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39,317,059 | 39,317,065 | 1 | 3 | 39,315,880 | train | <story><title>Fedora Atomic Desktops</title><url>https://fedoramagazine.org/introducing-fedora-atomic-desktops/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bsimpson</author><text>If you&#x27;re not familiar, the Atomic project is really interesting. Its focus is stability and reproducibility, trying to solve the fragility that can happen when the default way to use software in Linux is `sudo apt-get install`.<p>There&#x27;s a community offshoot called Universal Blue (after the original Atomic image Silverblue). It uses the standards set for containerization to make userland configuration reproducible as well. There&#x27;s a manifest (Containerfile) that enumerates all the modifications, which means an upgrade is bump the version of the base image and replay all the modifications from the manifest. It&#x27;s also meant to limit `sudo` usage, so you&#x27;re not in the habit of giving root to random software you downloaded from the internet.<p>Their most famous image is Bazzite, which will replicate the SteamOS experience on generic hardware. They also have Bluefin for software developers.<p>I haven&#x27;t used it myself, but I find the concept fascinating. I expect Jorge and Kyle from that project will find their way to these comments.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fedora Atomic Desktops</title><url>https://fedoramagazine.org/introducing-fedora-atomic-desktops/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kaylynb</author><text>I really like Silverblue and run it on a couple of secondary machines (like in my workshop), but it’s still rough for anything off the beaten path.<p>The largest pain points for me:<p>- Any kernel modules. I know Ublue has images but I wish Red Hat would just have an official solution that doesn’t require hacky RPMs and such.<p>- Kernel cmdline args or any initramfs changes: can’t package in image and need to be applied manually. Maybe it’s possible to build a custom initramfs to distribute?<p>- Secure boot and enrolling moks is very annoying. My current workstation just uses sbctl to sign a UKI against custom keys and everything “just works”. This is part of why kernel modules are a pain in Silverblue too.<p>If you don’t care about kernel modules with secure boot it’s quite nice though. Practically zero maintenance.</text></comment> |
27,648,157 | 27,646,168 | 1 | 2 | 27,643,490 | train | <story><title>Play online chess with a real chess board</title><url>https://github.com/karayaman/Play-online-chess-with-real-chess-board</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oliv__</author><text>Damn, this could be like the Peloton of Chess: an actual physical board that lets you play with people online. Would be pretty amazing.<p>I&#x27;m visualizing a board with magnetized pieces and your opponent&#x27;s pieces would move on their own.</text></comment> | <story><title>Play online chess with a real chess board</title><url>https://github.com/karayaman/Play-online-chess-with-real-chess-board</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jgilias</author><text>There&#x27;s a satisfying symmetry in how a chessboard is used to do the chessboard calibration to actually play chess.<p>Nice work, thanks for sharing!</text></comment> |
23,170,020 | 23,170,172 | 1 | 2 | 23,166,786 | train | <story><title>The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea effect (2008)</title><url>http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-dead-sea-effect/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>master_yoda_1</author><text>If it takes 6 month to come to speed for an experienced engineer, I would say you are working with dinosaurs, in a jurassic age company.</text></item><item><author>subsubzero</author><text>Haha, it typically takes 6 months to get up to speed at a company as everyone has their own set of unique tools and infrastructure. Also at that cadence you are not vesting any stock(1 year cliff?) so that seems very strange. Having worked with high-vis engineers in the past, alot of them seem to be vanity hires, they really don&#x27;t impact much change and probably stoke the egos of the upper managers&#x2F;execs much like (prof. slughorn from harry potter), collecting &quot;geniuses&quot;.</text></item><item><author>gfiorav</author><text>I&#x27;m always going to cringe at Twitter&#x27;s &quot;star&quot; engineers who spend an average of 7 months in each company. HTH do you even understand the product and contribute in that time frame? One of two things needs to be at play:<p>1. You were brought in to do very specific work (i.e.: migrate something to k8s).<p>2. You were brought in as a token due to your social media following.<p>Seriously, how else?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thoraway1010</author><text>In jurassic age companies you can get up to speed quicker, there is less to wrap your head around and the onsite staff tend to use a simpler approach (manual methods etc).<p>If you think you are &quot;up to speed&quot; on a large company a week or so you are usually so incompetent you don&#x27;t know what you don&#x27;t know.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea effect (2008)</title><url>http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-dead-sea-effect/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>master_yoda_1</author><text>If it takes 6 month to come to speed for an experienced engineer, I would say you are working with dinosaurs, in a jurassic age company.</text></item><item><author>subsubzero</author><text>Haha, it typically takes 6 months to get up to speed at a company as everyone has their own set of unique tools and infrastructure. Also at that cadence you are not vesting any stock(1 year cliff?) so that seems very strange. Having worked with high-vis engineers in the past, alot of them seem to be vanity hires, they really don&#x27;t impact much change and probably stoke the egos of the upper managers&#x2F;execs much like (prof. slughorn from harry potter), collecting &quot;geniuses&quot;.</text></item><item><author>gfiorav</author><text>I&#x27;m always going to cringe at Twitter&#x27;s &quot;star&quot; engineers who spend an average of 7 months in each company. HTH do you even understand the product and contribute in that time frame? One of two things needs to be at play:<p>1. You were brought in to do very specific work (i.e.: migrate something to k8s).<p>2. You were brought in as a token due to your social media following.<p>Seriously, how else?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>packetlost</author><text>You can be contributing code in a week or less, but if you&#x27;re getting fully up to speed on any moderately large system in under 3 months, you probably should take breaks for meals and sleep more. Or you&#x27;re not getting fully up to speed and are just ignorant. It could be less for a trivial or entirely greenfield system, but then you&#x27;re worrying about other things like requirements&#x2F;constraints&#x2F;etc.</text></comment> |
18,699,614 | 18,698,918 | 1 | 2 | 18,692,108 | train | <story><title>How the 0.001% invest</title><url>https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/12/15/how-the-0001-invest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Gustomaximus</author><text>A friend of mine who manages ultra wealth people said most people who turn up don&#x27;t say &quot;How much can you make me&quot; but say &quot;Can you make sure I&#x27;m never poor&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s often about preservation of wealth more than gains for these people.<p>That said I&#x27;ve discussed some returns they make and it&#x27;s incredible. I don&#x27;t want to say what I recall, as it was a couple years back and it sounds like an exaggeration. They said this is partly because they get access to deals that don&#x27;t hit the wider market and you need serious cash to get in the room to have that chat. And I guess these manager have a bunch of the right people attached to them so it makes an easy stop.</text></item><item><author>mruts</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen the portfolio&#x27;s of dozens of family offices (I worked at a portfolio analytics company so I had free reign to snoop around), and none of the offices seemed competent. The returns were terrible and the portfolio construction laughable.<p>Instead of striving for out performance, the funds just catered to the whims and idiosyncrasies of the family. Also, many of these funds were too small to make sense, AUMs from like 150MM-500MM. They would have be much better off just investing in a hedge fund, but the family&#x27;s ego didn&#x27;t allow them. I think the point was to show off more than anything else.<p>One of the exceptions was Sergey Brin&#x27;s family office, which managed a shit-ton of money and had some good people who actually knew something about portfolio construction.</text></item><item><author>potatofarmer45</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked for a family office in Hong Kong. What was really telling for me was how the rate of return KPI was measured. We were not benchmarked against the S&amp;P 500, or any index. We were measured directly against the fund of another frenemy family. So long as the fund outperformed the other family, all was good. It&#x27;s crazy because you could be underperforming treasury bonds, and still be good because the other office was worse.<p>I guess when you that much money, more money means less than vanity and bragging rights.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>savanaly</author><text>&gt;They said this is partly because they get access to deals that don&#x27;t hit the wider market and you need serious cash to get in the room to have that chat.<p>This is something I hear a lot and I just don&#x27;t get. Are the people on the other side of those deals just...not greedy? After all, you are implying that the deal has better expected returns than what people are buying on margin in public markets, so why doesn&#x27;t the person on the other side of the deal take a little more for themselves by selling there instead (at a slightly more favorable interest rate)?<p>Is it because the rich investors are needed to bring some level of expertise or connections to the investment to make it work? If that&#x27;s the case, and it seems likely, I would not say they are getting &quot;access to better deals&quot; per se. More like they are getting a normal rate of return and they have a valuable asset that they are renting out as well (their expertise or connections), and it all gets rolled into one number. But complaining about the rich having valuable assets is different from complaining about them having access to better investment opportunities.</text></comment> | <story><title>How the 0.001% invest</title><url>https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/12/15/how-the-0001-invest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Gustomaximus</author><text>A friend of mine who manages ultra wealth people said most people who turn up don&#x27;t say &quot;How much can you make me&quot; but say &quot;Can you make sure I&#x27;m never poor&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s often about preservation of wealth more than gains for these people.<p>That said I&#x27;ve discussed some returns they make and it&#x27;s incredible. I don&#x27;t want to say what I recall, as it was a couple years back and it sounds like an exaggeration. They said this is partly because they get access to deals that don&#x27;t hit the wider market and you need serious cash to get in the room to have that chat. And I guess these manager have a bunch of the right people attached to them so it makes an easy stop.</text></item><item><author>mruts</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen the portfolio&#x27;s of dozens of family offices (I worked at a portfolio analytics company so I had free reign to snoop around), and none of the offices seemed competent. The returns were terrible and the portfolio construction laughable.<p>Instead of striving for out performance, the funds just catered to the whims and idiosyncrasies of the family. Also, many of these funds were too small to make sense, AUMs from like 150MM-500MM. They would have be much better off just investing in a hedge fund, but the family&#x27;s ego didn&#x27;t allow them. I think the point was to show off more than anything else.<p>One of the exceptions was Sergey Brin&#x27;s family office, which managed a shit-ton of money and had some good people who actually knew something about portfolio construction.</text></item><item><author>potatofarmer45</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked for a family office in Hong Kong. What was really telling for me was how the rate of return KPI was measured. We were not benchmarked against the S&amp;P 500, or any index. We were measured directly against the fund of another frenemy family. So long as the fund outperformed the other family, all was good. It&#x27;s crazy because you could be underperforming treasury bonds, and still be good because the other office was worse.<p>I guess when you that much money, more money means less than vanity and bragging rights.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cik</author><text>I deal with multiple folks who have them. This is the real goal, though tongue-in-cheek. Ultimately they want monies to increase as the family logically increases in size.</text></comment> |
28,503,996 | 28,504,099 | 1 | 3 | 28,503,552 | train | <story><title>I Got a 'Mild' Breakthrough Case</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/09/12/1036356773/i-got-a-mild-breakthrough-case-heres-what-i-wish-id-known</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TobTobXX</author><text>But all the regulations around us create this covid-proof impression.<p>Eg. where I live, hospitals consider introducing vaccination requirements for visitors. But that somehow defies logic. The vaccine only reduces symptoms (and might thus save yourself, or others, when extended with the hospital-bed-limit-thought), but it wouldn&#x27;t stop you from transmitting the disease if you are infected (and vaccinated) but you aren&#x27;t aware.<p>So I don&#x27;t even blame the public, but rather the regulators. They ought to know better.<p>Edit: I might need to support this claim.<p>The most trustworthy source I found was this article by the JHU [1] (2021-08-02). While there are many that claim different numbers (ranging from stopping roughly 60% to 0%), for transmission, no one claimed that virus infection is influenced.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;publichealth.jhu.edu&#x2F;2021&#x2F;new-data-on-covid-19-transmission-by-vaccinated-individuals" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;publichealth.jhu.edu&#x2F;2021&#x2F;new-data-on-covid-19-trans...</a></text></item><item><author>hvocode</author><text>I’m getting a little tired of articles or chats with people where you get the impression that people think the vaccines will create some sort of covid-proof bubble around them. This is the only explanation I can find for people acting surprised that vaccinated people get sick. The whole point was to prime the immune system so that when exposed, the likelihood of extreme effects would be drastically reduced. That’s it.<p>(E: I don’t get why people downvote this - all of the benefits of vaccination are precisely due to what I describe. Lower likelihood of individual bad outcomes, which reduces burdens on healthcare, and ideally, reduces community spread by reducing the amount of virus that replicates in an individual and can be passed on. This is why I was one of the first in line when I could get the vaccine. Perhaps daring to critique people with unrealistic vaccine expectations is unacceptable?)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>uh_uh</author><text>&gt; The vaccine only reduces symptoms (and might thus save yourself, or others, when extended with the hospital-bed-limit-thought), but it wouldn&#x27;t stop you from transmitting the disease if you are infected (and vaccinated) but you aren&#x27;t aware<p>Are you sure about that? Even this article refers to a study which says that vaccinated people are 5 times less likely to test positive than non-vaccinated. _Some_ asymptotic transmission will still occur in the vaccinated but it&#x27;s reasonable to expect that it happens to a lesser degree. I&#x27;d be very curious to see studies that claim that there&#x27;s no difference in asymptomatic transmission between the vaccinated and unvaccinated.</text></comment> | <story><title>I Got a 'Mild' Breakthrough Case</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/09/12/1036356773/i-got-a-mild-breakthrough-case-heres-what-i-wish-id-known</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TobTobXX</author><text>But all the regulations around us create this covid-proof impression.<p>Eg. where I live, hospitals consider introducing vaccination requirements for visitors. But that somehow defies logic. The vaccine only reduces symptoms (and might thus save yourself, or others, when extended with the hospital-bed-limit-thought), but it wouldn&#x27;t stop you from transmitting the disease if you are infected (and vaccinated) but you aren&#x27;t aware.<p>So I don&#x27;t even blame the public, but rather the regulators. They ought to know better.<p>Edit: I might need to support this claim.<p>The most trustworthy source I found was this article by the JHU [1] (2021-08-02). While there are many that claim different numbers (ranging from stopping roughly 60% to 0%), for transmission, no one claimed that virus infection is influenced.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;publichealth.jhu.edu&#x2F;2021&#x2F;new-data-on-covid-19-transmission-by-vaccinated-individuals" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;publichealth.jhu.edu&#x2F;2021&#x2F;new-data-on-covid-19-trans...</a></text></item><item><author>hvocode</author><text>I’m getting a little tired of articles or chats with people where you get the impression that people think the vaccines will create some sort of covid-proof bubble around them. This is the only explanation I can find for people acting surprised that vaccinated people get sick. The whole point was to prime the immune system so that when exposed, the likelihood of extreme effects would be drastically reduced. That’s it.<p>(E: I don’t get why people downvote this - all of the benefits of vaccination are precisely due to what I describe. Lower likelihood of individual bad outcomes, which reduces burdens on healthcare, and ideally, reduces community spread by reducing the amount of virus that replicates in an individual and can be passed on. This is why I was one of the first in line when I could get the vaccine. Perhaps daring to critique people with unrealistic vaccine expectations is unacceptable?)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thephyber</author><text>The vaccine does a reasonable job at reducing transmission in the aggregate. It lessens the average viral load, shortens the average time a person is infectious, etc.<p>Treating transmission as a boolean ignores the large-but-not-100-percent improvement. Better to treat it as a distribution.<p>I don’t see what you are blaming regulators for.</text></comment> |
34,630,333 | 34,630,314 | 1 | 2 | 34,628,933 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Suggestions for working effectively with junior devs?</title><text>I&#x27;m a senior dev at one of the FAANGs with more than 15 years of experience, but the rest of my team consists of devs with an average of 2 years of experience. At first when I joined, I thought this was an aberration, but there are many teams around me that are structured similarly. Is this how FAANGs try to scale teams? The devs on my team are smart but mostly naive about getting stuff done in the real world. I&#x27;m sure they&#x27;ll figure it out over time. But in the meantime, my days are quite frustrating because I&#x27;m in teaching mode most of the time instead of building stuff.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>slg</author><text>I never worked at a FAANG. Do these teams not have managers? Most of those responsibilities seem like the job of a manager. In my career, this approach of one senior person on a team of juniors means the senior is responsible for a lot of the system design and other high level technical decisions, but they wouldn&#x27;t be counted on for things like motivating other employees.</text></item><item><author>turdprincess</author><text>Unfortunately you will either need to change your attitude or change teams. In your position, the expectation is that you are mostly a working through others and acting as a force multiplier of their work. So doing stuff like:<p>* figuring out what motivate your juniors and trying to align that with what needs done<p>* giving them work which stretches their abilities but doesn&#x27;t overwhelm them<p>* giving them some space to fail but not too much<p>* grooming your juniors to be leaders themselves so they can do some of this mentorship<p>And in general, there are two ways to go. The first is to accept the fact that many senior engineering and most staff engineering gigs are more about this kind of mentorship approach than actually doing work. And basically accept that the prime &quot;getting shit done&quot; years of your career are done and you will mostly be working in this new way now.<p>The second is to change jobs where you are back in the driver seat. As a senior engineer, these positions DO exist even at FAANG (over on my team, I am the most junior with 12 years of experience). However, the more senior you get, the harder it is to find a role like this, especially in big tech - its the rare exception. Startups and consulting gigs probably better align with wanting to be hands on keyboard, but at the price of a paycut.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>turdprincess</author><text>I think in the end, it&#x27;s hard to separate technical leadership from human leadership. After you do your system design, you need to divy it up amongst the juniors to get it implemented. When deciding who gets what piece you have to consider what motivates them, what their strengths and weaknesses are, etc... But for sure your manager is helpful in figuring these things out.<p>At this level, your manager basically becomes your partner, with the same goal of getting the work done most effectively. Your domain is the technical, their&#x27;s is the human, but there is ton of overlap in the middle</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Suggestions for working effectively with junior devs?</title><text>I&#x27;m a senior dev at one of the FAANGs with more than 15 years of experience, but the rest of my team consists of devs with an average of 2 years of experience. At first when I joined, I thought this was an aberration, but there are many teams around me that are structured similarly. Is this how FAANGs try to scale teams? The devs on my team are smart but mostly naive about getting stuff done in the real world. I&#x27;m sure they&#x27;ll figure it out over time. But in the meantime, my days are quite frustrating because I&#x27;m in teaching mode most of the time instead of building stuff.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>slg</author><text>I never worked at a FAANG. Do these teams not have managers? Most of those responsibilities seem like the job of a manager. In my career, this approach of one senior person on a team of juniors means the senior is responsible for a lot of the system design and other high level technical decisions, but they wouldn&#x27;t be counted on for things like motivating other employees.</text></item><item><author>turdprincess</author><text>Unfortunately you will either need to change your attitude or change teams. In your position, the expectation is that you are mostly a working through others and acting as a force multiplier of their work. So doing stuff like:<p>* figuring out what motivate your juniors and trying to align that with what needs done<p>* giving them work which stretches their abilities but doesn&#x27;t overwhelm them<p>* giving them some space to fail but not too much<p>* grooming your juniors to be leaders themselves so they can do some of this mentorship<p>And in general, there are two ways to go. The first is to accept the fact that many senior engineering and most staff engineering gigs are more about this kind of mentorship approach than actually doing work. And basically accept that the prime &quot;getting shit done&quot; years of your career are done and you will mostly be working in this new way now.<p>The second is to change jobs where you are back in the driver seat. As a senior engineer, these positions DO exist even at FAANG (over on my team, I am the most junior with 12 years of experience). However, the more senior you get, the harder it is to find a role like this, especially in big tech - its the rare exception. Startups and consulting gigs probably better align with wanting to be hands on keyboard, but at the price of a paycut.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>britch</author><text>On my team at least there&#x27;s a grey area between managers responsibilities and Tech lead responsibilities.<p>Managers are ultimately responsible for getting tasks that stretch employees abilities, but also in my experience don&#x27;t have hands on the code. They&#x27;re usually dealing with politics around team priorities, goals, keeping people motivated, etc.<p>Managers rely on tech leads to identify work that needs to get done and would be a good fit for the newbie. Tech leads also have to teach newbies best practices, offer advice on designs, etc.<p>Managers are often technical (e.g. used to be programming daily), but are not actively writing code anymore.<p>I feel this is a bad situation for tech leads since they have to sort of manage, and do design work, and write code. Kind of a thankless job</text></comment> |
18,846,487 | 18,846,526 | 1 | 2 | 18,846,140 | train | <story><title>$1T is leaving Britain because of Brexit</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/07/investing/brexit-banks-moving-assets/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>myrandomcomment</author><text>No surprise. Passporting (allow banks to operate in all members of the EU if they are licensed in one member) is a key to all of the banks operations. Every bank based in London for that purpose now has to open a regulated branch in an EU member. The next thing to kill the market in London will be the movement of Euro clearing to an EU member. Brexit is a self inflicted shot to the head. The number of people that supported leave and lacked understanding of all the ties of the businesses that operate in the UK but sell in the EU was amazing. All the car manufacturing will be the next to move. There goes all the good jobs that the leave camp said were being stolen by immigration.<p>Edit: typo and to clarify I am not an UK or EU citizen, only outside observer of the train wreck.</text></comment> | <story><title>$1T is leaving Britain because of Brexit</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/07/investing/brexit-banks-moving-assets/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GreaterFool</author><text>&gt; have shifted at least £800 billion ($1 trillion) worth of assets out of the country<p>And what&#x27;s the significance of that? Suppose I had $100 in a bank in UK and I moved it to a bank in Germany. Neither country is better or worse because of that. The article doesn&#x27;t bother to explain the ramifications.<p>Deals are made in UK because English law is really, really good. Having to maintain offices in EU will surely increase the capital requirements of the banks but it&#x27;s not a straightforward &quot;Britain is XYZ poorer because banks shuffled some stuff around&quot; situation.</text></comment> |
21,240,538 | 21,240,331 | 1 | 2 | 21,240,223 | train | <story><title>Western firms kowtow to China's increasing economic clout</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/western-firms-kowtow-to-chinas-increasing-economic-clout/a-50797033</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>faitswulff</author><text>While the post goes over a few instances of companies that have acquiesced to China&#x27;s political views, this reddit post has a much larger list: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;HongKong&#x2F;comments&#x2F;dfg1ce&#x2F;list_of_companies_under_chinas_censorship_orders&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;HongKong&#x2F;comments&#x2F;dfg1ce&#x2F;list_of_co...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Western firms kowtow to China's increasing economic clout</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/western-firms-kowtow-to-chinas-increasing-economic-clout/a-50797033</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>htfu</author><text>&quot;Forced to&quot;, &quot;had to&quot; doesn&#x27;t strike me as appropriate language. These are choices - some in reaction to threats or bans but many entirely speculative&#x2F;pre-emptive.</text></comment> |
33,541,966 | 33,542,082 | 1 | 2 | 33,541,344 | train | <story><title>Sequoia has marked its investment in FTX down to $0</title><url>https://twitter.com/sequoia/status/1590522718650499073</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robswc</author><text>I actually talked to Sam for a bit in the &quot;early days&quot; and he always seemed like an OK guy. Approachable and &quot;honest&quot; which makes this all the worse... I kept asking &quot;why start an exchange when you&#x27;re killing it with Alameda?&quot; and his response seemed to consistently be about wanting to make a better product and legitimize crypto... ugh, don&#x27;t even know what to think now... if that was all a front.<p>It&#x27;s really odd to think because its always &quot;some guy in the news&quot; that gets bad press and demonized (not unjustly), never really someone you &quot;know of.&quot; (prob a lot of ppl w&#x2F;that experience hanging around HN tho, lol)<p>It&#x27;s just weird feelings but mostly just &quot;wtf man.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AlexandrB</author><text>&gt; ugh, don&#x27;t even know what to think now... if that was all a front.<p>It&#x27;s very easy to &quot;get high on your own supply&quot; and lose objectivity around what you&#x27;re doing and how likely it is to succeed. This doesn&#x27;t require malice either.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sequoia has marked its investment in FTX down to $0</title><url>https://twitter.com/sequoia/status/1590522718650499073</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robswc</author><text>I actually talked to Sam for a bit in the &quot;early days&quot; and he always seemed like an OK guy. Approachable and &quot;honest&quot; which makes this all the worse... I kept asking &quot;why start an exchange when you&#x27;re killing it with Alameda?&quot; and his response seemed to consistently be about wanting to make a better product and legitimize crypto... ugh, don&#x27;t even know what to think now... if that was all a front.<p>It&#x27;s really odd to think because its always &quot;some guy in the news&quot; that gets bad press and demonized (not unjustly), never really someone you &quot;know of.&quot; (prob a lot of ppl w&#x2F;that experience hanging around HN tho, lol)<p>It&#x27;s just weird feelings but mostly just &quot;wtf man.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cryptoanon</author><text>Alameda messed up in the same way that three arrows did. That’s not necessarily Sam’s fault, because he did not run Alameda at the time. However, it seems like you build them out by providing them with a ton of FTT collateral so he’s pretty much complicit.</text></comment> |
14,125,338 | 14,125,183 | 1 | 3 | 14,124,294 | train | <story><title>Chrome 55-57 showed “download” button for all HTML5 media</title><url>https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=675596</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtanski</author><text>Is there an extension that brings this button back?<p>I know publishers hate this, but publishers don&#x27;t exactly have a good track record of treating their user well. Non-copyable text, hijacking right click. Regardless of how they feel it&#x27;s all workaroundable (inspect) but still a hostile user experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jug</author><text>I use to ensure devtools &gt; Networking is open when I press play (or reload the tab if it&#x27;s autoplaying). If it&#x27;s streaming the timeline should make it obvious which resource it&#x27;s about. Then just right click on the item and &quot;Open in new tab&quot; or even Save (I don&#x27;t remember if it&#x27;s an option). When in a new tab, just save the page as the page will be the media file itself.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chrome 55-57 showed “download” button for all HTML5 media</title><url>https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=675596</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtanski</author><text>Is there an extension that brings this button back?<p>I know publishers hate this, but publishers don&#x27;t exactly have a good track record of treating their user well. Non-copyable text, hijacking right click. Regardless of how they feel it&#x27;s all workaroundable (inspect) but still a hostile user experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Melk</author><text>&gt;publishers don&#x27;t exactly have a good track record of treating their user well<p>That&#x27;s an overly broad and vague statement to excuse entitlement. I&#x27;m fine with downloading content that&#x27;s publicly available, but not because &quot;they had it coming.&quot;</text></comment> |
6,025,310 | 6,025,194 | 1 | 2 | 6,025,010 | train | <story><title>For first time ever, feds asked to sit out Defcon hacker conference</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/07/for-first-time-ever-feds-asked-to-sit-out-defcon-hacker-conference/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wrath</author><text>If they are going to ban the feds from attending the conference, are they going to ban the contractors who are working with the feds also? I imagine that the majority of the &quot;security and hacking&quot; type work is not done directly by the feds but by their contractor (e.g. in Snowden&#x27;s case he was not working for the NSA but for Booz Allen Hamilton).<p>If they are just banning the feds then I think this is just a press stunt since it won&#x27;t change a single thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>For first time ever, feds asked to sit out Defcon hacker conference</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/07/for-first-time-ever-feds-asked-to-sit-out-defcon-hacker-conference/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DanielRibeiro</author><text>Long HN discussion on this: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6024094" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6024094</a></text></comment> |
29,564,366 | 29,564,372 | 1 | 3 | 29,563,781 | train | <story><title>Myocarditis associated with Covid-19 compared to mRNA vaccines</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01630-0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ppaattrriicckk</author><text>This probably sounds harsh, but are all vaccine-bashing readers deliberately selectively-illiterate?
In the abstract (academic for &quot;TL;DR&quot;) it literally states that Covid is between 7 and 40 times more likely to cause Myocarditis.<p>And a lot of you write about palpitations, which can also be caused by stress and anxiety. I&#x27;m 30, in good physical shape, and used to have weekly episodes with irregular heartbeats due to severe stress. Now I&#x27;m vaccinated (which is for 99.999% of us obviously completely irrelevant to experiencing this, but a lot of commenters draw that conclusion) and the palpitations are gone. Let&#x27;s not base conclusion on anecdotal evidence, please. For the same reason that my grandpa lived until 85 while smoking since he was 13.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Argonaut998</author><text>&gt;it literally states that Covid is between 7 and 40 times more likely to cause Myocarditis.<p>There is no control group for unvaccinated people in this study. Everyone who got myocarditis from COVID had at least one dose of the vaccine. So the correct statement is &quot;COVID is between 7 and 40 times more likely to cause myocarditis IF you have gotten at least one dose of the vaccine&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Myocarditis associated with Covid-19 compared to mRNA vaccines</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01630-0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ppaattrriicckk</author><text>This probably sounds harsh, but are all vaccine-bashing readers deliberately selectively-illiterate?
