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3,927,419 | 3,926,687 | 1 | 3 | 3,926,084 | train | <story><title>How text editing on the iPad should be</title><url>http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/05/03/text-editing-on-the-ipad/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gfodor</author><text>It's neat, but will never happen. The prototype misses the subtle intersection of all the <i>constraints</i> necessary for good design on the iPad. At a high level, here are a few that you want to optimize for:<p>- Efficiency: how fast can the user perform the task at hand?<p>- Intuitivity: how likely is it the user will understand how to use it without direct instruction? (based upon trial and error, previous experience, etc.)<p>- Consistency: how much is it like other patterns in the same UI/environment?<p>- Metaphor: how much does it 'feel' like other real-world objects and leverages how the user understands them already?<p>These are of course a sample of high level overlapping themes. This particular prototype is obviously optimizing for efficiency. It does so very well, but at a very, very deep cost to the others. It is an undiscoverable interface. It utterly destroys the direct manipulation illusion of the iPad. It causes the virtual keys to no longer be metaphorical buttons since you can drag across them for an effect. It is inconsistent with other use of gestures, particularly since you are controlling a cursor <i>remotely</i> much like you would with a mouse (likely a fire-able proposition at Apple!)<p>The thing that makes Apple's work so amazing is the balance they manage to strike between these things and so consistently get it right. For a power user, give me vim, Maya, Photoshop, and other tools that optimize for efficiency (much like this prototype does.) But when designing things that are meant to be universally available, a more subdued and balanced approach across these types of constraints is necessary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ecaradec</author><text>Apple is doing a lot of undiscoverable things like that :<p>- focus to remove an app (people learn that from others )<p>- splitted keyboard left &#38; right has invisible virtual keys<p>- double tab the button for process<p>- kill process by focusing on a process ( very useful when an app has crased, yet undiscoverable )<p>- double tab then slide left for volume<p>- screenshot with power + button<p>- take a photo with the volume button<p>Hidden features are very Apple-esque</text></comment> | <story><title>How text editing on the iPad should be</title><url>http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/05/03/text-editing-on-the-ipad/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gfodor</author><text>It's neat, but will never happen. The prototype misses the subtle intersection of all the <i>constraints</i> necessary for good design on the iPad. At a high level, here are a few that you want to optimize for:<p>- Efficiency: how fast can the user perform the task at hand?<p>- Intuitivity: how likely is it the user will understand how to use it without direct instruction? (based upon trial and error, previous experience, etc.)<p>- Consistency: how much is it like other patterns in the same UI/environment?<p>- Metaphor: how much does it 'feel' like other real-world objects and leverages how the user understands them already?<p>These are of course a sample of high level overlapping themes. This particular prototype is obviously optimizing for efficiency. It does so very well, but at a very, very deep cost to the others. It is an undiscoverable interface. It utterly destroys the direct manipulation illusion of the iPad. It causes the virtual keys to no longer be metaphorical buttons since you can drag across them for an effect. It is inconsistent with other use of gestures, particularly since you are controlling a cursor <i>remotely</i> much like you would with a mouse (likely a fire-able proposition at Apple!)<p>The thing that makes Apple's work so amazing is the balance they manage to strike between these things and so consistently get it right. For a power user, give me vim, Maya, Photoshop, and other tools that optimize for efficiency (much like this prototype does.) But when designing things that are meant to be universally available, a more subdued and balanced approach across these types of constraints is necessary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frankus</author><text>I don't think the OP is proposing to phase out the current method of navigating and selecting text, but rather adding an additional shortcut for people who do a lot of text editing.<p>So the question you have to ask is "will this get in the way of beginners and/or casual users?". Precisely because it's so unobtrusive and non-discoverable, I think the answer is "no".<p>Like the multitasking gestures on the iPad (which will never entirely replace the home button), this would be a complement to the intuitive, consistent and metaphorical (but inefficient) method of selecting text currently.<p>In fact precisely positioning a cursor is very nearly unworkable as a direct-manipulation task, since the target is so much smaller than a fingertip.</text></comment> |
19,593,790 | 19,592,405 | 1 | 2 | 19,590,765 | train | <story><title>Apple Plus – brand versus subscription</title><url>https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2019/4/4/apple-plus-brand-versus-subscription</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_bxg1</author><text>&gt; More interesting: Apple’s evolving brand promise. The old Apple promise was that you don&#x27;t have to worry if the tech works. The new promise is you don&#x27;t have to worry if the tech is scamming you. Everything Apple showed was about curation, safety and trust. No tracking, no scammy ads, no loot boxes, no weird credit card charges. And Oprah.<p>This is an extremely good point. I&#x27;m a technical person, I love open technologies, but I&#x27;ve invested in Apple devices because right now we have no choice but to put trust in one major tech company or another, and Apple is the only one I have an iota of trust in not to screw me over. They&#x27;re smartly capitalizing on a culture shift of tech-skepticism, and I&#x27;m not ashamed to say that that sales pitch works on me. Their competitors would be wise to take notice.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Plus – brand versus subscription</title><url>https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2019/4/4/apple-plus-brand-versus-subscription</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>madrox</author><text>I led the build of an SVOD service at a large media company that was also mentioned in this article. Negotiating with Apple at the time to get our service approved, and then negotiating with them further on integration with the TV app, it was clear their ambition was be a media company by the concessions they wanted. This was years ago, mind you.<p>Which leads me to the other part of Apple&#x27;s brand: they will make your life hell if you play in a space they deem important to their survival. Any developer on the app store knows this.<p>We&#x27;re entering a world where it will be very, very difficult to survive as a third party in an ecosystem, and the argument will be &quot;our brand.&quot; For any success you have, 30% of your gross revenue is going to help finance a potential future competitor. We have to double down on mobile web in the next decade if we want any semblance of competition in media.</text></comment> |
26,115,391 | 26,115,669 | 1 | 2 | 26,114,094 | train | <story><title>EU privacy agency urges more safeguards to curb U.S. tech giants</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-tech-privacy/eu-privacy-agency-urges-more-safeguards-to-curb-u-s-tech-giants-idUSKBN2AA25D</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>melomal</author><text>The thing is these ads are not exactly effective either. I mean you&#x27;ll read about the guru&#x27;s with 90% conversion rate at 0.50c per click or some garbage like that but when you run them yourself, with what is considered a normal company (not a unicorn) you somehow find yourself with a &lt;1% CR on most remarketing&#x2F;tracking ads.<p>They are crazy cheap though and essentially act like a TV&#x2F;Radio ad. It&#x27;s about getting repeated exposure, even if it&#x27;s not a direct conversion (because it never is). Everyone wants to get rich quick these days and highly customized ads appear to be the best way to get there.</text></item><item><author>yulaow</author><text>At this point honestly I just wish for a general ban on tracking ads of any kind. Just give me good old contextual ads and remove some MBs of js, with the only purpose of tracking me, from most websites of the internet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>8fingerlouie</author><text>It’s not like the current tracking adds are super efficient always. I searched for a new washing machine, found one I liked, bought it, and spent the next 3 months looking at washing machine adds.</text></comment> | <story><title>EU privacy agency urges more safeguards to curb U.S. tech giants</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-tech-privacy/eu-privacy-agency-urges-more-safeguards-to-curb-u-s-tech-giants-idUSKBN2AA25D</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>melomal</author><text>The thing is these ads are not exactly effective either. I mean you&#x27;ll read about the guru&#x27;s with 90% conversion rate at 0.50c per click or some garbage like that but when you run them yourself, with what is considered a normal company (not a unicorn) you somehow find yourself with a &lt;1% CR on most remarketing&#x2F;tracking ads.<p>They are crazy cheap though and essentially act like a TV&#x2F;Radio ad. It&#x27;s about getting repeated exposure, even if it&#x27;s not a direct conversion (because it never is). Everyone wants to get rich quick these days and highly customized ads appear to be the best way to get there.</text></item><item><author>yulaow</author><text>At this point honestly I just wish for a general ban on tracking ads of any kind. Just give me good old contextual ads and remove some MBs of js, with the only purpose of tracking me, from most websites of the internet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DaedPsyker</author><text>Could it just be that online advertising is simply oversold?
I don&#x27;t know about others but I&#x27;d click an ad maybe once every 6 months at best. Maybe there is logic behind constant feed although on a number of occasions I actively avoid products for bombarding me (looking at you grammerly).</text></comment> |
27,893,248 | 27,892,621 | 1 | 2 | 27,890,790 | train | <story><title>My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown</title><url>https://danlawton.substack.com/p/when-buddhism-goes-bad</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ljm</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t conflate mindfulness (or capital M mindfulness, you could say) with meditation either.<p>Meditation has always been a deeply spiritual practice; Mindfulness attempts to turn it into a psychological, clinical one.</text></item><item><author>stelonix</author><text>This is exactly what I took from it. He uses the terms &quot;mindfulness&quot; and &quot;Buddhism&quot; interchangeably, but they&#x27;re not. Buddhism has ways to deal with meditations that &quot;go bad&quot;, but mindfulness takes the Buddhism out of the practice.<p>Mindfulness is not Buddhism.</text></item><item><author>cyberpunk</author><text>These sorts of things have been dealt with for centuries by Buddhists, it’s a fairly common effect when you start with Zazen. This is why taking one part of the practice and abandoning the rest (most specifically, an experienced teacher) isn’t a great idea for everyone. Most of the time all you need to hear is “just let whatever comes up during Zazen go, and return to the moment” but alas, if you don’t things can go a bit wrong.<p>I don’t think it’s actively harmful, but the “mindfulness industry” is full of charlatans and poor advice, and it does make me rather sad that it’s being monetised in such a way.<p>Just sit.</text></item><item><author>rolleiflex</author><text>Since this is a long article, here’s a summary for fellow readers — it’s mostly about the negative side effects of meditation that the author believes is under-documented or under-reported due to the ‘hype’ of meditation as the 21st century cure-all. He talks about dissociative experiences (which is well documented in medical research), it being a pseudo-religion, and lastly, his belief that the extended use of meditation is the ‘opposite’ of stoicism in the way that it can render a person not less, but more susceptible to breakage from smaller stresses, like one of a traffic jam. He also attempts to make a biological argument on how this works by invoking something he calls the limbic system feedback loop, however I have found that argument unconvincing due to lack of any actual evidence.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>loopz</author><text>From the article:<p>&gt; &quot;I spent my last day in Los Angeles riding on a Segway, buying legal marijuana and staring at some turtles in an on-campus pond at UCLA. I was unsettled yet intrigued by Britton’s message. Some of the adverse experiences she had described were similar to challenges I had faced. But, at this point I was a decade into my intensive mindfulness meditation practice. I was too deep to get out. &quot;<p>There&#x27;s just so many things that is bad with this new-new age wave.<p>First of all, doing spiritual practices generally do not go hand-in-hand with taking drugs. Just taking marijuana or hash may bring panic attacks, and even psychotic episodes. If you rely on drugs to keep your emotions in check, you&#x27;re already dealing with them wrong. Meditation together with drugs won&#x27;t help that, but may worsen things if done intensively.<p>Second, there&#x27;s no such thing as &quot;intensive mindfulness meditation practice&quot;. Mindfulness is gentle and short, and more about stillness than meditation.<p>Third, &quot;intensive meditation&quot; is something everybody should be wary about. Max 20 minutes is recommended per day, and there is no need to do more in order to &quot;get anywhere faster&quot;. Most important of all, do it with an experienced teacher you trust. The most important ingredient in meditation is to let go and relax, and is not yet another &quot;work&quot;.<p>In the end, something can always go wrong. Not everyone can deal with meditation, and not sure if there&#x27;s a way to ensure to filter out people. Often people come to classes because they have some issues, not when everything&#x27;s alright. So there are already things to deal with. Recommended is that people doing medication like antipsychotics, should be prescreened from joining class.<p>In the end, meditation is a powerful tool. But not sure the stress of Western life is the right way to channel the clarity and calmess one may get from it. You may come back from long retreats, but need tools to deal with the stresses in modern day life. So just meditation may be too confusing or not enough, to deal with one&#x27;s life once more.</text></comment> | <story><title>My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown</title><url>https://danlawton.substack.com/p/when-buddhism-goes-bad</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ljm</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t conflate mindfulness (or capital M mindfulness, you could say) with meditation either.<p>Meditation has always been a deeply spiritual practice; Mindfulness attempts to turn it into a psychological, clinical one.</text></item><item><author>stelonix</author><text>This is exactly what I took from it. He uses the terms &quot;mindfulness&quot; and &quot;Buddhism&quot; interchangeably, but they&#x27;re not. Buddhism has ways to deal with meditations that &quot;go bad&quot;, but mindfulness takes the Buddhism out of the practice.<p>Mindfulness is not Buddhism.</text></item><item><author>cyberpunk</author><text>These sorts of things have been dealt with for centuries by Buddhists, it’s a fairly common effect when you start with Zazen. This is why taking one part of the practice and abandoning the rest (most specifically, an experienced teacher) isn’t a great idea for everyone. Most of the time all you need to hear is “just let whatever comes up during Zazen go, and return to the moment” but alas, if you don’t things can go a bit wrong.<p>I don’t think it’s actively harmful, but the “mindfulness industry” is full of charlatans and poor advice, and it does make me rather sad that it’s being monetised in such a way.<p>Just sit.</text></item><item><author>rolleiflex</author><text>Since this is a long article, here’s a summary for fellow readers — it’s mostly about the negative side effects of meditation that the author believes is under-documented or under-reported due to the ‘hype’ of meditation as the 21st century cure-all. He talks about dissociative experiences (which is well documented in medical research), it being a pseudo-religion, and lastly, his belief that the extended use of meditation is the ‘opposite’ of stoicism in the way that it can render a person not less, but more susceptible to breakage from smaller stresses, like one of a traffic jam. He also attempts to make a biological argument on how this works by invoking something he calls the limbic system feedback loop, however I have found that argument unconvincing due to lack of any actual evidence.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mxmilkiib</author><text>Here is a multi-hour playlist from a retreat by Sujato on the main mindfulness sutta that covers various points like this;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PL70fWqztn7OXdbGqWEOvhOVqf5oEDJCFV" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PL70fWqztn7OXdbGqWEOvhOVqf...</a></text></comment> |
27,464,715 | 27,464,937 | 1 | 3 | 27,462,884 | train | <story><title>Go 1.17 Beta</title><url>https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.17</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jsjsbdkj</author><text>Go is mostly very good, but the module ecosystem continues to be a nightmare, and having a deep dependency graph can make build times brutal. I work on a project which depends on k8s, which means a cold build take several minutes. Not to mention trying to update dependencies and figure out what versions are actually being built into the final binary.</text></item><item><author>37ef_ced3</author><text>As a developer I continue to be extremely happy with the Go language and the Go tools. Over the past 5 years Go has almost entirely replaced my use of C and C++. My Go programs (e.g., <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;NN-512.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;NN-512.com</a>) are reliable, run fast, build fast, require no shared libraries, and have airtight error handling. Unfortunately, C++ is still necessary for my commercial work and I am amused daily by the absurd complexity and clumsiness of expression, slow builds, dynamic linkage problems across Linux releases, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>37ef_ced3</author><text>Anyone who works on large C++ projects will laugh at your &quot;several minutes&quot; comment. You may not realize how bad things are on the other side of the fence</text></comment> | <story><title>Go 1.17 Beta</title><url>https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.17</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jsjsbdkj</author><text>Go is mostly very good, but the module ecosystem continues to be a nightmare, and having a deep dependency graph can make build times brutal. I work on a project which depends on k8s, which means a cold build take several minutes. Not to mention trying to update dependencies and figure out what versions are actually being built into the final binary.</text></item><item><author>37ef_ced3</author><text>As a developer I continue to be extremely happy with the Go language and the Go tools. Over the past 5 years Go has almost entirely replaced my use of C and C++. My Go programs (e.g., <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;NN-512.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;NN-512.com</a>) are reliable, run fast, build fast, require no shared libraries, and have airtight error handling. Unfortunately, C++ is still necessary for my commercial work and I am amused daily by the absurd complexity and clumsiness of expression, slow builds, dynamic linkage problems across Linux releases, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>morelisp</author><text>K8s is a massive outlier in Go build times. Several minutes for cold build times is a blessing. Lots of C++ builds still run overnight. Composer takes 3 minutes just to validate the dependency graph in one of our older PHP projects.</text></comment> |
13,693,761 | 13,693,804 | 1 | 3 | 13,692,825 | train | <story><title>Development content accidentally shipped on a DOS CD-ROM game from 1993</title><url>https://github.com/Fortyseven/RA_1993</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DonHopkins</author><text>It&#x27;s a good idea not to just keep a copy of the source code stashed away somewhere, but also any contracts relating to the rights to the code.<p>In the early 90&#x27;s, DUX Software licensed the rights to port SimCity to Unix from Maxis. Then DUX made a contract with me to do the work. I kept a copy of my contract with DUX, the original floppies they gave me with the original PC and Mac source code, as well as versions of the source code I ported to Unix.<p>Years later I got a job working for Maxis on The Sims. Before we shipped it, EA bought Maxis, so a lot of people were let go, projects were canceled, physical and digital files were shuffled around, and institutional knowledge was lost.<p>After we shipped The Sims but just before I left EA, on a fluke, I asked a Maxis old-timer if he had any idea if the contract between Maxis and DUX for SimCity still existed, and where it might be.<p>As you would expect, it was in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying &quot;Beware of the Leopard.&quot; ;(<p>So I waited late into the night for the leopard to fall asleep, made a photocopy of it, then returned the original to its hiding place. ;)<p>Several years later, John Gilmore suggested we persuade EA to relicense the SimCity source code under GPLv3, so it could be shipped with the OLPC.<p>Of course nobody in EA Management knew where the source code was or if it even still existed, but fortunately I still had my copy.<p>And of course nobody at EA Legal even knew if EA owned the rights to the changes I&#x27;d made (Maxis had gotten into some pretty terrible SimCity licensing contracts in the past).<p>But fortunately I&#x27;d kept a copy of the contract between myself and DUX, and the contract between DUX and Maxis, proving its provenance, which clearly stated that DUX&#x27;s rights expired after 10 years, after which the rights to all the modifications I made went back to Maxis (and thus were inherited by EA).<p>Once all that was cleared up, the most important factor was that EA deputized someone on the inside to shepherd the project through the various stages of approval, relicensing, development and QA. Otherwise it would have died on the vine, since everybody in a big company, no matter how well intentioned, is always 500% busy doing their own stuff and can&#x27;t be distracted by something that doesn&#x27;t affect the bottom line.<p>It finally made it through both EA Legal and QA, and we released the SimCity source code and binary for the OLPC under GPLv3!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;SimHacker&#x2F;micropolis&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;micropolis-activity" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;SimHacker&#x2F;micropolis&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;micropol...</a></text></item><item><author>kibwen</author><text>Rather than attributing this to typical corporate behavior, I think there&#x27;s a simpler explanation: the source code simply doesn&#x27;t exist anymore. Source control wasn&#x27;t especially distributed, pervasive, or reliable in the 90s (at least compared to modern standards). And it&#x27;s unlikely that anyone official had the foresight to keep a copy around for the sake of digital preservation twenty years in the future, especially given the licensing&#x2F;copyright issues that would probably prevent legal dissemination anyway. And even if a rogue developer had the foresight to take a copy home and stuff it in a box in the attic, that media has probably degraded to unreadability by now unless they&#x27;ve been actively backing it up for the past few decades.</text></item><item><author>gravypod</author><text>I really wish game companies would publish their old source for really out of date games. I really wish I could see what went into making the games I love like Fallout 1&#x2F;2.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gravypod</author><text>The work you&#x27;ve done here is great.... You worked hard but no doubt brought a smile to many now happy children. I don&#x27;t think my thanks is enough but it&#x27;s a start. Keep on doing the good work you did with this and the world might get a bit brighter.</text></comment> | <story><title>Development content accidentally shipped on a DOS CD-ROM game from 1993</title><url>https://github.com/Fortyseven/RA_1993</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DonHopkins</author><text>It&#x27;s a good idea not to just keep a copy of the source code stashed away somewhere, but also any contracts relating to the rights to the code.<p>In the early 90&#x27;s, DUX Software licensed the rights to port SimCity to Unix from Maxis. Then DUX made a contract with me to do the work. I kept a copy of my contract with DUX, the original floppies they gave me with the original PC and Mac source code, as well as versions of the source code I ported to Unix.<p>Years later I got a job working for Maxis on The Sims. Before we shipped it, EA bought Maxis, so a lot of people were let go, projects were canceled, physical and digital files were shuffled around, and institutional knowledge was lost.<p>After we shipped The Sims but just before I left EA, on a fluke, I asked a Maxis old-timer if he had any idea if the contract between Maxis and DUX for SimCity still existed, and where it might be.<p>As you would expect, it was in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying &quot;Beware of the Leopard.&quot; ;(<p>So I waited late into the night for the leopard to fall asleep, made a photocopy of it, then returned the original to its hiding place. ;)<p>Several years later, John Gilmore suggested we persuade EA to relicense the SimCity source code under GPLv3, so it could be shipped with the OLPC.<p>Of course nobody in EA Management knew where the source code was or if it even still existed, but fortunately I still had my copy.<p>And of course nobody at EA Legal even knew if EA owned the rights to the changes I&#x27;d made (Maxis had gotten into some pretty terrible SimCity licensing contracts in the past).<p>But fortunately I&#x27;d kept a copy of the contract between myself and DUX, and the contract between DUX and Maxis, proving its provenance, which clearly stated that DUX&#x27;s rights expired after 10 years, after which the rights to all the modifications I made went back to Maxis (and thus were inherited by EA).<p>Once all that was cleared up, the most important factor was that EA deputized someone on the inside to shepherd the project through the various stages of approval, relicensing, development and QA. Otherwise it would have died on the vine, since everybody in a big company, no matter how well intentioned, is always 500% busy doing their own stuff and can&#x27;t be distracted by something that doesn&#x27;t affect the bottom line.<p>It finally made it through both EA Legal and QA, and we released the SimCity source code and binary for the OLPC under GPLv3!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;SimHacker&#x2F;micropolis&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;micropolis-activity" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;SimHacker&#x2F;micropolis&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;micropol...</a></text></item><item><author>kibwen</author><text>Rather than attributing this to typical corporate behavior, I think there&#x27;s a simpler explanation: the source code simply doesn&#x27;t exist anymore. Source control wasn&#x27;t especially distributed, pervasive, or reliable in the 90s (at least compared to modern standards). And it&#x27;s unlikely that anyone official had the foresight to keep a copy around for the sake of digital preservation twenty years in the future, especially given the licensing&#x2F;copyright issues that would probably prevent legal dissemination anyway. And even if a rogue developer had the foresight to take a copy home and stuff it in a box in the attic, that media has probably degraded to unreadability by now unless they&#x27;ve been actively backing it up for the past few decades.</text></item><item><author>gravypod</author><text>I really wish game companies would publish their old source for really out of date games. I really wish I could see what went into making the games I love like Fallout 1&#x2F;2.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandGorgon</author><text>this was awesome. were your floppies still readable ? how ?</text></comment> |
32,737,320 | 32,737,432 | 1 | 2 | 32,736,239 | train | <story><title>Design and evaluation of IPFS: a storage layer for the decentralized web</title><url>https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3544216.3544232</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>noasaservice</author><text>Lets remind everyone:<p>1. IPFS attaches ALL network interfaces (internal and external) to your identity.<p>2. Tor is still &quot;experimental&quot; done by 3rd parties. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flyingzumwalt.gitbooks.io&#x2F;decentralized-web-primer&#x2F;content&#x2F;avenues-for-access&#x2F;lessons&#x2F;tor-transport.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flyingzumwalt.gitbooks.io&#x2F;decentralized-web-primer&#x2F;c...</a><p>3. Due to 1 and 2, any hosted content is EASILY trackable to a user&#x27;s computer, even behind NATs. A machine cryptokey also helps cement that (but can be changed). This allows easy DDoS&#x27;ing of any and all endpoints hosting content you don&#x27;t like.<p>4. It is trivial to ask the dHT for *who* has a certain content key, and get all (or the top 50?) computers hosting that content. (this matters with regards to &quot;sensitive&quot; content)<p>5. Running a node is still high cpu, ram, and network chattiness - so using a VPS to keep IPFS off your local network is still tenuous to run.</text></comment> | <story><title>Design and evaluation of IPFS: a storage layer for the decentralized web</title><url>https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3544216.3544232</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eminence32</author><text>3 of the authors work for Protocol Labs (the company that develops IPFS), which is likely why the paper is able to analyze data from the ipfs.io gateways</text></comment> |
