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1,653,502 | 1,653,445 | 1 | 2 | 1,653,345 | train | <story><title>Welcome Alexis</title><url>http://ycombinator.posterous.com/welcome-alexis</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>justin</author><text>Alexis is one of the most positive and helpful people in the startup community I know. He drew the original logo for Justin.tv, helped us on numerous occasions, and has even tried to launch my voice acting career (a long time dream of mine). Why is he so helpful? Because at heart, Alexis is a great guy who is genuinely interested in helping others.<p>This is a huge win for YC!</text></comment> | <story><title>Welcome Alexis</title><url>http://ycombinator.posterous.com/welcome-alexis</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nck4222</author><text>"Anyone on the East Coast thinking of applying to YC should feel free to ask him any questions they have about YC or the application process."<p>How? Is there an email address?<p>Hopefully the answer isn't obvious and I've missed it.</text></comment> |
30,325,236 | 30,323,442 | 1 | 2 | 30,322,296 | train | <story><title>Cryptocurrency off-ramps, and the shift towards centralization</title><url>https://blog.mollywhite.net/off-ramps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>miracle2k</author><text>It is true that exchanges are a pressure point, and that anonymised transactions are a compliance risk-factor. While the article is notably lacking evidence for the claim that we are &quot;now&quot; seeing this &quot;increasingly&quot;, assuming it is not yet the case, it may well be an increasing problem going forward.<p>Ultimately, this a civic matter; as much as we want to ensure we have the right to
encrypt our communications, to not disclose our passwords to police even when being prosecuted for a crime, as activists commonly insist on, so should we fight to maintain our existing rights to financial privacy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>waffle_maniac</author><text>Several years ago I bought some anti-malaria medication from an Indian pharmacy using Coinbase before my trip to India. I guess the address was on a FinCEN list because my account was immediately closed. Anyone know Brian Armstrong? I&#x27;d like to get my account reinstated as I&#x27;m not doing anything illegal and I&#x27;m not opposed to KYC. Not a terrorist AFAIK.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cryptocurrency off-ramps, and the shift towards centralization</title><url>https://blog.mollywhite.net/off-ramps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>miracle2k</author><text>It is true that exchanges are a pressure point, and that anonymised transactions are a compliance risk-factor. While the article is notably lacking evidence for the claim that we are &quot;now&quot; seeing this &quot;increasingly&quot;, assuming it is not yet the case, it may well be an increasing problem going forward.<p>Ultimately, this a civic matter; as much as we want to ensure we have the right to
encrypt our communications, to not disclose our passwords to police even when being prosecuted for a crime, as activists commonly insist on, so should we fight to maintain our existing rights to financial privacy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sobkas</author><text>&gt; Ultimately, this a civic matter; as much as we want to ensure we have the right to encrypt our communications, to not disclose our passwords to police even when being prosecuted for a crime, as activists commonly insist on, so should we fight to maintain our existing rights to financial privacy.<p>But you know, you are not anonymous on Blockchain, you&#x27;re only pseudonymous. If someone correlate your pseudonym with your real identity, they will know your entire financial history (on Blockchain).</text></comment> |
18,349,773 | 18,349,579 | 1 | 2 | 18,349,177 | train | <story><title>Two Objects Not Namespaced by the Linux Kernel (2017)</title><url>https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/two-objects-not-namespaced-linux-kernel/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>derefr</author><text>I wonder whether namespacing time would also result in those namespaces being able to have separate &quot;clocks&quot; (time backends? time schedulers?) that progress at different rates, or for different reasons.<p>Being able to put a process into a time namespace with a deterministic &quot;clock&quot; would obviate a large benefit of <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zerovm.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zerovm.org&#x2F;</a>.<p>Also, having &quot;clock slew&quot; be a matter of perspective—with processes that <i>can</i> handle leap seconds seeing them happen instantaneously; and processes that <i>can&#x27;t</i> handle leap-seconds, seeing slewed time—would be nice. Then you could have different system facilities that care about <i>monotonic</i> time, vs. <i>synced to calendar</i> time, vs. <i>one second per second</i> time, all having that kind of time available to them as &quot;the time&quot;, rather than through different APIs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rwmj</author><text>Accelerated time might also be a way to test programs. It&#x27;s similar to techniques used to test planes (by repeatedly pressurising and depressurising them). It might, for example, reveal race conditions faster in programs that ordinarily do a lot of sleeping. I wrote a bit more about this (unproven) idea here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rwmj.wordpress.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;10&#x2F;14&#x2F;half-baked-ideas-accelerated-testing-for-vms&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rwmj.wordpress.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;10&#x2F;14&#x2F;half-baked-ideas-accel...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Two Objects Not Namespaced by the Linux Kernel (2017)</title><url>https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/two-objects-not-namespaced-linux-kernel/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>derefr</author><text>I wonder whether namespacing time would also result in those namespaces being able to have separate &quot;clocks&quot; (time backends? time schedulers?) that progress at different rates, or for different reasons.<p>Being able to put a process into a time namespace with a deterministic &quot;clock&quot; would obviate a large benefit of <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zerovm.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zerovm.org&#x2F;</a>.<p>Also, having &quot;clock slew&quot; be a matter of perspective—with processes that <i>can</i> handle leap seconds seeing them happen instantaneously; and processes that <i>can&#x27;t</i> handle leap-seconds, seeing slewed time—would be nice. Then you could have different system facilities that care about <i>monotonic</i> time, vs. <i>synced to calendar</i> time, vs. <i>one second per second</i> time, all having that kind of time available to them as &quot;the time&quot;, rather than through different APIs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>&gt; Also, having &quot;clock slew&quot; be a matter of perspective—with processes that can handle leap seconds seeing them happen instantaneously; and processes that can&#x27;t handle leap-seconds, seeing slewed time—would be nice.<p>I imagine there might be some really interesting (for meanings of interesting that include <i>shoot me now</i>) and hard to track down bugs as you deal with inconsistent clocks not just across systems within a network, but processes within a single system.</text></comment> |
35,875,764 | 35,874,657 | 1 | 3 | 35,874,171 | train | <story><title>Total Crap – A magazine written by AI</title><url>https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/introducing-total-crap-the-first-magazine-written-entirely-by-ai</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>freedude</author><text>I am not a fan of satire because it mocks the truth, but I am a fan of the truth that is insinuated by it. Zeller nailed it with his ChatTCM.<p>&quot;You may be skeptical about machine-written work at first, but once you see the software rearranging familiar-seeming paragraphs into different orders and changing a few words, you’ll realize it’s a suitable replacement for your favorite authors, who can now rest and starve&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Total Crap – A magazine written by AI</title><url>https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/introducing-total-crap-the-first-magazine-written-entirely-by-ai</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>welshwelsh</author><text>Disappointed that <i>Total Crap</i> is not an actual magazine I can subscribe to.</text></comment> |
1,804,187 | 1,803,890 | 1 | 3 | 1,803,351 | train | <story><title>Ask PG: Lisp vs Python (2010)</title><text>It seems that a lot of old school Lispers switching to Python (for example: Peter Norvig). What do you think on Lisp vs Python today?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>norvig</author><text>Peter Norvig here. I came to Python not because I thought it was a better/acceptable/pragmatic Lisp, but because it was better pseudocode. Several students claimed that they had a hard time mapping from the pseudocode in my AI textbook to the Lisp code that Russell and I had online. So I looked for the language that was most like our pseudocode, and found that Python was the best match. Then I had to teach myself enough Python to implement the examples from the textbook. I found that Python was very nice for certain types of small problems, and had the libraries I needed to integrate with lots of other stuff, at Google and elsewhere on the net.<p>I think Lisp still has an edge for larger projects and for applications where the speed of the compiled code is important. But Python has the edge (with a large number of students) when the main goal is communication, not programming per se.<p>In terms of programming-in-the-large, at Google and elsewhere, I think that language choice is not as important as all the other choices: if you have the right overall architecture, the right team of programmers, the right development process that allows for rapid development with continuous improvement, then many languages will work for you; if you don't have those things you're in trouble regardless of your language choice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edw519</author><text><i>In terms of programming-in-the-large, at Google and elsewhere, I think that language choice is not as important as all the other choices: if you have the right overall architecture, the right team of programmers, the right development process that allows for rapid development with continuous improvement, then many languages will work for you; if you don't have those things you're in trouble regardless of your language choice.</i><p>Thank you, Peter. This is how I have felt for years, but could never find words that describe it as well as you just did.<p>Someone should write a program that automatically posts this paragraph at the top of every language war thread. I think they should write that program in php :-)</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask PG: Lisp vs Python (2010)</title><text>It seems that a lot of old school Lispers switching to Python (for example: Peter Norvig). What do you think on Lisp vs Python today?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>norvig</author><text>Peter Norvig here. I came to Python not because I thought it was a better/acceptable/pragmatic Lisp, but because it was better pseudocode. Several students claimed that they had a hard time mapping from the pseudocode in my AI textbook to the Lisp code that Russell and I had online. So I looked for the language that was most like our pseudocode, and found that Python was the best match. Then I had to teach myself enough Python to implement the examples from the textbook. I found that Python was very nice for certain types of small problems, and had the libraries I needed to integrate with lots of other stuff, at Google and elsewhere on the net.<p>I think Lisp still has an edge for larger projects and for applications where the speed of the compiled code is important. But Python has the edge (with a large number of students) when the main goal is communication, not programming per se.<p>In terms of programming-in-the-large, at Google and elsewhere, I think that language choice is not as important as all the other choices: if you have the right overall architecture, the right team of programmers, the right development process that allows for rapid development with continuous improvement, then many languages will work for you; if you don't have those things you're in trouble regardless of your language choice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theblackbox</author><text>Once again the YC community surprises me in both it's depth and it's breadth. From someone who has found your (and Russell's) text invaluable, I say - thank you, sir.<p>And thank you PG/YC for giving me the opportunity to do so.</text></comment> |
20,861,834 | 20,860,819 | 1 | 2 | 20,859,212 | train | <story><title>Just Delete Me – A directory of direct links to delete your account</title><url>https://backgroundchecks.org/justdeleteme/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>have_faith</author><text>&gt; Hacker News<p>&gt; Impossible<p>Not sure how I feel about this one. I think it&#x27;s a nice gesture to respect someones wishes to delete their contributions regardless of the technical fact of external archives etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>numakerg</author><text>Dang&#x27;s response to a similar (but slightly more confrontational) comment from me:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19459658" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19459658</a><p>While I mostly agree with what he said, I think there are some things they could do to give users more control without &quot;gutting&quot; threads.<p>1. Allow accounts to be deleted, with all of all their comments and submissions reverting to a [deleted] author.<p>2. If conversations require author continuity, anonymize the author per-thread to something like the Google docs anonymous usernames<p>3. Include a deletion request with clear guidelines for reasons why something can be deleted.<p>Of course they won&#x27;t do these things because 1) it&#x27;s only two people and these features will require development and maintenance 2) an opaque and uncertain process ensures that they&#x27;ll only receive requests in the most necessary cases 3) people might think more about what they write if they can&#x27;t easily take it back<p>What they could really do is add a warning to the account creation, submission and comment forms telling users that their submissions are not retractable past the grace period.</text></comment> | <story><title>Just Delete Me – A directory of direct links to delete your account</title><url>https://backgroundchecks.org/justdeleteme/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>have_faith</author><text>&gt; Hacker News<p>&gt; Impossible<p>Not sure how I feel about this one. I think it&#x27;s a nice gesture to respect someones wishes to delete their contributions regardless of the technical fact of external archives etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abootstrapper</author><text>It’s especially annoying because the fact that you can’t delete an account is not disclosed up front.</text></comment> |
8,048,352 | 8,048,455 | 1 | 3 | 8,047,647 | train | <story><title>Product Hunt Is in Current Y Combinator Batch</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/17/product-hunt-the-popular-tech-product-discovery-site-is-in-current-y-combinator-batch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>btipling</author><text>It’s an interesting product but Erik Torenburg (self-described &quot;Product Hunt Hustler&quot; according to his Twitter profile) is not just a little bit of a Twitter spammer:<p><a href="https://twitter.com/ErikTorenberg/media" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;ErikTorenberg&#x2F;media</a><p>He has posted hundreds of reply spam promoting Product Hunt on Twitter. He must be running some kind of script because he has posted so many replies many with product specific screenshots, I can’t imagine someone doing this manually so quickly (every few minutes).<p>I understand “growth hacking” and sometimes promoting yourself can seem like spam to some, but this really is just spam, and it’s not the good kind. This is probably in violation of Twitter&#x27;s TOS and not what people should have to be exposed to, especially if you&#x27;re trying to build a brand. This makes me just want to never use the product, and I really like supporting YC companies and prefer to give the benefit of the doubt and assume good faith in the face of self-promotion. But this is just a little bit too much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jqueryin</author><text>I understand that you want the startup to interact with the comments and I also understand you don&#x27;t want them to miss an opportunity of receiving and answering feedback, but I&#x27;m wondering if it would make more sense to have these automated messages come from a Product Hunt twitter account that&#x27;s not associated to a person. I believe this would solidify that it&#x27;s an automated message.<p>I get the feeling that you&#x27;re trying to play the messages off as not being automated as they come from Erik, but people already know they&#x27;re automated. The gig is up. You could simply create an account such as &quot;ProductHuntNotifier&quot; or equivalent and remove any ambiguity.<p>I still think that the messages are both relevant and important.<p>You&#x27;re in a unique position where you can even manually add and promote new startups to Product Hunt yourselves followed by automating a tweet out to the founder(s) and growth hack user acquisition that way. This seems to be the approach you&#x27;re taking. I do applaud the fact you go so far as to do the legwork of finding the twitter accounts associated with the startup; that task is by no means automated. Most people can&#x27;t take this approach as they have nothing beneficial to offer the user they&#x27;re tweeting to.<p>Because there&#x27;s some value add to what they&#x27;re doing, I&#x27;m not sure I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s a cut and dry case of calling it spam given it&#x27;s not fully automated and the startups in question are getting promoted. It seems mutually beneficial in many ways.</text></comment> | <story><title>Product Hunt Is in Current Y Combinator Batch</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/17/product-hunt-the-popular-tech-product-discovery-site-is-in-current-y-combinator-batch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>btipling</author><text>It’s an interesting product but Erik Torenburg (self-described &quot;Product Hunt Hustler&quot; according to his Twitter profile) is not just a little bit of a Twitter spammer:<p><a href="https://twitter.com/ErikTorenberg/media" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;ErikTorenberg&#x2F;media</a><p>He has posted hundreds of reply spam promoting Product Hunt on Twitter. He must be running some kind of script because he has posted so many replies many with product specific screenshots, I can’t imagine someone doing this manually so quickly (every few minutes).<p>I understand “growth hacking” and sometimes promoting yourself can seem like spam to some, but this really is just spam, and it’s not the good kind. This is probably in violation of Twitter&#x27;s TOS and not what people should have to be exposed to, especially if you&#x27;re trying to build a brand. This makes me just want to never use the product, and I really like supporting YC companies and prefer to give the benefit of the doubt and assume good faith in the face of self-promotion. But this is just a little bit too much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erikto</author><text>no robot here - just a hustler working on product hunt and, yes, manually reaching out to founders to let them know that they just got free press.<p>Many of them respond with a &quot;Thanks&quot;. Not one person has said &quot;Spam&quot;.</text></comment> |
29,318,899 | 29,317,083 | 1 | 2 | 29,316,058 | train | <story><title>Prince of Persia open-source port based on the DOS version disassembly</title><url>https://github.com/NagyD/SDLPoP</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>newaccount74</author><text>Why the DOS version? It had atrocious graphics compared to the original Mac version....<p>EDIT: I googled for screenshots and I never knew how many different versions of the game there were! Every platform had completely different artwork! Pretty amazing.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oldgames.sk&#x2F;en&#x2F;game&#x2F;prince-of-persia&#x2F;pictures&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oldgames.sk&#x2F;en&#x2F;game&#x2F;prince-of-persia&#x2F;pictures&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teddyh</author><text>I actually prefer the PC VGA version; it has very nice graphics, but still in the same style as the original Apple II version, not a complete redraw in a different style and tone, like many of the ports.</text></comment> | <story><title>Prince of Persia open-source port based on the DOS version disassembly</title><url>https://github.com/NagyD/SDLPoP</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>newaccount74</author><text>Why the DOS version? It had atrocious graphics compared to the original Mac version....<p>EDIT: I googled for screenshots and I never knew how many different versions of the game there were! Every platform had completely different artwork! Pretty amazing.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oldgames.sk&#x2F;en&#x2F;game&#x2F;prince-of-persia&#x2F;pictures&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oldgames.sk&#x2F;en&#x2F;game&#x2F;prince-of-persia&#x2F;pictures&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EvanAnderson</author><text>The original version was written for the Apple II.</text></comment> |
8,412,866 | 8,412,767 | 1 | 2 | 8,412,605 | train | <story><title>How the Z80's registers are implemented</title><url>http://www.righto.com/2014/10/how-z80s-registers-are-implemented-down.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>VLM</author><text>If you think swapping via register renaming is creative, you&#x27;d really like barrel shifters.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_shifter" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Barrel_shifter</a><p>The easiest way to shift bits isn&#x27;t &quot;adder like&quot; with carry propagation across data lines (sorta), although that could be done. The easiest way is just to phase distort the bus (sorta) so what you called bit X is now bit X-4 for all bits on the bus, and use a 2x1 mux to select which, and cascade rollers in binary (you don&#x27;t need a roller for all integer numbers if you can cascade them 16, 8, 2, 1 position only activating some rolls). If you can rotate, you can shift by adding one more stage at the end that does bit oriented ops to clear MSBs or LSBs. Also if your roller is capable of rolling all bits on the bus, you don&#x27;t need two rollers one in each direction. Latency does add up of course, all those cascaded ops.<p>Also I saw in the notes the Rodney Zaks z80 book being referenced. I learned assembly from that book, back when it was new. I enjoyed that book. I also looked at the PDF scan of someone&#x27;s beat up copy... remember when textbooks were only $10.95 each?</text></comment> | <story><title>How the Z80's registers are implemented</title><url>http://www.righto.com/2014/10/how-z80s-registers-are-implemented-down.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sudowhodoido</author><text>A little comment regarding the Z80 vs 6502 register count: I always consider the 6502 to have 256 registers (zero page) and an accumulator and two index registers. Never a shortage if you use it like that...</text></comment> |
28,800,977 | 28,800,954 | 1 | 3 | 28,797,535 | train | <story><title>Xterm.js</title><url>http://xtermjs.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Tyriar</author><text>Hi all, I&#x27;m one of the maintainers of xterm.js, open to answer any questions!<p>Here&#x27;s a little history on the project, some of which is already called out in other comments:<p>- Fabrice Bellard created jslinux[1].<p>- Christopher Jeffrey (@chjj) forked the terminal component into term.js[2], this eventually became unmaintained.<p>- Paris Kasidiaris (@parisk) forked it into xterm.js for use in SourceLair[3].<p>- I showed up around 2016 when investigating options for VS Code&#x27;s integrated terminal and eventually joined as a maintainer, spending a good deal of my time at work on the project since then.<p>We currently have 5 active maintainers in the xterm.js team as well which I&#x27;d like to call out because the project has only come this far as a result of everyone&#x27;s efforts.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;jslinux&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;jslinux&#x2F;</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chjj&#x2F;term.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chjj&#x2F;term.js</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sourcelair.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sourcelair.com&#x2F;</a><p>EDITS: Formatting</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benjaminjackman</author><text>I just want to say thanks, I have been experimenting with using xterm.js to connect to terminal API in jupyter notebooks and it has worked really well, plug and play (even editors like vim were working without any extra effort).<p>Before that I was experimenting with using it as a custom shell for running commands inside a web application. In that use case it was a bit more challenging because I had never written to an actual tty before (ansi escape codes for coloring log files has been about the limit of my experience). For that use case I just really needed to send and receive text. I ended up using this library [ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wavesoft&#x2F;local-echo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wavesoft&#x2F;local-echo</a> ] to smooth that process out until I could learn about how to do things properly.<p>Are any suggestions on:<p>1. where to learn about how ttys work to do things the right way, or<p>2. suggested libraries like local-echo that can wrap over some of the trickier bits of just getting text on the screen?<p>Thanks again for maintaining such a great &amp; useful library!</text></comment> | <story><title>Xterm.js</title><url>http://xtermjs.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Tyriar</author><text>Hi all, I&#x27;m one of the maintainers of xterm.js, open to answer any questions!<p>Here&#x27;s a little history on the project, some of which is already called out in other comments:<p>- Fabrice Bellard created jslinux[1].<p>- Christopher Jeffrey (@chjj) forked the terminal component into term.js[2], this eventually became unmaintained.<p>- Paris Kasidiaris (@parisk) forked it into xterm.js for use in SourceLair[3].<p>- I showed up around 2016 when investigating options for VS Code&#x27;s integrated terminal and eventually joined as a maintainer, spending a good deal of my time at work on the project since then.<p>We currently have 5 active maintainers in the xterm.js team as well which I&#x27;d like to call out because the project has only come this far as a result of everyone&#x27;s efforts.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;jslinux&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;jslinux&#x2F;</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chjj&#x2F;term.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chjj&#x2F;term.js</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sourcelair.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sourcelair.com&#x2F;</a><p>EDITS: Formatting</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sharikous</author><text>First of all it is a wonderful project. It is included in VS Code and works flawlessly for me most of the time. Not to mention the countless web implementations around it<p>Maybe it&#x27;s a pet peeve of mine but I do not understand how to select stuff when the Terminal application steals the select function.<p>Example: you open tmux with option &quot;mouse on&quot; - when you click and drag tmux &quot;steals&quot; the selecting function and makes it an internal selection&#x2F;copy&#x2F;paste feature. But if I happen to be connected via ssh or something I want the terminal emulator to ignore that stealing and let me select some text instead to my own clipboard. In most other terminal emulator there is some shortcut to do just that, I never understood if the option is present in xterm.js too.</text></comment> |
22,255,087 | 22,254,653 | 1 | 2 | 22,252,330 | train | <story><title>Free OpenStreetMap tile library: watercolor, black and white, terrain</title><url>http://maps.stamen.com/#toner/12/37.7706/-122.3782</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>toastal</author><text>I try to contribute to OSM whenever I get the chance from my smartphone. I like that others do too; often times it&#x27;ll give me walking directions through a mall or whatever sometimes shaving 10 minutes off. It&#x27;s only as good as it&#x27;s users though, so I encourage more to contribute.</text></comment> | <story><title>Free OpenStreetMap tile library: watercolor, black and white, terrain</title><url>http://maps.stamen.com/#toner/12/37.7706/-122.3782</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aax</author><text>None can surpass the Spinal Map tile library <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thunderforest.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;spinal-map&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thunderforest.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;spinal-map&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
39,747,877 | 39,747,622 | 1 | 2 | 39,740,518 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Do you also marvel at the complexity of everyday objects?</title><text>A few weeks ago I was doing some soldering and I started using a spool of insulated 22-gauge wire.<p>Maybe it was the solder fumes, but I started thinking about what it <i>actually</i> took to create that spool of wire -- everything from the geologists and miners extracting ore, through all the metallurgy, industrial engineering, and plastics work. And I started to marvel at all the work and expertise it took to make something that I normally would&#x27;ve just considered a semi-disposable consumable item. It made me wonder whether that spool of wire was actually a piece of technology on par in sophistication with all the software that I build every day.<p>It was such an odd moment, but it&#x27;s has caused a lasting perspective shift. almost every day I&#x27;ll look at some commonplace object I took for granted and think &quot;this is actually so complex, no single human has all the knowledge or expertise to create it&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m curious if anybody else has had a similar experience and&#x2F;or what are some simple everyday objects that give you pause when you stop to think about their complexity</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>adrianmonk</author><text>Sometimes I have similar thoughts, and it makes me realize... there are a lot of humans.<p>Imagine we evolved on a planet with only enough land for 10,000 people. We would never have most of this stuff because people&#x27;s work would not be specialized enough to get us there. One person would be responsible for so many different things that they wouldn&#x27;t go into depth on each one. For example, maybe we&#x27;d have a library, but one person would be responsible for both printing the books and running the circulation desk. We would have technology (someone would have invented, say, a wood stove), but we wouldn&#x27;t have anywhere near as much of it.<p>But instead, we have billions of people now, and it was at least 2000 years ago that we reached 100 million. When you have that many people, although most of them are still working on the basics (growing food, building housing, etc.), in absolute terms there can be millions of people working on specialized tasks.<p>It also makes me realize how prosperous we are as a species. Although we haven&#x27;t eliminated poverty and hunger (and should and probably could), as a species, we are far from being on the edge of survival. We have enough resources that we have people working on niche stuff that will pay off in the future if ever. We have projects that require hundreds or thousands of person-years (in other words, equivalent to multiple lifetimes) of work, and the end result of the project is (say) yet another action movie or romcom.<p>Humans are smart and creative, but the reason we have what we do is lots and lots of people over a very long period of time with way more resources than what we need for subsistence. Which is pretty cool because any of those things could have not happened, but they all did.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jon_richards</author><text>One argument I found interesting is that the apparent &quot;massive acceleration&quot; in technological progress can largely be explained by the fact that most &quot;productive human years&quot; have actually been lived quite recently. I think the latest estimate is that &quot;109 billion people have lived and died over the course of 192,000 years&quot; and <i>half</i> of them were in the last 2000 years. It&#x27;s probably even more extreme if you only count adults (due to improvements in infant mortality).<p>That simple fact dominates more complex explanations like increased specialization, long-distance communication, organized education, and preservation of knowledge.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Do you also marvel at the complexity of everyday objects?</title><text>A few weeks ago I was doing some soldering and I started using a spool of insulated 22-gauge wire.<p>Maybe it was the solder fumes, but I started thinking about what it <i>actually</i> took to create that spool of wire -- everything from the geologists and miners extracting ore, through all the metallurgy, industrial engineering, and plastics work. And I started to marvel at all the work and expertise it took to make something that I normally would&#x27;ve just considered a semi-disposable consumable item. It made me wonder whether that spool of wire was actually a piece of technology on par in sophistication with all the software that I build every day.<p>It was such an odd moment, but it&#x27;s has caused a lasting perspective shift. almost every day I&#x27;ll look at some commonplace object I took for granted and think &quot;this is actually so complex, no single human has all the knowledge or expertise to create it&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m curious if anybody else has had a similar experience and&#x2F;or what are some simple everyday objects that give you pause when you stop to think about their complexity</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>adrianmonk</author><text>Sometimes I have similar thoughts, and it makes me realize... there are a lot of humans.<p>Imagine we evolved on a planet with only enough land for 10,000 people. We would never have most of this stuff because people&#x27;s work would not be specialized enough to get us there. One person would be responsible for so many different things that they wouldn&#x27;t go into depth on each one. For example, maybe we&#x27;d have a library, but one person would be responsible for both printing the books and running the circulation desk. We would have technology (someone would have invented, say, a wood stove), but we wouldn&#x27;t have anywhere near as much of it.<p>But instead, we have billions of people now, and it was at least 2000 years ago that we reached 100 million. When you have that many people, although most of them are still working on the basics (growing food, building housing, etc.), in absolute terms there can be millions of people working on specialized tasks.<p>It also makes me realize how prosperous we are as a species. Although we haven&#x27;t eliminated poverty and hunger (and should and probably could), as a species, we are far from being on the edge of survival. We have enough resources that we have people working on niche stuff that will pay off in the future if ever. We have projects that require hundreds or thousands of person-years (in other words, equivalent to multiple lifetimes) of work, and the end result of the project is (say) yet another action movie or romcom.<p>Humans are smart and creative, but the reason we have what we do is lots and lots of people over a very long period of time with way more resources than what we need for subsistence. Which is pretty cool because any of those things could have not happened, but they all did.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrb</author><text>&quot;<i>people&#x27;s work would not be specialized enough to get us there</i>&quot;<p>This reminded me of one of the arguments in &quot;Selfish reasons to want more humans&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39497686">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39497686</a> : we can get more scientific, technical, and economic progress with a larger population on Earth, as more people can specialize in narrow domains.</text></comment> |
29,980,326 | 29,976,662 | 1 | 3 | 29,965,282 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Solving problems by mapping to other problems that we know how to solve</title><text>Is there a line of research that looks into solving difficult &#x2F; intractable problems by finding a mapping that expresses them as different problems that we know how to solve?<p>A fairly surreal and probably overly optimistic example would be, for example, to solve traveling salesman problems using chess engines. What we would need is to find right mappings:
(1) from a traveling salesman problem to a chess position and,
(2) from a traveling salesman route to a chess move (or move sequence)<p>A general solution for a &quot;compiler&quot; that can translate between any pair of problems feels unrealistic but I can imagine developing a mapping between, say, a tic tac toe game and simple chess positions where you could:
(1) translate a tic tac toe position into a chess position
(2) solve the chess position
(3) translate the solution into a tic tac toe sequence<p>Any thoughts or pointers to relevant research would be much appreciated!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone</author><text>That’s called Mathematics. For example, most NP-complete problems we know of were proven to be NP-complete by showing them to be no easier than some other problems we know to be NP-complete. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NP-completeness#NP-complete_problems" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NP-completeness#NP-complete_pr...</a>:<p><i>“The easiest way to prove that some new problem is NP-complete is first to prove that it is in NP, and then to reduce some known NP-complete problem to it”</i><p>As a second example, in combinatorial game theory, the Sprague–Grundy theorem states<p><i>“every impartial game under the normal play convention is equivalent to a one-heap game of nim, or to an infinite generalization of nim. It can therefore be represented as a natural number, the size of the heap in its equivalent game of nim, as an ordinal number in the infinite generalization”</i><p>(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sprague–Grundy_theorem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sprague–Grundy_theorem</a>)<p>That means that, presented with an impartial game (both players can make the same moves, so chess is ruled out because white can’t move black pieces and vice versa) under the normal play convention (last player who can make a move wins), mathematicians look for a way to translate game positions to nimbers (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nimber" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nimber</a>) in order to learn how to play them.<p>Doing such mappings, if not trivial, requires creativity, so I think research on the subject would be in the psychology department.<p>Polya, in “How to Solve it” has some discussion on this (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;How_to_Solve_It#Heuristics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;How_to_Solve_It#Heuristics</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevinwang</author><text>Good answer. Seems like a relevant time to post an old math joke:<p>There were two men trying to decide what to do for a living. They went to see a counselor, and he decided that they had good problem solving skills.<p>He tried a test to narrow the area of specialty. He put each man in a room with a stove, a bucket of water, and an empty pot on the stove. He said, “Boil some water in the pot.” Both men filled the pot with water from the bucket and turned on the burner to boil the water.<p>Next, he put them into a room with a stove, a bucket of water, and a pot full of water on the stove. Again, he said, “Boil the water in the pot.” The first man immediately turned on the burner. The counselor told him to be an Engineer. The second man emptied the pot and proudly said that now the problem is reduced to the previously solved problem. The counselor told him to be a mathematician.<p>This version from: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.davidmarcus.com&#x2F;Humor&#x2F;MathJokes.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.davidmarcus.com&#x2F;Humor&#x2F;MathJokes.htm</a> and other versions at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.math.utah.edu&#x2F;~cherk&#x2F;mathjokes.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.math.utah.edu&#x2F;~cherk&#x2F;mathjokes.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Solving problems by mapping to other problems that we know how to solve</title><text>Is there a line of research that looks into solving difficult &#x2F; intractable problems by finding a mapping that expresses them as different problems that we know how to solve?<p>A fairly surreal and probably overly optimistic example would be, for example, to solve traveling salesman problems using chess engines. What we would need is to find right mappings:
(1) from a traveling salesman problem to a chess position and,
(2) from a traveling salesman route to a chess move (or move sequence)<p>A general solution for a &quot;compiler&quot; that can translate between any pair of problems feels unrealistic but I can imagine developing a mapping between, say, a tic tac toe game and simple chess positions where you could:
(1) translate a tic tac toe position into a chess position
(2) solve the chess position
(3) translate the solution into a tic tac toe sequence<p>Any thoughts or pointers to relevant research would be much appreciated!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone</author><text>That’s called Mathematics. For example, most NP-complete problems we know of were proven to be NP-complete by showing them to be no easier than some other problems we know to be NP-complete. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NP-completeness#NP-complete_problems" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NP-completeness#NP-complete_pr...</a>:<p><i>“The easiest way to prove that some new problem is NP-complete is first to prove that it is in NP, and then to reduce some known NP-complete problem to it”</i><p>As a second example, in combinatorial game theory, the Sprague–Grundy theorem states<p><i>“every impartial game under the normal play convention is equivalent to a one-heap game of nim, or to an infinite generalization of nim. It can therefore be represented as a natural number, the size of the heap in its equivalent game of nim, as an ordinal number in the infinite generalization”</i><p>(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sprague–Grundy_theorem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sprague–Grundy_theorem</a>)<p>That means that, presented with an impartial game (both players can make the same moves, so chess is ruled out because white can’t move black pieces and vice versa) under the normal play convention (last player who can make a move wins), mathematicians look for a way to translate game positions to nimbers (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nimber" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nimber</a>) in order to learn how to play them.<p>Doing such mappings, if not trivial, requires creativity, so I think research on the subject would be in the psychology department.<p>Polya, in “How to Solve it” has some discussion on this (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;How_to_Solve_It#Heuristics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;How_to_Solve_It#Heuristics</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Msurrow</author><text>Agree with this. And I guess a more “applied” branch of science that covers this would be Computer Science in the area of Computational Complexity (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Computational_complexity_theory" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Computational_complexity_the...</a>)<p>See for example the section on Complexity classes wrt the P&#x2F;NP&#x2F;Pspace class problems mentioned above</text></comment> |
9,564,739 | 9,564,554 | 1 | 2 | 9,564,281 | train | <story><title>Thoughtcrime</title><url>http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/05/thoughtcrime.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scrollaway</author><text>I&#x27;ve actually gotten depressed at the results of the election. I was scheduled to go back to the UK in a few months, but decided to move to another country instead.<p>Cameron is on a rampage. I&#x27;ve never feared rapid descent into dictatorship until now. I&#x27;m well and truly afraid of what the UK will look like in 4 years.</text></item><item><author>nodata</author><text>I COMPLETELY missed what Cameron said the first time. Like, completely:<p>&quot;For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens &#x27;as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone&#x27;.&quot;<p>Obeying the law is no longer enough. Great.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>petercooper</author><text><i>Cameron is on a rampage. I&#x27;ve never feared rapid descent into dictatorship until now. I&#x27;m well and truly afraid of what the UK will look like in 4 years.</i><p>A lot of people said that about Bush in 2004. People are alarmist. Status quo is generally maintained with only minor changes in course - that&#x27;s what our political systems are designed to do.</text></comment> | <story><title>Thoughtcrime</title><url>http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/05/thoughtcrime.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scrollaway</author><text>I&#x27;ve actually gotten depressed at the results of the election. I was scheduled to go back to the UK in a few months, but decided to move to another country instead.<p>Cameron is on a rampage. I&#x27;ve never feared rapid descent into dictatorship until now. I&#x27;m well and truly afraid of what the UK will look like in 4 years.</text></item><item><author>nodata</author><text>I COMPLETELY missed what Cameron said the first time. Like, completely:<p>&quot;For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens &#x27;as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone&#x27;.&quot;<p>Obeying the law is no longer enough. Great.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RobertoG</author><text>Good luck in your new country but this looks like a global trend to me.</text></comment> |
32,866,038 | 32,865,886 | 1 | 2 | 32,865,304 | train | <story><title>Webamp – Winamp 2 in the Browser</title><url>https://webamp.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>captbaritone</author><text>Hey! Author of the project here (not op). Happy to answer any questions. The code, and instructions for using it on your own site, can be found here on GitHub: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;captbaritone&#x2F;webamp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;captbaritone&#x2F;webamp</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Webamp – Winamp 2 in the Browser</title><url>https://webamp.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>theandrewbailey</author><text>I forked this to add subsonic functionality, so I can use it with my Funkwhale instance. Playlists appear as icons on the &quot;desktop&quot;, and will load and play when double clicked.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;theandrewbailey&#x2F;webamp&#x2F;tree&#x2F;subsonic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;theandrewbailey&#x2F;webamp&#x2F;tree&#x2F;subsonic</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;user-images.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;4029815&#x2F;115481759-4cb9e500-a21b-11eb-8667-7c45d9e31c4a.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;user-images.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;4029815&#x2F;115481759-...</a></text></comment> |
2,070,931 | 2,070,978 | 1 | 2 | 2,070,534 | train | <story><title>The Dubai Job</title><url>http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201101/the-dubai-job-mossad-assassination-hamas?printable=true&currentPage=7</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wyclif</author><text>Al-Mabhouh's number was clearly up. The article sensationalises the diplomatic damage between Israel and the US/UK-- it's called blowback and the Mossad was willing to pay the price if mistakes were made. Operations this complex rarely come off flawlessly, but it was very well done, "good enough" you might say. With their objective accomplished and their agents disappeared before Hamas knew what was going on, the mission was a success.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Dubai Job</title><url>http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201101/the-dubai-job-mossad-assassination-hamas?printable=true&currentPage=7</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yuvadam</author><text>This is a very interesting article.<p>Ronen Bergman is a very well known journalist here in Israel, but this article sheds new light on details which haven't been made public up until now.<p>The fact that head of the Caesarea unit offered to resign following the Dubai operation has not been known up until now.</text></comment> |
18,500,904 | 18,500,792 | 1 | 3 | 18,493,047 | train | <story><title>NYC subway and bus services have entered 'death spiral', experts say</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/20/new-york-city-subway-bus-death-spiral-mta-fares</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>em3rgent0rdr</author><text>Sorting that wikipedia table by recovery ratio, I see most of the profitable ones are in East Asia and distance based:<p>Osaka (OMTB) 137%,
Hong Kong MTR 124%,
Osaka (Hankyu Railway) 123%,
Tokyo Metro 119%,
London Underground 107%,
Singapore (SMRT) 101%,
Taipei Metro 100%.<p>Clearly it is possible to have profitable subways, so I don&#x27;t think we should drop profitability as a goal.</text></item><item><author>rayiner</author><text>Nobody expects the NYC subway to &quot;break even or even turn a profit.&quot; The subway historically recovers less than 50% of its operating expenditures from fares, compared to 70% for Berlin, 88% for Amsterdam, and over 100% in Tokyo, Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Farebox_recovery_ratio" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Farebox_recovery_ratio</a>.<p>MTA is broke because it costs several times as much for MTA to do anything compared to its counterparts in other Europe: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;12&#x2F;28&#x2F;nyregion&#x2F;new-york-subway-construction-costs.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;12&#x2F;28&#x2F;nyregion&#x2F;new-york-subway-...</a>.</text></item><item><author>DoubleGlazing</author><text>The problem with urban transport systems is that no one sees them for what they really are... an expensive thing that drives the economy. There seems to be an obsession in the west with making public transport pay for itself, but the reality is that a few billion invested in better public transport results in a lot more billions being made elsewhere.<p>We need to get away from this idea that public transport systems need to break even or turn a profit. They are there to help make money in other ways. An efficient reliable transport system should cost the taxpayer money, but they will get that back in profit elsewhere through a thriving local economy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eigenvector</author><text>The business entity that owns the subway being profitable is not the same as the subway being profitable. MTR for instance is a real estate developer as well as a subway operator:<p>&quot;As compensation for the cost of building railway networks, the government grants the MTR Corporation land development rights along its rail lines, stations and depots – an increasingly lucrative business in recent years amid a red-hot property market.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scmp.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;hong-kong&#x2F;economy&#x2F;article&#x2F;2136403&#x2F;mtr-corp-announces-64-cent-rise-net-profit-hk168-billion" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scmp.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;hong-kong&#x2F;economy&#x2F;article&#x2F;2136403&#x2F;...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>NYC subway and bus services have entered 'death spiral', experts say</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/20/new-york-city-subway-bus-death-spiral-mta-fares</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>em3rgent0rdr</author><text>Sorting that wikipedia table by recovery ratio, I see most of the profitable ones are in East Asia and distance based:<p>Osaka (OMTB) 137%,
Hong Kong MTR 124%,
Osaka (Hankyu Railway) 123%,
Tokyo Metro 119%,
London Underground 107%,
Singapore (SMRT) 101%,
Taipei Metro 100%.<p>Clearly it is possible to have profitable subways, so I don&#x27;t think we should drop profitability as a goal.</text></item><item><author>rayiner</author><text>Nobody expects the NYC subway to &quot;break even or even turn a profit.&quot; The subway historically recovers less than 50% of its operating expenditures from fares, compared to 70% for Berlin, 88% for Amsterdam, and over 100% in Tokyo, Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Farebox_recovery_ratio" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Farebox_recovery_ratio</a>.<p>MTA is broke because it costs several times as much for MTA to do anything compared to its counterparts in other Europe: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;12&#x2F;28&#x2F;nyregion&#x2F;new-york-subway-construction-costs.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;12&#x2F;28&#x2F;nyregion&#x2F;new-york-subway-...</a>.</text></item><item><author>DoubleGlazing</author><text>The problem with urban transport systems is that no one sees them for what they really are... an expensive thing that drives the economy. There seems to be an obsession in the west with making public transport pay for itself, but the reality is that a few billion invested in better public transport results in a lot more billions being made elsewhere.<p>We need to get away from this idea that public transport systems need to break even or turn a profit. They are there to help make money in other ways. An efficient reliable transport system should cost the taxpayer money, but they will get that back in profit elsewhere through a thriving local economy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcoffland</author><text>Just because a profitable subway exist does not mean it&#x27;s possible anywhere in the world. The location, geography, culture and population density all affect profitability.</text></comment> |
9,897,169 | 9,896,303 | 1 | 3 | 9,895,094 | train | <story><title>Getting too little sleep can have serious health consequences (2013)</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/12/how-sleep-deprivation-decays-the-mind-and-body/282395/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>otherusername2</author><text>I once, involuntary, went without sleep for around 72 hours. I was at a music festival and we were either pulling through the night or I couldn&#x27;t sleep because of the noise. When the time came to go home, I really felt pretty good. At that time I had been awake for around 60 hours. My body was tired and my thinking was a bit sluggish, but nothing too bad...<p>Until I got home and tried to sleep. By then I was feeling dead-tired, but I simply couldn&#x27;t sleep. This wasn&#x27;t your average &quot;Oh I can&#x27;t sleep, guess I&#x27;ll do something else and try again later&quot; case of &#x27;insomnia&#x27;. I was <i>so</i> extremely tired; all I wanted was to sleep. I started having hallucinations much like the early stages of a mushroom trip (minus the fun). My eyes couldn&#x27;t focus, I couldn&#x27;t think.<p>Finally I managed to fall asleep (while constantly suppressing panic attacks; something I&#x27;ve suffered from in the past and know how to deal with now). I had lucid dream after lucid dream during that sleep. It was very unsettling as I got the feeling (during lucid dreaming) that I wasn&#x27;t getting any &quot;real&quot; sleep and I&#x27;d go insane.<p>All in all the lucid dreaming aspect was pretty cool, and in retrospect perhaps worth the unsettling experience of being awake so long. But I&#x27;ll never ever want to repeat that experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PuffinBlue</author><text>I had sort of an &#x27;opposite&#x27; experience following 86 hours of no sleep and lots of physical labour.<p>Military training, 3 1&#x2F;2 days of digging ad building trenches by hand. Middle of high summer and digging through stony clay.<p>Interspersed between the digging were numerous patrols and mental tests.<p>I experienced the hallucinations whilst fully awake from about hour 76 particularly throughout the night and early morning. I vividly remember stopping so talk to a Colour Sergeant I knew and shook his hand, only to find it extremely prickly. Trying again the pain brought me to my senses and I realised I was shaking hands with a Holy bush.<p>During a dawn attack the following morning I frequently fell into micro-sleeps whilst &#x27;standing to&#x27;, resulting in bashed knees and a couple of trips to the bottom of the trench flat on my face.<p>Come an enforced rest period at hour 86 I lay down and experienced the kind of unconsciousness I&#x27;ve only experienced under an anaesthetic. I was utterly gone.<p>3 hours later I felt amazingly refreshed, just as well as there were 48 more hours to go without sleep until the exercise finished.</text></comment> | <story><title>Getting too little sleep can have serious health consequences (2013)</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/12/how-sleep-deprivation-decays-the-mind-and-body/282395/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>otherusername2</author><text>I once, involuntary, went without sleep for around 72 hours. I was at a music festival and we were either pulling through the night or I couldn&#x27;t sleep because of the noise. When the time came to go home, I really felt pretty good. At that time I had been awake for around 60 hours. My body was tired and my thinking was a bit sluggish, but nothing too bad...<p>Until I got home and tried to sleep. By then I was feeling dead-tired, but I simply couldn&#x27;t sleep. This wasn&#x27;t your average &quot;Oh I can&#x27;t sleep, guess I&#x27;ll do something else and try again later&quot; case of &#x27;insomnia&#x27;. I was <i>so</i> extremely tired; all I wanted was to sleep. I started having hallucinations much like the early stages of a mushroom trip (minus the fun). My eyes couldn&#x27;t focus, I couldn&#x27;t think.<p>Finally I managed to fall asleep (while constantly suppressing panic attacks; something I&#x27;ve suffered from in the past and know how to deal with now). I had lucid dream after lucid dream during that sleep. It was very unsettling as I got the feeling (during lucid dreaming) that I wasn&#x27;t getting any &quot;real&quot; sleep and I&#x27;d go insane.<p>All in all the lucid dreaming aspect was pretty cool, and in retrospect perhaps worth the unsettling experience of being awake so long. But I&#x27;ll never ever want to repeat that experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>globuous</author><text>That&#x27;s a crazy story, I could never imagine myself not sleeping for 72 hours!! When I mess up my sleeping schedule pretty bad (which happened a lot back in college), I usually do sleep paralysis when falling asleep (as opposed to when waking up). And I can do it 6 or 7 times in a row, it&#x27;s a nightmare. Usually though, I realize what&#x27;s going on (it&#x27;s happened to me so. many. times.) after the second or third &#x27;paralysis&#x27; and sleep on my stomach, which for some reason, allows me to fall asleep without the whole paralysis thing going on. You can actually turn sleep paralysis into a lucid dream if you &#x27;control&#x27; it properly. I usually just wake up thinking &#x27;thank god I&#x27;m alive&#x27; though.<p>For those interested in sleep paralysis, wikipedia&#x27;s got a pretty good page about it:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sleep_paralysis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sleep_paralysis</a><p>Sleep is truely fascinating.</text></comment> |
23,126,970 | 23,126,968 | 1 | 2 | 23,126,517 | train | <story><title>“Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately”</title><url>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259162367285317633</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dkdk8283</author><text>I agree with Elon here, many California policies are over the top and it seems more laws, taxes, and other restrictions are constantly popping up.<p>The bay area has always been a hotspot for radical activism.<p>I lived in CA for awhile and couldn’t take it, so I left.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adrr</author><text>California regulation and taxes promotes innovation. Electric car incentives helped Tesla. Ban on non-competes allows employees to start competing businesses. Taxes allow the funding of the best higher education system in the nation.</text></comment> | <story><title>“Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately”</title><url>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259162367285317633</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dkdk8283</author><text>I agree with Elon here, many California policies are over the top and it seems more laws, taxes, and other restrictions are constantly popping up.<p>The bay area has always been a hotspot for radical activism.<p>I lived in CA for awhile and couldn’t take it, so I left.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>city41</author><text>I&#x27;ve lived in the Bay area for the past 5 years and am leaving in a week. But one reason for leaving is because business is so wildly successful here that it&#x27;s very crowded, stressful, and income disparity is massive. Which seems like the opposite of what you&#x27;re implying.</text></comment> |
2,014,617 | 2,014,616 | 1 | 2 | 2,013,165 | train | <story><title>Thinking in Clojure for Java Programmers</title><url>http://blog.factual.com/devblog/aaron/thinking-in-clojure-for-java-programmers-part-1-—-a-gentle-intro/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ShardPhoenix</author><text>Bullshit. Everyone is taught the first way, everyone writes the first way by hand. The first way is the "human" way. The second way is the obscure theory-of-computation way. Your post seems like pure rationalization. Even if it applies to you, I can't see how you can claim with a straight face that prefix math is more "human" in general.</text></item><item><author>brehaut</author><text>That holds water only at the most sugary syntactic level.<p>At the most simplistic semantic level a binary addition operator is a simple mapping of what the machine wants to do (take 2 registers and put their sum in an accumulator register).<p>Lets expand that simple piece of code. Now you have more than 2 numbers to sum:<p><pre><code> 2 + 3 + 40
</code></pre>
you have been forced to encode both stages of summing the first pair of numbers and then the result and the third value. Contrast this with a lisp<p><pre><code> (+ 2 3 40)
</code></pre>
Lisp has takes care of all of the details for me; i merely need to supply the operands and the language worries about mapping it to the underlying operations as needed.<p>Clearly, here is a situation where lisp notation elevates me from having to think about the machine.<p>Touche, indeed.</text></item><item><author>peterlada</author><text>2 + 3, touche :)</text></item><item><author>brehaut</author><text>Please justify your claim: In what way is Lisp (in contrast to Python) better suited for computers than for humans?</text></item><item><author>peterlada</author><text>I love functional programming. At least the functional parts of Python.
However, Lisp seems better suited for computers than for humans.<p>Which is probably a side effect of having been created when 64kB was a decent memory size.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>awj</author><text>Math notation has gone through a decent bit of change over time, and has proven amenable to change to suit the needs of specific environments. Lisps don't force you to use "(+ 2 3 4)" instead of "2 + 3 + 4" to be contrary, it's there to preserve a cornerstone of the language family: the power gained by easy manipulation of syntax trees.<p>Also, math notation is pretty much the <i>only</i> bad syntax example when comparing with other programming languages. It becomes <i>literally</i> the only example when you leave hard asceticism and take the approach that Clojure does of providing literals for vectors, maps, and sets.<p>So, yeah, maybe dig a little deeper next time instead of dismissing tools out of hand? Many programs never directly perform arithmetic, are Lisp dialects unsuitable for those as well?</text></comment> | <story><title>Thinking in Clojure for Java Programmers</title><url>http://blog.factual.com/devblog/aaron/thinking-in-clojure-for-java-programmers-part-1-—-a-gentle-intro/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ShardPhoenix</author><text>Bullshit. Everyone is taught the first way, everyone writes the first way by hand. The first way is the "human" way. The second way is the obscure theory-of-computation way. Your post seems like pure rationalization. Even if it applies to you, I can't see how you can claim with a straight face that prefix math is more "human" in general.</text></item><item><author>brehaut</author><text>That holds water only at the most sugary syntactic level.<p>At the most simplistic semantic level a binary addition operator is a simple mapping of what the machine wants to do (take 2 registers and put their sum in an accumulator register).<p>Lets expand that simple piece of code. Now you have more than 2 numbers to sum:<p><pre><code> 2 + 3 + 40
</code></pre>
you have been forced to encode both stages of summing the first pair of numbers and then the result and the third value. Contrast this with a lisp<p><pre><code> (+ 2 3 40)
</code></pre>
Lisp has takes care of all of the details for me; i merely need to supply the operands and the language worries about mapping it to the underlying operations as needed.<p>Clearly, here is a situation where lisp notation elevates me from having to think about the machine.<p>Touche, indeed.</text></item><item><author>peterlada</author><text>2 + 3, touche :)</text></item><item><author>brehaut</author><text>Please justify your claim: In what way is Lisp (in contrast to Python) better suited for computers than for humans?</text></item><item><author>peterlada</author><text>I love functional programming. At least the functional parts of Python.
However, Lisp seems better suited for computers than for humans.<p>Which is probably a side effect of having been created when 64kB was a decent memory size.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>technomancy</author><text>&#62; Everyone is taught the first way<p>Obviously neither one is more "human"; humans don't know the first thing about math until they're educated. This has everything to do with what's familiar and nothing to do with what's "natural" to the human mind.</text></comment> |
5,946,832 | 5,946,613 | 1 | 3 | 5,945,365 | train | <story><title>A summer job paid tuition back in ’81, but then we got cheap</title><url>http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2021250505_westneat23xml.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>calinet6</author><text>Robert Birgeneau, the chancellor emeritus of Berkeley, spoke at a fundraising event I attended and said something I thought was poignant:<p>&quot;The University of California has gone from being a state-funded institution, to a state-sponsored institution, to a state-<i>located</i> institution.&quot;<p>The level at which the State of California funds the university is practically nothing at this point. Alumni donations have filled <i>some</i> gaps but don&#x27;t nearly cover everything. Tuition has increased to the point where even I, who graduated in 2006, consider it ridiculous. It is now over 8 times the maximum semester tuition I paid.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine considering Berkeley a &quot;great value&quot; anymore, as I did when I was there considering the (excellent) quality of education versus the price. It used to be a sense of pride; that a public university could be so great, to prove the experiment, to show that society could produce academic excellence without falling to the vices of money and the divisions that come with it. Now that experiment has failed, and only those who believe in it strongly—the Alumni and supporters—are upholding it, but that&#x27;s not sustainable.<p>We need to grow up. This fantasy of American individualism is killing us. We need to grow up and learn how to share—and this is the worst part: <i>as we once did.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geebee</author><text>UC actually does raise a lot of money. Last year, Berkeley raised about $400mil from private donations, compared to about $650mil for Harvard and over a $1bil for Stanford. However, those institutions are including a med school. If you add Berkeley and UCSF (a stand alone med&#x2F;health sciences research university), it goes up to about $730 mil.<p>Of course, most of this goes toward research, which is probably a big part of why Berkeley hasn&#x27;t really slipped much (if at all) in graduate standings (UCB actually has more PhD programs in the top 10 than any other university, according to the NSRC). The problem is, what to do with those pesky undergrads.<p>Stanford and Harvard solve the problem by not enrolling all that many of them, charging a sky-high tuition, and then providing very very substantial financial aid even into the middle class (Harvard will charge 10% of family income to students from families earning between $120-$180k a year). The problem on a societal level is that this doesn&#x27;t scale, there just aren&#x27;t enough spots. Berkeley alone enrolls more low income students than the entire ivy league combined.<p>I&#x27;d rather see Berkeley continue this tradition at the undergrad level than emulate an elite private college. But it isn&#x27;t going to work without state funding. The state just can&#x27;t demand a huge undergraduate enrollment with lots of low income students and a high (70+%) from California without also kicking in a lot of money.<p>There&#x27;s a reason Stanford and Harvard are structured this way - this is the optimal way to run an elite private research institution - more graduate students than undergraduates, and lots of grants and private donations, along with a small but very elite and well heeled undergrad population, with extremely generous financial aid to small numbers of low income students.<p>Berkeley was different because it was a state supported school with a different mission - and a different and substantial source of funding. You can&#x27;t keep the first without the second, it won&#x27;t work.</text></comment> | <story><title>A summer job paid tuition back in ’81, but then we got cheap</title><url>http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2021250505_westneat23xml.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>calinet6</author><text>Robert Birgeneau, the chancellor emeritus of Berkeley, spoke at a fundraising event I attended and said something I thought was poignant:<p>&quot;The University of California has gone from being a state-funded institution, to a state-sponsored institution, to a state-<i>located</i> institution.&quot;<p>The level at which the State of California funds the university is practically nothing at this point. Alumni donations have filled <i>some</i> gaps but don&#x27;t nearly cover everything. Tuition has increased to the point where even I, who graduated in 2006, consider it ridiculous. It is now over 8 times the maximum semester tuition I paid.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine considering Berkeley a &quot;great value&quot; anymore, as I did when I was there considering the (excellent) quality of education versus the price. It used to be a sense of pride; that a public university could be so great, to prove the experiment, to show that society could produce academic excellence without falling to the vices of money and the divisions that come with it. Now that experiment has failed, and only those who believe in it strongly—the Alumni and supporters—are upholding it, but that&#x27;s not sustainable.<p>We need to grow up. This fantasy of American individualism is killing us. We need to grow up and learn how to share—and this is the worst part: <i>as we once did.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Taylorious</author><text>It makes sense that public universities would become more expensive (because of state funding being cut), but what explains private universities raising their tuition so much?<p><a href="http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=76" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nces.ed.gov&#x2F;fastfacts&#x2F;display.asp?id=76</a></text></comment> |
11,734,683 | 11,733,619 | 1 | 2 | 11,733,025 | train | <story><title>So Far, So Good</title><url>http://hintjens.com/blog:119</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dredmorbius</author><text>Backstory: Pieter Hintjens, Belgian software developer and Free Software advocate, diagnosed with terminal cancer, continues to muse on chemo, technology, life, and what odd stray bits of writing do or don&#x27;t go viral.<p>And he&#x27;s chanced upon a Chinese manufacturing practice, Shanzhai, which incorporates the anti-patent concepts he&#x27;s long fought for.<p>(My Pocket entry for this blog post has a curious set of associated tags.)</text></comment> | <story><title>So Far, So Good</title><url>http://hintjens.com/blog:119</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xgbi</author><text>I remember the chemo and it was exactly like this. 5 days of shit every 2 weeks, and a slow tumble up the next 9 days, waiting for the new round.<p>I got the luck to have a &quot;gentle&quot; lymphoma, but the chemo is hard nonetheless. My 2 last rounds, I couldn&#x27;t bend down to grab a pan without sweating, starting to tremble and having difficulty breathing.<p>Let&#x27;s hope that he gets all the love he needs to pass through gently.</text></comment> |
23,590,606 | 23,589,241 | 1 | 2 | 23,588,558 | train | <story><title>FlexBuffers</title><url>https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/flexbuffers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>uluyol</author><text>So here&#x27;s how I think this fits into all the other different types of data serialization:<p>Schema-ful, copying:
Protobuf, Thrift, plenty more<p>Schema-ful, zero-copy: Cap&#x27;n&#x27;proto, Flatbuffers<p>Schema-less, copying: Json (binary and other variants included), XML<p>Schema-less, zero-copy: Flexbuffers (Any others? This seems new to me)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tannhaeuser</author><text>While it&#x27;s true that XML is a generic serialization of angle-bracket markup that doesn&#x27;t <i>need</i> a schema for serialization (which was exactly the main motivation for its &quot;invention&quot; as a SGML subset), the reason it&#x27;s being used in inter-party or long-term&#x2F;loosely-coupled service payload serialization is because it has fairly powerful and well-established schema languages (XML DTDs and XML Schema) for validation. This is unlike JSON which thrives in ad-hoc serialization for tightly-coupled back-ends and web front-ends (and only in that scenario IMHO). So I don&#x27;t think XML belongs into the &quot;schema-less, copying&quot; category.</text></comment> | <story><title>FlexBuffers</title><url>https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/flexbuffers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>uluyol</author><text>So here&#x27;s how I think this fits into all the other different types of data serialization:<p>Schema-ful, copying:
Protobuf, Thrift, plenty more<p>Schema-ful, zero-copy: Cap&#x27;n&#x27;proto, Flatbuffers<p>Schema-less, copying: Json (binary and other variants included), XML<p>Schema-less, zero-copy: Flexbuffers (Any others? This seems new to me)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leakybucket</author><text>We&#x27;re still early in development, but the ZNG format is one we&#x27;re working on for schema-less, semi-structured, zero-copy operations:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;brimsec&#x2F;zq&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;zng&#x2F;docs&#x2F;spec.md#1-introduction" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;brimsec&#x2F;zq&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;zng&#x2F;docs&#x2F;spec.md#1...</a><p>We currently use this to store security log data, but think it&#x27;s an interesting midpoint between having no schema at all vs requiring schema registries to do useful work.</text></comment> |
41,685,494 | 41,685,600 | 1 | 3 | 41,684,082 | train | <story><title>Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022)</title><url>https://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2022/11/06/strong-Goodhart.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>refibrillator</author><text>I recognize the author Jascha as an incredibly brilliant ML researcher, formerly at Google Brain and now at Anthropic.<p>Among his notable accomplishments, he and coauthors mathematically characterized the propagation of signals through deep neural networks via techniques from physics and statistics (mean field and free probability theory). Leading to arguably some of the most profound yet under-appreciated theoretical and experimental results in ML in the past decade. For example see “dynamical isometry” [1] and the evolution of those ideas which were instrumental in achieving convergence in very deep transformer models [2].<p>After reading this post and the examples given, in my eyes there is no question that this guy has an extraordinary intuition for optimization, spanning beyond the boundaries of ML and across the fabric of modern society.<p>We ought to recognize his technical background and raise this discussion above quibbles about semantics and definitions.<p>Let’s address the heart of his message, the very human and empathetic call to action that stands in the shadow of rapid technological progress:<p><i>&gt; If you are a scientist looking for research ideas which are pro-social, and have the potential to create a whole new field, you should consider building formal (mathematical) bridges between results on overfitting in machine learning, and problems in economics, political science, management science, operations research, and elsewhere.</i><p>[1] Dynamical Isometry and a Mean Field Theory of CNNs: How to Train 10,000-Layer Vanilla Convolutional Neural Networks<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;proceedings.mlr.press&#x2F;v80&#x2F;xiao18a&#x2F;xiao18a.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;proceedings.mlr.press&#x2F;v80&#x2F;xiao18a&#x2F;xiao18a.pdf</a><p>[2] ReZero is All You Need: Fast Convergence at Large Depth<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;2003.04887" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;2003.04887</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tablatom</author><text>Interesting timing for me! Just a couple of days ago I discovered the work of biologist Olivier Hamant who has been raising exactly this issue. His main thesis is that very high performance (which he defines as efficacy towards a known goal plus efficiency) and very high robustness (the ability to withstand large fluctuations in the system) are physically incompatible. Examples abound in nature. Contrary to common perception evolution does not optimise for high performance but high robustness. Giving priority to performance may have made sense in a world of abundant resources, but we are now facing a very different period where instability is the norm. We must (and will be forced to) backtrack on performance in order to become robust. It’s the freshest and most interesting take on the poly-crisis that I’ve seen in a long time.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;books.google.co.uk&#x2F;books&#x2F;about&#x2F;Tracts_N_50_Antidote_to_the_cult_of_perf.html?id=XvQMEQAAQBAJ&amp;redir_esc=y" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;books.google.co.uk&#x2F;books&#x2F;about&#x2F;Tracts_N_50_Antidote_...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022)</title><url>https://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2022/11/06/strong-Goodhart.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>refibrillator</author><text>I recognize the author Jascha as an incredibly brilliant ML researcher, formerly at Google Brain and now at Anthropic.<p>Among his notable accomplishments, he and coauthors mathematically characterized the propagation of signals through deep neural networks via techniques from physics and statistics (mean field and free probability theory). Leading to arguably some of the most profound yet under-appreciated theoretical and experimental results in ML in the past decade. For example see “dynamical isometry” [1] and the evolution of those ideas which were instrumental in achieving convergence in very deep transformer models [2].<p>After reading this post and the examples given, in my eyes there is no question that this guy has an extraordinary intuition for optimization, spanning beyond the boundaries of ML and across the fabric of modern society.<p>We ought to recognize his technical background and raise this discussion above quibbles about semantics and definitions.<p>Let’s address the heart of his message, the very human and empathetic call to action that stands in the shadow of rapid technological progress:<p><i>&gt; If you are a scientist looking for research ideas which are pro-social, and have the potential to create a whole new field, you should consider building formal (mathematical) bridges between results on overfitting in machine learning, and problems in economics, political science, management science, operations research, and elsewhere.</i><p>[1] Dynamical Isometry and a Mean Field Theory of CNNs: How to Train 10,000-Layer Vanilla Convolutional Neural Networks<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;proceedings.mlr.press&#x2F;v80&#x2F;xiao18a&#x2F;xiao18a.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;proceedings.mlr.press&#x2F;v80&#x2F;xiao18a&#x2F;xiao18a.pdf</a><p>[2] ReZero is All You Need: Fast Convergence at Large Depth<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;2003.04887" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;2003.04887</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thomasahle</author><text>I love the idea of ReZero, basically using a trainable parameter, alpha, in residual layers like this:<p><pre><code> Deep Network | xi+1 = F(xi)
Residual Network | xi+1 = xi + F(xi)
Deep Network + Norm | xi+1 = Norm(F(xi))
Residual Network + Pre-Norm | xi+1 = xi + F(Norm(xi))
Residual Network + Post-Norm | xi+1 = Norm(xi + F(xi))
ReZero | xi+1 = xi + αi F(xi)
</code></pre>
However, I haven&#x27;t actually seen this used in practice.