In the abstract (academic for &quot;TL;DR&quot;) it literally states that Covid is between 7 and 40 times more likely to cause Myocarditis.<p>And a lot of you write about palpitations, which can also be caused by stress and anxiety. I&#x27;m 30, in good physical shape, and used to have weekly episodes with irregular heartbeats due to severe stress. Now I&#x27;m vaccinated (which is for 99.999% of us obviously completely irrelevant to experiencing this, but a lot of commenters draw that conclusion) and the palpitations are gone. Let&#x27;s not base conclusion on anecdotal evidence, please. For the same reason that my grandpa lived until 85 while smoking since he was 13.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>&gt; are all vaccine-bashing readers deliberately selectively-illiterate?<p>Yes, that&#x27;s how discourse is done these days: text is a corpus from which you select the statements that support your position and discard the rest.</text></comment> |
32,036,587 | 32,021,681 | 1 | 2 | 32,018,459 | train | <story><title>Astrofox – Turn Audio into Videos</title><url>https://astrofox.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcao</author><text>Hi everybody, I&#x27;m the creator of Astrofox. Surprised to see this here, but I&#x27;ll be glad to answer any questions.<p>Astrofox has been my side project for several years now. It&#x27;s basically my playground for trying out things like Electron, React and WebGL. It&#x27;s open-source, MIT licensed, and totally free to use.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hippich</author><text>Thank you so much for that! Finally something to make visuals when sharing on video sites!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=TzQt11AOslQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=TzQt11AOslQ</a><p>This one took less than 20 minutes from scratch (never seen this app before) (rendering into 4k is another story - it is hours very slow, which is probably understandable with web rendering involved.)<p>Quick skim reveals it uses React and WebGL shaders to create these effects. React part is easy. Is there something recommended I could read about shaders in order to be able to contribute objects&#x2F;effects to Astrofox?</text></comment> | <story><title>Astrofox – Turn Audio into Videos</title><url>https://astrofox.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcao</author><text>Hi everybody, I&#x27;m the creator of Astrofox. Surprised to see this here, but I&#x27;ll be glad to answer any questions.<p>Astrofox has been my side project for several years now. It&#x27;s basically my playground for trying out things like Electron, React and WebGL. It&#x27;s open-source, MIT licensed, and totally free to use.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mike_d</author><text>Incredibly cool. I&#x27;ve always wondered what tool was used to make the visuals associated with pretty much every DJ set uploaded to YouTube.</text></comment> |
14,483,405 | 14,483,236 | 1 | 2 | 14,482,828 | train | <story><title>Convert a markdown manuscript to pdf/epub/mobi e-books</title><url>http://chrisanthropic.github.io/Open-Publisher-Documentation/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>imroot</author><text>Have you looked at Softcover?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;softcover&#x2F;softcover&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;softcover&#x2F;softcover&#x2F;</a><p>I&#x27;ve used this for runbooks and it&#x27;s awesome -- you always have an up-to-date copy of the runbook on your phone, and if you&#x27;re using google&#x2F;apple device management, you can remove them once your employee has left.</text></comment> | <story><title>Convert a markdown manuscript to pdf/epub/mobi e-books</title><url>http://chrisanthropic.github.io/Open-Publisher-Documentation/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ageitgey</author><text>Thanks for sharing. My humble feedback would be that the website and README would be much more helpful however if they showed pictures of sample output. That&#x27;s the main thing we want to see :-)</text></comment> |
3,244,964 | 3,244,997 | 2 | 3 | 3,243,993 | train | <story><title>The Rootkit Of All Evil – CIQ</title><url>http://www.xda-developers.com/android/the-rootkit-of-all-evil-ciq/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JonnieCache</author><text>Ah, and just as I read this, I find that cyanogenmod for the galaxy s has recently become stable. I now have a hot date with an exploitable bootloader.<p>I've been running some sort of dodgy leaked nightly build from samsung that doesn't have any carrier shite on it since I got the thing, so maybe it hasn't been there all along. Either way it's high time for some new firmware.<p>As others have said here, you can remove this stuff all you want, all you're doing is shutting off the simplistic application layer backdoors. There is absolutely nothing you can do about the backdoors built into the baseband firmware itself, which is what law enforcement agencies use.<p>Well, absolutely nothing except flashing your own open source baseband firmware from the fine folks at the OsmocomBB project. Unfortunately that project only targets a very small set of simple featurephones, which won't do much to excite HN types. What may whet your appetite however, is the possibility to inject arbitrary packets straight into the GSM network! The possibilites for fun, learning, and prison time are endless.<p><a href="http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/" rel="nofollow">http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/</a><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0LCgxe24Po" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0LCgxe24Po</a> [27C3: Running your own GSM stack on a phone]</text></comment> | <story><title>The Rootkit Of All Evil – CIQ</title><url>http://www.xda-developers.com/android/the-rootkit-of-all-evil-ciq/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blub</author><text>Where is the proof that this software is installed onto phones other than Android? I would like to know what made them say that it's installed on Nokias for instance...<p>Also, is this something that is US-only?</text></comment> |
6,653,242 | 6,653,010 | 1 | 2 | 6,652,790 | train | <story><title>Don't use autofill in your browser</title><url>http://yoast.com/autocomplete-security/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AndrewDucker</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t seem to be an issue in Firefox, as far as I can tell. Certainly didn&#x27;t fill any other fields for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tobu</author><text>Even if it showed you the fields, it wouldn&#x27;t be conclusive proof of a privacy leak. Firefox shows links visited without exposing that property outside of render context: <a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2010/03/31/plugging-the-css-history-leak/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozilla.org&#x2F;security&#x2F;2010&#x2F;03&#x2F;31&#x2F;plugging-the-cs...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Don't use autofill in your browser</title><url>http://yoast.com/autocomplete-security/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AndrewDucker</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t seem to be an issue in Firefox, as far as I can tell. Certainly didn&#x27;t fill any other fields for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dijit</author><text>I have the same results.<p>Doesn&#x27;t matter what I picked in autocomplete, nothing else was submitted.<p>(firefox 24 on linux)</text></comment> |
17,216,073 | 17,215,124 | 1 | 3 | 17,214,025 | train | <story><title>Why We Engage in FLOSS: Answers from Core Developers</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05741</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KirinDave</author><text>I&#x27;ve never understood it. I&#x27;ve only had horrific experiences with my open source efforts. From the simplest cases like being ignored on PRs and tickets to mockery in social circles for algorithmic mistakes to finding out my work was enabling bad people to finding out people were misrepresenting my employment status while using my work in violation of the license, I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever once had a positive experience with open source as a producer. Hell, I never even knew my extensions to the clojure time library were even being used until another maintainer who had added some incremental stuff over my work disappeared.<p>I wish I could go back in time and tell my younger self it was all a waste of time and I shouldn&#x27;t do it. Maybe then I could be more positive about it now that I&#x27;m better at writing software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>x3yyy</author><text>You have had a lot of negative responses (unjustified in my opinion), so I hope my comment makes it through.<p>I have written two medium sized projects, one of which is quite popular.<p>I had great fun <i>writing</i> the software, but maintaining it in public is hell. OSS has turned into a popularity contest, with people associating themselves with projects quite publicly (conference talks) but doing little work.<p>Generally, there is little respect for creators, a lot of useless bickering and talking and self promotion.<p>I&#x27;ve come to the same conclusion that it is a waste of time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why We Engage in FLOSS: Answers from Core Developers</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05741</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KirinDave</author><text>I&#x27;ve never understood it. I&#x27;ve only had horrific experiences with my open source efforts. From the simplest cases like being ignored on PRs and tickets to mockery in social circles for algorithmic mistakes to finding out my work was enabling bad people to finding out people were misrepresenting my employment status while using my work in violation of the license, I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever once had a positive experience with open source as a producer. Hell, I never even knew my extensions to the clojure time library were even being used until another maintainer who had added some incremental stuff over my work disappeared.<p>I wish I could go back in time and tell my younger self it was all a waste of time and I shouldn&#x27;t do it. Maybe then I could be more positive about it now that I&#x27;m better at writing software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jancsika</author><text>&gt; From the simplest cases like being ignored on PRs and tickets [...]<p>Yes, that&#x27;s unfortunately a big problem in FLOSS. It will take a big effort to change that. But I think there are some communities who take mentorship seriously that are incrementally improving this.<p>&gt; to mockery in social circles for algorithmic mistakes [...]<p>That&#x27;s 100% unacceptable.<p>Did this happen on a public mailing list? If so, can you post a link?<p>&gt; to finding out my work was enabling bad people [...]<p>I can&#x27;t figure out what this would mean, or how it is relevant to open source as opposed to proprietary software.<p>&gt; to finding out people were misrepresenting my employment status while using my work in violation of the license, I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever once had a positive experience with open source as a producer.<p>Those last two seem exceptional. But you should report the person who was mocking you for making a mistake. That kind of behavior has no place in FLOSS and should be stamped out.</text></comment> |
14,217,947 | 14,217,751 | 1 | 3 | 14,215,616 | train | <story><title>Instead of containers, give me strong config and deploy primitives</title><url>https://abe-winter.github.io/blues/2017/04/27/config-vs-containers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shitloadofbooks</author><text>As an Ops guy, I preach Ansible + systemd all day everyday, but so many of our Devs (and Ops) have drunk the containerization Kool-aid.<p>Unfortunately, the same culture which fucked modern web design (a new JS framework every 6 months) is starting to creep into Ops; some REALLY smart people make a tool which promises to be X but with X&#x27;s main problem solved. They do the easy 80% and then abandon the project when the hard 20% needs to be fixed (and forget documentation).</text></item><item><author>erulabs</author><text>So... systemd + Ansible?<p>I really disliked SystemD before I got my hands dirty with it. Assuming you&#x27;re developing with any modern language, the language itself probably wraps OS differences anyways (Node &#x2F; Golang &#x2F; Rust &#x2F; Ruby &#x2F; Python &#x2F; anything-libUV-based to name a few), not like you can convince developers to change their habits anyways.<p>People act like Docker makes builds reproducible by magic, then go on to not pin any Golang deps or curl internet resources or not generate lockfiles for NPM, ad infinitum.<p>There is and never will be a shield operations people can put around their developers. You just need good developers. If you want SoA scaling or automatic cloud configuration, why not just use the most established tools available? Linux&#x27;s init system and kernel _already do_ resource management, even outside of LXC. People act like a &quot;cloud scheduler&quot; is the only thing that lets multiple processes work together.<p>This whole idea of isolation is also really inane. Each app will have different disk, io, network, cpu requirements. I also dream of the day Kubernetes can do this &quot;sorting&quot; better than an experienced operations team can, but that day is _far off_ (and I will die before I put redis&#x2F;mysql&#x2F;postgres&#x2F;cassandra&#x2F;any-other-mature-datastore behind docker and iptables)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_pmf_</author><text>&gt; They do the easy 80% and then abandon the project when the hard 20% needs to be fixed (and forget documentation).<p>That&#x27;s a nice summary. The 2nd level ignorance of those people is astounding.<p>Oh, sure, write the 618th package manager, I&#x27;m sure you&#x27;ll be the one who finally gets it right.</text></comment> | <story><title>Instead of containers, give me strong config and deploy primitives</title><url>https://abe-winter.github.io/blues/2017/04/27/config-vs-containers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shitloadofbooks</author><text>As an Ops guy, I preach Ansible + systemd all day everyday, but so many of our Devs (and Ops) have drunk the containerization Kool-aid.<p>Unfortunately, the same culture which fucked modern web design (a new JS framework every 6 months) is starting to creep into Ops; some REALLY smart people make a tool which promises to be X but with X&#x27;s main problem solved. They do the easy 80% and then abandon the project when the hard 20% needs to be fixed (and forget documentation).</text></item><item><author>erulabs</author><text>So... systemd + Ansible?<p>I really disliked SystemD before I got my hands dirty with it. Assuming you&#x27;re developing with any modern language, the language itself probably wraps OS differences anyways (Node &#x2F; Golang &#x2F; Rust &#x2F; Ruby &#x2F; Python &#x2F; anything-libUV-based to name a few), not like you can convince developers to change their habits anyways.<p>People act like Docker makes builds reproducible by magic, then go on to not pin any Golang deps or curl internet resources or not generate lockfiles for NPM, ad infinitum.<p>There is and never will be a shield operations people can put around their developers. You just need good developers. If you want SoA scaling or automatic cloud configuration, why not just use the most established tools available? Linux&#x27;s init system and kernel _already do_ resource management, even outside of LXC. People act like a &quot;cloud scheduler&quot; is the only thing that lets multiple processes work together.<p>This whole idea of isolation is also really inane. Each app will have different disk, io, network, cpu requirements. I also dream of the day Kubernetes can do this &quot;sorting&quot; better than an experienced operations team can, but that day is _far off_ (and I will die before I put redis&#x2F;mysql&#x2F;postgres&#x2F;cassandra&#x2F;any-other-mature-datastore behind docker and iptables)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roryrjb</author><text>I&#x27;ve been exploring Docker lately, but I&#x27;ve just launched a small project using Ansible and systemd, much much simpler to setup and deploy updates.</text></comment> |
15,467,108 | 15,466,943 | 1 | 2 | 15,466,560 | train | <story><title>Google is building an anti-Amazon alliance, and Target is the latest to join</title><url>https://www.recode.net/2017/10/12/16464132/google-target-retailers-amazon-walmart-assistant-alexa-home-echo-augmented-reality</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>viperscape</author><text>With that said, I’m really irked that amazon is using “private” shipping companies, I’m tired of seeing joe schmoes ring my bell in their Honda Civic or uhaul rental van, with my goods, my address, and seeing my house and family. They even take pictures with cell phone of package at door, wtf. Is there any background check, nope. Stick to a professional shipping company and not fly by night, random folks please</text></item><item><author>hbosch</author><text>If I order toilet paper via my Google Home, where does it come from? Wal Mart or Target? How long for shipping? If they send me dog food instead, how do I get in touch with customer service? Is it Google&#x27;s customer service or Target&#x27;s?<p>I don&#x27;t see how this is a threat to Amazon. People don&#x27;t shop there because they have voice -- they shop there because I can Prime myself anything in 2 days or less and if it&#x27;s messed up I can talk to a human being and find out why. I&#x27;d hate to try and get the same kind of service via Google and Target.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>glibgil</author><text>Random folks doing odd jobs is good. It puts responsibility back on society. Rather than background checks done by an employer, we should regulate industry. The equivalent of a food handlers license for customer privacy and safety for Uber drivers, Amazon delivers and Walmart greeters and even your bank manager and CPA would be better for society</text></comment> | <story><title>Google is building an anti-Amazon alliance, and Target is the latest to join</title><url>https://www.recode.net/2017/10/12/16464132/google-target-retailers-amazon-walmart-assistant-alexa-home-echo-augmented-reality</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>viperscape</author><text>With that said, I’m really irked that amazon is using “private” shipping companies, I’m tired of seeing joe schmoes ring my bell in their Honda Civic or uhaul rental van, with my goods, my address, and seeing my house and family. They even take pictures with cell phone of package at door, wtf. Is there any background check, nope. Stick to a professional shipping company and not fly by night, random folks please</text></item><item><author>hbosch</author><text>If I order toilet paper via my Google Home, where does it come from? Wal Mart or Target? How long for shipping? If they send me dog food instead, how do I get in touch with customer service? Is it Google&#x27;s customer service or Target&#x27;s?<p>I don&#x27;t see how this is a threat to Amazon. People don&#x27;t shop there because they have voice -- they shop there because I can Prime myself anything in 2 days or less and if it&#x27;s messed up I can talk to a human being and find out why. I&#x27;d hate to try and get the same kind of service via Google and Target.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colordrops</author><text>Have you had any actual problems with these &quot;fly by night&quot; shipping companies? Do &quot;schmoes&quot; not work at Fedex and UPS?</text></comment> |
15,422,849 | 15,422,855 | 1 | 2 | 15,422,728 | train | <story><title>Adafruit acquires RadioShack?</title><url>https://twitter.com/adafruit/status/916473322203992064</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ianpenney</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure the title is 100% true. I think they just bought a framed stock certificate at an auction. Likely, Kensington Capital still owns the RadioShack brand.<p>Sources:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-radioshack-kensingtoncapital&#x2F;radioshack-brand-to-survive-under-new-owner-sources-idUSKBN1A427F" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-radioshack-kensingtoncapi...</a><p>- <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ubidestates.hibid.com&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;103245&#x2F;radioshack-auction--1&#x2F;?q=framed" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ubidestates.hibid.com&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;103245&#x2F;radioshack-aucti...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>obrajesse</author><text>Given that Adafruit is retweeting things like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;danielphippsaus&#x2F;status&#x2F;916508668132073472" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;danielphippsaus&#x2F;status&#x2F;91650866813207347...</a>, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to believe that they’re saying they bought RadioShack.<p>Indeed, the company is a husk of its former self and has already sold off most of its assets.</text></comment> | <story><title>Adafruit acquires RadioShack?</title><url>https://twitter.com/adafruit/status/916473322203992064</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ianpenney</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure the title is 100% true. I think they just bought a framed stock certificate at an auction. Likely, Kensington Capital still owns the RadioShack brand.<p>Sources:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-radioshack-kensingtoncapital&#x2F;radioshack-brand-to-survive-under-new-owner-sources-idUSKBN1A427F" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-radioshack-kensingtoncapi...</a><p>- <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ubidestates.hibid.com&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;103245&#x2F;radioshack-auction--1&#x2F;?q=framed" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ubidestates.hibid.com&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;103245&#x2F;radioshack-aucti...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wickberg</author><text>Indeed, it does look like the set she&#x27;s holding is one of three that were sold in the auction. If Adafruit has actually acquired the brand, this is certainly an odd way to go about announcing it. I could see this having been a joke that&#x27;s now gotten misinterpreted.<p>But, if so, the @adafruit twitter account is definitely further confusing things.</text></comment> |
6,421,791 | 6,421,567 | 1 | 2 | 6,421,448 | train | <story><title>Apple’s iPhone 5 touchscreen is 2.5 times faster than Android devices</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/19/apples-iphone-5-touchscreen-is-2-5-times-faster-than-android-devices/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kyro</author><text>I&#x27;m so glad to see actual numbers for this. Time and time again I&#x27;ve been called delusional for saying that Android devices have more observable lag than iPhones. It is a very, very small component of the overall device and OS that has an enormous affect on the overall user experience, at least to me. It doesn&#x27;t seem to be that big a deal to many as evident by phone sales, but it drives me absolutely nuts and is the main reason why I won&#x27;t make the switch to Android.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>doomlaser</author><text>For comparison, here&#x27;s another set of benchmarks from a guy who appears to use the same methodology (240fps camera, count frames between input and screen response in custom lightweight apps).<p><a href="http://www.collectingsmiles.com/news/measuring-latency-in-colors-why-game-devices-are-better-for-games-than-smart-phones-2/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.collectingsmiles.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;measuring-latency-in-co...</a><p>iPhone 5: 81 ms<p>Galaxy S3: 104 ms<p>Galaxy Note: 71 ms<p>Nintendo 3DS: 23 ms<p>PS Vita: 49 ms<p>And, to add a tv game console into the mix, apparently the latency between input on a PS3 wireless controller and home screen interaction is also about 50 ms.<p><a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3725/measuring_responsiveness_in_video_.php?print=1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gamasutra.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;feature&#x2F;3725&#x2F;measuring_respons...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Apple’s iPhone 5 touchscreen is 2.5 times faster than Android devices</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/19/apples-iphone-5-touchscreen-is-2-5-times-faster-than-android-devices/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kyro</author><text>I&#x27;m so glad to see actual numbers for this. Time and time again I&#x27;ve been called delusional for saying that Android devices have more observable lag than iPhones. It is a very, very small component of the overall device and OS that has an enormous affect on the overall user experience, at least to me. It doesn&#x27;t seem to be that big a deal to many as evident by phone sales, but it drives me absolutely nuts and is the main reason why I won&#x27;t make the switch to Android.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kmfrk</author><text>On the other hand, I have rolled my eyes at people like Gruber who went on and on about how the iPad is totes for creation and not just consumption, and how styli are stupid - after spending time with my iPad and trying to draw and &quot;touch write&quot; in apps myself.<p>Apple makes great devices, and I wouldn&#x27;t use any other phone and tablet, but I think people like Gruber have been completely blind to the technological shortcomings of iOS devices in this area, because Steve Jobs told them styli are stupid, and the iPad is going to disrupt this-and-that.<p>It also brings up the whole &quot;to stylus or not to stylus&quot; discussion again, because one of the main reasons you wouldn&#x27;t want to use a stylus for an iPad is that it highlights just how (comparatively) poor the touch latency is for the tasks that lend themselves to work with styli.<p>It perhaps best underscores that iPads are very much - still - disruptive technology, which by definition is in many ways inferior than sustaining technologies, but makes up for it in other compelling ways.<p>It&#x27;s one of the many reminders that we shouldn&#x27;t get too busy throwing out everything paper and analogue. Disruption is not synonymous with obviation.</text></comment> |
10,947,160 | 10,946,676 | 1 | 3 | 10,944,558 | train | <story><title>As Angel Investors Pull Back, Valuations Take a Hit</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/as-angel-investors-pull-back-valuations-take-a-hit-1453337982</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gmarx</author><text>Whenever I see articles about how easily the investment money flows or had flowed all I can think of, from a purely self-centered point of view, is &quot;what kind of loser am I that I have never been able to raise a single round?&quot; Seriously, my ideas aren&#x27;t objectively stupider than the ones I see funded. Even in this article, I mean, home eye exams? Did I read that right? How about a startup that will come to your house and groom your dog? These can be good businesses but are they on topic when we&#x27;re talking about the angel investment environment? Apparently so. Not that I&#x27;m bitter (stop being bitter, dammit!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>staunch</author><text>It took me a long time to figure this out, because no one tells you, but it&#x27;s actually very simple. There are two ways people raise money in Silicon Valley:<p>1. Traction (rapid week-over-week growth, significant press)<p>2. Reputation (elite background, connections)<p>It&#x27;s very easy to get some <i>initial</i> traction for these local services businesses, so investors fall for them easily. They lose money on every transaction but will make it up in volume ala Kozmo.com, Pink Dot, etc.<p>Despite the fairytales, no one actually invests in technology startups based on their products in Silicon Valley. Really, no one.<p>Oculus VR is a great example of the kind of business that investors had no interest in. They reluctantly jumped on the bandwagon very late, and only after it had lots of traction. Very few investors were interested in SpaceX or Tesla. That&#x27;s how bad Silicon valley investors are at what they do. It&#x27;s an industry ripe for disruption (see: YC).</text></comment> | <story><title>As Angel Investors Pull Back, Valuations Take a Hit</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/as-angel-investors-pull-back-valuations-take-a-hit-1453337982</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gmarx</author><text>Whenever I see articles about how easily the investment money flows or had flowed all I can think of, from a purely self-centered point of view, is &quot;what kind of loser am I that I have never been able to raise a single round?&quot; Seriously, my ideas aren&#x27;t objectively stupider than the ones I see funded. Even in this article, I mean, home eye exams? Did I read that right? How about a startup that will come to your house and groom your dog? These can be good businesses but are they on topic when we&#x27;re talking about the angel investment environment? Apparently so. Not that I&#x27;m bitter (stop being bitter, dammit!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>subdane</author><text>As a founder who has raised both angel and institutional $$, these articles can have the same effect on me. For nearly everyone, raising money is hard, especially in the beginning. Uber had trouble closing its first money. There&#x27;s a lot of luck, hard work and network involved in getting $$ in. The first money is less about idea and more about reputation and hustle.</text></comment> |
27,523,439 | 27,523,423 | 1 | 3 | 27,520,496 | train | <story><title>We’re no longer naming suspects in minor crime stories</title><url>https://blog.ap.org/behind-the-news/why-were-no-longer-naming-suspects-in-minor-crime-stories</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>catillac</author><text>It sounds like the reason was to not perpetuate stereotypes, and in general caucasian people don’t seem to have that stereotype as far as I can tell. Whether they would have posted it or not is unclear, but if their only reason for not posting was as to not perpetuate stereotypes and the offender wasn’t living under that stereotype…</text></item><item><author>beervirus</author><text>If he’d been white, does anyone doubt that his description would have been published?</text></item><item><author>xsmasher</author><text>Withholding the description reasonable if it is so vague as to be useless. &quot;Black male, 18-35&quot; is not useful or actionable information.<p>If it&#x27;s a more detailed description, and the shooter was still at large, then I agree with you.</text></item><item><author>xibalba</author><text>This is an interesting (and confounding) topic.<p>On a corollary note, Austin recently experienced a mass shooting in a popular Downton area. 14 people were shot. One died. Another is paralyzed. The local paper of record explicitly declined to publish the description of the suspects as released by the police so as to not &quot;perpetuate stereotypes&quot;. The question I have is, what is the obligation to report the facts of a story, regardless of consequence? My belief is that reporting should report all the facts and let the chips fall where they may. But I also understand that reasonable people can disagree. (In this case, it seemed unreasonable to me as one shooter was still at large.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gotoeleven</author><text>Do other regular black people appreciate when newspapers do this? Anyone with half a brain knows what it means when the newspaper declines to describe a suspect. It seems like it will both not have the intended effect of &quot;not perpetuating stereotypes&quot; and signal to everyone else that black people need special treatment. It seems entirely worse in every respect.</text></comment> | <story><title>We’re no longer naming suspects in minor crime stories</title><url>https://blog.ap.org/behind-the-news/why-were-no-longer-naming-suspects-in-minor-crime-stories</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>catillac</author><text>It sounds like the reason was to not perpetuate stereotypes, and in general caucasian people don’t seem to have that stereotype as far as I can tell. Whether they would have posted it or not is unclear, but if their only reason for not posting was as to not perpetuate stereotypes and the offender wasn’t living under that stereotype…</text></item><item><author>beervirus</author><text>If he’d been white, does anyone doubt that his description would have been published?</text></item><item><author>xsmasher</author><text>Withholding the description reasonable if it is so vague as to be useless. &quot;Black male, 18-35&quot; is not useful or actionable information.<p>If it&#x27;s a more detailed description, and the shooter was still at large, then I agree with you.</text></item><item><author>xibalba</author><text>This is an interesting (and confounding) topic.<p>On a corollary note, Austin recently experienced a mass shooting in a popular Downton area. 14 people were shot. One died. Another is paralyzed. The local paper of record explicitly declined to publish the description of the suspects as released by the police so as to not &quot;perpetuate stereotypes&quot;. The question I have is, what is the obligation to report the facts of a story, regardless of consequence? My belief is that reporting should report all the facts and let the chips fall where they may. But I also understand that reasonable people can disagree. (In this case, it seemed unreasonable to me as one shooter was still at large.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cronix</author><text>Chicken or egg?<p>I&#x27;m inclined to think that the way the stereotypes were started and then perpetuated to begin with was they reported the persons color in news stories for decades for everyone who basically <i>wasn&#x27;t</i> white. Couldn&#x27;t artificially focusing on any particular group or groups eventually lead to a stereotype if you aren&#x27;t reporting on the others equally?</text></comment> |
13,359,892 | 13,358,843 | 1 | 2 | 13,354,852 | train | <story><title>Just how smart is an octopus?</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/just-how-smart-is-an-octopus/2017/01/06/a2f1ed22-acd0-11e6-8b45-f8e493f06fcd_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>komali2</author><text>Total anecdote here, but when I volunteered at our aquarium in Charleston, SC (amazing aquarium, go check it out), we had a problem where our flounder were vanishing from their tank. We suspected theft and so put a camera up in the back room. The next time flounder disappeared we checked the feed - one of our octopi was escaping from his tank that we thought we had already anti-octopus&#x27;d, climbing over the walls, breaking into the flounder tank, eating a flounder, and then <i>breaking back out of the flounder tank and back into his</i>.<p>The weird thing isn&#x27;t that he went to go eat a flounder, it&#x27;s that he broke back into his own tank after, leaving us scratching our head for weeks over where the flounder were going. Obviously if we came in one day to see an octopus in the flounder tank the mystery would be solved day 1.<p>Anyway we put carpet on the walls so his little suckers couldn&#x27;t stick and let him carouse around the aquarium like some sort of aquatic monkey.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>Presumably he (or she?) wanted to go back to his own tank to get the regular food. Frankly I think you should take the carpet down - OK you don&#x27;t want to keep losing flounder, but if the guy can wander around and climb out of his own tank you should be <i>studying that</i>, not trying to make the behavior go away. If nothing else, it&#x27;s cruel to bore him like that. Yes, I&#x27;m serious.</text></comment> | <story><title>Just how smart is an octopus?</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/just-how-smart-is-an-octopus/2017/01/06/a2f1ed22-acd0-11e6-8b45-f8e493f06fcd_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>komali2</author><text>Total anecdote here, but when I volunteered at our aquarium in Charleston, SC (amazing aquarium, go check it out), we had a problem where our flounder were vanishing from their tank. We suspected theft and so put a camera up in the back room. The next time flounder disappeared we checked the feed - one of our octopi was escaping from his tank that we thought we had already anti-octopus&#x27;d, climbing over the walls, breaking into the flounder tank, eating a flounder, and then <i>breaking back out of the flounder tank and back into his</i>.<p>The weird thing isn&#x27;t that he went to go eat a flounder, it&#x27;s that he broke back into his own tank after, leaving us scratching our head for weeks over where the flounder were going. Obviously if we came in one day to see an octopus in the flounder tank the mystery would be solved day 1.<p>Anyway we put carpet on the walls so his little suckers couldn&#x27;t stick and let him carouse around the aquarium like some sort of aquatic monkey.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rgbrenner</author><text><i>he broke back into his own tank after</i><p>Octopus have dens that they only leave to eat and mate. they always return to their den after, and they only move every few weeks. So wouldnt that be normal behavior?<p>I guess he could have moved his den to the flounder tank.. but maybe he just found out where it was, and caught him before he decided where to move to. or maybe there was something about the flounder tank that made it difficult to find a good spot.</text></comment> |
6,867,914 | 6,867,859 | 1 | 2 | 6,867,503 | train | <story><title>Google’s $179 Moto G puts every single cheap Android phone to shame</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/12/review-googles-179-moto-g-puts-every-single-cheap-android-phone-to-shame/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justin66</author><text>If Google&#x27;s plan is to leave the high-end of smartphones to its Android &quot;partners&quot; and stake out the low end with Motorola, that seems pretty smart. Its partners get to keep the high-margin hardware business that Google doesn&#x27;t need anyway, Google puts a floor on how bad the low-end phones can be and still make it to market. And yeah, Google isn&#x27;t in the position of competing with companies that it needs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cabbeer</author><text>The divide between &quot;High end&quot; and &quot;Low end&quot; devices is beginning to blur. The improvements to high end devices are providing diminishing returns, while all the &quot;essentials&quot; have trickled down to low end devices.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google’s $179 Moto G puts every single cheap Android phone to shame</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/12/review-googles-179-moto-g-puts-every-single-cheap-android-phone-to-shame/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justin66</author><text>If Google&#x27;s plan is to leave the high-end of smartphones to its Android &quot;partners&quot; and stake out the low end with Motorola, that seems pretty smart. Its partners get to keep the high-margin hardware business that Google doesn&#x27;t need anyway, Google puts a floor on how bad the low-end phones can be and still make it to market. And yeah, Google isn&#x27;t in the position of competing with companies that it needs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>naner</author><text>The Moto X and Google&#x27;s own Nexus series appear to be pretty high end. I don&#x27;t think this is their plan at all.</text></comment> |
21,561,529 | 21,561,293 | 1 | 2 | 21,559,918 | train | <story><title>Why 50 Ohms?</title><url>https://www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedias/why-fifty-ohms</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>XorNot</author><text>Trying to figure out what pipe to ask for when I have the physical measurements in hand is one of the ongoing mysteries of the world for me. &quot;Oh that pipe is &lt;some number you will not get with any type of measuring tool&gt;&quot; is one of the most bizarre conventions out there.<p>That said, this isn&#x27;t even the only place it turns up - there are timber sizes which are specified as one dimension and just &quot;commonly known&quot; to actually be a different one: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thesprucecrafts.com&#x2F;why-isnt-a-2x4-a-2x4-3970461" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thesprucecrafts.com&#x2F;why-isnt-a-2x4-a-2x4-3970461</a></text></item><item><author>IndrekR</author><text>There is also another story [1]. That standard air-core coax lines were built using regular plumbing pipes in US. As the impedance of a coax is proportional to <i>log(inner diameter of the shield&#x2F;outer diameter of the core)</i> this generated standard impedance around 50 ohms for many different tube configurations.<p>(10 minutes later)<p>However, I just calculated this for standard copper tubing size [2] and this probably is just a myth, except for few specific tube sizes like 1&#x2F;4+5&#x2F;8 or 1.5+3.5 inches.<p>For some reason, tubing is still mostly given in inches and neither its OD nor ID correspond to tube size. OD is always 0.125in larger than tube size.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rfcafe.com&#x2F;references&#x2F;electrical&#x2F;history-of-50-ohms.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rfcafe.com&#x2F;references&#x2F;electrical&#x2F;history-of-50-oh...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.petersenproducts.com&#x2F;Copper-Tubing-Sizes-s&#x2F;1979.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.petersenproducts.com&#x2F;Copper-Tubing-Sizes-s&#x2F;1979....</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kube-system</author><text>Pipe was originally measured by inside diameter.<p>Anyway, over the past 100 years, metallurgy got better and they could make the same strength pipe with thinner walls.<p>So now, because of the thickness change, the old pipes that measured 1&#x2F;2” inside and the fittings for those pipes were the right size for new pipes that measured about 3&#x2F;5” inside. They had the same outside diameter, but a larger inside diameter.<p>Instead of confusing everyone and requiring them to remember compatibility charts for every size pipe (and guessing about the age of the pipe), they just “solved” the problem by selling the new pipes under the name of the old size they were compatible with.<p>Tl;dr: Plumbers have technical debt that goes <i>way</i> back.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why 50 Ohms?</title><url>https://www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedias/why-fifty-ohms</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>XorNot</author><text>Trying to figure out what pipe to ask for when I have the physical measurements in hand is one of the ongoing mysteries of the world for me. &quot;Oh that pipe is &lt;some number you will not get with any type of measuring tool&gt;&quot; is one of the most bizarre conventions out there.<p>That said, this isn&#x27;t even the only place it turns up - there are timber sizes which are specified as one dimension and just &quot;commonly known&quot; to actually be a different one: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thesprucecrafts.com&#x2F;why-isnt-a-2x4-a-2x4-3970461" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thesprucecrafts.com&#x2F;why-isnt-a-2x4-a-2x4-3970461</a></text></item><item><author>IndrekR</author><text>There is also another story [1]. That standard air-core coax lines were built using regular plumbing pipes in US. As the impedance of a coax is proportional to <i>log(inner diameter of the shield&#x2F;outer diameter of the core)</i> this generated standard impedance around 50 ohms for many different tube configurations.<p>(10 minutes later)<p>However, I just calculated this for standard copper tubing size [2] and this probably is just a myth, except for few specific tube sizes like 1&#x2F;4+5&#x2F;8 or 1.5+3.5 inches.<p>For some reason, tubing is still mostly given in inches and neither its OD nor ID correspond to tube size. OD is always 0.125in larger than tube size.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rfcafe.com&#x2F;references&#x2F;electrical&#x2F;history-of-50-ohms.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rfcafe.com&#x2F;references&#x2F;electrical&#x2F;history-of-50-oh...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.petersenproducts.com&#x2F;Copper-Tubing-Sizes-s&#x2F;1979.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.petersenproducts.com&#x2F;Copper-Tubing-Sizes-s&#x2F;1979....</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>The timber sizes are different because you are buying <i>planed</i> timer, rough timber would have the exact dimensions you are looking for. So a 2x4 rough is really 2x4&quot;</text></comment> |
270,653 | 270,428 | 1 | 2 | 270,145 | train | <story><title>What I Learned Buying a Rug in Turkey</title><url>http://academicbiz.typepad.com/piloted/2007/01/what_i_learned_.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ced</author><text><i>Look at the weave, this is how you can tell it is not machine made.</i><p>I hope he didn't believe that. Turkey is full of fake. People don't have a continuous relationship with the seller, so the seller focuses on selling something that <i>looks</i> great. For fruit and vegetables, this isn't much of an issue (What You Taste Is What You Get), but I struggled to find a bike. All bells and whistle, no quality.<p>That's the positive side of megabrands and chain-stores, they have reputations and standards.<p>I was surprised by how social haggling was in Turkey. As far as I can tell, a lot of sellers do not lower the price because you're going to leave the transaction (i.e.: the rational way); they lower it because they want to feel good about themselves. Typically, college students get better prices that way. Foreigners can get either royally screwed, or offered a free meal at a restaurant. Turks want to think of themselves as being great hosts (and they are).<p>I tried a few times to tell a merchant: I can get a better price elsewhere. Even if it was true, they didn't care.<p>We went to a high-end restaurant last week. 6 foreigners, some obviously older and well-off, and one Turkish girl. We sit, start eating, then want to order wine. She haggled. And won. I still don't get it. Presumably, the reputation of the restaurant was at stake. It'd be rationally selfish, but still. Foreigners are not coming back!<p>The requirement to haggle in so many situations has some unfortunate day-to-day consequences. Some Turks become used to lying under all circumstances. (though to be fair, I got some of my best relationships ever here)<p>Last anecdote: some cafe manager told me he has trouble finding personel. They pay an employee 1.50$ / hour (1$ if you're unexperienced, no joke) in my city. The price of a beer might be around 2.50$. The ratio is much worse than in the Western world, so I ask him, why don't you increase the pay? Nuh-uh, he said. Things don't work that way around here.</text></comment> | <story><title>What I Learned Buying a Rug in Turkey</title><url>http://academicbiz.typepad.com/piloted/2007/01/what_i_learned_.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>babul</author><text>I see this more of a lesson in persistence paying off, and understanding your client, their needs, how to predict and answer their questions, and behave to sell effectively (in this case usage of the environment) - things any entrepreneur in any business needs to know.<p>Yes, it is a social hack and manipulation to an extent (I don’t agree with bringing the kids in etc., that is low), but these are the same lessons and issues found in most business (merchant wants as much as he can get, client is often reluctant to buy until they see the benefits to them, and in order to reach a deal there is often much bartering and negotiations to be had).<p>Are some of the people we meet and network with, especially in business conferences and trade-shows, any different? Are price negotiations between the companies we interact with any different?<p>Simply put, the rug sellers understand what they are selling, what people are willing to pay, and how to sell it to them, and these are things all people in <i>business</i> should know. If win-win can be achieved (client thinks they are getting a bargain and seller is happy with sale price) then all the better. If you buy a rug, are happy with the rug, are happy with the price, what is the problem?<p>It is really market competition, and in many cases desperation, that is the root of the unethical behaviour. I do not agree with using pressure tactics, misleading "consultative" selling (was what he was teaching them about rugs true or was it tailored to his needs?), inferior goods supplied ("bait-and-switch"), or the multitude of other things that occur. But I see similar behaviour occurring in many high pressure environments, especially in the financial services sector (some stock brokers come to mind).</text></comment> |
6,916,792 | 6,915,129 | 1 | 3 | 6,914,696 | train | <story><title>If a Drone Strike Hit an American Wedding We'd Ground Our Fleet</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/if-a-drone-strike-hit-an-american-wedding-wed-ground-our-fleet/282373/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rdtsc</author><text>It is profitable.<p>If terrorists disappeared tomorrow. Let&#x27;s say we use our surgical strike weapons to target every cell every member, and in one hour they are gone. What would happen? Billions of dollars disappear from the pockets of everyone in the chain. Military contractors, drone maintenance, promotions, bonuses, career advancements, no more completed missions, medals, no job to go to.<p>So the direct financial and career incentive for everyone in the chain is to always make sure there is a stream of new terrorists, new cells, new intelligence chatter about &quot;the Great Satan&quot;. And that is indirectly accomplished by indiscriminately bombing civilians. Everyone who is involved in picking the target and knows it is a funeral, will know civilians will die. I can&#x27;t help but think they also know it is job insurance as well. They would be stupid not to.<p>American public via media has been tested enough during releases of so many atrocities, torture tapes, lies, monitoring that by now, I think they&#x27;ve built an accurate model of how much outrage will be generated and how much will actually threaten future operations, funding, reelection and so on (so far not much).<p>The bottom line, I don&#x27;t even know and 100% believe them when they say these are all &quot;mistakes&quot;. The incentives and the motivation, especially in the long term, is for them not to really care if civilians get bombed.</text></item><item><author>sethbannon</author><text>The way America is conducting the war on terror is both self-defeating and morally repugnant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>You realize that the fiction of a coherent &quot;Military Industrial Complex&quot; has been debunked several times right? One by the General Accounting Office showed that military contractors actually had higher profits in peacetime than wartime because they got money for &#x27;research&#x27; and didn&#x27;t have to actually produce any product.</text></comment> | <story><title>If a Drone Strike Hit an American Wedding We'd Ground Our Fleet</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/if-a-drone-strike-hit-an-american-wedding-wed-ground-our-fleet/282373/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rdtsc</author><text>It is profitable.<p>If terrorists disappeared tomorrow. Let&#x27;s say we use our surgical strike weapons to target every cell every member, and in one hour they are gone. What would happen? Billions of dollars disappear from the pockets of everyone in the chain. Military contractors, drone maintenance, promotions, bonuses, career advancements, no more completed missions, medals, no job to go to.<p>So the direct financial and career incentive for everyone in the chain is to always make sure there is a stream of new terrorists, new cells, new intelligence chatter about &quot;the Great Satan&quot;. And that is indirectly accomplished by indiscriminately bombing civilians. Everyone who is involved in picking the target and knows it is a funeral, will know civilians will die. I can&#x27;t help but think they also know it is job insurance as well. They would be stupid not to.<p>American public via media has been tested enough during releases of so many atrocities, torture tapes, lies, monitoring that by now, I think they&#x27;ve built an accurate model of how much outrage will be generated and how much will actually threaten future operations, funding, reelection and so on (so far not much).<p>The bottom line, I don&#x27;t even know and 100% believe them when they say these are all &quot;mistakes&quot;. The incentives and the motivation, especially in the long term, is for them not to really care if civilians get bombed.</text></item><item><author>sethbannon</author><text>The way America is conducting the war on terror is both self-defeating and morally repugnant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frogpelt</author><text>Let me guess, you think there&#x27;s a cure for cancer but the doctors are withholding it and Exxon Mobil bought the patent for a combustion engine that would achieve 100+ mpg.<p>Any industry that is built on addressing problems that people naturally have is going to generate lots of revenue.