30,898,718 | 30,898,453 | 1 | 2 | 30,897,937 | train | <story><title>Young women earn more than young men in several U.S. cities</title><url>https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/03/28/young-women-are-out-earning-young-men-in-several-u-s-cities/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Extremely unlikely there will ever be a will to do this considering the long term value to be compensated (hundreds of thousands of dollars per child, if not $1MM). Society is too short sighted and short term financially focused.<p>The world already has almost 8 billion people though (with population momentum landing is at 10B-11B by the end of the century), so I’m hard pressed to argue for more children (and the necessary policy and financial support) when we, in aggregate, already don’t take care of the ones here (no subsidized child care, limited parental leave, half a million kids in foster care at any one time [US], ~120 million unintended pregnancies globally annually, etc). Also consider that in parts of Europe where pro natalist policies are very robust (subsidized childcare, very generous leave policies, and “baby bonuses”), the fertility rate continues to decline regardless. Kids might be valuable to society, but the data supports the idea they are not as important to individuals (opportunity costs, life choices, etc).</text></item><item><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>Society needs to pay a competitive price relative to their other options.</text></item><item><author>sprash</author><text>Welcome to the world of dysgenics where the brightest and most diligent are not reproducing.</text></item><item><author>ipnon</author><text>In the middle class where women graduate college at twice the rate as men, move to big cities for a lucrative career, and delay childbirth until their 30s, women are easily outpacing men in earnings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmm</author><text>&gt; The world already has almost 8 billion people though<p>The grocery stores are already full of food, why do we still need farms? If you ever plan to stop working you need young people to buy your 401k stocks from you and pay for your Social Security.<p>The problem with low fertility rates is not (primarily) population decline, it&#x27;s demographic collapse. As long as fertility is below replacement the proportion of elderly increases _forever_.<p>What about immigration?<p>The US is in a much better position wrt to this than many other nations because of our high rates of immigration but low fertility is a global phenomenon outside of a handful of places like Nigeria and Afghanistan.<p>&gt; the fertility rate continues to decline regardless.<p>You&#x27;re right. Nobody has figured out how to raise fertility rates once they start dropping.</text></comment> | <story><title>Young women earn more than young men in several U.S. cities</title><url>https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/03/28/young-women-are-out-earning-young-men-in-several-u-s-cities/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Extremely unlikely there will ever be a will to do this considering the long term value to be compensated (hundreds of thousands of dollars per child, if not $1MM). Society is too short sighted and short term financially focused.<p>The world already has almost 8 billion people though (with population momentum landing is at 10B-11B by the end of the century), so I’m hard pressed to argue for more children (and the necessary policy and financial support) when we, in aggregate, already don’t take care of the ones here (no subsidized child care, limited parental leave, half a million kids in foster care at any one time [US], ~120 million unintended pregnancies globally annually, etc). Also consider that in parts of Europe where pro natalist policies are very robust (subsidized childcare, very generous leave policies, and “baby bonuses”), the fertility rate continues to decline regardless. Kids might be valuable to society, but the data supports the idea they are not as important to individuals (opportunity costs, life choices, etc).</text></item><item><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>Society needs to pay a competitive price relative to their other options.</text></item><item><author>sprash</author><text>Welcome to the world of dysgenics where the brightest and most diligent are not reproducing.</text></item><item><author>ipnon</author><text>In the middle class where women graduate college at twice the rate as men, move to big cities for a lucrative career, and delay childbirth until their 30s, women are easily outpacing men in earnings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; Extremely unlikely there will ever be a will to do this considering the long term value to be compensated (hundreds of thousands of dollars per child, if not $1MM).<p>Parent here. You don’t need $1mm to raise a kid. You don’t need anywhere close to that, actually.<p>Kids aren’t free, obviously, but this internet meme that they’ll bankrupt you is getting out of control.<p>Honestly, how do you think people making the median US household income are affording kids? Multiple kids, even? I hope it’s obvious that households with two kids earning &lt;$100K per year (a common situation) aren’t spending $1mm on each of them.</text></comment> |
21,258,213 | 21,258,143 | 1 | 2 | 21,257,355 | train | <story><title>5G Mobile Networks: A Systems Approach</title><url>https://5g.systemsapproach.org/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>l0000p</author><text>Unfortunately, a statement like that, has just as much value as the conspiracy theory. Since 5G is a vastly different technology, the only thing we can say for certain is that we don&#x27;t know the health risks at this point.</text></item><item><author>s_dev</author><text>It&#x27;s a tin foil hat thing. It&#x27;s just wireless frequencies -- which may have some minor impact but it wouldn&#x27;t be any different to 4G or 3G really and you can see that tech came and hasn&#x27;t caused any major health issues.</text></item><item><author>bkovacev</author><text>As someone new to the 5G world I&#x27;m hearing a lot about health concerns. Can someone please explain to me the actual health concerns? My GF has been talking about it for a while now, but when I looked up health related studies of 5G on google scholar - I didn&#x27;t get any meaningful hits. Is it a tin foil thing or are there really some concerns?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nokinside</author><text>We know how the wavelengths penetrate into the body and how much power goes into the skin. In new 60 Ghz 5G wavelengths skin reflects 20-30% of the power and the rest is almost completely absorbed by the epidermis. Overall the power densities are so slow that there is no reason to except anything.<p>Exposing skin to the sun is known radiation hazard. If you go outside during daytime why worry about 5G?</text></comment> | <story><title>5G Mobile Networks: A Systems Approach</title><url>https://5g.systemsapproach.org/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>l0000p</author><text>Unfortunately, a statement like that, has just as much value as the conspiracy theory. Since 5G is a vastly different technology, the only thing we can say for certain is that we don&#x27;t know the health risks at this point.</text></item><item><author>s_dev</author><text>It&#x27;s a tin foil hat thing. It&#x27;s just wireless frequencies -- which may have some minor impact but it wouldn&#x27;t be any different to 4G or 3G really and you can see that tech came and hasn&#x27;t caused any major health issues.</text></item><item><author>bkovacev</author><text>As someone new to the 5G world I&#x27;m hearing a lot about health concerns. Can someone please explain to me the actual health concerns? My GF has been talking about it for a while now, but when I looked up health related studies of 5G on google scholar - I didn&#x27;t get any meaningful hits. Is it a tin foil thing or are there really some concerns?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ewzimm</author><text>It&#x27;s true that we don&#x27;t have the full picture. Nothing is certain yet, but the most likely health effects will be indirect. Two areas of concern are effects on insect populations, which are already in collapse, and effects on bacterial development, including potentially causing resistance to antibiotics. These studies would be a good place to start if you&#x27;re interested in more information:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doi.org&#x2F;10.1038&#x2F;s41598-018-22271-3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doi.org&#x2F;10.1038&#x2F;s41598-018-22271-3</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doi.org&#x2F;10.3109&#x2F;1040841X.2012.691461" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doi.org&#x2F;10.3109&#x2F;1040841X.2012.691461</a></text></comment> |
6,743,287 | 6,742,667 | 1 | 3 | 6,742,141 | train | <story><title>FixYT</title><url>http://fixyt.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zokier</author><text>I think this is completely wrong approach. We as a community should stop giving G&#x2F;YT our traffic if their stuff does not please us instead of making an effort to give them more traffic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nashequilibrium</author><text>Sign me up, i want youtube to be killed dead!!!! Youtube is cool but google jumps in and just ruins your experience. They asked me 4 time before to adjust my name and i chose my current username....4 times. Now, for the last two weeks i have been getting this pop again but now i must apparently sign up for G+, when i try and comment, guess what that fu<i></i><i></i> popup again, i cannot comment unless i join G+.I have been just closing the window and saying, &quot;O well that saves me some time wasting at least.&quot; Google is now as arrogant as Microsoft was and don&#x27;t care about what the consumer wants but where they want to push you. I will never use G+, Google will save themselves the distraction by shutting down that crap, but they so blinded by facebook that they losing sight of the actual power they have.<p>They got this idea in their head that they need to create the complete identity for users to target ads better. This idea came about when the press and pundits where saying that facebook was so valuable because of realnames and user identity. The issue is that it&#x27;s been proven that you can build a profile from a person&#x27;s search history, even Target can predict if you are pregnant. So why waste time with this shit, anger your users and destroy your brands value?</text></comment> | <story><title>FixYT</title><url>http://fixyt.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zokier</author><text>I think this is completely wrong approach. We as a community should stop giving G&#x2F;YT our traffic if their stuff does not please us instead of making an effort to give them more traffic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jfoster</author><text>But then you find yourself up against their network effects and more often than not, it goes absolutely nowhere. If you just want a nicer YouTube, step 1 is at least experimenting within the confines of the existing one. Otherwise you&#x27;d need to worry about all of the infrastructure and accepting video uploads, encoding, etc. Unless you&#x27;re on a crusade against Google&#x2F;YouTube, this is absolutely the sane way of starting out.</text></comment> |
15,360,947 | 15,360,565 | 1 | 2 | 15,360,470 | train | <story><title>MILA and the future of Theano</title><url>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/theano-users/7Poq8BZutbY</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jxramos</author><text>I find myself very impressed with the humility of the group taking a bow at the right time.<p>This is the crux of the matter it would seem: &quot;Even with the increasing support of external contributions from industry and academia, maintaining an older code base and keeping up with competitors has come in the way of innovation.&quot;<p>Very mature move Theano team, you all did a great job and raised the bar at your peak with the solid innovations that became standard as you identified. Best wishes.</text></comment> | <story><title>MILA and the future of Theano</title><url>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/theano-users/7Poq8BZutbY</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pesenti</author><text>Reminds me of Chrome. Lots of competing alternatives. Google comes late yet still manage to take over the market organically very quickly by producing a superior and more robust alternative.</text></comment> |
16,186,947 | 16,186,727 | 1 | 3 | 16,186,059 | train | <story><title>Commitment vs. Forecast: A Subtle But Important Change to Scrum (2011)</title><url>https://www.scrum.org/resources/commitment-vs-forecast-subtle-important-change-scrum</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jryan49</author><text>I still think it ironic that when looking at the actual Agile manifesto at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;agilemanifesto.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;agilemanifesto.org&#x2F;</a> (which is short and uncomplicated), that the first line is &quot;Individuals and interactions over processes and tools&quot; and these days practicing agile, at least in a big-house corporate environment feels like anything but.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jt2190</author><text>The Agile Manifesto suffers from &quot;the curse of knowledge&quot;: The signatories are all very experienced, and deeply understand all of the differences between projects and people and when to be flexible and when to be rigid, and they know that it&#x27;s important to <i>not</i> specify a method for <i>every</i> situation. But there are many, many people entering the software industry who don&#x27;t have their years of experience, and who need very clear, basic instructions as a starting point, and hence Scrum steps in to fill the gap. What&#x27;s unfortunate is that scrum isn&#x27;t a program for developing software managers from rigid, by-the-book managers into experienced, <i>agile</i> managers: Instead it encourages newbie practices for everyone, forever.</text></comment> | <story><title>Commitment vs. Forecast: A Subtle But Important Change to Scrum (2011)</title><url>https://www.scrum.org/resources/commitment-vs-forecast-subtle-important-change-scrum</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jryan49</author><text>I still think it ironic that when looking at the actual Agile manifesto at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;agilemanifesto.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;agilemanifesto.org&#x2F;</a> (which is short and uncomplicated), that the first line is &quot;Individuals and interactions over processes and tools&quot; and these days practicing agile, at least in a big-house corporate environment feels like anything but.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philbarr</author><text>Absolutely - some people hear, &quot;people before process&quot;, think it sounds great, then immediately go looking for a process to implement it and find Scrum.</text></comment> |
20,987,915 | 20,984,019 | 1 | 2 | 20,983,234 | train | <story><title>Best Smartphones That Still Have a Headphone Jack</title><url>https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-headphone-jack-phones</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chuckgreenman</author><text>I&#x27;m a single-issue voter when it comes to cell phones - if it doesn&#x27;t have a headphone jack, I won&#x27;t be buying it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DanTheManPR</author><text>What I don&#x27;t get is: it&#x27;s not an either&#x2F;or proposition, it&#x27;s not like you have to choose between having wired and wireless headphones.<p>I use my Airpods on my android phone, and they&#x27;re pretty nice for when I&#x27;m doing housework and working around the shop. When I&#x27;m at work, I plug in my plantronics headset for conference calls, and my regular cans when I&#x27;m listening to music. Airpods don&#x27;t have the stamina to keep up with a long day of work, nor the sound quality I want - they are a compromise device.<p>I don&#x27;t really care about this debate too much anymore, since it seems that a few good manufacturers are still clued in that this is an actual need that a lot of people have (I&#x27;ve been using a Moto G5, and now I&#x27;m using an S9). But it is odd to still pushing the claim that &quot;everyone got over it&quot; with regards to headphone jacks - I never got over it, and I continue to vote with my wallet.</text></comment> | <story><title>Best Smartphones That Still Have a Headphone Jack</title><url>https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-headphone-jack-phones</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chuckgreenman</author><text>I&#x27;m a single-issue voter when it comes to cell phones - if it doesn&#x27;t have a headphone jack, I won&#x27;t be buying it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigredhdl</author><text>I&#x27;m not single-issue, but its definitely at the top of my requirements list. Just bought a pixel 3a to replace my galaxy s8 that broke. The headphone jack was probably the single biggest influence on what I bought. That along with price, camera and iFixit repair score made the 3a hard to pass up.</text></comment> |
37,692,008 | 37,684,727 | 1 | 3 | 37,681,554 | train | <story><title>War Thunder user leaks restricted military documents for AH-64D Apache Longbow</title><url>https://nichegamer.com/war-thunder-user-leaks-restricted-military-documents-for-ah-64d-apache-longbow/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arp242</author><text>It didn&#x27;t take me a whole lot of effort to find a document with the &quot;Distribution authorized to Department of Defense and DoD contractors only due to critical technology&quot; disclaimer: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;doc&#x2F;102459342&#x2F;US-Army-Apache-Longbow-TECHNICAL-MANUAL-OPERATOR-s-MANUAL" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;doc&#x2F;102459342&#x2F;US-Army-Apache-Longbow-...</a><p>First result on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;?t=ffab&amp;q=%22AH-64D+Apache+Longbow%22+manual&amp;ia=web" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;?t=ffab&amp;q=%22AH-64D+Apache+Longbow%22...</a><p>I am available for hire as a spy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>costco</author><text>Found this funny one by Googling a similar string:<p>SOLDIER SURVEILLANCE AND RECONNAISSANCE: FUNDAMENTALS OF TACTICAL INFORMATION COLLECTION: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;99352146&#x2F;FM-2-91-6-Soldier-Surveillance-and-Reconnaissance-Fundamentals-of-Tactical-Information-Collection" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;99352146&#x2F;FM-2-91-6-Soldier-S...</a><p>Ever wonder how to &quot;interact with the local populace&quot; when you travel somewhere? Well, here&#x27;s how it&#x27;s done:<p><pre><code> - Be prepared to discuss your personal interests (hobbies, books, travel).
- Be sensitive to your body language.
-&gt; Smile as long as it is appropriate.
-&gt; Avoid sitting with your arms crossed.
-&gt; Do not show the bottom of your feet in an Arabic culture.
-&gt; Keep your hands away from your mouth.
-&gt; Lean forward and nod.
-&gt; Make frequent eye contact (if culturally appropriate).
- Use the person&#x27;s name, position title, rank, and&#x2F;or other verbal expressions of respect.
...
- Remember, a person&#x27;s favorite topic is himself
...</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>War Thunder user leaks restricted military documents for AH-64D Apache Longbow</title><url>https://nichegamer.com/war-thunder-user-leaks-restricted-military-documents-for-ah-64d-apache-longbow/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arp242</author><text>It didn&#x27;t take me a whole lot of effort to find a document with the &quot;Distribution authorized to Department of Defense and DoD contractors only due to critical technology&quot; disclaimer: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;doc&#x2F;102459342&#x2F;US-Army-Apache-Longbow-TECHNICAL-MANUAL-OPERATOR-s-MANUAL" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;doc&#x2F;102459342&#x2F;US-Army-Apache-Longbow-...</a><p>First result on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;?t=ffab&amp;q=%22AH-64D+Apache+Longbow%22+manual&amp;ia=web" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;?t=ffab&amp;q=%22AH-64D+Apache+Longbow%22...</a><p>I am available for hire as a spy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cadwhisker</author><text>From one of the opening pages:<p>WARNING - This document contains technical data whose export is restricted by the Arms Export Control Act (Title 22, U.S.C., Sec 2751, et seq.) or the Export Administration Act of 1979, as amended, Title 50 U.S.C., App. 2401 et seq. Violation of these export laws are subject to severe criminal penalties. Disseminate in accordance with provisions of DoD Directive 5230.25.<p>DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT D - Distribution authorized to the Department of Defense and DoD contractors only due to critical technology. This determination was made on 26 June 2000. Other requests for this document shall be referred to Commander, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command, ATTN: SFAE-AV-AAH- ATH, Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898 - 5000.<p>DESTRUCTION NOTICE - Destroy by any method that will prevent disclosure of contents or reconstruction of the document.<p>You can only hope that the uploader is who they say they are...</text></comment> |
20,567,829 | 20,567,211 | 1 | 2 | 20,563,293 | train | <story><title>What’s New in ES2019</title><url>https://blog.tildeloop.com/posts/javascript-what%E2%80%99s-new-in-es2019</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baddox</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand what is so appealing about not having a build pipeline for JavaScript, other than the ability to very quickly test and learn things directly in the browser, which of course anyone can still do.<p>For anything remotely important, you&#x27;re almost certainly going to already want a build pipeline to do things like concatenating&#x2F;minifying code, running tests, and deploying. Adding a transpilation step to extend support to older browsers comes with almost no cost to time or maintainability, assuming you&#x27;re using well-supported things like Babel and its official plugins.</text></item><item><author>pault</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s popular to be sure but handwritten javascript is not that rare nowadays, is it?<p>Long time front end developer here. In the last couple of years I can&#x27;t recall seeing even a single project without a build pipeline (not that they don&#x27;t exist, I just haven&#x27;t encountered them at my day job, first or third party).</text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>That&#x27;s not unique to JS. Some compilers took over a decade to implement C99 features. Most of us C coders were still defaulting to C89 for portability well into the late 00&#x27;s. But now C99 is mainstream enough that you can (mostly) safely target it.<p>If you never release new standards you&#x27;ll never be able to use them. I realize that in JS world 4 years is basically an eternity so it&#x27;s hard to project that far but I&#x27;m sure that if you still have to write javascript code 10 years from now you&#x27;ll be happy to be able to use the features of ES2019.<p>Regarding transpilation surely it&#x27;s not as standard as you make it out to be? It&#x27;s popular to be sure but handwritten javascript is not that rare nowadays, is it?</text></item><item><author>mmartinson</author><text>Honest question, not meant to be inflammatory.<p>If we still need to target es5 4 years later, and transpilation is standard practice, why bother? Is the evolution of JS not directed in practice by the authors of Babel and Typescript? If no one can confidently ship this stuff for years after, what’s the incentive to even bother thinking about what is official vs a Babel supported proposal.<p>I like the idea of idiomatic JS with powerful modern features, but in practice every project I’ve seen seems to use a pretty arbitrary subset of the language, with different ideas about best practices and what the good parts are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SahAssar</author><text>The appealing thing about not having a build pipeline is not having it. Not having another thing to maintain and update&#x2F;upgrade&#x2F;debug. I&#x27;ve gone through grunt, gulp, webpack and parcel. Somewhere along the way I realized that with es6 imports and css variables I don&#x27;t really need it.<p>I&#x27;ve talked with frontend devs who only worked on projects with build steps about this and they often seem perplexed and surprised by just how simple it can be if you don&#x27;t make it complex.</text></comment> | <story><title>What’s New in ES2019</title><url>https://blog.tildeloop.com/posts/javascript-what%E2%80%99s-new-in-es2019</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baddox</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand what is so appealing about not having a build pipeline for JavaScript, other than the ability to very quickly test and learn things directly in the browser, which of course anyone can still do.<p>For anything remotely important, you&#x27;re almost certainly going to already want a build pipeline to do things like concatenating&#x2F;minifying code, running tests, and deploying. Adding a transpilation step to extend support to older browsers comes with almost no cost to time or maintainability, assuming you&#x27;re using well-supported things like Babel and its official plugins.</text></item><item><author>pault</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s popular to be sure but handwritten javascript is not that rare nowadays, is it?<p>Long time front end developer here. In the last couple of years I can&#x27;t recall seeing even a single project without a build pipeline (not that they don&#x27;t exist, I just haven&#x27;t encountered them at my day job, first or third party).</text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>That&#x27;s not unique to JS. Some compilers took over a decade to implement C99 features. Most of us C coders were still defaulting to C89 for portability well into the late 00&#x27;s. But now C99 is mainstream enough that you can (mostly) safely target it.<p>If you never release new standards you&#x27;ll never be able to use them. I realize that in JS world 4 years is basically an eternity so it&#x27;s hard to project that far but I&#x27;m sure that if you still have to write javascript code 10 years from now you&#x27;ll be happy to be able to use the features of ES2019.<p>Regarding transpilation surely it&#x27;s not as standard as you make it out to be? It&#x27;s popular to be sure but handwritten javascript is not that rare nowadays, is it?</text></item><item><author>mmartinson</author><text>Honest question, not meant to be inflammatory.<p>If we still need to target es5 4 years later, and transpilation is standard practice, why bother? Is the evolution of JS not directed in practice by the authors of Babel and Typescript? If no one can confidently ship this stuff for years after, what’s the incentive to even bother thinking about what is official vs a Babel supported proposal.<p>I like the idea of idiomatic JS with powerful modern features, but in practice every project I’ve seen seems to use a pretty arbitrary subset of the language, with different ideas about best practices and what the good parts are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EB66</author><text>&gt; Adding a transpilation step to extend support to older browsers comes with almost no cost to time or maintainability<p>They may be simple concepts, but there&#x27;s definitely still an added cost with transpilation and minification steps.<p>If you work with Babel long enough you&#x27;ll encounter scenarios where the transpiling didn&#x27;t quite work as expected and breaks in-browser.<p>When you&#x27;re debugging minified code in-browser using source maps, it&#x27;s not all that uncommon to get different line numbers and stack traces than you get when loading up the original unminified source. I can recall a number of occasions where I had to deploy unminified source for in-browser debugging because the source maps were obfuscating the real error.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2002&#x2F;11&#x2F;11&#x2F;the-law-of-leaky-abstractions&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2002&#x2F;11&#x2F;11&#x2F;the-law-of-leaky-a...</a></text></comment> |
36,928,152 | 36,927,900 | 1 | 2 | 36,920,566 | train | <story><title>Critical theory is radicalizing high school debate</title><url>https://www.slowboring.com/p/how-critical-theory-is-radicalizing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noduerme</author><text>I think this an attempt to champion the idea of rhetoric as a virtue, in the face of arguments made in bad faith. I have a soft spot for this. My grandfather, before he fled Belarus, was trained at a yeshiva and on his way to becoming a rabbi. His explanation of the training was ... Jedi-like, to my young mind. Students were paired off and given a biblical passage to examine, say, Jonah and the whale. One student would have to defend Jonah while the other defended, basically, God. After ten minutes, the teacher would say &quot;switch&quot; and they would have to defend the opposite side with equal logic and vigor. This was the making of a mind. Any shortcuts to rhetorical passion might be allowed, but learning to parry them and see through them was what was truly valued... well and beyond the ability to convince others (and certainly beyond obedience or conformity). Not surprising that my family in the US became lawyers.<p>This is not to say that there&#x27;s anything wrong - morally or rhetorically - with breaking the game if you don&#x27;t like the choices. There&#x27;s no unfair play when the point is to win a debate. Debates are not won by changing your opponent&#x27;s mind - I mean, who cares? They&#x27;re won by convincing whoever else is listening. That being said, failing to take the unlikeable part of a debate is <i>read as cheating</i> - if not to the judges, who may share your bias, then to the audience who you&#x27;ve alienated and failed to convince. And so it can and should fail in the long run, as an impurity in the art.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atoav</author><text>Socrates was already complaining about the sophists and their ability to argue for and against everything (destroying every truth on the way).<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I love arguing and rhetorics, but there are people who abandoned all sense of truth and rationality in debate. Rhetorics are a weapon, and like every weapon it should be wielded by people who know that with great power comes great responsibility.