The papers we have on Gemma and Llama all still seem to be using layer norms.<p>Am I missing something?</text></comment> |
23,350,244 | 23,347,459 | 1 | 2 | 23,346,552 | train | <story><title>U.K. Plans Citizenship for Hong Kong Residents in Row with China</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-28/u-k-plans-citizenship-for-hong-kong-residents-in-row-with-china</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hyko</author><text>Yeah, time for that racist bullshit to end. Same stunt that the U.S. pulls in its colonies: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Unincorporated_territories_of_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Unincorporated_territories_o...</a><p>You&#x27;re either a full and free citizen of the empire or not imo; special classes of citizenship based on race and geography are an abomination to all lovers of freedom and justice.<p>Edited to add: why don’t people get angry when they realise there is blatant and systemic racism being funded with their money, on their behalf?</text></item><item><author>eigenvector</author><text>The history of the &quot;British National (Overseas)&quot; nationality is worth a read.[1][2]<p>During the decolonization of the British Empire, the UK did not want large numbers of non-white people immigrating to the British Isles. HK was only one instance of this. BN(O) nationality was one of many convenient bureaucratic fictions created in order to rationalize how someone born as a British subject in a British territory could lose the right to continue to live on British territory. Particularly affected were people of Indian ethnicity who had immigrated to other British colonies as civil servants; they became ethnic minorities in their newly independent countries and while their white coworkers were granted British citizenship, they were left behind.<p>Thousands of people became stateless as a result of this policy.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;British_Overseas_citizen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;British_Overseas_citizen</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;British_National_(Overseas)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;British_National_(Overseas)</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>It’s not the “same stunt” in the US. Residents of all the incorporated territories, and all the unincorporated territories but Guam, are US citizens. The residents of Guam are US nationals that can apply for citizenship. Unlike subjects of the former British empire, <i>all have a right to reside anywhere in the US.</i><p>The US system does not raise the same concerns about racism. There are different political subdivisions in the US with different relationships with the federal union. For example, those in Puerto Rico don’t pay federal taxes. Washington DC has no independent sovereignty, unlike the states, etc. But those distinctions aren’t based on race or nationality (everyone is a US national). And in many respects they are mutual decisions. Puerto Rico has repeatedly rejected ballot measures to become a state. If a Puerto Rican person wants to vote in US elections, they can just move to any other political subdivision of the US that is a full state.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.K. Plans Citizenship for Hong Kong Residents in Row with China</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-28/u-k-plans-citizenship-for-hong-kong-residents-in-row-with-china</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hyko</author><text>Yeah, time for that racist bullshit to end. Same stunt that the U.S. pulls in its colonies: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Unincorporated_territories_of_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Unincorporated_territories_o...</a><p>You&#x27;re either a full and free citizen of the empire or not imo; special classes of citizenship based on race and geography are an abomination to all lovers of freedom and justice.<p>Edited to add: why don’t people get angry when they realise there is blatant and systemic racism being funded with their money, on their behalf?</text></item><item><author>eigenvector</author><text>The history of the &quot;British National (Overseas)&quot; nationality is worth a read.[1][2]<p>During the decolonization of the British Empire, the UK did not want large numbers of non-white people immigrating to the British Isles. HK was only one instance of this. BN(O) nationality was one of many convenient bureaucratic fictions created in order to rationalize how someone born as a British subject in a British territory could lose the right to continue to live on British territory. Particularly affected were people of Indian ethnicity who had immigrated to other British colonies as civil servants; they became ethnic minorities in their newly independent countries and while their white coworkers were granted British citizenship, they were left behind.<p>Thousands of people became stateless as a result of this policy.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;British_Overseas_citizen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;British_Overseas_citizen</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;British_National_(Overseas)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;British_National_(Overseas)</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bArray</author><text>&gt; Yeah, time for that racist bullshit to end.<p>Probably more of an economic decision than one based in racism.<p>&gt; You&#x27;re either a full and free citizen of the empire or not<p>The British empire was disbanded, so there&#x27;s nobody really to take your quarrel up with.<p>&gt; special classes of citizenship based on race and geography<p>&gt; are an abomination to all lovers of freedom and justice.<p>Again, you&#x27;re assuming it&#x27;s based in race and geography. It seems more like the motivation was based in economics.</text></comment> |
26,316,743 | 26,314,937 | 1 | 2 | 26,314,160 | train | <story><title>Bash_unit – bash unit testing framework</title><url>https://github.com/pgrange/bash_unit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonpeacock</author><text>For everyone who&#x27;s saying &quot;if you need unit tests then you should rewrite it in a different language&quot;, you&#x27;re not wrong but you&#x27;re not right either.<p>Bash is a lowest-common-denominator language, available on almost all platforms, with a very stable (old?) API, which makes it ideal for broad distribution &amp; bootstrapping of systems.<p>When you use another other languages, like Python, suddenly you&#x27;re not only worrying about whether Python is installed, but also which version is available, and you still can&#x27;t use anything that&#x27;s not part of the standard library (because then you enter package management&#x2F;dependency hell).<p>I agree that even Python with stdlib-only is still better than Bash, but I guarantee that you&#x27;ll find Bash &gt;=3.0 on every host.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bash_unit – bash unit testing framework</title><url>https://github.com/pgrange/bash_unit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CraigJPerry</author><text>There’s clearly some good thought gone into this - i especially like the ergonomics of the “fake” command and arguments.<p>However, having been down this path myself, i don’t think it’s a great idea.<p>Beyond the hello world examples you start to run into the need to defang commands being tested or getting better visibility of what they’re doing just so you can make a useful assert, you end up LD_PRELOAD’ing shims to intercept calls and it gets a bit horrifying, very quickly.</text></comment> |
14,708,632 | 14,708,406 | 1 | 2 | 14,707,674 | train | <story><title>Defending a website with Zip bombs</title><url>https://blog.haschek.at/2017/how-to-defend-your-website-with-zip-bombs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geek_at</author><text>How come when I posted this (my blog post) here I only got 2 points? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14704462" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14704462</a> :D</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>z3t4</author><text>I&#x27;m also intrigued by this, it also happens in comments, that the top post with 20+ upvotes can have the same content as the most down-voted post with -3 points, but not as common as reposts getting to the front page, while the original only got 2 points.<p>After submitting something to HN I like to watch the HTTP logs, I get a lot of visitors from bots, but it&#x27;s actually only ca 10-20 real people that actually read your blog. I don&#x27;t know eneough of statisitcs to explain it well, but as 20 people is so small amount of the total HN readers, it&#x27;s basically <i>luck</i>. And the representation of those who reads the &quot;new&quot; section might be a bit skewed from those who only reads the front page. If you want to help HN get better with more interesting content, you can help by actually visiting the &quot;new&quot; section.</text></comment> | <story><title>Defending a website with Zip bombs</title><url>https://blog.haschek.at/2017/how-to-defend-your-website-with-zip-bombs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geek_at</author><text>How come when I posted this (my blog post) here I only got 2 points? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14704462" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14704462</a> :D</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>peterburkimsher</author><text>You can try writing &quot;Show HN&quot; at the start of your title, but that hasn&#x27;t even helped me too much. I still get more upvotes&#x2F;karma from writing witty comments instead of publishing code.</text></comment> |
9,640,728 | 9,640,842 | 1 | 2 | 9,638,305 | train | <story><title>Is ReactJS really fast?</title><url>http://blog.500tech.com/is-reactjs-fast/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>feedjoelpie</author><text>React.js is actually just really pleasant to work in and easy to reason about, and the virtual DOM is what makes that all possible without it becoming unacceptably slow. DOM diffing isn&#x27;t there to make React faster than everything else ever imagined. It&#x27;s there to let you stop thinking about the DOM and focus on the world state of your frontend instead.<p>I wasn&#x27;t truly interested in React until I read this, which does a better job of spelling out React&#x27;s real advantages than I ever could: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jlongster.com&#x2F;Removing-User-Interface-Complexity,-or-Why-React-is-Awesome" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jlongster.com&#x2F;Removing-User-Interface-Complexity,-or-...</a><p>Here&#x27;s a choice quote:<p><i>&quot;Rerendering everything (and only applying it to the DOM when something actually changed) vastly simplifies the architecture of our app. Observables+DOM elements is a leaky abstraction, and as a user I shouldn&#x27;t need an intimate knowledge of how the UI is kept in sync with my data. This architecture opens up lots of various ways to optimize the rendering, but it&#x27;s all completely transparent to the user.&quot;</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>curun1r</author><text>&gt; Observables+DOM elements is a leaky abstraction<p>The DOM itself is also a leaky abstraction. Render cycles are so prohibitively slow that we&#x27;ve started maintaining a parallel DOM and implementing diffing algorithms in JavaScript. As brilliant as that may be, it&#x27;s also crazy that it&#x27;s come to that.<p>This is a problem that should be solved in the browser. HTML5 should add a simple API to transactionally update the DOM and only render after all changes are committed. This would prevent every single framework from having to implement this logic.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is ReactJS really fast?</title><url>http://blog.500tech.com/is-reactjs-fast/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>feedjoelpie</author><text>React.js is actually just really pleasant to work in and easy to reason about, and the virtual DOM is what makes that all possible without it becoming unacceptably slow. DOM diffing isn&#x27;t there to make React faster than everything else ever imagined. It&#x27;s there to let you stop thinking about the DOM and focus on the world state of your frontend instead.<p>I wasn&#x27;t truly interested in React until I read this, which does a better job of spelling out React&#x27;s real advantages than I ever could: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jlongster.com&#x2F;Removing-User-Interface-Complexity,-or-Why-React-is-Awesome" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jlongster.com&#x2F;Removing-User-Interface-Complexity,-or-...</a><p>Here&#x27;s a choice quote:<p><i>&quot;Rerendering everything (and only applying it to the DOM when something actually changed) vastly simplifies the architecture of our app. Observables+DOM elements is a leaky abstraction, and as a user I shouldn&#x27;t need an intimate knowledge of how the UI is kept in sync with my data. This architecture opens up lots of various ways to optimize the rendering, but it&#x27;s all completely transparent to the user.&quot;</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jszymborski</author><text>The little time I&#x27;ve spent learning Mithril [1] makes me think it&#x27;s a nice middle ground between speed and pleasurable coding experience.<p>Their benchmarks have it at 8x faster at rendering (uncompiled) and 28x faster to load (although Benchmarks Lie (TM)).<p>It feels like writing vanilla javascript for the most part, which is delightful and exciting. The Views part however, which is most comparable with React since React only deals with views, is extremely reminiscent of React, and you can even write MSX, which is just basically JSX with some subtle differences.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mithril.js.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mithril.js.org&#x2F;</a><p>EDIT: Link</text></comment> |
26,042,532 | 26,041,818 | 1 | 2 | 26,040,427 | train | <story><title>Balthazar Personal Computing Device, a 13” RISC-V laptop</title><url>https://balthazar.space/wiki/Balthazar</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duskwuff</author><text>In case it wasn&#x27;t clear to anyone: this is a product <i>very</i> early in the planning phase, to the extent that many of the features are unspecified (no processor has been chosen, they aren&#x27;t even certain on whether it&#x27;ll be RISC-V or ARM), underspecified to the point of being unintelligible (&quot;detachable USB gender-changer dongle&quot;), or outright ridiculous (SSH-based communications between the keyboard and CPU).<p>I wouldn&#x27;t hold my breath waiting for a product here. This does not have the smell of success on it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mkl</author><text>Yes. While it sounds impressive, it seems more like a fantasy jumble of every desirable feature they can think of than an actual plan.<p>&quot;Keyboard is QUERTY&quot;. How do you misspell &quot;QWERTY&quot;? Yet I&#x27;m hoping they did.<p>They seem to be hoping for a Pixel Qi style screen (but self-developed?), but describe its reflective mode as: &quot;A non-reflective - a button driven backlight “off” monochrome mode for very low-power use in sunlight&quot;<p>Confusion between trackpoint and trackball: &quot;track-point ball&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Balthazar Personal Computing Device, a 13” RISC-V laptop</title><url>https://balthazar.space/wiki/Balthazar</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duskwuff</author><text>In case it wasn&#x27;t clear to anyone: this is a product <i>very</i> early in the planning phase, to the extent that many of the features are unspecified (no processor has been chosen, they aren&#x27;t even certain on whether it&#x27;ll be RISC-V or ARM), underspecified to the point of being unintelligible (&quot;detachable USB gender-changer dongle&quot;), or outright ridiculous (SSH-based communications between the keyboard and CPU).<p>I wouldn&#x27;t hold my breath waiting for a product here. This does not have the smell of success on it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arduinomancer</author><text>There&#x27;s gotta be some reasoning behind those but when you put it that way it sounds like some hilarious marketing speak.<p>&quot;We&#x27;re putting blockchain technology in the trackpad&quot;<p>&quot;Machine learning in the power button&quot;</text></comment> |
9,961,628 | 9,961,448 | 1 | 2 | 9,960,730 | train | <story><title>Who's doing this to my internet?</title><url>http://veekaybee.github.io/who-is-doing-this-to-my-internet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>golergka</author><text>Users.<p>Users always talk that they would love to pay. The problem is, they never do. They blog and write on forums about what they would like to see, but the things they write are always very, very different from what they actually do, according to the data.<p>You remember how in this whole Reddit debacle Pao said that &quot;most of users don&#x27;t really care about this scandal&quot; and got downvoted to hell? It could very well be true, but users who were constantly around subreddits that were involved in the drama couldn&#x27;t believe it. They are sure that evil corporate suits are out of touch with reality because they &quot;don&#x27;t even use their own service&quot; and consume the information in form of PowerPoint presentations. But those suits are very well in touch with reality — it is a couple of SQL queries away from them, actually. (And I see that &quot;managers&quot; are getting more and more literate in terms of analytics, by the way — SQL and R aren&#x27;t really that hard, and often you have much more user-friendly analytic services at your hands).<p>I&#x27;m not saying that big websites don&#x27;t do bullshit. Of course they do. But when they do something that users <i></i>actually<i></i> don&#x27;t like, users punish them in the most harsh way possible: with their wallets. Don&#x27;t you remember how internet used to be? The hundreds of popups, for example — turns out, users didn&#x27;t like it enough to install Firefox, so these guys went out of business. I could recall more examples like this, but this comment is already too wordy; you get the picture.<p>If you want to stop Buzzfeed, don&#x27;t click clickbait and shame (in a constructive way — without calling them idiots, but making them feel a little bit low-brow, basic manipulation isn&#x27;t that hard) your facebook friends for reposting such bullshit. And if you won&#x27;t succeed, you&#x27;ll just have to face the reality of being one in several billions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>6stringmerc</author><text>Correlative:<p>Auto enthusiast site commenters claiming &quot;If Manufacturer A would build this car with X motor, Y drivetrain, and at Z price, I&#x27;d totally buy that!&quot; or &quot;If only Manufacturer B would bring Car XYZ to the US it would be a huge hit!&quot;<p>If history is any indicator, no, those types of vehicles will not sell well. Recently I&#x27;ve seen the discussion around the Chevrolet SS (Holden import), because while on paper it&#x27;s on par with other performance sedans, it&#x27;s selling very poorly. Granted, it had low expectations by GM, but it&#x27;s just an example of this mentality &#x2F; vocal minority over-inflating their self-importance in the grand scheme of things.</text></comment> | <story><title>Who's doing this to my internet?</title><url>http://veekaybee.github.io/who-is-doing-this-to-my-internet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>golergka</author><text>Users.<p>Users always talk that they would love to pay. The problem is, they never do. They blog and write on forums about what they would like to see, but the things they write are always very, very different from what they actually do, according to the data.<p>You remember how in this whole Reddit debacle Pao said that &quot;most of users don&#x27;t really care about this scandal&quot; and got downvoted to hell? It could very well be true, but users who were constantly around subreddits that were involved in the drama couldn&#x27;t believe it. They are sure that evil corporate suits are out of touch with reality because they &quot;don&#x27;t even use their own service&quot; and consume the information in form of PowerPoint presentations. But those suits are very well in touch with reality — it is a couple of SQL queries away from them, actually. (And I see that &quot;managers&quot; are getting more and more literate in terms of analytics, by the way — SQL and R aren&#x27;t really that hard, and often you have much more user-friendly analytic services at your hands).<p>I&#x27;m not saying that big websites don&#x27;t do bullshit. Of course they do. But when they do something that users <i></i>actually<i></i> don&#x27;t like, users punish them in the most harsh way possible: with their wallets. Don&#x27;t you remember how internet used to be? The hundreds of popups, for example — turns out, users didn&#x27;t like it enough to install Firefox, so these guys went out of business. I could recall more examples like this, but this comment is already too wordy; you get the picture.<p>If you want to stop Buzzfeed, don&#x27;t click clickbait and shame (in a constructive way — without calling them idiots, but making them feel a little bit low-brow, basic manipulation isn&#x27;t that hard) your facebook friends for reposting such bullshit. And if you won&#x27;t succeed, you&#x27;ll just have to face the reality of being one in several billions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davedx</author><text>&gt; They blog and write on forums about what they would like to see, but the things they write are always very, very different from what they actually do, according to the data.<p>That&#x27;s because content providers make it fucking impossible to buy their content a lot of the time!<p>I&#x27;ve been looking into this here (the Netherlands) for the last 12 months or so. It is so incredibly hard to go into a pay-per-view movie service, whether that&#x27;s a cable TV video store, Netflix, Apple TV or what-the-fuck-ever-else, search for a fairly popular movie you like that came out in the last 5-10 years, and actually BE ABLE TO BUY IT.<p>Content providers are almost entirely at fault here. (I know this as I&#x27;m currently working at a cable TV company). They insist on negotiating individual contracts for restricted selections of (movie, series, whatever) content with each streaming&#x2F;VOD provider individually. They will happily let customers buy an SD movie but charge them again, 2x, for a HD movie. They throw up all kinds of hurdles when it comes to recording TV in the cloud -- it is LEGALLY DIFFICULT to just store one copy of a recording for multiple customers.<p>The list goes on and on, it will drive you crazy if you have to deal with it.<p>&gt; But those suits are very well in touch with reality — it is a couple of SQL queries away from them, actually. (And I see that &quot;managers&quot; are getting more and more literate in terms of analytics, by the way — SQL and R aren&#x27;t really that hard, and often you have much more user-friendly analytic services at your hands).<p>Those suits are in touch with reality indeed -- they see that this business model has worked and continues to work, despite The Pirate Bay. They just need a large enough army of lawyers to maintain their dominance, both over distributors and customers (via lawsuits and website takedowns).<p>Don&#x27;t blame the users for the clusterfuck digital content distribution is. It is the content providers who are to blame. They screw the artists, the distributors, the end users, as hard as they can, for as long as they can.</text></comment> |
23,460,443 | 23,460,251 | 1 | 2 | 23,459,681 | train | <story><title>Tribalism comes for pandemic science</title><url>https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/tribalism-comes-for-pandemic-science</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dekhn</author><text>There are times I&#x27;m glad I left health science&#x2F;biology&#x2F;medicine as a field and it&#x27;s interesting to watch people slowly realize just how badly structured the entire human health field is organized (from academic research to research hospitals to profit hospitals to world health organizations) and how all the incentives are messed up.<p>The closer you get in biology to human health, the more ego, tribalism, and assholery you have to deal with. Something about &quot;saving lives&quot; really brings out the intelligent jerks and the sharks.<p>As a contrast, I enjoy working in computing so much more. The experiments people run are replicable, the code compiles, and people (in general) are far less egotistical and arrogant (still plenty of sharks, though).<p>I&#x27;ve watched enough major paradigm shifts in my own fields to know that embracing humility, admitting your own ignorance, and being open to new ideas is key to the furtherment of science.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tribalism comes for pandemic science</title><url>https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/tribalism-comes-for-pandemic-science</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawaysea</author><text>Not to sound alarmist, but recent events have felt like the early warning of a pending collapse of our country. When I saw healthcare workers and officials abandon logic, reason, and evidence to put their weight behind justifying recent mass protests, I really lost a lot of faith. These protests obviously will result in thousands more deaths (much larger in number than unjust police-involved deaths). This is no longer about losing faith in institutions alone, but really about losing faith in fellow citizens who are willfully burying their heads in the sand and willfully acting in bad faith nearly all the time. Of course, there is plenty of blame to hand out for all sides, going back well before recent events and well before COVID-19 itself.<p>My question for HN: what has happened to past societies when they reach this point, where emotions and tribalism cause all sides to hate each other, to talk past each other, to hold each other to unequal standards, to use every last loophole&#x2F;technicality to win through bad faith means, etc.? Have any such societies de-escalated from there to a point of stability again?</text></comment> |
2,900,171 | 2,899,115 | 1 | 3 | 2,898,790 | train | <story><title>Apprenticeships - Employers Must Get Past Degree Snobbery </title><url>http://codemanship.co.uk/parlezuml/blog/?postid=1053</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brudgers</author><text>Posing Apprenticeships as a significant alternative to higher education is delusional. First because a true apprenticeship requires a contractual relationship between the apprentice and the master. That sort of contract is extremely problematic to modern business entities because it does not allow flexibility in staffing levels, requires a significant investment in training (several years), and because indentured service is generally frowned upon and body warrants are hard to obtain these days -- there is little viable recourse should the apprentice terminate the apprenticeship early.<p>In addition apprenticeship is difficult because it easily runs afoul of equal opportunity expectations and requirements (in the US). The difficulty in differentiating between individuals and in determining each person's unique skill set before they are on the job is the reason all soldiers go through the same basic training and then are assigned to their specialties (of course one could argue that military skills are often determined before hand - but that is an argument for prior training (college) not against it).<p>Indeed the significant latitude of the military is an indication of what is needed to create any semblance of a workable apprenticeship program which provides equal opportunity on a large scale - an organization where meritocracy is highly advantageous both to the organization and the individuals who lead it, extreme prejudice in the enforcement of contracts (e.g. execution for desertion), and very one sided contracts (e.g. imprisonment for AWOL).<p>Modern higher education has grown because it offers such a powerful solution to many of the problems created by apprenticeship particularly lack of equal opportunity, exploitation of apprentices, diversion of resources to training and away from profit making activities, and long term commitments to particular individuals who may not be suited for the profession.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gfdgfdgfd</author><text>"Posing Apprenticeships as a significant alternative to higher education is delusional."<p>This is absolutely absurd and just shows pure ignorance of the economic realities beyond your grasp. Germany thrives off of apprenticeships. You can't find a job without having an apprenticeship under your belt in Germany. Students spend between 50% to 70% of their time at a company, while the rest is spent on traditional education. Apprenticeships are a vital source to Germany's economy. Dismissing it based on your pet theories is bordering on asinine.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apprenticeship#Germany" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apprenticeship#Germany</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Apprenticeships - Employers Must Get Past Degree Snobbery </title><url>http://codemanship.co.uk/parlezuml/blog/?postid=1053</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brudgers</author><text>Posing Apprenticeships as a significant alternative to higher education is delusional. First because a true apprenticeship requires a contractual relationship between the apprentice and the master. That sort of contract is extremely problematic to modern business entities because it does not allow flexibility in staffing levels, requires a significant investment in training (several years), and because indentured service is generally frowned upon and body warrants are hard to obtain these days -- there is little viable recourse should the apprentice terminate the apprenticeship early.<p>In addition apprenticeship is difficult because it easily runs afoul of equal opportunity expectations and requirements (in the US). The difficulty in differentiating between individuals and in determining each person's unique skill set before they are on the job is the reason all soldiers go through the same basic training and then are assigned to their specialties (of course one could argue that military skills are often determined before hand - but that is an argument for prior training (college) not against it).<p>Indeed the significant latitude of the military is an indication of what is needed to create any semblance of a workable apprenticeship program which provides equal opportunity on a large scale - an organization where meritocracy is highly advantageous both to the organization and the individuals who lead it, extreme prejudice in the enforcement of contracts (e.g. execution for desertion), and very one sided contracts (e.g. imprisonment for AWOL).<p>Modern higher education has grown because it offers such a powerful solution to many of the problems created by apprenticeship particularly lack of equal opportunity, exploitation of apprentices, diversion of resources to training and away from profit making activities, and long term commitments to particular individuals who may not be suited for the profession.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imperialWicket</author><text>Good points regarding the shortfalls of a proper apprenticeship in this instance (particularly in the US).<p>However, I strongly disagree that modern higher education does much to combat exploitation of new grads, resources diversion to training, or long term commitments. Higher education often fails quite admirably on these points as well.</text></comment> |
19,786,461 | 19,786,260 | 1 | 2 | 19,786,102 | train | <story><title>Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-30/vodafone-found-hidden-backdoors-in-huawei-equipment</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0898</author><text>As Jon Gruber says: &quot;Bloomberg, of course, is the publication that published “The Big Hack” in October — a sensational story alleging that data centers of Apple, Amazon, and dozens of other companies were compromised by China’s intelligence services.&quot;<p>&quot;The story presented no confirmable evidence at all, was vehemently denied by all companies involved, has not been confirmed by a single other publication (despite much effort to do so), and has been largely discredited by one of Bloomberg’s own sources.&quot;<p>&quot;By all appearances “The Big Hack” was complete bullshit. Yet Bloomberg has issued no correction or retraction, and seemingly hopes we’ll all just forget about it. I say we do not just forget about it. Bloomberg’s institutional credibility is severely damaged, and everything they publish should be treated with skepticism until they retract the story or provide evidence that it was true.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krn</author><text>I have explained why Bloomberg&#x27;s story would have been vehemently denied by all companies involved even if it was completely true:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18655803" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18655803</a><p>Many people in tech, including John Gruber, seem to lack a basic understanding of who makes decisions concerning national security and international politics.</text></comment> | <story><title>Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-30/vodafone-found-hidden-backdoors-in-huawei-equipment</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0898</author><text>As Jon Gruber says: &quot;Bloomberg, of course, is the publication that published “The Big Hack” in October — a sensational story alleging that data centers of Apple, Amazon, and dozens of other companies were compromised by China’s intelligence services.&quot;<p>&quot;The story presented no confirmable evidence at all, was vehemently denied by all companies involved, has not been confirmed by a single other publication (despite much effort to do so), and has been largely discredited by one of Bloomberg’s own sources.&quot;<p>&quot;By all appearances “The Big Hack” was complete bullshit. Yet Bloomberg has issued no correction or retraction, and seemingly hopes we’ll all just forget about it. I say we do not just forget about it. Bloomberg’s institutional credibility is severely damaged, and everything they publish should be treated with skepticism until they retract the story or provide evidence that it was true.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>logifail</author><text>&gt; everything they publish should be treated with skepticism until they [..] provide evidence that it was true<p>Call me a cynic, but I&#x27;d hope all of us would want to take that approach with every source.</text></comment> |
40,567,752 | 40,567,303 | 1 | 2 | 40,566,938 | train | <story><title>Crooks threaten to leak 3B personal records 'stolen from background check firm'</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/03/usdod_data_dump/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Nuzzerino</author><text>From the opt-out link:<p>&gt; If you are a California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, or Utah resident, you have the right to request that we delete personal information that we collect about you, subject to certain exceptions.<p>I think it&#x27;s time to require this on a national level. This is getting ridiculous.</text></comment> | <story><title>Crooks threaten to leak 3B personal records 'stolen from background check firm'</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/03/usdod_data_dump/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dmitrygr</author><text>This will continue until we make having a huge collection of personal data into a liability and not an asset for companies. Actual jail terms for CEOs for leaks would be a wonderful start. Or, at least, we should have fines that are not wrist-slaps. For example, a fine of $1000 paid to each individual per leak would be a good starting point. Then, companies will properly start minimizing the amount of data they store, in fear of a crippling loss.</text></comment> |
41,574,587 | 41,573,894 | 1 | 3 | 41,571,606 | train | <story><title>Swift 6</title><url>https://www.swift.org/blog/announcing-swift-6/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jakey_bakey</author><text>Swift would be perfect if it wasn&#x27;t dying a death by 1000 cuts thanks to the inherent conflict in its governance.<p>Swift is caught between two clans: the Swift Working Group™ open-source community, and the Apple corporate entity who pays most of their salaries. Both have their own incentives and their own imperfections, but you guess who has the majority influence.<p>Ridiculous, permanent, tech debt such as hardcoded compiler exceptions are permanently living in the compiler codebase. Even worse, half-baked concepts such as result builders are pushed through without any real discussion because Apple wants the SwiftUI syntax to look pretty.<p>It&#x27;s an amazing language still, but I can&#x27;t see it surviving as nicely in the next 10 years if Apple doesn&#x27;t learn to let go.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paperplatter</author><text>If I were new to Swift and saw how complicated and version-specific the Stackoverflow answers* are for things that are super simple in other languages, I wouldn&#x27;t expect things to get much easier from there. And that instinct would be right.<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;34540185&#x2F;how-to-convert-index-to-type-int-in-swift" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;34540185&#x2F;how-to-convert-...</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;32305891&#x2F;index-of-a-substring-in-a-string-with-swift" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;32305891&#x2F;index-of-a-subs...</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;39677330&#x2F;how-does-string-substring-work-in-swift" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;39677330&#x2F;how-does-string...</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;24250938&#x2F;swift-pass-array-by-reference" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;24250938&#x2F;swift-pass-arra...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Swift 6</title><url>https://www.swift.org/blog/announcing-swift-6/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jakey_bakey</author><text>Swift would be perfect if it wasn&#x27;t dying a death by 1000 cuts thanks to the inherent conflict in its governance.<p>Swift is caught between two clans: the Swift Working Group™ open-source community, and the Apple corporate entity who pays most of their salaries. Both have their own incentives and their own imperfections, but you guess who has the majority influence.<p>Ridiculous, permanent, tech debt such as hardcoded compiler exceptions are permanently living in the compiler codebase. Even worse, half-baked concepts such as result builders are pushed through without any real discussion because Apple wants the SwiftUI syntax to look pretty.<p>It&#x27;s an amazing language still, but I can&#x27;t see it surviving as nicely in the next 10 years if Apple doesn&#x27;t learn to let go.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Vegenoid</author><text>&gt; Ridiculous, permanent, tech debt such as hardcoded compiler exceptions are permanently living in the compiler codebase.<p>A little search-engining didn’t surface info about this, could you point me in the right direction?</text></comment> |