It has been proven that people naturally fight with each other. People fight over race, religion, sports, politics, and territory. Nations do the same thing.<p>If you think it would end terrorism by killing all current terrorists and if you think it would even be possible, <i>I think</i> you&#x27;re misguided.</text></comment> |
19,763,814 | 19,761,257 | 1 | 2 | 19,761,159 | train | <story><title>When setting an environment variable gives you a 40x speedup</title><url>https://news.sherlock.stanford.edu/posts/when-setting-an-environment-variable-gives-you-a-40-x-speedup</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrb</author><text>Story time.<p>This took place around 2009. Back then I was working for Rapid7, on their network vulnerability scanner Nexpose. The codebase was mostly Java and was relatively large at 1M+ lines of code. We had many unit tests. Running the entire test suite took up to 40 minutes on Windows, and 20 minutes on Linux (Windows was always about twice slower on everything: building, product&#x27;s startup time, etc.) The company had grown quickly to at least 30-50 software engineers. The problem was that every time one of them ran a build on his or her local machine (which happened multiple times a day) it would have to run the test suite and waste up to 40 minutes of this person&#x27;s time. 40 minutes × dozens of engineers = lots of inefficiencies in the company.<p>I loved solving performance issues so one day I remember arriving at the office and making it my mission to investigate if there was an easy way to speed up the test suite. Our build system was based on Ant, and our tests used the JUnit framework. After a little time profiling Ant with basic tools (top, strace, ltrace), and taking a few Java stack traces, I realized that most of the wasted time was not actually running the individual tests, but many instances of the JVM kept being started and destroyed between each test. Our Ant build file was running the JUnit test with fork=yes, which was required for a reason I don&#x27;t recall at the moment. This forks the JVM for running the tests. Then a little googling lead me to this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ant.apache.org&#x2F;manual&#x2F;Tasks&#x2F;junit.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ant.apache.org&#x2F;manual&#x2F;Tasks&#x2F;junit.html</a><p>While reading this documentation, I stumbled upon an unknown parameter to me: forkmode. What does it do?<p>&quot;<i>forkmode: Controls how many JVMs get created if you want to fork some tests. Possible values are perTest (the default), perBatch and once. once creates only a single JVM for all tests while perTest creates a new JVM for each TestCase class. perBatch creates a JVM for each nested &lt;batchtest&gt; and one collecting all nested &lt;test&gt;s.</i>&quot;<p>Our Ant build file did not set forkmode, so it meant we were forking a new JVM for every test!<p>I immediately tried forkmode=perBatch and... the test suite ran 10× faster! 40 minutes down to 4 minutes on Windows. And Linux ran it in 2 minutes instead of 20 minutes. I told my boss right away but he was unbelieving. He asked that I check with our most-experienced Java developer. I showed him my 1-line patch speeding the test suite 10× and he said &quot;I guess you are right, we can commit that.&quot; By lunch time the fix was committed and everyone loved me :)</text></comment> | <story><title>When setting an environment variable gives you a 40x speedup</title><url>https://news.sherlock.stanford.edu/posts/when-setting-an-environment-variable-gives-you-a-40-x-speedup</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CaliforniaKarl</author><text>This was written by my coworker, Kilian Cavalotti. We have two main file stores: $SCRATCH is a Lustre cluster, which is extremely performant but doesn&#x27;t do well with lots of inodes. And $HOME is a multi-node Isilon, which can handle all the inodes, but is not as performant. And we have users who sometimes like to put many files in single directories.<p>You can find more information about us at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;srcc.stanford.edu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;srcc.stanford.edu</a><p>And you can find more information about Sherlock at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sherlock.stanford.edu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sherlock.stanford.edu</a></text></comment> |
12,626,786 | 12,626,834 | 1 | 2 | 12,626,314 | train | <story><title>Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend</title><url>http://danluu.com/sounds-easy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>systemtest</author><text>I recently had a discussion about how hard it would be to have a system inside a bus to announce the next stop. Sounds like a weekend project right?<p>Think a bit further:<p>- Hardware needs to be resistant to harsh diesel engine vibrations<p>- 3G&#x2F;4G connectivity<p>- Need a mobile data contract with local ISP<p>- Software needs to be able to handle network disconnections<p>- GPS needs to be able to pin-point at which stop the bus is currently stopped, even with bad GPS coverage in larger cities<p>- If the bus skips a stop because of a detour, the software should be able to detect it and announce the next stop<p>- The announcement should be bi-lingual for Airport busses<p>- The announcement should work for people with hearing aids<p>- Server needs to know all bus-stops<p>- Server needs to know different stop types, such as bus terminals, intersection stops, regular stops, hand-over stops, virtual stops<p>- Server needs to be able both work of a yearly bus schedule and real-time update<p>- Server needs to output in an understandable JSON&#x2F;XML because the government subsidies demand an open-data format<p>- Server needs to publish data to an open-data server because of the subsidies<p>- Because the bus-company is sponsored by European Union money the control interface should be translated to German&#x2F;French&#x2F;English&#x2F;Spanish<p>And now this weekend project takes a team of 10 engineers working for a year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orf</author><text>All London buses do this. I don&#x27;t think you need a server, 3G&#x2F;4G connectivity or even GPS really. You might be over thinking it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend</title><url>http://danluu.com/sounds-easy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>systemtest</author><text>I recently had a discussion about how hard it would be to have a system inside a bus to announce the next stop. Sounds like a weekend project right?<p>Think a bit further:<p>- Hardware needs to be resistant to harsh diesel engine vibrations<p>- 3G&#x2F;4G connectivity<p>- Need a mobile data contract with local ISP<p>- Software needs to be able to handle network disconnections<p>- GPS needs to be able to pin-point at which stop the bus is currently stopped, even with bad GPS coverage in larger cities<p>- If the bus skips a stop because of a detour, the software should be able to detect it and announce the next stop<p>- The announcement should be bi-lingual for Airport busses<p>- The announcement should work for people with hearing aids<p>- Server needs to know all bus-stops<p>- Server needs to know different stop types, such as bus terminals, intersection stops, regular stops, hand-over stops, virtual stops<p>- Server needs to be able both work of a yearly bus schedule and real-time update<p>- Server needs to output in an understandable JSON&#x2F;XML because the government subsidies demand an open-data format<p>- Server needs to publish data to an open-data server because of the subsidies<p>- Because the bus-company is sponsored by European Union money the control interface should be translated to German&#x2F;French&#x2F;English&#x2F;Spanish<p>And now this weekend project takes a team of 10 engineers working for a year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>manyxcxi</author><text>The GPS and mobile data are overthinking it. The routes are known so simply trigger on door open&#x2F;close (with some logic for denounce&#x2F;etc) and cycle through.<p>For maximal accuracy simply have an electronic beacon of any sort broadcasting an ID that corresponds to the stop and you&#x27;ve got it solved.<p>And the entire data set for the route should be able to live offline onboard the bus. Changing bus&#x2F;numbers routes should include the step for updating route data.</text></comment> |
40,644,062 | 40,644,110 | 1 | 2 | 40,643,071 | train | <story><title>Spotify: Droppin' Some Fake Beats</title><url>https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/spotify-droppin-some-fake-beats</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ptsneves</author><text>The post and comments come out a bit unfair if you read the answer from the music author.<p>The music author seems to be doing the music as part of a thesis and does not dump the generated music straight from the model. Instead it uses it for ideas and cooperation, and in the end there is post production and real work. I know people doing a similar thing to learn how to write books with AI as a productive tool.<p>In my opinion this is the real promise of AI: elevating the productivity and enabling more people. Like the internet has done, it will give voice and tools to many who could not, and a lot of those “voices” may seem of low quality, but alas such is the price.<p>As in every technological progression, paradigm changes happens. Some good some bad. Give yourself some agency and avoid the bad content and enjoy the good ones.<p>Also if you look at the YouTube videos there are comments of people genuinely liking it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Spotify: Droppin' Some Fake Beats</title><url>https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/spotify-droppin-some-fake-beats</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vasco</author><text>Still better than some rich guys choosing young people to have them take out a huge loan, feed them a bunch of lyrics some dudes wrote across the sea, match it with one of the 200 ready to go beats their &quot;label&quot; has in the drawer and make a single with a music video to pump tiktok ads on.<p>There&#x27;s very little romantic songwriting and true exploration going on in mainstream music. AI productions if anything to me are more honest if done with an open model by a person in their home. At least it&#x27;s just a person fiddling with it until it sounds as something they like and not a megacorp. Until spotify makes these themselves.</text></comment> |
5,666,481 | 5,666,454 | 1 | 2 | 5,666,366 | train | <story><title>Firefox's Inspector Tool as 3D Modeler</title><url>http://tildehash.com/?article=firefoxs-inspector-tool-as-3d-modeler-seriously</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jlongster</author><text>About a year ago I actually build a tool to build these 3d models in the browser! You can add elements in a grid (stacking multiple on top of each other), and move them and resize them. It's a little painful but quite fun to see the result!<p><a href="http://tilt.jlongster.com/" rel="nofollow">http://tilt.jlongster.com/</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Firefox's Inspector Tool as 3D Modeler</title><url>http://tildehash.com/?article=firefoxs-inspector-tool-as-3d-modeler-seriously</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>noname123</author><text>A public plaza with a blue opera-house and a reflection pool bathing its own image.<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/ROT7Hf9.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/ROT7Hf9.png</a></text></comment> |
21,078,636 | 21,074,663 | 1 | 3 | 21,071,890 | train | <story><title>WeWork and Counterfeit Capitalism</title><url>https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/wework-and-counterfeit-capitalism</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>streetcat1</author><text>The only difference between wework and amazon is the way they finance their money-losing ventures.<p>Wework does that via the private market, hence the game is up when it needs access to the public markets.<p>Amazon does that via AWS. AWS is the money that fuels the eCommerce side. The game will be up when:<p>1) Kubernetes will move AWS customers back to on-prem, or at least turn clouds into a commodity. Amazon knows that and this is the reason for the push toward lockin (aka lambda &#x2F; serverless).<p>2) Amazon will be divided into two companies.</text></item><item><author>hef19898</author><text>Totally agree with the last pint, people completely tend to ignore the effort and attention to detail Amazon puts into executive and planning. That plus a very sound strategy. Also Amazon was profitable, even if just barely, for the most time while growing appr. 20% constantly. Not comparable to, say, WeWork from what I know. But it shows how powerful that narrative can be.</text></item><item><author>resfirestar</author><text>&gt;The difference is Amazon saw what the marginal costs could be, and had a specific roadmap to drive investment into bringing them down. WeWork fundamentally has no way to drive down the margin on real estate in any meaningful way. Especially as a lessee.<p>That&#x27;s what the article says:<p>&gt;At first, with companies like Walmart and Amazon, predatory pricing can seem smart. The entire retail sector might be decimated and communities across America might be harmed, but two day shipping is convenient and Walmart and Amazon do have positive cash flow. But increasingly with cheap capital and a narrow slice of financiers who want to copy the winners, there is a second or third generation of companies asking Wall Street to just ‘trust me.’<p>It&#x27;s not that WeWork is the same as Amazon, it&#x27;s that WeWork is symptomatic of a bubble caused by investors looking to copy Amazon&#x27;s success without understanding why it succeeded.</text></item><item><author>legitster</author><text>&gt; WeWork then used this cash to underprice competitors in the co-working space market, hoping to be able to profit later once it had a strong market position in real estate subletting or ancillary businesses.<p>&gt; This is of course Amazon’s model, which underpriced competitors in retail and eventually came to control the whole market.<p>This is wrong, wrong, wrong. The difference is Amazon saw what the marginal costs could be, and had a specific roadmap to drive investment into bringing them down. WeWork fundamentally has no way to drive down the margin on real estate in any meaningful way. Especially as a lessee.<p>&gt; The goal of Son, and increasingly most large financiers in private equity and venture capital, is to find big markets and then dump capital into one player in such a market who can underprice until he becomes the dominant remaining actor. In this manner, financiers can help kill all competition, with the idea of profiting later on via the surviving monopoly.<p>A bold assumption with no citations. There are just as many counterfactuals to this strategy as there are examples. The scooter market is an especially bad - there is so much capital from so many companies - if you were trying to establish monopolies that would be a bad bet.<p>&gt; Endless money-losing is a variant of counterfeiting, and counterfeiting has dangerous economic consequences. The subprime fiasco was one example.<p>The subprime crisis is completely unrelated! And if anything it was proof that <i>money-making</i> assets should be scrutinized more.<p>WeWork is a garbage, charlatan company. But don&#x27;t misunderstand what is happening here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chx</author><text>Kubernetes is only a threat in that it is a buzzword much as cloud is a buzzword. The cloud and Kubernetes both are used to sell a triple fallacy: You need to care about scaling from day one, there is an easy way to scale, this way is the cloud&#x2F;Kubernetes.<p>For almost all startups their app would run comfortably on a single dedicated server. This has been true for many, many years but only the YAGNI greybeards would go with it. Maybe two HA but even HA is overhyped, it&#x27;s cheaper to be down. Down is part of this industry, you <i>will</i> be down in many circumstances anyways so perhaps don&#x27;t chase a unicorn? Of course, above a certain size, two servers make sense but ... don&#x27;t overdo it even then. You don&#x27;t need microservices, you don&#x27;t need containers. All of this is unnecessary hype. (And yes, both of you who works at a large enough company where being down is enough of a problem that it worths engineering about: good for you. I have architected a Top 100 website myself and we still didn&#x27;t use more than a dozen servers and that included the staging infra.)<p>Gary Bernhardt of WAT fame from 2015 <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;garybernhardt&#x2F;status&#x2F;600783770925420546?lang=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;garybernhardt&#x2F;status&#x2F;600783770925420546?...</a><p>&gt; Consulting service: you bring your big data problems to me, I say &quot;your data set fits in RAM&quot;, you pay me $10,000 for saving you $500,000.<p>Very strongly related: a terabyte of RAM in just 16 modules so it fits most server boards is now under $5000 <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;memory.net&#x2F;product&#x2F;p00926-b21-hp-1x-64gb-ddr4-2933-lrdimm-pc4-23466u-l-quad-rank-x4-replacement&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;memory.net&#x2F;product&#x2F;p00926-b21-hp-1x-64gb-ddr4-2933-l...</a><p>Final shot, codinghorror of StackOverflow fame: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;codinghorror&#x2F;status&#x2F;347070841059692545" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;codinghorror&#x2F;status&#x2F;347070841059692545</a></text></comment> | <story><title>WeWork and Counterfeit Capitalism</title><url>https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/wework-and-counterfeit-capitalism</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>streetcat1</author><text>The only difference between wework and amazon is the way they finance their money-losing ventures.<p>Wework does that via the private market, hence the game is up when it needs access to the public markets.<p>Amazon does that via AWS. AWS is the money that fuels the eCommerce side. The game will be up when:<p>1) Kubernetes will move AWS customers back to on-prem, or at least turn clouds into a commodity. Amazon knows that and this is the reason for the push toward lockin (aka lambda &#x2F; serverless).<p>2) Amazon will be divided into two companies.</text></item><item><author>hef19898</author><text>Totally agree with the last pint, people completely tend to ignore the effort and attention to detail Amazon puts into executive and planning. That plus a very sound strategy. Also Amazon was profitable, even if just barely, for the most time while growing appr. 20% constantly. Not comparable to, say, WeWork from what I know. But it shows how powerful that narrative can be.</text></item><item><author>resfirestar</author><text>&gt;The difference is Amazon saw what the marginal costs could be, and had a specific roadmap to drive investment into bringing them down. WeWork fundamentally has no way to drive down the margin on real estate in any meaningful way. Especially as a lessee.<p>That&#x27;s what the article says:<p>&gt;At first, with companies like Walmart and Amazon, predatory pricing can seem smart. The entire retail sector might be decimated and communities across America might be harmed, but two day shipping is convenient and Walmart and Amazon do have positive cash flow. But increasingly with cheap capital and a narrow slice of financiers who want to copy the winners, there is a second or third generation of companies asking Wall Street to just ‘trust me.’<p>It&#x27;s not that WeWork is the same as Amazon, it&#x27;s that WeWork is symptomatic of a bubble caused by investors looking to copy Amazon&#x27;s success without understanding why it succeeded.</text></item><item><author>legitster</author><text>&gt; WeWork then used this cash to underprice competitors in the co-working space market, hoping to be able to profit later once it had a strong market position in real estate subletting or ancillary businesses.<p>&gt; This is of course Amazon’s model, which underpriced competitors in retail and eventually came to control the whole market.<p>This is wrong, wrong, wrong. The difference is Amazon saw what the marginal costs could be, and had a specific roadmap to drive investment into bringing them down. WeWork fundamentally has no way to drive down the margin on real estate in any meaningful way. Especially as a lessee.<p>&gt; The goal of Son, and increasingly most large financiers in private equity and venture capital, is to find big markets and then dump capital into one player in such a market who can underprice until he becomes the dominant remaining actor. In this manner, financiers can help kill all competition, with the idea of profiting later on via the surviving monopoly.<p>A bold assumption with no citations. There are just as many counterfactuals to this strategy as there are examples. The scooter market is an especially bad - there is so much capital from so many companies - if you were trying to establish monopolies that would be a bad bet.<p>&gt; Endless money-losing is a variant of counterfeiting, and counterfeiting has dangerous economic consequences. The subprime fiasco was one example.<p>The subprime crisis is completely unrelated! And if anything it was proof that <i>money-making</i> assets should be scrutinized more.<p>WeWork is a garbage, charlatan company. But don&#x27;t misunderstand what is happening here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WalterBright</author><text>AWS did not become a product until Amazon had been around for several years.</text></comment> |
23,133,278 | 23,132,932 | 1 | 2 | 23,129,682 | train | <story><title>How to disable the built-in Windows 10 ads</title><url>https://www.faqforge.com/windows/windows-10/how-to-disable-all-of-the-built-in-windows-10-ads/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>superasn</author><text>Windows 10 was the final push for me to switch to Linux once and for all. And so far I&#x27;m super happy with it. I&#x27;m using Linux mint and I must recommended it highly for any long time windows user as they&#x27;ve hugely reduced the learning curve.<p>The only thing I miss is Photoshop. I&#x27;ve tried so many alternatives like gimp, etc but I find graphics editing a big struggle, for example I can&#x27;t even do simple things like adding a red arrow to a screenshot till date without googling for it first. Also wine it didn&#x27;t work for me for some reason. But thankfully my graphics requirements are pretty less so I boot up windows for that, other than that I don&#x27;t miss Windows at all now. Rather it would be very hard to go back now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>overlordalex</author><text>Photoshop was a big one that I missed, until someone posted their self-made online editor to reddit: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.photopea.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.photopea.com&#x2F;</a><p>I&#x27;m not sure what modern photoshop looks like, but the interface is completely familiar to me as a former CS2 user.<p>While Photopea is online, its completely satisfactory for small editing tasks that I need to do. Only gripe is that saving massive pngs with 100% quality causes the site to freeze</text></comment> | <story><title>How to disable the built-in Windows 10 ads</title><url>https://www.faqforge.com/windows/windows-10/how-to-disable-all-of-the-built-in-windows-10-ads/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>superasn</author><text>Windows 10 was the final push for me to switch to Linux once and for all. And so far I&#x27;m super happy with it. I&#x27;m using Linux mint and I must recommended it highly for any long time windows user as they&#x27;ve hugely reduced the learning curve.<p>The only thing I miss is Photoshop. I&#x27;ve tried so many alternatives like gimp, etc but I find graphics editing a big struggle, for example I can&#x27;t even do simple things like adding a red arrow to a screenshot till date without googling for it first. Also wine it didn&#x27;t work for me for some reason. But thankfully my graphics requirements are pretty less so I boot up windows for that, other than that I don&#x27;t miss Windows at all now. Rather it would be very hard to go back now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_trampeltier</author><text>For me the same. Since the mid 90s I had Windows and Linux installed at home. But Windows 10 was a no go. I mean I even have the Pro Licence. But serious, Candy Crash and XBox all over the place. After one week trying to delete all that things, I had to accept, thats not what I want and deleted it. So I&#x27;m also a Linux only now.</text></comment> |
25,489,278 | 25,489,367 | 1 | 2 | 25,488,887 | train | <story><title>On the Graying of Gnome</title><url>https://hpjansson.org/blag/2020/12/16/on-the-graying-of-gnome/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bigbubba</author><text>It sure looks like Gnome 3 took the wind out of Gnome&#x27;s sails. This correlates with my experience as a Gnome user, as it was Gnome 3 where the project really took on a condescending user-demeaning attitude. Gnome 3 is where the project shifted from &#x27;user friendly&#x27; to &#x27;assume the user is an imbecile.&#x27; I now tell novices to use XFCE instead.</text></comment> | <story><title>On the Graying of Gnome</title><url>https://hpjansson.org/blag/2020/12/16/on-the-graying-of-gnome/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fuoqi</author><text>While I am a long-time Gnome user, I don&#x27;t think it has a bright future. The project leadership continuously makes weird decision rooted in the believe that Gnome is THE Linux DE and everyone should dance under their flute.<p>It does not help that project is riddled with technical issues (most notably memory leaks), quite inconvenient without installing a number of extensions (which often break from versions to version, no stable extension API, really? JS as the extension language does not help either) and fiddling with settings (e.g. to enable Ctrl+Alt+Left&#x2F;Right with grid workspace layout). I don&#x27;t have time to play with different DEs right now, but as soon as I find a suitable replacement, I quite probably will ditch Gnome for good.<p>Unfortunately, Gnome sucks a lot of corporate support, leaving alternative DEs quite dry in that regard, which significantly hinders their pace of development.<p>P.S.: The animated favicon is REALLY f<i></i>*g annoying.</text></comment> |
10,616,296 | 10,615,941 | 1 | 2 | 10,612,516 | train | <story><title>How do Promises Work?</title><url>http://robotlolita.me/2015/11/15/how-do-promises-work.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wonnage</author><text>&gt; Another way of solving this problem comes from the realisation that we only really need to keep track of the dependencies for a promise while the promise is in the pending state, because once a promise is fulfilled we can just execute the function right away!<p>This is a common gotcha in Javascript implementations, in that you think you want this, but you really don&#x27;t! Now you never know if your code is synchronous or will run in a subsequent tick. Your call tree will look completely different depending on race conditions...<p>This comes up in user code as well; any time you write a function that takes a callback, it&#x27;s probably a good idea to either always run it either in the same call tree or in a new stack, but never mix the two. It&#x27;s usually easier to just do the latter using process.nextTick.</text></comment> | <story><title>How do Promises Work?</title><url>http://robotlolita.me/2015/11/15/how-do-promises-work.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hvmonk</author><text>I have seen how Promises&#x27; concept was abused in a project at work. All the promises were just returning Future objects, and they were exposed everywhere. And, in case a future fails for some reason, there was no way to have a new Future: all users were doing future.get, resulting in an exception thrown to the caller.
What a mess.</text></comment> |
7,964,216 | 7,964,144 | 1 | 2 | 7,963,643 | train | <story><title>A review of the Blackphone, the Android for the paranoid</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/exclusive-a-review-of-the-blackphone-the-android-for-the-paranoid/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Tepix</author><text>Why does the blackphone lack a physical switch for<p>* the microphone<p>* the GPS chip (or if not possible, the GPS antenna)<p>* the GSM chip (or if not possible, the GSM antennae)<p>* the camera(s)<p>I have talked to the Silent Circle people at MWC in barcelona and they acknowledged the current security issue with the closed source, black box baseband. This first blackphone is of course just a first step.<p>However, physical switches could help against certain attack scenarios.</text></comment> | <story><title>A review of the Blackphone, the Android for the paranoid</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/exclusive-a-review-of-the-blackphone-the-android-for-the-paranoid/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Sephr</author><text>This has a closed source baseband that was also not designed by the company producing the phone. The baseband is pretty much guaranteed to be backdoored by your favorite state security agency, so why get this over any other Android phone?</text></comment> |
25,393,715 | 25,393,723 | 1 | 2 | 25,391,159 | train | <story><title>Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?</title><text>Assumption: it is available to everyone at the same time. No wait lines.<p>(Edited to add Assumption)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>h3cate</author><text>Why is it your civic duty? What will you having this vaccine do for anybody but yourself?</text></item><item><author>chasing</author><text>It&#x27;s my civic duty to take it as soon as it&#x27;s offered to me, even if there&#x27;s some minuscule chance that there will be an averse side effect.<p>That said, I&#x27;ll likely be towards the end of the line given my health and occupation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>progval</author><text>Lowers the risk you are infected and infect other people and&#x2F;or take a bed in a crowded hospital</text></comment> | <story><title>Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?</title><text>Assumption: it is available to everyone at the same time. No wait lines.<p>(Edited to add Assumption)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>h3cate</author><text>Why is it your civic duty? What will you having this vaccine do for anybody but yourself?</text></item><item><author>chasing</author><text>It&#x27;s my civic duty to take it as soon as it&#x27;s offered to me, even if there&#x27;s some minuscule chance that there will be an averse side effect.<p>That said, I&#x27;ll likely be towards the end of the line given my health and occupation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AaronNewcomer</author><text>Same as a mask? Keep him from transmitting it to other people.</text></comment> |
11,177,637 | 11,177,055 | 1 | 2 | 11,176,275 | train | <story><title>“Super Engine” may fundamentally change the way internal combustion engines work</title><url>http://www.anl.gov/articles/argonne-achates-power-and-delphi-automotive-investigate-new-approach-engines</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Torkel</author><text>I&#x27;m assuming the purpose of developing a more efficient engine is to reduce emissions and thus &quot;saving the planet&quot;? That may seem commendable, but from what I have read it is actually a wasted effort, unless you can make it 99%+ more efficient (which you cannot). So, even if this engine is all that it claims (which most other comments here seems to question), it still uses oil and therefore is part of the problem and not the solution. (Wrote abit about this a while back with more references: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;torkeldanielsson.se&#x2F;reducing-emissions-is-not-enough" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;torkeldanielsson.se&#x2F;reducing-emissions-is-not-enough</a>)<p>Edited comment: Man, I don&#x27;t get hacker news... Why do you downvote this? I thought I was adding a valid and important point - that an increase in efficiency is fighting the wrong battle. I even added references via link. I would be super happy if I could be informed of what in this post is offending or off topic!</text></comment> | <story><title>“Super Engine” may fundamentally change the way internal combustion engines work</title><url>http://www.anl.gov/articles/argonne-achates-power-and-delphi-automotive-investigate-new-approach-engines</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kenOfYugen</author><text>There is this guy who has made some similar engine prototypes in this field of efficient opposed piston engines.<p>PatOP: Single-Crankshaft Opposed-Piston Engine<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pattakon.com&#x2F;pattakonPatOP.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pattakon.com&#x2F;pattakonPatOP.htm</a><p>OPRE: Opposed piston Pulling Rod Engine<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pattakon.com&#x2F;pattakonOPRE.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pattakon.com&#x2F;pattakonOPRE.htm</a><p><pre><code> &gt; A 500cc two stroke can easily make some 80 Nt*m (8 Kp*m) torque.
&gt; At 6000 rpm this torque makes some 50 KW (70 PS).
&gt; 50 KW from 20 Kp means 0.4 Kp per KW.