Sure, one can argue about objective truth and whether it actually exists, but many who wield rhetorics don&#x27;t give a damn about <i>any</i> truth, be it objective or subjective — they care about winning. And they don&#x27;t care about the price everybody has to pay for that win.<p>Despite that I still think putting yourself in a different position to defend is a good lesson, but the goal of rhetorical training shouldn&#x27;t be to form ruthless mercenaries, but thinkers who can wield the word and still admit they are wrong in an actual, real world debate, when they are shown to be so.<p>If you are one of those people (like me) who likes debate for debates sake, you have to be especially careful. Like people who <i>like</i> to use guns we have to be especially aware when we use it and for what reason.<p>Most people who use their rhetoric have never been given the moral compass to wield it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Critical theory is radicalizing high school debate</title><url>https://www.slowboring.com/p/how-critical-theory-is-radicalizing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noduerme</author><text>I think this an attempt to champion the idea of rhetoric as a virtue, in the face of arguments made in bad faith. I have a soft spot for this. My grandfather, before he fled Belarus, was trained at a yeshiva and on his way to becoming a rabbi. His explanation of the training was ... Jedi-like, to my young mind. Students were paired off and given a biblical passage to examine, say, Jonah and the whale. One student would have to defend Jonah while the other defended, basically, God. After ten minutes, the teacher would say &quot;switch&quot; and they would have to defend the opposite side with equal logic and vigor. This was the making of a mind. Any shortcuts to rhetorical passion might be allowed, but learning to parry them and see through them was what was truly valued... well and beyond the ability to convince others (and certainly beyond obedience or conformity). Not surprising that my family in the US became lawyers.<p>This is not to say that there&#x27;s anything wrong - morally or rhetorically - with breaking the game if you don&#x27;t like the choices. There&#x27;s no unfair play when the point is to win a debate. Debates are not won by changing your opponent&#x27;s mind - I mean, who cares? They&#x27;re won by convincing whoever else is listening. That being said, failing to take the unlikeable part of a debate is <i>read as cheating</i> - if not to the judges, who may share your bias, then to the audience who you&#x27;ve alienated and failed to convince. And so it can and should fail in the long run, as an impurity in the art.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>worrycue</author><text>&gt; Students were paired off and given a biblical passage to examine, say, Jonah and the whale. One student would have to defend Jonah while the other defended, basically, God. After ten minutes, the teacher would say &quot;switch&quot; and they would have to defend the opposite side with equal logic and vigor. This was the making of a mind.<p>I always felt the whole point of discussion and debate was to establish truth - given specific premises. This kind of &quot;argue both sides&quot; exercises seem more like practice in audience manipulation.</text></comment> |
27,920,896 | 27,920,961 | 1 | 2 | 27,920,665 | train | <story><title>Akamai Edge DNS was down</title><url>https://edgedns.status.akamai.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dbsmith83</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;downdetector.com&#x2F;archive" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;downdetector.com&#x2F;archive</a><p>So many sites down... and unfortunately not one of them is Twitter</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cpgeier</author><text>Amazing that down detector manages to stay up during these kinds of outages. Noticed it has been a little slow but they really have done a good job keeping it up even though large portions of the internet is down right now.</text></comment> | <story><title>Akamai Edge DNS was down</title><url>https://edgedns.status.akamai.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dbsmith83</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;downdetector.com&#x2F;archive" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;downdetector.com&#x2F;archive</a><p>So many sites down... and unfortunately not one of them is Twitter</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcintyre1994</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting that they report an AWS outage but there don&#x27;t seem to be any issues there. Looks like their methodology is a bit too reliant on those speculative tweets from the first 5 minutes of all these sites going down. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;downdetector.com&#x2F;status&#x2F;aws-amazon-web-services&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;downdetector.com&#x2F;status&#x2F;aws-amazon-web-services&#x2F;</a><p>&gt; So many websites are down, are AWS servers down or something?<p>&gt; Amazon web services is down which is affecting a lot of company web sites and services. Not sure what is going on.<p>&gt; Miss us? @aldotcom and a whole bunch of other folks have been knocked off the internet by what appears to be an AWS attack&#x2F;system failure. We&#x27;ll be back. ?</text></comment> |
37,526,443 | 37,526,689 | 1 | 3 | 37,520,079 | train | <story><title>Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importance of open source</title><url>https://ramatak.com/2023/09/15/unitys-new-pricing-a-wake-up-call-on-the-importance-of-open-source-in-gaming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DeepYogurt</author><text>&gt; Running out of ammo and instant payment sounds a lot like an arcade<p>Any chance you have an example? I can&#x27;t recall an arcade game that had you pay per bullet.</text></item><item><author>linuxftw</author><text>Running out of ammo and instant payment sounds a lot like an arcade, which is how video games became commercially successful in the first place.</text></item><item><author>mnau</author><text>A CEO under who EA introduced lootboxes. A person that proposed that when player runs out of ammo could make an easy instant payment for a quick reload.<p>Unity engine seems to flounder under him, despite rather insane headcount (7,703), acquisition spree laden Unity Technologies with significant debt...<p>I am not impressed, not with his ideas and even less with his results.<p>For comparison, Larry Elisson (Oracle) has distasteful business practices, but very profitable.</text></item><item><author>sigmoid10</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this is a problem of company structure. It&#x27;s solely a problem of bad management. If they had listened to their users or their own developers, or any remotely sane person with some touch of reality, then this wouldn&#x27;t have happened. But if you hire the former CEO of EA - a guy with no low level industry experience and who left his last job because of poor financial performance - then this whole fiasco seems like it was inevitable.</text></item><item><author>miragecraft</author><text>The logic that Epic and Unreal Engine will do something similar as Unity doesn&#x27;t track for me.<p>The argument hinges on the premise that Epic, who operates their own game store and is courting developers aggressively with generous revenue split, is willing to burn their bridge with developers for questionable increase in profit; in addition it presumes that the plain old revenue share model that Unreal Engine utiltizes makes less money than this so-called runtime fee.<p>I beg to differ, I think the only reason Unity went this route is because they don&#x27;t want to be seen to publicly break the promise of no revenue share&#x2F;royalty pledge they had earlier, and ironically came up with an even worse monetization scheme.<p>In my opinion, the only reason this whole fiasco happened is because Unity the company has too many headcounts and has too much expense, and the reason for that is they grew too big, and the reason they grew too big is because they took the company public and in that sphere success is measured in growth, even if the company is much healthier if it had stayed smaller.<p>Epic is privately held, Valve is too, Unity is not and we ended up here. I think that says a lot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kyteland</author><text>This guy wasn&#x27;t proposing anything as crazy as pay-per-bullet. There&#x27;s lots of games with limited ammo and you find more in the environment. Even in Doom you might run out of ammo for your favorite gun and need to put it away until you found another ammo pack in the level. This is why Valorant has a knife you can switch to, because if you waste gun ammo you run out on your main weapon. In Fortnite you have to find ammo and weapons in chests, etc. This guy was proposing an option to pay to refill your inventory immediately. But people heard &quot;reload&quot; and assumed something completely different.<p>The real problem with his proposal is it quickly falls apart if you think about it for even a minute. It&#x27;s a classic pay-to-win mechanic. And once something is pay-to-win it becomes a slippery slope and a race to the bottom for the game makers. Every game has some amount of edge cases where you&#x27;re playing only to realize &quot;Damn, I&#x27;m out, this sucks. I&#x27;d pay a buck right now to refill.&quot; But once you add in some options to pay in those scenarios, the game maker has a perverse incentive to no longer make it an edge case. Some PM will realize if they make the rare event 10x more likely they&#x27;ll make 10x more $$$$ and they&#x27;re off to the races. They start messing with the ammo drop rates to create &quot;pinch points&quot; and now your super fun game really does require you to be &quot;paying to reload&quot; and it&#x27;s not fun anymore.<p>This guy was trying (and failing) to present it as a player benefit but the reality is he know exactly where this road lead. It&#x27;s the same place EA games with loot boxes landed in the end.</text></comment> | <story><title>Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importance of open source</title><url>https://ramatak.com/2023/09/15/unitys-new-pricing-a-wake-up-call-on-the-importance-of-open-source-in-gaming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DeepYogurt</author><text>&gt; Running out of ammo and instant payment sounds a lot like an arcade<p>Any chance you have an example? I can&#x27;t recall an arcade game that had you pay per bullet.</text></item><item><author>linuxftw</author><text>Running out of ammo and instant payment sounds a lot like an arcade, which is how video games became commercially successful in the first place.</text></item><item><author>mnau</author><text>A CEO under who EA introduced lootboxes. A person that proposed that when player runs out of ammo could make an easy instant payment for a quick reload.<p>Unity engine seems to flounder under him, despite rather insane headcount (7,703), acquisition spree laden Unity Technologies with significant debt...<p>I am not impressed, not with his ideas and even less with his results.<p>For comparison, Larry Elisson (Oracle) has distasteful business practices, but very profitable.</text></item><item><author>sigmoid10</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this is a problem of company structure. It&#x27;s solely a problem of bad management. If they had listened to their users or their own developers, or any remotely sane person with some touch of reality, then this wouldn&#x27;t have happened. But if you hire the former CEO of EA - a guy with no low level industry experience and who left his last job because of poor financial performance - then this whole fiasco seems like it was inevitable.</text></item><item><author>miragecraft</author><text>The logic that Epic and Unreal Engine will do something similar as Unity doesn&#x27;t track for me.<p>The argument hinges on the premise that Epic, who operates their own game store and is courting developers aggressively with generous revenue split, is willing to burn their bridge with developers for questionable increase in profit; in addition it presumes that the plain old revenue share model that Unreal Engine utiltizes makes less money than this so-called runtime fee.<p>I beg to differ, I think the only reason Unity went this route is because they don&#x27;t want to be seen to publicly break the promise of no revenue share&#x2F;royalty pledge they had earlier, and ironically came up with an even worse monetization scheme.<p>In my opinion, the only reason this whole fiasco happened is because Unity the company has too many headcounts and has too much expense, and the reason for that is they grew too big, and the reason they grew too big is because they took the company public and in that sphere success is measured in growth, even if the company is much healthier if it had stayed smaller.<p>Epic is privately held, Valve is too, Unity is not and we ended up here. I think that says a lot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>autoexec</author><text>I remember there were arcade games where your health continuously drained and inserting another quarter would heal you. That&#x27;s worse than a per-bullet price because you were losing even when there were no enemies on the screen.
I don&#x27;t remember the titles because I played those kinds of games exactly once and never again. Total rip off.</text></comment> |
12,879,918 | 12,879,664 | 1 | 2 | 12,879,179 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Make an app by adding JSON to this app</title><url>https://github.com/Jasonette/JASONETTE-iOS?hn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gliechtenstein</author><text>Guys, the author here. This is my first open source project and I worked really hard on it for 5 months.<p>I think it&#x27;s really cool, and I hope you guys like it. I would appreciate any kind of feedback!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saganus</author><text>This is very interesting.<p>However I&#x27;m no iOS developer, so could you give me a cursory explanation on how it works? I mean, I can imagine creating a framework that has &quot;empty&quot; screens, and then just loading data into them, but this seems like it can do much more.<p>So for example, if I want an app with say 4 screens, and GPS access (if supported) and a few buttons, do you have all those objects already in memory and just copy them and inject the data to show on screen?<p>Or maybe it&#x27;s too early and I&#x27;m missing something. Very neat though!</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Make an app by adding JSON to this app</title><url>https://github.com/Jasonette/JASONETTE-iOS?hn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gliechtenstein</author><text>Guys, the author here. This is my first open source project and I worked really hard on it for 5 months.<p>I think it&#x27;s really cool, and I hope you guys like it. I would appreciate any kind of feedback!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ayumu722</author><text>this is weird man, I had a similar idea like about a year ago, and just started coding some prototypes of it this week, my original idea was to scan a QR code and then you&#x27;ll be presented with a native app, and I needed a way to code the elements of the app, and i didn&#x27;t want to waste time writing a parser, so I used Json too lol. I was coding for android, maybe we should join forces ;)</text></comment> |
8,270,357 | 8,268,986 | 1 | 2 | 8,268,642 | train | <story><title>Where does Ruby go from here?</title><url>http://blog.sefindustries.com/the-happiness-manifesto/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JonnieCache</author><text>I don&#x27;t want to leave ruby, but at the end of the day, it&#x27;s slow. Jruby is pretty decent, but the clunkiness of the JVM takes the fun out of it.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s just the lack of a corporation pouring billions into it like google did with V8, but I suspect that ruby can never be fast, due to ObjectSpace and the like. That awesome&#x2F;insane object model we all like so much is just impossible to optimise. All the other weird shit ruby can do doesn&#x27;t help.<p><a href="http://blog.headius.com/2012/10/so-you-want-to-optimize-ruby.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.headius.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;10&#x2F;so-you-want-to-optimize-ruby...</a><p>Still, for stuff that doesn&#x27;t need to be fast, ruby is still a joy to use, and always will be. The enumerable API feels so fluid, it&#x27;s only really surpassed by languages like clojure in my experience.<p>As you might be able to guess, I&#x27;m looking forward very much to swift becoming a general purpose language. If apple are all funny about it and try and neuter the ecosystem for some reason, I will be a sad panda.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djur</author><text>ObjectSpace isn&#x27;t really a major issue. JRuby disables (most of) it by default for performance reasons and I&#x27;ve never had to turn it on for any real code.<p>Ruby has been a major source of improvements in software, especially tooling and web development, over the last 10 years. A lot of the newer languages have borrowed concepts popularized by Ruby (gem-style package management; bundler-style dependency management; same-language build tools like rake; rails and sinatra-esque web frameworks). And a lot of tooling for other languages has been written in Ruby (sometimes later replaced by same-language tools). I&#x27;d compare the role Ruby has played to Perl in the &#x27;90s.<p>I certainly hope Ruby doesn&#x27;t go down Perl&#x27;s path. It may be protected from that fate by two differences. First, there&#x27;s no Perl 6-like project to distract attention and effort from the actively used version. Second, Ruby remains by far the best general-purpose language out there for those of us who like Smalltalk-style OO languages (everything an object, message passing, extreme late binding).<p>I too would really like to see Swift escape the Apple ecosystem, for a number of reasons, even though I&#x27;m unlikely to use it myself.</text></comment> | <story><title>Where does Ruby go from here?</title><url>http://blog.sefindustries.com/the-happiness-manifesto/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JonnieCache</author><text>I don&#x27;t want to leave ruby, but at the end of the day, it&#x27;s slow. Jruby is pretty decent, but the clunkiness of the JVM takes the fun out of it.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s just the lack of a corporation pouring billions into it like google did with V8, but I suspect that ruby can never be fast, due to ObjectSpace and the like. That awesome&#x2F;insane object model we all like so much is just impossible to optimise. All the other weird shit ruby can do doesn&#x27;t help.<p><a href="http://blog.headius.com/2012/10/so-you-want-to-optimize-ruby.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.headius.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;10&#x2F;so-you-want-to-optimize-ruby...</a><p>Still, for stuff that doesn&#x27;t need to be fast, ruby is still a joy to use, and always will be. The enumerable API feels so fluid, it&#x27;s only really surpassed by languages like clojure in my experience.<p>As you might be able to guess, I&#x27;m looking forward very much to swift becoming a general purpose language. If apple are all funny about it and try and neuter the ecosystem for some reason, I will be a sad panda.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Pxtl</author><text>Now I&#x27;m starting to wonder if it would be possible to adapt V8 directly to use other dynamically-typed scripting language, like the Parrot project was intended to do. A language parser at the front, V8 in the middle, and the language&#x27;s standard library in the back.<p>Node.js demonstrated the power of V8 with an alternate stdlib, perhaps an alternate language in front is possible too? Then again, probably V8 is at the very least heavily entangled with Javascript&#x27;s type-system.</text></comment> |
40,914,480 | 40,914,644 | 1 | 2 | 40,914,029 | train | <story><title>HP discontinues online-only LaserJet printers in response to backlash</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/hp-discontinues-online-only-laserjet-printers-in-response-to-backlash</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ogou</author><text>I found one these all-in-one units out on sidewalk and thought I had scored a cool freebie. It was nearly new. Now I know why they threw it away. Total garbage and bricked without that HP+ subscription. Can&#x27;t use the scanner because the ink is too low. The worst part is that I couldn&#x27;t even reset the printer to use a new subscription! It was tied to the previous owner at a hardware level and support said I had to contact them to release their account, even though it was no longer active. The HP support forums are full of angry people trying to get away from these units.<p>Printers are still needed, btw. Maybe not in the USA, but Germany requires all kinds of paper documentation to be mailed. Many other countries as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qiine</author><text>&quot;bricked without that HP+ subscription. Can&#x27;t use the scanner because the ink is too low. The worst part is that I couldn&#x27;t even reset the printer to use a new subscription! It was tied to the previous owner at a hardware level and support said I had to contact them to release their account, even though it was no longer active.&quot;<p>Nice everything is wrong beyond redemption, basically toxic eWaste that somehow manage to also waste your time as an added bonus... job well done !</text></comment> | <story><title>HP discontinues online-only LaserJet printers in response to backlash</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/hp-discontinues-online-only-laserjet-printers-in-response-to-backlash</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ogou</author><text>I found one these all-in-one units out on sidewalk and thought I had scored a cool freebie. It was nearly new. Now I know why they threw it away. Total garbage and bricked without that HP+ subscription. Can&#x27;t use the scanner because the ink is too low. The worst part is that I couldn&#x27;t even reset the printer to use a new subscription! It was tied to the previous owner at a hardware level and support said I had to contact them to release their account, even though it was no longer active. The HP support forums are full of angry people trying to get away from these units.<p>Printers are still needed, btw. Maybe not in the USA, but Germany requires all kinds of paper documentation to be mailed. Many other countries as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kristopolous</author><text>As if printing didn&#x27;t suck enough already.<p>There&#x27;s plenty of innovation left. What about a built-in cutting, binding or folding mechanism?<p>What about a built-in QR like binary converter for paper backing up of crucial files and some way to feed them back in through ADF scanning?<p>What about a built-in filter to printer feature of email so things like orders get auto printed? Something that has heat transfer built-in for optional inkless printing? A flatbed that can do UV and IR scanning? Some kind of release mechanism that makes fixing a paper jam trivial?<p>How about an API with MQTT so you can integrate it in a automated production pipeline much easier.<p>What about moving beyond the box? Could there be a way to stack the feed vertically and print, also vertically, to conserve space?<p>Printing as an industry could be blown open to innovation but I guess we can&#x27;t have nice things</text></comment> |
13,815,229 | 13,812,112 | 1 | 3 | 13,809,891 | train | <story><title>How the Instant Pot cooker developed a cult following</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39058736</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shostack</author><text>Have had one since Black Friday.<p>I feel generally competent in the kitchen to the point where assembling a nice meal (dare I say gourmet?) from scratch without a recipe is relatively easy for me.<p>That said, I&#x27;ve found the Instant Pot to have a steep learning curve.<p>For starters, you can&#x27;t easily check on the food while it cooks, so if you are experimenting with large batch sizes and timing you are kind of gambling and have to wait till it is done (sometimes an hour) to see if you ruined something.<p>It is hard to find consistent info on how long to cook certain things, and it is easy to overcook things into mush.<p>And for anyone citing cooking time of a couple minutes... That&#x27;s just misleading. Most recipes quote how many minutes to set it for. They do not tell you it takes upwards of 15 minutes to come up to pressure in some cases, and depending on the release instructions, some things can take another 20-30 minutes to release pressure if it is a large volume of liquid.<p>That said, it makes amazing steel cut oatmeal and we&#x27;ve had a couple other successes.<p>I&#x27;d love more recipes that were purely easy quick prep, toss it all in, no extra cooking steps (like finishing in the oven), and good for making easily freezable and quick to reheat one pot meals. Many recipes I&#x27;ve found are overly involved to the point where the IP seems unnecessary.<p>I desperately want to use it more, but so many recipes fail to meet the above criteria. Hopefully that improves. Maybe my expectations are just too high?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrissnell</author><text>The secret to the Instant Pot, I&#x27;ve found, is using it for things it does well. Beans and bean-based dishes are a home run every time. Chicken broth and beef bone broth are great, too. Slow cooker favorites like pot roast and pulled pork? Not so much, in my opinion. These dishes need more time to break down the collagen slowly without destroying the meat and veggies. I much prefer them in the slow cooker. Oatmeal is great but I can make it faster and better on the stovetop.<p>I&#x27;ve been working on adapting family favorite recipes to the IP. My favorites so far:<p>My Cajun mother-in-law&#x27;s real deal red beans and rice recipe: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;chrissnell&#x2F;2ee0a820b7ba7c25a12d1b253d1aaf48" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;chrissnell&#x2F;2ee0a820b7ba7c25a12d1b253...</a><p>My grandmother&#x27;s refried beans from her regionally famous 1960s-era Tex-Mex cookbook: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;chrissnell&#x2F;c87a98b7ee3239065737eaf14657db71" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;chrissnell&#x2F;c87a98b7ee3239065737eaf14...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How the Instant Pot cooker developed a cult following</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39058736</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shostack</author><text>Have had one since Black Friday.<p>I feel generally competent in the kitchen to the point where assembling a nice meal (dare I say gourmet?) from scratch without a recipe is relatively easy for me.<p>That said, I&#x27;ve found the Instant Pot to have a steep learning curve.<p>For starters, you can&#x27;t easily check on the food while it cooks, so if you are experimenting with large batch sizes and timing you are kind of gambling and have to wait till it is done (sometimes an hour) to see if you ruined something.<p>It is hard to find consistent info on how long to cook certain things, and it is easy to overcook things into mush.<p>And for anyone citing cooking time of a couple minutes... That&#x27;s just misleading. Most recipes quote how many minutes to set it for. They do not tell you it takes upwards of 15 minutes to come up to pressure in some cases, and depending on the release instructions, some things can take another 20-30 minutes to release pressure if it is a large volume of liquid.<p>That said, it makes amazing steel cut oatmeal and we&#x27;ve had a couple other successes.<p>I&#x27;d love more recipes that were purely easy quick prep, toss it all in, no extra cooking steps (like finishing in the oven), and good for making easily freezable and quick to reheat one pot meals. Many recipes I&#x27;ve found are overly involved to the point where the IP seems unnecessary.<p>I desperately want to use it more, but so many recipes fail to meet the above criteria. Hopefully that improves. Maybe my expectations are just too high?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elithrar</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seriouseats.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;pressure-cooker-recipes.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seriouseats.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;pressure-cooker-recipes.h...</a> is a great resource. The Texas chili is incredible: it&#x27;s about ~10 mins of prep (saute beef; prep chilis), 30 mins under pressure and ~10 mins to boil off the excess liquid at the end and thicken. When compared to the hours it&#x27;d take in a dutch oven or slow cooker, it turns &quot;weekend meals&quot; into weekday ones.</text></comment> |
19,018,593 | 19,018,610 | 1 | 3 | 19,017,786 | train | <story><title>Foxconn Expands Operations in India, Vietnam Amid Trade Tensions</title><url>https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/hon-hai-expands-operations-in-india-vietnam-amid-trade-tensions#gs.pXdcbNaX</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>potatofarmer45</author><text>It&#x27;s true at this current time, China is the best ecosystem to manufacture electronics. Moving anywhere will incur a higher cost but this higher cost is temporary.<p>This is econ 101. Moving now is pricier in the short run, but the investment, particularly in India, means that there will be a new ecosystem being built that will eventually provide the same costs and availability as manufactured in China without having to deal with the forced tech transfers, censorship, nationalistic boycotts, and a country that is increasingly hostile to democratic values and international norms.</text></comment> | <story><title>Foxconn Expands Operations in India, Vietnam Amid Trade Tensions</title><url>https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/hon-hai-expands-operations-in-india-vietnam-amid-trade-tensions#gs.pXdcbNaX</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thisisit</author><text>The investment in Indian unit has been long time coming. India has a strict policy on imported phones. Xiaomi, which is nearly the market leader in India has been doing it for a long time:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indiatoday.in&#x2F;technology&#x2F;news&#x2F;story&#x2F;xiaomi-now-has-6-smartphone-manufacturing-plants-in-india-will-also-make-pcbas-locally-1207974-2018-04-09" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indiatoday.in&#x2F;technology&#x2F;news&#x2F;story&#x2F;xiaomi-now-h...</a><p>Apple had lobbied hard against these rules but given that &quot;Made in India&quot; platform had be one of the bedrock policies of Prime Minister Modi, this was going to be an uphill battle.<p>That said, I might be pessimistic but I don&#x27;t see this changing Apple&#x27;s fortunes in India.</text></comment> |
19,888,815 | 19,888,785 | 1 | 2 | 19,887,519 | train | <story><title>Apple Is Giving Design A Bad Name (2015)</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/3053406/how-apple-is-giving-design-a-bad-name</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>&gt; <i>It was a champion of the graphical user interface, where it is always possible to discover what actions are possible...</i><p>People harp on this, but what changed is that phone screens are tiny. It&#x27;s just not possible to show all commands and still show content. Also, people forget that &quot;gestures&quot; like the double-click were not intuitive <i>at all</i> and that Macs came with <i>manuals</i> which had to <i>teach</i> the basic concepts of computing (double-clicking, folders, windows, etc.). While young children seem to use iPads rather intuitively (and they don&#x27;t come with manuals).<p>&gt; <i>clearly see how to select that action...</i><p>Tapping is just as intuitive as clicking... and select-tap for a context menu is no worse than click-and-hold for a drop-down menu, or right-click for a context menu.<p>&gt; <i>receive unambiguous feedback as to the results of that action...</i><p>I see no evidence this is any worse on phones. To the contrary, iOS brought a whole new world of animated feedback that makes feedback even clearer spatially (e.g. an app or folder expanding).<p>&gt; <i>and have the power to reverse that action–to undo it–if the result is not what was intended.</i><p>In the most advanced applications, yes. But &quot;undo&quot; was never a universal concept on the desktop -- it was mostly limited to text editing and actions in Office-type applications. E.g. in System 7 you couldn&#x27;t undo creating a folder or moving a file or an operation in the calculator, you&#x27;ve never been able to undo setting a preference or resizing a window, and you certainly couldn&#x27;t undo overwriting a file until Time Machine and file versions came along more recently. (And on iOS, things like drawing and text editing apps usually <i>do</i> have undo, same as on desktop.)<p>I would argue things haven&#x27;t gotten any worse, because they were never that idyllic to begin with, and that most of what does <i>seem</i> worse is forced by smaller screens, not by suddenly ignoring principles.<p>(edit: changed &quot;tap-and-hold&quot; above to &quot;select-tap&quot; which I meant to write, e.g. when bringing up the copy&#x2F;paste menu for text)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flowerlad</author><text>&gt;<i>what changed is that phone screens are tiny</i><p>iOS7 and up degraded usability relative to iOS6. See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;uxcritique.tumblr.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;uxcritique.tumblr.com&#x2F;</a> for comparisons of iOS and MacOS old vs new designs.<p>With the passing of Steve Jobs Apple has lost its design mojo.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Is Giving Design A Bad Name (2015)</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/3053406/how-apple-is-giving-design-a-bad-name</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>&gt; <i>It was a champion of the graphical user interface, where it is always possible to discover what actions are possible...</i><p>People harp on this, but what changed is that phone screens are tiny. It&#x27;s just not possible to show all commands and still show content. Also, people forget that &quot;gestures&quot; like the double-click were not intuitive <i>at all</i> and that Macs came with <i>manuals</i> which had to <i>teach</i> the basic concepts of computing (double-clicking, folders, windows, etc.). While young children seem to use iPads rather intuitively (and they don&#x27;t come with manuals).<p>&gt; <i>clearly see how to select that action...</i><p>Tapping is just as intuitive as clicking... and select-tap for a context menu is no worse than click-and-hold for a drop-down menu, or right-click for a context menu.<p>&gt; <i>receive unambiguous feedback as to the results of that action...</i><p>I see no evidence this is any worse on phones. To the contrary, iOS brought a whole new world of animated feedback that makes feedback even clearer spatially (e.g. an app or folder expanding).<p>&gt; <i>and have the power to reverse that action–to undo it–if the result is not what was intended.</i><p>In the most advanced applications, yes. But &quot;undo&quot; was never a universal concept on the desktop -- it was mostly limited to text editing and actions in Office-type applications. E.g. in System 7 you couldn&#x27;t undo creating a folder or moving a file or an operation in the calculator, you&#x27;ve never been able to undo setting a preference or resizing a window, and you certainly couldn&#x27;t undo overwriting a file until Time Machine and file versions came along more recently. (And on iOS, things like drawing and text editing apps usually <i>do</i> have undo, same as on desktop.)<p>I would argue things haven&#x27;t gotten any worse, because they were never that idyllic to begin with, and that most of what does <i>seem</i> worse is forced by smaller screens, not by suddenly ignoring principles.<p>(edit: changed &quot;tap-and-hold&quot; above to &quot;select-tap&quot; which I meant to write, e.g. when bringing up the copy&#x2F;paste menu for text)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jamesrcole</author><text>&gt; <i>and that most of what does seem worse is forced by smaller screens</i><p>and us being so familiar with the desktop that we can no longer see what is unintuitive about it for newcomers</text></comment> |
33,896,894 | 33,896,795 | 1 | 2 | 33,895,178 | train | <story><title>Abstraction is expensive</title><url>https://specbranch.com/posts/expensive-abstraction/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dlivingston</author><text>&gt; Even assembly language is an abstraction<p>Is this true? I thought assembly mapped 1-to-1 with actual HW instructions. If so, assembly wouldn&#x27;t be an abstraction, it would be an interface.</text></item><item><author>ghaff</author><text>The headline is sort of misleading. It is (appropriately) primarily about inappropriate abstractions. As you say, some abstractions are unavoidable. Even assembly language is an abstraction.</text></item><item><author>nine_k</author><text>Lack of abstraction is also expensive: try writing something large in assembly.<p>I&#x27;d say that lack of a <i>language &#x2F; system of notions adequate to the subject area</i> is expensive. The desire to describe things in a way that&#x27;s efficient for a particular class of problems leads to invention of various frameworks. Say, Rails makes you <i>hugely</i> productive at solving a particular type of problems (see [Shopify]), though it&#x27;s less than helpful if you try to apply it to unfitting problems (see [Twitter]).<p>[Shopify]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tomaszs2.medium.com&#x2F;how-shopify-handled-1-27-million-requests-s-during-black-friday-cyber-monday-8a4b1d0dd1f9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tomaszs2.medium.com&#x2F;how-shopify-handled-1-27-million...</a> (Sorry for a Medium link)<p>[Twitter]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;11&#x2F;08&#x2F;twitter_epic_traffic_saved_by_java&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;11&#x2F;08&#x2F;twitter_epic_traffic_...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>constantcrying</author><text>&gt;I thought assembly mapped 1-to-1 with actual HW instructions.<p>Assembly encodes a wide varity of abstractions (it is a human readable format after all) and lots of assembly instructions have a clear relation to an instruction on the hardware, but definitely not all.