31,534,582 | 31,534,342 | 1 | 2 | 31,533,412 | train | <story><title>An autonomous car in SF blocked a fire truck responding to an emergency</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/cruise-fire-truck-block-san-francisco-autonomous-vehicles/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gojomo</author><text>Given that often human-driven, or human-parked, cars create similar temporary obstacles, the most important question here is: does this happen more-often, or for longer-periods, with autonomous cars?<p>I don&#x27;t see the article, or quoted sources, even trying to make that comparison - so this is really only a half-story, compared to what&#x27;s relevant.<p>Further, given the remote-guidance possibilities with autonomous cars, it&#x27;s plausible to think they&#x27;ll eventually be far, far <i>better</i> than human-driven cars at making-way for higher-priority traffic.<p>Human drivers sometimes fail-to-notice sirens or other high-priority demands on road capacity. But, an automated system could broadcast the planned-routes of dispatched priority vehicles to <i>every autonomous car in the city</i>, allowing the autonomous cars to preemptively clear paths, before it even becomes an issue of local-reasoning about an exceptional-situation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anyfoo</author><text>The problem is that there are literally uncountably many situations that a human with &quot;general intelligence&quot; will understand and react to accordingly. Sometimes smoothly, sometimes less so. But a non-conscious automatic entity needs to have the required behavior programmed in explicitly.<p>So yes, you might argue that for this particular situation, you &quot;just&quot; need to put in the proper programming and AI&#x2F;ML training and then &quot;maybe the car will notice more often than a human&quot; as long as the situation is within very specific bounds. At least now that somebody made an article about it.<p>But it does not change that the autonomous machine does not <i>understand</i> the complex world it is driving in in the slightest, and that, for example, swerving into an unmanned fruit stand without being able to brake is much better than swerving into an unmanned gas pump.</text></comment> | <story><title>An autonomous car in SF blocked a fire truck responding to an emergency</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/cruise-fire-truck-block-san-francisco-autonomous-vehicles/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gojomo</author><text>Given that often human-driven, or human-parked, cars create similar temporary obstacles, the most important question here is: does this happen more-often, or for longer-periods, with autonomous cars?<p>I don&#x27;t see the article, or quoted sources, even trying to make that comparison - so this is really only a half-story, compared to what&#x27;s relevant.<p>Further, given the remote-guidance possibilities with autonomous cars, it&#x27;s plausible to think they&#x27;ll eventually be far, far <i>better</i> than human-driven cars at making-way for higher-priority traffic.<p>Human drivers sometimes fail-to-notice sirens or other high-priority demands on road capacity. But, an automated system could broadcast the planned-routes of dispatched priority vehicles to <i>every autonomous car in the city</i>, allowing the autonomous cars to preemptively clear paths, before it even becomes an issue of local-reasoning about an exceptional-situation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flutas</author><text>&gt; Given that often human-driven, or human-parked, cars create similar temporary obstacles, the most important question here is: does this happen more-often, or for longer-periods, with autonomous cars?<p>Honestly the article is pure tech-scare bait. It blames a car that stopped (while it was driving) when a truck was driving at it head on, but tries to glance over the fact that a (human driven) garbage truck is the reason the fire truck had to go into oncoming traffic in the first place.<p>&gt; a San Francisco Fire Department truck responding to a fire tried to pass a doubled-parked garbage truck by using the opposing lane.</text></comment> |
22,536,956 | 22,536,768 | 1 | 2 | 22,536,539 | train | <story><title>A Peek Into Graviton2</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/15578/a-peek-into-the-physics-of-graivton2-amazons-neoverse-n1-server-chip-first-impressions</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>It&#x27;s unfortunate to see CPU+motherboard platforms that are entirely unavailable to purchase and own yourself.<p>There is a real need for people who want to do development&#x2F;test with on-premises servers, and then migrate the end product to an AWS or similar environment. At least with AMD64 you can reliably do this.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Peek Into Graviton2</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/15578/a-peek-into-the-physics-of-graivton2-amazons-neoverse-n1-server-chip-first-impressions</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>NikolaeVarius</author><text>Shame EPYC2 wasn&#x27;t included, but extremeley impressive numbers.<p>Also I haven&#x27;t used Anandtech in a while, but it hasn&#x27;t changed much at all after their redesign a while back. I&#x27;m a fan of how it hasn&#x27;t changed much. Nice and simple, though a bit more social media stuff that I remember.</text></comment> |
5,722,692 | 5,721,525 | 1 | 3 | 5,720,648 | train | <story><title>Show HN: My seven minute workout timer evening project</title><url>http://7-min.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danso</author><text>This is awesome. Just yesterday I was doing a 7-minute workout in my room, just because I was waiting for dinner to finish heating up.<p>The main problem is that the standard timer app on iOS only acts as a stopwatch...so the final ten seconds of each interval, I'm watching the clock so that I can hit "Lap" and move on...this is awkward when I'm also wearing headphones to listen to music.<p>What would be ideal for me is to have a simple timer that would alert me when the interval was done and automatically move on to the next one....like a repeating event on a calendar. I'm sure there's an app for that but I just didn't feel like downloading a bunch and doing trial and error.<p>One more twist: I can't do all the exercises in the 7-min workout (as made famous in the NYT)...jumping jacks would annoy the shit out of the people below me. So I make up my own. A timer that would allow me to set up my own sequence would be fabulous.<p>Anyway, this is just a longwinded way of saying that there's a need for a niche app here, and it would definitely be a fun coding project...I'm glad someone else thought of it first :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kinleyd</author><text>I've read a bit about high intensity training (tabata, hiit, crossfit, etc.) and there seems to be quite a good bit of evidence supporting their utility. The 7-minute workout may well fit in that same category.<p>However, as an old fogie, I recall a craze back in the 70s and 80s called 5BX, which stood for 5 basic exercises, created by Swedish aircrew iirc. The reason I recalled it is the mention of rapid-style jumping jacks and push ups in the 7-minute workout. 5BX had increasingly quickened routines for jumping jacks (from a crouching position), sit-ups and push-ups (with claps thrown in as you completed each push-up).<p>All of this worked very well in terms of actually toning your body, getting a good daily cardio workout, and a sense of fitness... until it did irreparable back and other damage to quite a few people. So just be careful, especially if the high intensity and the 7 minute time limit drives you to a regimen that gets anywhere close to a 5BX style work out in terms of quick, jerky movements.<p>Personally, I've reverted to playing basketball like I did in my college days, with high intensity worked into it with repeated lay up, jump shot routines, etc. It's working great for cardio and overall body toning. I would like to do weights as well, as there is a body of evidence pointing to its value, but basketball is plenty far for me at this stage.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: My seven minute workout timer evening project</title><url>http://7-min.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danso</author><text>This is awesome. Just yesterday I was doing a 7-minute workout in my room, just because I was waiting for dinner to finish heating up.<p>The main problem is that the standard timer app on iOS only acts as a stopwatch...so the final ten seconds of each interval, I'm watching the clock so that I can hit "Lap" and move on...this is awkward when I'm also wearing headphones to listen to music.<p>What would be ideal for me is to have a simple timer that would alert me when the interval was done and automatically move on to the next one....like a repeating event on a calendar. I'm sure there's an app for that but I just didn't feel like downloading a bunch and doing trial and error.<p>One more twist: I can't do all the exercises in the 7-min workout (as made famous in the NYT)...jumping jacks would annoy the shit out of the people below me. So I make up my own. A timer that would allow me to set up my own sequence would be fabulous.<p>Anyway, this is just a longwinded way of saying that there's a need for a niche app here, and it would definitely be a fun coding project...I'm glad someone else thought of it first :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pagliara</author><text>There are a bunch of interval training apps on the app store.<p>This is a good free one I use myself:<p><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/interval-timer-seconds-by/id475816966?mt=8" rel="nofollow">https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/interval-timer-seconds-by/id...</a></text></comment> |
5,690,076 | 5,689,822 | 1 | 2 | 5,689,731 | train | <story><title>Windows NT Kernel Contributor Explains Why Performance is Behind Other OS</title><url>http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=74</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jsolson</author><text>&#62; Another reason for the quality gap is that that we've been having trouble keeping talented people. Google and other large Seattle-area companies keep poaching our best, most experienced developers, and we hire youths straight from college to replace them.<p>I will say all of the ex-Microsoft folks I've encountered at Google Seattle have been fantastic.<p>On a related note, it's stupidly easy to get code accepted by another team at Google.<p>Also we're hiring.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tracker1</author><text>Too bad you guys don't seem to give a second glance at someone without any formal education, despite working on systems for government, training, banking security and airline industries.</text></comment> | <story><title>Windows NT Kernel Contributor Explains Why Performance is Behind Other OS</title><url>http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=74</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jsolson</author><text>&#62; Another reason for the quality gap is that that we've been having trouble keeping talented people. Google and other large Seattle-area companies keep poaching our best, most experienced developers, and we hire youths straight from college to replace them.<p>I will say all of the ex-Microsoft folks I've encountered at Google Seattle have been fantastic.<p>On a related note, it's stupidly easy to get code accepted by another team at Google.<p>Also we're hiring.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dvt</author><text>&#62;Also we're hiring.<p>Insult to injury? ;)</text></comment> |
3,379,069 | 3,378,644 | 1 | 2 | 3,378,441 | train | <story><title>How Dropbox Became The Startup Steve Jobs Wished To Own – with Drew Houston</title><url>http://mixergy.com/drew-houston-dropbox-interview/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jwr</author><text>I find it in poor taste to use Steve Jobs' name as a promotional tool. I see this done more and more and I don't think it's right.<p>They could have said "the startup that Apple wanted to buy", but that wouldn't have caught everyone's attention, right?</text></comment> | <story><title>How Dropbox Became The Startup Steve Jobs Wished To Own – with Drew Houston</title><url>http://mixergy.com/drew-houston-dropbox-interview/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>richardburton</author><text>I love Mixergy but sometimes I do not agree with some of the assumptions the questions are laced with. When Andrew Warner asks: "Where did you get the confidence ... to get into the storage space?" the <i>assumption</i> is that it required any confidence at all. It misdirects. Drew answered perfectly though: "I just wrote some code"</text></comment> |
17,365,930 | 17,366,165 | 1 | 2 | 17,364,899 | train | <story><title>Intel CEO resigns after relationship with employee</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/technology/intel-ceo-resigns-consensual-relationship.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ansible</author><text>&gt; <i>Intel is in serious trouble right now.</i><p>The whole semiconductor industry is in trouble right now, though few seem to feel the weight of the issue.<p>We are looking at just a couple process nodes at best before we reach the end of the road for silicon lithography. Sure, there will be further tweaks on existing techniques which will squeeze out small improvements in power, performance and density.<p>But long gone are the days when we saw steady improvements in circuit density <i>and simultaneously</i> speed <i>and simultaneously</i> cost.<p>When this knowledge finally sinks in with the investment community, it will call into question the valuation of the entire computer industry. We&#x27;re already seeing that in the desktop space. I could replace my <i>6-year old</i> Intel i7-3770 desktop with 32GB of RAM, but what&#x27;s out there that&#x27;s significantly better at a reasonable cost? Well, a used Xeon workstation maybe, but that&#x27;s about it.<p>That <i>should</i> be a big red flag to the investment community, but for reasons I don&#x27;t understand, people don&#x27;t seem to care yet.</text></item><item><author>InTheArena</author><text>Intel is in serious trouble right now.They accidentally gaffed recently and stated that their goal was &quot;to keep AMD from getting more then 10-20% of the server market&quot; while they deal with a whole bunch of engineering and fab problems with their current generation of chips. They are also looking down the barrel of Apple abandoning Intel, and for the first time in two decades, unleashing a true X86 competitor to the marketplace.<p>All of these are good reasons the board might want him gone.<p>My only other point is that even on Hacker News, everyone assumes it&#x27;s a female subordinate (count the &quot;she&#x27;s&quot; in this thread). Not that I have any inside knowledge, but it tells you something in how this policy is interpreted.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mastax</author><text>I don&#x27;t disagree with the wider point but<p>&gt; I could replace my 6-year old Intel i7-3770 desktop with 32GB of RAM, but what&#x27;s out there that&#x27;s significantly better at a reasonable cost?<p>AMD Ryzen 7 1700 for $200. ~10% faster single core and you get 8C&#x2F;16T. DDR4 RAM is quite expensive, though.<p>(closest available benchmarks, 1700 is about 3% slower than 2700)
[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;bench&#x2F;product&#x2F;2111" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;bench&#x2F;product&#x2F;2111</a>
[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;bench&#x2F;product&#x2F;551" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;bench&#x2F;product&#x2F;551</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Intel CEO resigns after relationship with employee</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/technology/intel-ceo-resigns-consensual-relationship.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ansible</author><text>&gt; <i>Intel is in serious trouble right now.</i><p>The whole semiconductor industry is in trouble right now, though few seem to feel the weight of the issue.<p>We are looking at just a couple process nodes at best before we reach the end of the road for silicon lithography. Sure, there will be further tweaks on existing techniques which will squeeze out small improvements in power, performance and density.<p>But long gone are the days when we saw steady improvements in circuit density <i>and simultaneously</i> speed <i>and simultaneously</i> cost.<p>When this knowledge finally sinks in with the investment community, it will call into question the valuation of the entire computer industry. We&#x27;re already seeing that in the desktop space. I could replace my <i>6-year old</i> Intel i7-3770 desktop with 32GB of RAM, but what&#x27;s out there that&#x27;s significantly better at a reasonable cost? Well, a used Xeon workstation maybe, but that&#x27;s about it.<p>That <i>should</i> be a big red flag to the investment community, but for reasons I don&#x27;t understand, people don&#x27;t seem to care yet.</text></item><item><author>InTheArena</author><text>Intel is in serious trouble right now.They accidentally gaffed recently and stated that their goal was &quot;to keep AMD from getting more then 10-20% of the server market&quot; while they deal with a whole bunch of engineering and fab problems with their current generation of chips. They are also looking down the barrel of Apple abandoning Intel, and for the first time in two decades, unleashing a true X86 competitor to the marketplace.<p>All of these are good reasons the board might want him gone.<p>My only other point is that even on Hacker News, everyone assumes it&#x27;s a female subordinate (count the &quot;she&#x27;s&quot; in this thread). Not that I have any inside knowledge, but it tells you something in how this policy is interpreted.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coryfklein</author><text>Intel i7-3770 Passmark Score (~6yrs old, was ~$320): 9300 [1]<p>AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Passmark Score (&lt;1yr old, ~$290): 15382 [2]<p>That&#x27;s a 65% improvement in benchmark performance. So not the &quot;doubling&quot; trend I was used to growing up, but not insignificant.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cpubenchmark.net&#x2F;cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-3770+%40+3.40GHz&amp;id=896" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cpubenchmark.net&#x2F;cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-3770+...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cpubenchmark.net&#x2F;cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+7+2700&amp;id=3240" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cpubenchmark.net&#x2F;cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+7+2700&amp;id...</a></text></comment> |
14,905,272 | 14,905,445 | 1 | 3 | 14,903,873 | train | <story><title>The first Bitcoin Cash block has been mined</title><url>http://blockdozer.com/insight/block/000000000000000000651ef99cb9fcbe0dadde1d424bd9f15ff20136191a5eec</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>barmstrong</author><text>Coinbase CEO here - apologies for the confusion on that.<p>I certainly wouldn&#x27;t say we are treating it as a &quot;shitcoin&quot;. I tweeted out a few thoughts here to share how I think about it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;brian_armstrong&#x2F;status&#x2F;892486687531556865" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;brian_armstrong&#x2F;status&#x2F;89248668753155686...</a><p>Hope it helps. Thx!</text></item><item><author>aresant</author><text>Most fascinating to me has been Coinbase&#x27;s position throughout this.<p>Which was essentially they are treating the new Bitcoin cash as a shitcoin, aka not supporting it.<p>They took the position that if you want your &quot;free&quot; Bitcoin Cash, move your BTC out of Coinbase.(1)<p>This led to the inevitable service decay &amp; delays that CoinBase has become well known for in the bitcoin community whenever leading up to a high volume event. (2)<p>And yet their internal PR team has given somewhat measured responses that &quot;if Coinbase decides to support Bitcoin Cash in the future, it will distribute the balances that accrue at the time of the August 1 fork.&quot; (3)<p>The article w&#x2F;that nugget goes on to state that when Ethereum split &quot;Coinbase eventually let customers withdraw their share of the new currency, known as &quot;Ethereum Classic,&quot; even though it still does not allow it to be bought and sold on the Coinbase site.&quot;<p>Seems like a risky bet not to just say something closer to &quot;Hey if Bitcoin Cash is a thing and worth more than 1% of the original BTC we&#x27;ll support it. If it&#x27;s not at the end of 90 days we&#x27;ll give you a way to take it out either way.&quot;<p>Judging by the volume of concern and disdain from newbies in the Bitcoin forums a lot of people got woken up by this event and what it means to have your decentralized currency controlled by a central authority.<p>(1) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.coinbase.com&#x2F;update-for-customers-with-bitcoin-stored-on-coinbase-99e2d4790a53?gi=5c5ca3523686" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.coinbase.com&#x2F;update-for-customers-with-bitcoin-...</a><p>(2) <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitcoinist.com&#x2F;mass-exodus-from-coinbase-spawns-12hour-bitcoin-withdrawal-delays&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitcoinist.com&#x2F;mass-exodus-from-coinbase-spawns-12hou...</a><p>(3) <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fortune.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;07&#x2F;31&#x2F;bitcoin-fork-coinbase&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fortune.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;07&#x2F;31&#x2F;bitcoin-fork-coinbase&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sillysaurus3</author><text>Meanwhile, Kraken supports Bitcoin Cash from minute one:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.kraken.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;1150&#x2F;bitcoin-cash-and-a-critical-alert-for-bitcoin-margin-traders&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.kraken.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;1150&#x2F;bitcoin-cash-and-a-critical...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.kraken.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;1183&#x2F;bitcoin-cash-and-a-critical-alert-for-margin-traders-part-2-2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.kraken.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;1183&#x2F;bitcoin-cash-and-a-critical...</a><p>Here&#x27;s Coinbase&#x27;s original statement, which seems to be exactly what the grandparent comment was saying: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;coinbase&#x2F;status&#x2F;890986442674941953" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;coinbase&#x2F;status&#x2F;890986442674941953</a><p>&quot;Coinbase does not intend to interact with the Bitcoin Cash blockchain.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>The first Bitcoin Cash block has been mined</title><url>http://blockdozer.com/insight/block/000000000000000000651ef99cb9fcbe0dadde1d424bd9f15ff20136191a5eec</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>barmstrong</author><text>Coinbase CEO here - apologies for the confusion on that.<p>I certainly wouldn&#x27;t say we are treating it as a &quot;shitcoin&quot;. I tweeted out a few thoughts here to share how I think about it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;brian_armstrong&#x2F;status&#x2F;892486687531556865" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;brian_armstrong&#x2F;status&#x2F;89248668753155686...</a><p>Hope it helps. Thx!</text></item><item><author>aresant</author><text>Most fascinating to me has been Coinbase&#x27;s position throughout this.<p>Which was essentially they are treating the new Bitcoin cash as a shitcoin, aka not supporting it.<p>They took the position that if you want your &quot;free&quot; Bitcoin Cash, move your BTC out of Coinbase.(1)<p>This led to the inevitable service decay &amp; delays that CoinBase has become well known for in the bitcoin community whenever leading up to a high volume event. (2)<p>And yet their internal PR team has given somewhat measured responses that &quot;if Coinbase decides to support Bitcoin Cash in the future, it will distribute the balances that accrue at the time of the August 1 fork.&quot; (3)<p>The article w&#x2F;that nugget goes on to state that when Ethereum split &quot;Coinbase eventually let customers withdraw their share of the new currency, known as &quot;Ethereum Classic,&quot; even though it still does not allow it to be bought and sold on the Coinbase site.&quot;<p>Seems like a risky bet not to just say something closer to &quot;Hey if Bitcoin Cash is a thing and worth more than 1% of the original BTC we&#x27;ll support it. If it&#x27;s not at the end of 90 days we&#x27;ll give you a way to take it out either way.&quot;<p>Judging by the volume of concern and disdain from newbies in the Bitcoin forums a lot of people got woken up by this event and what it means to have your decentralized currency controlled by a central authority.<p>(1) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.coinbase.com&#x2F;update-for-customers-with-bitcoin-stored-on-coinbase-99e2d4790a53?gi=5c5ca3523686" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.coinbase.com&#x2F;update-for-customers-with-bitcoin-...</a><p>(2) <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitcoinist.com&#x2F;mass-exodus-from-coinbase-spawns-12hour-bitcoin-withdrawal-delays&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitcoinist.com&#x2F;mass-exodus-from-coinbase-spawns-12hou...</a><p>(3) <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fortune.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;07&#x2F;31&#x2F;bitcoin-fork-coinbase&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fortune.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;07&#x2F;31&#x2F;bitcoin-fork-coinbase&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ucha</author><text>Bitcoin cash represents 7-8% of the value of a bitcoin pre-split. How is it user friendly to &quot;tax&quot; coinbase bitcoin holders by that amount? Is coinbase just going to sell those bitcoin cash for its own profit? Some transparancy would be greatly appreciated. Thanks</text></comment> |
18,405,341 | 18,405,108 | 1 | 3 | 18,402,567 | train | <story><title>Chicken Scheme 5.0</title><url>http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2018-11/msg00006.html</url><text>CHICKEN is a compiler for the Scheme programming language. It produces portable and efficient C and supports the R5RS and R7RS (work in progress) standards, and many extensions. More info at https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.call-cc.org&#x2F;<p>A new major version has just been released. See the announcement message here: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lists.nongnu.org&#x2F;archive&#x2F;html&#x2F;chicken-users&#x2F;2018-11&#x2F;msg00006.html</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ziotom78</author><text>Wow! It has been almost 6-7 years since I used Chicken Scheme, but I have fond memories of it. I wrote a program to automatize the creation of scientific reports in the Planck&#x2F;LFI project [1]. The purpose was to quickly scan a large number of maps and power spectra produced by the data analysis pipeline, detect any weirdness in the data, and create a report in HTML format. The report included several tables and plots.<p>The ability to natively encode HTML in Scheme syntax was the main reason why I chose Chicken Scheme: LISP is perfect for creating HTML programmatically. However, while using Chicken Scheme, I discovered a few other features that were big timesavers:<p>(1) The simplicity of its FFI was incredible. It was immediate to link existing C libraries we were using in the Planck project, as Chicken Scheme compiles to C.<p>(2) Eggs were a joy to use. It was trivial to download and install them, compared to the amount of work needed for the usual C and Fortran libraries needed in our field (Lapack, Blas, HEALPix, etc.)<p>(3) Several tools were available: documentation generators (I don&#x27;t remember the name of the one I used, but I remember the good looks of the documents it produced), seamless integration in Emacs, etc.<p>(4) Developers were super-friendly. I did not need to ask questions very often, but the few times I had to do so, I found them responsive and happy to help.<p>(5) The fact that the compiler produces an executable made deployment quite easy: once I verified that the necessary dynamic libraries were available, I compiled the code using Chicken Scheme on my laptop and then copied the executable on the server hosting the data to analyze.<p>Congratulations to the team for this new release!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Planck_(spacecraft)#Low_Frequency_Instrument" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Planck_(spacecraft)#Low_Freque...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Chicken Scheme 5.0</title><url>http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2018-11/msg00006.html</url><text>CHICKEN is a compiler for the Scheme programming language. It produces portable and efficient C and supports the R5RS and R7RS (work in progress) standards, and many extensions. More info at https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.call-cc.org&#x2F;<p>A new major version has just been released. See the announcement message here: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lists.nongnu.org&#x2F;archive&#x2F;html&#x2F;chicken-users&#x2F;2018-11&#x2F;msg00006.html</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Reisen</author><text>One of the best intros to generational garbage collection is on chicken internals[1]. If you&#x27;ve ever wondered about GCs I thoroughly recommend giving the article a read, it&#x27;s full of interesting asides as well.<p>I think I would use chicken more but usually when reaching for scheme it seems to be because I want something embeddable. Even so, extremely excited about this release!<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.more-magic.net&#x2F;posts&#x2F;internals-gc.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.more-magic.net&#x2F;posts&#x2F;internals-gc.html</a></text></comment> |
9,311,661 | 9,311,325 | 1 | 2 | 9,311,062 | train | <story><title>Make: Theory and Practice</title><url>http://www.ploxiln.net/make.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jgrahamc</author><text>Not a bad introduction. I spent years working on GNU make stuff (including a complete emulation) at Electric Cloud and wrote an &quot;Ask Mr Make&quot; column. Everything I wrote about GNU make can be found here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.jgc.org&#x2F;2013&#x2F;02&#x2F;updated-list-of-my-gnu-make-articles.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.jgc.org&#x2F;2013&#x2F;02&#x2F;updated-list-of-my-gnu-make-arti...</a><p>[blatant advertising] And also I have a new book on GNU make coming out this month: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nostarch.com&#x2F;gnumake" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nostarch.com&#x2F;gnumake</a> if you really want to get into make deeply.</text></comment> | <story><title>Make: Theory and Practice</title><url>http://www.ploxiln.net/make.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rspeer</author><text>I&#x27;m currently using Make as part of a data-building pipeline. It&#x27;s nice that it&#x27;s a build system that doesn&#x27;t assume my goal is to build a binary or a JS file, and that it&#x27;s remarkably easy to parallelize.<p>One deficiency I&#x27;ve come across, which seems to be well-known, is the M:N problem -- where one step takes M input files and has N output files. Make rules seem to expect to have only 1 output, and the workarounds like .SECONDARY prevent some features of Make from working correctly.<p>I&#x27;ve also seen this limitation in many of the fancy new build systems that get posted here on HN.<p>Is there a build system, a modification to Make, or anything out there that <i>does</i> keep track of builds with multiple outputs? Not an I&#x2F;O-guzzling MapReduce framework, please.</text></comment> |
15,354,991 | 15,354,413 | 1 | 2 | 15,354,064 | train | <story><title>Simple, Fast and Safe Manual Memory Management [pdf]</title><url>https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/kedia2017mem.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>That&#x27;s very clever.<p>It has most of the problems of garbage collectors that need to know object layout. &quot;(void *)&quot; will break this.<p>They don&#x27;t mention I&#x2F;O. If you have an I&#x2F;O operation in progress, its buffer areas need to be locked. But the object-moving operation is lazy, so that&#x27;s not too bad. You have to avoid getting into a situation where object-moving gets started, clashes with a pending I&#x2F;O operation, and has to block. But this is Microsoft working on their own runtime, so they can fix I&#x2F;O if needed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Simple, Fast and Safe Manual Memory Management [pdf]</title><url>https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/kedia2017mem.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>7197ghr918hf</author><text>&gt; We guarantee type and memory safety by introducing a
new exception (DanglingReferenceException) with the
following semantics: a dereference to a deleted object
will either succeed <i>as if that very object was not yet
deleted</i>, or result in a DanglingReferenceException.<p>I would worry about what might happen in a variable-sized object reuse&#x2F;freelist type scheme combined with this allocator. A dangling reference might not contain garbage that allows an attacker to control program flow, while still containing data that is exploitable in other ways.<p>So this is not an entirely safe way to do things. Arguably it would be worth the speedup. But many of the techniques for making this approach safe . . .<p>&gt; such exceptions can be detected with the combination of rigorous testing and support in the allocator for a debug mode that enforces stronger semantics (i.e. exceptions on every dereference to a deleted object) at a higher cost<p>. . . can also be used to test C++. For example, we use <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;google&#x2F;sanitizers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;google&#x2F;sanitizers</a> a lot at the office to detect these sorts of errors.<p>Still, an interesting and clever result. Nicely done!</text></comment> |
11,662,205 | 11,662,419 | 1 | 2 | 11,659,565 | train | <story><title>Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News</title><url>http://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006?rev=1462799465508</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwit992</author><text>I have no great love of conservative politics, but there&#x27;s a convincing argument to be made that their ideas and views are routinely suppressed by media outside of explicitly partisan media outlets (i.e. Fox News or talk radio).<p>There are a number of studies that back up this claim. A 2008 study[0] found that 88% of journalists donate to the Democratic party. Jonathan Haidt has shown[1] that non-economics social sciences skew more than 14-1 liberal to conservative (and that universities have not always been so skewed).<p>For anyone who believes these statistics are not based on overt discrimination based on political viewpoint, a recent study[2] showed that discrimination by party is stronger than that of race. The study did so by reproducing a landmark study that demonstrated the existence of unconscious racial bias (the implicit association test), but instead using political indicators. They found that partisan political positions triggered implicit associations 50% stronger than that of racial biases. There is also a recent book called &quot;Passing on the Right&quot;[3] which provides some personal narratives of conservative academics.<p>If you&#x27;re relying on academic knowledge to provide you a sense of reality, you&#x27;re viewing reality through a lens that is biased to a 93% degree towards one political pole, and then receiving that knowledge through a media system which is biased to an 88% degree towards that same political pole.<p>Even if you, like me, generally believe that the liberal political position is correct, ideological conformity of this magnitude should frighten you.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonexaminer.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;130902" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonexaminer.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;130902</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;heterodoxacademy.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;14&#x2F;bbs-paper-on-lack-of-political-diversity&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;heterodoxacademy.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;14&#x2F;bbs-paper-on-lack-of-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pcl.stanford.edu&#x2F;research&#x2F;2015&#x2F;iyengar-ajps-group-polarization.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pcl.stanford.edu&#x2F;research&#x2F;2015&#x2F;iyengar-ajps-group-po...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.insidehighered.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;30&#x2F;new-book-details-realities-being-conservative-professor-humanities-and-social" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.insidehighered.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;30&#x2F;new-book-deta...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>golemotron</author><text>&gt; Even if you, like me, generally believe that the liberal political position is correct, ideological conformity of this magnitude should frighten you.<p>What it does is make people whose views fall out of that bubble feel disenfranchised. This is no small part of the Trump phenomenon.<p>I was watching a documentary about South American politics yesterday and there was a globalist establishment candidate running against one that was a protectionist populist. It was strange to see that the globalist was on the right and the protectionist was on the left and that is exactly the opposite of what we are seeing in the US election this year. After decades of people on the left lamenting that working class Republicans don&#x27;t vote in their own interest the left is in a panic now because they are.<p>No one saw this coming and the media lock down is the reason why. When it&#x27;s easy to smear anyone who does not take a globalist position as a racist that part of political discourse goes underground until it pops up in the voting booth.</text></comment> | <story><title>Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News</title><url>http://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006?rev=1462799465508</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwit992</author><text>I have no great love of conservative politics, but there&#x27;s a convincing argument to be made that their ideas and views are routinely suppressed by media outside of explicitly partisan media outlets (i.e. Fox News or talk radio).<p>There are a number of studies that back up this claim. A 2008 study[0] found that 88% of journalists donate to the Democratic party. Jonathan Haidt has shown[1] that non-economics social sciences skew more than 14-1 liberal to conservative (and that universities have not always been so skewed).<p>For anyone who believes these statistics are not based on overt discrimination based on political viewpoint, a recent study[2] showed that discrimination by party is stronger than that of race. The study did so by reproducing a landmark study that demonstrated the existence of unconscious racial bias (the implicit association test), but instead using political indicators. They found that partisan political positions triggered implicit associations 50% stronger than that of racial biases. There is also a recent book called &quot;Passing on the Right&quot;[3] which provides some personal narratives of conservative academics.<p>If you&#x27;re relying on academic knowledge to provide you a sense of reality, you&#x27;re viewing reality through a lens that is biased to a 93% degree towards one political pole, and then receiving that knowledge through a media system which is biased to an 88% degree towards that same political pole.<p>Even if you, like me, generally believe that the liberal political position is correct, ideological conformity of this magnitude should frighten you.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonexaminer.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;130902" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonexaminer.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;130902</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;heterodoxacademy.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;14&#x2F;bbs-paper-on-lack-of-political-diversity&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;heterodoxacademy.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;14&#x2F;bbs-paper-on-lack-of-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pcl.stanford.edu&#x2F;research&#x2F;2015&#x2F;iyengar-ajps-group-polarization.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pcl.stanford.edu&#x2F;research&#x2F;2015&#x2F;iyengar-ajps-group-po...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.insidehighered.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;30&#x2F;new-book-details-realities-being-conservative-professor-humanities-and-social" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.insidehighered.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;30&#x2F;new-book-deta...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pj_mukh</author><text>This &quot;seems&quot; like an American phenomenon.