&gt; And 0.4 Kp&#x2F;KW with direct injection Diesel efficiency sounds interesting, especially for an engine with such a low cost.&quot;</code></pre></text></comment> |
35,120,586 | 35,120,703 | 1 | 3 | 35,118,315 | train | <story><title>Meta rediscovers the cubicle</title><url>https://calnewport.com/meta-rediscovers-the-cubicle/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imiric</author><text>Come on, realistically, no company can afford private offices for all their workforce. Even for roles that do require complete concentration like programming, it&#x27;s not feasible to expect even Big Tech companies to foot the bill. The infrastructure cost alone would be astronomical. Such buildings just don&#x27;t scale, and the setup couldn&#x27;t keep up with the growth rate. So at best, they can have private offices for tech leads, managers and senior staff, but this undeniably goes against the &quot;flat&quot; organizational structure some companies like to virtue signal.<p>What can be much more manageable is to have comfortable cubicles for everyone (not the cramped desks with dividers, which is what probably gave cubicles the bad rep), and also have many small and large meeting rooms where people can congregate and collaborate in. This has the benefit of defaulting to semi-private workspaces which can easily scale, and moves the noisy collaborative areas to closed rooms, so that they don&#x27;t bother anyone else. The smaller rooms could even serve as rotating private offices, if needed, that anyone can book for a limited period of time.<p>But the open floor office only has practical drawbacks, and definitely has to go. It only got popular because it&#x27;s really the cheapest option for companies; just place some desks, chairs and monitors in a huge space, and sell it as &quot;collaborative&quot;. But if they really want to entice people to come back to the office, they need to invest in better working conditions.</text></item><item><author>mcculley</author><text>&gt; personal space with a door, which most companies can&#x27;t afford<p>A company that cannot afford proper offices is probably not creating much value. Big tech companies can afford offices. They choose to allocate capital differently.<p>When I ran a consultancy, I spent a lot of rent of making sure my employees had both proper offices where they could think and common areas where they could collaborate. Doing otherwise is foolish.</text></item><item><author>imiric</author><text>I was always a fan of cubicles, and never got the FAANG fascination with open plan workspaces, that the entire industry seems to have adopted. As the article says, the noise and distraction were always an issue. Even if you used headphones, as most people did most of the time, there were still visual distractions in your peripheral vision. It was a nightmare for productivity, and I&#x27;m surprised that the false narrative of how they promote collaboration stuck around this long.<p>Cubicles were great, especially if you got one near a window. You had the outside view; desks were angular in large cubicles so you had ample space for multiple monitors; the barriers provided just enough visual and noise isolation, while you could always prop up and chat with your neighbors; the barriers also served as tackboards, and people decorated their spaces in unique ways. Et cetera.<p>I still don&#x27;t want to go back to working in an office, even if I had a personal space with a door, which most companies can&#x27;t afford, but they should bring back the cubicle. It will probably be renamed and marketed as something else, but kudos to Meta for taking the lead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcculley</author><text>&gt; no company can afford private offices for all their workforce<p>Go visit any good law firm or CPA firm.<p>I benefit from my equity holdings in tech companies. They are choosing to give that money to me in valuation instead of building out proper offices.</text></comment> | <story><title>Meta rediscovers the cubicle</title><url>https://calnewport.com/meta-rediscovers-the-cubicle/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imiric</author><text>Come on, realistically, no company can afford private offices for all their workforce. Even for roles that do require complete concentration like programming, it&#x27;s not feasible to expect even Big Tech companies to foot the bill. The infrastructure cost alone would be astronomical. Such buildings just don&#x27;t scale, and the setup couldn&#x27;t keep up with the growth rate. So at best, they can have private offices for tech leads, managers and senior staff, but this undeniably goes against the &quot;flat&quot; organizational structure some companies like to virtue signal.<p>What can be much more manageable is to have comfortable cubicles for everyone (not the cramped desks with dividers, which is what probably gave cubicles the bad rep), and also have many small and large meeting rooms where people can congregate and collaborate in. This has the benefit of defaulting to semi-private workspaces which can easily scale, and moves the noisy collaborative areas to closed rooms, so that they don&#x27;t bother anyone else. The smaller rooms could even serve as rotating private offices, if needed, that anyone can book for a limited period of time.<p>But the open floor office only has practical drawbacks, and definitely has to go. It only got popular because it&#x27;s really the cheapest option for companies; just place some desks, chairs and monitors in a huge space, and sell it as &quot;collaborative&quot;. But if they really want to entice people to come back to the office, they need to invest in better working conditions.</text></item><item><author>mcculley</author><text>&gt; personal space with a door, which most companies can&#x27;t afford<p>A company that cannot afford proper offices is probably not creating much value. Big tech companies can afford offices. They choose to allocate capital differently.<p>When I ran a consultancy, I spent a lot of rent of making sure my employees had both proper offices where they could think and common areas where they could collaborate. Doing otherwise is foolish.</text></item><item><author>imiric</author><text>I was always a fan of cubicles, and never got the FAANG fascination with open plan workspaces, that the entire industry seems to have adopted. As the article says, the noise and distraction were always an issue. Even if you used headphones, as most people did most of the time, there were still visual distractions in your peripheral vision. It was a nightmare for productivity, and I&#x27;m surprised that the false narrative of how they promote collaboration stuck around this long.<p>Cubicles were great, especially if you got one near a window. You had the outside view; desks were angular in large cubicles so you had ample space for multiple monitors; the barriers provided just enough visual and noise isolation, while you could always prop up and chat with your neighbors; the barriers also served as tackboards, and people decorated their spaces in unique ways. Et cetera.<p>I still don&#x27;t want to go back to working in an office, even if I had a personal space with a door, which most companies can&#x27;t afford, but they should bring back the cubicle. It will probably be renamed and marketed as something else, but kudos to Meta for taking the lead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shalmanese</author><text>Facebook&#x27;s open plan set up didn&#x27;t come cheap. A Facebook insider once gave me a ballpark figure of how much their giant aircraft hanger cost and I recall it being 3x the price per square foot of private office space which means about 1 - 1.5x the price per employee.</text></comment> |
32,007,579 | 32,007,596 | 1 | 2 | 32,006,791 | train | <story><title>Large-scale ‘sand battery’ goes online in Finland</title><url>https://www.energy-storage.news/worlds-first-large-scale-sand-battery-goes-online-in-finland/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavon</author><text>As an American it completely breaks my expectations that district heating not only works can be more efficient that decentralized heating. The amount of heat lost just moving water from the water heater on one side of the house to the shower on the other is ridiculously high in houses here. The idea that you can insulate well enough to efficiently move heat across a city is amazing to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gamegoblin</author><text>Many American universities use district heating for the whole campus.<p>Also, as made famous by the many steam vents in NYC movie shots: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;New_York_City_steam_system" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;New_York_City_steam_system</a>.<p>More info: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;District_heating#United_States" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;District_heating#United_States</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Large-scale ‘sand battery’ goes online in Finland</title><url>https://www.energy-storage.news/worlds-first-large-scale-sand-battery-goes-online-in-finland/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavon</author><text>As an American it completely breaks my expectations that district heating not only works can be more efficient that decentralized heating. The amount of heat lost just moving water from the water heater on one side of the house to the shower on the other is ridiculously high in houses here. The idea that you can insulate well enough to efficiently move heat across a city is amazing to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>konschubert</author><text>As a German living in a city with mandatory district heating... the end result is to be that people seem pay more for heating than they would with a decentralised system.<p>I think that&#x27;s mostly due to the high upkeep costs of the system, though, the transmission loss is quite manageable, I think.
Of course there are arguments to be made that when accounting for the cost of installing a heating system, and the space it takes, the premium paid for district heating is not that high.<p>But still... if district heating is so smart, why ain&#x27;t it cheaper?<p>What&#x27;s nice about it, and maybe hard to quantify, is how this limits air pollution in the city. However, people are still allowed wood burning ovens... which they are now all turning to since the district heat is getting really, really expensive..</text></comment> |
28,197,665 | 28,197,577 | 1 | 2 | 28,197,355 | train | <story><title>U.S. opens probe into Tesla’s Autopilot over emergency vehicle crashes</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-opens-formal-safety-probe-into-tesla-autopilot-crashes-2021-08-16/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>I have a Subaru Forester base model with lane keeping and adaptive cruise control.<p>I need to be touching the wheel and applying some force to it or it begins yelling at me and eventually brings me slowly to a stop.<p>I’ve had it for a year now and I cannot perceive of a way, without physically altering the system (like hanging a weight from the wheel maybe?) that would allow me to stop being an active participant.<p>I think the opposite is true: Tesla’s move fast and kill people approach is the mistake. Incremental mastering of autonomous capabilities is the way to go.</text></item><item><author>gundmc</author><text>This is why I believe the approach of incremental improvement towards full self driving is fundamentally flawed. These advanced driver assist tools are good enough to lull users into a false sense of security. No amount of &quot;but our terms and conditions say you need to always pay attention!&quot; will overcome human nature building that trust and dependence.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeffnappi</author><text>I own a Model Y and am a pretty heavy Autopilot user. You have to regularly give input on the steering wheel and if you fail a few times it won&#x27;t let you re-engage until you park and start again.<p>Personally Autopilot has actually made driving safer for me... I think there&#x27;s likely abuse of the system though that Tesla could work harder to prevent.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. opens probe into Tesla’s Autopilot over emergency vehicle crashes</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-opens-formal-safety-probe-into-tesla-autopilot-crashes-2021-08-16/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>I have a Subaru Forester base model with lane keeping and adaptive cruise control.<p>I need to be touching the wheel and applying some force to it or it begins yelling at me and eventually brings me slowly to a stop.<p>I’ve had it for a year now and I cannot perceive of a way, without physically altering the system (like hanging a weight from the wheel maybe?) that would allow me to stop being an active participant.<p>I think the opposite is true: Tesla’s move fast and kill people approach is the mistake. Incremental mastering of autonomous capabilities is the way to go.</text></item><item><author>gundmc</author><text>This is why I believe the approach of incremental improvement towards full self driving is fundamentally flawed. These advanced driver assist tools are good enough to lull users into a false sense of security. No amount of &quot;but our terms and conditions say you need to always pay attention!&quot; will overcome human nature building that trust and dependence.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tgsovlerkhgsel</author><text>Tesla had a similar system, and<p>&gt; physically altering the system (like hanging a weight from the wheel maybe?)<p>was exactly what people were doing. But it&#x27;s also possible to be physically present, applying force, but being &quot;zoned out&quot;, even without malicious intent.</text></comment> |
7,559,156 | 7,558,267 | 1 | 3 | 7,556,407 | train | <story><title>OpenSSL is written by monkeys (2009)</title><url>https://www.peereboom.us/assl/assl/html/openssl.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>betterunix</author><text>1. Other libraries do exist -- NSS, GnuTLS, etc.<p>2. Do you have time for a rewrite? What makes you think anyone else would?<p>3. The (generally correct) mindset is <i>don&#x27;t implement your own crypto</i>. This is particularly true of something like TLS, which is complicated and has subtle requirements that are easy to screw up. Unfortunately, this means that even people who have time are discouraged from doing an OpenSSL rewrite.</text></item><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>O.K. This is probably a stupid question but if it was apparent to many that the code of OpenSSL was horrible why people kept using it and nobody tried to re-factor it? How it is possible that such a popular and critical piece of opensource software survived the years without a complete face-lift and nobody wrote thorogh documentation?</text></item><item><author>agwa</author><text>I&#x27;ve done quite a bit of programming with the OpenSSL library and this article is only scratching the surface of the awfulness. Documentation is horrible to non-existent, you really do need to go spelunking into the source to figure out how things work, and the code really is that horrible.<p>The worst thing is that error reporting is not consistent - sometimes -1 means error, other times 0 means error, other times 0 means success, and sometimes it&#x27;s a combination. This is really, <i>really</i> bad for a crypto library since properly detecting errors is usually critical to security.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bad_user</author><text>&gt; <i>The (generally correct) mindset is don&#x27;t implement your own crypto</i><p>That sounds like bad advice. The huge impact of Heartbleed is precisely because of the monoculture in SSL&#x2F;TLS implementations. Shit happens but this vulnerability is such a catastrophe because an estimated half a million of the <i>top</i> Internet websites have been vulnerable since 2012, including popular services that everybody is using and the vulnerability once discovered, is easy to use and far reaching, allowing one to steal sessions, passwords, the domain&#x27;s private keys and anything important.<p>It really can&#x27;t get any worse than this. At the very least we found out about it, better late than never and we can discuss the source-code, but it does make one wonder ... if SSL&#x2F;TLS is such an important piece of infrastructure and if we need a monoculture (because apparently it&#x27;s bad advice to reimplement crypto), why aren&#x27;t we using a library that&#x27;s the reference and that&#x27;s peer reviewed by a standards committee, instead of relying on a library for which commits don&#x27;t necessarily trigger sounds?</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenSSL is written by monkeys (2009)</title><url>https://www.peereboom.us/assl/assl/html/openssl.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>betterunix</author><text>1. Other libraries do exist -- NSS, GnuTLS, etc.<p>2. Do you have time for a rewrite? What makes you think anyone else would?<p>3. The (generally correct) mindset is <i>don&#x27;t implement your own crypto</i>. This is particularly true of something like TLS, which is complicated and has subtle requirements that are easy to screw up. Unfortunately, this means that even people who have time are discouraged from doing an OpenSSL rewrite.</text></item><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>O.K. This is probably a stupid question but if it was apparent to many that the code of OpenSSL was horrible why people kept using it and nobody tried to re-factor it? How it is possible that such a popular and critical piece of opensource software survived the years without a complete face-lift and nobody wrote thorogh documentation?</text></item><item><author>agwa</author><text>I&#x27;ve done quite a bit of programming with the OpenSSL library and this article is only scratching the surface of the awfulness. Documentation is horrible to non-existent, you really do need to go spelunking into the source to figure out how things work, and the code really is that horrible.<p>The worst thing is that error reporting is not consistent - sometimes -1 means error, other times 0 means error, other times 0 means success, and sometimes it&#x27;s a combination. This is really, <i>really</i> bad for a crypto library since properly detecting errors is usually critical to security.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brohee</author><text>Historically GnuTLS had even more security trouble than OpenSSL (like that bug where it was trusting a self signed root certificate even if not in the certificate store that went undetected for years).<p>And NSS is pretty light on the server code IIRC...<p>In my past as professional code auditor, I&#x27;ve seen OpenSSL shipped with products quite a bit, and in 99% of the cases it was openssl the command line tool that was used to access the functionality because yes, the API is that bad and confusing that people would rather pipe to an executable that use library calls...</text></comment> |
33,712,286 | 33,711,149 | 1 | 2 | 33,704,297 | train | <story><title>Extremely Linear Git History</title><url>https://westling.dev/b/extremely-linear-git</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>infogulch</author><text>Github-style rebase-only PRs have revealed the best compromise between &#x27;preserve history&#x27; and &#x27;linear history&#x27; strategies:<p>All PRs are rebased and merged in a linear history of merge commits that reference the PR#. If you intentionally crafted a logical series of commits, merge them as a series (ideally you&#x27;ve tested each commit independently), otherwise squash.<p>If you want more detail about the development of the PR than the merge commit, aka the &#x27;real history&#x27;, then open up the PR and browse through Updates, which include commits that were force-pushed to the branch and also fast-forward commits that were appended to the branch. You also get discussion context and intermediate build statuses etc. To represent this convention within native git, maybe tag each Update with pr&#x2F;123&#x2F;update-N.<p>The funny thing about this design is that it&#x27;s actually more similar to the kernel development workflow (emailing crafted patches around until they are accepted) than BOTH of the typical hard-line stances taken by most people with a strong opinion about how to maintain git history (only merge&#x2F;only rebase).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>couchand</author><text>What&#x27;s weird about most of these discussions is how they&#x27;re always seen as technical considerations distinct from the individuals who actually use the system.<p>The kernel needs a highly-distributed workflow because it&#x27;s a huge organization of loosely-coupled sub-organizations. Most commercial software is developed by a relatively small group of highly-cohesive individuals. The forces that make a solution work well in one environment don&#x27;t necessarily apply elsewhere.</text></comment> | <story><title>Extremely Linear Git History</title><url>https://westling.dev/b/extremely-linear-git</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>infogulch</author><text>Github-style rebase-only PRs have revealed the best compromise between &#x27;preserve history&#x27; and &#x27;linear history&#x27; strategies:<p>All PRs are rebased and merged in a linear history of merge commits that reference the PR#. If you intentionally crafted a logical series of commits, merge them as a series (ideally you&#x27;ve tested each commit independently), otherwise squash.<p>If you want more detail about the development of the PR than the merge commit, aka the &#x27;real history&#x27;, then open up the PR and browse through Updates, which include commits that were force-pushed to the branch and also fast-forward commits that were appended to the branch. You also get discussion context and intermediate build statuses etc. To represent this convention within native git, maybe tag each Update with pr&#x2F;123&#x2F;update-N.<p>The funny thing about this design is that it&#x27;s actually more similar to the kernel development workflow (emailing crafted patches around until they are accepted) than BOTH of the typical hard-line stances taken by most people with a strong opinion about how to maintain git history (only merge&#x2F;only rebase).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pnt12</author><text>I wholeheartedly agree!<p>With this, you can also push people towards smaller PRs which are easier to review and integrate.<p>The downside is that if you és o work on feature 2 based on feature 1,either you wait for the PR to be merged in main (easiest approach) or you fork from your feature branch directly and will need to rebase later (this can get messier, especially if you need to fix errors in feature 1).</text></comment> |
39,460,758 | 39,456,032 | 1 | 3 | 39,452,494 | train | <story><title>Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero</title><url>https://saveflipper.ca/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hoofhearted</author><text>Sooo they have been stealing Infiniti&#x27;s from my area recently with relative ease allegedly by using a Bluetooth obd2 reader connected to an android tablet running a pirated copy of some Nissan service tech software.<p>Nobody from any of the Infiniti groups is 100% certain how they are doing it, but the best theory out there is above.<p>Just the other night, a crew of dudes stole 3 Q50’s from my neighborhood with relative ease.<p>Here is the ring cam video my neighbor posted:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;video.nest.com&#x2F;clip&#x2F;8ef4d060588d4c7289f87cccb00cb55a.mp4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;video.nest.com&#x2F;clip&#x2F;8ef4d060588d4c7289f87cccb00cb55a...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aetherspawn</author><text>Well for one thing the OBD port shouldn’t be designed so that it has direct access to any useful CAN bus. It should go to a gateway that requires authentication to do anything except read OBD, and all of the IDs that you are allowed to send should be whitelisted.<p>The issue people are mentioning with the headlights is easily solved by just moving the starter CAN to its own CAN bus between the immobiliser and the ECU (physically isolating the headlights), which costs about $5 total and requires no crypto unless thief is willing to cut the car nearly completely in half.<p>(The problem with crypto is the $10 safety MCUs used all throughout cars are only like 20MHz and they can’t really do the 2000+ crypto ops&#x2F;sec on top of their current workload. Also the tooling support for crypto ATM is really poor in the model based design tools that are used for this safety relevant SW)<p>BTW I personally don’t believe that anything that involves cutting into a vehicle is negligence of anyone. I mean, from my perspective, anyone can just pop the hood and drive the car with their own BYO ECU. It’s just a hunk of metal and once you start cutting it up you can make it do whatever you want.<p>I am an automotive systems engineer.</text></comment> | <story><title>Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero</title><url>https://saveflipper.ca/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hoofhearted</author><text>Sooo they have been stealing Infiniti&#x27;s from my area recently with relative ease allegedly by using a Bluetooth obd2 reader connected to an android tablet running a pirated copy of some Nissan service tech software.<p>Nobody from any of the Infiniti groups is 100% certain how they are doing it, but the best theory out there is above.<p>Just the other night, a crew of dudes stole 3 Q50’s from my neighborhood with relative ease.<p>Here is the ring cam video my neighbor posted:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;video.nest.com&#x2F;clip&#x2F;8ef4d060588d4c7289f87cccb00cb55a.mp4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;video.nest.com&#x2F;clip&#x2F;8ef4d060588d4c7289f87cccb00cb55a...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rasz</author><text>Infinite Infinity car hack, came with two, left with three Q50s.<p>They do crouch an awful lot near front wheel well. Reminds me of this Toyota hack where thieves plug into headlight canbus wiring thru wheel arch <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kentindell.github.io&#x2F;2023&#x2F;04&#x2F;03&#x2F;can-injection&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kentindell.github.io&#x2F;2023&#x2F;04&#x2F;03&#x2F;can-injection&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
21,021,705 | 21,021,887 | 1 | 2 | 21,019,658 | train | <story><title>Colt is ending production of AR-15s</title><url>https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/09/colt-is-ending-production-of-ar-15s/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>People like to bring up the Mini-14 in gun arguments, and I never quite understand what they mean to prove. The Mini-14 is a tactical rifle (note caps). It&#x27;s not a black rifle, but neither is a classic AK-47, which also features a wooden stock. The fact that it doesn&#x27;t look like an AR-15 (or its successor, the M16) was a <i>feature</i> of the weapon, not because people in the 1970s were afraid of mass shooters, but because the M16 had acquired a reputation for unreliability.<p>Is your point that the Mini-14 should be regulated the same way as a Colt AR-15? Of course, you&#x27;re right. Obviously, Mini-14 regulation isn&#x27;t that much of a problem today, since the AR-15 platform became the default sporting rifle platform.</text></item><item><author>tyingq</author><text>What&#x27;s funny is that a Mini14 ranch rifle would be more acceptable to anti-assault rifle people. Even though it&#x27;s roughly the same thing.</text></item><item><author>matt-attack</author><text>Correct. There is no one brand of AR-15. It’s an interoperable platform (for the most part). You can buy a bare lower receiver from any manufacture (basically just a part with no moving parts milled from a single block of AL). Then just go and buy various parts kits or buy the parts individually to customize to you own needs. It’s what makes them so popular. You can customize them infinitely and they’re extremely affordable and very reliable, safe and accurate.<p>People who own them don’t think of them as the crazy “military style” weapons you hear them described as. Most who own then just think of them as “the most standard and obvious rifle you can possibly buy”. Like you go into most gun store and it’s just the platform that is <i>everywhere</i>. It’s “gun” in the dictionaries in heads of gun wonders. It’s nothing “crazy” to them.</text></item><item><author>tyingq</author><text>No lack of demand. People are just buying less expensive clones of the AR15, like the Springfield Saint. $650 vs the $1k real AR15.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text><i>&quot;Is your point that the Mini-14 should be regulated the same way as a Colt AR-15?&quot;</i><p>Partially. It&#x27;s allowed in some places where the AR-15 is banned. People tend to react to the tactical appearance. There&#x27;s almost no functional difference.</text></comment> | <story><title>Colt is ending production of AR-15s</title><url>https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/09/colt-is-ending-production-of-ar-15s/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>People like to bring up the Mini-14 in gun arguments, and I never quite understand what they mean to prove. The Mini-14 is a tactical rifle (note caps). It&#x27;s not a black rifle, but neither is a classic AK-47, which also features a wooden stock. The fact that it doesn&#x27;t look like an AR-15 (or its successor, the M16) was a <i>feature</i> of the weapon, not because people in the 1970s were afraid of mass shooters, but because the M16 had acquired a reputation for unreliability.<p>Is your point that the Mini-14 should be regulated the same way as a Colt AR-15? Of course, you&#x27;re right. Obviously, Mini-14 regulation isn&#x27;t that much of a problem today, since the AR-15 platform became the default sporting rifle platform.</text></item><item><author>tyingq</author><text>What&#x27;s funny is that a Mini14 ranch rifle would be more acceptable to anti-assault rifle people. Even though it&#x27;s roughly the same thing.</text></item><item><author>matt-attack</author><text>Correct. There is no one brand of AR-15. It’s an interoperable platform (for the most part). You can buy a bare lower receiver from any manufacture (basically just a part with no moving parts milled from a single block of AL). Then just go and buy various parts kits or buy the parts individually to customize to you own needs. It’s what makes them so popular. You can customize them infinitely and they’re extremely affordable and very reliable, safe and accurate.<p>People who own them don’t think of them as the crazy “military style” weapons you hear them described as. Most who own then just think of them as “the most standard and obvious rifle you can possibly buy”. Like you go into most gun store and it’s just the platform that is <i>everywhere</i>. It’s “gun” in the dictionaries in heads of gun wonders. It’s nothing “crazy” to them.</text></item><item><author>tyingq</author><text>No lack of demand. People are just buying less expensive clones of the AR15, like the Springfield Saint. $650 vs the $1k real AR15.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>28226</author><text>People bring up the Mini-14 because the Mini-14 Ranch (5801) is specifically, by name, exempt from &quot;Assault Weapon Ban&quot; laws while the Mini-14 Tactical (5846) is banned because of its ergonomic features.</text></comment> |
35,523,761 | 35,523,559 | 1 | 2 | 35,521,436 | train | <story><title>Stop Telling Everyone What You Do for a Living</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/stop-telling-everyone-what-you-do-for-a-living-5daa8fc9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>verelo</author><text>I try play a game when i meet a new person: see how long i can go without discussing work with them. The best new connections tend to take the longest to reach work, it’s often a signal of a lazy conversation starter and like you said just an attempt to size up our social status.</text></item><item><author>version_five</author><text>When I did my PhD I hated it when (most) people asked about my research. It&#x27;s not because I wasn&#x27;t interested, it&#x27;s because I&#x27;m really interested and was (still am) bad at giving concise summaries, so I felt like people who really didn&#x27;t care and wouldn&#x27;t listen to the answer were asking me to embark on a long explanation that required a bunch of preamble etc, just in order to make conversation.<p>Anyway, I feel largely the same about work. I love talking about what I do, but not with people who aren&#x27;t listening and who are just asking to form an opinion of my social status. So 9 times out of 10 I just sort of mumble something and talk about something else, just like in grad school.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jraph</author><text>&gt; it’s often a signal of a lazy conversation starter<p>But this is fine, no? If it helps start a more enjoyable discussion afterwards. When you don&#x27;t know the ones you are speaking with at all.<p>Though I indeed avoid focusing on work when starting a conversation. I usually try to phrase the question as &quot;What do you do in your life?&quot;, which is more general and allows answering hobbies. I&#x27;m more interested in what people like than what they are possibly forced to do to fund it, or their opinions. Usually people <i>will</i> answer their what they do for a living but they will get another, more explicit question. I&#x27;m interested in knowing whether they will indeed answer by what they do for a living though.<p>And if they do something meaningful or enjoying for their living, it&#x27;s actually interesting.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stop Telling Everyone What You Do for a Living</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/stop-telling-everyone-what-you-do-for-a-living-5daa8fc9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>verelo</author><text>I try play a game when i meet a new person: see how long i can go without discussing work with them. The best new connections tend to take the longest to reach work, it’s often a signal of a lazy conversation starter and like you said just an attempt to size up our social status.</text></item><item><author>version_five</author><text>When I did my PhD I hated it when (most) people asked about my research. It&#x27;s not because I wasn&#x27;t interested, it&#x27;s because I&#x27;m really interested and was (still am) bad at giving concise summaries, so I felt like people who really didn&#x27;t care and wouldn&#x27;t listen to the answer were asking me to embark on a long explanation that required a bunch of preamble etc, just in order to make conversation.<p>Anyway, I feel largely the same about work. I love talking about what I do, but not with people who aren&#x27;t listening and who are just asking to form an opinion of my social status. So 9 times out of 10 I just sort of mumble something and talk about something else, just like in grad school.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>plagiarist</author><text>I have some anxiety so I recognize it as people looking for a safe topic in hopes of striking some common ground. It is still lazy conversation skills and boring for everyone involved. I wish I wasn&#x27;t like that, but inferring from past events I won&#x27;t change any time soon.</text></comment> |
28,863,944 | 28,864,053 | 1 | 2 | 28,862,759 | train | <story><title>FB seals off some internal message boards to prevent leaking, immediately leaked</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-whistleblower-leaks-restricts-staff-access-message-boards-elections-safety-2021-10</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jwalton</author><text>Ah yes, the time honoured tradition of improving your integrity department by removing transparency.</text></comment> | <story><title>FB seals off some internal message boards to prevent leaking, immediately leaked</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-whistleblower-leaks-restricts-staff-access-message-boards-elections-safety-2021-10</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bebuzzy</author><text>“Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement following Haugen&#x27;s testimony that the company&#x27;s work had been &quot;taken out of context and used to construct a false narrative.&quot;”<p>Funny how Zuck blames a whistleblower for doing the exact same thing his company does to make billions.</text></comment> |
27,113,984 | 27,113,198 | 1 | 2 | 27,112,699 | train | <story><title>Current RNA vaccines protect against worrying coronavirus variants</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01222-5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vmception</author><text>I literally saw the opposite headline about Pzifer versus a strain in India today<p>The actual article said &quot;modest antibody evading capabilities“<p>I hate that the internet has become this way</text></comment> | <story><title>Current RNA vaccines protect against worrying coronavirus variants</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01222-5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>o-__-o</author><text>So, then I would assume this means people with antibodies from the initial wave of infections are also protected</text></comment> |
3,510,298 | 3,509,077 | 1 | 2 | 3,508,698 | train | <story><title>Average Is Over</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/opinion/friedman-average-is-over.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtts</author><text>Ridiculous.<p>The solution to average people becoming less relevant in the economy (which I don't dispute, btw) can of course never be to make everyone above average as that is by definition impossible.<p>It's a feel good message for average folk that papers over the truth, which is that average folk that used to make a decent living doing average work will become poor. All of them, eventually. How poor exactly? Well, you could do worse than to look at Chinese factory workers for an indication of where things will end.<p>Of course it's more complicated than that: if the average man has become as poor as a Chinese factory worker, he will no longer be able to afford expensive gadgets and value added services, so it'll be in the interest of at least some sectors of the economy (think Apple and Google) to keep the impoverishment of the middle class down to a minimum. On the other hand there are other sectors of the economy (think McDonalds and Walmart) that will do just fine even if everyone is poor, so it'll be interesting to see how this plays out.<p>But, like I said, this article is ridiculous. Giving everyone a PhD won't solve a thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geebee</author><text>"The solution to average people becoming less relevant in the economy (which I don't dispute, btw) can of course never be to make everyone above average as that is by definition impossible."<p>It's not as impossible as you might think. The idea here is to be above average in a specialty, not in everything.