E.g. a CPU does not understand what a &quot;label&quot; is and the semantics of a labels and jumping to them is removed by the assembler.<p>But <i>not even the assembled binary</i> actually maps to executed instructions. The CPU is actually a virtual machine which presents itself as e.g. an x86 ISA interpreter, but internally it uses microcode executed in various performance enhancing ways to speed up the process.</text></comment> | <story><title>Abstraction is expensive</title><url>https://specbranch.com/posts/expensive-abstraction/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dlivingston</author><text>&gt; Even assembly language is an abstraction<p>Is this true? I thought assembly mapped 1-to-1 with actual HW instructions. If so, assembly wouldn&#x27;t be an abstraction, it would be an interface.</text></item><item><author>ghaff</author><text>The headline is sort of misleading. It is (appropriately) primarily about inappropriate abstractions. As you say, some abstractions are unavoidable. Even assembly language is an abstraction.</text></item><item><author>nine_k</author><text>Lack of abstraction is also expensive: try writing something large in assembly.<p>I&#x27;d say that lack of a <i>language &#x2F; system of notions adequate to the subject area</i> is expensive. The desire to describe things in a way that&#x27;s efficient for a particular class of problems leads to invention of various frameworks. Say, Rails makes you <i>hugely</i> productive at solving a particular type of problems (see [Shopify]), though it&#x27;s less than helpful if you try to apply it to unfitting problems (see [Twitter]).<p>[Shopify]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tomaszs2.medium.com&#x2F;how-shopify-handled-1-27-million-requests-s-during-black-friday-cyber-monday-8a4b1d0dd1f9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tomaszs2.medium.com&#x2F;how-shopify-handled-1-27-million...</a> (Sorry for a Medium link)<p>[Twitter]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;11&#x2F;08&#x2F;twitter_epic_traffic_saved_by_java&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;11&#x2F;08&#x2F;twitter_epic_traffic_...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nine_k</author><text>First of all, you normally use symbolic labels, not offsets for jumps; the assembler will calculate them for you, and a linker will possibly build a relocation table based on them. Then, any good assembler has macros. Also, data &#x2F; text blocks, etc that are not code but an abstraction which the linker later uses.<p>Writing machine <i>code</i> directly, as a byte stream, is fun, but is exhausting.</text></comment> |
38,336,600 | 38,336,528 | 1 | 2 | 38,335,850 | train | <story><title>Underage workers are training AI</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-data-labeling-children/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjscott</author><text>This is a weird article. It starts with an anecdote about someone extremely poor who <i>really</i> needs some money, and how that person found a job with flexible hours and comfortable working conditions which paid relatively well. And then the article acts like this is obviously a horrible scandal that must be stopped.<p>Even if the allegations of &quot;traumatizing content&quot; are true and not exaggerated cherry-picking, shouldn&#x27;t the decisions here be made by the people actually involved? When well-meaning, well-fed people take away their choices (and income), this isn&#x27;t exactly doing them a favor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattdeboard</author><text>Your critique of the article is sensible to a point. But your analysis is incomplete. I’m gonna lay out a few predicates hopefully we can all agree on as true, then get to my point.<p>First, hopefully you can agree that, fundamentally, the company paying these child workers is trading money for labor. (This shouldn’t be controversial, it’s a fact of labor markets.)<p>Second, the companies paying these children are extracting value from their labor greater than what they are paying the child laborers.<p>Third, the employers chose laborers located “predominantly … in East Africa, Venezuela, Pakistan, India, and the Philippines” for this work because that’s where they can pay the least in labor costs while still extracting value.<p>Fourth, keeping labor costs as low as possible while extracting maximum value is the most rational course of action.<p>Fifth, and finally, it is very rational for children to seek out &amp; undertake this work — to exchange their labor for money — given the economics of their lives.<p>With these predicates laid out, my point: The reason your analysis doesn’t lead you to thinking this is a raw deal for the children involved is because in a sense, it’s not. Given the economics of their lives, this is, relatively speaking, a good deal.<p>The rawness of the deal only becomes apparent when we start to inspect why material conditions are such that this deal — trading an hour of labor for $2 to a company serving a multi-billion-dollar market — is enticing to <i>children</i>.<p>In other words, this article, in <i>my</i> analysis, is an opportunity to study and question the system that creates the conditions such that there is a labor market comprising children who are available for exploitation for cheap labor by very rich Western companies.</text></comment> | <story><title>Underage workers are training AI</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-data-labeling-children/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjscott</author><text>This is a weird article. It starts with an anecdote about someone extremely poor who <i>really</i> needs some money, and how that person found a job with flexible hours and comfortable working conditions which paid relatively well. And then the article acts like this is obviously a horrible scandal that must be stopped.<p>Even if the allegations of &quot;traumatizing content&quot; are true and not exaggerated cherry-picking, shouldn&#x27;t the decisions here be made by the people actually involved? When well-meaning, well-fed people take away their choices (and income), this isn&#x27;t exactly doing them a favor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jstarfish</author><text>That&#x27;s the moral dilemma. In a just world, people wouldn&#x27;t have to sell their bodies or break their minds in order to eat.<p>But we don&#x27;t live in a just world, so until we do, denying them opportunities over &quot;ethics&quot; is condemning them to worse treatment elsewhere-- or starvation.<p>Hungry people don&#x27;t care about the opinions of fat academics pontificating about Ethics.</text></comment> |
19,184,355 | 19,183,668 | 1 | 2 | 19,183,022 | train | <story><title>The Rise of the Tech-Savvy Parent</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/the-rise-of-the-tech-savvy-parent/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ddebernardy</author><text>It&#x27;s not clear to me why they should be &quot;digitally superior&quot; - whatever that means. Kids just need to tap icons on their touchscreens nowadays. They seldom need to tinker with or troubleshoot computers.<p>Just spitballing here, but I&#x27;d expect peak tech-savviness to have occurred in the 80s and early 90s. If you were old enough to want to play resource intensive games released in the run-up to Win95, you&#x27;d sometimes need to free up memory by messing around with config.sys and autoexec.bat. Good times...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noir_lord</author><text>I&#x27;m seeing this right now, I grew up programming (started at 7), at 9 I was way more computer fluent than my 9 year old step-son is now.<p>I think it&#x27;s simply that modern machines are (generally) so reliable that you never have to get under the hood to figure out what broke until you (rarely) do and then you have no conceptual framework for trying to resolve what is broken.<p>His trouble shooting process is handing it to me and telling me &quot;it&#x27;s not working&quot;.<p>I refuse to fix it unless he watches and pays attention to how I&#x27;m fixing it, slowly he&#x27;s starting to understand that none of this stuff is magic.<p>I don&#x27;t care if has no interest in computers generally but I think it&#x27;s important that he realises the devices&#x2F;technology he interacts with isn&#x27;t just a magic black box.<p>He was interested in what I was programming the other day though so I told him we could build a website together as long as he chose the subject, wrote what he wanted to put on it and wrote the code with my supervision, inevitably it&#x27;s going to be about Fortnite but I&#x27;ll take whatever wins I can get.<p>Generally I&#x27;ll ask answer his questions with questions, we had a discussion about IP addresses the other day (though he had know idea what an IP address was) because he was curious how one computer &quot;talks&quot; to another so I asked a bunch of questions &quot;Assuming you had lots of computers how would you tell one from the other&quot; &quot;I&#x27;d number them&quot; &quot;Ok, so what if you wanted to replace a computer but keep talking to it as if it was the old computer?&quot; &quot;I&#x27;d make it so the numbers could be changed for each computer&quot;, &quot;OK, so you have millions of computers with millions of numbers how would you know which number went with which computer?&quot; &quot;well...I&#x27;d name them but in a way that I could say this name belongs to this number&quot;, I was proud, he pretty much figured out DNS without knowing DNS was a thing.<p>So then I showed him the config panel for a web host and pointed out that his names and numbers where an actual thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Rise of the Tech-Savvy Parent</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/the-rise-of-the-tech-savvy-parent/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ddebernardy</author><text>It&#x27;s not clear to me why they should be &quot;digitally superior&quot; - whatever that means. Kids just need to tap icons on their touchscreens nowadays. They seldom need to tinker with or troubleshoot computers.<p>Just spitballing here, but I&#x27;d expect peak tech-savviness to have occurred in the 80s and early 90s. If you were old enough to want to play resource intensive games released in the run-up to Win95, you&#x27;d sometimes need to free up memory by messing around with config.sys and autoexec.bat. Good times...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alephnil</author><text>In fact, it is much harder to tinker with technology than it used to be. Not only is it more complex, but phones are also locked down so you are not really able to control your own device, or it does at least require quite some effort to do so, and can&#x27;t be done using the device itself. Both Apple and Google in practice discourage people from tinkering with the device.</text></comment> |
36,833,107 | 36,832,857 | 1 | 2 | 36,828,861 | train | <story><title>America’s largest tool company couldn’t make a wrench in America</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/craftsman-america-wrench-stanley-black-decker-reshoring-factory-1125792f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>Here&#x27;s a video from Beta, a wrench manufacturer in Italy.[1] Think about what it would take to build a plant like that from a cold start. What you&#x27;d need to know. All the ways you could screw up. How much it would cost to recover from a bad decision. Notice what they automated, and what they didn&#x27;t.<p>Who wants to be a millwright? Or a production engineer? To build a factory, you need both. Once you&#x27;ve built the factory, you don&#x27;t need most of them them any more. It&#x27;s a job with high layoff potential. Top pay is maybe $125K.<p>You need people who&#x27;ve built your kind of factory before. Here, they need people who&#x27;ve built mechanized hot forging shops. Since few of those are built in the US each year, there&#x27;s no pool of such people.<p>Stanley, the company, had forgotten how to build a plant like that.
They relied on the equipment manufacturer, and perhaps some consultants. That didn&#x27;t work out.<p>It takes a long time to get a good factory going from a cold start. It took Airbus 21 years before they made a good airplane. It took Tesla 15 years from start to significant production volume.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=azDUFQ-e0EM">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=azDUFQ-e0EM</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danielvf</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked in manufacturing, been adjacent to manufacturing for most of my life, and written software for custom factory floor machines.<p>That Beta wrench factory wouldn&#x27;t be hard for someone in the industry to stand up. It&#x27;s is fairly low tech, little automation, and 95% off the shelf machines. Even the two possibly custom machines I saw in that video are built out of off the shelf components.<p>This really isn&#x27;t rocket science. You have a list of operations needed to make the product. You take that list and turn into machines, and time it takes to do each operation. If this is slower than your target time per part, you increase the number of machines on that operation (see all the tumblers in the wrench video).<p>The US has many cities with deep industrial expertise. The US and China are roughly manufacturing output peers, even though the US has 1&#x2F;5 the population.<p>I know someone who stood up a production line in the US for some of the most complex pieces of metal ever made, involving hundreds of machine cells, (more many nations have made nuclear reactors than make this thing), and the production line side is something that&#x27;s just isn&#x27;t that hard. The planning is work sure, but it stuff that&#x27;s been done before bazillions of times before.<p>Standing up a manufacturing line is far less risky than creating new software - assuming you&#x27;ve got experienced people doing it.</text></comment> | <story><title>America’s largest tool company couldn’t make a wrench in America</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/craftsman-america-wrench-stanley-black-decker-reshoring-factory-1125792f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>Here&#x27;s a video from Beta, a wrench manufacturer in Italy.[1] Think about what it would take to build a plant like that from a cold start. What you&#x27;d need to know. All the ways you could screw up. How much it would cost to recover from a bad decision. Notice what they automated, and what they didn&#x27;t.<p>Who wants to be a millwright? Or a production engineer? To build a factory, you need both. Once you&#x27;ve built the factory, you don&#x27;t need most of them them any more. It&#x27;s a job with high layoff potential. Top pay is maybe $125K.<p>You need people who&#x27;ve built your kind of factory before. Here, they need people who&#x27;ve built mechanized hot forging shops. Since few of those are built in the US each year, there&#x27;s no pool of such people.<p>Stanley, the company, had forgotten how to build a plant like that.
They relied on the equipment manufacturer, and perhaps some consultants. That didn&#x27;t work out.<p>It takes a long time to get a good factory going from a cold start. It took Airbus 21 years before they made a good airplane. It took Tesla 15 years from start to significant production volume.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=azDUFQ-e0EM">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=azDUFQ-e0EM</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VectorLock</author><text>&gt;Here&#x27;s a video from Beta, a wrench manufacturer in Italy.<p>&gt;It took Airbus 21 years before they made a good airplane. It took Tesla 15 years from start to significant production volume.<p>Extrapolating from complexity it would only take a few months at worse to make a factory producting drop forged box end wrenches.</text></comment> |
3,629,749 | 3,629,826 | 1 | 3 | 3,629,477 | train | <story><title>The desks of 37signals</title><url>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3120-all-hands-battlestations</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nazar</author><text>Is it just me, but despite all nice things 37signals are doing I find them arrogant and feel like they exaggerating more than they actually doing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>j_col</author><text>I completely agree, for me they are the ultimate embodiment of the hipster/brogrammer/ninja/guru culture that has become something of a running joke in the industry (at least in my little corner of it).</text></comment> | <story><title>The desks of 37signals</title><url>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3120-all-hands-battlestations</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nazar</author><text>Is it just me, but despite all nice things 37signals are doing I find them arrogant and feel like they exaggerating more than they actually doing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ForrestN</author><text>Yeah, I couldn't believe it when I read the part where they say "Check out our sweet desks. Jealous??"<p>I re-read the post and can't find anything qualifying as arrogant or exaggerating. I'm not a 37Signals expert, and I'm sure there are examples elsewhere, but certainly with regards to this post you're off base.</text></comment> |
2,998,659 | 2,998,598 | 1 | 2 | 2,996,785 | train | <story><title>IOS Boilerplate: A base template for iOS apps</title><url>http://iosboilerplate.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zbowling</author><text>So here is my solution after giving it a little thought:<p>Instead of a base template project, we need a modular system for adding dependent packages on a case by case basis similar to python eggs and ruby gems. Just a simple set of command line tools.<p>Then you could build a central repository of formula scripts for adding frameworks to your project (maybe something simple like how homebrew just uses really simple ruby scripts and built in git awesomeness to keep it up to date and power a good portion of itself and allow others to submit forumlas via pull requests).<p>The formulas could pull down code from these various project's hosts on an as needed basis and they could be downloaded right into a standard "/vendor/" folder in your project directory when installed. A file would created with install info and time it was pulled so you could easily update the project later with another command.<p>Then maybe update (or maybe not) update your project file to reference it, add target dependencies, add header search paths or copy file operations for frameworks, etc. (This could be done by generating a base xcconfig file that links in xcconfig files provided by each forumla install into the project).<p>All these packages could be added to this system and allow the user to search and find great libraries, install them, keep them up to date, and whatever.<p>(If no body else does this, I may end up do it actually)</text></item><item><author>zbowling</author><text>This isn't really necessary and most of these packages will be obsolete in iOS 5 and using a few them (like ASIHTTPRequest) will get you in trouble with ARC.<p>* JSONKit - It's an ok choice but there are literally 5 choices I can think of off the top of my head (not including the now built in JSON support in Lion and iOS 5). I prefer SBJSON because it was once benchmarked with the fastest read speed and it has a dirt simple interface for me as a dev.<p>* ASIHTTPRequest - I used to swear by it, but now NSURLConnection in Lion (and iOS 5) has async methods with blocks. ASIHTTPRequest doesn't play nicely with ARC because it doesn't have a conventional pattern to object ownership (design to make it less to work to deal by deallocing itself for async usage).<p>* ImageManager - cute, but it's one of many solutions and this one takes some of the cache control out of my hands. I don't believe it resuses ASIHTTPRequest so now I have two HTTP libraries in my project and I'm juggling between both.<p>* The numerous category packages to extend and add convenience methods - these are all cute but I like to take things on a case by case basis and not add code bloat and unused functionality in one shot.<p>The problem that I have is that unlike HTML5 boilerplate which is a common subset of the absolute minimum you are going to need 99% of the time that is put together in the best possible manor, this is just a collection of various packages that you probably will not end up using more than 50% of in most applications. It's not really a "boilerplate" for that reason.<p>Edit: my coworker sent me this when he saw I wrote this reply - <a href="http://xkcd.com/386/" rel="nofollow">http://xkcd.com/386/</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eraserhd</author><text>I have started something like this, although I would barely call it alpha at this point. I would be willing to abandon it and contribute my effort elsewhere if there's another project further along or with a better design, but I offer mine for consideration.<p><a href="https://github.com/eraserhd/acd" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/eraserhd/acd</a><p>It's in the process of being renamed apothecary. It's based around using git submodules for importing other people's code. I was really tired of instructions like, "copy all of these files into your project." (Really?!)</text></comment> | <story><title>IOS Boilerplate: A base template for iOS apps</title><url>http://iosboilerplate.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zbowling</author><text>So here is my solution after giving it a little thought:<p>Instead of a base template project, we need a modular system for adding dependent packages on a case by case basis similar to python eggs and ruby gems. Just a simple set of command line tools.<p>Then you could build a central repository of formula scripts for adding frameworks to your project (maybe something simple like how homebrew just uses really simple ruby scripts and built in git awesomeness to keep it up to date and power a good portion of itself and allow others to submit forumlas via pull requests).<p>The formulas could pull down code from these various project's hosts on an as needed basis and they could be downloaded right into a standard "/vendor/" folder in your project directory when installed. A file would created with install info and time it was pulled so you could easily update the project later with another command.<p>Then maybe update (or maybe not) update your project file to reference it, add target dependencies, add header search paths or copy file operations for frameworks, etc. (This could be done by generating a base xcconfig file that links in xcconfig files provided by each forumla install into the project).<p>All these packages could be added to this system and allow the user to search and find great libraries, install them, keep them up to date, and whatever.<p>(If no body else does this, I may end up do it actually)</text></item><item><author>zbowling</author><text>This isn't really necessary and most of these packages will be obsolete in iOS 5 and using a few them (like ASIHTTPRequest) will get you in trouble with ARC.<p>* JSONKit - It's an ok choice but there are literally 5 choices I can think of off the top of my head (not including the now built in JSON support in Lion and iOS 5). I prefer SBJSON because it was once benchmarked with the fastest read speed and it has a dirt simple interface for me as a dev.<p>* ASIHTTPRequest - I used to swear by it, but now NSURLConnection in Lion (and iOS 5) has async methods with blocks. ASIHTTPRequest doesn't play nicely with ARC because it doesn't have a conventional pattern to object ownership (design to make it less to work to deal by deallocing itself for async usage).<p>* ImageManager - cute, but it's one of many solutions and this one takes some of the cache control out of my hands. I don't believe it resuses ASIHTTPRequest so now I have two HTTP libraries in my project and I'm juggling between both.<p>* The numerous category packages to extend and add convenience methods - these are all cute but I like to take things on a case by case basis and not add code bloat and unused functionality in one shot.<p>The problem that I have is that unlike HTML5 boilerplate which is a common subset of the absolute minimum you are going to need 99% of the time that is put together in the best possible manor, this is just a collection of various packages that you probably will not end up using more than 50% of in most applications. It's not really a "boilerplate" for that reason.<p>Edit: my coworker sent me this when he saw I wrote this reply - <a href="http://xkcd.com/386/" rel="nofollow">http://xkcd.com/386/</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bbsabelli</author><text>Something like "kits"?<p><a href="https://gist.github.com/582228/e1f475afec526b04a585cf517a72757bf38ef0b6" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/582228/e1f475afec526b04a585cf517a727...</a></text></comment> |
29,861,502 | 29,861,504 | 1 | 2 | 29,860,489 | train | <story><title>On Web3 Infrastructure</title><url>https://mirror.xyz/suzuha.eth/vb5E5lhzmPTcpxOJcz6Q211TDgSvoFwDLA6JSM1V37Q</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ayngg</author><text>I think the idea is that there are entities like facebook&#x2F; meta who believe that the metaverse is going to be a big thing, so if a &quot;metaverse&quot; is going to exist and see adoption, most people would much rather have it not be under the sole control of a corporation like facebook like most of the services on the web right now. Similarly, digital currencies are going to eventually become mainstream, and there are similar concerns about how central banks will implement them. In cases like these, having an second option that isn&#x27;t controlled by some powerful institution could help democratize how they get implemented and used. If you dismiss it, then you are just leaving it to these large institutions to make the rules like they previously have, they have the power and resources to out compete, buy or snuff out any traditional competition.</text></item><item><author>egeozcan</author><text>&gt; if your only answer is dismissal and anger, you’re actually just ceding the power to decide what these technologies will look like in our world<p>I mean, if I&#x27;m dismissing it, it means that I don&#x27;t believe that anything meaningful could come out of it, doesn&#x27;t it? At that point, why &quot;power to decide what these technologies will look like in our world&quot; should have any role in my decision process?<p>&gt; these technologies are not going to go away<p>There are a lot of harmful, useless, irrelevant, etc. technologies which won&#x27;t go away. So this wouldn&#x27;t be surprising. But if someone is trying to articulate that these technologies will create a revolution of some sorts, most people will need better convincing.<p>Show me the value, where&#x27;s the ??? value!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cormacrelf</author><text>Yeah, but remember when Facebook decided to inflate engagement stats for video, and sent everyone on a wild goose chase trying to create videos for everything? That made journalism much more expensive to do, made the web worse (auto playing videos now everywhere) and was a complete and utter waste of everyone’s time, effort and money. That’s almost certainly happening again with the metaverse. You don’t have to play the game. You’re arguing that we should follow the advice of large institutions to invest in their crap, simply because if we don’t, they’ll have the crap all to themselves. I say let them keep it.</text></comment> | <story><title>On Web3 Infrastructure</title><url>https://mirror.xyz/suzuha.eth/vb5E5lhzmPTcpxOJcz6Q211TDgSvoFwDLA6JSM1V37Q</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ayngg</author><text>I think the idea is that there are entities like facebook&#x2F; meta who believe that the metaverse is going to be a big thing, so if a &quot;metaverse&quot; is going to exist and see adoption, most people would much rather have it not be under the sole control of a corporation like facebook like most of the services on the web right now. Similarly, digital currencies are going to eventually become mainstream, and there are similar concerns about how central banks will implement them. In cases like these, having an second option that isn&#x27;t controlled by some powerful institution could help democratize how they get implemented and used. If you dismiss it, then you are just leaving it to these large institutions to make the rules like they previously have, they have the power and resources to out compete, buy or snuff out any traditional competition.</text></item><item><author>egeozcan</author><text>&gt; if your only answer is dismissal and anger, you’re actually just ceding the power to decide what these technologies will look like in our world<p>I mean, if I&#x27;m dismissing it, it means that I don&#x27;t believe that anything meaningful could come out of it, doesn&#x27;t it? At that point, why &quot;power to decide what these technologies will look like in our world&quot; should have any role in my decision process?<p>&gt; these technologies are not going to go away<p>There are a lot of harmful, useless, irrelevant, etc. technologies which won&#x27;t go away. So this wouldn&#x27;t be surprising. But if someone is trying to articulate that these technologies will create a revolution of some sorts, most people will need better convincing.<p>Show me the value, where&#x27;s the ??? value!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grumpyprole</author><text>&gt; could help democratize how they get implemented<p>Was there any democratic process when &quot;Solidity&quot; was designed? Unfortunately, it does not appear to me that the right experts have been involved and that there was peer review. It looks like it was thrown over a wall, much like JavaScript was.</text></comment> |
