brand. The JS landscape is fragmented for a good reason and I don&#x27;t see that as problem in fact, rather as a feature. With NPM and YARN we already have a good enough package management system and their platform can help me evaluate if a package is community supported enough. I&#x27;m talking about the stats that I can just check: number of stars, contributors and open&#x2F;closed issue ratios.<p>If someone understood it better than me please add your thoughts.<p>I also don&#x27;t see faces here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;js.foundation&#x2F;members&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;js.foundation&#x2F;members&#x2F;</a> Who runs the show?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onion2k</author><text>There are two schools of thought. The first is that you should optimise for the platform you&#x27;re targeting, so a fragmented JS world is a good thing because you optimise for different things depending on where your code is going to run. The second school of thought is that you should optimise for development, and you should have the same language everywhere even if that means slightly less efficient code.<p>For example, if you write long running services in node then optimising for memory allocation in order to avoid leaks is a good idea. It&#x27;s less useful for clientside things that <i>generally</i> don&#x27;t run for nearly as long. Conversely, if you write isomorphic JS that can run in the browser but also needs to run on the server for that first-load advantage, then you&#x27;d prefer if things work the same everywhere.<p>Neither school is &#x27;<i>right</i>&#x27; per se. How a language ought to evolve is incredibly subjective.</text></comment> |
38,370,067 | 38,370,050 | 1 | 3 | 38,369,419 | train | <story><title>OpenAI investors keep pushing for Sam Altman’s return</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/tech/openai-employees-threaten-to-quit-unless-board-resigns-bbd5cc86</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>righthand</author><text>Why? The board announced the removal of a CEO which they have the power to do. It upset a bunch of employees who liked the CEO. The board is in search of a new CEO.<p>OpenAI’s valuation isn’t because Sam Altman is worth $90B it’s the tech. The tech is fine. Investors have no reason to worry about their investment in the tech.<p>The people under pressure are Sam Altman trying to reclaim his job he was fired from and Satya Nadella who is running a campaign to eat OpenAI. None of that is related to the functioning tech of OpenAI, all of it is related to the drama of what happened. Drama is not equal to money.<p>I was sad when my favorite pet died too, but then eventually you get a new pet that’s just as good as a Worldcoin guy, maybe better.</text></item><item><author>flappyeagle</author><text>These words are gonna get ate one way or another. There is no outcome where the current board wins.<p>Emmet is already threatening the board with resignation unless they provide evidence of wrongdoing [1]. Which they don&#x27;t have, because they would have revealed it already.<p>They are empty shirts.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;emilychangtv&#x2F;status&#x2F;1727020834005700914?s=20" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;emilychangtv&#x2F;status&#x2F;1727020834005700914?s=20</a></text></item><item><author>righthand</author><text>I don’t think the board is under any pressure. If they don’t do anything else they just need the employees to fold on their threat to resign. Even if the employees resign, ChatGPT is still running and there are lots of people willing to take the defecting employees spots.<p>The only thing they are pressured on is to fill in the story for the media point of view which is irrelevant to the actual functioning of OpenAI.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>Does anybody know who is currently CEO of OpenAI? Friday, Sam. Saturday, Mira. Sunday was a day off, Monday it was Emmet so who is it for today?<p>Kidding aside, the board is under more and more pressure but - surprisingly - they haven&#x27;t folded yet. I am interpreting that as that they are trying to get something out of it that nobody is willing to give them. The new CEO is also surprisingly not to be found at all, no public statements, nothing to reassure employees that the ship is in good hands. Not the best showing for a captain of a ship in crisis.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flappyeagle</author><text>&gt; The board announced the removal of a CEO which they have the power to do.<p>They have the power to remove him momentarily, do they have the power to keep him out? we&#x27;re still finding out.<p>&gt; OpenAI’s valuation isn’t because Sam Altman is worth $90B it’s the tech.<p>OpenAI&#x27;s valuation is nominally because of the tech. It&#x27;s fundamentally because of the people. 90% of the staff is threatening to follow Sam to $MS so that&#x27;s the whole ball game. They went to OpenAI to make themselves rich. The board fired the guy that was trying to do that for them.