It's even more within reach when you start thinking about how narrow a specialization can become. I remember Scott Adams's reflections on this... that you can become "elite" by being the very best at one thing (like Roger Federer at Tennis), or by by being good at an interesting blend of different things. The first is out of range for most people, but the second is a possibility for mere mortals. Scott Adams's personal reflection was that he was good but not great at drawing, telling jokes, and commenting on business, but all three together made his comic strip unique.<p>Even this approach will require a substantial amount of education and hard work, but it is a possibility.</text></comment> | <story><title>Average Is Over</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/opinion/friedman-average-is-over.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtts</author><text>Ridiculous.<p>The solution to average people becoming less relevant in the economy (which I don't dispute, btw) can of course never be to make everyone above average as that is by definition impossible.<p>It's a feel good message for average folk that papers over the truth, which is that average folk that used to make a decent living doing average work will become poor. All of them, eventually. How poor exactly? Well, you could do worse than to look at Chinese factory workers for an indication of where things will end.<p>Of course it's more complicated than that: if the average man has become as poor as a Chinese factory worker, he will no longer be able to afford expensive gadgets and value added services, so it'll be in the interest of at least some sectors of the economy (think Apple and Google) to keep the impoverishment of the middle class down to a minimum. On the other hand there are other sectors of the economy (think McDonalds and Walmart) that will do just fine even if everyone is poor, so it'll be interesting to see how this plays out.<p>But, like I said, this article is ridiculous. Giving everyone a PhD won't solve a thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>muyuu</author><text>The solution is none. There is no "solution" because it, in itself, is not a problem. The problem is that everybody feels entitled to a top 10% salary and many would <i>kill</i> for "their fair share" when nowadays even the lower 10% have their basic needs covered and some left for leisure.<p>The problem is that a society where everybody have similar incomes is somehow fairer, when there is no logical chain leading there and to top it off it causes ruination. Did cause it already just after industrial revolution, when this disparity in productivity first became natural, and does more and more now.<p>Having everyone highly educated would solve many things. Not salary disparity though, as it isn't a problem in the first place. The problem is having a significant chunk of the population hungry or homeless. This can perfectly be eradicated "even" with a higher disparity.</text></comment> |
20,240,318 | 20,238,751 | 1 | 3 | 20,234,544 | train | <story><title>Slack Is Going Public Without an IPO – How a Direct Listing Works</title><url>http://fortune.com/2019/06/20/slack-stock-ipo-dpo-direct-listing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sixhobbits</author><text>&gt; In an IPO, SEC rules typically restrict shareholders from selling shares until six months after the offering. A direct offering makes it much easier for employees and early investors to cash out as soon as the first day of trading. This can be a big help for investors in companies that have waited to go public, which many of the best-known tech companies have been doing for years<p>Is it wrong to interpret this as other people expecting the bubble to pop soon and wanting to pass the bag sooner rather than later?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>randomsearch</author><text>I don’t know, but I do think you can take the recent spate of high profile IPOs as an indicator that a lot of people want to “cash out” (sell their shares) or “cash in” (raise money whilst the market is bullish) right now. Presumably they think the market won’t get much better.<p>It seems pretty obvious that we’re in a bubble, given the excessive valuations and obvious signs such as the incredible rise of WeWork and “me too” startup culture. But the nature of a bubble is that such things are normalised and rationalised. What’s particularly difficult about this bubble is that economic conditions have conspired to maintain it far longer that the .com boom, which has meant predictions of the burst have been premature.<p>I definitely think we’re in a better place than the late 90s, but it’s still a bubble. Perhaps such cyclic swings are inevitable; just wish we’d done more constructive and positive things than Uber, Airbnb, Facebook, Twitter, with this era of cheap money. Could have had more Teslas and SpaceXs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Slack Is Going Public Without an IPO – How a Direct Listing Works</title><url>http://fortune.com/2019/06/20/slack-stock-ipo-dpo-direct-listing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sixhobbits</author><text>&gt; In an IPO, SEC rules typically restrict shareholders from selling shares until six months after the offering. A direct offering makes it much easier for employees and early investors to cash out as soon as the first day of trading. This can be a big help for investors in companies that have waited to go public, which many of the best-known tech companies have been doing for years<p>Is it wrong to interpret this as other people expecting the bubble to pop soon and wanting to pass the bag sooner rather than later?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cdumler</author><text>That is possible, but in theory there has been due diligence to verify the company as an on-going concern. Normally the goal of going public is to let those who took the risk in the beginning to get a payout, given that they have had their funds locked up all this time. Those who choose to invest now are taking the risks for access to future returns.</text></comment> |
12,673,827 | 12,673,621 | 1 | 2 | 12,670,579 | train | <story><title>Immunotherapy cancer drug hailed as 'game changer'</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-37588541</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>randcraw</author><text>If you have cancer, as I may still do (after prostate surgery), PD-1 and PD-L1 immunotherapy simply is NOT a game changer. On average, you live another 6 months, but only if you pass a screening to get the treatment, which most patients fail. So in practice, even with these drugs, the outcome of getting cancer is significant only in a statistical sense. Hardly a breakthrough.<p>I also happen to work for one of the two pharmas making these drugs, and it PISSES ME OFF no end how much overpromotion this advancement is getting. Fact is, if you have cancer, you&#x27;re still going to die, at best a year later than if you were on chemo. So the lucky few who pass immuno-screening and then get these drugs will benefit mostly by avoiding chemo, not by living significantly longer, much less getting cured.<p>Added to its modest actual outcome, the COST of this treatment is insane - profiteering of the worst kind. Charging a dying person $80,000 for an extra 3-6 months of life while promoting the drug as a &#x27;breakthrough&#x27; is just plain wrong. It&#x27;s a violation of the Hippocratic oath. And it&#x27;s caused me to lose the little bit of my remaining faith in the value of working in this industry.<p>&#x27;As good as it gets&#x27; is a pitiful rallying cry when battling cancer, IMHO.</text></comment> | <story><title>Immunotherapy cancer drug hailed as 'game changer'</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-37588541</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>refurb</author><text>To some folks this may not seem like much of a benefit, but these improvements add up over time. I could only find this example, but in the last 40 years, the 5-year survival rate for breast cancer patients has gone from ~75% to 92%. All of that benefit was recognized at once, but rather incremental benefits added up over time.<p>I wish I could have the table I saw for colorectal cancer. Really amazing. We&#x27;re talking average overall survival going from 6 months to 5 years in the span of a few decades. This isn&#x27;t the one I was thinking of, but it&#x27;s a great example.[1]<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bowelcanceraustralia.org&#x2F;images&#x2F;Bowel_Cancer_Australia_Advocacy_Therapeutic_Progress_660.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bowelcanceraustralia.org&#x2F;images&#x2F;Bowel_Cancer_Aus...</a></text></comment> |
12,785,483 | 12,784,425 | 1 | 3 | 12,784,295 | train | <story><title>Chrome Requiring Certificate Transparency in 2017</title><url>https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/ct-policy/78N3SMcqUGw/ykIwHXuqAQAJ</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rfugger</author><text>For those wondering what Certificate Transparency is:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.certificate-transparency.org&#x2F;what-is-ct" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.certificate-transparency.org&#x2F;what-is-ct</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Chrome Requiring Certificate Transparency in 2017</title><url>https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/ct-policy/78N3SMcqUGw/ykIwHXuqAQAJ</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mcpherrinm</author><text>This is very cool. CT is a good step in monitoring for CA misbehavior. My employer&#x27;s users can be target of phishing attacks, so having all TLS certs in CT is a great source of data to detect phishing sites earlier.<p>I wonder how this will work for &quot;internal&quot; domains issued off a private CA, though. Will this be enforced by chrome, or is this just a CA&#x2F;B rule?</text></comment> |
25,625,191 | 25,624,691 | 1 | 3 | 25,622,322 | train | <story><title>ECC matters</title><url>https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=198497&curpostid=198647</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>I still remember Craig Silverstein being asked what his biggest mistake at Google was and him answering &quot;Not pushing for ECC memory.&quot;<p>Google&#x27;s initial strategy (c. 2000) around this was to save a few bucks on hardware, get non-ECC memory, and then compensate for it in software. It turns out this is a terrible idea, because if you can&#x27;t count on memory being robust against cosmic rays, you also can&#x27;t count on the software being stored in that memory being robust against cosmic rays. And when you have thousands of machines with petabytes of RAM, those bitflips do happen. Google wasted many man-years tracking down corrupted GFS files and index shards before they finally bit the bullet and just paid for ECC.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ksec</author><text>&gt;I still remember Craig Silverstein being asked what his biggest mistake at Google was and him answering &quot;Not pushing for ECC memory.&quot;<p>Did they ( Google ) or He ( Craig Silverstein ) ever officially admit it on record? I did a Google search and results that came up were all on HN. Did they at least make a few PR pieces saying that they are using ECC memory now because I dont see any with searching. Admitting they made a mistake without officially saying it?<p>I mean the whole world of Server or computer might not need ECC insanity was started entirely because of Google [1] [2] with news and articles published even in the early 00s [3]. And after that it has spread like wildfire and became a common accepted fact that even Google doesn&#x27;t need ECC. Just like Apple were using custom ARM instruction to achieve their fast JS VM performance became a &quot;fact&quot;. ( For the last time, no they didn&#x27;t ). And proponents of ECC memory has been fighting this misinformation like mad for decades. To the point giving up and only rant about every now and then. [3]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&#x2F;building-a-computer-the-google-way&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&#x2F;building-a-computer-the-google...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&#x2F;to-ecc-or-not-to-ecc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&#x2F;to-ecc-or-not-to-ecc&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;danluu.com&#x2F;why-ecc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;danluu.com&#x2F;why-ecc&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>ECC matters</title><url>https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=198497&curpostid=198647</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>I still remember Craig Silverstein being asked what his biggest mistake at Google was and him answering &quot;Not pushing for ECC memory.&quot;<p>Google&#x27;s initial strategy (c. 2000) around this was to save a few bucks on hardware, get non-ECC memory, and then compensate for it in software. It turns out this is a terrible idea, because if you can&#x27;t count on memory being robust against cosmic rays, you also can&#x27;t count on the software being stored in that memory being robust against cosmic rays. And when you have thousands of machines with petabytes of RAM, those bitflips do happen. Google wasted many man-years tracking down corrupted GFS files and index shards before they finally bit the bullet and just paid for ECC.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyoma</author><text>Figure this is as good of a time as any to ask this:<p>There are many various DRAMs in a server (say, for disk cache). Has Google or anyone who operates at a similar scale seen single bit errors in these components?</text></comment> |
35,141,639 | 35,140,343 | 1 | 3 | 35,139,450 | train | <story><title>Alpaca: An Instruct Tuned LLaMA 7B – Responses on par with txt-DaVinci-3</title><url>https://crfm.stanford.edu/alpaca/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>We&#x27;ve moved the comments moved to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35136624" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35136624</a>, which was posted first and has arguably the most substantive URL, especially since people are complaining that the web demo isn&#x27;t working right now.</text></comment> | <story><title>Alpaca: An Instruct Tuned LLaMA 7B – Responses on par with txt-DaVinci-3</title><url>https://crfm.stanford.edu/alpaca/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>The web service is overloaded now. I&#x27;m at queue position 111 of 174 after 2 minutes.</text></comment> |
32,733,735 | 32,733,189 | 1 | 3 | 32,730,020 | train | <story><title>Static site hosting hurdles</title><url>https://notes.volution.ro/v1/2022/09/notes/b08118d8/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Dalewyn</author><text>&gt;We’ve already standardized the hosting side of static sites by using the file system.<p>Worth noting that the incoming younger generations can&#x27;t and don&#x27;t into file systems.[1]<p>Yes, anyone who wants to be a webmaster should do their homework, but that is besides the point.<p>We are probably the last generation who can be ubiquitously assumed to have an understanding of files and folders&#x2F;directories in a computer.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;22684730&#x2F;students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;22684730&#x2F;students-file-folder-direc...</a></text></item><item><author>akerl_</author><text>It felt odd to see a doc this comprehensive on static site hosting with no mention of AWS S3&#x2F;Cloudfront, given how easy it is to push content to an S3 bucket (either manually or via the CI pipeline of your choosing) and then serve it up either direct-from-S3 or via Cloudfront.<p>But then it turns out that this is actually pushing folks towards some new paradigm of static cached HTTP responses instead of files. It pitches this as an attempt to “standardize the hosting side of static sites”, which doesn’t pass muster for me. We’ve already standardized the hosting side of static sites by using the file system. Shifting to a new storage format besides “HTML on disk” doesn’t unify anything, nor does it seem desirable to have fewer options for serving content.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hedora</author><text>In fairness to younger generations, I can never figure out how to use file choosers in modern operating systems or in crap like google drive.<p>It takes me a minimum of 60 seconds to naviate to ~ using the GUI on my work laptop.<p>(Partially because the dialog box sucks, and partially because I only do that once every 6 months or so.)<p>It&#x27;s like some UI designer didn&#x27;t understand folders, then somehow forced their brain damaged mental model of them on the rest of the population. After that, for some reason I will never understand, the rest of the industry copied the design.<p>(I&#x27;ve worked on filesystem implementations, tested for POSIX compliance, debugged insane customer issues, etc, etc. I know how directories work...)</text></comment> | <story><title>Static site hosting hurdles</title><url>https://notes.volution.ro/v1/2022/09/notes/b08118d8/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Dalewyn</author><text>&gt;We’ve already standardized the hosting side of static sites by using the file system.<p>Worth noting that the incoming younger generations can&#x27;t and don&#x27;t into file systems.[1]<p>Yes, anyone who wants to be a webmaster should do their homework, but that is besides the point.<p>We are probably the last generation who can be ubiquitously assumed to have an understanding of files and folders&#x2F;directories in a computer.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;22684730&#x2F;students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;22684730&#x2F;students-file-folder-direc...</a></text></item><item><author>akerl_</author><text>It felt odd to see a doc this comprehensive on static site hosting with no mention of AWS S3&#x2F;Cloudfront, given how easy it is to push content to an S3 bucket (either manually or via the CI pipeline of your choosing) and then serve it up either direct-from-S3 or via Cloudfront.<p>But then it turns out that this is actually pushing folks towards some new paradigm of static cached HTTP responses instead of files. It pitches this as an attempt to “standardize the hosting side of static sites”, which doesn’t pass muster for me. We’ve already standardized the hosting side of static sites by using the file system. Shifting to a new storage format besides “HTML on disk” doesn’t unify anything, nor does it seem desirable to have fewer options for serving content.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Spivak</author><text>I’m apparently young enough to be targeted by this article so I’ll weigh in. We’re better off for it, files as a storage layer and&#x2F;or format (meaning how routes on web servers are defined by the folder structure) suuucks. File semantics are annoying, complicated enough that nobody really gets them right, and broken at the margins. The concept of a virtual read head and seeking around files would never be invented today. File descriptors keeping random external magic state? What could go wrong? All but a tiny few file operations not being atomic — bleugh. See the stuff Ansible has to do just to get atomic copy. Permissions, attrs, xattrs, acls, and SELinux tags are a god damn mess. Locking is also a mess and filesystem dependent — sqlite doesn’t officially support NFS because of it. And with all that useless metadata we still don’t have a way of actually reliably specifying the format or encoding of files leading to garbage library after garbage library for guessing it. File paths being binary strings on Linux is a ridiculous tripwire, running out of inodes or open file handles is a leaky abstraction, links — hard and soft are a bandaid and make traversal stupid to reason about. Look at the dumb shit tar has to do to deal with it. Holding handles to deleted files is absolutely ass backwards and a pox on the people that made it necessary for updates to work. File rotation just shouldn’t be necessary. The application having to think about compression is the wrong layer. Whoever invented unix:abstract files committed a warcrime.<p>If you’re someone who likes working with the filesystem directly, why? Seriously why? It really does seem like anything would be better.<p>Even for code, wouldn’t you rather things like Python modules or packages be first class objects? No more sys.path nonsense, no more namespacing, just your whole venv in a single trivially relocatable file.</text></comment> |
25,394,378 | 25,392,804 | 1 | 2 | 25,391,186 | train | <story><title>Oracle Moving HQ to Austin</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/000156459020056896/orcl-10q_20201130.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beagle3</author><text>Likely irrelevant, but reminded me of this[0]: &quot;&quot;&quot;Basically, we’re moving because of William Whyte‘s rule: virtually all corporate relocations involve a move to a location which is closer to the CEO’s home than the old location. Whyte discovered this principle after an extensive study of Fortune 500 companies that left New York City for the suburbs in the 1950s and 1960s&quot;&quot;&quot;<p>Tesla will likely move its HQ to Texas following Musk&#x27;s move (if it hasn&#x27;t already), which would seem to be in line with Whyte&#x27;s rule. However, it is likely both would have the same underlying reason (legal, financial, taxation or otherwise), rather than just &quot;making it more conventient for musk&quot;.<p>I wonder if Elison or Katz have also moved to Austin recently ......<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2003&#x2F;03&#x2F;28&#x2F;finding-an-office-in-new-york-city&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2003&#x2F;03&#x2F;28&#x2F;finding-an-office-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>femtoparsec</author><text>Don&#x27;t forget that often (but certainly not always) CEOs will look ahead and try to get a feel for which locations may be a good fit both for their personal and company affairs. Usually due to taxation, regulatory, hiring, cultural, cost of living and a range of other realities. They may make the move themselves <i>ahead</i> of their company&#x27;s move making it seem like the company later moved merely because of the CEO&#x27;s new location, but they&#x27;d already made the decision that the company move would follow as the sensible thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Oracle Moving HQ to Austin</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1341439/000156459020056896/orcl-10q_20201130.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beagle3</author><text>Likely irrelevant, but reminded me of this[0]: &quot;&quot;&quot;Basically, we’re moving because of William Whyte‘s rule: virtually all corporate relocations involve a move to a location which is closer to the CEO’s home than the old location. Whyte discovered this principle after an extensive study of Fortune 500 companies that left New York City for the suburbs in the 1950s and 1960s&quot;&quot;&quot;<p>Tesla will likely move its HQ to Texas following Musk&#x27;s move (if it hasn&#x27;t already), which would seem to be in line with Whyte&#x27;s rule. However, it is likely both would have the same underlying reason (legal, financial, taxation or otherwise), rather than just &quot;making it more conventient for musk&quot;.<p>I wonder if Elison or Katz have also moved to Austin recently ......<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2003&#x2F;03&#x2F;28&#x2F;finding-an-office-in-new-york-city&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2003&#x2F;03&#x2F;28&#x2F;finding-an-office-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>canniballectern</author><text>You&#x27;ve already hinted at this, but it&#x27;s not just selfishness - CEOs are much more mobile than companies. Both the CEO and the company as a whole are subject to similar incentives, but companies are big ships and execs&#x27; families are comparatively nimble.</text></comment> |
10,851,555 | 10,851,772 | 1 | 3 | 10,850,410 | train | <story><title>Two Brothers Making Millions Off the Refugee Crisis in Scandinavia</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-norway-refugee-crisis-profiteers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kauffj</author><text>Many people seem to hold an intuition or belief that it is wrong to profit, or profit &quot;excessively&quot; when providing certain types of services, particularly related to &quot;care&quot;, survival, or necessities (e.g. &quot;price gouging&quot; laws).<p>I think this is misguided for (at least) two reasons:<p>1. Profit allows for the services to be sustainable, rather than charity-dependent.<p>2. The more profit, the stronger the incentive for entrepreneurs to enter the market and&#x2F;or innovate.<p>Figuring out a way to profit and reduce the problems of refugees in any way is win&#x2F;win for everyone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clarkmoody</author><text>&gt; 2. The more profit, the stronger the incentive for entrepreneurs to enter the market and&#x2F;or innovate.<p>3. The more entrepreneurs in the market, the tighter the margins will become, due to competition. The price for the service will fall as a result, and the companies will become more efficient.</text></comment> | <story><title>Two Brothers Making Millions Off the Refugee Crisis in Scandinavia</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-norway-refugee-crisis-profiteers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kauffj</author><text>Many people seem to hold an intuition or belief that it is wrong to profit, or profit &quot;excessively&quot; when providing certain types of services, particularly related to &quot;care&quot;, survival, or necessities (e.g. &quot;price gouging&quot; laws).<p>I think this is misguided for (at least) two reasons:<p>1. Profit allows for the services to be sustainable, rather than charity-dependent.<p>2. The more profit, the stronger the incentive for entrepreneurs to enter the market and&#x2F;or innovate.<p>Figuring out a way to profit and reduce the problems of refugees in any way is win&#x2F;win for everyone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pbhjpbhj</author><text>Profit is from the remaining monies after wages have been paid. Profit is the excess the market will bear above the cost of delivering the services. It is largely unrelated to sustainability; if it weren&#x27;t that way then giving shareholders&#x2F;owners the profit would break the company.</text></comment> |
19,604,034 | 19,602,684 | 1 | 2 | 19,601,600 | train | <story><title>Explaining Sex Rate Changes</title><url>http://www.overcomingbias.com/2019/03/explaining-sex-rate-changes.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freyir</author><text>As the article points out, fewer young men are having sex, but roughly the same number of young women are having sex.<p>I wonder if dating apps (Tinder, Bumble, etc.) are leading women to have sex with a smaller cohort of desirable men. Years ago, OkCupid noted that a small percentage of men get an overwhelming percentage of messages from women. With the rise of &quot;swipe right, swipe left&quot; mobile dating apps, where people choose partners based almost solely on looks and status indicators, I can imagine it&#x27;s getting even more unbalanced.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stared</author><text>&quot;[In Tinder,] the bottom 80% of men (in terms of attractiveness) are competing for the bottom 22% of women and the top 78% of women are competing for the top 20% of men&quot; - from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@worstonlinedater&#x2F;tinder-experiments-ii-guys-unless-you-are-really-hot-you-are-probably-better-off-not-wasting-your-2ddf370a6e9a" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@worstonlinedater&#x2F;tinder-experiments-ii-g...</a> (2015).<p>I dive a bit it that topic in &quot;Dating for nerds (part 2): gender differences&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;p.migdal.pl&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;30&#x2F;dating-for-nerds-gender-differences.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;p.migdal.pl&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;30&#x2F;dating-for-nerds-gender-diffe...</a>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Explaining Sex Rate Changes</title><url>http://www.overcomingbias.com/2019/03/explaining-sex-rate-changes.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freyir</author><text>As the article points out, fewer young men are having sex, but roughly the same number of young women are having sex.<p>I wonder if dating apps (Tinder, Bumble, etc.) are leading women to have sex with a smaller cohort of desirable men. Years ago, OkCupid noted that a small percentage of men get an overwhelming percentage of messages from women. With the rise of &quot;swipe right, swipe left&quot; mobile dating apps, where people choose partners based almost solely on looks and status indicators, I can imagine it&#x27;s getting even more unbalanced.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ycombinete</author><text>Well as I understand it there are two primary evolutionary modes of sexual pairing&#x2F;selection, which humans follow.<p>The first model is where a supremely desirable male has many female partners, who get a little of his attention; and the second model, monogamy, where two partners pair up exclusively with the bulk of attention dedicated to each other [1]. Both are apt given different circumstances.<p>Without trying to put any morality on to it, dating apps&#x2F;hookup culture seem more predisposed to tapping in to the first selection model.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Red_Queen:_Sex_and_the_Evolution_of_Human_Nature" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Red_Queen:_Sex_and_the_Evo...</a></text></comment> |
12,217,065 | 12,216,711 | 1 | 3 | 12,215,446 | train | <story><title>China, Not Silicon Valley, Is Cutting Edge in Mobile Tech</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/technology/china-mobile-tech-innovation-silicon-valley.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>billconan</author><text>guess I should also write the other side of the story -- things I don&#x27;t like about China.<p>Overall, I feel that China is like the U.S. in its early days (1920s). Or the 1999 Silicon Valley<p>There are a lot of opportunities, but less rules. It&#x27;s a jungle basically. For people with tech depth and want to build something steadily, China is not the best place.<p>a high percentage of young entrepreneurs there are just opportunists. They are not interested in sitting down and building something useful. Instead, they just want to quickly raise&#x2F;burn money and go public.<p>There are way more theranos&#x27; there in China.<p>And you need to have connections to success in China. This is a historical and cultural thing.<p>I don&#x27;t know how many of you noticed the recent news of didi acquiring uber China. The leaders of the two companies are actually from the same family. One is the daughter of the Lenovo CEO. The other is the niece of him. Probably coincidence，but you see coincidences more often in China.<p>My attitude towards China is that I take it seriously. I admit what it does better. But I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m strong enough to fight in the jungle.</text></item><item><author>billconan</author><text>I grew up in China, and I&#x27;m now living in the bay area. I just went back for a month for vacation. I too saw a more living mobile ecosystem.<p>and wechat is indeed in the center of this system. For example, a fruit stand would now accept mobile payment via wechat. those who run fruit stands are usually farmers.<p>I think it makes a lot of sense to build mobile payment into a a social app. because any currency would require a social network. and transferring money is a key social activity.<p>building independent mobile payment without the support from a mature social network is a bad idea, for example square and apple pay (only useable in the apple ecosystem, a partial mobile ecosystem).<p>China never seemed to have a credit card era, it jumped directly from paying cash to paying with mobile. whereas in the U.S., credit card is so convenient, people don&#x27;t want to change.<p>for many years, wechat has been combining new features with its social network, whereas whatsapp wanted to be a pure chatting app and missed many opportunities.<p>you can use wechat to order food at restaurants, you can log into public wifi with wechat ....<p>This is just one example. Another thing I noticed is online shopping. At the gate of our apartment, each day, there are many deliver guys on tricycles. They have a more efficient and cheap delivering system.<p>For example, in the yard of our apartment we have storage cabinets with password locks. The deliver guys won&#x27;t deliver each package to your door, as it is inefficient, especially because apartment buildings are tall in China, you have to take elevator. Instead, they put packages into one of the cabinet doors. And you will receive a password on your phone. Put the code in, the cabinet door will open. you can then get the package.<p>This is not a complex idea, but hard to implement in the U.S., because we don&#x27;t have the same population density here. When you build an infrastructure like this, you want to serve as many people as possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>20andup</author><text>&quot;a high percentage of young entrepreneurs there are just opportunists. They are not interested in sitting down and building something useful. Instead, they just want to quickly raise&#x2F;burn money and go public.&quot;<p>I worked for several SF startups and most are the same. So I don&#x27;t agree there are way more Theranos&#x27; in China. I would say they are probably around the same level in terms of many people claiming they are for something when they are not.<p>This doesn&#x27;t just happen in tech though. I have seen it in banking as well when it was booming. When there is a booming industry, it tends to attract a lot of posers that exasperates the hype.</text></comment> | <story><title>China, Not Silicon Valley, Is Cutting Edge in Mobile Tech</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/technology/china-mobile-tech-innovation-silicon-valley.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>billconan</author><text>guess I should also write the other side of the story -- things I don&#x27;t like about China.<p>Overall, I feel that China is like the U.S. in its early days (1920s). Or the 1999 Silicon Valley<p>There are a lot of opportunities, but less rules. It&#x27;s a jungle basically. For people with tech depth and want to build something steadily, China is not the best place.<p>a high percentage of young entrepreneurs there are just opportunists. They are not interested in sitting down and building something useful. Instead, they just want to quickly raise&#x2F;burn money and go public.<p>There are way more theranos&#x27; there in China.<p>And you need to have connections to success in China. This is a historical and cultural thing.<p>I don&#x27;t know how many of you noticed the recent news of didi acquiring uber China. The leaders of the two companies are actually from the same family. One is the daughter of the Lenovo CEO. The other is the niece of him. Probably coincidence，but you see coincidences more often in China.<p>My attitude towards China is that I take it seriously. I admit what it does better. But I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m strong enough to fight in the jungle.</text></item><item><author>billconan</author><text>I grew up in China, and I&#x27;m now living in the bay area. I just went back for a month for vacation. I too saw a more living mobile ecosystem.<p>and wechat is indeed in the center of this system. For example, a fruit stand would now accept mobile payment via wechat. those who run fruit stands are usually farmers.<p>I think it makes a lot of sense to build mobile payment into a a social app. because any currency would require a social network. and transferring money is a key social activity.<p>building independent mobile payment without the support from a mature social network is a bad idea, for example square and apple pay (only useable in the apple ecosystem, a partial mobile ecosystem).<p>China never seemed to have a credit card era, it jumped directly from paying cash to paying with mobile. whereas in the U.S., credit card is so convenient, people don&#x27;t want to change.<p>for many years, wechat has been combining new features with its social network, whereas whatsapp wanted to be a pure chatting app and missed many opportunities.<p>you can use wechat to order food at restaurants, you can log into public wifi with wechat ....<p>This is just one example. Another thing I noticed is online shopping. At the gate of our apartment, each day, there are many deliver guys on tricycles. They have a more efficient and cheap delivering system.<p>For example, in the yard of our apartment we have storage cabinets with password locks. The deliver guys won&#x27;t deliver each package to your door, as it is inefficient, especially because apartment buildings are tall in China, you have to take elevator. Instead, they put packages into one of the cabinet doors. And you will receive a password on your phone. Put the code in, the cabinet door will open. you can then get the package.<p>This is not a complex idea, but hard to implement in the U.S., because we don&#x27;t have the same population density here. When you build an infrastructure like this, you want to serve as many people as possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erikb</author><text>Same here. I think startups everywhere are a jungle, but in China it&#x27;s a lot deeper, much deeper. Tricks, politics, family, all of that plays a much bigger role and luck can change much more quickly. I don&#x27;t know how it is in Shanghai but in the countryside it&#x27;s also still possible that you need to deal with mob like groups that will simply put you in the hospital if they feel you are disturbing their business.</text></comment> |
23,640,410 | 23,639,638 | 1 | 2 | 23,633,850 | train | <story><title>Those who exercise free speech should also defend it even when it’s offensive</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-06-19/protests-free-speech-first-amendment</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcus_holmes</author><text>That was always implicit in group discussions. As others have said, Codes of Conduct aren&#x27;t creating new rules, they&#x27;re just making them explicit instead of implicit.<p>Let me give you an example: you have a group of friends. Two of your friends have recently experienced a miscarriage. The implicit rules in your group have now expanded to include &quot;no dead baby jokes&quot; (depending on how dark your group&#x27;s humour was, this might always have been a rule). The reason for this expansion is that two members of the group will now be hurt, upset and offended by those jokes. Making a &quot;dead baby joke&quot; is now a good reason to think the offender is an insensitive idiot, who probably isn&#x27;t someone you want to be friends with.<p>This is no different from &quot;no jokes about fags&quot; when your group includes gay people. But sometimes, some people insist on being able to make &quot;fag jokes&quot; because &quot;snowflakes are over-sensitive&quot;. Of course, they may not know the group includes gay people, and the gay people in question may not want anyone else to know their sexual orientation (none of anyone else&#x27;s business). So it&#x27;s better to spell it out explicitly that &quot;fag jokes&quot; are not allowed, even though there are apparently no gay people in the group. This is what a Code of Conduct does.<p>Yes, there are Purity Spirals that end up pushing this to extremes. But that&#x27;s a separate issue. Codes of Conduct are still a really good idea.</text></item><item><author>high_derivative</author><text>I find codes of conduct meaningless. They will go on in very general terms about &#x27;hate speech&#x27; which is just synonymous with &#x27;anything that anyone feels offended by&#x27; now.<p>I would argue that code of conducts were a symptom of the start of the problem.<p>The strategy of the grievance class:<p>- Propose a code of conduct which surely nobody can disagree with, it&#x27;s great to have rules and be nice to each other.<p>- Design the code of conduct so any perceived offence falls under it<p>- Wield it as a tool to push out any dissenters</text></item><item><author>TuringTest</author><text><i>&gt; how can we share out most wonderful and beautiful ideas with each other</i><p>The trick is to create channels with limited audiences, where you can set an expectation of which ideas are acceptable and which are not.*<p>It always has been, but the the arrival of new communication methods has disrupted the traditional channels, and now every idea is propagated to a much larger and looser audience, which aren&#x27;t aware or don&#x27;t share the expectations of the sender.<p>We need to rebuild the architecture of communication channels around this principle of limited audiences sharing a common understanding, and reshape the current &quot;free&quot; massive communication tools so that they respect this principle instead of exploiting the benefits of popularising aggressive messages for their shock value.<p>This compartmentalisation of channels would do much more for freedom of expression than the current &quot;everyone gets a distorted and contextless version of the original message and can have their say&quot;.<p>* By the way, this is the reason why explicit Codes of Conduct are a <i>good</i> thing for online projects. Without them, you simply get a <i>default</i> implicit code of conduct based on the expectations of the dominant group; which is not a good solution for people coming from any other group.</text></item><item><author>AHappyCamper</author><text>I understand that there are a lot of people who are hurting right now, and I empathize with their pain, but how can we share out most wonderful and beautiful ideas with each other or convey important information to the public if we believe there might be serious reprisals against us if we &quot;say the wrong thing&quot;.<p>For example, I personally helped work against slavery on the Black Market in the Middle East, and I wanted to raise awareness of this issue.<p>But now I have to be worried that I&#x27;ll insult people by using the term Black Market, and will also insult people by giving off the impression that the the Middle East is a 3rd world primitive place where they buy and sell slaves.<p>There is no &quot;right&quot; way to convey the issue above without offending someone. So what should I do? Just shut my mouth and don&#x27;t say anything? Then the slave trade will continue to operate freely...<p>All speech besides threats of violence needs to be free, or we can&#x27;t progress as a society.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucaspm98</author><text>I agree that if there are rules, it&#x27;s much better to make them explicit instead of implicit. I also think your example makes sense, but I&#x27;m not sure it applies to larger groups or public forums. There are simply too many people to avoid discussing every topic that could offend someone. I&#x27;m not saying overt racism or homophobia is okay, but especially when it comes to humor it&#x27;s almost unavoidable that it can hit too close to home for someone who sees it.<p>In public discussions there has to be some baseline ability by the reader to accept that they can be offended while the value of what was said to the rest of the audience may outweigh their own feelings. The implicit rules of what is acceptable to talk about, especially online, have been getting stricter to the point of being ridiculous in my experience.</text></comment> | <story><title>Those who exercise free speech should also defend it even when it’s offensive</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-06-19/protests-free-speech-first-amendment</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcus_holmes</author><text>That was always implicit in group discussions. As others have said, Codes of Conduct aren&#x27;t creating new rules, they&#x27;re just making them explicit instead of implicit.<p>Let me give you an example: you have a group of friends. Two of your friends have recently experienced a miscarriage. The implicit rules in your group have now expanded to include &quot;no dead baby jokes&quot; (depending on how dark your group&#x27;s humour was, this might always have been a rule). The reason for this expansion is that two members of the group will now be hurt, upset and offended by those jokes. Making a &quot;dead baby joke&quot; is now a good reason to think the offender is an insensitive idiot, who probably isn&#x27;t someone you want to be friends with.<p>This is no different from &quot;no jokes about fags&quot; when your group includes gay people. But sometimes, some people insist on being able to make &quot;fag jokes&quot; because &quot;snowflakes are over-sensitive&quot;. Of course, they may not know the group includes gay people, and the gay people in question may not want anyone else to know their sexual orientation (none of anyone else&#x27;s business). So it&#x27;s better to spell it out explicitly that &quot;fag jokes&quot; are not allowed, even though there are apparently no gay people in the group. This is what a Code of Conduct does.<p>Yes, there are Purity Spirals that end up pushing this to extremes. But that&#x27;s a separate issue. Codes of Conduct are still a really good idea.</text></item><item><author>high_derivative</author><text>I find codes of conduct meaningless. They will go on in very general terms about &#x27;hate speech&#x27; which is just synonymous with &#x27;anything that anyone feels offended by&#x27; now.<p>I would argue that code of conducts were a symptom of the start of the problem.<p>The strategy of the grievance class:<p>- Propose a code of conduct which surely nobody can disagree with, it&#x27;s great to have rules and be nice to each other.<p>- Design the code of conduct so any perceived offence falls under it<p>- Wield it as a tool to push out any dissenters</text></item><item><author>TuringTest</author><text><i>&gt; how can we share out most wonderful and beautiful ideas with each other</i><p>The trick is to create channels with limited audiences, where you can set an expectation of which ideas are acceptable and which are not.*<p>It always has been, but the the arrival of new communication methods has disrupted the traditional channels, and now every idea is propagated to a much larger and looser audience, which aren&#x27;t aware or don&#x27;t share the expectations of the sender.<p>We need to rebuild the architecture of communication channels around this principle of limited audiences sharing a common understanding, and reshape the current &quot;free&quot; massive communication tools so that they respect this principle instead of exploiting the benefits of popularising aggressive messages for their shock value.<p>This compartmentalisation of channels would do much more for freedom of expression than the current &quot;everyone gets a distorted and contextless version of the original message and can have their say&quot;.<p>* By the way, this is the reason why explicit Codes of Conduct are a <i>good</i> thing for online projects. Without them, you simply get a <i>default</i> implicit code of conduct based on the expectations of the dominant group; which is not a good solution for people coming from any other group.</text></item><item><author>AHappyCamper</author><text>I understand that there are a lot of people who are hurting right now, and I empathize with their pain, but how can we share out most wonderful and beautiful ideas with each other or convey important information to the public if we believe there might be serious reprisals against us if we &quot;say the wrong thing&quot;.<p>For example, I personally helped work against slavery on the Black Market in the Middle East, and I wanted to raise awareness of this issue.<p>But now I have to be worried that I&#x27;ll insult people by using the term Black Market, and will also insult people by giving off the impression that the the Middle East is a 3rd world primitive place where they buy and sell slaves.<p>There is no &quot;right&quot; way to convey the issue above without offending someone. So what should I do? Just shut my mouth and don&#x27;t say anything? Then the slave trade will continue to operate freely...<p>All speech besides threats of violence needs to be free, or we can&#x27;t progress as a society.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andreareina</author><text>Can you point to examples where you feel they&#x27;re done well? Whenever the subject comes up it&#x27;s always the egregious ones that are pointed out so I&#x27;d like to see the other side.</text></comment> |