40,701,313 | 40,700,985 | 1 | 2 | 40,699,470 | train | <story><title>NumPy 2.0</title><url>https://numpy.org/devdocs/release/2.0.0-notes.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dahart</author><text>The thing I want most is a more sane and more memorable way to compose non-element-wise operations. There are so many different ways to build views and multiply arrays that I can’t remember them and never know which to use, and have to relearn them every time I use numpy… broadcasting, padding, repeating, slicing, stacking, transposing, outers, inners, dots of all sorts, and half the stack overflow answers lead to the most confusing pickaxe of all: einsum. Am I alone? I love numpy, but every time I reach for it I somehow get stuck for hours on what ought to be really simple indexing problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>salamo</author><text>When I started out I was basically stumbling around for code that worked. Things got a lot easier for me once I sat down and actually understood broadcasting.<p>The rules are: 1) scalars always broadcast, 2) if one vector has fewer dimensions, left pad it with 1s and 3) starting from the right, check dimension compatibility, where compatibility means the dimensions are equal or one of them is 1. Example: np.ones((2,3,1)) * np.ones((1,4)) = np.ones((2,3,4))<p>Once your dimensions are correct, it&#x27;s a lot easier to reason your way through a problem, similar to how basic dimensional analysis in physics can verify your answer makes some sense.<p>(I would disable broadcasting if I could, since it has caused way too many silent bugs in my experience. JAX can, but I don&#x27;t feel like learning another library to do this.)<p>Once I understood broadcasting, it was a lot easier to practice vectorizing basic algorithms.</text></comment> | <story><title>NumPy 2.0</title><url>https://numpy.org/devdocs/release/2.0.0-notes.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dahart</author><text>The thing I want most is a more sane and more memorable way to compose non-element-wise operations. There are so many different ways to build views and multiply arrays that I can’t remember them and never know which to use, and have to relearn them every time I use numpy… broadcasting, padding, repeating, slicing, stacking, transposing, outers, inners, dots of all sorts, and half the stack overflow answers lead to the most confusing pickaxe of all: einsum. Am I alone? I love numpy, but every time I reach for it I somehow get stuck for hours on what ought to be really simple indexing problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akasakahakada</author><text>To be honest einsum is the easiest one. You get fine control on which axis matmul to which. But I wish it can do more than matmul.<p>The others are just messy shit. Like you got np.abs but no arr.abs, np.unique but no arr.unique. But now you have arr.mean.<p>Sometimes you got argument name index, sometimes indices, sometimes accept (list, tuple), sometime only tuple.</text></comment> |
13,932,516 | 13,932,047 | 1 | 2 | 13,931,100 | train | <story><title>The relationship between our moods and sunlight</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/is-the-dark-really-making-me-sad/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SamBam</author><text>I was impressed by this part:<p>&gt; In recent years, light therapy has experienced something of a backlash in Sweden, and Malmö’s clinic is one of only a handful that remain. In part, this was a response to a 2007 study by the Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care, which reviewed the available evidence and concluded that “although treatment in light therapy rooms is well established in Sweden, no satisfactory, controlled studies have been published on the subject.&quot;<p>My first thought was &quot;Wow, a whole country that reacts to scientific articles and statements about the lack of controlled studies.&quot;<p>(Of course, the article goes on to say that light therapy shouldn&#x27;t really be discredited yet, as controlled studies are hard.)</text></comment> | <story><title>The relationship between our moods and sunlight</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/is-the-dark-really-making-me-sad/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Zaheer</author><text>The most depressing thing is leaving work after its dark. The brief amount of sunshine in the morning is not nearly enough in a day.</text></comment> |
14,880,881 | 14,880,895 | 1 | 2 | 14,880,659 | train | <story><title>Apple Removes Apps from China Store That Help Internet Users Evade Censorship</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/technology/china-apple-censorhip.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pipio21</author><text>Just common sense, given that the China gobertment has made usage of VPNs illegal.<p>What do you expect?<p>People in China could continue using app store accounts created in other countries as usual.<p>And most educated people continue using VPNs too. Normal people are becoming experts in encription, security...<p>It worries me more that countries like the UK and the US want to follow China, in that order.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>humanrebar</author><text>I expect Apple to respect universal human rights regardless of the context. Freedom of speech is foundational.<p>And this isn&#x27;t a China-vs-the-West thing. The idea that people deserve and need to be able to communicate freely predates the current governments of both China and the U.S.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Removes Apps from China Store That Help Internet Users Evade Censorship</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/technology/china-apple-censorhip.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pipio21</author><text>Just common sense, given that the China gobertment has made usage of VPNs illegal.<p>What do you expect?<p>People in China could continue using app store accounts created in other countries as usual.<p>And most educated people continue using VPNs too. Normal people are becoming experts in encription, security...<p>It worries me more that countries like the UK and the US want to follow China, in that order.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eternalban</author><text>UK is the surveillance capital of this planet [1]. PM May expressed readiness to &quot;tear up Human Rights&quot;[2]. UK is the enabler of Chinese CP leadership, not a follower.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2016&#x2F;nov&#x2F;19&#x2F;extreme-surveillance-becomes-uk-law-with-barely-a-whimper" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2016&#x2F;nov&#x2F;19&#x2F;extreme-survei...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;2017&#x2F;jun&#x2F;06&#x2F;theresa-may-rip-up-human-rights-laws-impede-new-terror-legislation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;2017&#x2F;jun&#x2F;06&#x2F;theresa-may...</a></text></comment> |
11,336,529 | 11,335,936 | 1 | 2 | 11,335,777 | train | <story><title>Brussels Rocked by Terrorist Attacks</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/people-injured-after-explosion-at-brussels-airport-police-say-1458632527</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmichulke</author><text>As sad as it is, I think the responses will be:<p>- we need more surveillance rights and money for the secret services<p>- we need more police and higher spending<p>- and possibly bomb some country (Syria is en vogue)<p>What won&#x27;t be said is:<p>- How come this happens <i>again</i> without anyone having seen it coming?<p>- What does it say about the success of the Western anti-terror foreign policy adopted ~2001?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BFatts</author><text>For every attack that they &quot;didn&#x27;t see coming&quot; there are, most likely, plenty of attacks that they &quot;did see coming&quot; and stopped. Even more likely is that we don&#x27;t hear about these stopped attacks because they aren&#x27;t sexy news. Or, when attacks ARE stopped, and it&#x27;s published, people question whether it&#x27;s just blustering by the government to justify their jobs.<p>It&#x27;s not like you can say &quot;yeah, we saw that coming and let it happen.&quot; Because THAT, sure as hell, will not fly with the people. And &quot;yeah, we saw it coming and stopped it&quot; is questioned as just posturing. When people say &quot;scanning individuals in airports makes us no safer,&quot; what are they comparing it to?<p>Is it that they doubt the effectiveness because people are still getting killed by terrorists in planes? No. It&#x27;s because there are no attacks, so they have no data to say &quot;yeah... it&#x27;s been effective.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Brussels Rocked by Terrorist Attacks</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/people-injured-after-explosion-at-brussels-airport-police-say-1458632527</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmichulke</author><text>As sad as it is, I think the responses will be:<p>- we need more surveillance rights and money for the secret services<p>- we need more police and higher spending<p>- and possibly bomb some country (Syria is en vogue)<p>What won&#x27;t be said is:<p>- How come this happens <i>again</i> without anyone having seen it coming?<p>- What does it say about the success of the Western anti-terror foreign policy adopted ~2001?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acjohnson55</author><text>One thing I haven&#x27;t heard is &quot;we didn&#x27;t see it coming&quot;. Quite the opposite. Everybody&#x27;s been bracing for this ever since Paris.<p>But I agree that this is a problem we can&#x27;t bomb our way out of.</text></comment> |
29,904,049 | 29,902,691 | 1 | 3 | 29,886,907 | train | <story><title>The medieval habit of ‘two sleeps’</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieval-habit-of-biphasic-sleep</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Arwill</author><text>The article does not mention it, but mothers with small children have to nurse babies every couple of hours, even at night. So given that in middle ages, families had &quot;copious numbers of children&quot; (quote from the article), it is for sure that mothers would need to get up to feed a baby. And then possibly the whole family would woke up too. And if multiple generations were living in the same house, then even more probably there were babies too. I can imagine such a basic need being the root of the habit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m_eiman</author><text>Here&#x27;s a nice graphic showing a baby&#x27;s sleep pattern during the first 15 weeks:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eiman.tv&#x2F;misc&#x2F;somnrytm.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eiman.tv&#x2F;misc&#x2F;somnrytm.jpg</a><p>Since the text is in Swedish, here&#x27;s roughly what it says: Every row is a day, black is sleep, white is awake.</text></comment> | <story><title>The medieval habit of ‘two sleeps’</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieval-habit-of-biphasic-sleep</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Arwill</author><text>The article does not mention it, but mothers with small children have to nurse babies every couple of hours, even at night. So given that in middle ages, families had &quot;copious numbers of children&quot; (quote from the article), it is for sure that mothers would need to get up to feed a baby. And then possibly the whole family would woke up too. And if multiple generations were living in the same house, then even more probably there were babies too. I can imagine such a basic need being the root of the habit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>divbzero</author><text>It’s funny that you mention that. When I was reading the article, it occurred to me how biphasic (or multiphasic) sleep resembles the schedule of a newborn’s parents. To me the lack of artificial lighting is a more compelling explanation, but who knows there could be many factors that contributed to the habit.</text></comment> |
3,959,350 | 3,959,428 | 1 | 2 | 3,958,950 | train | <story><title>Apple to drop Google Maps in iOS 6 for in-house Maps?</title><url>http://9to5mac.com/2012/05/11/ios-6-apple-drops-google-maps-debuts-in-house-maps-with-incredible-3d-mode/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>fierarul</author><text>Either you have a fleet of trucks or you are overestimating how much Android's navigation is saving you.<p>When my GPS broke down, I didn't start using my phone, I just bought another GPS for 99 euro.<p>(And funny thing is the old one has just some loose wires and could be fixed a few months later by an electrician.)</text></item><item><author>dabeeeenster</author><text>What a lot of hot air. The killer aspect of Google Maps on Android is the turn by turn navigation with traffic. That saves me hundreds of £ a year and is just brilliant.<p>"but it is described as a much cleaner, faster, and more reliable experience"<p>I'm sorry, but what a lot of bullshit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stanleydrew</author><text>It seems awfully strange to nit pick about the savings. So what if it's saving him only £50 per year or whatever? Can we agree that it's nonzero? Ok great. Now we can move on to addressing the meat of the comment.<p>Which is that iOS users have been denied the luxury of excellent and free turn-by-turn navigation available on Android, and this maps update does nothing to address that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple to drop Google Maps in iOS 6 for in-house Maps?</title><url>http://9to5mac.com/2012/05/11/ios-6-apple-drops-google-maps-debuts-in-house-maps-with-incredible-3d-mode/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>fierarul</author><text>Either you have a fleet of trucks or you are overestimating how much Android's navigation is saving you.<p>When my GPS broke down, I didn't start using my phone, I just bought another GPS for 99 euro.<p>(And funny thing is the old one has just some loose wires and could be fixed a few months later by an electrician.)</text></item><item><author>dabeeeenster</author><text>What a lot of hot air. The killer aspect of Google Maps on Android is the turn by turn navigation with traffic. That saves me hundreds of £ a year and is just brilliant.<p>"but it is described as a much cleaner, faster, and more reliable experience"<p>I'm sorry, but what a lot of bullshit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisrhoden</author><text>I think you're forgetting how much a device of similar capability to the Android navigation cost before it was free on most smartphones. And subscription costs. Your inexpensive GPS unit was put on perpetual clearance by the app you're disparaging.</text></comment> |
24,073,819 | 24,073,201 | 1 | 2 | 24,072,315 | train | <story><title>How we scaled Google Meet during Covid-19</title><url>https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/keeping-google-meet-ahead-of-usage-demand-during-covid-19</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>parhamn</author><text>It&#x27;s crazy how little Google&#x27;s marketcap benefits from things like this. Zoom&#x27;s here sitting on 75B (~1&#x2F;15th Googs) as we speak and Google Meet probably isn&#x27;t even legitimately used in pricing Google. Wonder what Google&#x27;s market cap would be if each individual service got the VC future growth pricing.</text></comment> | <story><title>How we scaled Google Meet during Covid-19</title><url>https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/keeping-google-meet-ahead-of-usage-demand-during-covid-19</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jtwaleson</author><text>To Googlers working on this: thank you! My work life shifted from 5% Meet to 80% Meet and it only got better during the crisis. Never noticed deteriorated performance.</text></comment> |
6,261,902 | 6,261,852 | 1 | 2 | 6,260,419 | train | <story><title>Javascript Frameworks Are Amazing and Nobody Is Happy</title><url>http://wekeroad.com/2013/08/22/js-frameworks-are-amazing-and-no-one-is-happy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheZenPsycho</author><text>Yes yes, everything that&#x27;s happening now has happened before with other technologies. Except this time:<p>1. it&#x27;s in a runtime that is in more machines than any other in history.<p>2. can be loaded instantaneously with no installation procedures.<p>3. and no plugins<p>4. On almost any platform, linux, mac, windows, ios, android, windows phone, blackberry, palm, chrome OS, even game consoles. Including the nintendo DS!<p>5. is broadly accessible to people with various kinds of disabilities<p>6. doesn&#x27;t require a team of 20 engineers taking 4 years to build. (which other tech has achieved, and arguably much better, but not combined with the other things above)<p>7. Works on miniature computer machines small enough to fit in your pocket, and can download your app wirelessly. From the air. <i>in your pocket</i>. FROM FUCKING OUTER SPACE<p>(incidentally, did HN skip out on the whole ordered list notation of markdown?)<p>edit;
To add a couple more points:<p>* SEARCH ENGINES can automatically index your shit.<p>* We have these things called hyperlinks which allow automatic, ubiquitous and pervasive interoperation everywhere.<p>I see a common pattern on HN where whenever the topic of javascript comes up, all you see is pages and pages of wretching about how AWFUL it is, and how you could do X in Y language Z years ago already. That&#x27;s not the hacker spirit. A hacker looks at what&#x27;s out there, and what&#x27;s possible, shuts up, and builds something awesome with it. (and then wretches about how awful it was)<p>In fact, the WORSE the underlying technology used to build something awesome, the more proud the hacker is that they achieved it. Where&#x27;s that spirit?<p>Sure it&#x27;s not as nice to program in as your favourite language or environment, but it&#x27;s come a long damn way. would you give it a minute?</text></item><item><author>fizx</author><text>Programming tends to this pattern where people get super-excited when a language gets a feature everyone else has taken for granted forever. It&#x27;s like a guy getting out of the hospital after shooting himself in the foot. You know what&#x27;s better? Not shooting yourself.<p>Congrats Javascript--on almost being as good at data-binding and layout as VB6! Me, I&#x27;m going to keep kvetching about javascript frameworks until flexbox is widely supported, the strongly-typed language flavor-of-the week actually is stable, and frameworks like angular don&#x27;t embrace silent failure modes as a feature.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reeses</author><text>I fink u freeky and I like you a lot.<p>There&#x27;s the stuff we wish we could have done 50 years ago but couldn&#x27;t. There&#x27;s the stuff we could have done 50 years ago but only one person could do it by making a $1m multi-user computer not so multi-user. Then there&#x27;s the stuff we didn&#x27;t even know about. They&#x27;re all awesome.<p>Yes, Javascript has genital warts, but I don&#x27;t have to care. I can write sorta-lisp, which means I can layer my own stuff on top, and it magically works. I mean, emscripten!<p>The things that I miss, like automatic image-based persistence, are coming back anyway, and they&#x27;ll be <i>fast</i>, probably open source, and can be integrated in a hazy, drunken, weekend.</text></comment> | <story><title>Javascript Frameworks Are Amazing and Nobody Is Happy</title><url>http://wekeroad.com/2013/08/22/js-frameworks-are-amazing-and-no-one-is-happy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheZenPsycho</author><text>Yes yes, everything that&#x27;s happening now has happened before with other technologies. Except this time:<p>1. it&#x27;s in a runtime that is in more machines than any other in history.<p>2. can be loaded instantaneously with no installation procedures.<p>3. and no plugins<p>4. On almost any platform, linux, mac, windows, ios, android, windows phone, blackberry, palm, chrome OS, even game consoles. Including the nintendo DS!<p>5. is broadly accessible to people with various kinds of disabilities<p>6. doesn&#x27;t require a team of 20 engineers taking 4 years to build. (which other tech has achieved, and arguably much better, but not combined with the other things above)<p>7. Works on miniature computer machines small enough to fit in your pocket, and can download your app wirelessly. From the air. <i>in your pocket</i>. FROM FUCKING OUTER SPACE<p>(incidentally, did HN skip out on the whole ordered list notation of markdown?)<p>edit;
To add a couple more points:<p>* SEARCH ENGINES can automatically index your shit.<p>* We have these things called hyperlinks which allow automatic, ubiquitous and pervasive interoperation everywhere.<p>I see a common pattern on HN where whenever the topic of javascript comes up, all you see is pages and pages of wretching about how AWFUL it is, and how you could do X in Y language Z years ago already. That&#x27;s not the hacker spirit. A hacker looks at what&#x27;s out there, and what&#x27;s possible, shuts up, and builds something awesome with it. (and then wretches about how awful it was)<p>In fact, the WORSE the underlying technology used to build something awesome, the more proud the hacker is that they achieved it. Where&#x27;s that spirit?<p>Sure it&#x27;s not as nice to program in as your favourite language or environment, but it&#x27;s come a long damn way. would you give it a minute?</text></item><item><author>fizx</author><text>Programming tends to this pattern where people get super-excited when a language gets a feature everyone else has taken for granted forever. It&#x27;s like a guy getting out of the hospital after shooting himself in the foot. You know what&#x27;s better? Not shooting yourself.<p>Congrats Javascript--on almost being as good at data-binding and layout as VB6! Me, I&#x27;m going to keep kvetching about javascript frameworks until flexbox is widely supported, the strongly-typed language flavor-of-the week actually is stable, and frameworks like angular don&#x27;t embrace silent failure modes as a feature.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>luikore</author><text>Absolutely not. These statements are boring because everyone knows there are javascript everywhere on the internet. But so what? We should pay more attention to GOOD languages rather than popular languages. It&#x27;s not javascript a great language but the people made the products great people. They could do even better if javascript is not so popular.</text></comment> |
37,079,340 | 37,077,850 | 1 | 2 | 37,076,523 | train | <story><title>MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names</title><url>https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/limits-specifications-teams</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eastbound</author><text>Those should obviously be UUIDs. Labels and titles should be a simple changeable, internationalizable attribute.<p>Like usernames. You don’t use usernames as primary keys for anything, do you? What happens when people marry?</text></item><item><author>thefz</author><text>&gt; essentially leaking the existence of something terrible inside<p>It&#x27;s just a restriction imposed on SharePoint folder names bubbling up. Nothing fancy.</text></item><item><author>Brian_K_White</author><text>I was about to say &quot;Which is essentially leaking the existence of something terrible inside. They should be embarrassed to say something like this in public. Like saying you can&#x27;t have %s or $PS1. Why the hell not? What are you doing with this user-supplied input?&quot;<p>But maybe it&#x27;s more about what everyone else might do with a channel name. Ie they might cut &amp; paste it anywhere, and I guess windows users aren&#x27;t expected to escape their own strings when pasted into cmd or powershell or wsl.<p>The teams code itself can probably handle it just fine, but maybe not all the unknown janky random things out there that might handle channel names.<p>Other people have pointed out the SharePoint folders associated with the channels. Not sure I would excuse that myself since it&#x27;s easy enough to just escape or modify or encode to create a safe version for the directory, but maybe it&#x27;s important elsewhere for the channel name and the directory name to be identical. Within one app you could simply encode and decode both the channel name and directory name the same way and totally hide the encoding from the user, but if the directory is used outside of the app, then it would look bad with URL encoding or something that everything else will just display as it is, not decoded.<p>So the directory has to be safe for everything else, and so the channel name has to be the same.<p>Essentially choosing to have these limits rather than have directory names that look ugly sometimes. It&#x27;s ultimately not even a safety or breakage thing, just a cosmetic thing. All directories will always look natural and good, because they don&#x27;t allow anything that would have needed to be encoded.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdwithit</author><text>Extremely relatable post. I worked someplace that had a policy of absolutely never changing your Active Directory username because it was the primary key in like a dozen internal systems. Someone finally made a massive stink about it to HR when their name had legally changed but IT was forcing them to use their old name (and they were absolutely right to complain. It was a ridiculous policy only in place due to terrible architecture). They still defaulted to telling people no but they did at least document all the highly tedious manual steps necessary to change the name in all affected systems if (when) another employee refused to take no for an answer.<p>Was certainly a great lesson in schema design, among other things.</text></comment> | <story><title>MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names</title><url>https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/limits-specifications-teams</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eastbound</author><text>Those should obviously be UUIDs. Labels and titles should be a simple changeable, internationalizable attribute.<p>Like usernames. You don’t use usernames as primary keys for anything, do you? What happens when people marry?</text></item><item><author>thefz</author><text>&gt; essentially leaking the existence of something terrible inside<p>It&#x27;s just a restriction imposed on SharePoint folder names bubbling up. Nothing fancy.</text></item><item><author>Brian_K_White</author><text>I was about to say &quot;Which is essentially leaking the existence of something terrible inside. They should be embarrassed to say something like this in public. Like saying you can&#x27;t have %s or $PS1. Why the hell not? What are you doing with this user-supplied input?&quot;<p>But maybe it&#x27;s more about what everyone else might do with a channel name. Ie they might cut &amp; paste it anywhere, and I guess windows users aren&#x27;t expected to escape their own strings when pasted into cmd or powershell or wsl.<p>The teams code itself can probably handle it just fine, but maybe not all the unknown janky random things out there that might handle channel names.<p>Other people have pointed out the SharePoint folders associated with the channels. Not sure I would excuse that myself since it&#x27;s easy enough to just escape or modify or encode to create a safe version for the directory, but maybe it&#x27;s important elsewhere for the channel name and the directory name to be identical. Within one app you could simply encode and decode both the channel name and directory name the same way and totally hide the encoding from the user, but if the directory is used outside of the app, then it would look bad with URL encoding or something that everything else will just display as it is, not decoded.<p>So the directory has to be safe for everything else, and so the channel name has to be the same.<p>Essentially choosing to have these limits rather than have directory names that look ugly sometimes. It&#x27;s ultimately not even a safety or breakage thing, just a cosmetic thing. All directories will always look natural and good, because they don&#x27;t allow anything that would have needed to be encoded.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SoftTalker</author><text>&gt; You don’t use usernames as primary keys for anything, do you?<p>HAHAHAHHHAAHAHA<p>Seen this so many times I literally laughed out loud.</text></comment> |