<p>&gt; I was sad when my favorite pet died too, but then eventually you get a new pet that’s just as good as a Worldcoin guy, maybe better.<p>Doesn&#x27;t matter if you or I am sad. It only matters if the talent at OpenAI is sad. The board made them sad. Sam and Sataya make them happy.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenAI investors keep pushing for Sam Altman’s return</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/tech/openai-employees-threaten-to-quit-unless-board-resigns-bbd5cc86</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>righthand</author><text>Why? The board announced the removal of a CEO which they have the power to do. It upset a bunch of employees who liked the CEO. The board is in search of a new CEO.<p>OpenAI’s valuation isn’t because Sam Altman is worth $90B it’s the tech. The tech is fine. Investors have no reason to worry about their investment in the tech.<p>The people under pressure are Sam Altman trying to reclaim his job he was fired from and Satya Nadella who is running a campaign to eat OpenAI. None of that is related to the functioning tech of OpenAI, all of it is related to the drama of what happened. Drama is not equal to money.<p>I was sad when my favorite pet died too, but then eventually you get a new pet that’s just as good as a Worldcoin guy, maybe better.</text></item><item><author>flappyeagle</author><text>These words are gonna get ate one way or another. There is no outcome where the current board wins.<p>Emmet is already threatening the board with resignation unless they provide evidence of wrongdoing [1]. Which they don&#x27;t have, because they would have revealed it already.<p>They are empty shirts.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;emilychangtv&#x2F;status&#x2F;1727020834005700914?s=20" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;emilychangtv&#x2F;status&#x2F;1727020834005700914?s=20</a></text></item><item><author>righthand</author><text>I don’t think the board is under any pressure. If they don’t do anything else they just need the employees to fold on their threat to resign. Even if the employees resign, ChatGPT is still running and there are lots of people willing to take the defecting employees spots.<p>The only thing they are pressured on is to fill in the story for the media point of view which is irrelevant to the actual functioning of OpenAI.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>Does anybody know who is currently CEO of OpenAI? Friday, Sam. Saturday, Mira. Sunday was a day off, Monday it was Emmet so who is it for today?<p>Kidding aside, the board is under more and more pressure but - surprisingly - they haven&#x27;t folded yet. I am interpreting that as that they are trying to get something out of it that nobody is willing to give them. The new CEO is also surprisingly not to be found at all, no public statements, nothing to reassure employees that the ship is in good hands. Not the best showing for a captain of a ship in crisis.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thinkindie</author><text>Technology is not made out of thin air but it is made - and maintained - by people; and when 500 out of 700 people threaten to quit on the spot and leave for competitors, or for Microsoft, investors might not be happy at all.</text></comment> |
11,703,338 | 11,702,573 | 1 | 2 | 11,702,025 | train | <story><title>Programming from the Ground Up [pdf]</title><url>http://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/pgubook/ProgrammingGroundUp-1-0-booksize.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wyldfire</author><text>I think many of us learned the other way &#x27;round.<p>(1) Start off by making changes to a program that someone&#x2F;some book gave us as a basis and blindly stumble through some changes and compiler&#x2F;interpreter&#x2F;runtime errors.<p>(2) Take a step back, absorb what we&#x27;ve learned from the errors.<p>(3) Read more about the principles of the programming language&#x2F;OS&#x2F;API&#x2F;operating environment.<p>(4) Internalize concepts behind the language&#x2F;OS&#x2F;API&#x2F;operating environment.<p>(5) Goto (1).<p>It&#x27;s only after many iterations through this process that I can now see similarities among different processors (CPU&#x2F;DSP&#x2F;GPU&#x2F;etc), operating systems, APIs, programming languages. So many classes of problems can be solved effectively without ever understanding these details, so it makes sense for those new programmers not to learn the details at first. IMO, this is <i>at least</i> an intermediate-level text.</text></comment> | <story><title>Programming from the Ground Up [pdf]</title><url>http://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/pgubook/ProgrammingGroundUp-1-0-booksize.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>koloron</author><text>Hah, just today I started to read &quot;Haskell programming from first principles&quot;[1] which also targets non-programmers but builds on lambda calculus instead of assembly.<p>Would anyone actually recommend to a beginner to start learn assembly first?<p>[1]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;haskellbook.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;haskellbook.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