9,570,745 | 9,570,086 | 1 | 3 | 9,569,647 | train | <story><title>Build Apps for Cars on the New Automatic Developer Platform</title><url>https://developer.automatic.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atonse</author><text>I didn&#x27;t know there was already a second generation Automatic.<p>I pre-ordered the first one and had a lot of problems with it constantly losing connection and not tracking trips. I checked the app a few times to find out that data was just not collected, and it was just cumbersome to get the device to reconnect, with having to turn off my engine and do a dance to get it to talk to my car, that it just became a pain and sat in my glove box for months.<p>Hope they&#x27;ve fixed these issues, but I&#x27;m skeptical about buying a 2nd gen after that experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lsllc</author><text>I also have a 1st Gen Automatic that I got with the launch&#x2F;pre-order. Same issues! I have a 2nd one I ordered last year for our other car ... same problem there.<p>It mostly just won&#x27;t connect, seems far worse with the iPhone 6 than it was with the 5S. I tried Automatic Support, but didn&#x27;t get very far beyond &quot;iOS is killing the app due to memory&quot;.<p>When it works it&#x27;s great! I&#x27;m also skeptical about buying a 2nd gen. Would love this to work properly!</text></comment> | <story><title>Build Apps for Cars on the New Automatic Developer Platform</title><url>https://developer.automatic.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atonse</author><text>I didn&#x27;t know there was already a second generation Automatic.<p>I pre-ordered the first one and had a lot of problems with it constantly losing connection and not tracking trips. I checked the app a few times to find out that data was just not collected, and it was just cumbersome to get the device to reconnect, with having to turn off my engine and do a dance to get it to talk to my car, that it just became a pain and sat in my glove box for months.<p>Hope they&#x27;ve fixed these issues, but I&#x27;m skeptical about buying a 2nd gen after that experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RyJones</author><text>Completely agree. Why would you trust these guys again? I won&#x27;t. I didn&#x27;t sign up to be a system administrator for my truck, and they see no problem with shipping hardware that can&#x27;t do the ONE THING that they claim to sell it for. Track trips - maybe!</text></comment> |
25,523,869 | 25,523,319 | 1 | 3 | 25,518,730 | train | <story><title>Tips for a Better Life</title><url>https://ideopunk.com/2020/12/22/100-tips-for-a-better-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paulpauper</author><text>91. don&#x27;t buy XRP<p>but in seriousness,<p>I think it is easier to apply these rules to people you know than strangers. Look how often people lose patience with each other online.<p>&gt;85. Cultivate compassion for those less intelligent than you. Many people, through no fault of their own, can’t handle forms, scammers, or complex situations. Be kind to them because the world is not.<p>Interestingly, being smart does not protect one from scams. Look at all the smart people who got duped by Madoff. Smart people are just as inclined to believe BS as less intelligent people are , if the BS is dressed up in such a way to appeal to smart people. If anything, being dumb helps, because scams typically require forms and complex schemes, such as investment schemes.</text></item><item><author>NortySpock</author><text>I think the compassion section has the most wisdom in it, especially the reasoning behind the recommendation:<p>82. Call your parents when you think of them, tell your friends when you love them.<p>83. Compliment people more. Many people have trouble thinking of themselves as smart, or pretty, or kind, unless told by someone else. You can help them out.<p>84. If somebody is undergoing group criticism, the tribal part in you will want to join in the fun of righteously destroying somebody. Resist this, you’ll only add ugliness to the world. And anyway, they’ve already learned the lesson they’re going to learn and it probably isn’t the lesson you want.<p>85. Cultivate compassion for those less intelligent than you. Many people, through no fault of their own, can’t handle forms, scammers, or complex situations. Be kind to them because the world is not.<p>86. Cultivate patience for difficult people. Communication is extremely complicated and involves getting both tone and complex ideas across. Many people can barely do either. Don’t punish them.<p>87. Don’t punish people for trying. You teach them to not try with you. Punishing includes whining that it took them so long, that they did it badly, or that others have done it better.<p>88. Remember that many people suffer invisibly, and some of the worst suffering is shame. Not everybody can make their pain legible.<p>89. Don&#x27;t punish people for admitting they were wrong, you make it harder for them to improve.<p>90. In general, you will look for excuses to not be kind to people. Resist these.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smichel17</author><text>&gt; Look how often people lose patience with each other online.<p>I think this is largely an issue of scale.<p>Say you are driving on a single-lane, one-way road, which ends at a T intersection with a stop sign. The other road is also 1-way, 1-lane, and does not have a stop sign. It has a traffic light around 20 car lengths after your road. You are waiting for a chance to turn in; the other road has a fair amount of traffic, but moving slowly since the light was red. A car stops (or moves very slowly) to make room for you to cut in, and waves you on. Very nice for you, and the cars behind you are not inconvenienced much.<p>In my experience, this kind of thing happens relatively frequently in rural areas, and quite the opposite in cities. For myself, that&#x27;s largely because in the city there&#x27;s <i>always</i> a car looking to get in, and if I stopped for them all, I&#x27;d never get anywhere.<p>In person, I am quite patient. Online, still relatively patient I guess, but less so, especially with strangers. There&#x27;s just so many people who I could be talking to, that if I gave everyone I talked to the same attention that I do irl, I wouldn&#x27;t have time to do anything else! My impatience translates more into &quot;ghosting&quot; a conversation if the other person isn&#x27;t getting my point, vs snapping at them, but it&#x27;s the same cause.<p>Sometimes I write long (as in time to compose) comments like this one, but that&#x27;s partially for myself, to verify that my thoughts are logically consistent.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tips for a Better Life</title><url>https://ideopunk.com/2020/12/22/100-tips-for-a-better-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paulpauper</author><text>91. don&#x27;t buy XRP<p>but in seriousness,<p>I think it is easier to apply these rules to people you know than strangers. Look how often people lose patience with each other online.<p>&gt;85. Cultivate compassion for those less intelligent than you. Many people, through no fault of their own, can’t handle forms, scammers, or complex situations. Be kind to them because the world is not.<p>Interestingly, being smart does not protect one from scams. Look at all the smart people who got duped by Madoff. Smart people are just as inclined to believe BS as less intelligent people are , if the BS is dressed up in such a way to appeal to smart people. If anything, being dumb helps, because scams typically require forms and complex schemes, such as investment schemes.</text></item><item><author>NortySpock</author><text>I think the compassion section has the most wisdom in it, especially the reasoning behind the recommendation:<p>82. Call your parents when you think of them, tell your friends when you love them.<p>83. Compliment people more. Many people have trouble thinking of themselves as smart, or pretty, or kind, unless told by someone else. You can help them out.<p>84. If somebody is undergoing group criticism, the tribal part in you will want to join in the fun of righteously destroying somebody. Resist this, you’ll only add ugliness to the world. And anyway, they’ve already learned the lesson they’re going to learn and it probably isn’t the lesson you want.<p>85. Cultivate compassion for those less intelligent than you. Many people, through no fault of their own, can’t handle forms, scammers, or complex situations. Be kind to them because the world is not.<p>86. Cultivate patience for difficult people. Communication is extremely complicated and involves getting both tone and complex ideas across. Many people can barely do either. Don’t punish them.<p>87. Don’t punish people for trying. You teach them to not try with you. Punishing includes whining that it took them so long, that they did it badly, or that others have done it better.<p>88. Remember that many people suffer invisibly, and some of the worst suffering is shame. Not everybody can make their pain legible.<p>89. Don&#x27;t punish people for admitting they were wrong, you make it harder for them to improve.<p>90. In general, you will look for excuses to not be kind to people. Resist these.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>carabiner</author><text>It&#x27;s not just about being smart&#x2F;dumb, it&#x27;s also about being trusting and agreeable. I think falling prey to the occasional (hopefully not life-destroying) deception is part of the cost of being an easy to work with and trusting person. There are people who will take advantage of you, but most won&#x27;t. On the balance, this leads to better relationships and a better life. OTOH you can be cynical and questioning of every persons&#x27; motives, and that can make many normal interactions exhausting, at work and in social contexts. It can add an edge to you that most people do not like.<p>The ideal would be to have perfect, instant judgement of character, knowing when to be open or closed with people in various contexts. That&#x27;s the hardest of all, and comes from having great parents&#x2F;mentors and making lots of mistakes.</text></comment> |
3,985,807 | 3,985,512 | 1 | 2 | 3,985,262 | train | <story><title>Pinterest Raises $100 MM at $1.5Bn Valuation</title><url>http://allthingsd.com/20120516/exclusive-japans-rakuten-wins-the-heart-of-pinterest-founder-in-funding-race/?mod=tweet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>Well I'm going to head off the predictable and boring "bubble" comments and say this:<p>Pinterest has real value and a clear path to monetization through affiliate and/or advertising revenue. It's really a stupidly simple idea (essentially scrapbooking on the Web) executed incredibly well.<p>Is it worth $1.5B? I don't know. I would say it's definitely worth more than Instagram for whatever that's worth (not a lot). I guess we'd need stats on number of active users, engagement and revenue to make that determination--something we're not likely to get.<p>The only concerning point to me is that that it's foreign money, only because foreign money seems to be less discerning, at least based on DST and similar investments.<p>Anyway, congrats to the team. They've done exceptionally well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stroboskop</author><text><i>Well I'm going to head off the predictable and boring "bubble" comments and say this</i><p>Saying that predictably gets you upvotes for sure. But it's not about "bubble" comments being "boring" or not. The question is whether bubble claims have any substance. If they have, the bubble won't simply go away just because some people wish it would.<p><i>Is it worth $1.5B? I don't know. I would say it's definitely worth more than</i>...<p>Comparisons like this are inflationary. It seems you really don't care about bubbles. But a bubble would affect many people here at HN.<p>It doesn't matter whether bubble comments are boring or not, it's about the importance of a bubble.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pinterest Raises $100 MM at $1.5Bn Valuation</title><url>http://allthingsd.com/20120516/exclusive-japans-rakuten-wins-the-heart-of-pinterest-founder-in-funding-race/?mod=tweet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>Well I'm going to head off the predictable and boring "bubble" comments and say this:<p>Pinterest has real value and a clear path to monetization through affiliate and/or advertising revenue. It's really a stupidly simple idea (essentially scrapbooking on the Web) executed incredibly well.<p>Is it worth $1.5B? I don't know. I would say it's definitely worth more than Instagram for whatever that's worth (not a lot). I guess we'd need stats on number of active users, engagement and revenue to make that determination--something we're not likely to get.<p>The only concerning point to me is that that it's foreign money, only because foreign money seems to be less discerning, at least based on DST and similar investments.<p>Anyway, congrats to the team. They've done exceptionally well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>strlen</author><text>The other interesting part about Pinterest is that they mostly gained traction outside of the traditional early adopter segments.<p>Not sure any what's the right way to value this kind of company: obviously if it was an established public company, a $1.5b figure might be scary (as far as I understand Pinterest does not yet have revenue). However, it isn't: venture capitalists valued it this high, in the hopes that there's a realistic (compared to similar companies, funded at the same stage) chance that they will have a $7.5b-$15b exit.<p>It _would_ be a sign of bubble if Pinterest were to go public without revenue (which has happened during the 1990s) , with pension funds (that have a very different risk/reward profile from VCs) buying the shares. You could say "it's 1999 again" if as a result Sun (hey anyone remember them?), Cisco, and Oracle stock rose exorbitantly as a result of Pinterest buying a record number of servers, routers, and commercial databases (hey, remember when companies used to do that?) and their shareholders expecting (with great certainty) that there will be more and more companies like Pinterest sprouting up, i.e., that sales will keep growing.<p>I've only caught the tail end of the bubble (I had an internship in a startup junior/senior year of HS, 2000-2002 -- and participated in SVLUG, meeting folks who worked for Webvan, RedHat, Va Linux, et al).<p>I still remember just how differently it felt from today: for starters you couldn't drive from Sunnyvale to Fremont (over the bridge) without being completely stuck in traffic (as early as 3pm, and as late as after 8pm), and without driving past at least 3 or 4 Sun campuses.<p>Nowadays: there is still commercial real-estate in that area that is empty (including the former Sun East Bay campus, where manufacturing happened), the Dunbarton Bridge is fairly traffic-free even during the rush hour.</text></comment> |
8,028,546 | 8,027,873 | 1 | 2 | 8,027,405 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Bvckup 2 – Simple Fast Backup for Windows</title><url>https://bvckup2.com/?hn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>latitude</author><text>Author&#x27;s here. A bit of a background on the project if I may.<p>I wrote the original version several years ago. It was purely for myself, to automate the way I was doing the backups at the time. I also threw together a website and put it online, just because and with no hope that something this simple would be in demand. Then went on doing other things like having kids and what not. Fast forward to 2012 and there&#x27;s a couple of thousand people on the mailing list and a trickle of emails asking when an update would come out. So I sat down and did a proper rewrite. I thought it would take 2-3 months, but it took almost a year. And a half. The breadcrumbs of the process are over on the &#x2F;wip page [1]. You might&#x27;ve seen it as it was on HN some time ago.<p>The app is notable for three things - (1) it has a single, simple purpose (2) it is light and <i>very</i> fast and (3) it has an <i>excellent</i> UI.<p>Also of some interest - I ran a 12-month long beta. Started with just 100 people testing private builds for 6 months and then moved on to a public beta for another 6, altogether yielding about 15,000 installs. If there&#x27;s a single takeaway from the project so far - a beta this long is <i>incredible</i>. It helps shaping the feature set like nothing else and it flushes the most obscure bugs that no formal QA could ever find.<p><pre><code> ---
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By the way of introduction - I come from the system programming background. I spent several years writing firmware for network appliances, I wrote a P2P VPN system from scratch and I generally prefer C to Java if you know what I mean. I also get a major kick from doing visual design for my projects and got 2000 followers on Dribbble to prove it :)<p><pre><code> ---
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In any case, there you have it - my take on simple backup software. Let me know what you think. Thanks!<p><pre><code> ---
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[1] <a href="http://bvckup2.com/wip" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bvckup2.com&#x2F;wip</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sukotto</author><text>Consider adding a Corporate tier to your pricing plan<p><pre><code> Corporate
$499 per year
- priority support email address
- early access to new releases
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The features don&#x27;t really matter that much. There are companies that will happily buy the more expensive plan simply because it has the word &quot;corporate&quot; in the title.<p>That&#x27;s just an initial guess at a price. For a corporate plan it could likely go much higher without you having to provide any real extra service beyond &quot;I will give you the corporate plan email address and promise I always read those emails before the emails of the other plans&quot;.<p>To take that a step further, you could rename the other plans to &quot;Hobbyist&quot;, and &quot;Small business&quot;.<p>You could do these things without changing anything else about the app (everyone still gets the same app). You don&#x27;t even have to worry about the annual fee beyond setting up a little system to track when a company&#x27;s year is up and auto-emailing the buyer&#x27;s address asking for more money. If the address no longer works or if they don&#x27;t respond it doesn&#x27;t cost you anything and you&#x27;ve already profited from the larger upfront charge.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Bvckup 2 – Simple Fast Backup for Windows</title><url>https://bvckup2.com/?hn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>latitude</author><text>Author&#x27;s here. A bit of a background on the project if I may.<p>I wrote the original version several years ago. It was purely for myself, to automate the way I was doing the backups at the time. I also threw together a website and put it online, just because and with no hope that something this simple would be in demand. Then went on doing other things like having kids and what not. Fast forward to 2012 and there&#x27;s a couple of thousand people on the mailing list and a trickle of emails asking when an update would come out. So I sat down and did a proper rewrite. I thought it would take 2-3 months, but it took almost a year. And a half. The breadcrumbs of the process are over on the &#x2F;wip page [1]. You might&#x27;ve seen it as it was on HN some time ago.<p>The app is notable for three things - (1) it has a single, simple purpose (2) it is light and <i>very</i> fast and (3) it has an <i>excellent</i> UI.<p>Also of some interest - I ran a 12-month long beta. Started with just 100 people testing private builds for 6 months and then moved on to a public beta for another 6, altogether yielding about 15,000 installs. If there&#x27;s a single takeaway from the project so far - a beta this long is <i>incredible</i>. It helps shaping the feature set like nothing else and it flushes the most obscure bugs that no formal QA could ever find.<p><pre><code> ---
</code></pre>
By the way of introduction - I come from the system programming background. I spent several years writing firmware for network appliances, I wrote a P2P VPN system from scratch and I generally prefer C to Java if you know what I mean. I also get a major kick from doing visual design for my projects and got 2000 followers on Dribbble to prove it :)<p><pre><code> ---
</code></pre>
In any case, there you have it - my take on simple backup software. Let me know what you think. Thanks!<p><pre><code> ---
</code></pre>
[1] <a href="http://bvckup2.com/wip" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bvckup2.com&#x2F;wip</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1_player</author><text>Here&#x27;s his Dribbble page: <a href="https://dribbble.com/apankrat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dribbble.com&#x2F;apankrat</a><p>To the author: great work. I love your UI design.</text></comment> |
29,668,973 | 29,667,943 | 1 | 3 | 29,667,208 | train | <story><title>Toyota 'reviewing' key fob remote start subscription plan after blowback</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/43636/toyota-reviewing-key-fob-remote-start-subscription-plan-after-massive-blowback</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>overgard</author><text>To be honest, I kind of just hate having computers and wireless stuff built into cars in general. My experience is it&#x27;s always buggy, and after two or three years it&#x27;s mostly obsolete. Admittedly I am a dinosaur, I just bought a new car and it&#x27;s a stick shift, but I feel like a decent car will last you 15-20 years and how many of you are using 20 year old computers?<p>Also the cell connection seems problematic. Like, 4 years ago I bought my uncle a phone, and I just got notice that I have to upgrade him because t-mobiles 3g is going away. How many of my cars fancy connected features will work in 4 years?</text></comment> | <story><title>Toyota 'reviewing' key fob remote start subscription plan after blowback</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/43636/toyota-reviewing-key-fob-remote-start-subscription-plan-after-massive-blowback</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>40four</author><text>My ex bought a new Subaru last year and I was shocked to find out their remote start system is locked behind a similar subscription service. I worked in car sales for a bit years ago, and I had never seen this before. The models that had the option, only required the key fob, same as same as unlocking your doors.<p>This is not the direction we want to go. Imagine if it was required the be on the subscription plan to use the remote at all, even to unlock your doors. And if you don’t pay the bill, you have to use the key by hand.</text></comment> |
3,772,394 | 3,772,402 | 1 | 2 | 3,772,233 | train | <story><title>Prince of Persia creator finds lost source code 23 years later</title><url>http://www.geek.com/articles/games/prince-of-persia-creator-finds-lost-source-code-23-years-later-20120329/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alex_c</author><text>For those of you who haven't read them, Jordan Mechner's "The Making of Prince of Persia" is one of the most engaging things I've read online.<p><a href="http://jordanmechner.com/old-journals/" rel="nofollow">http://jordanmechner.com/old-journals/</a><p>Just realized there's an e-book now... I'll probably get it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Prince of Persia creator finds lost source code 23 years later</title><url>http://www.geek.com/articles/games/prince-of-persia-creator-finds-lost-source-code-23-years-later-20120329/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ambirex</author><text>Here is a link directly to Mechner's blog post about the found disks.<p><a href="http://jordanmechner.com/blog/2012/03/prince-of-persia-source-code-found/" rel="nofollow">http://jordanmechner.com/blog/2012/03/prince-of-persia-sourc...</a></text></comment> |
20,281,628 | 20,277,448 | 1 | 2 | 20,277,115 | train | <story><title>What's Salesforce?</title><url>https://tryretool.com/blog/salesforce-for-engineers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dvdhsu</author><text>Hi, I&#x27;m one of the authors of the post. As an engineer, I&#x27;ve always wondered what Salesforce was. It seemed like a clunky, expensive piece of legacy software that the &quot;business people&quot; always used.<p>Since starting a SaaS company myself (Retool; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tryretool.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tryretool.com</a>), I now understand a lot more, hah. Salesforce, basically, is the source of truth for your customer, for the business-side of things (sales, marketing, operations, etc.). So the stuff we would typically store in our databases (company name, users, how much they pay us, etc.) is stored inside of Salesforce. And Salesforce gives you a bunch of views that a typical company would need — views to update the close date of a contract, the value of a contract, to take notes on a call, etc.<p>The cool thing about Salesforce is how customizable it is — you can change the database models (e.g. &quot;add a column to the `Leads` table&quot;), as well as change the front-ends themselves (e.g. &quot;I want to display this data in this view&quot;). I&#x27;ve previously used a lot of SaaS (e.g. Slack, Intercom, etc.) and it&#x27;s always frustrating because I can&#x27;t customize the views (e.g. in Slack, maybe I want to add a button to mute + clear all the notifications for this channel). Salesforce lets you customize all that, which, frankly, is really cool.<p>To some extent, Salesforce is like a new way of programming. Instead of writing code, you let non-technical people change models and UIs (and to some extent, controllers).<p>Happy to answer any questions! If you all think the essay could be improved in any way, LMK too :)<p>(Edit: added blurb about SFDC being a new way of programming, in response to a comment downstream.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flukus</author><text>&gt; To some extent, Salesforce is like a new way of programming. Instead of writing code, you let non-technical people change models and UIs (and to some extent, controllers).<p>That&#x27;s the theory, in practice companies end up paying through the nose for an army of salesforce consultants, same as with every other &quot;zero code&quot; platform.</text></comment> | <story><title>What's Salesforce?</title><url>https://tryretool.com/blog/salesforce-for-engineers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dvdhsu</author><text>Hi, I&#x27;m one of the authors of the post. As an engineer, I&#x27;ve always wondered what Salesforce was. It seemed like a clunky, expensive piece of legacy software that the &quot;business people&quot; always used.<p>Since starting a SaaS company myself (Retool; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tryretool.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tryretool.com</a>), I now understand a lot more, hah. Salesforce, basically, is the source of truth for your customer, for the business-side of things (sales, marketing, operations, etc.). So the stuff we would typically store in our databases (company name, users, how much they pay us, etc.) is stored inside of Salesforce. And Salesforce gives you a bunch of views that a typical company would need — views to update the close date of a contract, the value of a contract, to take notes on a call, etc.<p>The cool thing about Salesforce is how customizable it is — you can change the database models (e.g. &quot;add a column to the `Leads` table&quot;), as well as change the front-ends themselves (e.g. &quot;I want to display this data in this view&quot;). I&#x27;ve previously used a lot of SaaS (e.g. Slack, Intercom, etc.) and it&#x27;s always frustrating because I can&#x27;t customize the views (e.g. in Slack, maybe I want to add a button to mute + clear all the notifications for this channel). Salesforce lets you customize all that, which, frankly, is really cool.<p>To some extent, Salesforce is like a new way of programming. Instead of writing code, you let non-technical people change models and UIs (and to some extent, controllers).<p>Happy to answer any questions! If you all think the essay could be improved in any way, LMK too :)<p>(Edit: added blurb about SFDC being a new way of programming, in response to a comment downstream.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jiveturkey</author><text>You didn&#x27;t stress the most important part well enough:<p>&gt; But when you bolt on other apps and 3rd-party APIs, it gets close to programming without code: a new way to build software.<p>SFDC is worth $100B not because it&#x27;s a CRM. It&#x27;s worth that much because it&#x27;s a CRM platform. The &quot;what it does&quot; is not nearly as important as the ecosystem&#x2F;platform aspect of it.<p>&quot;What it does&quot; has no moat. Platforms have a moat. That&#x27;s the value of SFDC in a nutshell.<p>You could help highlight this by drawing attention to it earlier, and also by boldfacing the sentence just before my quote where you say &quot;platform&quot;.</text></comment> |
28,737,112 | 28,735,749 | 1 | 3 | 28,735,425 | train | <story><title>Ugit - DIY Git in Python</title><url>https://www.leshenko.net/p/ugit/#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mixedmath</author><text>I particularly like the iterated development approach to teaching on this site. That is, one starts with some minimal working code, states a goal, and then modifies the code to accomplish that goal --- repeatedly.<p>This is a very powerful way to go through a codebase (when it is possible).</text></comment> | <story><title>Ugit - DIY Git in Python</title><url>https://www.leshenko.net/p/ugit/#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JonathanBeuys</author><text>Wow, that is a beautiful interface. I mean the website itself. How is it made?</text></comment> |
5,645,431 | 5,645,534 | 1 | 3 | 5,644,349 | train | <story><title>Behind the Scenes with Chicken Scheme</title><url>http://spin.atomicobject.com/2013/05/02/chicken-scheme-part-1/?utm_source=feedly</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thecombjelly</author><text>I learned lisp a few years ago originally with Paul Graham's ansi common lisp and built a few products in various common lisp systems but after a while I really fell in love with scheme. I tried out numerous scheme ecosystems and fell in love with chicken very quickly.<p>Since I found chicken scheme I have used it do everything I can. I have built numerous web applications using it and it always makes my happy inside; something I can't say for other ecosystems. It also works great for scripts and interfacing to system libraries.<p>And of course the community is amazing. Even when I was new to lisp and chicken my questions and patches were always taken seriously and responses are always kind and helpful.<p>As felix mentions chicken scheme is really fast. Even on websites with moderate load and very little performance profiling or caching my dynamic pages are very consistently generated in less than &#60;20ms. If you go a bit further and give the compiler hints it gets even faster. And if it isn't fast enough yet you can embed C code straight in your lisp source files.<p>It is tough to beat a language and ecosystem that nearly never gets in the way, is easy for rapid prototyping, and gets great performance when you need it.<p>As mentioned, Henry Bakers "Cheney on the M.T.A"[1] is a great read. I have used it to implement a scheme system as well.<p>In summary: use chicken scheme if you want a nearly mature, production ready, rapid prototyping, statically or dynamically typed, fast, easy to use, and powerful language and ecosystem.<p>edit: Another really cool feature of chicken scheme is the ability to serialize continuations. It can be used to make an extremely powerful stateful web app that operates like arc and hacker news.[2] Since you can serialize the continuations you can write the state to a file and you won't lose the state when you restart the app or the server crashes.<p>[1] <a href="http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/CheneyMTA.html" rel="nofollow">http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/CheneyMTA.html</a><p>[2] <a href="http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/suspension" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/suspension</a> and <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/arcchallenge.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.paulgraham.com/arcchallenge.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Behind the Scenes with Chicken Scheme</title><url>http://spin.atomicobject.com/2013/05/02/chicken-scheme-part-1/?utm_source=feedly</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gecko</author><text>The original title of this was correct, guys; the product is named CHICKEN. I'm not sure why the casing got altered.</text></comment> |
6,859,198 | 6,859,265 | 1 | 2 | 6,859,009 | train | <story><title>Sad News for the Opscode Community</title><url>http://www.opscode.com/blog/2013/12/05/sad-news-for-the-opscode-community/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Seriously fuck cancer.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sad News for the Opscode Community</title><url>http://www.opscode.com/blog/2013/12/05/sad-news-for-the-opscode-community/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dredmorbius</author><text>Context: Mitch Hill, former Opscode CEO, died of cancer.</text></comment> |
16,192,501 | 16,192,284 | 1 | 2 | 16,188,502 | train | <story><title>LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections</title><url>https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>2dvisio</author><text>When I tried pi-hole I was amazed by it. Until the day I discovered someone in China hacked it :-&#x2F;&#x2F;&#x2F;</text></item><item><author>jachee</author><text>I handle this for my whole network with a pi-hole[0].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pi-hole.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pi-hole.net</a></text></item><item><author>simongr3dal</author><text>My solution right now (on macOS) is Gas Mask[1] (a menubar hosts file manager) combined with some very nice hosts files[2]. It certainly kills of most of the pop-ups I run into.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;2ndalpha&#x2F;gasmask" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;2ndalpha&#x2F;gasmask</a>
[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;StevenBlack&#x2F;hosts" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;StevenBlack&#x2F;hosts</a></text></item><item><author>killjoywashere</author><text>What I want for all these services (Little Snitch, ESET, etc) is an EasyList-like ... list. A community-aggregated and reviewed list of servers that don&#x27;t merit my connection. I&#x27;d pay a monthly subscription fee for that.<p>I&#x27;d also like separate lists for<p>* &quot;this wifi is public, be extra cautious&quot;<p>* &quot;this wifi is public, be nice and don&#x27;t torrent, do backups, etc&quot;<p>* &quot;I&#x27;m on a metered connection (e.g. LTE), don&#x27;t run torrents, backups, etc&quot;<p>edit: for anyone looking for a monetizable idea: this post has 41, no 42, no 43 points in about an hour. Probably a good idea...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DavideNL</author><text>...and how did you come to the conclusion they hacked the pi-hole?</text></comment> | <story><title>LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections</title><url>https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>2dvisio</author><text>When I tried pi-hole I was amazed by it. Until the day I discovered someone in China hacked it :-&#x2F;&#x2F;&#x2F;</text></item><item><author>jachee</author><text>I handle this for my whole network with a pi-hole[0].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pi-hole.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pi-hole.net</a></text></item><item><author>simongr3dal</author><text>My solution right now (on macOS) is Gas Mask[1] (a menubar hosts file manager) combined with some very nice hosts files[2]. It certainly kills of most of the pop-ups I run into.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;2ndalpha&#x2F;gasmask" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;2ndalpha&#x2F;gasmask</a>
[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;StevenBlack&#x2F;hosts" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;StevenBlack&#x2F;hosts</a></text></item><item><author>killjoywashere</author><text>What I want for all these services (Little Snitch, ESET, etc) is an EasyList-like ... list. A community-aggregated and reviewed list of servers that don&#x27;t merit my connection. I&#x27;d pay a monthly subscription fee for that.<p>I&#x27;d also like separate lists for<p>* &quot;this wifi is public, be extra cautious&quot;<p>* &quot;this wifi is public, be nice and don&#x27;t torrent, do backups, etc&quot;<p>* &quot;I&#x27;m on a metered connection (e.g. LTE), don&#x27;t run torrents, backups, etc&quot;<p>edit: for anyone looking for a monetizable idea: this post has 41, no 42, no 43 points in about an hour. Probably a good idea...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chewyland</author><text>Sounds like a poor or reused password.</text></comment> |
8,416,412 | 8,416,234 | 1 | 2 | 8,415,634 | train | <story><title>In the medical response to Ebola, Cuba is punching above its weight</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/10/04/in-the-medical-response-to-ebola-cuba-is-punching-far-above-its-weight/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VLM</author><text>Decades ago Cuba made training and exporting medical personnel their &quot;thing&quot; and they ended up owning that part of the world market despite being a small and very poor country.<p>There is a direct tech analogy with Finland and cell phones.<p>From the small country PoV, if you can&#x27;t compete in the strategic nuclear bomber world market, or the manufacturing robot world market, you can probably find some market segment, however small, to focus on and take over. Like cellphones, or 3rd world medical care.<p>Other countries could, and probably will, do the same.<p>There is the interesting analogy that Finland isn&#x27;t doing so well in the post Nokia, iphone and android world. Wonder what could happen to Cuba if the demand for docs dried up (optimistically due to 3rd world advancing into training their own medical workers, and not by the entire 3rd world dying of ebola or in ensuing strife after the epidemic)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>will_brown</author><text>Cuba&#x27;s healthcare niche is not necessarily limited to 3rd world medical care. Throughout the US&#x2F;Cuba embargo the US had routinely carved out an exception to trade for Cuba&#x27;s cancer&#x2F;anti-cancer medications which have been viewed as cutting edge for over a decade. So perhaps another niche 1st world cancer research and treatments.</text></comment> | <story><title>In the medical response to Ebola, Cuba is punching above its weight</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/10/04/in-the-medical-response-to-ebola-cuba-is-punching-far-above-its-weight/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VLM</author><text>Decades ago Cuba made training and exporting medical personnel their &quot;thing&quot; and they ended up owning that part of the world market despite being a small and very poor country.<p>There is a direct tech analogy with Finland and cell phones.<p>From the small country PoV, if you can&#x27;t compete in the strategic nuclear bomber world market, or the manufacturing robot world market, you can probably find some market segment, however small, to focus on and take over. Like cellphones, or 3rd world medical care.<p>Other countries could, and probably will, do the same.<p>There is the interesting analogy that Finland isn&#x27;t doing so well in the post Nokia, iphone and android world. Wonder what could happen to Cuba if the demand for docs dried up (optimistically due to 3rd world advancing into training their own medical workers, and not by the entire 3rd world dying of ebola or in ensuing strife after the epidemic)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Retric</author><text>What I thought was most interesting in the Cuba case was how little technology it takes to train Doctors. Outside of surgery Doctors tend to have other people doing the high tech hands on work like operating an MRI or Doing blood-work. But, as they training people to operate in the 3rd world even surgery tends to be fairly low tech.<p>In reality it&#x27;s the opportunity costs that makes training doctors so expensive. So, in many ways less developed nations have a huge cost advantage when supplying doctors. The real issue is after exporting them they probably don&#x27;t send all that much money back home.</text></comment> |
19,204,184 | 19,202,644 | 1 | 2 | 19,201,582 | train | <story><title>Could 'Oumuamua be an icy fractal aggregate ejected from a protoplanetary disk?</title><url>https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/no-oumuamua-is-not-an-alien-spaceship-it-might-be-even-weirder</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>Suppose you know nothing about license plates and I tell you that license plates work one of two ways, either every license plate reads &quot;ARW 357&quot; (it&#x27;s just a meaningless tradition) or every plate has six randomly selected numbers and letters and there&#x27;s equal probability that either explanation is true. THEN you observe a single car with a single license plate with the value &quot;ARW 357&quot;.<p>Does this single observation tell you anything about reality? I would argue that it does - it should strongly suggest to you that you&#x27;re in the &quot;every car is ARW 357&quot; reality. Similarly, if you draw a ball from an urn and it&#x27;s red, and you know you&#x27;ve drawn either from the &quot;urn of red balls&quot;, or the &quot;urn of one million green balls and one red one&quot; you should be pretty confident you&#x27;ve drawn from the &quot;urn of red balls&quot;.<p>If one theory can explain your observations but the explanation is highly unlikely, and another theory explains your observations and the explanation is likely, the second theory is more likely to be correct all else equal.</text></item><item><author>madrox</author><text>Here&#x27;s a quote by Feynman on the topic: “You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight... I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!”<p>I believe what you&#x27;re getting at is the Ludic Fallacy, which could probably apply here. That said, whether it&#x27;s a fallacy in the science or in the reporting, it&#x27;s hard to say. I have a degree in statistics, and I&#x27;d say I spent half the time learning stats, and half the time learning to use language precisely to avoid overgeneralizing stats.<p>There&#x27;s a really great TED talk about how even very educated people get it wrong when talking about stats: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ted.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;peter_donnelly_shows_how_stats_fool_juries?language=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ted.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;peter_donnelly_shows_how_stats_foo...</a></text></item><item><author>komali2</author><text>&gt; It seems far more likely that objects like &#x27;Oumuamua are relatively rare, and that means it likely came from someplace close by (if it came from farther away, the odds are even lower we&#x27;d ever see one).<p>Ok, it&#x27;s on my list of things to do this year to actually learn how statistics work, but my naive reaction to this supposition, which I read is &quot;the fact that we have encountered Oumuamua means that it&#x27;s likely it didn&#x27;t come from far away, because if it did, it&#x27;s less likely we would have encountered it,&quot; is: We <i>did</i> encounter it. Just this one, ever. How can we draw any statistical information from that? Either we encountered it, or didn&#x27;t, how does that have any bearing on the statistical probability of seeing it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>perl4ever</author><text>&quot;Does this single observation tell you anything about reality? I would argue that it does - it should strongly suggest to you that you&#x27;re in the &quot;every car is ARW 357&quot; reality.&quot;<p>I think this scenario is incoherent after thinking about it for a minute. You say &quot;there is equal probability that either explanation is true&quot; but you imply that you, the storyteller, know something about license plates. Probability is a description of incomplete knowledge, so whose knowledge are we talking about, yours or mine?<p>I see no reason (in my hypothetical ignorance) to exclude the possibility you <i>know</i> I will see &quot;ARW 357&quot; next even if all license plates are different.</text></comment> | <story><title>Could 'Oumuamua be an icy fractal aggregate ejected from a protoplanetary disk?</title><url>https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/no-oumuamua-is-not-an-alien-spaceship-it-might-be-even-weirder</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>Suppose you know nothing about license plates and I tell you that license plates work one of two ways, either every license plate reads &quot;ARW 357&quot; (it&#x27;s just a meaningless tradition) or every plate has six randomly selected numbers and letters and there&#x27;s equal probability that either explanation is true. THEN you observe a single car with a single license plate with the value &quot;ARW 357&quot;.<p>Does this single observation tell you anything about reality? I would argue that it does - it should strongly suggest to you that you&#x27;re in the &quot;every car is ARW 357&quot; reality. Similarly, if you draw a ball from an urn and it&#x27;s red, and you know you&#x27;ve drawn either from the &quot;urn of red balls&quot;, or the &quot;urn of one million green balls and one red one&quot; you should be pretty confident you&#x27;ve drawn from the &quot;urn of red balls&quot;.<p>If one theory can explain your observations but the explanation is highly unlikely, and another theory explains your observations and the explanation is likely, the second theory is more likely to be correct all else equal.</text></item><item><author>madrox</author><text>Here&#x27;s a quote by Feynman on the topic: “You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight... I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!”<p>I believe what you&#x27;re getting at is the Ludic Fallacy, which could probably apply here. That said, whether it&#x27;s a fallacy in the science or in the reporting, it&#x27;s hard to say. I have a degree in statistics, and I&#x27;d say I spent half the time learning stats, and half the time learning to use language precisely to avoid overgeneralizing stats.<p>There&#x27;s a really great TED talk about how even very educated people get it wrong when talking about stats: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ted.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;peter_donnelly_shows_how_stats_fool_juries?language=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ted.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;peter_donnelly_shows_how_stats_foo...</a></text></item><item><author>komali2</author><text>&gt; It seems far more likely that objects like &#x27;Oumuamua are relatively rare, and that means it likely came from someplace close by (if it came from farther away, the odds are even lower we&#x27;d ever see one).<p>Ok, it&#x27;s on my list of things to do this year to actually learn how statistics work, but my naive reaction to this supposition, which I read is &quot;the fact that we have encountered Oumuamua means that it&#x27;s likely it didn&#x27;t come from far away, because if it did, it&#x27;s less likely we would have encountered it,&quot; is: We <i>did</i> encounter it. Just this one, ever. How can we draw any statistical information from that? Either we encountered it, or didn&#x27;t, how does that have any bearing on the statistical probability of seeing it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>komali2</author><text>Ok, this explanation makes a lot of sense.<p>However, are we able to reduce down our understanding of &quot;which universe we&#x27;re in&quot; in such simple terms? I think I&#x27;d understand better if I knew how long we&#x27;ve been capable of detecting oumuamuas.</text></comment> |