23,100,897 | 23,098,158 | 1 | 3 | 23,097,459 | train | <story><title>Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinterest, Winno and More</title><url>https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1374</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saagarjha</author><text>(For the iOS engineers reading along: please don&#x27;t put network calls in +load, or __attribute__((constructor)), or a C++ static variable, or whatever other clever way you think you can get code execution before main.)</text></item><item><author>fooey</author><text>Seems to be some suggestions now that apps were continuing to crash even after commenting out the FB implementation because FB is managing to do remote API calls just because the framework is linked.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;facebook-ios-sdk&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1373#issuecomment-624944045" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;facebook-ios-sdk&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1373#iss...</a><p>&gt; It does not matter. Their libraries are dynamic, and they abuse +load functions for classes with some business logic calls. So, +load will be called anyway on the application launch when dyld loads all linked frameworks.<p>and<p>&gt; I really don&#x27;t understand why it is still crashing when we turn it off? Could you please explain, why there is a remote connection even we comment out the implementation? Linking binary framework just enough to break things down, why? What do you do in background? Sending or receiving some data even it&#x27;s not been initialized?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>red_admiral</author><text>For the iOS developers reading along: please ban this behaviour in a future version?</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinterest, Winno and More</title><url>https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1374</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saagarjha</author><text>(For the iOS engineers reading along: please don&#x27;t put network calls in +load, or __attribute__((constructor)), or a C++ static variable, or whatever other clever way you think you can get code execution before main.)</text></item><item><author>fooey</author><text>Seems to be some suggestions now that apps were continuing to crash even after commenting out the FB implementation because FB is managing to do remote API calls just because the framework is linked.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;facebook-ios-sdk&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1373#issuecomment-624944045" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;facebook-ios-sdk&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1373#iss...</a><p>&gt; It does not matter. Their libraries are dynamic, and they abuse +load functions for classes with some business logic calls. So, +load will be called anyway on the application launch when dyld loads all linked frameworks.<p>and<p>&gt; I really don&#x27;t understand why it is still crashing when we turn it off? Could you please explain, why there is a remote connection even we comment out the implementation? Linking binary framework just enough to break things down, why? What do you do in background? Sending or receiving some data even it&#x27;s not been initialized?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>favorited</author><text>Even better: don&#x27;t override +load or use static constructors!</text></comment> |
6,632,005 | 6,630,600 | 1 | 3 | 6,630,156 | train | <story><title>Things that suck in AngularJS</title><url>http://lhorie.blogspot.ca/2013/09/things-that-suck-in-angularjs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>psychometry</author><text>Is there a Javascript MVC framework that actually has good documentation, guides, and code samples? I&#x27;ve been working with Ember.js, but it&#x27;s incredibly frustrating trying to learn a framework whose documentation is incomplete.<p>The other problem I&#x27;ve found is that docs, tutorials, and Stack Overflow posts that are even six months old are often completely useless when troubleshooting bugs in Ember.js or even learning its basic features.<p>It seems Angular suffers from the same complaints I have about Ember.js. Those of us who really need to just &quot;get things done&quot; might be better suited by a mature, well-documented framework, but does one actually exist?</text></item><item><author>gkoberger</author><text>Documentation is by far the worst part of Angular. I spent 90% of my time Googling and 10% writing code. (Hey, maybe that&#x27;s Google&#x27;s plan -- ramp up traffic to search. Synergy!)<p>AngularUI is confusing, mostly undocumented and often behind Angular. Splitting ngRoute&#x2F;ngAnimate into their own files is an odd choice, although I assume the former is so they can replace it with the superior ui-router. Which also is weird. Like jQuery, it seems like the UI portion is just off on their own doing what they want.<p>Google has the chance to build <i>the</i> new framework that will run the web in 2-3 years. Much like Rails a few years ago. Angular is an amazing framework. It seems like they just don&#x27;t care.<p>Angular needs someone versed in developer usability to take control of the public facing Angular stuff and give it a complete overhaul. Right now, it&#x27;s the result of hundreds of people haphazardly making changes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zelphyr</author><text>&gt; Those of us who really need to just &quot;get things done&quot; might be better suited by a mature, well-documented framework, but does one actually exist?<p>No.<p>Frameworks are all the same in that they are great at getting you to about 80% of what you need REALLY fast. The next 10% takes some investigation but its doable.<p>But that last 10%. Its like pulling teeth. You&#x27;re working for the framework rather than it working for you. In my experience, all of the time gains you realize from using a framework early on are lost (and then some) trying to get it to do that last 10% that you need.<p>Ultimately I&#x27;ve found that using vanilla Javascript offers everything I need to just &quot;get things done&quot; and complete a project successfully. Sure, I might not be able to get something out the door in a day. But at the end of the project I&#x27;ve delivered clean, maintainable code on time. And anyone who knows Javascript will be able to read it.<p>Now, lest you think I&#x27;m a complete framework hater; they have their place. They&#x27;re great at prototyping, for example. But never again will I build an entire project on one. I have little interest in being a glorified glue stick, piecing framework code together. How boring.<p>I should add that I make heavy use of libraries like jQuery and Underscore. They&#x27;re libraries, not frameworks. Take what you need with them yet still reasonably lightweight. Frameworks are bloated, tightly-coupled, poorly documented monstrosities in my opinion.</text></comment> | <story><title>Things that suck in AngularJS</title><url>http://lhorie.blogspot.ca/2013/09/things-that-suck-in-angularjs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>psychometry</author><text>Is there a Javascript MVC framework that actually has good documentation, guides, and code samples? I&#x27;ve been working with Ember.js, but it&#x27;s incredibly frustrating trying to learn a framework whose documentation is incomplete.<p>The other problem I&#x27;ve found is that docs, tutorials, and Stack Overflow posts that are even six months old are often completely useless when troubleshooting bugs in Ember.js or even learning its basic features.<p>It seems Angular suffers from the same complaints I have about Ember.js. Those of us who really need to just &quot;get things done&quot; might be better suited by a mature, well-documented framework, but does one actually exist?</text></item><item><author>gkoberger</author><text>Documentation is by far the worst part of Angular. I spent 90% of my time Googling and 10% writing code. (Hey, maybe that&#x27;s Google&#x27;s plan -- ramp up traffic to search. Synergy!)<p>AngularUI is confusing, mostly undocumented and often behind Angular. Splitting ngRoute&#x2F;ngAnimate into their own files is an odd choice, although I assume the former is so they can replace it with the superior ui-router. Which also is weird. Like jQuery, it seems like the UI portion is just off on their own doing what they want.<p>Google has the chance to build <i>the</i> new framework that will run the web in 2-3 years. Much like Rails a few years ago. Angular is an amazing framework. It seems like they just don&#x27;t care.<p>Angular needs someone versed in developer usability to take control of the public facing Angular stuff and give it a complete overhaul. Right now, it&#x27;s the result of hundreds of people haphazardly making changes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>famo</author><text>I started with Ember about a year ago and the getting started docs were pretty terrible. It took a lot of experimentation and frustration before I was comfortable developing with it. Eventually I became familiar with the framework and the API docs are quite in-depth, not really great for a beginner though. After about four Ember projects I can now prototype a large app (using something like Bootstrap) in a day or so, so I feel that pain at the start was worth it. Back at the time though I was tearing my hair out, especially over router changes. The changes improved things by an order of magnitude though. I trust the Ember team, I&#x27;m happy now, the start could have been easier.</text></comment> |
27,269,888 | 27,269,713 | 1 | 3 | 27,264,988 | train | <story><title>DOOM Captcha</title><url>https://vivirenremoto.github.io/doomcaptcha/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jandrese</author><text>While this is too simple (even the website admits that a bot could be written in virtually no time to break it), it does make me wonder if you could have a WarioWare CAPCHA. A minigame with extremely vague description that you have to react to quickly to pass.<p>Thinking about it some more it fails the primary criteria for a CAPCHA: it needs to be harder to write the bot that cracks it than each test case, by at least a couple orders of magnitude. Otherwise bot makers will just create custom bots for each contingency. They have more time and funding than you do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GuB-42</author><text>It mostly depends on what you are trying to protect with your CAPTCHA.<p>When I managed a small phpbb forum, all I had to do was to change a few lines in the register page to make it non-standard and it stopped all bots. Better than the built-in CAPTCHA. Simply, no one cared enough about our forum to write a specialized tool, no matter how easy it was.<p>If it is all you have to protect, go ahead with your clever ideas, it can add a bit of flair to your website and stop bots effectively. For accessibility, you can always deal with special requests manually.<p>The problem is entirely different if you are Google. People will spend months trying to break your CAPTCHA for fun and profit. Hand crafted problems will be solved faster than they can be written so &quot;bot vs bot&quot; is essentially your only option.</text></comment> | <story><title>DOOM Captcha</title><url>https://vivirenremoto.github.io/doomcaptcha/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jandrese</author><text>While this is too simple (even the website admits that a bot could be written in virtually no time to break it), it does make me wonder if you could have a WarioWare CAPCHA. A minigame with extremely vague description that you have to react to quickly to pass.<p>Thinking about it some more it fails the primary criteria for a CAPCHA: it needs to be harder to write the bot that cracks it than each test case, by at least a couple orders of magnitude. Otherwise bot makers will just create custom bots for each contingency. They have more time and funding than you do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lamontcg</author><text>Have the CAPCHA require properly constructing a nonlinear programming problem to solve an optimization problem, where the requirements are not expressed in terms of the NLP and the human has to design it.<p>Which would have the side effect of putting the bot makers to work on useful and hard problems to solve.</text></comment> |
12,009,678 | 12,009,399 | 1 | 2 | 12,007,923 | train | <story><title>Extracting Qualcomm's KeyMaster Keys – Breaking Android Full Disk Encryption</title><url>https://bits-please.blogspot.com/2016/06/extracting-qualcomms-keymaster-keys.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>koolba</author><text>Full disk encryption (FDE) is a UX issue, not a technical one. You don&#x27;t need a secure cryptographic processor, but the UX sucks without one.<p>A simple, working, FDE setup would be something like LUKS running at boot:<p><pre><code> 1. Turn on phone
2. Phone loads up initial bootstrap OS
3. Phone prompts user for master key
4. Master key is used to unlock volume
5. Regular OS boot continues
</code></pre>
If the master key has enough entropy, brute forcing it becomes impossible. The phone won&#x27;t &quot;disable&quot; as there&#x27;s no self-destructing component (i.e. &quot;secure crypto chip&quot;) but that doesn&#x27;t mean it can be cracked. Boil as many oceans as you&#x27;d like, you&#x27;re not going to brute force 256 bits of entropy.<p>The UX problem is that the master key is a PITA to enter if it&#x27;s long enough to be cryptographically secure. That&#x27;s what a crypto chip is supposed to solve. A limited number of attempts with a shorter passphrase.</text></comment> | <story><title>Extracting Qualcomm's KeyMaster Keys – Breaking Android Full Disk Encryption</title><url>https://bits-please.blogspot.com/2016/06/extracting-qualcomms-keymaster-keys.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sdl</author><text>So if I understood correctly, there are 5 requirements for such a system to be secure:<p><pre><code> 1: secure&#x2F;unmodifiable cryptographic processor
2: with unremovable rate limiting
3: and exclusive access to a hardware key
4: cryptographic processor has the only function of encrypting user data based on
5: hardware key and a user supplied pin&#x2F;key
</code></pre>
Errors done by Qualcomm:<p><pre><code> Violated 3: Hardware key not exclusivly readable by cryptographic processor
Violated 5: Encryption based on derived key
</code></pre>
Anything I overlooked?<p>(edited: formatting)</text></comment> |
24,618,824 | 24,618,528 | 1 | 2 | 24,616,649 | train | <story><title>Is Y Combinator worth it?</title><url>https://drodio.com/our-ycombinator-experience/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcinzm</author><text>Curious, why does it matter if your paycheck comes from VC money or revenue money? In the end the same amount comes to your bank account.</text></item><item><author>msoad</author><text>As an engineer I would love to work for a company that makes money and pays me from that money.</text></item><item><author>drewrv</author><text>As a founder, self funding makes a lot of sense,
as you avoid dilution and aren’t beholden to a group of people expecting 10x growth every year.<p>But as a candidate I’d be cautious about taking a job at a self funded startup. They’re probably cash constrained so the base salary might not be as much. And if there is equity, I would want management beholden to people expecting 10x growth.</text></item><item><author>mediaman</author><text>Would you disqualify companies that had bootstrapped successfully, were profitable, and did not take any outside money?<p>Not a judging question - I understand the value of a good investor&#x27;s due diligence and backing in improving the odds of sane leadership. But it&#x27;s interesting to think how that can impact a successful, self-funded copmany&#x27;s access to talent.</text></item><item><author>s17n</author><text>Y Combinator has one of the strongest brands of any investor, which matters a ton for recruiting. It&#x27;s very hard for engineers considering working at an early stage company to determine whether it&#x27;s legit or not, and Y Combinator is probably a better known name than any VC. Personally when I was looking for jobs I&#x27;d immediately disqualify any company that wasn&#x27;t backed by a relatively small list of investors and YC was on that list.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codingdave</author><text>Because VCs work by pushing for high returns on some of their investments, not low returns on all of their investments. They therefore push for business decisions to force high growth, when there can be a better chance of success with a slow burn in some situations. So you end up taking business risks to chase high growth, instead of simply focusing on a niche market to stay profitable, and having a flexible timeframe for growth.<p>As an engineer, this does hit the paycheck directly - if they go hire more devs to speed product features to market while at the same time increasing sales and marketing... it can change from a bootstrapped model with no end to the runway into a situation where you do have a runway, and it is counted in months, not years. Instead of steady pay with plenty of time to deliver new product, I&#x27;m being pushed to deliver quickly, and if we fail, we&#x27;re unemployed.<p>And yes, we probably get lower salaries for that model because we are taking less risk. But steady, lower stress work is desired by some of us, and a small bootstrapped group delivers it better than a VC.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is Y Combinator worth it?</title><url>https://drodio.com/our-ycombinator-experience/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcinzm</author><text>Curious, why does it matter if your paycheck comes from VC money or revenue money? In the end the same amount comes to your bank account.</text></item><item><author>msoad</author><text>As an engineer I would love to work for a company that makes money and pays me from that money.</text></item><item><author>drewrv</author><text>As a founder, self funding makes a lot of sense,
as you avoid dilution and aren’t beholden to a group of people expecting 10x growth every year.<p>But as a candidate I’d be cautious about taking a job at a self funded startup. They’re probably cash constrained so the base salary might not be as much. And if there is equity, I would want management beholden to people expecting 10x growth.</text></item><item><author>mediaman</author><text>Would you disqualify companies that had bootstrapped successfully, were profitable, and did not take any outside money?<p>Not a judging question - I understand the value of a good investor&#x27;s due diligence and backing in improving the odds of sane leadership. But it&#x27;s interesting to think how that can impact a successful, self-funded copmany&#x27;s access to talent.</text></item><item><author>s17n</author><text>Y Combinator has one of the strongest brands of any investor, which matters a ton for recruiting. It&#x27;s very hard for engineers considering working at an early stage company to determine whether it&#x27;s legit or not, and Y Combinator is probably a better known name than any VC. Personally when I was looking for jobs I&#x27;d immediately disqualify any company that wasn&#x27;t backed by a relatively small list of investors and YC was on that list.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrsig</author><text>VC money dries up. Revenue money is self sustaining. From a job stability standpoint, the latter is much more appealing.</text></comment> |
7,750,270 | 7,750,303 | 1 | 3 | 7,750,036 | train | <story><title>FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/15/fcc-approves-plan-to-allow-for-paid-priority-on-internet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hpaavola</author><text>I don&#x27;t get this whole net neautrality discussion that is going on in US (and maybe somewhere else, just haven&#x27;t paid attention).<p>Consumers pay based on speed of their connection. If ISP feels like the consumers are not paying enough, raise the prices.<p>Service providers (not ISPs, but the ones who run servers that consumers connect to) pay based on speed of their connection. If the ISP feels like service providers are not paying enough, raise the prices.<p>Why in the earth there is a need for slow&#x2F;fast lanes and data caps?<p>I&#x27;m four years old. So please keep that in mind when explaing this to me. :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>&gt; Why in the earth there is a need for slow&#x2F;fast lanes<p>Because once the middleman has established himself as a monopoly and everybody <i>has</i> to go through him with no alternative, he can make bank by having everybody pay more.<p>&gt; and data caps?<p>Lets the ISP oversubscribe even more and extract even more money out of the system without providing any additional value whatsoever.</text></comment> | <story><title>FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/15/fcc-approves-plan-to-allow-for-paid-priority-on-internet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hpaavola</author><text>I don&#x27;t get this whole net neautrality discussion that is going on in US (and maybe somewhere else, just haven&#x27;t paid attention).<p>Consumers pay based on speed of their connection. If ISP feels like the consumers are not paying enough, raise the prices.<p>Service providers (not ISPs, but the ones who run servers that consumers connect to) pay based on speed of their connection. If the ISP feels like service providers are not paying enough, raise the prices.<p>Why in the earth there is a need for slow&#x2F;fast lanes and data caps?<p>I&#x27;m four years old. So please keep that in mind when explaing this to me. :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eloff</author><text>You need to think like an evil cable monopoly. It&#x27;s a great thing because then they can charge consumers for their broadband service and charge content companies as well. A whole new source of revenue. And they can keep on jacking up the prices whenever they want, because they&#x27;ve got the customers of the content company hostage and can ransom them for nearly any level that would still let the content company turn a small profit.</text></comment> |
2,115,588 | 2,115,479 | 1 | 3 | 2,115,358 | train | <story><title>Facebook's 3rd Biggest Advertiser is a Bing Affiliate Scam</title><url>http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebooks_3rd_biggest_advertiser_is_a_bing_affilia.php</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jbk</author><text>So funny to see Zugo around...<p>They've had offered us to bundle their 'nice' toolbar inside the VLC installer so that every install of VLC would have install this thing...<p>And they proposed a very high value for each install...</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook's 3rd Biggest Advertiser is a Bing Affiliate Scam</title><url>http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebooks_3rd_biggest_advertiser_is_a_bing_affilia.php</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cookiecaper</author><text>I really liked this quote:
"Between the incredible growth of casual games that arguably do little for the collective human experience but consume a growing amount of it each day... it's hard sometimes to take Facebook seriously when it says it wants to bring people together and make the world a better place."</text></comment> |
11,366,970 | 11,366,552 | 1 | 2 | 11,366,108 | train | <story><title>US contractor fined $3.1M for outsourcing work to India</title><url>http://sakshipost.com/index.php/news/international/77667-us-contractor-fined-$3-1mn-for-outsourcing-work-to-india.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abruzzi</author><text>My read is that the title here is a bit misleading. The article implies that the illegality is not outsourcing to India, but rather that the Indian contractor was not approved to handle the data it indexed. Am I misreading this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>USNetizen</author><text>Outsourcing outside the U.S. for federal contracts is typically illegal unless explicitly allowed by the Contracting Office most times, especially for defense work where all contractors must be U.S. citizens. Exceedingly rarely do federal agencies allow outsourcing outside of the U.S., both for security and political reasons. This mostly applies to services, but some products are also affected. The biggest exception to this, at times, is in the case of Overseas Contingency Operations such as in a warzone or other hostile areas where local contractors and companies might be used.<p>However, there have been instances that bypass this in a sort of &quot;gray area&quot;. For example, I knew a company that was outbid on a job by over $200k to convert 11,000 documents to web pages and re-design an entire series of agency websites. The government themselves acknowledged it would take about 3 full time people (developers) 9-12 months to do the work, but the winning bid for the whole thing was from an outsourcer who bid less than $60k total. The agency in question turned a blind eye to the minimum wage requirements for technical labor categories written directly into the contract. Had this been a larger procurement with more money at stake, it would have easily been overturned and resulted in legal action against both the agency and the winning bidder (the outsourcer).<p>There is also the whole &quot;buy American&quot; thing written into most contracts nowadays, but which mostly applies to construction.</text></comment> | <story><title>US contractor fined $3.1M for outsourcing work to India</title><url>http://sakshipost.com/index.php/news/international/77667-us-contractor-fined-$3-1mn-for-outsourcing-work-to-india.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abruzzi</author><text>My read is that the title here is a bit misleading. The article implies that the illegality is not outsourcing to India, but rather that the Indian contractor was not approved to handle the data it indexed. Am I misreading this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ksherlock</author><text>&gt; Given the confidential nature of the information of the fingerprint cards, Focused was required to perform all of the work in New York and it could only use employees that had passed a criminal background check. It was also prohibited from subcontracting any of the work to any other entity.<p>(Breaching your contract is only illegal (as opposed to a tort) when the other party is the government)</text></comment> |
11,225,422 | 11,225,343 | 1 | 2 | 11,224,982 | train | <story><title>Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, will focus on Skype instead</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/04/source-microsoft-mulled-an-8-billion-bid-for-slack-will-focus-on-skype-instead/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>I wonder if the outcome would have been different if Slack was incorporated outside of the US where Microsoft could use some of its non domiciled cash on the acquisition?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibtimes.com&#x2F;microsoft-admits-keeping-92-billion-offshore-avoid-paying-29-billion-us-taxes-1665938" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibtimes.com&#x2F;microsoft-admits-keeping-92-billion-o...</a><p>Also interesting to think that Slack could be worth so much. Look at ICQ, Microsoft instant messenger, etc.<p>It seems as though slack like tools get eclipsed every 5-10 years as a new generation comes along with a new favorite tool.<p>I&#x27;d be interested in hearing from someone who would argue that slack will be a dominate communication tool in 5-8 years time and still exist in a meaningful way in 10 years time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmm</author><text>Frankly Slack&#x27;s success is the utter failure of every alternative on the UX side. MSN messenger was perhaps wrong-footed by the shift to multi-device, but none of the other tools have such an excuse. It&#x27;s not a generational thing, it&#x27;s an incredible level of, there&#x27;s no other word, incompetence on the part of the makers of major messaging software (Skype in particular).</text></comment> | <story><title>Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, will focus on Skype instead</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/04/source-microsoft-mulled-an-8-billion-bid-for-slack-will-focus-on-skype-instead/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>I wonder if the outcome would have been different if Slack was incorporated outside of the US where Microsoft could use some of its non domiciled cash on the acquisition?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibtimes.com&#x2F;microsoft-admits-keeping-92-billion-offshore-avoid-paying-29-billion-us-taxes-1665938" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibtimes.com&#x2F;microsoft-admits-keeping-92-billion-o...</a><p>Also interesting to think that Slack could be worth so much. Look at ICQ, Microsoft instant messenger, etc.<p>It seems as though slack like tools get eclipsed every 5-10 years as a new generation comes along with a new favorite tool.<p>I&#x27;d be interested in hearing from someone who would argue that slack will be a dominate communication tool in 5-8 years time and still exist in a meaningful way in 10 years time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gshulegaard</author><text>&gt; It seems as though slack like tools get eclipsed every 5-10 years as a new generation comes along with a new favorite tool.<p>You&#x27;ve definitely got a point there. Although I do want to mention that part of the reason Slack eclipsed other tools was, in part, its Websocket based protocol. They have created a fairly complete unified messaging application because of it (IMO).<p>They were the first movers in the area. I don&#x27;t know if I would provide much of a meaningful discussion regarding the longer term viability of Slack, but I think they have a chance to be meaningful, maybe even dominate in 10 years time.<p>They are already Websocket based and they are moving towards WebRTC support...if they take that direction and add P2P support to provide truly secure encrypted communications where certificates are negotiated P2P, then I think they will explode to even greater heights than they have already achieved. Of course, this is not a simple task, but the business implications of truly secure communications channels would be compelling for most corporate enterprises.<p>Now this is not the same as 100% secure endpoints, but it would be a massive step in the right direction.<p>Edit: Forgot to add P2P link...