1,827,216 | 1,827,271 | 1 | 3 | 1,826,969 | train | <story><title>UberCab Ordered to Cease And Desist</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/24/ubercab-ordered-to-cease-and-desist/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>corin_</author><text>Maybe I'm just misinformed but... basically they're running a taxi service without a license to do that, then acting surprised when the city calls them on it?<p>There's a taxi company I use whenever I'm in London called Addison Lee, and they've done the same as UberCab - using nice technology to know where you are, where the nearest available cars are, how long it will take for a car to get to you... In actual fact, at least based on <a href="http://www.ubercab.com/learn" rel="nofollow">http://www.ubercab.com/learn</a>, AdLee is better: it has all the benefits of UberCab, plus they tell you the price of the journey before you book the car (it won't become more expensive if you get stuck in traffic, or if the driver takes a longer route), which always works out cheaper than a black cab, in my experience. Oh, and in adition to letting you pay with the credit card on your account, you can chose to pay by cash if you so wish.<p>Anyway, my point? Seems that Addison Lee have been (albeit in a different city/country) doing what UberCab is doing, slightly better, and for quite a bit longer: and they actually bothered to pay to be a licensed taxi provider, meaning that the London officials don't have a problem with them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sutro</author><text>I believe the loophole they operate under is that the ability to pick people up randomly on the street in SF requires a license, but picking people up who call ahead is simply a car service and not subject to taxi licensure. The fact that UberCab has made doing the latter effectively as easy and convenient as doing the former is indeed a challenge to the old guard, whom you can bet is working behind the scenes to close the aformentioned loophole as quickly as possible.<p>Taxi service in SF is truly horrible and is ripe for disruption. I hope these guys win. Go UberCab!</text></comment> | <story><title>UberCab Ordered to Cease And Desist</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/24/ubercab-ordered-to-cease-and-desist/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>corin_</author><text>Maybe I'm just misinformed but... basically they're running a taxi service without a license to do that, then acting surprised when the city calls them on it?<p>There's a taxi company I use whenever I'm in London called Addison Lee, and they've done the same as UberCab - using nice technology to know where you are, where the nearest available cars are, how long it will take for a car to get to you... In actual fact, at least based on <a href="http://www.ubercab.com/learn" rel="nofollow">http://www.ubercab.com/learn</a>, AdLee is better: it has all the benefits of UberCab, plus they tell you the price of the journey before you book the car (it won't become more expensive if you get stuck in traffic, or if the driver takes a longer route), which always works out cheaper than a black cab, in my experience. Oh, and in adition to letting you pay with the credit card on your account, you can chose to pay by cash if you so wish.<p>Anyway, my point? Seems that Addison Lee have been (albeit in a different city/country) doing what UberCab is doing, slightly better, and for quite a bit longer: and they actually bothered to pay to be a licensed taxi provider, meaning that the London officials don't have a problem with them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ramanujan</author><text>Ubercab is a great example of disruption of an inefficient, expensive system. The measure of whether something works has never been whether it makes some London official
happy. Of course they won't like something that's taking tax revenue out of their pockets.</text></comment> |
37,220,055 | 37,219,906 | 1 | 2 | 37,218,841 | train | <story><title>I walked across Luxembourg</title><url>https://blog.ioces.com/matt/posts/i-walked-across-luxembourg/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavlov</author><text>The history of Luxembourg is an interesting microcosm of how the fortunes of states and dynasties have ebbed and flowed in Europe over the past thousand years.<p>There was a time when the House of Luxembourg was the main rival to the Habsburgs for control of central Europe, contributing four Holy Roman Emperors:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Duchy_of_Luxemburg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Duchy_of_Luxemburg</a><p>The dukes of this area used to be so important to European politics that Henry VIII of England married a Dutch duke&#x27;s daughter for political reasons (and immediately regretted it of course, as he was wont to do).