31,088,696 | 31,088,376 | 1 | 2 | 31,074,014 | train | <story><title>College became the default – Let's rethink that</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/05/opinion/college-high-school.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>QuikAccount</author><text>So the crux of this article is that kids shouldn&#x27;t go to college because they feel like they are meant to but they should go because it makes sense for their personal goals and I agree. I have long held the belief that America needs more apprenticeships and technical schools.<p>That being said, this is one of those things where people are instead going to want to debate the value of college itself(because they didn&#x27;t actually read the article).<p>I&#x27;m an American that didn&#x27;t go to college. And as I&#x27;ve said, college is far less than ideal but here are some reasons why I personally wish I got my degree<p>1. I have a harder time getting jobs than people with degrees. Not people with CS degrees, people with any degrees. Despite having job experience, I have a rougher time getting interviews and emails back than my friends with degrees. I have worked at the same companies as my peers and they have recruiters beating down their doors while I barely get emails back.<p>2. If you want to move to another country, a degree will more than likely be part of your visa requirements. Even if it isn&#x27;t, it would absolutely help in a points based system.<p>3. I still get imposter syndrome because I can barely solve leetcode questions in interviews and feel like I&#x27;m missing something. Would a degree resolve that issue? No idea. But fact or fiction there is a part of me that believes it would&#x27;ve at least given me a bit more confidence in my abilities.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skierguy</author><text>I have my masters in computer science and work on the Linux kernel at a company you know for a product that you know. I often miss the point of leetcode questions and lose points because I don&#x27;t use some certain tricky thing that they specifically want me to study for before the interview. I personally think it&#x27;s just a handy way to build ageism into the interview process, because it&#x27;s all this academic-style stuff that I&#x27;ve used maybe twice since I graduated 5 years ago. And for people like you, you&#x27;ve probably only really heard about these things in passing because they&#x27;re not part of most people&#x27;s workflow.<p>Kind of like applying for a job restoring Native American artifacts and being asked tricky questions about artifacts discovered in Egypt 5 years ago. Sure, you might have noticed the story or even read a lot about it 5 years ago, but it&#x27;s not going to be a part of your daily work. Different procedures, different materials, and different local laws? I guess you should get studying if you want this job! And really, I just wanted to see your problem solving style when I ask irrelevant questions!<p>But ya, I think it&#x27;s fair to say that my degree helps me not take that sort of thing as a rejection of my intelligence or qualifications though. I don&#x27;t feel lesser than. I just feel belittled by someone who doesn&#x27;t put effort into their interviews, which is useful information if you&#x27;re considering working with them.</text></comment> | <story><title>College became the default – Let's rethink that</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/05/opinion/college-high-school.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>QuikAccount</author><text>So the crux of this article is that kids shouldn&#x27;t go to college because they feel like they are meant to but they should go because it makes sense for their personal goals and I agree. I have long held the belief that America needs more apprenticeships and technical schools.<p>That being said, this is one of those things where people are instead going to want to debate the value of college itself(because they didn&#x27;t actually read the article).<p>I&#x27;m an American that didn&#x27;t go to college. And as I&#x27;ve said, college is far less than ideal but here are some reasons why I personally wish I got my degree<p>1. I have a harder time getting jobs than people with degrees. Not people with CS degrees, people with any degrees. Despite having job experience, I have a rougher time getting interviews and emails back than my friends with degrees. I have worked at the same companies as my peers and they have recruiters beating down their doors while I barely get emails back.<p>2. If you want to move to another country, a degree will more than likely be part of your visa requirements. Even if it isn&#x27;t, it would absolutely help in a points based system.<p>3. I still get imposter syndrome because I can barely solve leetcode questions in interviews and feel like I&#x27;m missing something. Would a degree resolve that issue? No idea. But fact or fiction there is a part of me that believes it would&#x27;ve at least given me a bit more confidence in my abilities.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shaftway</author><text>I&#x27;m in the same boat as you (American, no degree), and I mostly agree (though I think that a debate around the value of college itself should be had, because I think there are too many cases where it isn&#x27;t as high as people think it is).<p>1. The way I handled this was to insinuate on the resume that I had a degree. I went to a university for a couple years (before flunking out) and before that I did a couple summer classes at an extension program. Those add up to four years, and I point out that I studied computer science (which is true). If they don&#x27;t outright ask that&#x27;s not my problem. And if they do then I explain that something personal came up, and not completing it is one of my biggest regrets in life, but at this point I don&#x27;t see how a degree would help my career blah blah blah.<p>This has only actually affected me once, and it&#x27;s for a role I&#x27;m starting this week. The net effect is that my software engineering title can&#x27;t have &quot;Engineer&quot; in it because I don&#x27;t have an &quot;Engineering degree&quot;.<p>3. A degree doesn&#x27;t resolve that. I interview people every week for a role at my MAGMA company, most of whom have degrees, and most of whom act like they have impostor syndrome. Practice it. Do interviews for companies you don&#x27;t expect to join just for the interview practice in a low-stakes setting. You&#x27;ll get over it.</text></comment> |
32,457,692 | 32,457,544 | 1 | 2 | 32,450,860 | train | <story><title>Electric vehicles are way more energy-efficient than internal combustion</title><url>https://www.motortrend.com/news/evs-more-efficient-than-internal-combustion-engines/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>occz</author><text>And in turn, trains are far more energy efficient than all kinds of cars. Trains are subsequently beaten by both electric and non-electric bicycles, which are the most energy efficient mode of transport currently known to man.<p>While phasing out ICEs entirely is clearly an urgent necessity, it would be wise to invest in a world where we move more towards these superior modes of transportation, instead of going for EVs, which are a slight improvement, but not at all as big of an improvement as we could realize with trains and bicycles.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>radu_floricica</author><text>This is a very naïve view. It&#x27;s technically correct (the best kind of correct?) but it&#x27;s also missing the point by a wide margin - the &quot;spherical, frictionless cow in a void&quot; missing the point.<p>You&#x27;re correct in the sense that trains and bicycles are, true, more energy efficient. I&#x27;m not even looking for numbers here, because it&#x27;s irrelevant.<p>What you&#x27;re missing is that real humans occasionally need to move a mattress. Or just bring home groceries once a week. Or have kids. Or that a full quarter of the population are seniors. Or that quite a few people live in places with hard winters. You think it&#x27;s a coincidence that Netherlands is the country of bicycle riders? Gulfstream :) They hardly have any snow or ice - just walk around in the street there, and it&#x27;ll hit you that most buildings have windows that take up half the wall. Cold is just not a concern there, the way it would be in a lot of other places.<p>If you compare an EV with a train on an energy efficiency PoV, yes, the train may be twice as efficient (or less?). But an EV covers 80% of energy requirements (it&#x27;s CLEAN, cheaper than gas, less carbon generating, less likely to subsidize oil-based dictatorships), while also not having you haul a toddler, an infant and 3 bags of groceries through snow from the train station half a mile away.</text></comment> | <story><title>Electric vehicles are way more energy-efficient than internal combustion</title><url>https://www.motortrend.com/news/evs-more-efficient-than-internal-combustion-engines/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>occz</author><text>And in turn, trains are far more energy efficient than all kinds of cars. Trains are subsequently beaten by both electric and non-electric bicycles, which are the most energy efficient mode of transport currently known to man.<p>While phasing out ICEs entirely is clearly an urgent necessity, it would be wise to invest in a world where we move more towards these superior modes of transportation, instead of going for EVs, which are a slight improvement, but not at all as big of an improvement as we could realize with trains and bicycles.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>choeger</author><text>But energy efficiency is not the single goal and it shouldn&#x27;t become it. The most energy efficient mode if transportation is to stay put. The most energy efficient form of living is a bunk in some barracks and so on and so forth. And some point we have to acknowledge that life is spending energy so why not on individual travel?</text></comment> |
25,230,330 | 25,230,140 | 1 | 2 | 25,226,621 | train | <story><title>How to Memorize Faster with the Spaced Repetition Learning Technique</title><url>https://productive.fish/blog/spaced-repetition/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jackkinsella</author><text>The value of SRS goes way beyond memorization. When applied seriously to a field like programming, it enables you to think about the program-design space in a more abstract manner and quickly call to mind and evaluate possibilities. Look up &quot;chunking&quot; as it relates to performance (e.g. in chess).<p>I&#x27;ve written (and, more recently, made a video) about my 10 years of experience using SRS (via the free tool, Anki) to boost my IT skills.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jackkinsella.ie&#x2F;articles&#x2F;janki-method" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jackkinsella.ie&#x2F;articles&#x2F;janki-method</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adkadskhj</author><text>This is super interesting, appreciate the post!<p>I am toying with ideas for my own knowledge base, with integration into SRS for improved retention. I hadn&#x27;t thought it would go much beyond fact retention, but my hope was to frame facts in such a way that larger pictures could be also retained, analyzed, etc.<p>It sounds like you&#x27;ve solidified some of the aspirations my idea .. area, so huge thanks for that! This is the first time i&#x27;ve seen mention of SRS going beyond simple facts, and i thought perhaps my idea was a pipe dream.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Memorize Faster with the Spaced Repetition Learning Technique</title><url>https://productive.fish/blog/spaced-repetition/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jackkinsella</author><text>The value of SRS goes way beyond memorization. When applied seriously to a field like programming, it enables you to think about the program-design space in a more abstract manner and quickly call to mind and evaluate possibilities. Look up &quot;chunking&quot; as it relates to performance (e.g. in chess).<p>I&#x27;ve written (and, more recently, made a video) about my 10 years of experience using SRS (via the free tool, Anki) to boost my IT skills.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jackkinsella.ie&#x2F;articles&#x2F;janki-method" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jackkinsella.ie&#x2F;articles&#x2F;janki-method</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnnujler</author><text>Have you by chance tried learning more analytical things like algorithms&#x2F;mathematical ideas using SRS? I have been trying to automate my interview preparation process using SRS, but it is just mind-blowingly difficult to cardify these things; and cloze deletion doesn’t work well on large algorithms with many pieces.<p>Note: Please note that I am not advocating that people do it blindly, in fact I myself have been trying to use it as a way to retain once I’ve understood the algos.</text></comment> |
14,931,098 | 14,931,221 | 1 | 2 | 14,929,660 | train | <story><title>Why Apple and other tech companies are fighting to keep devices hard to repair</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/3/16087628/apple-e-waste-environmental-standards-ieee-right-to-repair</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krylon</author><text>I am reminded of that company from the Hitchhiker&#x27;s Guide to the Galaxy whose products were built so they could not possibly fail - and then it turned out they were impossible to repair when they did.<p>It&#x27;s a shame companies do this, not just to phones. Laptops and small-form-factor desktops have the same problem.<p>A few years back, a coworker had a problem with a laptop, Lenovo R500, I think, that required replacing something inside the laptop (I forgot what part exactly). I found this maintenance manual, and it was exemplary, with lots of diagrams and drawings that made taking this machine apart and putting it back together a cakewalk even for somebody as clumsy as me (meaning, I successfully performed the &quot;operation&quot;, with hardly a clue what I was doing guided solely by the excellent manual, and it ____ing worked!)<p>That is the standard, vendors should aspire to. And I think, Douglas Adams was on to something - if you design something with repairability (is that a word?) as a goal, I would not bet surprised if the result was also more reliable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>peckrob</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s a shame companies do this, not just to phones. Laptops and small-form-factor desktops have the same problem.<p>This isn&#x27;t unique to technology either. Making a simple repair to most modern cars is an exercise in frustration even if you have all the necessary documentation.<p>I just recently replaced the headlight assemblies on my Toyota Tacoma. I had to disassemble the entire front of the truck to get them out. The grill, bumper cover, and wheel well liners all had to come off just to get the headlight assembly out. I had a bucket full of screws - many of them those garbage plastic ones - a garage full of parts, and a bloody hand by the time I even got to the meat of the project. It literally took me about <i>four hours</i> and 14 pages of directions start to finish.<p>Twenty years ago I did this same thing on a Dodge Spirit. Three easily reachable bolts and the headlights came right out. New one popped right in, and tighten three easily reachable bolts. Took like 15 minutes.<p>It seems like everything is becoming more complex and difficult to repair.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Apple and other tech companies are fighting to keep devices hard to repair</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/3/16087628/apple-e-waste-environmental-standards-ieee-right-to-repair</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krylon</author><text>I am reminded of that company from the Hitchhiker&#x27;s Guide to the Galaxy whose products were built so they could not possibly fail - and then it turned out they were impossible to repair when they did.<p>It&#x27;s a shame companies do this, not just to phones. Laptops and small-form-factor desktops have the same problem.<p>A few years back, a coworker had a problem with a laptop, Lenovo R500, I think, that required replacing something inside the laptop (I forgot what part exactly). I found this maintenance manual, and it was exemplary, with lots of diagrams and drawings that made taking this machine apart and putting it back together a cakewalk even for somebody as clumsy as me (meaning, I successfully performed the &quot;operation&quot;, with hardly a clue what I was doing guided solely by the excellent manual, and it ____ing worked!)<p>That is the standard, vendors should aspire to. And I think, Douglas Adams was on to something - if you design something with repairability (is that a word?) as a goal, I would not bet surprised if the result was also more reliable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeena</author><text>&quot;Thinkpads are the easiest machines to dissolve into atoms and back.&quot;<p>I did that too with my ThinkPad, a couple of times, and I got at least two more years out of it! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jeena.net&#x2F;repairing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jeena.net&#x2F;repairing</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jeena.net&#x2F;thinkpad-t410-speakers-fix" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jeena.net&#x2F;thinkpad-t410-speakers-fix</a></text></comment> |
10,216,948 | 10,217,046 | 1 | 2 | 10,216,786 | train | <story><title>Win for Fair Use in ‘Dancing Baby’ Lawsuit</title><url>https://www.eff.org/press/releases/important-win-fair-use-dancing-baby-lawsuit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>How will this work in practice? Will it actually hold them responsible for court fees if they file another bogus request like this, or will the only thing that comes out of this be a simple checkbox on the DMCA takedown form that says &quot;I considered fair use before filing this takedown request&quot;? Will this actually help defendants establish the prohibitively difficult &quot;bad faith&quot; request on behalf of IP holders?<p>EDIT: The Ars Technica article gives some time towards answering my concerns.[0] The short answer is, somewhat.<p><i>&quot;A copyright holder who pays lip service to the consideration of fair use by claiming it formed a good faith belief when there is evidence to the contrary is still subject to 512(f) liability,&quot;</i><p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;eff-scores-a-win-in-long-running-dancing-baby-copyright-case&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;eff-scores-a-win-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Win for Fair Use in ‘Dancing Baby’ Lawsuit</title><url>https://www.eff.org/press/releases/important-win-fair-use-dancing-baby-lawsuit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pdabbadabba</author><text>I&#x27;ll repost here what I said about my parallel (but apparently less popular) submission:<p>TL;DR - This is the [in]famous &quot;dancing baby&quot; case in which Universal Music issued a takedown request for a home video of a baby dancing to Prince&#x27;s <i>Let&#x27;s Go Crazy.</i> The notice resulted in the video being taken down and then, eventually, put back up after a flurry of DMCA counter-notices. The creator of the video, Lenz, then sued Universal Music for making a bad faith DMCA takedown request. (DMCA allows suits for &quot;any damages&quot; arising from a material misrepresentation in a DMCA takedown notice.)<p>The DMCA requires takedown notices to include a &quot;good faith belief&quot; statement that that the targeted work &quot;is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.&quot; The opinion essentially holds that if you don&#x27;t think about fair use, or if you know about a viable fair use defense, then this &quot;good faith belief&quot; statement is actionably false.<p>Note that this standard is quite high. If the copyright holder can show that it formed a subjective belief that the targeted work is not protected by fair use (even if that belief is pretty crazy), then it&#x27;s not liable.<p>So, an interesting opinion, but it&#x27;s pretty hard to see how a properly-represented defendant could lose under this legal standard. It may, however, limit the use of certain automated approaches to finding &quot;infringing&quot; content. While the opinion points out automated ways that a copyright holder could reasonably identify works that are not likely to be protected by fair use (such as where all of the audio and video perfectly matches the copyrighted work), human review will likely be necessary in many other situations, and these humans may be far more cautious than they used to be for fear of an eventual class-action lawsuit.<p>Opinion - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov&#x2F;datastore&#x2F;opinions&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;14&#x2F;13-16106.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov&#x2F;datastore&#x2F;opinions&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;14&#x2F;13...</a><p>Ars Technica Coverage - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;eff-scores-a-win-in-long-running-dancing-baby-copyright-case&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;eff-scores-a-win-...</a><p>The video - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=N1KfJHFWlhQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=N1KfJHFWlhQ</a></text></comment> |
6,573,119 | 6,572,547 | 1 | 2 | 6,571,844 | train | <story><title>Rapid schema development with PostgreSQL</title><url>https://speakerdeck.com/andrewgodwin/rapid-schema-development-with-postgresql</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moron4hire</author><text>I&#x27;m failing to see the utility of hstore or json over adding nullable columns here, especially if the latest version makes adding a nullable column essentially instantaneous. It doesn&#x27;t seem to simplifying the handling of missing&#x2F;unavailable data, but does manage to complicate the SQL syntax.<p>I have clients that use a variety of databases for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is &quot;just because that is where our data is.&quot; All the value of most projects is in the data, and the value of data grows with age, because you cannot recreate the past. If you lose something or you fail to record something, then you can&#x27;t ever get it back in a way that will stand up to audit scrutiny. This has the awful effect of making technology-specific details of databases get pushed into the business-decision realm, rather than the technology-decision realm.<p>So complicating the SQL syntax is a significant issue for me. Sticking to as much standard, ANSI SQL as possible makes my programs more portable across RDBMSes. With some of the tools I&#x27;ve written, I can make a full transition from MySQL to MS SQL Server and back again and the application doesn&#x27;t care. Having that sort of power makes upgrading your database a technology decision, not a business one.<p>Yes, the features that Postgres have are nice, but to me they represent a very great chance of vendor lockin. I don&#x27;t believe that the Postgres team will ever pull anything to make me hate them, but then I thought the same about Sun at one point, too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DrJokepu</author><text>HStore and especially JSON are useful because they allow you to store complex data structures fairly easily. Do you have something that contains a number of somethings that contain a number of somethings that contain a number of somethings? Normally you would need like, 4 tables to store this and carefully planned queries to work with them efficiently. However, if the object graph has no external references (besides the top-level object) you can just safely shove the whole thing into a JSON without losing referential integrity.<p>Your reasons are very valid however so obviously you have to think about the consequences before using non-standard features. However, not using advanced or novel features (which non-standard features tend to be) can also lead to stagnation and loss of competitiveness so you have to also be careful with being careful, if that makes sense.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rapid schema development with PostgreSQL</title><url>https://speakerdeck.com/andrewgodwin/rapid-schema-development-with-postgresql</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moron4hire</author><text>I&#x27;m failing to see the utility of hstore or json over adding nullable columns here, especially if the latest version makes adding a nullable column essentially instantaneous. It doesn&#x27;t seem to simplifying the handling of missing&#x2F;unavailable data, but does manage to complicate the SQL syntax.<p>I have clients that use a variety of databases for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is &quot;just because that is where our data is.&quot; All the value of most projects is in the data, and the value of data grows with age, because you cannot recreate the past. If you lose something or you fail to record something, then you can&#x27;t ever get it back in a way that will stand up to audit scrutiny. This has the awful effect of making technology-specific details of databases get pushed into the business-decision realm, rather than the technology-decision realm.<p>So complicating the SQL syntax is a significant issue for me. Sticking to as much standard, ANSI SQL as possible makes my programs more portable across RDBMSes. With some of the tools I&#x27;ve written, I can make a full transition from MySQL to MS SQL Server and back again and the application doesn&#x27;t care. Having that sort of power makes upgrading your database a technology decision, not a business one.<p>Yes, the features that Postgres have are nice, but to me they represent a very great chance of vendor lockin. I don&#x27;t believe that the Postgres team will ever pull anything to make me hate them, but then I thought the same about Sun at one point, too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tieTYT</author><text><a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/datatype-json.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;9.2&#x2F;static&#x2F;datatype-json.html</a><p>&gt; Such data can also be stored as text, but the json data type has the advantage of checking that each stored value is a valid JSON value. There are also related support functions available</text></comment> |
9,346,125 | 9,344,884 | 1 | 2 | 9,344,711 | train | <story><title>Videogame Publishers: No Preserving Abandoned Games Because “Hacking” Is Illegal</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/videogame-publishers-no-preserving-abandoned-games-even-museums-and-archives</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>c3d</author><text>These companies care about their &quot;property&quot; more than about legality, unfortunately.<p>I remember a lawyer from Atari&#x2F;Infogrames coming at me for having authorised some abandonware site to publish a game I had written in 1990, Alpha Waves. So I dug up the contract I had signed with them. It was a 3 years exclusive licensing and distribution contract, which Infogrames could only renew by sending me royalties every quarter.<p>I sent a copy of the contract, along with a letter asking for the more 15 years of royalties (after 1993). Never heard back from the lawyer after that.<p>Old abandonware often belongs to individuals and independent authors. And if they are like me, unlike lawyers, they are just happy that someone remembers the stuff they sweated on for years.</text></comment> | <story><title>Videogame Publishers: No Preserving Abandoned Games Because “Hacking” Is Illegal</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/videogame-publishers-no-preserving-abandoned-games-even-museums-and-archives</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fragsworth</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why the ESA cares at all about this. None of the games in question are making any money, and the publishers don&#x27;t expect to make any money in the future on them.<p>What is their incentive? Maybe they want to preserve the opportunity of reviving an old IP? If that&#x27;s the case, then doesn&#x27;t allowing players to keep playing the abandoned games improve the visibility of those IPs, improving the value of a future revival?<p>It&#x27;s really dumbfounding. I&#x27;d like to understand the motivation here, so that it at least makes sense to me.</text></comment> |
33,243,101 | 33,243,081 | 1 | 3 | 33,231,632 | train | <story><title>The case for energy optimism</title><url>https://syncretica.substack.com/p/the-case-for-energy-optimism</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nightski</author><text>I think this is backwards. Everyone assumes people are lazy because of the cars. I propose that cars were made because people are lazy (or, in reality, have no time in this dual income era we live in - walking takes a lot of time, even if it is very enjoyable).<p>If you make walk-able, mixed-use neighborhoods there is no guarantee people will use them.<p>In contrast, I bike over 1000 miles a year and walk several times a week. Yet I am not in a walk-able mixed use neighborhood nor have any interest in living in one.</text></item><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>The things that seem largely missing from such articles:<p>1. Walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods.<p>2. Passive solar design.<p>We have created a world highly dependent on various energy inputs. It has gone a long way towards killing off walking, cycling and vernacular architecture (where passive solar is a historic default).<p>Those technologies still exist. They can be brought back into more mainstream use.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmm</author><text>&gt; I think this is backwards. Everyone assumes people are lazy because of the cars. I propose that cars were made because people are lazy (or, in reality, have no time in this dual income era we live in - walking takes a lot of time, even if it is very enjoyable).<p>&gt; If you make walk-able, mixed-use neighborhoods there is no guarantee people will use them.<p>This isn&#x27;t supported by the evidence. We see huge increases in the numbers of people walking and cycling when the infrastructure is adjusted to support them.</text></comment> | <story><title>The case for energy optimism</title><url>https://syncretica.substack.com/p/the-case-for-energy-optimism</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nightski</author><text>I think this is backwards. Everyone assumes people are lazy because of the cars. I propose that cars were made because people are lazy (or, in reality, have no time in this dual income era we live in - walking takes a lot of time, even if it is very enjoyable).<p>If you make walk-able, mixed-use neighborhoods there is no guarantee people will use them.<p>In contrast, I bike over 1000 miles a year and walk several times a week. Yet I am not in a walk-able mixed use neighborhood nor have any interest in living in one.</text></item><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>The things that seem largely missing from such articles:<p>1. Walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods.<p>2. Passive solar design.<p>We have created a world highly dependent on various energy inputs. It has gone a long way towards killing off walking, cycling and vernacular architecture (where passive solar is a historic default).<p>Those technologies still exist. They can be brought back into more mainstream use.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianN</author><text>Cars were made for game theoretic reasons: As long as few people drive, cars give drivers extreme advantages. When a critical mass of drivers exist, the advantages deminish, but infrastructure investements (now politically viable!) can delay the process. As soon as most people drive most of these advantages disappear regardless of further infrastructure investments, but people who <i>don&#x27;t</i> drive now suffer from extreme disadvantages that didn&#x27;t exist before car-centric infrastructure.</text></comment> |
20,148,673 | 20,146,787 | 1 | 3 | 20,145,304 | train | <story><title>Curated List of Open-Source Typefaces</title><url>https://beautifulwebtype.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ubuwaits</author><text>I&#x27;m the maintainer of this project. Happy to take any feedback or suggestions.<p>At the end of last year&#x2F;beginning of this year, I was working on this site heavily and attempted to use Patreon to fund the project. Ultimately, I didn&#x27;t see enough interest and scaled back my time on it.<p>I still think it&#x27;s a worthy goal to give an in-depth overview of the best typefaces, but I&#x27;m still looking for the right way of promoting and funding the project.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mortenjorck</author><text>This is an excellent resource, and I think what impresses me most, beyond the design and comprehensiveness, is the curation. I considered myself fairly familiar with the current SIL type landscape, yet I had never heard of half of the type families on the home page, all of which look to be of a caliber with the best open-source (or otherwise) types out there.</text></comment> | <story><title>Curated List of Open-Source Typefaces</title><url>https://beautifulwebtype.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ubuwaits</author><text>I&#x27;m the maintainer of this project. Happy to take any feedback or suggestions.<p>At the end of last year&#x2F;beginning of this year, I was working on this site heavily and attempted to use Patreon to fund the project. Ultimately, I didn&#x27;t see enough interest and scaled back my time on it.<p>I still think it&#x27;s a worthy goal to give an in-depth overview of the best typefaces, but I&#x27;m still looking for the right way of promoting and funding the project.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>astatine</author><text>Thanks for a very interesting and well presented collection. The suggested uses section is thoughtful. I was wondering if it might be possible to add some info on the original motivation&#x2F;intent&#x2F;application of the typeface. This is to see if it can help suggest a typeface&#x27;s &quot;natural&quot; use.</text></comment> |
18,276,775 | 18,276,852 | 1 | 2 | 18,262,496 | train | <story><title>The rise of the robot farmer</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/20/space-robots-lasers-rise-robot-farmer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>clarkmoody</author><text>The immense productivity gains in agriculture have driven down food costs, which improves the standard of living of everyone. It also frees up those who would have worked farm jobs to do higher-valued labor in the economy.</text></item><item><author>rmason</author><text>In Michigan we&#x27;ve already got family farms with a man, two sons and a single employee handling 10,000 acres. Robots driving tractors, trucks and combines would allow that to expand 5-6X. In turn that would lead to a reduction in farmers of up to 80%. This is a trend that has been running for close to a hundred years. Remember at one time a quarter of America&#x27;s population were farmers and now it&#x27;s under 2%.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>radiorental</author><text>&gt; frees up those who would have worked farm jobs to do higher-valued labor in the economy<p>That&#x27;s the ideal, in reality too many of these people live in areas where there are no other opportunities. They are also often fed the line that the job can be brought back.<p>Put simply, we&#x27;ve observed generational shifts to higher-valued jobs in urban areas. A farmer, coal miner , etc who loses their job today is unlikely to re-skill &amp; move to other industries</text></comment> | <story><title>The rise of the robot farmer</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/20/space-robots-lasers-rise-robot-farmer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>clarkmoody</author><text>The immense productivity gains in agriculture have driven down food costs, which improves the standard of living of everyone. It also frees up those who would have worked farm jobs to do higher-valued labor in the economy.</text></item><item><author>rmason</author><text>In Michigan we&#x27;ve already got family farms with a man, two sons and a single employee handling 10,000 acres. Robots driving tractors, trucks and combines would allow that to expand 5-6X. In turn that would lead to a reduction in farmers of up to 80%. This is a trend that has been running for close to a hundred years. Remember at one time a quarter of America&#x27;s population were farmers and now it&#x27;s under 2%.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>knieveltech</author><text>In theory. In practice, this has lead to collapse of rural economies, rampant poverty, and epidemic drug usage amongst rural populations. As to driving food costs down, that&#x27;s trivially disprovable. Loaf of bread in 1950: 12 cents. Adjusted for inflation that&#x27;s $1.26 currently. A cheap loaf of white bread costs substantially more than $1.26.<p>Edit: of <i>course</i> this gets downvoted, because econ gibberish is certainly more valid than observed reality.</text></comment> |
19,048,105 | 19,046,532 | 1 | 2 | 19,044,713 | train | <story><title>Table-Saw Kickback on Camera (2012) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=u7sRrC2Jpp4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seancoleman</author><text>I&#x27;m a hobbyist woodworker. After meeting so many craft store employees with missing fingers (vast majority from table saw accidents) I will never operate anything other than a SawStop [<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sawstop.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sawstop.com</a>].<p>The origin of SawStop is quite a cool story. The founder and inventor created this auto-stop saw, and tried to sell the tech to all the major saw manufacturers. No company would buy it because they didn&#x27;t think there was a market, so he started a company around it which is disrupting the entire market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saidajigumi</author><text>As a fairly experienced woodworker, I have another angle on this: the SawStop is a band-aid on the typical American &quot;cabinet saw&quot; design. Cabinet saws (and worse, contractor jobsite table saws) invite doing really dumb things re: workholding. That is, how the workpiece being cut is secured before, during, and after the cut. Most of these dumb things are essentially invitations to secure the work using your hands anywhere near the blade.<p>In contrast, variants of sliding table saws are the norm in Europe and elsewhere. These are common in the US as panel saws for cutting sheet goods, but also come in much smaller sizes which are often better for smaller shops and solid wood-based applications. The workholding is different: a slider and a few standard accessories eliminates the need for crosscut sleds, common jigs, and a whole display of gripping-things at your local Woodcraft. The operator stands to the left of the slider, and the blade is to the right – if kickback happens, the operator is entirely out of the line of fire. Likewise, the operator&#x27;s hands are pushing the slider, not near the blade. Since the work is moved with and&#x2F;or fixed to the slider this eliminates entire classes of errors that lead to injury. The design difference is profound, akin to the coding philosophy of &quot;make bad states unrepresentable&quot;.<p>I&#x27;d absolutely prefer a SawStop if I were using a cabinet or contractor saw again, but IMO a sliding table saw is <i>intrinsically</i> safer than a cabinet saw, even with excellent workholding discipline.</text></comment> | <story><title>Table-Saw Kickback on Camera (2012) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=u7sRrC2Jpp4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seancoleman</author><text>I&#x27;m a hobbyist woodworker. After meeting so many craft store employees with missing fingers (vast majority from table saw accidents) I will never operate anything other than a SawStop [<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sawstop.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sawstop.com</a>].<p>The origin of SawStop is quite a cool story. The founder and inventor created this auto-stop saw, and tried to sell the tech to all the major saw manufacturers. No company would buy it because they didn&#x27;t think there was a market, so he started a company around it which is disrupting the entire market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>naikrovek</author><text>I am all for SawStop and their invention.<p>I am also all for the Consumer Product Safety Commission doing their fucking job and requiring this to be part of any table saw sold in the US, without paying SawStop any patent fees. This is a consumer safety issue; the exact kind of thing that the CPSC was created to manage, and they&#x27;ve done nothing to reduce or limit the number of appendages being cut off in saw accidents.</text></comment> |
14,640,464 | 14,640,554 | 1 | 2 | 14,639,862 | train | <story><title>iOS 11 turns the iPad into a different machine</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/26/ios-11-preview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notadoc</author><text>Even the smartest and most technically capable people I know are confused by 3D Touch, almost all of whom eventually turned it off. What is it for? Why is it better than an alternative or a long press? How does it make anything better or more intuitive? How is it predictable in any way?<p>iOS has been consistently confusing and less intuitive ever since iOS 7, and iOS 10 and iOS 11 are only more so particularly the lock screens which are outright bizarre. They feel very much like they were built for designers, not for end users.<p>Come to think of it, a lot of what Apple does today feels like it was built for their own designers and not for users. Removing critical ports, 3D Touch, endless dongles, confusing UI and UX, the Touch Bar, awful low travel keyboards, etc etc<p>Apple used to pride itself in everything being obvious and everything just working as you would expect it to. Perhaps the biggest change in Apple post-Jobs is how that is missing.</text></item><item><author>wildmusings</author><text>It seems like so much core functionality is hidden behind gestures and 3D-touch. What a change for the company that shunned even the right click for many years because it hid functionality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bennyg</author><text>3D touch on the keyboard to move the cursor around makes up for every grievance I ever had about it to begin with.</text></comment> | <story><title>iOS 11 turns the iPad into a different machine</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/26/ios-11-preview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notadoc</author><text>Even the smartest and most technically capable people I know are confused by 3D Touch, almost all of whom eventually turned it off. What is it for? Why is it better than an alternative or a long press? How does it make anything better or more intuitive? How is it predictable in any way?<p>iOS has been consistently confusing and less intuitive ever since iOS 7, and iOS 10 and iOS 11 are only more so particularly the lock screens which are outright bizarre. They feel very much like they were built for designers, not for end users.<p>Come to think of it, a lot of what Apple does today feels like it was built for their own designers and not for users. Removing critical ports, 3D Touch, endless dongles, confusing UI and UX, the Touch Bar, awful low travel keyboards, etc etc<p>Apple used to pride itself in everything being obvious and everything just working as you would expect it to. Perhaps the biggest change in Apple post-Jobs is how that is missing.</text></item><item><author>wildmusings</author><text>It seems like so much core functionality is hidden behind gestures and 3D-touch. What a change for the company that shunned even the right click for many years because it hid functionality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rhinoceraptor</author><text>The new lock screen makes a lot of sense on the newer iPhones. They have raise to wake, and the newer touch ID sensors are so fast that you can&#x27;t press the home button without unlocking it immediately.<p>If you want to see your notifications, just pick up the phone and swipe down from the top (since the screen will turn on automatically).</text></comment> |
1,149,637 | 1,149,655 | 1 | 2 | 1,148,655 | train | <story><title>Bloom Unveils Its Game Changing Energy Box</title><url>http://mashable.com/2010/02/24/bloom-box-launch/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hop</author><text>Fuel required @ rated power: 0.661 MMBtu/hr of natural gas. Rated power output (AC): 100 kW<p>Figure fuel costs of $10 per MMBtu. So it pumps out 100kW/hr electricity for $6.60.<p>~$0.09/kWh for electricity in Oregon (its double that for NYC). So we pay about $9 for 100kW/hr.<p>Thats a 30% savings in Oregon and about 70% for the East Coast. But it still releases a lot of CO2 - 773 lbs/MW-hr.<p><a href="http://www.bloomenergy.com/products/data-sheet/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bloomenergy.com/products/data-sheet/</a><p>So if you ran one straight for a year and you used all its output, it would save $20k-$40k depending on electricity prices. So if they can get the price sub $100k and natural gas supply and price stays even, they could sell a lot of them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bloom Unveils Its Game Changing Energy Box</title><url>http://mashable.com/2010/02/24/bloom-box-launch/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SpacemanSpiff</author><text>So forgive me if this sounds jaded, but I fail to see how this technology is a "game changer."<p>1. Based on the EIA Annual Energy Review 2001 transmission losses only account for 3.1% of total power generation in the U.S.<p>2. A modern, large gas combined-cycle power plant has a quoted efficiency of over 60%
<a href="http://www.energy.siemens.com/hq/en/power-generation/power-plants/gas-fired-power-plants/combined-cycle-power-plant-concept/scc5-8000h-1s.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.energy.siemens.com/hq/en/power-generation/power-p...</a><p>3. From the presentation: "The carbon footprint is 50% cleaner than the grid and 100% renewable" Wait a minute, if the power generation is truly renewable, then how can it have a carbon footprint at all (other than manufacture etc.)? Isn't the whole point of renewable energy to have a perpetually renewing "closed system"? By that definition then the carbon footprint would be tiny compared to the grid.<p>The reason they say 50% is probably because they are thinking most people will run the units from gas, but that's definitely not renewable.