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;Guide&#x2F;API&#x2F;WebRTC&#x2F;Peer-to-peer_communications_with_WebRTC" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;Guide&#x2F;API&#x2F;WebRT...</a></text></comment> |
27,664,241 | 27,664,178 | 1 | 3 | 27,660,562 | train | <story><title>World’s first lab-grown meat facility pumps out 5k burgers per day</title><url>https://www.slashgear.com/worlds-first-lab-grown-meat-facility-pumps-out-5000-burgers-per-day-25680053/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iammisc</author><text>Animals are extremely efficient at converting inedible food to edible nutrition.<p>For example, goats eat almost any plant, including many natives. Unless you think humans are going to be able to eat chaparral.<p>The fact is that modern edible agriculture is heavily dependent on fossil fuel and mined fertilizers. Until we solve that problem, it&#x27;s better to stop growing too many plants, let native vegetation regrow and set loose the troops of goats and chickens.<p>People have this idea that plants and vegetables are clean..they&#x27;re not</text></item><item><author>wcoenen</author><text>I suspect reality will be a lot more boring.<p>Animals are a low efficiency method of converting plant material into meat, both in terms of calories and protein mass input&#x2F;output. So with scale, eventually lab-grown meat should become much cheaper than traditional meat. At the same time, it will be higher quality. Sterile production will eliminate E. Coli, salmonella, antibiotics... Input nutrients will be tightly controlled. Environmental pollutants and parasites will be kept out.<p>Traditional meat will still be available, but it will be an expensive and morally questionable luxury product, like &quot;foie gras&quot; today.</text></item><item><author>marcus_holmes</author><text>I always wonder about the morality questions. This is like a lab experiment for subjective morality.<p>For the sake of the experiment, let&#x27;s assume the sci-fi writers are right, and eating animals will eventually be considered immoral. This is an extreme stance at the moment (hello PETA) but let&#x27;s assume it will eventually be accepted as the only moral stance.<p>How long will it be between the introduction of lab-grown meat until killing animals for food is banned? Is this a generational thing (so older people still consider eating animals to be acceptable, while younger people do not), or is it a country-wide thing (countries move to ban eating animals one by one, driven by a general shift in moral attitude), or what? How does this change in morality propagate through society?<p>Will we get to the point where statues of now-famous people are pulled down because they ate animals? Assuming some variant of &quot;cancel culture&quot; exists then, will that act retroactively and currently-lionised people get cancelled because they are carnivores, even though the current culture that they exist in considers it acceptable?<p>Will we see clever re-interpretations of religious texts dealing with the eating of animals? Will we get religious divisions between different interpretations? Will some people refuse to accept the general moral stance on eating animals because their religious text says it&#x27;s acceptable? How does this interaction between objective religious morality and subjective secular morality work?<p>It&#x27;s going to be really interesting to watch this unfold.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tfehring</author><text>It&#x27;s true that most of the food consumed by livestock isn&#x27;t edible by humans - [0] says 86% - but livestock are <i>so</i> inefficient at converting food to edible nutrition that they still generally consume more than 1 human-edible Calorie per Calorie of meat produced. For cattle, <i>Diet for a Small Planet</i> [1] cites 16 Calories per edible Calorie of meat and 8 grams of protein per edible gram of protein produced, other sources seem to be in the same ballpark - both higher than the ~7:1 ratio that&#x27;s implied by that 86% figure. The ratios for chickens are better, but they also generally get a much lower share of their feed from human-inedible sources.<p>Also, even that 86% isn&#x27;t &quot;free&quot; - it&#x27;s not all pasturing, and it takes a lot of effort, energy, and equipment to get hay, inedible by-products of human-edible crops, etc. from the field to animals&#x27; mouths.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cgiar.org&#x2F;news-events&#x2F;news&#x2F;fao-sets-the-record-straight-86-of-livestock-feed-is-inedible-by-humans&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cgiar.org&#x2F;news-events&#x2F;news&#x2F;fao-sets-the-record-s...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Diet-Small-Planet-20th-Anniversary&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0345321200&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Diet-Small-Planet-20th-Anniversary&#x2F;dp...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>World’s first lab-grown meat facility pumps out 5k burgers per day</title><url>https://www.slashgear.com/worlds-first-lab-grown-meat-facility-pumps-out-5000-burgers-per-day-25680053/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iammisc</author><text>Animals are extremely efficient at converting inedible food to edible nutrition.<p>For example, goats eat almost any plant, including many natives. Unless you think humans are going to be able to eat chaparral.<p>The fact is that modern edible agriculture is heavily dependent on fossil fuel and mined fertilizers. Until we solve that problem, it&#x27;s better to stop growing too many plants, let native vegetation regrow and set loose the troops of goats and chickens.<p>People have this idea that plants and vegetables are clean..they&#x27;re not</text></item><item><author>wcoenen</author><text>I suspect reality will be a lot more boring.<p>Animals are a low efficiency method of converting plant material into meat, both in terms of calories and protein mass input&#x2F;output. So with scale, eventually lab-grown meat should become much cheaper than traditional meat. At the same time, it will be higher quality. Sterile production will eliminate E. Coli, salmonella, antibiotics... Input nutrients will be tightly controlled. Environmental pollutants and parasites will be kept out.<p>Traditional meat will still be available, but it will be an expensive and morally questionable luxury product, like &quot;foie gras&quot; today.</text></item><item><author>marcus_holmes</author><text>I always wonder about the morality questions. This is like a lab experiment for subjective morality.<p>For the sake of the experiment, let&#x27;s assume the sci-fi writers are right, and eating animals will eventually be considered immoral. This is an extreme stance at the moment (hello PETA) but let&#x27;s assume it will eventually be accepted as the only moral stance.<p>How long will it be between the introduction of lab-grown meat until killing animals for food is banned? Is this a generational thing (so older people still consider eating animals to be acceptable, while younger people do not), or is it a country-wide thing (countries move to ban eating animals one by one, driven by a general shift in moral attitude), or what? How does this change in morality propagate through society?<p>Will we get to the point where statues of now-famous people are pulled down because they ate animals? Assuming some variant of &quot;cancel culture&quot; exists then, will that act retroactively and currently-lionised people get cancelled because they are carnivores, even though the current culture that they exist in considers it acceptable?<p>Will we see clever re-interpretations of religious texts dealing with the eating of animals? Will we get religious divisions between different interpretations? Will some people refuse to accept the general moral stance on eating animals because their religious text says it&#x27;s acceptable? How does this interaction between objective religious morality and subjective secular morality work?<p>It&#x27;s going to be really interesting to watch this unfold.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theptip</author><text>I don&#x27;t think your main points here are true.<p>&gt; Animals are extremely efficient at converting inedible food to edible nutrition.<p>Animals are pretty inefficient at converting plants to calories, e.g. see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.uvm.edu&#x2F;foodsystemsblog&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;10&#x2F;meat-vs-veg-an-energy-perspective&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.uvm.edu&#x2F;foodsystemsblog&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;10&#x2F;meat-vs-veg...</a><p>Most of the energy spent getting grains to the table is in transport&#x2F;processing. If you just compare the production, grains are way more efficient than animals.<p>Even though I&#x27;m sure goats are better than cows, they aren&#x27;t as efficient as plants at producing calories, and in all cases you still have to process and transport them.<p>However if you&#x27;ve got some data showing otherwise I&#x27;m open to being convinced here.<p>&gt; Until we solve that problem, it&#x27;s better to stop growing too many plants<p>I think this is making perfect the enemy of the good. Plants use less water, produce substantially less GHG emissions, and so are still a net major win on environmental terms vs. the status quo.</text></comment> |
26,597,429 | 26,597,579 | 1 | 3 | 26,591,669 | train | <story><title>Apt Encounters of the Third Kind</title><url>https://igor-blue.github.io/2021/03/24/apt1.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mwcampbell</author><text>&gt; Chinese APT malware,<p>Why is it necessary to point out the foreign origin? Doesn&#x27;t that just encourage our innate xenophobia?</text></item><item><author>afrcnc</author><text>From Twitter chatter, this appears to be Chinese APT malware, something related to PlugX</text></item><item><author>motohagiography</author><text>Superb work. The &quot;who&quot; of attribution is more likely related to the actual PII they were after than any signature you&#x27;ll get in the code. Seems like a lot of effort and risk of their malware being discovered for PII instead of being an injection point into those users machines. I rarely hear security people talk about <i>why</i> a system was targeted, and once you have that, you can know what to look for, inject canaries to test etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fouric</author><text>It should be pretty easy for someone to differentiate between the Chinese people and the Chinese government.<p>Meanwhile, can you prove that this &quot;innate xenophobia&quot; is present in every human to an extent that it&#x27;s actually relevant, and that this particular instance of suggesting that the malware is Chinese in origin meaningfully exacerbates it?<p>Moreover, China is a geopolitical rival to the United States, India, and other countries that constitute a majority of HN readers. Information like this is interesting from that viewpoint.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apt Encounters of the Third Kind</title><url>https://igor-blue.github.io/2021/03/24/apt1.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mwcampbell</author><text>&gt; Chinese APT malware,<p>Why is it necessary to point out the foreign origin? Doesn&#x27;t that just encourage our innate xenophobia?</text></item><item><author>afrcnc</author><text>From Twitter chatter, this appears to be Chinese APT malware, something related to PlugX</text></item><item><author>motohagiography</author><text>Superb work. The &quot;who&quot; of attribution is more likely related to the actual PII they were after than any signature you&#x27;ll get in the code. Seems like a lot of effort and risk of their malware being discovered for PII instead of being an injection point into those users machines. I rarely hear security people talk about <i>why</i> a system was targeted, and once you have that, you can know what to look for, inject canaries to test etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>If it were Russian, American or Israeli would you have the same reservations?</text></comment> |
22,787,735 | 22,785,875 | 1 | 2 | 22,777,326 | train | <story><title>Show HN: A map of the world's virtual museums</title><url>https://virtualmuseums.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wenc</author><text>Thank you for creating this.<p>As a museum lover (I&#x27;ve visited ~ 170 around the world), I struggle with getting into virtual tours. I wonder if anyone else feels that virtual museum tours are so far from ideal that it isn&#x27;t worthwhile investing the time to browse? I can&#x27;t seem to get into them -- not because of trivial reasons like &quot;oh it&#x27;s not like the real thing&quot;, but more like no one&#x27;s been able to produce the right UI for enjoying a museum. Even Google&#x27;s Art and Culture indoor maps of museums is only good for 5 minutes of amusement and not worth bothering with again. I clicked on several links in the comments and was like, eh -- doesn&#x27;t really hold my interest (though if I were physically at the museum I&#x27;d be spending hours).<p>I wonder if these are factors:<p>1) Lack of good photography. Most museums tend to be dark, so you need professional photographers who know how to work with low-light photography. Also most pictures&#x2F;videos tend to be low res for some reason, which takes away from the enjoyment. I wonder if most museums are loath to make high-res photography available for free because it cannibalizes their admissions.<p>Google Arts and Culture has some high-res artwork, but the selection is extremely limited.<p>2) Unwieldy ways to move in space. Google indoor maps, which has a FPS (first person shooter) interface, isn&#x27;t the most natural to navigate, because it doesn&#x27;t match how people actually experience a museum. I wonder if instead of an FPS perspective, an adventure-game orthographic view might make more sense? It would let you walk around the museum and click on objects to interact with them. Also let&#x27;s face it -- professional museum goers will tell you that they are extremely selective and don&#x27;t interact with all exhibits, so a frictionless way to preview and skip exhibits is key.<p>3) Limited&#x2F;non-comprehensive collection. Usually only the less interesting collections are online. (not always true, but generally true). This is likely due to the cost of putting entire collections online, and there not being a lot of payoff -- unless it was possible to create a UI good enough to support monetization.<p>4) Lack of a cohesive story. Because only select pieces are on display online, the experience is disjointed, vs browsing a physical section of the museum which groups like objects together. The best museum story I&#x27;ve ever come across was the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which told a chronological story.<p>Does anyone know of any museum virtual tours that don&#x27;t suffer from these issues?</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: A map of the world's virtual museums</title><url>https://virtualmuseums.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mektrik</author><text>Hey folks, I’m the creator of virtualmuseums.io<p>I built it after seeing a bunch of articles listing virtual museums around the world. I felt like part of the point of touring these virtual museums was to capture just a tiny bit of the fun of travelling, but that this is lost when you just scroll through articles.<p>I thought that it’d be more fun to put all the museums on a map, and let you track your progress as you visit them, as this helps to recreate a tiny part of what’s fun about travelling.<p>Would love to hear your thoughts&#x2F;suggestions :)</text></comment> |
6,591,363 | 6,591,381 | 1 | 3 | 6,591,208 | train | <story><title>USB Implementers Forum Says No to Open Source</title><url>http://hackaday.com/2013/10/22/usb-implementers-forum-says-no-to-open-source/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrockway</author><text>Why not just pick a VID and start using it? USB is so well understood at this point that there is no need for anyone to play ball with an &quot;official&quot; organization.<p>(Whoever gets &quot;officially&quot; issued that VID is going to whine when they notice it&#x27;s already being used for hobbyist purposes anyway, which means that the technique of just picking one will guarantee uniqueness.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eksith</author><text>I like this idea. If there&#x27;s some benefactor to the Open Source community (or even if they pass along a collection) for the VID, that could even work. They just need to properly implement the standard and the VID can effectively be the Hoover or Kleenex of VIDs.<p>Edit: On second thought (after I actually read it), this bit...<p><pre><code> Please immediately cease and desist raising funds to purchase a
unique USB VID for the purpose of transferring, reselling or
sublicensing PIDs and delete all references to the USB-IF, VIDs and
PIDs for transfer, resale or sublicense from your website and other
marketing materials.
</code></pre>
...rubs me the wrong way on so many levels, I&#x27;m tempted to say, the hell with the forum.</text></comment> | <story><title>USB Implementers Forum Says No to Open Source</title><url>http://hackaday.com/2013/10/22/usb-implementers-forum-says-no-to-open-source/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrockway</author><text>Why not just pick a VID and start using it? USB is so well understood at this point that there is no need for anyone to play ball with an &quot;official&quot; organization.<p>(Whoever gets &quot;officially&quot; issued that VID is going to whine when they notice it&#x27;s already being used for hobbyist purposes anyway, which means that the technique of just picking one will guarantee uniqueness.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ZeroGravitas</author><text>They have:<p>&quot;There are a number of ideas to get around VTM Group that include squatting on USB VID 0xF055&quot;</text></comment> |
37,378,201 | 37,378,101 | 1 | 3 | 37,376,377 | train | <story><title>Dennis Ritchie Home Page</title><url>http://cm.bell-labs.co/who/dmr/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CodeCompost</author><text>This was discussed 3 months ago:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36187174">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36187174</a><p>It&#x27;s a different url though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dennis Ritchie Home Page</title><url>http://cm.bell-labs.co/who/dmr/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ks2048</author><text>I was wondering who was keeping this site&#x2F;domain up because I thought Bell Labs no longer existed. Only now discovered it’s owned by Nokia (although at a different domain: bell-labs.com)</text></comment> |
14,075,842 | 14,075,907 | 1 | 2 | 14,075,358 | train | <story><title>How Goldman Sachs Made More Than $1B with Credit Scores</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-goldman-sachs-made-more-than-1-billion-with-your-credit-score-1491742835</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>superquest</author><text>True. Recently I logged into Mint for the first time in a few years, and was quite disturbed to realize they had been importing every debit or credit card transaction, and every student loan payment I made. They know my financial health better than my bank does ...</text></item><item><author>patrickmn</author><text>It&#x27;s pretty terrifying how much information CreditKarma (TU-
and Equifax-backed,) Mint and such have, and what that turns into when it&#x27;s shared and combined.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>killbrad</author><text>What&#x27;s surprising to me is how many people are surprised by this. You gave them the credentials to all of your accounts, and then are shocked that they used them? What&#x27;s more incredible is that you haven&#x27;t changed the credentials for any of your critical accounts in that time.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Goldman Sachs Made More Than $1B with Credit Scores</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-goldman-sachs-made-more-than-1-billion-with-your-credit-score-1491742835</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>superquest</author><text>True. Recently I logged into Mint for the first time in a few years, and was quite disturbed to realize they had been importing every debit or credit card transaction, and every student loan payment I made. They know my financial health better than my bank does ...</text></item><item><author>patrickmn</author><text>It&#x27;s pretty terrifying how much information CreditKarma (TU-
and Equifax-backed,) Mint and such have, and what that turns into when it&#x27;s shared and combined.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zitterbewegung</author><text>Why are you disturbed ? The whole point of Mint is to track your spending so that you have a unified dashboard of your money ? If it didn&#x27;t import all of those things you wouldn&#x27;t have much use of it. Also you can remove accounts from it if you don&#x27;t want it to track.</text></comment> |
22,874,981 | 22,875,137 | 1 | 3 | 22,873,578 | train | <story><title>Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company</title><url>https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trello-questions/Personal-gmail-account-claimed-by-SSO-can-t-login-anymore/qaq-p/1293750</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjd</author><text>They emailed me about this back on January 30:<p><pre><code> Subject: Your company ExampleCo will soon manage your Trello account
Good news! Your Trello account is getting an upgrade.
ExampleCo will now manage Trello accounts with a example.com email address,
which includes yours ([email protected]).
</code></pre>
The &quot;Good news&quot; part looked like marketing bullshit, but the rest of the message was menacing enough that I was able to contact them by email and get instructions about how to avoid having my personal Trello handed over to ExampleCo.<p>It still sucks.<p>The lesson I take from this is: “Software as a service” is <i>always</i> a security risk. Unless my data is on <i>my</i> server, someone else owns it and might sell it to a higher bidder.<p>This is one of those “fool me twice, shame on me” moments.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dx034</author><text>Isn&#x27;t it standard to open separate accounts for companies? My employers would&#x27;ve never even allowed me to use a personal account or personal email for business content. In the end, they need to be able to claim the content if an employee leaves the company. Mixing personal and company accounts or even accounts of several employers sounds dangerous to me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company</title><url>https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trello-questions/Personal-gmail-account-claimed-by-SSO-can-t-login-anymore/qaq-p/1293750</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjd</author><text>They emailed me about this back on January 30:<p><pre><code> Subject: Your company ExampleCo will soon manage your Trello account
Good news! Your Trello account is getting an upgrade.
ExampleCo will now manage Trello accounts with a example.com email address,
which includes yours ([email protected]).
</code></pre>
The &quot;Good news&quot; part looked like marketing bullshit, but the rest of the message was menacing enough that I was able to contact them by email and get instructions about how to avoid having my personal Trello handed over to ExampleCo.<p>It still sucks.<p>The lesson I take from this is: “Software as a service” is <i>always</i> a security risk. Unless my data is on <i>my</i> server, someone else owns it and might sell it to a higher bidder.<p>This is one of those “fool me twice, shame on me” moments.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kiro</author><text>I got the same and it also said:<p>&quot;Use another Trello account for anything not related to [my previous company]. Grab a new, free Trello account in seconds and move your vacation board (or whatever should be elsewhere!) to that one.&quot;<p>My former company is not even using Trello and everything I have there is personal. I created the Trello with my personal email and only afterwards added the company email to it to access some experimental board we never ended up using.<p>I didn&#x27;t comply and instead just removed the company email from the account. I seriously don&#x27;t see why I need to create a new account and move stuff for no reason at all. Why does the organisation email trump my personal one that I actually created the account with? Should I be worried?</text></comment> |
9,437,199 | 9,436,979 | 1 | 2 | 9,436,640 | train | <story><title>When Is Cheryl's Birthday?</title><url>http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Cheryl.ipynb</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gkoberger</author><text>Maybe I&#x27;m missing something, but the &quot;hard&quot; part of this problem is figuring on the trick. Once you know that, it becomes relatively easy – and you can&#x27;t use a program to figure out the trick.</text></comment> | <story><title>When Is Cheryl's Birthday?</title><url>http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Cheryl.ipynb</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ghurtado</author><text>I thought this was a great puzzle when I first saw it. IMHO, it is more satisfying to &quot;think through it&quot; without paper and pencil, since it is relatively simple to resolve.<p>The Python solution proposed is really great, in that it captures both the expressive and functional spirit of the language.</text></comment> |
2,829,864 | 2,829,656 | 1 | 2 | 2,829,493 | train | <story><title>Another Airbnb Victim Tells His Story: “There Were Meth Pipes Everywhere”</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/31/another-airbnb-victim-tells-his-story-there-were-meth-pipes-everywhere/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mgkimsal</author><text>What's going to be a game changer is when stories start breaking about owners who rent out their space as a way to lure in people for killing or torturing them.<p>Right now it's about "you were stupid, why did you rent your space out to strangers?". Later on it'll be "why did you try to save $20 and go sleep some place where you're 110% vulnerable?". You don't control the locks, you don't know the neighborhood or even the layout of the house all that well (are there cameras in the room spying on you?).<p>If Holiday Inn or Marriott had tried to go 'downmarket' by trying to get in the "rent out your space with us - we'll handle the booking logistics", they'd have been eaten alive by the insurance costs of dealing with QA on thousands of rooms/spaces they don't control. They'd have too much name brand recognition and goodwill in their names to lose by leaving customer safety and security to chance. ABNB seems to be coming at this from the other way. What do they have to lose? Investor money? It's a big experiment for them, which they're hoping will pay off, but I think there's a reasons beyond "laziness" or "not getting it" to explain why larger companies well-versed in hospitality/property management have not gone down this road.<p>Will things still work out for ABNB? They might, but they're taking such a hit on this by not just making some of these situations right, then changing their procedures and policies. Apparently these incidents - as infrequent as they may be - have been occurring for a while. There's probably quite a few more that haven't come forward because they've felt it was their own fault, much like domestic abuse spouses blame themselves. Not really wanting to see ABNB fail, but can't help watching this play out, and I somewhat suspect it'll get worse before it gets better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coffeemug</author><text><i>There's probably quite a few more that haven't come forward because they've felt it was their own fault, much like domestic abuse spouses blame themselves.</i><p>A different way to put this is that most rational people recognize that letting strangers into their home is completely within the realm of their personal responsibility. AirBnB will have to put some processes in place in order for the business to succeed in the mainstream, but that doesn't absolve the hosts of responsibility for their apartments. Comparing this to domestic abuse victims is ludicrous.</text></comment> | <story><title>Another Airbnb Victim Tells His Story: “There Were Meth Pipes Everywhere”</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/31/another-airbnb-victim-tells-his-story-there-were-meth-pipes-everywhere/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mgkimsal</author><text>What's going to be a game changer is when stories start breaking about owners who rent out their space as a way to lure in people for killing or torturing them.<p>Right now it's about "you were stupid, why did you rent your space out to strangers?". Later on it'll be "why did you try to save $20 and go sleep some place where you're 110% vulnerable?". You don't control the locks, you don't know the neighborhood or even the layout of the house all that well (are there cameras in the room spying on you?).<p>If Holiday Inn or Marriott had tried to go 'downmarket' by trying to get in the "rent out your space with us - we'll handle the booking logistics", they'd have been eaten alive by the insurance costs of dealing with QA on thousands of rooms/spaces they don't control. They'd have too much name brand recognition and goodwill in their names to lose by leaving customer safety and security to chance. ABNB seems to be coming at this from the other way. What do they have to lose? Investor money? It's a big experiment for them, which they're hoping will pay off, but I think there's a reasons beyond "laziness" or "not getting it" to explain why larger companies well-versed in hospitality/property management have not gone down this road.<p>Will things still work out for ABNB? They might, but they're taking such a hit on this by not just making some of these situations right, then changing their procedures and policies. Apparently these incidents - as infrequent as they may be - have been occurring for a while. There's probably quite a few more that haven't come forward because they've felt it was their own fault, much like domestic abuse spouses blame themselves. Not really wanting to see ABNB fail, but can't help watching this play out, and I somewhat suspect it'll get worse before it gets better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ig1</author><text>This already happens on classified ad sites, people regularly go into strangers homes to purchase a wide range of goods with close to zero pre-checks. And yes people do get killed when they turn up at someone's house with 5k in cash to buy a car.<p>Doesn't seem to have stopped the classified business from working...</text></comment> |
33,728,718 | 33,727,134 | 1 | 3 | 33,724,759 | train | <story><title>Socrates on the forgetfulness that comes with writing</title><url>https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/socrates-on-the-forgetfulness-that-comes-with-writing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eternalban</author><text>&gt; upset about was the growing reliance on ..<p>Then he would have freaked out over smart phones. I&#x27;ve first hand seen what happens to e.g. sense of direction once use of the navigator-assist becomes habitual. Some auxiliary mental muscle atrophies in the brain.</text></item><item><author>wahern</author><text>These things aren&#x27;t contradictory. Ancient Greek students used wax tablets for taking notes, etc. What Socrates (and Plato and others) were upset about was the growing reliance on permanent writing to <i>displace</i> memorization. For example, giving a speech from notes rather than from memory; or in rhetoric citing to a work without being able to literally recite that part from memory. To the extent writing aided memorization and comprehension, they had no beef. The debate was about the nature of knowledge--whether knowledge could exist independent of an internalized form within the mind--i.e. memorization.</text></item><item><author>nehal3m</author><text>Hah, you can&#x27;t make this stuff up.<p>6.
Socrates on the Forgetfulness That Comes with Writing (newlearningonline.com)
33 points by indy 1 hour ago | hide | 5 comments<p>7.
Writing by hand is still the best way to retain information (stackoverflow.blog)
329 points by TangerineDream 7 hours ago | hide | 189 comments</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Broken_Hippo</author><text>You right this like people were born with some sort of innate ability, while my personal experience is that using a gas station toilet means that I have to get my bearings. I, as an adult in my mid 40&#x27;s, have to actually think about which is my right and left. I also lived without a gps of any sort for most of my life: Before gps, I printed directions. Before that, I relied on maps when I could or just got lost.<p>A navigator of some sort means that I can make up for this shortcoming and that I can explore. It isn&#x27;t perfect, but much better than my brain does on its own.</text></comment> | <story><title>Socrates on the forgetfulness that comes with writing</title><url>https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/socrates-on-the-forgetfulness-that-comes-with-writing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eternalban</author><text>&gt; upset about was the growing reliance on ..<p>Then he would have freaked out over smart phones. I&#x27;ve first hand seen what happens to e.g. sense of direction once use of the navigator-assist becomes habitual. Some auxiliary mental muscle atrophies in the brain.</text></item><item><author>wahern</author><text>These things aren&#x27;t contradictory. Ancient Greek students used wax tablets for taking notes, etc. What Socrates (and Plato and others) were upset about was the growing reliance on permanent writing to <i>displace</i> memorization. For example, giving a speech from notes rather than from memory; or in rhetoric citing to a work without being able to literally recite that part from memory. To the extent writing aided memorization and comprehension, they had no beef. The debate was about the nature of knowledge--whether knowledge could exist independent of an internalized form within the mind--i.e. memorization.</text></item><item><author>nehal3m</author><text>Hah, you can&#x27;t make this stuff up.<p>6.
Socrates on the Forgetfulness That Comes with Writing (newlearningonline.com)
33 points by indy 1 hour ago | hide | 5 comments<p>7.