As a liberal, I can have a fully formed debate with a British Conservative, A Canadian conservative, a European conservative (sans latent Nazism), however the dominant American conservative seems to be operating on a completely different plain and set of assumptions. I find it extremely difficult to relate to and debate the American conservative. In general, if an american &lt;insert institution here&gt; (college, newspaper etc.) seems uber-liberal in America, it is just run-of-the-mill centrist in most other countries. Not because of any stated or unstated institutional biases, but simply because its been labelled so by a relentless, uncompromising, hyper-focussed and hugely disciplined conservative media looking for easy answers.<p>P.S: Also the predilection to openly say &quot;Compromise is impossible&quot;, esp behind the scenes, also seems to be a unique attribute of the American Conservative.</text></comment> |
9,614,989 | 9,614,880 | 1 | 3 | 9,614,425 | train | <story><title>Nebraska Abolishes Death Penalty</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/us/nebraska-abolishes-death-penalty.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>michaelsbradley</author><text>There is the retributive argument, in which condign punishments play an important role in maintaining the balance of justice.<p>As summarized by the Catechism of Trent, a Christian religious text of historical importance:<p>&quot;Another kind of lawful slaying belongs to the civil authorities, to whom is entrusted power of life and death, by the legal and judicious exercise of which they punish the guilty and protect the innocent. The just use of this power, far from involving the crime of murder, is an act of paramount obedience to this Commandment [against killing] which prohibits murder. The end of the Commandment is the preservation and security of human life. Now the punishments inflicted by the civil authority, which is the legitimate avenger of crime, naturally tend to this end, since they give security to life by repressing outrage and violence.&quot;<p>– <i>Catechism of the Council of Trent</i>, Part III, 5, n. 4 (1566)<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;j.mp&#x2F;CatechismTrentDeathPenalty" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;j.mp&#x2F;CatechismTrentDeathPenalty</a></text></item><item><author>mikeash</author><text>I don&#x27;t know that life in prison is better than being executed, but it doesn&#x27;t seem substantially worse. There doesn&#x27;t seem to be any decent argument <i>for</i> the death penalty, since the only two possible reasons, cost and deterrence, don&#x27;t hold up. In the absence of a decisive factor, I vote for not killing people.</text></item><item><author>bpodgursky</author><text>Going to be contrarian here. I see in other comments<p>&gt; costs millions of tax payer dollars because of the long appeals processes<p>Well... yes, but the alternative is that you throw someone in prison for life (likely without parole). And since there is no upcoming &quot;event&quot; to force an appeals process (aka execution), it will just never happen. Is that really a better fate for someone wrongfully accused? If you are sentencing them to life in a cage, be honest and call it a death penalty.<p>So sure you can save some money by getting rid of the death penalty, but it is not likely to make Justice any better served, it will just make you feel better and leave people in prison forever without a guaranteed appeals process.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>While that quote uses the phrase &quot;legitimate avenger of crime&quot;, the justification it gives -- that the punishments &quot;give security to life by repressing outrage and violence&quot; is <i>not</i> the retributive theory of justice, but instead a utilitarian view akin to general deterrence in that the purpose of the punishment is to prevent greater harm by modifying the behavior of others in the community (but distinguishable from it, in that it does not seek to do so by creating fear of punishment.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Nebraska Abolishes Death Penalty</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/us/nebraska-abolishes-death-penalty.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>michaelsbradley</author><text>There is the retributive argument, in which condign punishments play an important role in maintaining the balance of justice.<p>As summarized by the Catechism of Trent, a Christian religious text of historical importance:<p>&quot;Another kind of lawful slaying belongs to the civil authorities, to whom is entrusted power of life and death, by the legal and judicious exercise of which they punish the guilty and protect the innocent. The just use of this power, far from involving the crime of murder, is an act of paramount obedience to this Commandment [against killing] which prohibits murder. The end of the Commandment is the preservation and security of human life. Now the punishments inflicted by the civil authority, which is the legitimate avenger of crime, naturally tend to this end, since they give security to life by repressing outrage and violence.&quot;<p>– <i>Catechism of the Council of Trent</i>, Part III, 5, n. 4 (1566)<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;j.mp&#x2F;CatechismTrentDeathPenalty" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;j.mp&#x2F;CatechismTrentDeathPenalty</a></text></item><item><author>mikeash</author><text>I don&#x27;t know that life in prison is better than being executed, but it doesn&#x27;t seem substantially worse. There doesn&#x27;t seem to be any decent argument <i>for</i> the death penalty, since the only two possible reasons, cost and deterrence, don&#x27;t hold up. In the absence of a decisive factor, I vote for not killing people.</text></item><item><author>bpodgursky</author><text>Going to be contrarian here. I see in other comments<p>&gt; costs millions of tax payer dollars because of the long appeals processes<p>Well... yes, but the alternative is that you throw someone in prison for life (likely without parole). And since there is no upcoming &quot;event&quot; to force an appeals process (aka execution), it will just never happen. Is that really a better fate for someone wrongfully accused? If you are sentencing them to life in a cage, be honest and call it a death penalty.<p>So sure you can save some money by getting rid of the death penalty, but it is not likely to make Justice any better served, it will just make you feel better and leave people in prison forever without a guaranteed appeals process.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aaronbrethorst</author><text>Which has seemingly been rejected by bishops, archbishops, cardinals, and the pope. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usccb.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2015&#x2F;15-019.cfm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usccb.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2015&#x2F;15-019.cfm</a></text></comment> |
15,199,677 | 15,199,681 | 1 | 2 | 15,198,669 | train | <story><title>I built something with A-Frame in two days</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/09/i-built-something-with-a-frame-in-2-days-and-you-can-too/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ngokevin</author><text>A-Frame maintainer here! If you wanna check out what else the community has done, we do a weekly round-up. Lots of Google-based stuff this week: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aframe.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;awoa-77&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aframe.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;awoa-77&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>I built something with A-Frame in two days</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/09/i-built-something-with-a-frame-in-2-days-and-you-can-too/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>viridian</author><text>A-frame seems to fall into the &quot;super easy to do something basic, but very restrictive at the upper end&quot; category of software tooling.<p>That said, this is still pretty cool, and I&#x27;m a fan of tools like this, Game maker, etc existing. This is a great way to get newbies interested in building stuff, because at the core of it, the knowledge overhead is low enough that a middle school aged child could build something with it given some time.</text></comment> |
41,087,426 | 41,084,613 | 1 | 2 | 41,053,148 | train | <story><title>FTC launches probe into 'surveillance pricing'</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/23/ftc-launches-probe-into-surveillance-pricing.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gruez</author><text>You should tone the paranoia down a notch. Realistically speaking if they can&#x27;t identify you they&#x27;ll just give you a worse price. It makes absolutely no sense to refuse a sale.</text></item><item><author>toofy</author><text>surveillance pricing is such a bleak future.<p>pull up to a fuel pump, price boxes above the individual fuel hoses say “To learn pricing, for your convenience, please scan your phone’s NFC chip so we can determine your personal income and economy-wide purchase history.”<p>“Oh, it looks like you’re in the mor17-36-97wcmyoal-93 pricing group!”<p>“However, our scan indicates there are 2 other individuals in your automobile. To ensure an accurate pricing model, for your convenience please scan person1 and person2 mobile NFC chips.”<p>“Oh, we see passenger number 3 is in raf79-93-18hswcpfu—32 pricing. Thank you!<p>“Unfortunately, we’re
unable to determine passenger 2’s income and economy-wide purchase history due to their lack of NFC ID. For your convenience please see teller inside for pricing options.”<p>“If you question the validity of our estimations, please send a certified postal letter to our headquarters with the price ids previously shown on screen during the passenger scans. (<i>The postal mailing address can be conveniently received by request from [email protected] Please allow 6-8 weeks for processing and we’ll get that postal address to you in a timely manner.</i>)<p>just let me fuel my car… please…<p>onto the grocery store we go… “Please open our convenient app and scan the item for pricing.” … “This app requires the permissions…”<p>and just for the record, since some or our tech monarchs fail to tell the difference, this is dystopian, bad. not good. this is not a “neat future.” even if we throw some neon music on top, it’s still horrifying.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frankbreetz</author><text>Not if there is a monopoly on service and you can&#x27;t afford.<p>The gas and electric company already know who you are. I wouldn&#x27;t put it past them to start doing this.</text></comment> | <story><title>FTC launches probe into 'surveillance pricing'</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/23/ftc-launches-probe-into-surveillance-pricing.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gruez</author><text>You should tone the paranoia down a notch. Realistically speaking if they can&#x27;t identify you they&#x27;ll just give you a worse price. It makes absolutely no sense to refuse a sale.</text></item><item><author>toofy</author><text>surveillance pricing is such a bleak future.<p>pull up to a fuel pump, price boxes above the individual fuel hoses say “To learn pricing, for your convenience, please scan your phone’s NFC chip so we can determine your personal income and economy-wide purchase history.”<p>“Oh, it looks like you’re in the mor17-36-97wcmyoal-93 pricing group!”<p>“However, our scan indicates there are 2 other individuals in your automobile. To ensure an accurate pricing model, for your convenience please scan person1 and person2 mobile NFC chips.”<p>“Oh, we see passenger number 3 is in raf79-93-18hswcpfu—32 pricing. Thank you!<p>“Unfortunately, we’re
unable to determine passenger 2’s income and economy-wide purchase history due to their lack of NFC ID. For your convenience please see teller inside for pricing options.”<p>“If you question the validity of our estimations, please send a certified postal letter to our headquarters with the price ids previously shown on screen during the passenger scans. (<i>The postal mailing address can be conveniently received by request from [email protected] Please allow 6-8 weeks for processing and we’ll get that postal address to you in a timely manner.</i>)<p>just let me fuel my car… please…<p>onto the grocery store we go… “Please open our convenient app and scan the item for pricing.” … “This app requires the permissions…”<p>and just for the record, since some or our tech monarchs fail to tell the difference, this is dystopian, bad. not good. this is not a “neat future.” even if we throw some neon music on top, it’s still horrifying.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toofy</author><text>i was being hyperbolic and sarcastic for the sake of illustrating a directional trend we seem to be barreling towards.<p>my apologies if i didn’t go far enough to make it more obvious. my fault.</text></comment> |
23,311,286 | 23,310,810 | 1 | 3 | 23,310,341 | train | <story><title>Plywood: A New Cross-Platform Open Source C++ Framework</title><url>https://preshing.com/20200526/a-new-cross-platform-open-source-cpp-framework/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>petey283</author><text>&gt; Most open source C++ projects are libraries that are meant to be integrated into other applications. Plywood is the opposite of that: It gives you a workspace into which source code and libraries can be integrated. A single Plywood workspace can contain several applications – a webserver, a game engine, a command-line tool. Plywood simplifies the task of building and sharing code between them.<p>I think this works as a good overview.</text></comment> | <story><title>Plywood: A New Cross-Platform Open Source C++ Framework</title><url>https://preshing.com/20200526/a-new-cross-platform-open-source-cpp-framework/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisseaton</author><text>Framework... for what? Turns out it&#x27;s a framework for writing games, graphics, sound, that kind of thing.</text></comment> |
8,514,740 | 8,514,701 | 1 | 3 | 8,514,072 | train | <story><title>Push API – W3C Working Draft</title><url>http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-push-api-20141007/#example</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mike-cardwell</author><text>This should have mandatory crypto built in from the beginning so that third party push providers can be used without causing privacy&#x2F;security concerns.<p>The browser and the web server should negotiate an encryption key, or set of encryption keys during setup, and any push messages signed and encrypted. That way, any third party push provider can&#x27;t inpect the messages.<p>Also, pigs should learn to fly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Push API – W3C Working Draft</title><url>http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-push-api-20141007/#example</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Beltiras</author><text>It&#x27;s great that there are some standardization efforts in this space but for this to be useful we would need wide coverage of clients implementing it. Stuck using websockets for the next decade I suppose ....</text></comment> |
14,113,150 | 14,112,536 | 1 | 2 | 14,112,100 | train | <story><title>ARM Pioneer Sophie Wilson Also Thinks Moore’s Law is Coming to an End</title><url>https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/04/13/arm-pioneer-sophie-wilson-also-thinks-moores-law-coming-end/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>Some limits were hit a decade ago. The Pentium 4 (2004) clocked at 3.8GHz max. Most Intel processors today are slower than that. Intel&#x27;s fastest offering is a little over 4GHz.<p>The article says that 28nm will dominate for another decade, even though 14nm fabs exist. Having to use extreme ultraviolet (really soft X-rays) for lithography runs costs way up. EUV &quot;light sources&quot; are insanely complex, involving heating falling droplets of metal to plasma levels with lasers. It&#x27;s amazing that works as a production technology. The equipment looks like something from a high energy physics lab.<p>It&#x27;s interesting that we hit the limit of photons before the limits of atoms or electrons.<p>Another problem with all this downsizing is electromigration. Every once in a while, an atom gets pulled out of position by the electric field across a gap. Higher temperatures make it worse. Narrower wires make it more of a problem. This is now a major reason ICs wear out in use.<p>Getting rid of the heat is another problem. High performance CPUs are already cooling-limited. This is also why 3D IC schemes aren&#x27;t too useful for active components like CPUs. Getting heat out of the middle of the stack is hard. Memory can be stacked, if it&#x27;s not used too hard.<p>There&#x27;s no problem making lots of CPUs on a chip, if the application can use them. Things look better server-side; you can use vast numbers of CPUs in a server farm, but it&#x27;s hard to see what 20 or 100 CPUs would do for a laptop.<p>Drastically different architectures may help on specialized problems. GPUs have turned out to be more generally useful than expected. There will probably be &quot;deep learning&quot; ICs; that&#x27;s a problem where the basic operation is simple and there&#x27;s massive parallelism.<p>For ordinary CPU power per CPU, we&#x27;re close to done.</text></comment> | <story><title>ARM Pioneer Sophie Wilson Also Thinks Moore’s Law is Coming to an End</title><url>https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/04/13/arm-pioneer-sophie-wilson-also-thinks-moores-law-coming-end/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>static_noise</author><text>Moores law has been the driving force of chip development?<p>Prophet Moore predicted the future and now engineers start breaking the law?<p>Isn&#x27;t it the other way around that Moore made an observation about some effect that arose naturally? The formula was then called Moores law and its extrapolation had great predictive power for a long time.<p>Similar effects occur all through industries when you start scaling things up. Quality will go up and cost per unit will go down. Often following a simple mathematical formula which describes the learning curve.<p>In many technologies there is something called maturity where the straight line in the diagram starts to bend and approaches a technical limit. Markets overcome this a few times by changing the technological approach of solving a problem to an approach that has a better limit. This makes the general trend continue for decades... until the point where the next technology is so expensive that noone can afford it anymore.<p>Thus far Silicon has won every round and chip manufacturing plants cost many billions of dollars.</text></comment> |
35,902,049 | 35,902,168 | 1 | 2 | 35,901,790 | train | <story><title>Incident with Issues and Pull Requests</title><url>https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/nf7s6933tnn8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dbingham</author><text>What is going on over there? Third day in a row is... kind of impressive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aranw</author><text>Lots of copilot generated code failing</text></comment> | <story><title>Incident with Issues and Pull Requests</title><url>https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/nf7s6933tnn8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dbingham</author><text>What is going on over there? Third day in a row is... kind of impressive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iepathos</author><text>They blamed the march and april outages on some database query that was changed due to an infrastructure change they rolled out. I&#x27;m guessing their infrastructure change caused some other race condition issue that they are only seeing after major production failure due to not load testing enough in their staging environment <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.blog&#x2F;2023-05-03-github-availability-report-april-2023&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.blog&#x2F;2023-05-03-github-availability-report-ap...</a></text></comment> |
12,010,548 | 12,010,450 | 1 | 2 | 12,009,155 | train | <story><title>Hubble captures vivid auroras in Jupiter’s atmosphere</title><url>http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1613/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Isamu</author><text>Note: the dramatic photo is a composite, of Jupiter in visible light and its auroras captured in UV.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hubble captures vivid auroras in Jupiter’s atmosphere</title><url>http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1613/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fapjacks</author><text>I am <i>so</i> happy HST&#x27;s mission was extended for another few years [0]! I would have funded a Kickstarter to keep it going, to be honest. If there&#x27;s one thing Hubble does well, it&#x27;s that it capture the hearts and minds of muggles like myself. HST is an amazing piece of machinery.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;press-release&#x2F;nasa-extends-hubble-space-telescope-science-operations-contract&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;press-release&#x2F;nasa-extends-hubble-space-...</a></text></comment> |
7,331,293 | 7,330,838 | 1 | 3 | 7,330,511 | train | <story><title>The perovskite lightbulb moment for solar power</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/02/perovskite-lightbulb-moment-abundant-solar-power-britain</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>InclinedPlane</author><text>The biggest roadblock to widespread adoption of solar as a baseload power source is the storage problem. Photovoltaics stop producing power when the sun goes down, that&#x27;s not just inconvenient it&#x27;s unworkable with the way power is used today. Until we can economically shift the output curve of solar power plants to match demand rather than supply it will always fill no more than a niche. Today the only way to do this is to work in concert with hydropower, but that is a very limited solution.<p>Also, it&#x27;s not strictly necessary to solve the problem on a large scale, even at a small consumer-grade scale it could be helpful. If every house had a battery pack or supercap bank or what-have-you and it allowed for smoothing out power demand or perhaps enabled charging electric vehicles overnight, then it could have a huge impact on energy usage patterns. Even with the PV -&gt; battery -&gt; battery losses it would still be a substantial net win.</text></comment> | <story><title>The perovskite lightbulb moment for solar power</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/02/perovskite-lightbulb-moment-abundant-solar-power-britain</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ars</author><text>Is this going to be another one of those products that are cheap in small quantities, but are simply not available in large quantities?<p>The reason we keep going back to silicon is the planet (the crust) is basically made out of it. It&#x27;s available in any quantity.</text></comment> |
28,783,874 | 28,783,569 | 1 | 3 | 28,783,381 | train | <story><title>Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions</title><url>https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/navigate-web-faster-firefox-suggest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eCa</author><text>As someone who has used Firefox since v0.* I really, really, <i>really</i> dislike the language they have used lately.<p>&gt; relevant suggestions from our trusted partners<p>The suggestions are not relevant to, and the partners not trusted by, me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samizdis</author><text>&gt; I really, really, really dislike the language they have used lately.<p><i>That</i> is exactly the problem I have with it - weasel words and euphemisms; FF is scoring an own-goal here and eroding trust.<p>Why not just tell it like it is. &quot;We need funding and are lining up deals with third parties to display their ads&#x2F;messaging in the address bar search. We vet these third parties by holding them contractually to these standards [list standards to establish bar required for &quot;trust&quot;].&quot;<p>It&#x27;s only my opinion, but spelling it out clearly - the need for funding and how&#x2F;why &quot;trusted partners&quot; get to display their stuff - would make me far more likely to allow these suggestions. (Oh, and as for &quot;relevance&quot;, FF should explain how that&#x27;s intended to work, ie what data are being used etc.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions</title><url>https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/navigate-web-faster-firefox-suggest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eCa</author><text>As someone who has used Firefox since v0.* I really, really, <i>really</i> dislike the language they have used lately.<p>&gt; relevant suggestions from our trusted partners<p>The suggestions are not relevant to, and the partners not trusted by, me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidsergey</author><text>Indeed. They should just state &quot;It&#x27;s an Ad&quot;. I doubt they actually going to try every product that they are advertising, to make wording &quot;suggestion&quot; be even close to the truth.<p>That said, I don&#x27;t understand, why would somebody use Firefox instead of Chrome, Edge, or Safari if they ad in-browser ads.</text></comment> |
23,317,707 | 23,317,686 | 1 | 2 | 23,317,286 | train | <story><title>Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52815552</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>If we&#x27;re honest a lot of his tweets violate twitters content policy and they do so blatantly. I wonder if they&#x27;ll ever have the guts to straight up hand him at least a temp ban.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gkoberger</author><text>I understand this route. The President of the United States already has a gigantic platform, so it&#x27;s not like he&#x27;ll just go away like @nero did. This gives Twitter a chance to annotate his hate with facts, and hopefully reach his audience. Banning him just makes him a martyr, without lessening his reach.<p>I do wish the UI was a bit... angrier. The friendly light blue doesn&#x27;t exactly scream &quot;misinformation!&quot;<p>But as they say, sunlight is the best disinfectant. Removing him from Twitter won&#x27;t make him or his base any less hateful. It&#x27;s a constant reminder that he needs to be removed. I think if Twitter and news organizations just started ignoring him, many people would forget how horrible he is.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52815552</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>If we&#x27;re honest a lot of his tweets violate twitters content policy and they do so blatantly. I wonder if they&#x27;ll ever have the guts to straight up hand him at least a temp ban.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daenz</author><text>Jack Dorsey has spoken about this on Joe Rogan&#x27;s podcast, and he basically says that it was a judgement call where they weighed the public interest in the tweets against the violations of the tweets.<p>EDIT&gt;&gt; I dug up the clip: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=K571_jqnCpM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=K571_jqnCpM</a></text></comment> |
27,780,674 | 27,778,722 | 1 | 2 | 27,776,314 | train | <story><title>EleutherAI One Year Retrospective</title><url>https://blog.eleuther.ai/year-one/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>theptip</author><text>The fact that tacking on the phrase “unreal engine” to an image generation prompt makes the image way better is both hilarious and kind of terrifying to me.<p>In the first generation of AI there was this idea that we could use AI to understand human consciousness; just make a conscious machine and then analyze it, pause it, rewind it, etc. The more we learn about AI, the more I think we’ll lose any chance to understand them long before they pass a complexity threshold where we start debating if they are conscious.<p>Communing with AI is starting to look more like some kind of Eldritch incantation…</text></comment> | <story><title>EleutherAI One Year Retrospective</title><url>https://blog.eleuther.ai/year-one/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>herodoturtle</author><text>Neat. The name &quot;EleutherAI&quot; comes from the Greek word &quot;ελευθερία&quot;, which means &quot;freedom&quot;.<p>I really enjoy the interplay of &quot;ία&quot; with &quot;AI&quot;.<p>I knew nothing about this project, but seeing their interesting name has made me open that link above in a new tab to read later.</text></comment> |
5,258,613 | 5,257,445 | 1 | 3 | 5,255,209 | train | <story><title>The Truth about a Failing Startup</title><url>http://pastebin.com/BgxFCTEC</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Maro</author><text>Hey, fellow failed entrepreneur here.
My startup failed about 6-9 months ago. It was a very difficult time, our business partners went back on their promises and with that 3+ years of my life went down the drain. It was a terrible couple of months, lots of lost sleep, high blood pressure, I'm still dealing with it.<p>I was unemployed for a couple of months, then finally took a job at a great company, where I feel great. Things were finally picking up. I thought I was fortunate because I had my wife who supported me through it all.<p>Then a month ago my wife, who I thought would be my partner for life left me.
Bam.
You think a failing company is bad, try this. I just got thrown back to being 25 and looking for a date, sth I thought I left behind me forever. It was I hope the final price I payed for concentrating too much on my startup the preceeding years.<p>Lessons learned? Too many, but I'll just say this. The buddhists are right, the only constant in life is change. Shit will happen to you, whether you're rich or poor. Companies will go under. You may lose money. You will be fired from jobs. Your partner may not turn out to be who you thought she is. Somebody close to you could get sick. Your parents will die. It's just life. You have to accept these things will happen and do your best to prepare for them.<p>It's though, some people are much better at it than others, but it's normal if you can't get over these things in a day or week. Medicine might help (eg. sleep, anxiety), but go easy with that stuff.<p>Don't lie to your parents. They're your safe harbour, they will understand and help you. Tell them what's going on. I'm 32 and although it doesn't feel very manly, talking to my parents about my current situation is what's keeping me sane.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pseut</author><text>&#62; <i>Don't lie to your parents. They're your safe harbour, they will understand and help you. Tell them what's going on.</i><p>I understand what you mean by this, but just wanted to comment that this is not unambiguously good advice. Some parents have their own issues (severe anxiety, substance abuse, poor interpersonal skills, etc) and can't act as a safe harbor; lie to those parents if you've got to! Leave them in the dark! Find someone else to talk to about your problems.<p>I am glad that you have supportive and stable parents, though, but some people don't.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Truth about a Failing Startup</title><url>http://pastebin.com/BgxFCTEC</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Maro</author><text>Hey, fellow failed entrepreneur here.
My startup failed about 6-9 months ago. It was a very difficult time, our business partners went back on their promises and with that 3+ years of my life went down the drain. It was a terrible couple of months, lots of lost sleep, high blood pressure, I'm still dealing with it.<p>I was unemployed for a couple of months, then finally took a job at a great company, where I feel great. Things were finally picking up. I thought I was fortunate because I had my wife who supported me through it all.<p>Then a month ago my wife, who I thought would be my partner for life left me.
Bam.
You think a failing company is bad, try this. I just got thrown back to being 25 and looking for a date, sth I thought I left behind me forever. It was I hope the final price I payed for concentrating too much on my startup the preceeding years.<p>Lessons learned? Too many, but I'll just say this. The buddhists are right, the only constant in life is change. Shit will happen to you, whether you're rich or poor. Companies will go under. You may lose money. You will be fired from jobs. Your partner may not turn out to be who you thought she is. Somebody close to you could get sick. Your parents will die. It's just life. You have to accept these things will happen and do your best to prepare for them.<p>It's though, some people are much better at it than others, but it's normal if you can't get over these things in a day or week. Medicine might help (eg. sleep, anxiety), but go easy with that stuff.<p>Don't lie to your parents. They're your safe harbour, they will understand and help you. Tell them what's going on. I'm 32 and although it doesn't feel very manly, talking to my parents about my current situation is what's keeping me sane.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ovi256</author><text>Thanks for your story, I appreciate you sharing it.<p>I agree with you about the only constant in life being change. I think it's even older than buddhism, I seem to recall it was Heraclitus who put it as "change is the only permanence".<p>As for the OP, I hope he stops taking losing investor money so personally. The investors knew well they bought a lottery ticket. Had OP succeeded, the investors would, of course, have gladly taken their part of that upside. Now, he didn't, and they lost their ticket money. And that's all it was: ticket money, their fee for getting to play the game. I sympathize with what he's going through, and hope he'll get through.</text></comment> |
15,788,750 | 15,788,296 | 1 | 3 | 15,786,802 | train | <story><title>Asking members to support journalism, The Guardian raises more revenue than ads</title><url>http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/11/asking-members-to-support-its-journalism-no-prizes-no-swag-the-guardian-raises-more-reader-revenue-than-ad-dollars/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>f055</author><text>This. Years ago it was obvious to most newspapers that paid subscribers are their lifeline. Advertisers come and go, daily sales come and go, but long-period subscribers keep you afloat. Somehow, when the respected newspapers moved to the web, they forgot that, and kept pumping ads like crazy. This, in essence, moved the sense of their product from quality content to clickable content - these two don&#x27;t mix. Consequently, this eroded quality journalism, investigative, explanatory view of the world (and let&#x27;s face it, TV could never replace that void, as they are solely relying on ads to survive). And then, a lot of bad things happened with peoples&#x27; opinions and understanding. I am glad many outlets are now seeing the correct path. The best news source in Poland nowadays is a wealthy, but niche, &quot;Dziennik Gazeta Prawna&quot; (&quot;Daily Law Newspaper&quot;) with great, balanced content on serious issues - that relies mostly on subscribers. The best English periodical I have found is Foreign Affairs, also a very subscriber-focused outlet. Note that both of these seem to offer much better content in their paper issues than online.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dalbasal</author><text>I agree that content quality and revenue source are related in this way. There are bunch of analogies online, that I think help fill out this picture.<p>Youtube “monetisation” spawned a bunch of clickbait-driven spam. Patreon produced good quality content, acting on the same platform, at the same time. This is somewhere between a subscriber and supporter model. A lot like some newspapers. Almost a natural experiment.<p>In terms of operational scale, patreon’s “creators” are kind of similar to journalists. It takes similar sums to support the work, and they’re on similar timescales. This makes me think a similar model might work for journalism, though maybe not for newspapers.<p>Podcasting is another possibly useful comparison. Very little clickbait (earbait?) ever crosses my radar. Podcasts are usually ad supported, but there’s still no way to SEO or clickbait your way to a win. To succeeds a podcast needs subscriptions, usually free. Even @ free, the need to attract a dedicated subscriber base encourages the same sort of focus on the same audience. Slow &amp; steady growth. Win more subscribers than you lose…<p>This example is messier, but I think it shows that the rules are rules of thumb.<p>Basically, the path to success needs to depend on quality for quality to be likely. Subscribers are generally quality sensitive. I dunno how to formulate a principle exactly, but it feels like there is something here somewhere.</text></comment> | <story><title>Asking members to support journalism, The Guardian raises more revenue than ads</title><url>http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/11/asking-members-to-support-its-journalism-no-prizes-no-swag-the-guardian-raises-more-reader-revenue-than-ad-dollars/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>f055</author><text>This. Years ago it was obvious to most newspapers that paid subscribers are their lifeline. Advertisers come and go, daily sales come and go, but long-period subscribers keep you afloat. Somehow, when the respected newspapers moved to the web, they forgot that, and kept pumping ads like crazy. This, in essence, moved the sense of their product from quality content to clickable content - these two don&#x27;t mix. Consequently, this eroded quality journalism, investigative, explanatory view of the world (and let&#x27;s face it, TV could never replace that void, as they are solely relying on ads to survive). And then, a lot of bad things happened with peoples&#x27; opinions and understanding. I am glad many outlets are now seeing the correct path. The best news source in Poland nowadays is a wealthy, but niche, &quot;Dziennik Gazeta Prawna&quot; (&quot;Daily Law Newspaper&quot;) with great, balanced content on serious issues - that relies mostly on subscribers. The best English periodical I have found is Foreign Affairs, also a very subscriber-focused outlet. Note that both of these seem to offer much better content in their paper issues than online.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VeejayRampay</author><text>Also, individuals paying for a subscription have no effect on the editorial line of a given newspaper. There&#x27;s been a case recently in France where a billionaire was involved in the infamous Paradise Papers. Some newspaper wrote a lengthy piece about it and it turns out said billionaire pulled 600.000 euros of ads from the outlet a few weeks later. Totally coincidental of course :)<p>That cannot really happen with actual subscribers. They can pull their subscription en masse if the editorial line doesn&#x27;t please them, but they cannot endanger the livelihood of the newspaper as one fell swoop like that.</text></comment> |
27,901,286 | 27,894,791 | 1 | 3 | 27,892,066 | train | <story><title>Your idea is brilliant, your idea is worthless (2016)</title><url>https://stonemaiergames.com/kickstarter-lesson-204-your-idea-is-brilliant-your-idea-is-worthless/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dcolkitt</author><text>One thing that many people (including myself at times) are prone to is an irrational fear that their idea will be stolen. This wouldn’t be such a big deal if this fear didn’t cause people to repeatedly shoot themselves in the foot. Countless ideas never got off the ground because the innovator refused to talk to investors or partners without an NDA or withheld important details.<p>By far the biggest risk to any idea is that it never gets off the ground. It’s orders of magnitude more likely that you’ll get a zero outcome than anything else. Zero users. Zero adoption. Zero product.<p>For anyone in this position, you’d be <i>better off</i> if the idea was stolen. Because at least you’ll be known as the original version of the thing that big tech ripped off. That’s almost certainly good for a few percent market share. Which is <i>way</i> better than zero.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AussieWog93</author><text>I set up a crowdfunding campaign for an open source hardware project [1] about 5 years ago, and one of the most common question I heard from concerned family members was &quot;how are you going to protect your idea from being stolen?&quot;.<p>I would calmly explain to them that the biggest risk was the product either never launching our fading into obscurity, and that if the idea was truly valuable it would be copied regardless of what I do, and that I&#x27;d actually researched dozens of last campaigns and found that the projects that put less effort towards &quot;protecting&quot; their IP had better long-term prospects. OSHW projects received significantly more funding and lasted significantly longer post-campaign.<p>Despite this, every single person I spoke to would still insist that I was making a mistake. I genuinely believe that there is some sort of caveman anti-cuckoldry reflex at play here. The visceral image of a counterfeiter getting rich from your hard work motivates people to act against that outcome even if it&#x27;s not in their best interest.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth, the project is still popular 5 years later, nobody has cloned it commercially and it generates enough passive income for me to live off of I so desired.<p>[1] It&#x27;s an all-in-one USB oscilloscope, signal generator, power supply etc. board, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;espotek.com&#x2F;labrador" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;espotek.com&#x2F;labrador</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Your idea is brilliant, your idea is worthless (2016)</title><url>https://stonemaiergames.com/kickstarter-lesson-204-your-idea-is-brilliant-your-idea-is-worthless/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dcolkitt</author><text>One thing that many people (including myself at times) are prone to is an irrational fear that their idea will be stolen. This wouldn’t be such a big deal if this fear didn’t cause people to repeatedly shoot themselves in the foot. Countless ideas never got off the ground because the innovator refused to talk to investors or partners without an NDA or withheld important details.<p>By far the biggest risk to any idea is that it never gets off the ground. It’s orders of magnitude more likely that you’ll get a zero outcome than anything else. Zero users. Zero adoption. Zero product.<p>For anyone in this position, you’d be <i>better off</i> if the idea was stolen. Because at least you’ll be known as the original version of the thing that big tech ripped off. That’s almost certainly good for a few percent market share. Which is <i>way</i> better than zero.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>h2odragon</author><text>I had the joyous experience of not just having someone else implement my idea (they didn&#x27;t steal it, it wasn&#x27;t that original); but having their implementation be in all ways better than I&#x27;d imagined making. Theirs was <i>great</i>. And flopped utterly. I heard they dumped something like $500k and a year into it, where my utter failure only took a couple weeks. :)<p>Apparently me and the person at their ship behind that project were the only people in the world interested in the idea.</text></comment> |
7,867,928 | 7,867,938 | 1 | 2 | 7,867,717 | train | <story><title>The Several Million Dollar Bug</title><url>http://jacquesmattheij.com/the-several-million-dollar-bug</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stevejones</author><text>This isn&#x27;t remotely a bug, it&#x27;s not even really anything to do with browsers. The browser will be doing (roughly) the following:<p><pre><code> while pending_requests():
send_request()
read_response()
</code></pre>
But what send_request and read_response are doing is putting data on the OS&#x27;s outbound queue and then attempting to get data from the inbound queue. If the data is already in the inbound queue before the request is put on the outbound queue it doesn&#x27;t matter - the browser is not aware of this fact. So long as the &quot;responses&quot; don&#x27;t come in faster than the browser is sending requests and causing the queue to overfill, and so long as the responses send out come in the order the browser is sending requests this technique will work. In general this is just an &quot;optimistic strategy&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Several Million Dollar Bug</title><url>http://jacquesmattheij.com/the-several-million-dollar-bug</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joosters</author><text>An alternative way to pump lots of webcam frames was to use multipart-MIME responses. That way, there was only one HTTP request and the response just streamed JPEG images, one after the other. No need to break any specifications to get full network usage.</text></comment> |
22,289,660 | 22,289,544 | 1 | 2 | 22,288,440 | train | <story><title>When did Americans lose their British accents?</title><url>https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29761/when-did-americans-lose-their-british-accents</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>david_draco</author><text>I read somewhere that the American accent is closer to what British was like in the 1700-1800s. Later the Queen&#x27;s family, which came from a corner of England, established its accent as the norm. So the American pronounciation is original, and the British one changed in the meantime. Not sure if this is true.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toyg</author><text><i>&gt; the Queen’s family, which came from a corner of England</i><p>First time I see Germany classified as “a corner of England”, lol.<p>(To be fair, before the current crop, the English aristocracy spoke mainly French, and I guess France could be classed as “a corner of England” by people still a bit hung-up on the loss of Brittany...)<p>RP English is heavily influenced by French and Germanic tones. Local dialects are very different. I still find it hard to compare British languages with what developed in North America, where the influence of non-English-speakers was clearly massive. Isn’t it more interesting to look at Australia and South Africa, where direct links with English natives are way more recent, and still the language departed markedly...?</text></comment> | <story><title>When did Americans lose their British accents?</title><url>https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29761/when-did-americans-lose-their-british-accents</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>david_draco</author><text>I read somewhere that the American accent is closer to what British was like in the 1700-1800s. Later the Queen&#x27;s family, which came from a corner of England, established its accent as the norm. So the American pronounciation is original, and the British one changed in the meantime. Not sure if this is true.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; Not sure if this is true.<p>It&#x27;s true to the extent that, as the article notes, the dominant British accent used to be rhotic (probounced-r) like General American, but became non-rhotic as a result of upper class fashion (which was copied in some parts of the US, producing the modern Boston accent, among others.)<p>But both sets of accents have evolved considerably otherwise, so it&#x27;s not really true broadly, as best I understand.</text></comment> |
19,561,863 | 19,557,836 | 1 | 2 | 19,552,112 | train | <story><title>Averages Can Be Misleading: Try a Percentile (2014)</title><url>https://www.elastic.co/blog/averages-can-dangerous-use-percentile</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baq</author><text>IMHO plotting the distribution should be the first step before trying to compute its statistics. If you know the shape, you can understand the values - otherwise it&#x27;s guesswork.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmngomes</author><text>Agreed, this is actually demonstrated by Anscombe&#x27;s quartet, a set of &quot;four datasets that have nearly identical simple descriptive statistics, yet appear very different when graphed&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Anscombe%27s_quartet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Anscombe%27s_quartet</a>)</text></comment> | <story><title>Averages Can Be Misleading: Try a Percentile (2014)</title><url>https://www.elastic.co/blog/averages-can-dangerous-use-percentile</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baq</author><text>IMHO plotting the distribution should be the first step before trying to compute its statistics. If you know the shape, you can understand the values - otherwise it&#x27;s guesswork.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shittyadmin</author><text>We&#x27;ve switched to box and whisker plots for most of our statistical reports, they give you a good idea for various important percentiles and adding average indicators is fairly simple if desired. Even for things like latency this can be quite useful.</text></comment> |
11,202,554 | 11,202,695 | 1 | 2 | 11,202,346 | train | <story><title>Why is Google allowing this popular app to violate so many Google Play rules?</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/489dcz</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>LukeB_UK</author><text>From their own post:<p>&gt; <i>SongFlip has been banned from Google Play several times in the past for Intellectual Property infringement. After his developer account is banned, the developer keeps on creating new developer accounts to reupload this app. Below is a list of past package names this app has been uploaded under, which have since been banned:<p>com.seven.songflip<p>com.fungames.songflip<p>com.unicornlabs.firetunes</i><p>So really Google isn&#x27;t allowing it, this person just keeps on signing up.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why is Google allowing this popular app to violate so many Google Play rules?</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/489dcz</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sjbase</author><text>There could be a couple of problems at work here:<p>1: Google is only banning developer accounts, not the violating developer themselves (policy problem).<p>2: Google is trying to ban the actual developer, but failing at identity assertion (technical&#x2F;data problem).</text></comment> |
16,043,349 | 16,041,468 | 1 | 3 | 16,040,924 | train | <story><title>The One Product You Should Buy Online: Eyeglasses</title><url>https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-one-product-you-should-buy-online_us_598e1777e4b0ed1f464c0aac</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>morganvachon</author><text>A coworker once worked as a technician at a chain optometrist&#x27;s office. He swears the frames from Zenni and other online retailers are substandard and will fall apart, but my experience has been otherwise. He gave me one of his old frames (never worn by him beyond initial fitting) to save me money on a visit once, they were Ralph Lauren or something like that and he claimed retail cost was over $500 before lenses. They lasted all of six months before they literally fell apart on my face. I found a replacement of the same model in a different color on eBay used for $50. After cleaning them and swapping my lenses over, I got another three months before they failed as well.<p>The ones I have now were $70, are more attractive, more comfortable, and so far have lasted over a year. I did get them at the optometrist but they were on clearance and were only a few dollars more than if I&#x27;d gotten the same ones online at Zenni.</text></item><item><author>awareBrah</author><text>Went to the opthamologist this year cause I could tell my vision was worsening.<p>After all was said and done they ushered me into their eyeglasses store which was physically connected to their office. A nice friendly man told me the frames start at 299 and go up from there.<p>I said thanks man with this eye exam I can barely open my eyes so I’ll come back.<p>Got two pairs of awesome glasses from Zenni for $55 total.<p>I’ve read this is online movement is destroying the career of optometrists. Also the eyeglasses scam also seems to be connected to Luxottica which is a well known sunglasses scam also. I will continue to buy from Zenni</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>interfixus</author><text>Counterstory: I went to my local optician for a check-up. He&#x27;s fourth or fifth generation: Shop&#x27;s been there, same address, since the eighteen hundreds (and so far, they haven&#x27;t seen the need to join a chain, or to start one, for that matter). I got the works. Very thorough test of my ocular abilities. Yes, I needed new reading glasses. But <i>no</i>, he didn&#x27;t really think he would sell me any. &quot;Listen, you&#x27;ll be fine with some cheap over-the-counter stuff. I haven&#x27;t really got any in your particular strength - try the bookstore across the street&quot;.
Me: &quot;Well, in that case, I should pay you for the test&quot;.
&quot;Nah, don&#x27;t think about it. Come back when you need <i>real</i> glasses&quot;.
And you know, I do believe I shall.</text></comment> | <story><title>The One Product You Should Buy Online: Eyeglasses</title><url>https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-one-product-you-should-buy-online_us_598e1777e4b0ed1f464c0aac</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>morganvachon</author><text>A coworker once worked as a technician at a chain optometrist&#x27;s office. He swears the frames from Zenni and other online retailers are substandard and will fall apart, but my experience has been otherwise. He gave me one of his old frames (never worn by him beyond initial fitting) to save me money on a visit once, they were Ralph Lauren or something like that and he claimed retail cost was over $500 before lenses. They lasted all of six months before they literally fell apart on my face. I found a replacement of the same model in a different color on eBay used for $50. After cleaning them and swapping my lenses over, I got another three months before they failed as well.<p>The ones I have now were $70, are more attractive, more comfortable, and so far have lasted over a year. I did get them at the optometrist but they were on clearance and were only a few dollars more than if I&#x27;d gotten the same ones online at Zenni.</text></item><item><author>awareBrah</author><text>Went to the opthamologist this year cause I could tell my vision was worsening.<p>After all was said and done they ushered me into their eyeglasses store which was physically connected to their office. A nice friendly man told me the frames start at 299 and go up from there.<p>I said thanks man with this eye exam I can barely open my eyes so I’ll come back.<p>Got two pairs of awesome glasses from Zenni for $55 total.<p>I’ve read this is online movement is destroying the career of optometrists. Also the eyeglasses scam also seems to be connected to Luxottica which is a well known sunglasses scam also. I will continue to buy from Zenni</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kstrauser</author><text>My Warby Parker glasses feel insubstantial, but they&#x27;ve been unfailingly durable and I&#x27;m confident they&#x27;ll last at least as long as my prescription (or my desire to have a different look). I don&#x27;t <i>expect</i> them to be a lifetime purchase.</text></comment> |
30,968,389 | 30,968,522 | 1 | 2 | 30,966,378 | train | <story><title>An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown</title><url>https://jaapgrolleman.com/shanghais-stunning-fall-from-grace/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tangsanqian</author><text>As a Chinese, I can say that the situation is worse than it in the article. My brother is a student who lives in a flat and has not eaten for two days and no one has brought basic substances. He can&#x27;t leave the flat, he turns to his tutor but his tutor is also forced to stay at home (eating instant noodles every day). We are worried about him but there is nothing we can do, if we criticise the government on chinese Twitter we will be arrested by the police. ಥ_ಥ</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baka367</author><text>me and my wife (we live in Suzhou) actually talked that if this happens to our city, it might actually become worth to &quot;cause trouble&quot; and get arrested, hoping that there would be some food given in the police station.