<p>The area of the Duchy used to be several times larger, but over centuries it was nibbled away by France, Prussia, and finally the creation of Belgium.<p>It has been under Spanish rule (those Habsburgs again), then invaded by the French revolutionary republic and annexed into France as a department simply called Forêts (Forests) because the revolutionaries didn&#x27;t want to keep any names that honored the old nobility. After Napoleon&#x27;s defeat the Congress of Vienna aimed to restore old borders and reinstate monarchies, but with multiple claims on Luxembourg, it was split and became a grand duchy whose head of state was the King of Netherlands.<p>It became an independent country in 1890 when the Dutch king died without a male heir. Dutch law allowed the throne to pass to a female child, but the Grand Duchy was under different laws and was inherited by a claimant rather than the new Dutch queen. (Monarchy is pretty weird in practice.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dalbasal</author><text>&gt;&gt; Dutch law allowed the throne to pass to a female child, but the Grand Duchy was under different laws and was inherited by a claimant rather than the new Dutch queen. (Monarchy is pretty weird in practice.)<p>Game of Thrones, with its campy portrayal of regal titles and announcements, kind of drives this point home. European aristocracy, especially those derived from germanic and other barbarian cultures, held titles like collectibles. Lordships accrued rather than expanded. The could be dispersed and often were.<p>If you watch Queen Elizebeth coronation, the list of titles would shame Daenerys Targaryen. It&#x27;s quite surreal. Queen of Jamaica, Empress of India, Defender of the faith...<p>Even the 20th century version was not unrelated to real politics, but as you go back, this reflected real political power and machinations. Every title had different rules, different arbiters, and disputes led to actual wars.</text></comment> | <story><title>I walked across Luxembourg</title><url>https://blog.ioces.com/matt/posts/i-walked-across-luxembourg/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavlov</author><text>The history of Luxembourg is an interesting microcosm of how the fortunes of states and dynasties have ebbed and flowed in Europe over the past thousand years.<p>There was a time when the House of Luxembourg was the main rival to the Habsburgs for control of central Europe, contributing four Holy Roman Emperors:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Duchy_of_Luxemburg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Duchy_of_Luxemburg</a><p>The dukes of this area used to be so important to European politics that Henry VIII of England married a Dutch duke&#x27;s daughter for political reasons (and immediately regretted it of course, as he was wont to do).<p>The area of the Duchy used to be several times larger, but over centuries it was nibbled away by France, Prussia, and finally the creation of Belgium.<p>It has been under Spanish rule (those Habsburgs again), then invaded by the French revolutionary republic and annexed into France as a department simply called Forêts (Forests) because the revolutionaries didn&#x27;t want to keep any names that honored the old nobility. After Napoleon&#x27;s defeat the Congress of Vienna aimed to restore old borders and reinstate monarchies, but with multiple claims on Luxembourg, it was split and became a grand duchy whose head of state was the King of Netherlands.<p>It became an independent country in 1890 when the Dutch king died without a male heir. Dutch law allowed the throne to pass to a female child, but the Grand Duchy was under different laws and was inherited by a claimant rather than the new Dutch queen. (Monarchy is pretty weird in practice.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcv</author><text>The reason it was such a strategic position, is because the town was a natural fortress. It&#x27;s located on top of a high, flat rock, which is riddled with tunnels for gun casemates, making the town of Luxembourg very hard to take.<p>It was a vital part of the Spanish Road that the Spanish Habsburgs needed to move troops from their lands in Italy to the north during the 80 Years War.</text></comment> |
11,486,516 | 11,486,569 | 1 | 3 | 11,485,918 | train | <story><title>Google Calendar now uses machine learning to help you accomplish your goals</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/12/google-calendar-goals/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>buro9</author><text>I wish they&#x27;d just fix search.<p>I use Google Calendar heavily, averaging ~10 entries per day for the last 5+ years, and then some entries per day all the way back to when it was launched.<p>I can put information in easily enough, and with a few IFTTT recipes I&#x27;m able to treat Google Calendar not just as a schedule for upcoming events, appointments and reminders, but as a historical log of everything I&#x27;ve done. It is a time based database of my life... a diary.<p>I&#x27;ve automated my diary taking into Google Calendar. The what, where and when of everything ends up in one of 12 calendars (each calendar is effectively a label to categorise a whole group of events that have occurred).