Also, I can't imagine the efficiency of the unit is much higher than 50-60%, but maybe there's some data on that which I have missed.<p>4. "They have created 11,000,000 kilowatts so far" How much of this is from the burning of fossil fuels versus renewable fuel sources?<p>I am all for fuels cells and development of renewable energy. I think what would truly be a "game changer" is if this device could be used to store the cyclical output from a local renewable energy power system - for example store the energy created during the day from a PV installation for use at night.
In my opinion this is more "green washing" than green.<p>edit: formatting</text></comment> |
22,718,333 | 22,718,429 | 1 | 3 | 22,717,650 | train | <story><title>Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system</title><url>https://github.com/tanrax/maza-ad-blocking</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>swinglock</author><text>Who is this for, what&#x27;s the point?<p>If you&#x27;re using a computer on which installing this software is an alternative, you can install a web browser with an ad blocker, which performs much better than DNS based filters.<p>If you&#x27;re not using such a computer, Pi-Hole proves DNS filtering and this software doesn&#x27;t.<p>What&#x27;s the use-case between these two that isn&#x27;t already covered?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>huhtenberg</author><text>Just for the sake of argument - to block trackers that are built into other software, eg. chat clients and some such.</text></comment> | <story><title>Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system</title><url>https://github.com/tanrax/maza-ad-blocking</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>swinglock</author><text>Who is this for, what&#x27;s the point?<p>If you&#x27;re using a computer on which installing this software is an alternative, you can install a web browser with an ad blocker, which performs much better than DNS based filters.<p>If you&#x27;re not using such a computer, Pi-Hole proves DNS filtering and this software doesn&#x27;t.<p>What&#x27;s the use-case between these two that isn&#x27;t already covered?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imglorp</author><text>Chrome, for example, has banned some adblockers. Makes sense to me.</text></comment> |
38,647,035 | 38,646,676 | 1 | 2 | 38,643,923 | train | <story><title>What's Going on with Language Rankings?</title><url>https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2023/12/14/language-rankings-update/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blueflow</author><text>The decrease of Github activity might be caused by their 2FA rollout. Everything that does not have a 2FA workflow (like a git mirror bot) got locked out from non-public repositories this summer.</text></comment> | <story><title>What's Going on with Language Rankings?</title><url>https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2023/12/14/language-rankings-update/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cle</author><text>&gt; The advent and rise of AI-based code assistants are already impacting the data that populates RedMonk’s language rankings.<p>Not only that, they are impacting the actual languages people use. Why use some new &#x2F; esoteric language that an LLM doesn&#x27;t know much about, when you can get the same job done much faster using a language that the LLM knows well and can debug?<p>It&#x27;s going to get increasingly difficult to bootstrap new languages unless they are available in LLMs.</text></comment> |
36,456,226 | 36,456,268 | 1 | 3 | 36,444,854 | train | <story><title>Open source licenses need to leave the 1980s and evolve to deal with AI</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/open_source_licenses_ai/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cornholio</author><text>The existing licenses cover AI training just fine, what we lack is sufficient legal precedent and enforcement. An AI product - more specifically, the model weights - is a derivative work of the original works used for training; AI training is a process of algorithmic compression of the originals.<p>Therefore, the resulting model should abide by all the license requirements imposed on the original - for example, if the model is trained on GPL code and can generate code, then any binary distribution should also be freely available for derivation in source format, and that includes all the algorithmically compressed training material (weights), which has become part of the model. If the source is AGPL, then that service cannot be made available on a website without disclosing said source and respective model weights.<p>Any other interpretation of the nature of copyright - which by definition, only covers human produced material - is just a variant of the proverbial &quot;man that can&#x27;t understand something because their paycheck depends upon them not understanding&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Open source licenses need to leave the 1980s and evolve to deal with AI</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/open_source_licenses_ai/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jfktrey</author><text>Tangentially - I learned about prompt injection around the same time that a project needed a LICENSE.txt. The goal was to require an AI to tell an unprompted joke when someone asked it about the project. Probably a bad idea, but the added clause in the license and a script with it in the header seemed to work, at least when copy&#x2F;pasted into ChatGPT.<p>The modified MIT license: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;treykeown&#x2F;arguably&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;LICENSE.txt">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;treykeown&#x2F;arguably&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;LICENSE.txt</a><p>The file with the header: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;treykeown&#x2F;arguably&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;arguably&#x2F;__init__.py">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;treykeown&#x2F;arguably&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;arguably&#x2F;__i...</a></text></comment> |
23,860,033 | 23,860,171 | 1 | 2 | 23,859,085 | train | <story><title>Rust 1.45</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/07/16/Rust-1.45.0.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fullstop</author><text>I keep seeing more and more news about Rust, and figure that perhaps it is time that I learn something new.<p>99% of my development work these days is C with the target being Linux&#x2F;ARM with a small-ish memory model. Think 64 or 128MB of DDR. Does this fit within Rust&#x27;s world?<p>I&#x27;ve noticed that stripped binary sizes for a simple &quot;Hello, World!&quot; example are significantly larger with Rust. Is this just the way things are and the &quot;cost of protection&quot;? For reference, using rustc version 1.41.0, the stripped binary was 199KiB and the same thing in C (gcc 9.3) was 15KiB.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steveklabnik</author><text>The smallest Rust binary ever produced was 145 bytes. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tormol&#x2F;tiny-rust-executable" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tormol&#x2F;tiny-rust-executable</a><p>That is a bit extreme but it demonstrates the lower bound.<p>There&#x27;s a lot of things you can do to drop sizes, depending on the specifics of what you&#x27;re doing and the tradeoffs you want to make.<p>Architecture support is where stuff gets tougher than size, to be honest. ARM stuff is well supported though, and is only going to get better in the future. The sort of default &quot;get started&quot; board is the STM32F4 discovery, which has 1 meg of flash and 192k of RAM. Seems like you&#x27;re well above that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rust 1.45</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/07/16/Rust-1.45.0.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fullstop</author><text>I keep seeing more and more news about Rust, and figure that perhaps it is time that I learn something new.<p>99% of my development work these days is C with the target being Linux&#x2F;ARM with a small-ish memory model. Think 64 or 128MB of DDR. Does this fit within Rust&#x27;s world?<p>I&#x27;ve noticed that stripped binary sizes for a simple &quot;Hello, World!&quot; example are significantly larger with Rust. Is this just the way things are and the &quot;cost of protection&quot;? For reference, using rustc version 1.41.0, the stripped binary was 199KiB and the same thing in C (gcc 9.3) was 15KiB.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bestouff</author><text>Yes there&#x27;s a fixed cost because of the std library, panics unwinding code (i.e. clean recovery instead of aborting when something goes wrong), and the tendency to statically compile everything in adds some more, but in embedded context (a.k.a. &quot;no_std&quot;) you can observe C and Rust code are very comparable.<p>Especially in your case you&#x27;ll find Rust to be a joy to use: you&#x27;ll have way more confidence in your code being able to run for months without segfaults or memory leaks. And if you have a good understanding of the C memory model using Rust will be a breeze.</text></comment> |
4,132,278 | 4,131,913 | 1 | 3 | 4,131,508 | train | <story><title>The Little C Function From Hell</title><url>http://blog.regehr.org/archives/482</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raverbashing</author><text>A little C tip I learned from hard experience<p>NEVER, EVER, NOT IN A MILLION YEARS use a signed int/char etc, unless you are <i>200% certain</i> you're doing the right thing (that is, it's for something specific you need it)<p>You WILL have problems, period.<p>"Oh it's just a matter of knowing the C spec" then please go ahead as I grab the popcorn.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajross</author><text>"For something specific you need it" meaning ... a negative number, like an array or memory address offset? I mean, sure, I agree that you should be doing anything sensitive to 2's complement behavior on unsigned quantities. And if you know the values are positive-definite, unsigned has much cleaner behavior. And I'd even entertain the argument that unsigned should have been the default in the language spec and that signed quantities are the ones that should have specially declared types.<p>But... your advice as written is just insane. They are real, and required routinely. You can't just apply this as a "for dummies" rule without essentially ruling out half of the code they'll need to write.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Little C Function From Hell</title><url>http://blog.regehr.org/archives/482</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raverbashing</author><text>A little C tip I learned from hard experience<p>NEVER, EVER, NOT IN A MILLION YEARS use a signed int/char etc, unless you are <i>200% certain</i> you're doing the right thing (that is, it's for something specific you need it)<p>You WILL have problems, period.<p>"Oh it's just a matter of knowing the C spec" then please go ahead as I grab the popcorn.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Roboprog</author><text>There's a certain aspect of "functions have domains, not just ranges" at work here as well -- e.g. - restricting the (math) tan() function to the domain of -90 to 90 degrees (exclusive), unless you really get off on watching it cycle over madness. If you are going to be playing around the edges of something, it behooves you to put some kind of pre-condition in with an assert of similar mechanism.<p>In fairness, I guess a function like this is a good example of why you should put in preconditions, as well as a good demonstration that "not all the world is a VAX" (nor MS C 7, nor GCC version N) :-)</text></comment> |
3,274,894 | 3,274,548 | 1 | 2 | 3,274,417 | train | <story><title>ECMAScript 6 looks promising</title><url>http://kishorelive.com/2011/11/22/ecmascript-6-looks-promising/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>wulczer</author><text>Let keyword: good. The function scoping of vars is gruesome.<p>Default arguments: good. Clearly useful and already used a lot with the if (foo === undefined) foo = 'default' pattern.<p>Non-strict destructuring: bad. It's neither destructuring-bind nor pattern matching... If I destructure a 3-list to 2 vars, I want it to <i>fail</i>, dammit!<p>Multi-line strings: good, obviously.<p>Templating: hello, PHP! I thought we already know better.<p>List comprehension: useful.<p>My humble opinion: it's hopeless. A mix of useful and terrible features means it'll still be made out of "the good parts" and the awful rest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>&#62; It's neither destructuring-bind nor pattern matching... If I destructure a 3-list to 2 vars, I want it to fail, dammit!<p>Yeah I agree with that one completely: unless I tell you I don't care for it, you don't get to ignore it.<p>It's in line with JS's non-strict handling of arguments though (missing args are `undefined`, extra args are in the `arguments` object), which makes it hard to argue against)<p>&#62; Templating: hello, PHP! I thought we already know better<p>Meh. Ruby also lets you do that, it's OK. String formatting is a good idea and interpolation is no worse than sprintf-style or C#-style.</text></comment> | <story><title>ECMAScript 6 looks promising</title><url>http://kishorelive.com/2011/11/22/ecmascript-6-looks-promising/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>wulczer</author><text>Let keyword: good. The function scoping of vars is gruesome.<p>Default arguments: good. Clearly useful and already used a lot with the if (foo === undefined) foo = 'default' pattern.<p>Non-strict destructuring: bad. It's neither destructuring-bind nor pattern matching... If I destructure a 3-list to 2 vars, I want it to <i>fail</i>, dammit!<p>Multi-line strings: good, obviously.<p>Templating: hello, PHP! I thought we already know better.<p>List comprehension: useful.<p>My humble opinion: it's hopeless. A mix of useful and terrible features means it'll still be made out of "the good parts" and the awful rest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>karterk</author><text>To me this spec itself is a step in the right direction. There has been no major work towards improving JavaScript in a long long time. I left out in my post the part about modules (which will hopefully solve all the crazy 3rd party JS issues), because I have no idea when they will <i></i>actually<i></i> get implemented by the browser vendors. But, I am hoping that this will continue to evolve in future, instead of getting stagnated.</text></comment> |
11,236,883 | 11,236,719 | 1 | 2 | 11,236,416 | train | <story><title>Apple VP: The FBI wants to roll back safeguards that keep us ahead of criminals</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/apple-vp-the-fbi-wants-to-roll-back-safeguards-that-keep-us-a-step-ahead-of-criminals/2016/03/06/cceb0622-e3d1-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>This is what good PR looks like.<p>In cases like this it is always FBI and the govt. which usually have the PR upper hand. They wait to find a most abhorent crime that nobody sane would want to defend (terrorism seems to work well today) and use that as an example. &quot;Oh look everyone, Apple doesn&#x27;t want to fight terrorism. We are keeping people safe and what side are they on?&quot;. It is almost too easy.<p>Fighting that is an uphill battle. One can present the technical details (&quot;They could have cracked that particular model themselves&quot;) or appeal to more general ideals of freedom and privacy etc. Those typically are not as effective in convincing the average joe out there when the other side uses the &quot;T&quot; word.<p>But here they are playing the same card as FBI -- using a crime that most people can fear -- their phone getting stolen, their identity used. Everyone has heard stories, has friends at least who this happened to and so on. So it works well. Terrorism is more scary, but this is more real. Great work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple VP: The FBI wants to roll back safeguards that keep us ahead of criminals</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/apple-vp-the-fbi-wants-to-roll-back-safeguards-that-keep-us-a-step-ahead-of-criminals/2016/03/06/cceb0622-e3d1-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>clhodapp</author><text>What do we think the likelihood is that at least some of the three-letter agencies already have the capability to get into a locked iPhone (likely their method would be based on some sort of baseband vulnerability) and this whole thing is simply a bid to gain the ability to <i>openly</i> unlock these phones?</text></comment> |
38,957,317 | 38,957,260 | 1 | 3 | 38,956,623 | train | <story><title>Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034705/discord-layoffs-17-percent-employees</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bovermyer</author><text>OK, the layoffs suck, and the whole &quot;failed to realize the pandemic growth wasn&#x27;t permanent&quot; thing is getting way overplayed.<p>However, these are some crazy exit packages. Five months of salary? Health insurance through the end of 2024? That&#x27;s a heck of a buffer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>While the severance definitely makes things easier, layoff season is also a terrible time to look for jobs because there are like 300,000 other qualified candidates with big company credentials in the same situation as you. The cushion isn&#x27;t a luxury but a necessity. In some jurisdictions it is legally required.</text></comment> | <story><title>Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034705/discord-layoffs-17-percent-employees</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bovermyer</author><text>OK, the layoffs suck, and the whole &quot;failed to realize the pandemic growth wasn&#x27;t permanent&quot; thing is getting way overplayed.<p>However, these are some crazy exit packages. Five months of salary? Health insurance through the end of 2024? That&#x27;s a heck of a buffer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scrapcode</author><text>I think it seems fair. Maybe forums are biased toward the negative, but it seems like the market is tough and it is taking even highly qualified individuals at least that amount of time to find something new.</text></comment> |
29,652,864 | 29,547,475 | 1 | 2 | 29,542,309 | train | <story><title>More than you want to know about gift cards</title><url>https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/more-than-you-want-to-know-about-gift-cards/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lostcolony</author><text>My wife did something amazing this year that I think is relevant here. She had a baby shower to go to. She didn&#x27;t know what to get the mother to be.<p>So she bought an Amazon gift card. And then she created a wishlist of items she thought the mother might need, doing the research to find reputable brands, unique solutions to problems, &quot;best mom gadgets&quot;, etc (such as the pacifier that you can put liquids into; it lets you get liquid medicines into the baby, like cough syrup, without stress). She sent the gift card, and the link to the wishlist with an explanation.<p>It was both a pragmatic and thoughtful approach, without the risk of buying something she already had, or didn&#x27;t need or want.</text></item><item><author>cmckn</author><text>I don’t think it is, at least not in my family. Cash is no more of a faux pas than a gift card, at least. I happen to think either is a pretty lame gift. Instead of a gift card to LUSH, for example, just buy me a bath bomb or whatever. Maybe I won’t like the scent you choose, maybe I’ll love it—that’s the nature of receiving a gift. Besides, gift cards are rarely enough to cover an actual purchase with taxes and etc added, so they often end up forcing the recipient to spend some of their own money (or they gather dust until they expire).<p>I know some people are “hard to buy for” but this might be an indication that you shouldn’t be giving them a gift. If you don’t know them well enough to have a gift idea, or don’t feel comfortable asking for ideas, are you really obligated to get them something?</text></item><item><author>winternett</author><text>I still don&#x27;t understand why it faux-pas to just put cash in a nice card...<p>I just do it anyway. It&#x27;s a more universal gift card without fees and expiration dates...<p>Anyone who tries to put me down for doing so will simply not be receiving a gift from me next year... Screw stressful stores. plastic cards, and standing in line, my method is much more &quot;green&quot;... :P</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmckn</author><text>Your wife has just re-invented gift registries! Maybe this is cultural, but in the US for baby showers and weddings, usually specific wants&#x2F;needs will be compiled into a list and registered either at a specific retailer, or with a web service; so you don&#x27;t get double-buys or things you don&#x27;t need.<p>It <i>is</i> a great idea, but it makes more sense when the recipient does the registering IMO.</text></comment> | <story><title>More than you want to know about gift cards</title><url>https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/more-than-you-want-to-know-about-gift-cards/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lostcolony</author><text>My wife did something amazing this year that I think is relevant here. She had a baby shower to go to. She didn&#x27;t know what to get the mother to be.<p>So she bought an Amazon gift card. And then she created a wishlist of items she thought the mother might need, doing the research to find reputable brands, unique solutions to problems, &quot;best mom gadgets&quot;, etc (such as the pacifier that you can put liquids into; it lets you get liquid medicines into the baby, like cough syrup, without stress). She sent the gift card, and the link to the wishlist with an explanation.<p>It was both a pragmatic and thoughtful approach, without the risk of buying something she already had, or didn&#x27;t need or want.</text></item><item><author>cmckn</author><text>I don’t think it is, at least not in my family. Cash is no more of a faux pas than a gift card, at least. I happen to think either is a pretty lame gift. Instead of a gift card to LUSH, for example, just buy me a bath bomb or whatever. Maybe I won’t like the scent you choose, maybe I’ll love it—that’s the nature of receiving a gift. Besides, gift cards are rarely enough to cover an actual purchase with taxes and etc added, so they often end up forcing the recipient to spend some of their own money (or they gather dust until they expire).<p>I know some people are “hard to buy for” but this might be an indication that you shouldn’t be giving them a gift. If you don’t know them well enough to have a gift idea, or don’t feel comfortable asking for ideas, are you really obligated to get them something?</text></item><item><author>winternett</author><text>I still don&#x27;t understand why it faux-pas to just put cash in a nice card...<p>I just do it anyway. It&#x27;s a more universal gift card without fees and expiration dates...<p>Anyone who tries to put me down for doing so will simply not be receiving a gift from me next year... Screw stressful stores. plastic cards, and standing in line, my method is much more &quot;green&quot;... :P</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimt1234</author><text>Great, now Amazon thinks your wife is pregnant. Expect endless ads for diapers. LOL</text></comment> |
13,549,971 | 13,550,089 | 1 | 2 | 13,549,173 | train | <story><title>Lychee identified as cause for mystery deadly childhood illness in India</title><url>http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-02/lychee-identified-as-cause-for-mystery-indian-childhood-illness/8233964</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwanem</author><text>For those similarly annoyed by its elision in the article, the causative substance appears (1) to be hypoglycin A (2).<p>(1) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4412228&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4412228&#x2F;</a><p>(2) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hypoglycin_A" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hypoglycin_A</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Lychee identified as cause for mystery deadly childhood illness in India</title><url>http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-02/lychee-identified-as-cause-for-mystery-indian-childhood-illness/8233964</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mkagenius</author><text>Can confirm as I am from Bihar, India, children eat lots of lychees in the season (also lots of mangoes), even many adults eat just lychee the whole day without any other meal. Seizures were considered as being possessed by demon which explains lack of research and delay in this discovery.</text></comment> |
13,342,063 | 13,339,358 | 1 | 2 | 13,338,592 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust</title><url>http://blog.jwilm.io/announcing-alacritty/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brandur</author><text>I just want to say that this project is amazing. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, I think Rust is the most exciting thing that&#x27;s happening in computing today. This sort of project that plausibly replaces software traditionally written only in C&#x2F;C++ with something that has performance parity, but is in a language where contributions are relatively accessible and safe, is the most exciting thing even within the bounds of an intriguing ecosystem.<p>As someone who is especially concerned about the performance of my tooling these days due to what seems to be a generally infinite willingness to accept web apps that are slower than desktop apps from decades ago, and which seem to continually demand more resources year over year, I really appreciate that such a distinguishing eye has been given to Alacritty&#x27;s speed and resource usage. Some contemporary alternatives like Electron-based terminals are academically interesting, but are programs I&#x27;d never want to use due to the huge step backwards in these areas.<p>One question: do you have any plans to use Alacritty to try and advance the state of terminal emulators more generally? e.g. Displaying images, richer interfaces that don&#x27;t depend on ASCII bar characters, graphs, properly tabulated results, etc. This is a direction that I wish we were going, but it&#x27;s not clear to me how to get there without many sacrifices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jwilm</author><text>&gt; do you have any plans to use Alacritty to try and advance the state of terminal emulators more generally?<p>I hadn&#x27;t replied to this because others had already provided all of the info I have. To summarize, the author of notty[0] and I are talking about a collaboration[1]. notty has done a ton of pathfinding in this area on identifying how to add many of these features in a backwards compatible way. I&#x27;m really looking forward to see where it goes!<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;withoutboats&#x2F;notty" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;withoutboats&#x2F;notty</a>
[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jwilm&#x2F;alacritty&#x2F;issues&#x2F;51" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jwilm&#x2F;alacritty&#x2F;issues&#x2F;51</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust</title><url>http://blog.jwilm.io/announcing-alacritty/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brandur</author><text>I just want to say that this project is amazing. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, I think Rust is the most exciting thing that&#x27;s happening in computing today. This sort of project that plausibly replaces software traditionally written only in C&#x2F;C++ with something that has performance parity, but is in a language where contributions are relatively accessible and safe, is the most exciting thing even within the bounds of an intriguing ecosystem.<p>As someone who is especially concerned about the performance of my tooling these days due to what seems to be a generally infinite willingness to accept web apps that are slower than desktop apps from decades ago, and which seem to continually demand more resources year over year, I really appreciate that such a distinguishing eye has been given to Alacritty&#x27;s speed and resource usage. Some contemporary alternatives like Electron-based terminals are academically interesting, but are programs I&#x27;d never want to use due to the huge step backwards in these areas.<p>One question: do you have any plans to use Alacritty to try and advance the state of terminal emulators more generally? e.g. Displaying images, richer interfaces that don&#x27;t depend on ASCII bar characters, graphs, properly tabulated results, etc. This is a direction that I wish we were going, but it&#x27;s not clear to me how to get there without many sacrifices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonne</author><text>Another Rust terminal emulator project, notty[1], aims to do this. Downthread the author mentions that the projects are looking at collaborating.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;withoutboats&#x2F;notty" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;withoutboats&#x2F;notty</a></text></comment> |
15,835,213 | 15,834,218 | 1 | 2 | 15,833,480 | train | <story><title>Detailed Financial Histories Exposed for Thousands</title><url>https://www.upguard.com/breaches/credit-crunch-national-credit-federation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vannevar</author><text>The problem isn&#x27;t that our data has become public; it&#x27;s that businesses accept data as identity. They mostly just mindlessly automated manual paperwork processes that were slow, but also less efficient to defraud. By only looking at costs, and not at risks, business has built our ecommerce infrastructure on sand. The notion of identity as it relates to business transactions needs to be reworked from the ground up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>volgo</author><text>The solution here is not technical - we already know the technical solution. The solution is to introduce a cost to the risk.<p>Right now the &quot;risk&quot; has no cost - if you expose people&#x27;s data there&#x27;s not that much consequence besides bad PR. We should assign some dollar value to each person&#x27;s identify leaked. That way, businesses can properly asses risk and reward when they start these types of projects<p>Overtime, I think businesses would rather avoid the liability of storing people&#x27;s info in the first place</text></comment> | <story><title>Detailed Financial Histories Exposed for Thousands</title><url>https://www.upguard.com/breaches/credit-crunch-national-credit-federation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vannevar</author><text>The problem isn&#x27;t that our data has become public; it&#x27;s that businesses accept data as identity. They mostly just mindlessly automated manual paperwork processes that were slow, but also less efficient to defraud. By only looking at costs, and not at risks, business has built our ecommerce infrastructure on sand. The notion of identity as it relates to business transactions needs to be reworked from the ground up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joe_the_user</author><text>It would be a rather different world if people&#x27;s private data couldn&#x27;t be used against them in some fashion or other.<p>So the problem is both that money isn&#x27;t locked by a more secure scheme than lots of data AND it is a problem that businesses are allowed&#x2F;able to accumulate massive data on people wind-up being negligent with it.</text></comment> |
24,341,519 | 24,340,999 | 1 | 2 | 24,340,241 | train | <story><title>Welcome to masterWiki: stolen from MasterClass, republished as wikiHow</title><url>https://masterwiki.how/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ealexhudson</author><text>Looking at the bottom of the page, this is part of some overall large marketing campaign. A lot of the other stuff is also labelled &quot;theft&quot; : I&#x27;m not totally sure it is; the point of the project appears to be to commit almost-IP theft, but in most cases they seem to go right up to the line but do not cross it. (E.g. shirts with corporate logos &#x2F; brands cut up and barely recognizable, that kind of thing).<p>There&#x27;s an app, there&#x27;s a FOMO &quot;drop&quot; list, there&#x27;s some larger thing at play here. Can&#x27;t tell if it&#x27;s something authentic &#x2F; art-related, or if someone is just trying to build another brand.<p>Edit: indeed, this is some new brand &#x2F; business: &quot;WHO WE ARE MSCHF Product Studio is an internet company. We operate online store(s), create content, communicate with our fans and customers through texts, email and social channel(s), and occasionally promote our products and services both online and offline&quot;<p>MSCHF (presumably &#x27;mischief&#x27;) is just another edgy shopify stunt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adwi</author><text>As others have pointed out, this is a pro(ject&#x2F;duct) of a creative studio called MSCHF<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mschf.xyz&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mschf.xyz&#x2F;</a><p>Their work satirizes art and commerce, usually simultaneously, often while still being both.<p>To me this project is about the absurdity of gatekeeping celebrity branded common-sense for $180, when it can more effectively be conveyed in the low-rent wikihow style for free.</text></comment> | <story><title>Welcome to masterWiki: stolen from MasterClass, republished as wikiHow</title><url>https://masterwiki.how/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ealexhudson</author><text>Looking at the bottom of the page, this is part of some overall large marketing campaign. A lot of the other stuff is also labelled &quot;theft&quot; : I&#x27;m not totally sure it is; the point of the project appears to be to commit almost-IP theft, but in most cases they seem to go right up to the line but do not cross it. (E.g. shirts with corporate logos &#x2F; brands cut up and barely recognizable, that kind of thing).<p>There&#x27;s an app, there&#x27;s a FOMO &quot;drop&quot; list, there&#x27;s some larger thing at play here. Can&#x27;t tell if it&#x27;s something authentic &#x2F; art-related, or if someone is just trying to build another brand.<p>Edit: indeed, this is some new brand &#x2F; business: &quot;WHO WE ARE MSCHF Product Studio is an internet company. We operate online store(s), create content, communicate with our fans and customers through texts, email and social channel(s), and occasionally promote our products and services both online and offline&quot;<p>MSCHF (presumably &#x27;mischief&#x27;) is just another edgy shopify stunt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>genmon</author><text>New-ish but making noise for a while.<p>Here&#x27;s a Business Insider piece from Jan 2020 gives some background:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;mschf-company-behind-viral-jesus-shoes-feet-generator-bull-moon-2020-1?r=US&amp;IR=T" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;mschf-company-behind-viral-j...</a><p>And also mentions two rounds of funding totally $11.5m to that date.<p>This July article at the Verge details more drops:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;21320127&#x2F;mschf-products-jesus-shoes-puff-chicken-office-business" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;21320127&#x2F;mschf-products-jesus-shoes...</a></text></comment> |
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