Its ridiculous how dystopian such conversations have become recently...</text></comment> | <story><title>An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown</title><url>https://jaapgrolleman.com/shanghais-stunning-fall-from-grace/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tangsanqian</author><text>As a Chinese, I can say that the situation is worse than it in the article. My brother is a student who lives in a flat and has not eaten for two days and no one has brought basic substances. He can&#x27;t leave the flat, he turns to his tutor but his tutor is also forced to stay at home (eating instant noodles every day). We are worried about him but there is nothing we can do, if we criticise the government on chinese Twitter we will be arrested by the police. ಥ_ಥ</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kurthr</author><text>Yes, and anyone without a Shanghai hukou (identity card) is not even allowed to get government food. That is a LOT of people in the Shanghai region. I wish the best for everyone stuck there.</text></comment> |
15,422,928 | 15,421,810 | 1 | 2 | 15,420,770 | train | <story><title>A 2017 Nobel laureate says he left science because he ran out of money</title><url>https://qz.com/1095294/2017-nobel-laureate-jeffrey-hall-left-science-because-he-ran-out-of-funding/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>etiam</author><text>Reminds me of a rather heart-breaking interview with a man who should have been a laureate.<p>(I wish I had saved this at the time, but now I&#x27;m unable to give a link to the video material)<p>The Chemistry prize in 2008 was awarded for fluorescent proteins, which can be used to label interesting biological structures and functions.
One of the laureates&#x27; guests at the ceremony was a former colleague, whom they were careful to point out had been absolutely critical for the discovery, implying that he should have been sharing the prize.<p>A TV reporter caught this colleague for interview for a while during the festivities after the main banquet dinner, and found, in addition to congratulations to his friends and background on his contribution, a story of extreme academic pressure and not getting enough money to sustain himself and the research. To make ends meet, he left science and started driving long haul bus transports, and that&#x27;s how he had earned his living ever since. He looked sad about it, but also resigned - claimed the pay is better and it&#x27;s a lot less stressful. You got to pay the bills and at least it&#x27;s some financial security.
I found it a very moving story, and the reported seemed shaken at that point too.<p>&quot;But you were doing Nobel Prize quality research!&quot;<p>&quot;Well. That makes me a very overqualified bus driver, doesn&#x27;t it.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>A 2017 Nobel laureate says he left science because he ran out of money</title><url>https://qz.com/1095294/2017-nobel-laureate-jeffrey-hall-left-science-because-he-ran-out-of-funding/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mcguire</author><text>&quot;<i>He also said that these stars [that “have not really earned their status”] have boasted to him that they almost never send their articles to “anywhere but Nature, Cell, or Science“—among the three most prestigious science journals. “And they are nearly always published in one of those magazines—where, when you see something you know about, you realize that it’s not always so great,” he continued.</i>&quot;<p>I subscribed to <i>Science</i> for a while (the only benefit I can see of AAAS membership), and I was surprised by the work published there. I&#x27;m a computer jockey, and not into the biology that <i>Science</i> mostly publishes, but I had expected it to be major, ground-breaking papers. Instead, it seemed like the same kind of minimum publishable unit that goes on everywhere.</text></comment> |
11,450,432 | 11,450,638 | 1 | 3 | 11,448,682 | train | <story><title>Design better databases</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20160408103107/http://dbpatterns.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mortehu</author><text>Tip for SQL users:<p>If you give all your ID fields unique names, e.g. by calling your field &quot;reservation_id&quot; instead of &quot;id&quot;, even in the reservation table, you can do stuff like:<p>SELECT * FROM reservation JOIN guest USING (reservation_id);<p>By doing &quot;USING (reservation_id)&quot; instead of &quot;ON reservation.id = guest.reservation_id&quot;, the field will be automatically deduplicated, so you don&#x27;t have to qualify it elsewhere in the query, and &quot;SELECT *&quot; will return only one copy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tenhundfeld</author><text>I actually prefer just using id as the primary key, and I like the explicitness of seeing the table&#x2F;alias before the column in complex queries. I don&#x27;t care too much about typing it out; reservation.id isn&#x27;t longer than reservation_id, and the savings of USING vs ON seem minimal. I also don&#x27;t care about deduplicating that one field, as I&#x27;ll likely need to consider other duplicate fields in the results, like created_at or description.<p>But I can see arguments in both directions. I think the big thing is consistency. If you consistently use &lt;table name&gt;_id as the PK and your tooling doesn&#x27;t fight it, then cool.<p>I do feel like this benefit breaks down rather quickly though. For example, if you wanted to track who created a guest record, you probably wouldn&#x27;t name the column user_id as it&#x27;s ambiguous. So you might use creator_id to signify it points to the user who created the guest, not to the user invited to the reservation – thus negating your ability to join to a user table via USING.<p>That&#x27;s not to say it&#x27;s a bad tip, just because there are cases where it doesn&#x27;t fit. Definitely worth knowing. Thanks for sharing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Design better databases</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20160408103107/http://dbpatterns.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mortehu</author><text>Tip for SQL users:<p>If you give all your ID fields unique names, e.g. by calling your field &quot;reservation_id&quot; instead of &quot;id&quot;, even in the reservation table, you can do stuff like:<p>SELECT * FROM reservation JOIN guest USING (reservation_id);<p>By doing &quot;USING (reservation_id)&quot; instead of &quot;ON reservation.id = guest.reservation_id&quot;, the field will be automatically deduplicated, so you don&#x27;t have to qualify it elsewhere in the query, and &quot;SELECT *&quot; will return only one copy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leepowers</author><text>I prefer longer, more descriptive table names coupled with shorter columns names. Then use aliases when writing queries.<p><pre><code> SELECT * FROM long_table_name l LEFT JOIN another_table_here a ON l.id = a.rel_id
</code></pre>
Also, most tables end up being used to populate objects. It&#x27;s simpler to reference an object with `Reservation.id` than `Reservation.reservation_id`<p>Regardless of the design choices made it&#x27;s more important to be consistent in naming conventions and to document why a particular design&#x2F;schema was chosen.</text></comment> |
29,438,149 | 29,437,248 | 1 | 3 | 29,427,883 | train | <story><title>AWS Amplify Studio: Figma design to full-stack apps</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/aws-amplify-studio/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eunoia</author><text>I was working heavily with amplify a couple years ago and to be honest it was an awful experience.<p>Common use cases weren’t handled well, deployment failures were common, overall architecture was actually less coherent when using amplify than just the constituent AWS services directly, etc…<p>It felt like a kitchen sink of functionality that no one was incentivized to actually make work well together.<p>Have things improved?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>0xB31B1B</author><text>My team (5 engineers, 18 months building so far) currently runs the largest amplify based project in terms of number of resources used. We have a direct connection to the core team and their support has been great. Things were quite rough until about 6 month ago. The new releases in version 7.5.x unwind a ton of technical debt that caused serious instability. If I were to start our project over again knowing what I know now I might use SAM or the serverless framework instead of amplify, but I am not sure. The graphQL spec definition to dynamo table feature is the entirety of the magic in amplify IMO, and it has seriously sped up our development time. I strongly recommend against using any of the UI components, or many of the features that appear to be &quot;tacked on the side&quot; because in my experience they are tacked on and don&#x27;t work well. Happy to answer any questions.</text></comment> | <story><title>AWS Amplify Studio: Figma design to full-stack apps</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/12/aws-amplify-studio/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eunoia</author><text>I was working heavily with amplify a couple years ago and to be honest it was an awful experience.<p>Common use cases weren’t handled well, deployment failures were common, overall architecture was actually less coherent when using amplify than just the constituent AWS services directly, etc…<p>It felt like a kitchen sink of functionality that no one was incentivized to actually make work well together.<p>Have things improved?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IceDane</author><text>Wow, this is the <i>exact</i> experience I had.<p>Not only were all the issues you mentioned common, but the quality of their libraries(JS in my case) were just horrendous. At one point there was a run time crash in their blob storage library whenever you listed an empty bucket. I tracked the root cause down to one of their devs intentionally casting away type information(`as any` in typescript) and thus not realizing there were more cases than they were handling. This somehow passed code review and testing and was published.<p>It was absolutely horrendous. We barely moved a millimeter because we were constantly slowed down by their tooling. I wrote a very long issue about this and just got some community representative who assured me who would do &lt;a series of vague, non-committal promises&gt;.<p>Shortly thereafter we changed to GCP and Firebase and we were at feature parity in no time and moving fast after that.</text></comment> |
26,128,825 | 26,128,857 | 1 | 3 | 26,128,388 | train | <story><title>Show HN: M1 Chart – The stock market adjusted for the US-dollar money supply</title><url>https://m1chart.com/?ref=hn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nabla9</author><text>This is very confused &quot;Internet economics&quot; take on the issue.<p>Money in band account that is not used is just a number. As Fed puts more money into the economy, the velocity of money decreases as the money is used less. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;M2V" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;M2V</a><p>Federal Reserve can increase and decrease effective money supply as it pleases. Money supply does not determine the prices as we have learned over last two decades.<p>---<p>Edit: some real issues affecting stock price valuation.<p>(1) Global savings glut <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Global_saving_glut" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Global_saving_glut</a><p>(2) low <i>real</i> interest rates, typically measured as yields on inflation-indexed government bonds <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;DFII10" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;DFII10</a> If real interest rate is 10%, only this years earnings matter. If the interest rate is very low or negative, like they are now, time horizons grow accordingly.<p>---<p>Edit2. &quot;real&quot; things in economy are things like real output.<p>The level of goods and services produced depends on the factors of production. How much capital, labor, level of technology rather than the amount of currency circulating. This means that the money supply can&#x27;t affect the real level of output in the long run.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swixi</author><text>&gt; Money in band account that is not used is just a number. As Fed puts more money into the economy, the velocity of money decreases as the money is used less. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;M2V" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;M2V</a><p>A couple questions because I don&#x27;t understand this very well.<p>Do we have an idea how much is actually sitting in a bank account vs being put into the market?<p>And, if people put money into stocks and park it there, wouldn&#x27;t the velocity still be much lower than it usually is (when people are spending more on goods and services)? My interpretation of what&#x27;s being shown here is that a large amount of newly &quot;printed&quot; money has gone into the stock market, thereby inflating asset prices. I don&#x27;t see how low velocity refutes that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: M1 Chart – The stock market adjusted for the US-dollar money supply</title><url>https://m1chart.com/?ref=hn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nabla9</author><text>This is very confused &quot;Internet economics&quot; take on the issue.<p>Money in band account that is not used is just a number. As Fed puts more money into the economy, the velocity of money decreases as the money is used less. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;M2V" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;M2V</a><p>Federal Reserve can increase and decrease effective money supply as it pleases. Money supply does not determine the prices as we have learned over last two decades.<p>---<p>Edit: some real issues affecting stock price valuation.<p>(1) Global savings glut <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Global_saving_glut" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Global_saving_glut</a><p>(2) low <i>real</i> interest rates, typically measured as yields on inflation-indexed government bonds <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;DFII10" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;DFII10</a> If real interest rate is 10%, only this years earnings matter. If the interest rate is very low or negative, like they are now, time horizons grow accordingly.<p>---<p>Edit2. &quot;real&quot; things in economy are things like real output.<p>The level of goods and services produced depends on the factors of production. How much capital, labor, level of technology rather than the amount of currency circulating. This means that the money supply can&#x27;t affect the real level of output in the long run.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JMTQp8lwXL</author><text>&gt; Money supply does not determine the prices as we have learned over last two decades.<p>I don&#x27;t think we can just accept this as fact, based on two decades evidence. The Phillips curve held for much longer for two decades, until it didn&#x27;t. 2 decades of verified observation cannot be extrapolated into an infinite future.</text></comment> |
25,756,012 | 25,753,898 | 1 | 2 | 25,749,820 | train | <story><title>Using GPT-3 for plain language incident root cause from logs</title><url>https://www.zebrium.com/blog/using-gpt-3-with-zebrium-for-plain-language-incident-root-cause-from-logs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wzdd</author><text>It&#x27;s nice to get the textual description, but pretty much every specific detail of the extended explanation teased out at the end includes things which are more or less incorrect but which nonetheless sound very believable. In essence, what happened at the end was GPT-3 was asked to write an OOM-killer-inspired story. I think this should be a cautionary tale against trying to use GPT-3 to provide commentary beyond a high-level summary.<p>This isn&#x27;t a slight against the short-summary technique, which seems very cool.<p>Details: oom_adj isn&#x27;t a flag, it&#x27;s an int which can disable OOM on a per-process-leader basis but can also but can also be used to reduce the &quot;badness&quot; of a process when considering what to kill. Oom_adj is also deprecated and has been replaced by oom_score_adj. The OOM algorithm isn&#x27;t called RSS. It doesn&#x27;t seem to have been explicitly named, but the function which performs the key calculation is named oom_badness. This function assigns an integer &quot;badness&quot; to each process. A process&#x27; resident set size <i>is</i> an important part of calculating badness, but it&#x27;s affected by several other factors (what they are depends on kernel version but they include the adjustment parameter). RSS is not (part of) the OOM calculation &quot;by default&quot; -- it&#x27;s always included unless OOM is disabled entirely. RSS isn&#x27;t a comparison of reserved physical memory against current virtual size, it&#x27;s just the amount of RAM currently occupied by a process (i.e. not in swap or on disk). The OOM killer doesn&#x27;t compare RSS against virtual size. RSS doesn&#x27;t trigger the OOM killer. RSS isn&#x27;t an algorithm.<p>Another interesting aspect of this, of course, is that GPT-3 likely wasn&#x27;t trained on any specific kernel version, but on a large number of versions depending on which part of the Internet it happened to be reading. This means that it probably can&#x27;t give a good account of any single version of fast-changing parts of the kernel like the OOM killer.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;torvalds&#x2F;linux&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;mm&#x2F;oom_kill.c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;torvalds&#x2F;linux&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;mm&#x2F;oom_kill.c</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Using GPT-3 for plain language incident root cause from logs</title><url>https://www.zebrium.com/blog/using-gpt-3-with-zebrium-for-plain-language-incident-root-cause-from-logs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bbu</author><text>This is pretty cool!
However, these two samples are very simple to solve. I&#x27;d love an &quot;AI&quot; to find root causes for problems that are not obvious.
Just throw the whole log collection at it and let it solve all the issues. One can dream ;)</text></comment> |
40,633,255 | 40,633,251 | 1 | 3 | 40,631,663 | train | <story><title>Understanding the neuroscience behind burnout (2022)</title><url>https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/03/29/how-people-fall-apart-yale-faculty-discuss-the-impact-of-burnout-on-the-brain/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>toddmorey</author><text>I parent a child with autism. The care needs are intense; the burnout is real. But I can&#x27;t employ usual burnout mitigation techniques like taking time off or making career &#x2F; lifestyle changes. The world relentlessly marches forward. However, I&#x27;ve learned human resilience is AMAZING. You&#x27;ll be surprised at what you are capable of when life asks for it.<p>Here are a few big insights that have really helped me:<p>- You never have to feel like doing something to start doing it. This insight is so strangely freeing. It really got me out of my head and the loop that I was in berating myself about motivation.<p>- The act of doing something is usually what creates motivation to continue. Tell yourself you&#x27;ll spend 30 minutes on whatever it is. No matter what it is, I always know I can survive 30 minutes of it. However, 90% of the time, the timer goes off, but I don&#x27;t feel like stopping. I&#x27;ve found my grove and I keep going.<p>- Procrastination isn&#x27;t poor time management; it&#x27;s poor emotional management. Be gentle with yourself. Know that you can be scared, frustrated, or angry but don&#x27;t have to let those emotions define you. CBT works really well here. Don&#x27;t define emotions as &quot;good&quot; or &quot;bad&quot;. Define them as &quot;useful&quot;. If the emotion you feel isn&#x27;t useful, acknowledge it, but realize it&#x27;s fleeting and let it pass on. Some people like to visualize emotions as clouds drifting by.<p>&quot;And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.&quot;<p>(My grandmother, who survived the Great Depression on a farm, had the Desiderata posted on her wall. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.desiderata.com&#x2F;desiderata.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.desiderata.com&#x2F;desiderata.html</a>)</text></comment> | <story><title>Understanding the neuroscience behind burnout (2022)</title><url>https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/03/29/how-people-fall-apart-yale-faculty-discuss-the-impact-of-burnout-on-the-brain/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>this15testing</author><text>I feel like being forced to spend 40+ hours at any&#x2F;every job has to create more work to justify that amount of time (an &quot;agreement&quot; that people died for when they were working in factories, not that its based on anything realistic or &#x27;scientific&#x27;), and that&#x27;s not very inspiring and takes SO MUCH ENERGY, at least for me.<p>On top of that you then are faced with this constant increase in &quot;tech&quot; that is supposed to do so much amazing stuff &#x2F; make everyone more efficient, so now you are forced to do even more work in those 40 hours or get squeezed by wealth inequality? The new AIM chatbots coming out now can do so much! wowee! now I can be in 4 meetings at once?<p>Then on top of THAT you also have to wake up each morning facing global climate change where there is no real effort to change the course (you can say all you want about renewables, but as long as these graphs keep going up we&#x27;re all going down <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.climate.gov&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.climate.gov&#x2F;</a>).<p>People do get value and meaning from their work, whatever it is, it just feels like this mindset and social structure of the industrial age doesn&#x27;t match up with any of the challenges we face nor does it feel like it fits with all the knowledge and technology that has been developed. What&#x27;s the point if what we&#x27;re doing on a day to day basis takes so much of our energy and then just gets us closer to human caused environmental destruction no matter what it is?</text></comment> |
36,596,441 | 36,596,572 | 1 | 3 | 36,596,193 | train | <story><title>That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job</title><url>https://cohost.org/stillinbeta/post/1847579-that-time-i-posted-m</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spondylosaurus</author><text>Nice read, thanks for sharing.<p>It&#x27;s interesting (to say the least) that they more or less used a &quot;no talking about politics&quot; clause to fire this woman, even though the other guy&#x27;s statements about DoD weapons systems are certainly just as political. But he&#x27;s an Air Force guy, she&#x27;s a dissident, he&#x27;s establishment, she&#x27;s counterculture, so he got to push her out of a job for meeting him on his playing field, so to speak.<p>Always illuminating to see what gets cast as &quot;political&quot; and what gets cast as merely neutral.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reflexco</author><text>No, it&#x27;s absolutely not about how &quot;counterculture&quot; her opinions are. It&#x27;s about using offensive language. She probably would have avoided all trouble if instead of talking down a fellow participant of the conference, she plugged her beliefs in pacifism in a positive manner.</text></comment> | <story><title>That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job</title><url>https://cohost.org/stillinbeta/post/1847579-that-time-i-posted-m</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spondylosaurus</author><text>Nice read, thanks for sharing.<p>It&#x27;s interesting (to say the least) that they more or less used a &quot;no talking about politics&quot; clause to fire this woman, even though the other guy&#x27;s statements about DoD weapons systems are certainly just as political. But he&#x27;s an Air Force guy, she&#x27;s a dissident, he&#x27;s establishment, she&#x27;s counterculture, so he got to push her out of a job for meeting him on his playing field, so to speak.<p>Always illuminating to see what gets cast as &quot;political&quot; and what gets cast as merely neutral.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>galkk</author><text>There is nothing political to say &quot;If Kubernetes is good for DoD weapon* systems, it is definitely good enough for your business!&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m sure that every software engineer can think about complexities that DoD experience in their work with software. Some are highly technical in hard environments and with reliability requirements<p>* corrected, based on comment below</text></comment> |
5,574,712 | 5,574,679 | 1 | 3 | 5,574,495 | train | <story><title>Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)</title><url>http://emergency.mit.net/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghc</author><text>Gun violence is a very uncommon thing in Boston or Cambridge...it's big news here every time it happens. Now outside the city, in the areas where poor people live, it's a different story...but MIT and Harvard are located in some of the wealthiest, safest areas of Cambridge.</text></item><item><author>untog</author><text>Don't wish to make light of this at all, but I do wonder- how often does this happen? After all, "shots fired" is not an uncommon thing in many cities in the US.<p>I just wonder whether we will look back in 12 months time at the "week of hell" and realise that it was actually just a week in which we found all the things that usually go on <i>every week</i> that we don't hear about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Anechoic</author><text>Just for the record, Roxbury and Dorchester are part of Boston proper, and gun violence is those neighborhoods are unfortunately too common:<p><a href="http://www.universalhub.com/crime/dorchester.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.universalhub.com/crime/dorchester.html</a>
<a href="http://www.universalhub.com/crime/roxbury.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.universalhub.com/crime/roxbury.html</a><p>(I have family in Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan)<p>Generally speaking, the areas around MIT and Harvard are relatively safe, although muggings and petty theft aren't unheard of. Things have been a lot better since they cleaned up Central Square in the 1990's.</text></comment> | <story><title>Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)</title><url>http://emergency.mit.net/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghc</author><text>Gun violence is a very uncommon thing in Boston or Cambridge...it's big news here every time it happens. Now outside the city, in the areas where poor people live, it's a different story...but MIT and Harvard are located in some of the wealthiest, safest areas of Cambridge.</text></item><item><author>untog</author><text>Don't wish to make light of this at all, but I do wonder- how often does this happen? After all, "shots fired" is not an uncommon thing in many cities in the US.<p>I just wonder whether we will look back in 12 months time at the "week of hell" and realise that it was actually just a week in which we found all the things that usually go on <i>every week</i> that we don't hear about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tibbon</author><text>Agreed. I generally feel incredibly safe around Cambridge in general- let alone on Boylston St near the library, or anywhere on MIT's campus. At most I'd expect to have something stolen, car broken into or a common mugging around there- not a random shooter running around.</text></comment> |
27,986,901 | 27,986,892 | 1 | 2 | 27,986,376 | train | <story><title>Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny</title><url>https://github.com/ajbura/cinny/releases/tag/v1.0.0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>airstrike</author><text>Link to the actual app <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.cinny.in&#x2F;login" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.cinny.in&#x2F;login</a><p>__________<p>EDIT: Upon registration &quot;Password must contain 1 number, 1 uppercase letters, 1 lowercase letters, 1 non-alpha numeric number, 8-16 characters with no space.&quot;<p>Not sure if that&#x27;s a Matrix limitation or just javascript validation, but if it&#x27;s on your end please don&#x27;t do that... if anything you&#x27;re enforcing less secure passwords.<p>__________<p>EDIT 2: Hitting reload on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.cinny.in&#x2F;register" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.cinny.in&#x2F;register</a> leads to a 404</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny</title><url>https://github.com/ajbura/cinny/releases/tag/v1.0.0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kixiQu</author><text>This is the smallest thing in the world but: in the screenshot on cinny.in: that&#x27;s my chicken illustration! :D (Not my chicken, she belongs to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.instagram.com&#x2F;chooks_in_town&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.instagram.com&#x2F;chooks_in_town&#x2F;</a> so I also put the illo on IG <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.instagram.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;CRQETITJncO&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.instagram.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;CRQETITJncO&#x2F;</a>)<p>More substantively: the look of this is <i>so nice</i>. My biggest complaint with element is UX around cross-signing (though I&#x27;d also switch in a heartbeat if someone hacked in voice messages somehow). How have you found all that to implement? (Totally fine if it&#x27;s still on a roadmap, I&#x27;m just curious)</text></comment> |
20,639,907 | 20,639,874 | 1 | 2 | 20,639,359 | train | <story><title>The Cloud</title><url>https://txt.black/~jack/cloud.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freehunter</author><text>Man I wish HN had a downvote option for articles that are just not worth reading.<p>&quot;Don&#x27;t go to the cloud, just buy your own servers&quot; completely ignores the reason anyone rents cloud servers in the first place. If I could easily say &quot;I need exactly this much capacity, no more no less, with no unexpected scaling needs and no code&#x2F;infrastructure changes&quot; then I&#x27;d be sitting pretty. Now for a show of hands, how many companies does this describe?<p>And of those companies that raised their hand, how many can say &quot;I&#x27;m fine with just having a server in Germany&quot; who will then go on to say &quot;and I don&#x27;t need a CDN to serve customers in other regions&quot;?<p>&gt;keep running live&#x2F;live setup...This is very critical<p>Oh I didn&#x27;t know it was that easy. If all you have to do to keep a server running is say &quot;stay running, it&#x27;s very critical&quot; then of course no one needs any managed services. Outages are solved forever.<p>Completely worthless advice from a text file written by... I&#x27;m sorry who is this person and what authority do they have?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t go so far as the author when recommending tech stacks for startups or hobby projects. The main benefit of cloud providers is that you don&#x27;t have to learn and pay attention to all the stuff he lists, and you can focus on building the software you want to build.<p>But I do think he&#x27;s performing a useful service in highlighting <i>just how much you&#x27;re paying</i> for not having to hire a devops or sysadmin person. 10x performance differentials have been replicated not just by him but in other benchmarks. I remember seeing a chart when I was still working at Google and GCP was being justified that showed a graph of hard disk prices vs. S3 rates - since inception (2007-2012 at this time), S3 rates had gone down by a factor of about 2-3x, but price&#x2F;GB of physical hard disk space had gone down by ~100x. Amazon is hiding all of this improvement in the physical hardware behind vCPUs and opaque billing, and it becomes pure profit to them.<p>I&#x27;m surprised more mid-size companies - those with AWS bills in the 6-figure-per-month range - don&#x27;t leave the cloud, get physical hardware, and pay some sysadmins. At that level you could easily afford them, and you probably can get old Linux greybeards cheap now that everyone thinks the job description is obsolete.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Cloud</title><url>https://txt.black/~jack/cloud.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freehunter</author><text>Man I wish HN had a downvote option for articles that are just not worth reading.<p>&quot;Don&#x27;t go to the cloud, just buy your own servers&quot; completely ignores the reason anyone rents cloud servers in the first place. If I could easily say &quot;I need exactly this much capacity, no more no less, with no unexpected scaling needs and no code&#x2F;infrastructure changes&quot; then I&#x27;d be sitting pretty. Now for a show of hands, how many companies does this describe?<p>And of those companies that raised their hand, how many can say &quot;I&#x27;m fine with just having a server in Germany&quot; who will then go on to say &quot;and I don&#x27;t need a CDN to serve customers in other regions&quot;?<p>&gt;keep running live&#x2F;live setup...This is very critical<p>Oh I didn&#x27;t know it was that easy. If all you have to do to keep a server running is say &quot;stay running, it&#x27;s very critical&quot; then of course no one needs any managed services. Outages are solved forever.<p>Completely worthless advice from a text file written by... I&#x27;m sorry who is this person and what authority do they have?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jumpman500</author><text>I think you’re right. But I think you and the OP are probably coming from different perspectives. Yes if you have frequent scaling issues you probably need the cloud. But a lot of companies shouldn’t have ever have scaling issues and are buying into the cloud to be hip. Just like Hadoop and other big data technologies they didn’t need in 2014.<p>Ya just gotta know your business needs.</text></comment> |
16,343,244 | 16,340,546 | 1 | 3 | 16,332,139 | train | <story><title>Science’s Pirate Queen</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16985666/alexandra-elbakyan-sci-hub-open-access-science-papers-lawsuit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrepd</author><text>&gt;she enables the lay public to read and interpret science rather than awaiting the interpretation and approval of academics from high-status institutions<p>&gt;science becomes accessible to everyone with basic scientific literacy<p>The thing is most research papers are simply not accessible to neophytes; you often need to dedicate a significant portion of your life to the study of a given field in order to understand and critically evaluate the latest research in that field. It&#x27;s not that academics are sitting in a high throne, dictating what is truth and what is not, its that you <i>need</i> to be an academic with many years of formation in order to understand, let alone improve, the research that is being undertaken. A &quot;basic science literacy&quot; isn&#x27;t enough.<p>Still, it&#x27;s very positive that, in principle, anyone can grab a book or three of libgen, study hard, become knowledgeable in the field, then grab as many papers as they want off libgen and read and interpret them. That&#x27;s undoubtedly very positive.</text></item><item><author>afpx</author><text>To me, Alexandra Elbakyan is kind of like a Martin Luther of science. That is, she enables the lay public to read and interpret science rather than awaiting the interpretation and approval of academics from high-status institutions. That may be a ‘sacrilege’ view here, given the audience of HN. And, in a way, I do feel somewhat nervous of people making decisions based on papers they read without understanding of the philosophy and practice of science. Yet, it’s unavoidable and already being done through popular journalism.<p>With sci-hub (and with some reference books obtained via libgen), science becomes accessible to everyone with basic scientific literacy - a surprising large number of people. I see these two tools together as enablers of a new generation of scientists. For instance, recently I have seen many of my collegues and friends sending me direct links to research papers. That’s crazy and would have never happened just a few years ago. These tools will drive the democratization of science. Just as I now see the religious kids at the coffee shop discussing their scripture, I hope to soon see science kids there discussing classic science papers - doing it not for economic or career reasons, but simply to understand and discover.<p>To me, that’s not an economic issue but one of morality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>totalZero</author><text>I would argue that most people who studied an empirical discipline in college and did ok (good school and&#x2F;or good grades) can pick up a paper and, using the internet, understand and critique it creatively within three weeks. The basic idea of science (minus a little nuance) is &quot;I&#x27;ll believe it when I see it, and I can show that it can&#x27;t be explained otherwise.&quot; This isn&#x27;t too much to think about.<p>If a paper doesn&#x27;t link back to its foundations directly (citations) and clarify its assumptions, that isn&#x27;t the fault of the reader.<p>One really dumb thing that many academics do is, in an effort to be respected in their field or accepted to a solid paper or a good conference, they write obscurely. With very few exceptions, this results in bad science writing because the point of science writing is to express clearly and precisely the steps and formulations that lead to an ideological or project accomplishment. But that bad writing doesn&#x27;t make the paper less intelligible for normal people. It simply makes it take longer to read, for a typical person.<p>One of the reasons it&#x27;s easier to understand research than to do it, is that it&#x27;s easier to verify a solution than to create it. This is the famous Columbus&#x27; Egg, and it is a principle that should be well known to computer scientists who understand the time complexity of verification versus solution.<p>So, I argue that basic science literacy is enough to understand and critique. Verification of an idea is different than creating it. Papers that don&#x27;t reference how they fit into their field are flawed in a way that can&#x27;t be blamed on the reader. Obscure, bad writing doesn&#x27;t change the meaning of a paper, even if it hides it. And the basic tool of science is a pretty accessible idea.</text></comment> | <story><title>Science’s Pirate Queen</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16985666/alexandra-elbakyan-sci-hub-open-access-science-papers-lawsuit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrepd</author><text>&gt;she enables the lay public to read and interpret science rather than awaiting the interpretation and approval of academics from high-status institutions<p>&gt;science becomes accessible to everyone with basic scientific literacy<p>The thing is most research papers are simply not accessible to neophytes; you often need to dedicate a significant portion of your life to the study of a given field in order to understand and critically evaluate the latest research in that field. It&#x27;s not that academics are sitting in a high throne, dictating what is truth and what is not, its that you <i>need</i> to be an academic with many years of formation in order to understand, let alone improve, the research that is being undertaken. A &quot;basic science literacy&quot; isn&#x27;t enough.<p>Still, it&#x27;s very positive that, in principle, anyone can grab a book or three of libgen, study hard, become knowledgeable in the field, then grab as many papers as they want off libgen and read and interpret them. That&#x27;s undoubtedly very positive.</text></item><item><author>afpx</author><text>To me, Alexandra Elbakyan is kind of like a Martin Luther of science. That is, she enables the lay public to read and interpret science rather than awaiting the interpretation and approval of academics from high-status institutions. That may be a ‘sacrilege’ view here, given the audience of HN. And, in a way, I do feel somewhat nervous of people making decisions based on papers they read without understanding of the philosophy and practice of science. Yet, it’s unavoidable and already being done through popular journalism.<p>With sci-hub (and with some reference books obtained via libgen), science becomes accessible to everyone with basic scientific literacy - a surprising large number of people. I see these two tools together as enablers of a new generation of scientists. For instance, recently I have seen many of my collegues and friends sending me direct links to research papers. That’s crazy and would have never happened just a few years ago. These tools will drive the democratization of science. Just as I now see the religious kids at the coffee shop discussing their scripture, I hope to soon see science kids there discussing classic science papers - doing it not for economic or career reasons, but simply to understand and discover.<p>To me, that’s not an economic issue but one of morality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdietrich</author><text>&gt;The thing is most research papers are simply not accessible to neophytes<p>That very much depends on how you define &quot;neophyte&quot; and what field you&#x27;re talking about. You don&#x27;t need to be a doctor to make sense of most clinical trials, you just need a reasonable education in statistics. A mechanical engineer can usefully learn from a lot of materials science or fluid dynamics research. Our society is increasingly well-educated, which creates a huge number of people who can make use of sci-hub in one way or another.<p>If you&#x27;re writing papers that are of no use whatsoever to anyone outside of a tiny coterie of specialists in your field, then either you&#x27;re doing absolutely cutting-edge theoretical work or you&#x27;re just really bad at writing papers.</text></comment> |