<p>And it&#x27;s brilliant.<p>Except for the search.<p>It&#x27;s really difficult to get the information back out. If I search for something I know that has happened, or has happened frequently, Google will delightfully tell me that I have matched 200 results, and then show me a list of 9 or 10 of them, with no way to paginate the remainder or search the old ones (it only finds upcoming, not past).<p>Search is broken on Google Calendar, to the point of being almost totally useless.<p>Far better to rely on time as a search dimension and jump around dates until one manually finds whatever you were looking for. It&#x27;s that broken.<p>Compare to search on a product that has some love: Google Photos. Where now the miraculous occurs, I can search things like &quot;Felicity skiing&quot; and what will return are photos of my wife skiing, and an option to look at all other photos on those days. A simple search and all the results you want, and a single click to expand to view it in the wider context that makes sense.<p>Google Calendar really needs a decent search. It feels far too much like writing to &#x2F;dev&#x2F;null at the moment. Your information went in there, but the chances of you finding it when you wish to reference it are pretty non-existent.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Calendar now uses machine learning to help you accomplish your goals</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/12/google-calendar-goals/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danieldk</author><text>This is one of those things that only the GooglePlex bubble can come up with.<p>As a busy person (my wife and I both work, we have a child, and hard time constraints due to teaching obligations, etc.), free time is exactly what I want to schedule as little as possible. I want to spontaneously decide to do a hike with my family, or when my daughter wants to play, I want to be there. There&#x27;s enough obligations already, free time should be spontaneous and available to family.<p>It is also a bit annoying that they focus on these features without solving real problems first. Someone already mentioned search, which is (ironically) indeed quite bad. Also, appointment suggestions based on e-mails has very low recall. I especially noticed this since I switched back to Mail.app, which picks up a lot more dates in e-mails.</text></comment> |
17,659,197 | 17,659,281 | 1 | 3 | 17,658,236 | train | <story><title>How America Uses Its Land</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>The one third being used for cows is misleading. Pasture is basically the Bureau of Land Management’s default use for the vast swaths of federal land. It’s like “here is this land, you’re allowed to graze on it with a permit.” That doesn’t produce that many cows—it’s more about politics and the fact that much of the land is good for little else besides growing grass.<p>The real land use from growing meat comes from the land used to grow the corn that feeds the cows. In the article, that’s counted as agricultural land, not pasture.</text></comment> | <story><title>How America Uses Its Land</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>deepsun</author><text>&gt; According to The Land Report magazine, since 2008 the amount of land owned by the 100 largest private landowners has grown from 28 million acres to 40 million, an area larger than the state of Florida.<p>Wow, it&#x27;s almost 50% increase in just 10 years.</text></comment> |
7,017,674 | 7,017,807 | 1 | 2 | 7,017,580 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Sneakers – Fast background processing for Ruby</title><url>http://sneakers.io</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jondot</author><text>Author here - Hi! :)<p>Sneakers is a high-performance background-job processing framework based on RabbitMQ.<p>It uses a hybrid process-thread model where many processes are spawned (like Unicorn) and many threads are used per process (like Puma), so all your cores max out and you have best of both worlds.<p>It&#x27;s being used in production for I&#x2F;O intensive jobs as well as CPU intensive jobs.<p>On a recent 2012 MBP it reaches 7000req&#x2F;s for a silly microbenchmark while Sidekiq keeps at the hundreds (600-700req&#x2F;s).</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Sneakers – Fast background processing for Ruby</title><url>http://sneakers.io</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>avitzurel</author><text>I have been using Sidekiq in production for over a year now, running over 11B jobs over that year, peaking around 20m jobs per day.<p>I&#x27;ve been wanting to migrate away from it to use more of a micro-service approach, so the code doesn&#x27;t live inside the monolithic rails application.<p>Bunny looked like a start, but I really wanted something more, this seems like the answer, will definitely be using it for the migration.<p>@jundot, great job! looks like a solid project!</text></comment> |
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