35,441,919 | 35,441,326 | 1 | 2 | 35,440,348 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: The ratio of wants-to-be-hired to is-hiring is at a record high 0.94</title><text>Counting the comments in the who wants to be hired thread and dividing by the number of comments in who is hiring = 0.94.<p>A year ago it was 0.23. Here&#x27;s a plot with the data from the past couple of years - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pasteboard.co&#x2F;tjZd0PgTI8GK.png<p>(posting this about a day after the April thread opened)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mortenjorck</author><text><i>&gt; It does amuse me that we&#x27;re still at more people hiring than looking for jobs</i><p>I would definitely not read that from the data. I don’t know what percentage of current seekers post in the wants-to-be-hired thread, but as a potentially-outlying anecdote, I didn’t until I had already been looking for three months.<p>I would hypothesize that there’s a psychological barrier to posting in WWTBH, even if you’ve been laid off and have no current employer you wouldn’t want seeing it – there’s a certain vulnerability in putting yourself out there versus privately applying to jobs. For me, it took a certain level of desperation with my search to make the jump from browsing the hiring thread to finally posting in the other thread this month.</text></item><item><author>muzani</author><text>I&#x27;d like to see data go all the way back to 2020, which was when some people said had the worst job market, because of the global lockdowns. But thanks for the data anyway.<p>It does amuse me that we&#x27;re <i>still</i> at more people hiring than looking for jobs. It&#x27;s a stark contrast to other industries, where the power is normally in the hands of employers.<p>Another thing to consider is that we&#x27;ve had layoffs recently, i.e. people without jobs encouraged to find new jobs. In the past, wants-to-be-hired may be a little low because usually people don&#x27;t want to be seen looking for a job while employed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chucksmash</author><text>That&#x27;s basically my outlook, I wouldn&#x27;t post in the WWTBH thread. In addition to the reasons you listed, I&#x27;d also add that while my identity certainly isn&#x27;t hidden and I&#x27;m not out here being controversial, my HN posts are decidedly more of the &quot;my thoughts are my own&quot; variety and not something I&#x27;d link a hiring manager to otherwise.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: The ratio of wants-to-be-hired to is-hiring is at a record high 0.94</title><text>Counting the comments in the who wants to be hired thread and dividing by the number of comments in who is hiring = 0.94.<p>A year ago it was 0.23. Here&#x27;s a plot with the data from the past couple of years - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pasteboard.co&#x2F;tjZd0PgTI8GK.png<p>(posting this about a day after the April thread opened)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mortenjorck</author><text><i>&gt; It does amuse me that we&#x27;re still at more people hiring than looking for jobs</i><p>I would definitely not read that from the data. I don’t know what percentage of current seekers post in the wants-to-be-hired thread, but as a potentially-outlying anecdote, I didn’t until I had already been looking for three months.<p>I would hypothesize that there’s a psychological barrier to posting in WWTBH, even if you’ve been laid off and have no current employer you wouldn’t want seeing it – there’s a certain vulnerability in putting yourself out there versus privately applying to jobs. For me, it took a certain level of desperation with my search to make the jump from browsing the hiring thread to finally posting in the other thread this month.</text></item><item><author>muzani</author><text>I&#x27;d like to see data go all the way back to 2020, which was when some people said had the worst job market, because of the global lockdowns. But thanks for the data anyway.<p>It does amuse me that we&#x27;re <i>still</i> at more people hiring than looking for jobs. It&#x27;s a stark contrast to other industries, where the power is normally in the hands of employers.<p>Another thing to consider is that we&#x27;ve had layoffs recently, i.e. people without jobs encouraged to find new jobs. In the past, wants-to-be-hired may be a little low because usually people don&#x27;t want to be seen looking for a job while employed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onionisafruit</author><text>This is my first month looking. I thought about posting yesterday, but I am very shy about putting my name on the internet. That insecurity won the day. I hope you get good results from your post.</text></comment> |
26,644,873 | 26,644,736 | 1 | 3 | 26,643,608 | train | <story><title>What I learnt after burning $10M as an entrepreneur</title><url>https://twitter.com/awilkinson/status/1376985854229504007</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnx123-up</author><text>Don&#x27;t miss Dustin&#x27;s (Asana co-founder) response: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;moskov&#x2F;status&#x2F;1377007980063809541" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;moskov&#x2F;status&#x2F;1377007980063809541</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tweetle_beetle</author><text>&gt; Even OUR OWN Google keywords were plastered with “Asana vs. Flow” paid links.<p>I don&#x27;t know if this shock is in good faith, but it is very naive for a founder of a SaaS to not be aware of such marketing strategies - brand PPC campaigns are basic.<p>On a side note, I&#x27;ve often wondered how much money Google must make from people paying to fill up the ad slots for keywords which are their company name and they already rank in position 1 for. &quot;If you don&#x27;t bid for them, then your competitor might - so give us your money&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>What I learnt after burning $10M as an entrepreneur</title><url>https://twitter.com/awilkinson/status/1376985854229504007</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnx123-up</author><text>Don&#x27;t miss Dustin&#x27;s (Asana co-founder) response: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;moskov&#x2F;status&#x2F;1377007980063809541" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;moskov&#x2F;status&#x2F;1377007980063809541</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davedx</author><text>It&#x27;s all a bit &quot;He says, she says&quot;, isn&#x27;t it? I think it&#x27;s not really the point of the Tweets anyway</text></comment> |
29,095,332 | 29,094,956 | 1 | 2 | 29,079,903 | train | <story><title>New 5D Storage to Offer 10,000x the Density of Blu-ray</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/5d-storage-optical-data-cube</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gjm11</author><text>In case anyone is wondering what they mean by &quot;5D&quot;: they mean it&#x27;s a 3D array of marks, each of which has both size and orientation. The 3D array is three 2D layers.<p>According to this definition, a DVD or Blu-Ray disc is &quot;4D&quot; because it can have multiple layers each of which stores 1-dimensional data (pit versus no pit). And a book is at least &quot;7D&quot; because it contains a 3D arrangement of marks, and marks can vary in (at least) what letter they are, how large, how bold, and how slanted. (It would be easy to add to that list.)<p>I would describe this thing as 2.5D storage: it&#x27;s basically 2-dimensional but with multiple layers.<p>If it&#x27;s genuinely 10000x denser than Blu-ray, great! If it&#x27;s likely to last longer, also great! But there&#x27;s no need for this &quot;five-dimensional&quot; bullshit.<p>(It looks to me as if what they have at the moment is not anything like 10000x denser than Blu-ray. I&#x27;m not sure it&#x27;s even 1x denser than Blu-ray at present.)</text></comment> | <story><title>New 5D Storage to Offer 10,000x the Density of Blu-ray</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/5d-storage-optical-data-cube</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MisterTea</author><text>The other day I was talking with a friend about the high cost and perceived fragility of tape drives for long term personal archival while bemoaning the loss of higher density optical storage technology. It&#x27;s not easy to backup or shuffle around terabytes of personal video, audio and pictures. Hard drives aren&#x27;t exactly the right media for safe deposit boxes.<p>In the 90&#x27;s I had an Iomega Ditto 250MB drive that held 120MB per tape for $15-20 per tape and my hard drive was 540MB. This was when hard disc storage cost $1000&#x2F;GB. The tape drive had a quarter the capacity of the hard disc and was cheap by comparison. It was practical. Later when CD burners came out they offered 650 then 700MB when hard drives were less than 10GB. Then they became too small and DVD came out but shortly was also passed up as 4.7GB wasn&#x27;t much storage. Bluray was DoA with too little storage to be of real interest with a paltry 25-50GB.<p>I&#x27;d love to see CHEAP &gt;=1TB optical discs with a write speed of 100MB&#x2F;s allowing us to burn a disc in ~10 minutes. I&#x27;d happily pay $1 a disc in bulk and upward of $1000 for a drive. I&#x27;d also happily pay $10+ for an archival disc that has a guaranteed shelf life of 50+ years. Bring back the 100 disc juke boxes while we&#x27;re at it ;-) Cheap storage for everyone!</text></comment> |
12,737,175 | 12,736,838 | 1 | 2 | 12,735,631 | train | <story><title>Ecuador Says It Still Backs Assange, but WikiLeaks Says It Cut His Internet</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/19/world/europe/julian-assange-embassy.html?partner=IFTTT&_r=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thingexplainer</author><text>This isn&#x27;t a very interesting criticism. If WikiLeaks says an anonymous source told them something that is a.) completely believable and b.) isn&#x27;t what a onymous source would be able to say, I see no reason to doubt them. I don&#x27;t have an extraordinarily high confidence in a claim based on an anonymous witness alone, but journalists (lets squint hard enough to still call Assange a journalist for a moment) do this all the time.<p>Do you have other evidence to bring to the table? Do you have reason to doubt a.) or b.)?</text></item><item><author>dntrkv</author><text><i>Multiple US sources say Assange is pulling a PR stunt.</i><p><i>Multiple US sources say Trump is the anti christ.</i><p><i>Multiple US sources say Assange is a false flag placed by the Reptilians.</i><p>Wow, this is easy!</text></item><item><author>hammock</author><text>Wikileaks: Multiple US sources tell us John Kerry asked Ecuador to stop Assange from publishing Clinton docs during FARC peace negotiations.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;wikileaks&#x2F;status&#x2F;788369924175441920" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;wikileaks&#x2F;status&#x2F;788369924175441920</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dntrkv</author><text>On the one hand we have a reputable media company reporting quotes from reputable sources, and on the other we have WikiLeaks (with a very well documented agenda) claiming the exact opposite from an anonymous source.<p>The New York Times and The State Department are both putting their reputation (however much that means to you) on the line with their quotes, whereas WikiLeaks and its anonymous source, aren&#x27;t putting anything on the line since a large part of their business model depends on making claims that can only be proven in their favor, but never in reverse.<p>Example, this claim about who is responsible for cutting Assange&#x27;s internet access. Let&#x27;s say the US did not cut his internet. There is absolutely nothing The State Department can say to make WikiLeaks supporters believe them. Whereas, anything WikiLeaks says about the US government will be eaten up by their supporters since the only people that can provide evidence to the contrary, WikiLeaks supporters don&#x27;t trust. It&#x27;s the same approach taken by Alex Jones (They want to take your guns, they want to put you in fema camps, etc...), Trump (A lot of people are saying...)<p>Oh and btw, I&#x27;m not saying you should just blindly believe what the government tells you, but until any actual evidence is provided to support another explanation, there is no reason to assume it is true.<p>Bonus hypocritical Trump tweet:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;realdonaldtrump&#x2F;status&#x2F;781838706030313472" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;realdonaldtrump&#x2F;status&#x2F;78183870603031347...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ecuador Says It Still Backs Assange, but WikiLeaks Says It Cut His Internet</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/19/world/europe/julian-assange-embassy.html?partner=IFTTT&_r=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thingexplainer</author><text>This isn&#x27;t a very interesting criticism. If WikiLeaks says an anonymous source told them something that is a.) completely believable and b.) isn&#x27;t what a onymous source would be able to say, I see no reason to doubt them. I don&#x27;t have an extraordinarily high confidence in a claim based on an anonymous witness alone, but journalists (lets squint hard enough to still call Assange a journalist for a moment) do this all the time.<p>Do you have other evidence to bring to the table? Do you have reason to doubt a.) or b.)?</text></item><item><author>dntrkv</author><text><i>Multiple US sources say Assange is pulling a PR stunt.</i><p><i>Multiple US sources say Trump is the anti christ.</i><p><i>Multiple US sources say Assange is a false flag placed by the Reptilians.</i><p>Wow, this is easy!</text></item><item><author>hammock</author><text>Wikileaks: Multiple US sources tell us John Kerry asked Ecuador to stop Assange from publishing Clinton docs during FARC peace negotiations.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;wikileaks&#x2F;status&#x2F;788369924175441920" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;wikileaks&#x2F;status&#x2F;788369924175441920</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Berobero</author><text>I don&#x27;t know that there&#x27;s a reason to specifically doubt a or b, but in contrast to their other major (and known valid) leaks, this one is much more tied to their organizational interests, so there&#x27;s that much more reason to be healthily skeptical of it.</text></comment> |
13,967,066 | 13,963,518 | 1 | 3 | 13,962,242 | train | <story><title>AsciiMath – An easy-to-write markup language for mathematics</title><url>http://asciimath.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jwmerrill</author><text>To everyone who says &quot;why do we need this when we have LaTeX?&quot; I ask the question &quot;why do we need Markdown when we have HTML?&quot;<p>The nice thing about Markdown is that it&#x27;s quite legible in its source form, which makes it less distracting to edit. Same deal with AsciiMath and LaTeX: AsciiMath is more legible in its source form which means that it has lower overhead during editing.<p>One of these is more legible than the other:<p><pre><code> (f&#x27;(x^2+y^2)^2)&#x2F;(g&#x27;(x^2+y^2)^2)
\frac{f&#x27;\left(x^2+y^2\right)}{g&#x27;\left(x^2+y^2\right)^2}
</code></pre>
In my experience, most people who learn LaTeX don&#x27;t do so until sometime around the middle or end of their undergrad career (certainly in Physics--maybe mathematicians learn it sooner). Earlier than that, people struggle with junk like the Microsoft equation editor. No big deal?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baldfat</author><text>I would say that markdown for informal writing is fine and I like Markdown for many thing BUT if I need formatting LaTeX is a better tool. I have always waited for a new system but its hard to replace what works (With some cursing and banging on the desktop). Writing Math equations there is almost always a need for formatting within the document.<p>To me a math equation is just another plot. I love making quick plots but when it is my name on the document I want to be able to control every line and space.<p>I really like Scribble a Racket made document language is certainly the way to go but it will take a while to get broader usage. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.racket-lang.org&#x2F;scribble&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.racket-lang.org&#x2F;scribble&#x2F;</a><p>EDIT----<p>Math Library - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.racket-lang.org&#x2F;scribble-math&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.racket-lang.org&#x2F;scribble-math&#x2F;</a><p>What Scribble does really well is you write your document and it is a one line change to change the output. It can output to MathJax or LaTeX or Markdown or PDF etc....</text></comment> | <story><title>AsciiMath – An easy-to-write markup language for mathematics</title><url>http://asciimath.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jwmerrill</author><text>To everyone who says &quot;why do we need this when we have LaTeX?&quot; I ask the question &quot;why do we need Markdown when we have HTML?&quot;<p>The nice thing about Markdown is that it&#x27;s quite legible in its source form, which makes it less distracting to edit. Same deal with AsciiMath and LaTeX: AsciiMath is more legible in its source form which means that it has lower overhead during editing.<p>One of these is more legible than the other:<p><pre><code> (f&#x27;(x^2+y^2)^2)&#x2F;(g&#x27;(x^2+y^2)^2)
\frac{f&#x27;\left(x^2+y^2\right)}{g&#x27;\left(x^2+y^2\right)^2}
</code></pre>
In my experience, most people who learn LaTeX don&#x27;t do so until sometime around the middle or end of their undergrad career (certainly in Physics--maybe mathematicians learn it sooner). Earlier than that, people struggle with junk like the Microsoft equation editor. No big deal?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulddraper</author><text>I like MS equation editor.<p>I think it does a pretty great job at being a WYSIWYG editor.</text></comment> |
19,961,714 | 19,961,586 | 1 | 2 | 19,960,842 | train | <story><title>MicroG – Re-implementation of proprietary Android apps and libraries</title><url>https://microg.org</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codethief</author><text>MicroG is a fantastic project! I wouldn&#x27;t know what to do without it! (×)<p>For anyone who wants a really easy way to install and use LineageOS with MicroG, consider going for the MicroG-infused version of LineageOS: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lineage.microg.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lineage.microg.org&#x2F;</a> It&#x27;s basically pure LineageOS with a small patch that allows MicroG to spoof the Google services&#x27; signatures. The ROM supports all the devices regularly supported by LineageOS and even gets weekly OTA updates, too.<p>(×) In case you agree, consider donating to the project: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;salt.bountysource.com&#x2F;teams&#x2F;microg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;salt.bountysource.com&#x2F;teams&#x2F;microg</a> (or, if you want a specific issue to be solved, you can put a bounty on it, too: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bountysource.com&#x2F;teams&#x2F;microg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bountysource.com&#x2F;teams&#x2F;microg</a> )</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kudu</author><text>There&#x27;s also the main Bountysource page: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bountysource.com&#x2F;teams&#x2F;microg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bountysource.com&#x2F;teams&#x2F;microg</a> for donating to specific issues. If you&#x27;re not ready to use this yet because it doesn&#x27;t work well with X app, there&#x27;s probably an issue tracking something that would make it work which you can donate to!</text></comment> | <story><title>MicroG – Re-implementation of proprietary Android apps and libraries</title><url>https://microg.org</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codethief</author><text>MicroG is a fantastic project! I wouldn&#x27;t know what to do without it! (×)<p>For anyone who wants a really easy way to install and use LineageOS with MicroG, consider going for the MicroG-infused version of LineageOS: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lineage.microg.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lineage.microg.org&#x2F;</a> It&#x27;s basically pure LineageOS with a small patch that allows MicroG to spoof the Google services&#x27; signatures. The ROM supports all the devices regularly supported by LineageOS and even gets weekly OTA updates, too.<p>(×) In case you agree, consider donating to the project: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;salt.bountysource.com&#x2F;teams&#x2F;microg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;salt.bountysource.com&#x2F;teams&#x2F;microg</a> (or, if you want a specific issue to be solved, you can put a bounty on it, too: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bountysource.com&#x2F;teams&#x2F;microg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bountysource.com&#x2F;teams&#x2F;microg</a> )</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dessant</author><text>Does the patch allow the spoofing of Google packages only, or are signature checks disabled for all apps?</text></comment> |
38,388,162 | 38,388,204 | 1 | 2 | 38,382,225 | train | <story><title>Welding and the automation frontier</title><url>https://www.construction-physics.com/p/welding-and-the-automation-frontier</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xyzzy123</author><text>I think the article misses the mark by not highlighting the huge difference between say, construction &#x2F; site welding and manufacturing welding. It&#x27;s sort of a &quot;category error&quot; to lump all jobs together where you happen use a welder.<p>A lot of manufacuring welding was already low paid and boring, you sit there with your mig gun and make the same welds over and over. Often the hiring pool is &quot;unskilled&quot; labour (i.e, you take people who didn&#x27;t have the job title &quot;welder&quot;) and they train you to operate this one station. These jobs are robot fodder and honestly that&#x27;s probably a good thing.<p>Site or construction welding requires a lot more adaptability, e.g. ability to read plans, resolve issues when the plans are wrong, handle different materials, do layout, alignment, jigs etc and provides an endless stream of &quot;one off&quot; work.<p>(Of course there are a lot more niches than these two!).<p>These are barely the same market so you&#x27;ll be confused by the numbers if you consider everyone to be in the &quot;welder&quot; labour pool.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>digdugdirk</author><text>All good points, but I do want to add context for users of this site who don&#x27;t have any experience with manufacturing or physical trades - the commentary above about manufacturing welding should not be interpreted as welding being a low skill activity.<p>The same distinction between &quot;manufacturing&quot; welding and &quot;construction&quot; welding should probably just be applied within all types of welding in general. It&#x27;s all about the application. Welding just sticks two pieces of metal together, so to use glue as an analogy - it can be used to stick macaroni to paper for a primary school activity, or used during surgery to save someone&#x27;s life. Same action, two wildly different skill levels required for a successful result.<p>Having spent some time with prototyping shops and custom product manufacturing houses - those welders are insanely talented. There is an wild amount of knowledge required (metallurgy, chemistry, physics, electronics) to be used in practice, and the physical demands (fine motor control, holding pieces or your body under complete control at various angles&#x2F;positions) should not be underestimated. Couple that with the understanding of the product being produced and how their actions can improve the end design, and you&#x27;re left with what I tend to see as the closest thing to a wizard as we have in the modern era.<p>It&#x27;s like the old saying goes - &quot;Give a man a hammer and everything starts to look like a nail. Give a man a welder and everything starts looking like whatever the hell he wants it to be.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Welding and the automation frontier</title><url>https://www.construction-physics.com/p/welding-and-the-automation-frontier</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xyzzy123</author><text>I think the article misses the mark by not highlighting the huge difference between say, construction &#x2F; site welding and manufacturing welding. It&#x27;s sort of a &quot;category error&quot; to lump all jobs together where you happen use a welder.<p>A lot of manufacuring welding was already low paid and boring, you sit there with your mig gun and make the same welds over and over. Often the hiring pool is &quot;unskilled&quot; labour (i.e, you take people who didn&#x27;t have the job title &quot;welder&quot;) and they train you to operate this one station. These jobs are robot fodder and honestly that&#x27;s probably a good thing.<p>Site or construction welding requires a lot more adaptability, e.g. ability to read plans, resolve issues when the plans are wrong, handle different materials, do layout, alignment, jigs etc and provides an endless stream of &quot;one off&quot; work.<p>(Of course there are a lot more niches than these two!).<p>These are barely the same market so you&#x27;ll be confused by the numbers if you consider everyone to be in the &quot;welder&quot; labour pool.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nullc</author><text>One effect of increasing automation of mass produced parts is that the value of labor goes up because it could otherwise be employed operating mass production. As a result it can become uneconomical to perform the one-off tasks. Even though the assembly line and the on-site are different categories, they&#x27;re part of the same economy and partially compete for some of the same labor and jobs.<p>So for example, in the past you might have had a machinist one off you a part. But now that same skilled operator could be programming (or feeding) a couple CNC mills that put out dozens of parts an hour. So the one off machined part is suddenly uneconomical.
(Fortunately 3D printing has reduced the specialized skills needed to produce many kinds of parts, temporarily reversing the trend for some things...)<p>Same happens elsewhere, I assume: pipework that might have been welded on site 50 years ago is now often assembled from bolted flanged segments (which are now cheaper due to mass production) or whatever-- even though they&#x27;re more likely to leak&#x2F;fail over time.<p>Good news for the people doing the work is that they stay busy regardless. But for those who need the work done, the increased cost of one-off work can be problematic and make some kinds of project impossible to do profitably.</text></comment> |
17,311,811 | 17,311,782 | 1 | 2 | 17,311,620 | train | <story><title>Boulder moves to fund citywide fiber buildout through debt</title><url>http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_31941127/public-support-high-boulder-moves-fund-citywide-fiber?source=mostpopular</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>makerofspoons</author><text>I went to school at the University of Colorado Boulder. Something this article doesn&#x27;t mention is that the city already has over 100 miles of fiber laid that isn&#x27;t currently being lit up: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.govtech.com&#x2F;dc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;Boulder-Colo-To-Light-Up-Fiber-Optic-Network.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.govtech.com&#x2F;dc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;Boulder-Colo-To-Light-Up-...</a>. There were several groups of students looking to build companies to utilize this existing infrastructure, as well as business interests outside the city, but it just never went anywhere. I hope that it will see use soon, I was very envious of my friends that would commute in from nearby Longmont that could use their awesome municipal ISP.</text></comment> | <story><title>Boulder moves to fund citywide fiber buildout through debt</title><url>http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_31941127/public-support-high-boulder-moves-fund-citywide-fiber?source=mostpopular</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>Some back of the napkin math. $140 million for 40,000 households in Boulder = $3,500 per household. If 50% of people subscribe (typical for municipal broadband), that&#x27;s $7,000 per subscribing household, or higher than Charter&#x27;s market cap per subscriber.<p>A quarter of the population of the city is below the poverty line. If the intent is to offer them subsidized broadband, let&#x27;s assume we get no capital recovery from those households. That brings the cost to $4,666 per household, or $9,300 per subscribing household.<p>This is high, but not out of the ballpark. Verizon spent about $3,500 on average for each paying subscriber for FiOS. Chattanooga&#x27;s system was about $5,500 per household.</text></comment> |
27,856,048 | 27,856,014 | 1 | 2 | 27,853,739 | train | <story><title>Open Insulin Foundation</title><url>https://openinsulin.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgt101</author><text>My daughter is insulin dependent.<p>We live in the UK - which has a fantastic free provision for diabetics, my daughter has a Diasend artificial pancreas (on her phone + a sensor on her arm and a pump for the insulin controlled by the app). This gives her very very high levels of control and flexibility.<p>However, when covid hit I was really scared because I thought that if things went really wrong (beyond loo paper being sold out) there would be no possibility of me protecting my daughter - I simply had no means to provide insulin for her that don&#x27;t depend on a large scale modern pharma supply chain.<p>Any way that was viable for insulin to be made in a shed or a garage would be huge from my perspective because it would give me an option in the case of a SHTF situation - right now I haven&#x27;t got one. If things go bad, my daughter dies - no if&#x27;s no buts. I know (in my heart) that the reality is that if SHTF then I will die too, but the sheer hopelessness of my daughters position is really hard to take.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Guidii</author><text>If SHTF, then we should think about old-school methods based on animal extraction. The process is involved, but still approachable.<p>My daughter did a project in her high school chemistry class on the entire process, describing the steps involved - I don&#x27;t have that paper handy, but if a high school student can work it out it&#x27;s probably available elsewhere. She later told me that this project was part of her post-apocalypse-family-survival-plan;)</text></comment> | <story><title>Open Insulin Foundation</title><url>https://openinsulin.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgt101</author><text>My daughter is insulin dependent.<p>We live in the UK - which has a fantastic free provision for diabetics, my daughter has a Diasend artificial pancreas (on her phone + a sensor on her arm and a pump for the insulin controlled by the app). This gives her very very high levels of control and flexibility.<p>However, when covid hit I was really scared because I thought that if things went really wrong (beyond loo paper being sold out) there would be no possibility of me protecting my daughter - I simply had no means to provide insulin for her that don&#x27;t depend on a large scale modern pharma supply chain.<p>Any way that was viable for insulin to be made in a shed or a garage would be huge from my perspective because it would give me an option in the case of a SHTF situation - right now I haven&#x27;t got one. If things go bad, my daughter dies - no if&#x27;s no buts. I know (in my heart) that the reality is that if SHTF then I will die too, but the sheer hopelessness of my daughters position is really hard to take.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steveklabnik</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t even need to be a large-scale breakdown. Extreme weather is becoming more and more of an issue, which often leads to things like loss of power. When you use a refrigerator to keep your medication cold, a sudden &quot;you&#x27;re going to lose power until further notice&quot; introduces significant logistical hurdles.<p>I share these sorts of worries with you. It&#x27;s hard.</text></comment> |
20,377,001 | 20,376,265 | 1 | 2 | 20,375,775 | train | <story><title>English speakers should learn math instead of a second language</title><url>https://leosstemhacks.wordpress.com/2019/06/13/learn-math-not-mandarin/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mettamage</author><text>You want to learn Mandarin to talk to people who cannot speak the languages you know, or because you’re interested in Chinese culture&#x2F;history.<p>You learn math because you want to be able to quantify scientific questions, or because you want to dig deep into quantitative logic for its own sake.<p>But what if you want to do something else? Such as getting to know your spouse, children or friends better. What if you simply want to make music?<p>I would say, then do that instead of learning math!<p>All this blog post highlights is that you should have a strong and clear learning goal, because if you’re learning Mandarin because it might seem useful on vacation to China, you might be spending your time inefficiently.<p>The idea of teaching children math as a language from day one is an interesting concept though. But even that still comes down to: start giving your kids amazing skills that you think will give them a fulfilling and good life from day one. Well yea, of course.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dheera</author><text>I disagree with this machine-like optimization of human life. We are not machines running OSes allocating time.<p>Learning an instrument will help your brain in math. Learning any form of mindfulness will make you think more clearly and work efficiently. Learning languages will help you understand people and build connections and develop your brain in general.</text></comment> | <story><title>English speakers should learn math instead of a second language</title><url>https://leosstemhacks.wordpress.com/2019/06/13/learn-math-not-mandarin/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mettamage</author><text>You want to learn Mandarin to talk to people who cannot speak the languages you know, or because you’re interested in Chinese culture&#x2F;history.<p>You learn math because you want to be able to quantify scientific questions, or because you want to dig deep into quantitative logic for its own sake.<p>But what if you want to do something else? Such as getting to know your spouse, children or friends better. What if you simply want to make music?<p>I would say, then do that instead of learning math!<p>All this blog post highlights is that you should have a strong and clear learning goal, because if you’re learning Mandarin because it might seem useful on vacation to China, you might be spending your time inefficiently.<p>The idea of teaching children math as a language from day one is an interesting concept though. But even that still comes down to: start giving your kids amazing skills that you think will give them a fulfilling and good life from day one. Well yea, of course.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jm__87</author><text><i>All this blog post highlights is that you should have a strong and clear learning goal, because if you’re learning Mandarin because it might seem useful on vacation to China, you might be spending your time inefficiently.</i><p>I&#x27;m not sure if you&#x27;re saying you agree with this, but I certainly do not. What if you just wanted to learn a language because you find learning a new language enjoyable? I&#x27;ve spent the past year learning another language with absolutely no end goal in mind of what I would do with it - I just find it to be a fun challenge. It&#x27;s just a hobby.</text></comment> |
25,451,564 | 25,451,541 | 1 | 2 | 25,445,725 | train | <story><title>Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder</title><url>https://github.com/rocky-linux/rocky</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Keverw</author><text>Reminds me about how people don&#x27;t even give CockroachDB a chance because of it&#x27;s name. Every time it&#x27;s mentioned on HN, people can&#x27;t help but to bring up it&#x27;s name.</text></item><item><author>tux</author><text>I think the name and the logo is good. Don&#x27;t listen to the people who just keep talking and not helping! Good to see that CentOS cofonder picked this up and now became a founder of Rocky Linux. This shows dedication and rock solid background. Rocky Linux will be a project to follow, help and use in production environment. Thank you for all your hard work!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kinghtown</author><text>I think Rocky is good. CockroachDB on the other hand is an awful name. Cockroaches are only associated with filth and are revolting to most people. Plus, you got that cock in the name which isn’t helping matters. You might think it’s obnoxious that people always point out the name without considering the product but tone deaf branding is a misstep and begs the question: what else are they screwing up if they could get the brand name so utterly wrong?</text></comment> | <story><title>Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder</title><url>https://github.com/rocky-linux/rocky</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Keverw</author><text>Reminds me about how people don&#x27;t even give CockroachDB a chance because of it&#x27;s name. Every time it&#x27;s mentioned on HN, people can&#x27;t help but to bring up it&#x27;s name.</text></item><item><author>tux</author><text>I think the name and the logo is good. Don&#x27;t listen to the people who just keep talking and not helping! Good to see that CentOS cofonder picked this up and now became a founder of Rocky Linux. This shows dedication and rock solid background. Rocky Linux will be a project to follow, help and use in production environment. Thank you for all your hard work!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rpcwork</author><text>Requesting the name change to the more subtle “RoachDB”</text></comment> |
23,539,743 | 23,539,562 | 1 | 2 | 23,538,131 | train | <story><title>Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug?</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53061281</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>csomar</author><text>Dexamethasone is a serious drug and corticosteroid [1]. It was prescribed for a friend after eye-surgery and having skin &#x2F; eye inflammation problems, I used it (with no doctors advice) recklessly albeit with very small quantities.<p>The drug was hyper-effective. An unbelievably tiny quantity can remove any inflammation (eye, skin, hair skin rash, etc...). But the fall out and side-effects are no joke even for seemingly super minuscule doses. It was a horror story for me with horrible eye inflammation, small inflammations in different parts of the body and a skin rash I still struggle with until today. Mind you I took small localized doses and not an injection. I wasn&#x27;t aware that it can travel through your skin, get into your blood and make a mess.<p>I think the research will need to specify potential side-effects and their probabilities. It&#x27;s trade-off at the end of the day.<p>PS: Do not ever think of trying it without medical advice and doctor supervision.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dexamethasone#Adverse_effects" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dexamethasone#Adverse_effects</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gambiting</author><text>Well, yeah, steroids are incredible, shame they have such severe side effects. Following a parvovirus B19 infection I developed severe joint problems(basically got advanced arthritis at the age of 28, how fun), and all it took to sort out was one steroid injection. I won&#x27;t lie, for the next few days after the injection I felt like a superhuman, all the issues went away and in general I felt super great. Obviously that&#x27;s not something you can continue doing because the side effects get really bad after a while, my doctor warned me that if the issues come back I probably won&#x27;t be able to get another injection because the risk is too great, but for a one-off thing it was like a miracle cure.</text></comment> | <story><title>Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug?</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53061281</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>csomar</author><text>Dexamethasone is a serious drug and corticosteroid [1]. It was prescribed for a friend after eye-surgery and having skin &#x2F; eye inflammation problems, I used it (with no doctors advice) recklessly albeit with very small quantities.<p>The drug was hyper-effective. An unbelievably tiny quantity can remove any inflammation (eye, skin, hair skin rash, etc...). But the fall out and side-effects are no joke even for seemingly super minuscule doses. It was a horror story for me with horrible eye inflammation, small inflammations in different parts of the body and a skin rash I still struggle with until today. Mind you I took small localized doses and not an injection. I wasn&#x27;t aware that it can travel through your skin, get into your blood and make a mess.<p>I think the research will need to specify potential side-effects and their probabilities. It&#x27;s trade-off at the end of the day.<p>PS: Do not ever think of trying it without medical advice and doctor supervision.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dexamethasone#Adverse_effects" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dexamethasone#Adverse_effects</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ceejayoz</author><text>To be clear, it&#x27;s generally advisable to only take a prescription drug under the direction of a doctor. This isn&#x27;t unique to dexamethasone.<p>Steroids plus eyes can lead to glaucoma. My doc won&#x27;t let me use them anywhere near the face.</text></comment> |
21,325,450 | 21,325,343 | 1 | 3 | 21,323,521 | train | <story><title>An Intern's Experience with Rust</title><url>https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/10/16/an-interns-experience-with-rust/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Crinus</author><text>While i appreciate the type safety that Rust may provide (even if it is overblown and only just a little, it can still be useful - e.g. while i prefer C, i do like C++&#x27;s &quot;enum class&quot;), my two main issues are that it is only a single implementation (and that implementation looks is too Unix-y with the Windows versions looking bolted at the side) and -especially- <i>too</i> slow.<p>I get annoyed when my C builds take more than a few seconds and a major reason i avoid C++ for my own stuff (C++&#x27;s complexity is another reason) and i hear that Rust has worse compile times than C++. This is enough for me to stay away from it.<p>But if Rust manages to get an implementation that feels at home at Windows with a full IDE and debugger and also gets around C-like compilation speeds, then i&#x27;d like to check it out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>&gt; and also gets around C-like compilation speeds<p>Isn&#x27;t that possibly asking for a bit much? The Rust compiler is doing significantly more than a C compiler, so why would be expect it to have C-like speeds? Should we not also expect C to have compile speed improvements in that period, which might leave them <i>relatively</i> unchanged with respect to each other?<p>It feels sort of like you&#x27;re comparing a Mercedes sedan and Land Rover. Both very capably vehicles, but targeted to excel in slightly different circumstances, and when people suggest a Land Rover for rougher terrain, you&#x27;re noting that when they can provide the same acceleration and gas mileage as the sedan then you&#x27;ll be interested, which is both unlikely to happen and missing the point, since an off-road vehicle can do things a sedan just can&#x27;t. Preferring one over the other is fine, expecting one to be superior to the other in every way is a tall order.</text></comment> | <story><title>An Intern's Experience with Rust</title><url>https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/10/16/an-interns-experience-with-rust/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Crinus</author><text>While i appreciate the type safety that Rust may provide (even if it is overblown and only just a little, it can still be useful - e.g. while i prefer C, i do like C++&#x27;s &quot;enum class&quot;), my two main issues are that it is only a single implementation (and that implementation looks is too Unix-y with the Windows versions looking bolted at the side) and -especially- <i>too</i> slow.<p>I get annoyed when my C builds take more than a few seconds and a major reason i avoid C++ for my own stuff (C++&#x27;s complexity is another reason) and i hear that Rust has worse compile times than C++. This is enough for me to stay away from it.<p>But if Rust manages to get an implementation that feels at home at Windows with a full IDE and debugger and also gets around C-like compilation speeds, then i&#x27;d like to check it out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munmaek</author><text>For what it&#x27;s worth, Rust will soon improve its linking stage by switching to ldd, as part of upgrading to LLVM 4.0. From what I&#x27;ve read ldd can dramatically reduce the time needed.</text></comment> |
33,664,955 | 33,664,557 | 1 | 3 | 33,659,580 | train | <story><title>“Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted and demonetized”</title><url>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593673339826212864</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phphphphp</author><text>That analogy doesn’t really fit with the model of Twitter. If we are using the town&#x2F;time square example, what Elon is describing is the digital version of putting a noise-cancelling box around the people saying “bad” things so that nobody can hear them.<p>A message spreads on Twitter because individuals on Twitter amplify it (with engagement, retweets etc.) which is itself a form of speech: if you say something bad, and I retweet it, I am engaging in speech. Imagine a piece of land with 500 million people on it: a person 500 million people away from you cannot hear you, but if you say something and people choose to repeat it until it reaches that person… that’s Twitter. To prevent that is, in any framing, limiting free speech.<p>Twitter has some magical engagement-driving algorithms (for example, the homepage) but these are not the primary driver of engagement&#x2F;reach on Twitter, so they could be removed entirely and this problem would remain.<p>So you’re probably right to say this isn’t a sudden 180 on his thoughts, but it still highlights how faulty his framing of free speech is.</text></item><item><author>boole1854</author><text>Many commentators seem to think this is a sudden, recent backpedaling from a previous absolutist view on free speech. However, Musk has been promoting the &quot;freedom of speech&quot; vs &quot;freedom of reach&quot; distinction for a while, at least months before his takeover, including describing how such a policy should be implemented at Twitter.<p>Here&#x27;s one example quote from June, 2022:<p>“I think there’s this big difference between freedom of speech and freedom of reach in that one can, obviously, let’s say in the United States go in the middle of Times Square and pretty much yell anything you want. You’ll annoy the people around you, but you’re kind of allowed to just sort of yell whatever you want in a crowded public place, more or less, apart from &#x27;this is robbery&#x27; — probably that would get you in trouble.<p>“So but then whatever you say, however controversial, does not need to then be broadcast to the whole country. So I think generally the approach of Twitter should be to let people say what they want to do within the bounds of the law, but then limit who sees that...”<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.teslarati.com&#x2F;elon-musk-china-censorship-twitter-free-speech-vs-free-reach&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.teslarati.com&#x2F;elon-musk-china-censorship-twitter...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saurik</author><text>&gt; ...so they could be removed entirely and this problem would remain.<p>Which problem? Seriously: the only legitimate problem I know of is that Twitter gives artificial reach to things via algorithmic engagement. They literally send me <i>push notifications</i> for tweets their algorithm thinks is interesting.<p>If you retweet something some asshole says and I don&#x27;t like it, I should probably just unfollow you because you could have just screenshotted the original tweet and included the image... that was you actively sending that content, and wasn&#x27;t the original anymore.<p>(FWIW, the reason I don&#x27;t trust this is because I actually further disagree with your assertion that the algorithms aren&#x27;t causing reach, because Twitter no longer does linear timelines: everything you see, including from your followers, has been curated by the engagement-driving algorithm, and so if he starts down-modding stuff then it actually will work and actually will reduce reach as you will be less likely to see it even if the people you follow retweet it.)</text></comment> | <story><title>“Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted and demonetized”</title><url>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593673339826212864</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phphphphp</author><text>That analogy doesn’t really fit with the model of Twitter. If we are using the town&#x2F;time square example, what Elon is describing is the digital version of putting a noise-cancelling box around the people saying “bad” things so that nobody can hear them.<p>A message spreads on Twitter because individuals on Twitter amplify it (with engagement, retweets etc.) which is itself a form of speech: if you say something bad, and I retweet it, I am engaging in speech. Imagine a piece of land with 500 million people on it: a person 500 million people away from you cannot hear you, but if you say something and people choose to repeat it until it reaches that person… that’s Twitter. To prevent that is, in any framing, limiting free speech.<p>Twitter has some magical engagement-driving algorithms (for example, the homepage) but these are not the primary driver of engagement&#x2F;reach on Twitter, so they could be removed entirely and this problem would remain.<p>So you’re probably right to say this isn’t a sudden 180 on his thoughts, but it still highlights how faulty his framing of free speech is.</text></item><item><author>boole1854</author><text>Many commentators seem to think this is a sudden, recent backpedaling from a previous absolutist view on free speech. However, Musk has been promoting the &quot;freedom of speech&quot; vs &quot;freedom of reach&quot; distinction for a while, at least months before his takeover, including describing how such a policy should be implemented at Twitter.<p>Here&#x27;s one example quote from June, 2022:<p>“I think there’s this big difference between freedom of speech and freedom of reach in that one can, obviously, let’s say in the United States go in the middle of Times Square and pretty much yell anything you want. You’ll annoy the people around you, but you’re kind of allowed to just sort of yell whatever you want in a crowded public place, more or less, apart from &#x27;this is robbery&#x27; — probably that would get you in trouble.<p>“So but then whatever you say, however controversial, does not need to then be broadcast to the whole country. So I think generally the approach of Twitter should be to let people say what they want to do within the bounds of the law, but then limit who sees that...”<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.teslarati.com&#x2F;elon-musk-china-censorship-twitter-free-speech-vs-free-reach&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.teslarati.com&#x2F;elon-musk-china-censorship-twitter...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slg</author><text>&gt;So you’re probably right to say this isn’t a sudden 180 on his thoughts, but it still highlights how faulty his framing of free speech is.<p>I still don&#x27;t understand what his logic is. What is the philosophical value of free speech if no one is able to hear that speech? Is his viewpoint that free speech is just about babbling on into an empty void? What is the value in protecting that? How does one argue that shadowbanning isn&#x27;t infringing on someone&#x27;s speech. And for the record, I think shadowbanning is generally a good thing for online communities, but I also support outright bans and don&#x27;t go around pretending I&#x27;m a free speech absolutist.</text></comment> |
18,415,665 | 18,415,160 | 1 | 2 | 18,414,001 | train | <story><title>Why do all websites look the same?</title><url>https://medium.com/s/story/on-the-visual-weariness-of-the-web-8af1c969ce73</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>actionscripted</author><text>Also:<p>1) Why are all buildings the same? Light switches are often in similar places and the space between the floor and ceiling is pretty standard.<p>2) Why are all vehicles the same? Mirrors are always in the same spots and seat belts all work the same.<p>3) Why are all laptops the same? Keyboard center on the bottom with a trackpad or nub near the center. Screen on top, ports and stuff on the sides.<p>There are components that are common in all facets of our lives that when different can cause problems or surprise which could be good or bad. We need to join two floors of a building. Use stairs! People understand stairs. We need to showcase a collection of clickable images. Use a grid! People understand link grids.<p>If you want to make your website usable you have to lean on expectations and those are pretty well defined nowadays. Imagine walking into a room and turning on the lights using a switch in the middle of the floor or plugging in your laptop&#x27;s power cord at the top&#x2F;back of the screen.<p>Most companies spending money on a website want them to feel fresh and creative and engaging but they also have to temper that with usability and expectations. That&#x27;s why all websites &quot;look the same&quot; or at least why the author thinks they do.<p>Just because certain elements are in the same spot(s) or behave similarly doesn&#x27;t mean things are the same. Or, at least, to me they aren&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nine_k</author><text>A closer example would be books.<p>For ~500 years, books look approximately the same: normally paged sideways (not top-down), with some margins for handling, with text in rows or columns (depending on the writing system), some chapter structure, and index &#x2F; contents page, page numbers, covers of more durable material to protect the pages, with some kind of a title on the top cover, etc.<p>Those features don&#x27;t just exist because of tradition or technical limitations. They mostly exist because they are convenient, useful, and logical.<p>But they <i>also</i> exist because people expect them, from times of handwritten books. They put the skills people already had to good use. They created a visual language which is easy to pick up and easy to use, both for readers and typesetters.<p>Most web sites are a logical continuation of books, magazines, newspapers, etc. No wonder they actively adopt the time-proven, well-working concepts from the print media.<p>Forms have a much shorter, and much less rich history outside web, and here experimentation was wild; a lot of sites do forms quite differently. Though some common language (like labels, placeholder text, pre-validation, etc) already has formed. OTOH even checkboxes are not yet a commonly accepted visual concept; some e.g. prefer &quot;switches&quot;, iOS-style.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why do all websites look the same?</title><url>https://medium.com/s/story/on-the-visual-weariness-of-the-web-8af1c969ce73</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>actionscripted</author><text>Also:<p>1) Why are all buildings the same? Light switches are often in similar places and the space between the floor and ceiling is pretty standard.<p>2) Why are all vehicles the same? Mirrors are always in the same spots and seat belts all work the same.<p>3) Why are all laptops the same? Keyboard center on the bottom with a trackpad or nub near the center. Screen on top, ports and stuff on the sides.<p>There are components that are common in all facets of our lives that when different can cause problems or surprise which could be good or bad. We need to join two floors of a building. Use stairs! People understand stairs. We need to showcase a collection of clickable images. Use a grid! People understand link grids.<p>If you want to make your website usable you have to lean on expectations and those are pretty well defined nowadays. Imagine walking into a room and turning on the lights using a switch in the middle of the floor or plugging in your laptop&#x27;s power cord at the top&#x2F;back of the screen.<p>Most companies spending money on a website want them to feel fresh and creative and engaging but they also have to temper that with usability and expectations. That&#x27;s why all websites &quot;look the same&quot; or at least why the author thinks they do.<p>Just because certain elements are in the same spot(s) or behave similarly doesn&#x27;t mean things are the same. Or, at least, to me they aren&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>omg_ketchup</author><text>I&#x27;m actually gonna have to go ahead and blame the demise of Flash for the current lack of interesting web design. I know there were technical reasons to get rid of it. Security. Mobile. Proprietary. etc. Whatever.<p>Some flash sites were horrible. But there were some real gems. That Hacker News design by Tyrion&#x27;s brother is probably inspired by a bunch of old Flash sites that followed that template.<p>Flash was <i>so easy</i> to work with. Draw some neat stuff with their tools, animate it in the same program with their timeline, then make it all navigable and smart, still in the same program. You test it, in that same program. Then you publish it, and it works exactly how you made it work, in every browser, ever. One file. So easy for artists, designers, and non-technical people.<p>That&#x27;s why we don&#x27;t see cool shit on the web anymore- it&#x27;s too hard&#x2F;boring to make.</text></comment> |
18,631,148 | 18,630,897 | 1 | 2 | 18,628,059 | train | <story><title>Stories of Steve Jobs in Safari Design Reviews (2014)</title><url>https://donmelton.com/2014/04/10/memories-of-steve/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seltzered_</author><text>There was also a muli-part interview with Don Melton and Nitin Ganatra in 2014: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.imore.com&#x2F;debug-47-melton-ganatra-episode-i-demoing-software-steve-jobs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.imore.com&#x2F;debug-47-melton-ganatra-episode-i-demoin...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.imore.com&#x2F;debug-48-melton-ganatra-episode-ii-understanding-apple" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.imore.com&#x2F;debug-48-melton-ganatra-episode-ii-under...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Stories of Steve Jobs in Safari Design Reviews (2014)</title><url>https://donmelton.com/2014/04/10/memories-of-steve/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>misiti3780</author><text>im glad steve jobs did what he did, because i love my apple products as much as the next person, but everytime i read something like i realize there is no way i would have wanted to work for him even if i was &quot;changing the world&quot;. life is simply too short.</text></comment> |
12,032,074 | 12,032,049 | 1 | 2 | 12,031,033 | train | <story><title>Steam warns users against gambling site after YouTube stars discovered as owners</title><url>http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-07-04-youtube-stars-criticised-after-it-emerges-they-owned-gambling-site-they-promoted</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>balls187</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s actually really similar to japans Pachinko system where you don&#x27;t win money.. but you win something that can be traded for money right around the corner.<p>That&#x27;s how most (all?) real life casinos work too. You get chips, which are exchanged for money.</text></item><item><author>bluejellybean</author><text>The amount of fraud and thieves inside the community would make your eyes spin. I&#x27;ve had to straight block trading with a large chunk of the world.<p>A big part of this stems from the concept that in-game items are not _really_ money. It allows these online casinos to flourish because it&#x27;s &#x27;just in-game skins&#x27;! It&#x27;s actually really similar to japans Pachinko system where you don&#x27;t win money.. but you win something that can be traded for money right around the corner. In reality land, I can cash out of valves ecosystem for around 20% of in-game currency and some of those skins are worth thousands of dollars...<p>These gambling sites really piss me off because they hurt the community. You have to remember, we&#x27;re talking about young teenagers getting robbed from these guys, and it&#x27;s not just their lunch money. We are easily talking hundreds of thousands to millions in revenue each year.</text></item><item><author>eertami</author><text>Real shady stuff and definitely immoral. The most telling part of this whole debacle for me came from a (now deleted) tweet by TmarTn[1] where he states:<p>&gt; That being said, everything we&#x27;ve done up until this point has been legal, that has been a #1 priority of ours. The day it becomes illegal is the day we cease activity.<p>So just because something is apparently not illegal (questionable, actually), it is apparently an acceptable thing to do. Hopefully legal action is successful against these frauds.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;wHdZG" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;wHdZG</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ams6110</author><text>Casino chips are just proxies for cash and they exchange 1:1. They are not an &quot;underground&quot; currency at all.<p>Also you are (presumably) verified to be 18 (or 21?) years of age to gamble in a casino.</text></comment> | <story><title>Steam warns users against gambling site after YouTube stars discovered as owners</title><url>http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-07-04-youtube-stars-criticised-after-it-emerges-they-owned-gambling-site-they-promoted</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>balls187</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s actually really similar to japans Pachinko system where you don&#x27;t win money.. but you win something that can be traded for money right around the corner.<p>That&#x27;s how most (all?) real life casinos work too. You get chips, which are exchanged for money.</text></item><item><author>bluejellybean</author><text>The amount of fraud and thieves inside the community would make your eyes spin. I&#x27;ve had to straight block trading with a large chunk of the world.<p>A big part of this stems from the concept that in-game items are not _really_ money. It allows these online casinos to flourish because it&#x27;s &#x27;just in-game skins&#x27;! It&#x27;s actually really similar to japans Pachinko system where you don&#x27;t win money.. but you win something that can be traded for money right around the corner. In reality land, I can cash out of valves ecosystem for around 20% of in-game currency and some of those skins are worth thousands of dollars...<p>These gambling sites really piss me off because they hurt the community. You have to remember, we&#x27;re talking about young teenagers getting robbed from these guys, and it&#x27;s not just their lunch money. We are easily talking hundreds of thousands to millions in revenue each year.</text></item><item><author>eertami</author><text>Real shady stuff and definitely immoral. The most telling part of this whole debacle for me came from a (now deleted) tweet by TmarTn[1] where he states:<p>&gt; That being said, everything we&#x27;ve done up until this point has been legal, that has been a #1 priority of ours. The day it becomes illegal is the day we cease activity.<p>So just because something is apparently not illegal (questionable, actually), it is apparently an acceptable thing to do. Hopefully legal action is successful against these frauds.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;wHdZG" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;wHdZG</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Liru</author><text>Yeah, but gambling is illegal in Japan.<p>To compare, in most casinos, the casino itself sells you the chips and buys them back. No need to fuss about location since it&#x27;s all done in one place.<p>In the Pachinko system, you go into the &quot;casino&quot;, spend money on a machine, win the &quot;chips&quot; yourself, then go to another &quot;casino&quot; nearby to sell the &quot;chips&quot; for actual cash.</text></comment> |
37,828,381 | 37,828,361 | 1 | 3 | 37,827,070 | train | <story><title>FTX – The fraud was in the code</title><url>https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/the-fraud-was-in-the-code</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bmitc</author><text>Pretty insane that Sam Bankman-Fried decided to plead not-guilty. And it&#x27;s interesting that their defense is an implication that a witness is committing perjury for a lighter sentence without any evidence backing it up.<p>And just what in the world were any of these people thinking? Sam Bankman-Fried isn&#x27;t remotely charismatic, so I just don&#x27;t understand why people would follow his demands and actively participate in such obvious fraud. How do you reason with yourself about <i>randomly generating</i> an insurance fund&#x27;s balance that has been testified, under oath to Congress and various other binding contracts I&#x27;m sure?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>&gt; Pretty insane that Sam Bankman-Fried decided to plead not-guilty.<p>Would easily bet that was his decision. He&#x27;s obviously made insanely stupid choices already, like leaking Caroline Ellison&#x27;s journal and getting his bail revoked.<p>I&#x27;m sure he was counseled against it, but his lawyers were probably like &quot;well, he wants to swing the bat, and we get paid more if it goes to trial anyway.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>FTX – The fraud was in the code</title><url>https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/the-fraud-was-in-the-code</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bmitc</author><text>Pretty insane that Sam Bankman-Fried decided to plead not-guilty. And it&#x27;s interesting that their defense is an implication that a witness is committing perjury for a lighter sentence without any evidence backing it up.<p>And just what in the world were any of these people thinking? Sam Bankman-Fried isn&#x27;t remotely charismatic, so I just don&#x27;t understand why people would follow his demands and actively participate in such obvious fraud. How do you reason with yourself about <i>randomly generating</i> an insurance fund&#x27;s balance that has been testified, under oath to Congress and various other binding contracts I&#x27;m sure?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chubot</author><text>It&#x27;s also funny to me that they just use Github and Google docs.<p>It seems like if you were committing massive fraud, you&#x27;d want to avoid leaving permanent records of it on someone else&#x27;s systems.<p>But I think this is generational thing. If you grew up when web browsers were already prevalent, a &quot;text file on your hard drive&quot; probably means almost nothing. It&#x27;s just not the way you use computers.<p>I also like this bit from the article:<p><i>Note to self: if you’re going to write code to do fraud, make it messy and unreadable to reduce the chances it’s later put in front of a jury as evidence.</i></text></comment> |
28,566,054 | 28,566,110 | 1 | 2 | 28,550,356 | train | <story><title>Scientists say they may have detected dark energy</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2021-09-dark-energy-scientists-possibility.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mabbo</author><text>This is neat, but I would take it with so many grains of salt.<p>We don&#x27;t know what dark matter is. We have some ideas. XENON1T was&#x2F;is testing some of those theories about dark matter.<p>We know next to nothing at all about dark energy. We&#x27;re pretty sure it&#x27;s a thing, or else our model of the universe is just completely wrong and it&#x27;s not anything at all.<p>So if XENON1T finds something that doesn&#x27;t fit their model of dark matter, going on a limb and saying &quot;I dunno, maybe it&#x27;s dark energy?&quot; is a fun thought experiment and model, but at best it might lead to further experiments to see how likely that model is to be true. And from what I&#x27;m reading, that&#x27;s the attitude the scientists behind XENON1T are taking here.<p>But alas, we all know that tomorrow we can expect pop-sci articles saying &quot;DARK ENERGY HAS BEEN SOLVED&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Scientists say they may have detected dark energy</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2021-09-dark-energy-scientists-possibility.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raattgift</author><text>The original text which the link at the top simply duplicates <i>minus</i> the hyperlinks is at :<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cam.ac.uk&#x2F;research&#x2F;news&#x2F;have-we-detected-dark-energy-cambridge-scientists-say-its-a-possibility" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cam.ac.uk&#x2F;research&#x2F;news&#x2F;have-we-detected-dark-en...</a><p>which links to the open access paper at Phys.Rev.D :<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.aps.org&#x2F;prd&#x2F;abstract&#x2F;10.1103&#x2F;PhysRevD.104.063023" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.aps.org&#x2F;prd&#x2F;abstract&#x2F;10.1103&#x2F;PhysRevD.104.0...</a></text></comment> |
26,157,171 | 26,157,109 | 1 | 2 | 26,154,466 | train | <story><title>'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens</title><url>https://www.sciencealert.com/a-20-minute-commute-puts-you-at-risk-of-unacceptably-high-levels-of-carcinogens</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>forgotmypw17</author><text>Peanuts are a great example. I am not allergic to peanuts myself, but I avoid eating them.<p>I don&#x27;t know why people become allergic to them, but there must be something in some peanuts which sets off their immune system.</text></item><item><author>ramblerman</author><text>Ssome people are allergic to peanuts, doesn&#x27;t seem like a well grounded theory.</text></item><item><author>forgotmypw17</author><text>I call it the canary system. Some people are more sensitive than others, but we&#x27;re all being harmed with it.<p>For my part, I pay attention to what others are sensitive to and avoid it as well.<p>If someone else has trouble coping with a substance but I&#x27;m &quot;fine&quot;, that probably means that underneath my constituents are still struggling to deal with it and just not telling me.</text></item><item><author>LargoLasskhyfv</author><text>It <i>IS</i> the same category when it makes you suffer. Be it sneezes, running nose, coughing, swelling throat, burning eyes, sometimes itching skin, feeling unwell in general after being in contact with or near <i>that stuff</i>.<p>Maybe our bodies have different tresholds for exposure to <i>that stuff</i>, and after oversaturating them for some time, there is no buffer available anymore?<p>Resulting in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Multiple_chemical_sensitivity" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Multiple_chemical_sensitivity</a></text></item><item><author>metalliqaz</author><text>that&#x27;s because you call it &quot;this stuff&quot; and bundle everything from new cars to soap into the same category. So you&#x27;re just sensitive to every industrial material? it&#x27;s hard to take seriously.</text></item><item><author>forgotmypw17</author><text>Yeah, it is horrifying to think about how much air pollution we inflict upon ourselves. It&#x27;s very hard to stop even in a two-person household, because so many of the &quot;products&quot; most people in the Western world are used to buying and using since an early age are violators. I am blessed with being quite sensitive to most of them, so it&#x27;s an endless struggle with partners and cohabitants.<p>Basically anything bought new has it: furniture, clothes, cars, anything plastic, dyed, glued, particleboard.<p>&quot;Cleaning&quot; products: sprays, detergents, most &quot;soaps&quot;, shampoos, creams, conditioners, have this type of crap in them.<p>Even most stuff which claims to be &quot;eco-friendly&quot; is bullshit, and has all the same crap in it if you look at the ingredients.<p>And it feels like online there is a whole army of &quot;rational scientific defenders&quot; ready to jump into action anytime I mention it. It feels like there is a whole playbook for discrediting this type of comment, and calling into question how &quot;scientific&quot; it is, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Judgmentality</author><text>The true irony of this statement, and I want to emphasize I am not a doctor, is that you are more likely to <i>cause</i> a peanut allergy by avoiding it!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;directorsblog.nih.gov&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;10&#x2F;peanut-allergy-early-exposure-is-key-to-prevention&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;directorsblog.nih.gov&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;10&#x2F;peanut-allergy-earl...</a><p>Similar to germ theory, some exposure is actually good.</text></comment> | <story><title>'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens</title><url>https://www.sciencealert.com/a-20-minute-commute-puts-you-at-risk-of-unacceptably-high-levels-of-carcinogens</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>forgotmypw17</author><text>Peanuts are a great example. I am not allergic to peanuts myself, but I avoid eating them.<p>I don&#x27;t know why people become allergic to them, but there must be something in some peanuts which sets off their immune system.</text></item><item><author>ramblerman</author><text>Ssome people are allergic to peanuts, doesn&#x27;t seem like a well grounded theory.</text></item><item><author>forgotmypw17</author><text>I call it the canary system. Some people are more sensitive than others, but we&#x27;re all being harmed with it.<p>For my part, I pay attention to what others are sensitive to and avoid it as well.<p>If someone else has trouble coping with a substance but I&#x27;m &quot;fine&quot;, that probably means that underneath my constituents are still struggling to deal with it and just not telling me.</text></item><item><author>LargoLasskhyfv</author><text>It <i>IS</i> the same category when it makes you suffer. Be it sneezes, running nose, coughing, swelling throat, burning eyes, sometimes itching skin, feeling unwell in general after being in contact with or near <i>that stuff</i>.<p>Maybe our bodies have different tresholds for exposure to <i>that stuff</i>, and after oversaturating them for some time, there is no buffer available anymore?<p>Resulting in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Multiple_chemical_sensitivity" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Multiple_chemical_sensitivity</a></text></item><item><author>metalliqaz</author><text>that&#x27;s because you call it &quot;this stuff&quot; and bundle everything from new cars to soap into the same category. So you&#x27;re just sensitive to every industrial material? it&#x27;s hard to take seriously.</text></item><item><author>forgotmypw17</author><text>Yeah, it is horrifying to think about how much air pollution we inflict upon ourselves. It&#x27;s very hard to stop even in a two-person household, because so many of the &quot;products&quot; most people in the Western world are used to buying and using since an early age are violators. I am blessed with being quite sensitive to most of them, so it&#x27;s an endless struggle with partners and cohabitants.<p>Basically anything bought new has it: furniture, clothes, cars, anything plastic, dyed, glued, particleboard.<p>&quot;Cleaning&quot; products: sprays, detergents, most &quot;soaps&quot;, shampoos, creams, conditioners, have this type of crap in them.<p>Even most stuff which claims to be &quot;eco-friendly&quot; is bullshit, and has all the same crap in it if you look at the ingredients.<p>And it feels like online there is a whole army of &quot;rational scientific defenders&quot; ready to jump into action anytime I mention it. It feels like there is a whole playbook for discrediting this type of comment, and calling into question how &quot;scientific&quot; it is, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jbarberu</author><text>That&#x27;s not how allergies work. People with allergies get an immune reaction to a harmless compound.</text></comment> |
29,386,121 | 29,384,725 | 1 | 2 | 29,380,171 | train | <story><title>I resigned from Twitter</title><url>https://twitter.com/jack/status/1465347002426867720</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Dumblydorr</author><text>Has mediating access to information been the defining tool of control for civilizations? Maybe in tyrannical, despotic societies that is true, but those don&#x27;t allow Twitter today via firewalls, so that&#x27;s mostly a moot point in this thread.<p>I&#x27;d say the sword and the coin have both been far more controlling than limited information spread.<p>What of free society? Is the government of the USA, UK, or other &quot;enlightened&quot; societies throughout history relying upon censorship and denial of information? I think they&#x27;re moreso allowing moneyed interests and plutocracy to have lobbying and backdoor dealings, they can easily ignore the public square most of the time. I just don&#x27;t see Twitter piercing the armor of entrenched interests that well.<p>In contrast, I do see it degrading and toxifying democratic discourse, making us less resilient and more divided. That&#x27;s anti-thetical to a free society in my view.</text></item><item><author>mjamil</author><text>I&#x27;m in a post-Thanksgiving charitable mood, so thank you, Jack. The execution hasn&#x27;t been perfect (as has been commented on ad nauseam), but Twitter is the closest to a worldwide-accessible [1] Speaker&#x27;s Corner [2] I know of, and that - despite all the completely valid criticism - is a valuable public service: mediating access to information has been the defining tool of control for those in power pretty much since civilization began, and I, for one, will always pick an imperfectly moderated cesspool over the prior status quo where a church or a government told me what&#x27;s true and what to think. FWIW, you&#x27;ve also championed transparency and decentralization for your platform more than any other SV social media titan [3].<p>[1] If you have access to the Internet, that is.
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Speakers%27_Corner" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Speakers%27_Corner</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;jack&#x2F;status&#x2F;1204766078468911106" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;jack&#x2F;status&#x2F;1204766078468911106</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>salt-thrower</author><text>&gt; What of free society? Is the government of the USA, UK, or other &quot;enlightened&quot; societies throughout history relying upon censorship and denial of information? I think they&#x27;re moreso allowing moneyed interests and plutocracy to have lobbying and backdoor dealings, they can easily ignore the public square most of the time.<p>This is definitely part of the picture. To add to this, I&#x27;ll refer to Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky. &quot;Propaganda&quot; does still exist in modern &quot;free societies,&quot; but it isn&#x27;t overt like a 20th-century dictatorship would have been. Subtle manipulation of corporate media by monied interests to sway public opinion, combined with lobbying and corporate capture of government institutions, is more than enough to maintain the hegemony of certain narratives and power structures. I find it fascinating, and unsettling, to learn about.<p>So in a nutshell, controlling information and mainstream media narratives <i>is</i> important for the modern ruling class, but it&#x27;s much more subtle than overt censorship like a dictatorship would have. Which, in my view, makes it much more advanced and insidious.</text></comment> | <story><title>I resigned from Twitter</title><url>https://twitter.com/jack/status/1465347002426867720</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Dumblydorr</author><text>Has mediating access to information been the defining tool of control for civilizations? Maybe in tyrannical, despotic societies that is true, but those don&#x27;t allow Twitter today via firewalls, so that&#x27;s mostly a moot point in this thread.<p>I&#x27;d say the sword and the coin have both been far more controlling than limited information spread.<p>What of free society? Is the government of the USA, UK, or other &quot;enlightened&quot; societies throughout history relying upon censorship and denial of information? I think they&#x27;re moreso allowing moneyed interests and plutocracy to have lobbying and backdoor dealings, they can easily ignore the public square most of the time. I just don&#x27;t see Twitter piercing the armor of entrenched interests that well.<p>In contrast, I do see it degrading and toxifying democratic discourse, making us less resilient and more divided. That&#x27;s anti-thetical to a free society in my view.</text></item><item><author>mjamil</author><text>I&#x27;m in a post-Thanksgiving charitable mood, so thank you, Jack. The execution hasn&#x27;t been perfect (as has been commented on ad nauseam), but Twitter is the closest to a worldwide-accessible [1] Speaker&#x27;s Corner [2] I know of, and that - despite all the completely valid criticism - is a valuable public service: mediating access to information has been the defining tool of control for those in power pretty much since civilization began, and I, for one, will always pick an imperfectly moderated cesspool over the prior status quo where a church or a government told me what&#x27;s true and what to think. FWIW, you&#x27;ve also championed transparency and decentralization for your platform more than any other SV social media titan [3].<p>[1] If you have access to the Internet, that is.
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Speakers%27_Corner" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Speakers%27_Corner</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;jack&#x2F;status&#x2F;1204766078468911106" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;jack&#x2F;status&#x2F;1204766078468911106</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mjamil</author><text>I disagree that &quot;enlightened&quot; societies don&#x27;t rely on mediating access to information as the defining tool of control; our difference of opinion is perhaps that you think of this purely as limiting information spread, where I think of it also as shaping the information for their own ends. The governments of the UK and the USA, to state two examples you mentioned, have used these tools effectively as propaganda channels repeatedly to sell their vision of armed conflict. The second Iraq war wasn&#x27;t that long ago.<p>I&#x27;ll make a tangentially related argument: Starting with the printing press, and through the advent of telephone, radio, television, and now the Internet (mainly via the Web), controlling messaging via these media (or controlling these media directly at times) has been as much a tool of control for those in power in democratic societies as in autocratic ones.</text></comment> |
14,643,742 | 14,643,760 | 1 | 2 | 14,643,467 | train | <story><title>Author of cURL denied entry to the USA</title><url>https://twitter.com/bagder/status/879198063998513152</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>humanrebar</author><text>&gt; This may be unpopular on an US-centric site like HN, but the US looks more and more like they want to isolate themselves from the rest of the world: very strict immigration policy, travelers molested by TSA on airports, ...<p>Almost all Americans think this sort of thing is nonsense. But the average American has little standing to hold the American bureaucracy accountable for its nonsense.<p>Americans, especially outside overcrowded urban areas, are courteous, helpful, hospitable people that are very tolerant of other people and ideas.</text></item><item><author>y0ghur7_xxx</author><text>This may be unpopular on an US-centric site like HN, but the US looks more and more like they want to isolate themselves from the rest of the world: very strict immigration policy, travelers molested by TSA on airports, ...<p>These conferences where people around the world meet should start to be hosted somewhere else. Not in the USA anymore. Somewhere in a country that welcomes people instead of treating all of them like possible threats.<p>Just organize All Hands in Berlin next year. Or Barcelona, or Munich, or Stockholm, or Amsterdam, or whatever. Just not the US anymore. Americans don&#x27;t want foreigners on their soil. Or at least everything looks that way from the outside. Let them be that way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickserv</author><text>&gt; Almost all Americans think this sort of thing is nonsense. But the average American has little standing to hold the American bureaucracy accountable for its nonsense.<p>Sorry but they don&#x27;t get off that easy when almost half of them voted Trump into office.<p>&gt; Americans, especially outside overcrowded urban areas, are courteous, helpful, hospitable people that are very tolerant of other people and ideas.<p>I&#x27;ve found quite the opposite, out in the boonies you&#x27;re more likely to get harassed when you&#x27;re not the &quot;right&quot; color or religion. I&#x27;ve had some really nice, helpful people turn nasty as soon as I mentioned my atheism, for example.</text></comment> | <story><title>Author of cURL denied entry to the USA</title><url>https://twitter.com/bagder/status/879198063998513152</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>humanrebar</author><text>&gt; This may be unpopular on an US-centric site like HN, but the US looks more and more like they want to isolate themselves from the rest of the world: very strict immigration policy, travelers molested by TSA on airports, ...<p>Almost all Americans think this sort of thing is nonsense. But the average American has little standing to hold the American bureaucracy accountable for its nonsense.<p>Americans, especially outside overcrowded urban areas, are courteous, helpful, hospitable people that are very tolerant of other people and ideas.</text></item><item><author>y0ghur7_xxx</author><text>This may be unpopular on an US-centric site like HN, but the US looks more and more like they want to isolate themselves from the rest of the world: very strict immigration policy, travelers molested by TSA on airports, ...<p>These conferences where people around the world meet should start to be hosted somewhere else. Not in the USA anymore. Somewhere in a country that welcomes people instead of treating all of them like possible threats.<p>Just organize All Hands in Berlin next year. Or Barcelona, or Munich, or Stockholm, or Amsterdam, or whatever. Just not the US anymore. Americans don&#x27;t want foreigners on their soil. Or at least everything looks that way from the outside. Let them be that way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>croon</author><text>&gt; Americans, especially <i>outside overcrowded urban areas</i>, are courteous, helpful, hospitable <i>people that are very tolerant of other people and ideas</i>.<p>Do you care to elaborate on this? That&#x27;s incongruent with voting records.</text></comment> |
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