Writing by hand is still the best way to retain information (stackoverflow.blog)
329 points by TangerineDream 7 hours ago | hide | 189 comments</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tshaddox</author><text>Is there evidence that this oft-cited claim about using turn-by-turn directions is inevitable (or even true at all, for that matter). I have a decent sense of direction, but I still use turn-by-turn directions routinely both for unfamiliar areas, and for familiar areas because of traffic information. A sense of direction doesn’t really help with tricky exits, one way streets, etc. or with real-time traffic info.</text></comment> |
22,339,372 | 22,338,996 | 1 | 2 | 22,338,945 | train | <story><title>Aggressively Stupid: The Story Behind After Dark (2007)</title><url>https://lowendmac.com/2007/aggressively-stupid-the-story-behind-after-dark/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bitwize</author><text>This program was so popular, references to it were made on <i>Beverly Hills, 90210</i>. When the &quot;Peach Pit After Dark&quot; nightclub opened, the wordmark above the nightclub entrance was the same as that of the screen saver After Dark. There was also a flying toaster on the door, and some of the disco lights had flying toaster stencil masks in front of them, projecting toasters onto the dancefloor.<p>It was a very rare instance of a real-world computer culture reference appearing in something as aggressively pop culture as 90210.</text></comment> | <story><title>Aggressively Stupid: The Story Behind After Dark (2007)</title><url>https://lowendmac.com/2007/aggressively-stupid-the-story-behind-after-dark/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>A thread from 2017: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14900647" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14900647</a><p>2014: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7702105" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7702105</a><p>A bit from 2010: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1338175" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1338175</a><p>(These links are for the curious. Reposts are ok after a year or so: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsfaq.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsfaq.html</a>)</text></comment> |
19,118,710 | 19,118,678 | 1 | 3 | 19,116,873 | train | <story><title>Apple to contribute to U.S. teen's education for spotting FaceTime bug</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-patch/apple-to-contribute-to-u-s-teens-education-for-spotting-facetime-bug-idUSKCN1PW2E0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zavi</author><text>Most people on US Forbes top 500 came from poverty and &#x2F; or other disadvantage.</text></item><item><author>nerdponx</author><text><i>Do you mean like how some people are born into rich families and some into poor families? (I kid :))</i><p>Why kid? This is the way of the world.</text></item><item><author>ppeetteerr</author><text>&gt; it bothers me that there are such large institutions that can arbitrarily &quot;bless&quot; random people like a deity or something.<p>Do you mean like how some people are born into rich families and some into poor families? (I kid :))<p>&gt; I also can&#x27;t help but look at this cynically as a largely self-interested PR grab by Apple that is not a real sacrifice on their part.<p>It may be but so what? They could have done nothing, but they didn&#x27;t. Good on them for doing this.</text></item><item><author>davesque</author><text>You know, I&#x27;m happy on some level for that individual. It seems like a great stroke of fortune. On another level, it bothers me that there are such large institutions that can arbitrarily &quot;bless&quot; random people like a deity or something. I also can&#x27;t help but look at this cynically as a largely self-interested PR grab by Apple that is not a real sacrifice on their part.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>peeters</author><text>Seemed like a dubious claim, so tried to find a source and found this old article:<p>Did the Forbes 400 Billionaires Really &#x27;Build That&#x27;?
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;id&#x2F;49167533" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;id&#x2F;49167533</a><p>Trimming a lot:<p>&quot;United for a Fair Economy breaks down the Forbes list using a baseball analogy. It says<p>- 35 percent of the list was born in the “batter’s box,” with a lower-middle class or middle-class background...<p>- 22 percent of the list were born on first base: they came from a comfortable but not rich background and might have received some start-up capital from a family member.<p>- 11.5 percent were born on second base, the report says. Second base is defined as people who inherited a medium sized company or more than $1 million or got “substantial” start-up capital from a business or family member.<p>- 7 percent were born on third base, inheriting more than $50 million in wealth or a big company. The report includes Charles Koch and Charles Butt on third base.<p>- 21 percent were born on home plate, inheriting enough money to make the list.&quot;<p>So less than 35 percent would be coming from poverty, if this study is to be believed. This is for the 400 billionaires list though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple to contribute to U.S. teen's education for spotting FaceTime bug</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-patch/apple-to-contribute-to-u-s-teens-education-for-spotting-facetime-bug-idUSKCN1PW2E0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zavi</author><text>Most people on US Forbes top 500 came from poverty and &#x2F; or other disadvantage.</text></item><item><author>nerdponx</author><text><i>Do you mean like how some people are born into rich families and some into poor families? (I kid :))</i><p>Why kid? This is the way of the world.</text></item><item><author>ppeetteerr</author><text>&gt; it bothers me that there are such large institutions that can arbitrarily &quot;bless&quot; random people like a deity or something.<p>Do you mean like how some people are born into rich families and some into poor families? (I kid :))<p>&gt; I also can&#x27;t help but look at this cynically as a largely self-interested PR grab by Apple that is not a real sacrifice on their part.<p>It may be but so what? They could have done nothing, but they didn&#x27;t. Good on them for doing this.</text></item><item><author>davesque</author><text>You know, I&#x27;m happy on some level for that individual. It seems like a great stroke of fortune. On another level, it bothers me that there are such large institutions that can arbitrarily &quot;bless&quot; random people like a deity or something. I also can&#x27;t help but look at this cynically as a largely self-interested PR grab by Apple that is not a real sacrifice on their part.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shrimp_emoji</author><text>This statement is saved by the &quot;and &#x2F; or other disadvantage&quot; because that includes the subconscious guilt that they ultimately owe all of their accomplishments to their wealthy parents, which is indeed a disadvantage that I struggle with daily. :&#x27;c</text></comment> |
35,048,132 | 35,048,294 | 1 | 3 | 35,047,624 | train | <story><title>Roku devices don't support IPv6 in 2023 and it's costing ISPs</title><url>https://community.roku.com/t5/Features-settings-updates/It-s-2022-and-still-no-IPv6/m-p/854673/highlight/true#M35732</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hitpointdrew</author><text>Who the hell is giving their Roku a public IP? How is this remotely a problem? This is 100% not the fault of Roku, and 100% the fault of the ISP. The ISP should have an IPv6 to IPv4 gateway built into their modem&#x2F;router. You have a WAN port that is IPv6 and an LAN port that IPv4.<p>IPv6 for local networks, makes no sense is completely unnecessary, and is a hill I will die on. IPv4 is here to stay.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ArchOversight</author><text>The ISP said they got only a limited set of IPv4 addresses, those are assigned to their CGNAT gateways. Which are expensive, especially for an Indian Reservation, not the deep pockets of some MSP.<p>The users are behind CG-NAT.<p>But instead of using IPv6 which is cheaper (no need to maintain CG-NAT, translation devices, or deal with traffic that is being routed way more expensively) the Roku devices are only streaming over IPv4.<p>Each new user that adds an IPv4 only device adds additional load the CG-NAT and additional capacity will need to be provisioned. That is an additional expense and burden.<p>Most of my traffic at my house (on Comcast) is over IPv6, because most if not all streaming services now support IPv6 for content delivery, so the small amount of data that may need to go over IPv4 when the majority can go over IPv6 reduces the load on IPv4.</text></comment> | <story><title>Roku devices don't support IPv6 in 2023 and it's costing ISPs</title><url>https://community.roku.com/t5/Features-settings-updates/It-s-2022-and-still-no-IPv6/m-p/854673/highlight/true#M35732</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hitpointdrew</author><text>Who the hell is giving their Roku a public IP? How is this remotely a problem? This is 100% not the fault of Roku, and 100% the fault of the ISP. The ISP should have an IPv6 to IPv4 gateway built into their modem&#x2F;router. You have a WAN port that is IPv6 and an LAN port that IPv4.<p>IPv6 for local networks, makes no sense is completely unnecessary, and is a hill I will die on. IPv4 is here to stay.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bonsaibilly</author><text>Congratulations on completely failing to understand how CGNAT loads work &amp; their costs, and jumping to a wildly incorrect understanding of the situation</text></comment> |
34,782,481 | 34,782,263 | 1 | 2 | 34,750,036 | train | <story><title>Darwinian Gastronomy: Why We Use Spices (1999)</title><url>https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/49/6/453/229475</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>le-mark</author><text>It’s interesting to read this. I grew up eating a pretty limited diet in retrospect. The seasoning was salt and black pepper mostly. The first time I tried Indian food I was about 30 years old. I’ll never forget it. My mouth exploded with the flavor and a glow spread over me. It’s not that it was spicy as in hot, it was simply remarkable. I’ve often thought since that I must have been missing some sort of basic nutrient in the food that my body was deprived of. It was a very strong feeling.</text></comment> | <story><title>Darwinian Gastronomy: Why We Use Spices (1999)</title><url>https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/49/6/453/229475</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jongjong</author><text>I think there is a lot of truth to it but it&#x27;s imperfect because too much of a good thing can become poison. For example, sugar would have been very good for our ancestors; they could have eaten as much of it as they could possibly find and it would have helped them to survive... But now with technology, we have access to quantities of sugar which would have been unfathomable to our ancestors; so this good thing turned into a bad thing due to its abundance and unnaturally low cost made possible by technology.<p>Bitterness is bad for us because it often signals the presence of poison. Spices are good because they help to preserve certain foods and prevent or slow bacteria growth (especially in hot climates were bacteria normally thrive; no coincidence that hot countries use a lot of spice). Slight acidity in flavor is good for the same reason. Our need for diversity of flavors is good because it encourages us to consume a broad range of essential nutrients without having to think too much. Protein is satisfying to eat because our bodies need it.<p>It&#x27;s quite obvious if you think about it that our tastes are actually very well calibrated. The only flaws are that we tend to abuse good things... But even then, most of us will feel disgust after consuming too much of a good thing. Some of us are more fine-tuned than others on the abuse side of the equation.<p>I think that being overly neurotic about eating only &#x27;healthy foods&#x27; even when they don&#x27;t taste good is misguided. As Leslie Orgel pointed out &quot;Evolution is cleverer than you are.&quot;</text></comment> |
1,245,510 | 1,245,480 | 1 | 3 | 1,245,255 | train | <story><title>32 years on, K&R's "The C Programming Language" still stands alone</title><url>http://reprog.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/programming-books-part-4-the-c-programming-language/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text><i>There is, essentially, nothing to be known about C beyond what is in this book. If you can read those 272 pages, and understand them all, then you are well on the way to being a C wizard.</i><p>Say what? This is like saying that once you know what all the commands in Illustrator do, you're well on your way to being a professional illustrator. The reason that K&#38;R is so small is that so much of C programming happens outside/above the language.<p>I like K&#38;R a lot, and I won't argue that it's the best soup-to-nuts C book (though I recommend C Interfaces and Implementations more heartily). But if everything you need to know about C is in K&#38;R, how do you implement a balanced tree?<p>(<i>I caught myself typing "how do you implement a hash table", and remembered that K&#38;R actually has a hash table in it. Damn you, K&#38;R!</i>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tjr</author><text><i>But if everything you need to know about C is in K&#38;R, how do you implement a balanced tree?</i><p>Read a good algorithms text to learn about balanced trees. Once you understand what one is, you ought to have learned enough about C from K&#38;R to be able to implement one in C.</text></comment> | <story><title>32 years on, K&R's "The C Programming Language" still stands alone</title><url>http://reprog.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/programming-books-part-4-the-c-programming-language/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text><i>There is, essentially, nothing to be known about C beyond what is in this book. If you can read those 272 pages, and understand them all, then you are well on the way to being a C wizard.</i><p>Say what? This is like saying that once you know what all the commands in Illustrator do, you're well on your way to being a professional illustrator. The reason that K&#38;R is so small is that so much of C programming happens outside/above the language.<p>I like K&#38;R a lot, and I won't argue that it's the best soup-to-nuts C book (though I recommend C Interfaces and Implementations more heartily). But if everything you need to know about C is in K&#38;R, how do you implement a balanced tree?<p>(<i>I caught myself typing "how do you implement a hash table", and remembered that K&#38;R actually has a hash table in it. Damn you, K&#38;R!</i>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MikeTaylor</author><text>tptacek, I LOLled at your last comment :-)<p>But I think you're being unfairly selective in your quoting of the original article. _Immediately_ after the part you excerpted, it continues: "(Er, assuming you have the patience to go on to accumulate a decade of experience leading to wisdom, taste, good judgement and technical intuition.)"</text></comment> |
29,552,588 | 29,551,585 | 1 | 3 | 29,537,594 | train | <story><title>Drgn: How the Linux kernel team at Facebook debugs the kernel at scale</title><url>https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2021/12/09/drgn-how-linux-kernel-team-meta-debugs-kernel-scale/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcan_42</author><text>They don&#x27;t care, until a kernel panic causes disk corruption in just the right way to cause a cross-security-boundary information leak that also ends up breaking an entire global pipeline, or a rare buffer overread in a ubiquitous piece of code causes once in a petabyte mismatches in cross-checked processes with compliance implications.<p>Source: xoogler, developed a reputation for black magic debugging, debugged both of those things. Correctness still matters, no matter how big you are or how much you think auto-restarts help.</text></item><item><author>silisili</author><text>As a former linux expert and sysadmin turned developer, I think this attitude is what pissed me off most about current developers. I thought I&#x27;d have a huge upper hand, understanding dark magic. Come to find out most developers don&#x27;t know and don&#x27;t care about any of it, and have infected the whole community with the idea that none of it matters and servers and processes are just cattle. &#x2F;rant</text></item><item><author>rvnx</author><text>Makes me remember how Facebook operates memory leaks at scale; &quot;won&#x27;t fix, we just reboot servers when they crash&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nijave</author><text>Honestly I think this just rolls down from management.<p>&quot;Oh you can spend $x * 80 hours debugging or $x * 2 hours putting a patch to constantly restart&quot;<p>It&#x27;s hard to quantify the impact of having a house of cards system with components constantly restarting to side steps bugs until the whole thing lights on fire in a cascading failure later (oh the service scheduler was down for 30 mins and things are restarting so much a massive amount of capacity went offline during that time)</text></comment> | <story><title>Drgn: How the Linux kernel team at Facebook debugs the kernel at scale</title><url>https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2021/12/09/drgn-how-linux-kernel-team-meta-debugs-kernel-scale/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcan_42</author><text>They don&#x27;t care, until a kernel panic causes disk corruption in just the right way to cause a cross-security-boundary information leak that also ends up breaking an entire global pipeline, or a rare buffer overread in a ubiquitous piece of code causes once in a petabyte mismatches in cross-checked processes with compliance implications.<p>Source: xoogler, developed a reputation for black magic debugging, debugged both of those things. Correctness still matters, no matter how big you are or how much you think auto-restarts help.</text></item><item><author>silisili</author><text>As a former linux expert and sysadmin turned developer, I think this attitude is what pissed me off most about current developers. I thought I&#x27;d have a huge upper hand, understanding dark magic. Come to find out most developers don&#x27;t know and don&#x27;t care about any of it, and have infected the whole community with the idea that none of it matters and servers and processes are just cattle. &#x2F;rant</text></item><item><author>rvnx</author><text>Makes me remember how Facebook operates memory leaks at scale; &quot;won&#x27;t fix, we just reboot servers when they crash&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thomasjudge</author><text>I know you probably can&#x27;t share details, but would be curious to hear a little more color around these two situations.</text></comment> |
29,098,853 | 29,094,257 | 1 | 3 | 29,093,264 | train | <story><title>The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)</title><url>https://www.listennotes.com/blog/the-boring-technology-behind-a-one-person-23/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sdevonoes</author><text>I was expecting: PHP + MySQL + a bunch of shell scripts to install stuff on servers + reading logs via command line by ssh as root. Instead I found: Redis, Rabbitmq, DataDog, ES, React + Redux, Ansible, PagerDuty... I wouldn&#x27;t call that &quot;boring technology&quot;. Sure, you are not using Docker nor K8s... but still.</text></comment> | <story><title>The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)</title><url>https://www.listennotes.com/blog/the-boring-technology-behind-a-one-person-23/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tapan_jk</author><text>&gt; Most of my time is spent on talking to other human beings, replying emails (30%~40% of my time), and thinking (!!!), which is not considered as “real work” by engineers :)<p>Oh, burn! &#x2F;s</text></comment> |
18,234,802 | 18,234,676 | 1 | 2 | 18,234,626 | train | <story><title>Facebook lured advertisers by inflating video ad-watch times: lawsuit</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/16/facebook-lured-advertisers-by-inflating-ad-watch-times-up-to-900-percent-lawsuit/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gk1</author><text>Pretty sure Twitter has an ad metrics problem too. As I wrote last year:<p>&gt; When I ran a Twitter Ads campaign for one of my clients, within two days I noticed that Google Analytics was reporting nearly 100% fewer visitors from the campaign than Twitter was reporting clicks. That is, if Twitter counted (and charged for) 100 clicks, Google Analytics showed fewer than 5 visitors from the campaign.<p>&gt; The support team at Twitter Ads told me they are legitimate clicks, but people are probably clicking the image in the tweet to expand the tweet or image, not expecting it to take them to a different site. As soon as they realize they’ve just clicked an outgoing link, they go back or close the tab before our site and Google Analytics script even has time to load.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gkogan.co&#x2F;blog&#x2F;how-ad-campaigns-fail&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gkogan.co&#x2F;blog&#x2F;how-ad-campaigns-fail&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook lured advertisers by inflating video ad-watch times: lawsuit</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/16/facebook-lured-advertisers-by-inflating-ad-watch-times-up-to-900-percent-lawsuit/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jsemrau</author><text>I have mentioned that several times before, but I always believed that FB&#x27;s but also Google&#x27;s metrics are at least borderline fraudulent. Inflated by bots and apps that simulate DAUs and clicks.<p>I only have anecdotal evidence from Google, where I was frequently charged over my campaign limit on ad clicks that I could never validate on my own site. I believe FB is same.</text></comment> |
37,526,308 | 37,526,567 | 1 | 2 | 37,525,921 | train | <story><title>Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/11-months-after-launch-googles-pixel-watch-still-has-no-path-to-repair/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adeon</author><text>After my iPhone dropped into a pool last month I commandeered and wiped a Google Pixel 4a I had used as a work phone in the past. Oopsidoopsie, it went out of support last month and no longer has guaranteed security updates.<p>This phone was released in 2020. Mine is barely used. I was a bit WTF when I found out.<p>From an older article I found off Internet, Google justifying this policy:<p>&quot;&quot;&quot;<p>In response to an email asking Google why it stopped supporting the Pixel 3, a Googles spokesperson said, “We find that three years of security and OS updates still provides users with a great experience for their device.”<p>&quot;&quot;&quot;<p>Mine is still usable because you still get app updates and it&#x27;s not like it stops just working but it&#x27;s a bit uncomfortable to use out-of-security-updates phone. Waiting until the new iPhones get out next week.<p>Why can&#x27;t companies support their products for a longer time. I&#x27;ve heard the best way to reduce e-waste is to keep using the stuff you have as long as possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jsight</author><text>The excuse has been driver and firmware support from the vendors. Google has extended security updates to 5 years for the newer Pixels. That&#x27;s fairly decent, given that each one is only on the market for ~1 year.<p>Obviously the cycle has to be longer for companies that keep older phones on the market as a lower cost option.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/11-months-after-launch-googles-pixel-watch-still-has-no-path-to-repair/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adeon</author><text>After my iPhone dropped into a pool last month I commandeered and wiped a Google Pixel 4a I had used as a work phone in the past. Oopsidoopsie, it went out of support last month and no longer has guaranteed security updates.<p>This phone was released in 2020. Mine is barely used. I was a bit WTF when I found out.<p>From an older article I found off Internet, Google justifying this policy:<p>&quot;&quot;&quot;<p>In response to an email asking Google why it stopped supporting the Pixel 3, a Googles spokesperson said, “We find that three years of security and OS updates still provides users with a great experience for their device.”<p>&quot;&quot;&quot;<p>Mine is still usable because you still get app updates and it&#x27;s not like it stops just working but it&#x27;s a bit uncomfortable to use out-of-security-updates phone. Waiting until the new iPhones get out next week.<p>Why can&#x27;t companies support their products for a longer time. I&#x27;ve heard the best way to reduce e-waste is to keep using the stuff you have as long as possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yjftsjthsd-h</author><text>Well it might be too hard for Google, but lineage still supports it just fine: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.lineageos.org&#x2F;devices&#x2F;sunfish&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.lineageos.org&#x2F;devices&#x2F;sunfish&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
19,006,165 | 19,005,868 | 1 | 3 | 19,004,899 | train | <story><title>Google Memo on Cost Cuts Sparks Heated Debate Inside Company</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-26/google-memo-on-cost-cuts-sparks-heated-debate-inside-company</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jlebar</author><text><i>your manager can&#x27;t vouch for you and it&#x27;s basically up to how well you summarize and present your work to a faceless promotion committee (_i.e. how well you play politics_).</i> (emphasis mine)<p>Googler here, speaking for myself.<p>Isn&#x27;t what you describe literally the opposite of playing politics?</text></item><item><author>flunhat</author><text>I&#x27;ve heard that getting promoted at Google is kind of a shitshow -- that your manager can&#x27;t vouch for you and it&#x27;s basically up to how well you summarize and present your work to a faceless promotion committee (i.e. how well you play politics). I don&#x27;t think this is entirely a bad thing, per se. In light of this memo, however, I wonder if the layered bureaucracy of the promotion process is an intentional way of not promoting promotion-worthy employees and keeping costs down.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drewg123</author><text>I&#x27;m an Xoogler and was promoted when I was there. (see sibling comment for details).<p>The way to get promoted at Google seems to be to play a game where you tick all the boxes for performance at the next level and have the right people write for you. In some ways, that helps the company (working across teams, for example). In other ways, it may hurt the company (launching potentially redundant products is seen by committees as being more valuable than incrementally improving existing products). I think that a <i>lot</i> depends on who writes recommendations for you in your promo packet (and that&#x27;s pure politics)<p>In my case, I was basically gathering requirements and helping other teams integrate with an internal product. So I was perfectly positioned for promo. I was an L5, and talking to a lot of senior folks in other teams (sr. staff, director, vp) who were willing to write for me. I&#x27;m pretty sure having a VP who knew me and could write about me really made the difference.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Memo on Cost Cuts Sparks Heated Debate Inside Company</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-26/google-memo-on-cost-cuts-sparks-heated-debate-inside-company</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jlebar</author><text><i>your manager can&#x27;t vouch for you and it&#x27;s basically up to how well you summarize and present your work to a faceless promotion committee (_i.e. how well you play politics_).</i> (emphasis mine)<p>Googler here, speaking for myself.<p>Isn&#x27;t what you describe literally the opposite of playing politics?</text></item><item><author>flunhat</author><text>I&#x27;ve heard that getting promoted at Google is kind of a shitshow -- that your manager can&#x27;t vouch for you and it&#x27;s basically up to how well you summarize and present your work to a faceless promotion committee (i.e. how well you play politics). I don&#x27;t think this is entirely a bad thing, per se. In light of this memo, however, I wonder if the layered bureaucracy of the promotion process is an intentional way of not promoting promotion-worthy employees and keeping costs down.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>Is it? It might not be playing inter-personal politics, but it&#x27;s like doing a campaign speech.<p>Instead of a long term assessment of your work (and the real interactions within your team etc), it&#x27;s how you represent it in a pitch that is measured... The most charismatic presenter (e.g. bullshit artist) wins.</text></comment> |
30,129,136 | 30,129,121 | 1 | 2 | 30,128,011 | train | <story><title>Don't you lecture me with your thirty dollar website</title><url>https://gdcolon.com/🗿</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duxup</author><text>I don’t even pay $30 for a haircut…</text></item><item><author>jccalhoun</author><text>Apparently the title is a meme taking from DragonBall Z <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;knowyourmeme.com&#x2F;memes&#x2F;dont-you-lecture-me-with-your-30-dollar-haircut" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;knowyourmeme.com&#x2F;memes&#x2F;dont-you-lecture-me-with-your...</a></text></item><item><author>LewisVerstappen</author><text>Lol. Can someone explain the context here for those out of the loop?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>serial_dev</author><text>I thought it was supposed to be expensive? Don&#x27;t you lecture me with your fancy and expensive haircut? Though I didn&#x27;t watch Dragon Ball that long, so I don&#x27;t know. Maybe he is belittling him that his haircut is so cheap?</text></comment> | <story><title>Don't you lecture me with your thirty dollar website</title><url>https://gdcolon.com/🗿</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duxup</author><text>I don’t even pay $30 for a haircut…</text></item><item><author>jccalhoun</author><text>Apparently the title is a meme taking from DragonBall Z <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;knowyourmeme.com&#x2F;memes&#x2F;dont-you-lecture-me-with-your-30-dollar-haircut" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;knowyourmeme.com&#x2F;memes&#x2F;dont-you-lecture-me-with-your...</a></text></item><item><author>LewisVerstappen</author><text>Lol. Can someone explain the context here for those out of the loop?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iso1631</author><text>My wife cuts mine and the kids, takes about 5 minutes and no problem with our double crowns. Before then I&#x27;d get a haircut whenever I had the time, usually once every 6-9 months. At one point I went for 5 cuts in a row (about 3 years) getting a haircut on a different continent each time.</text></comment> |
29,808,081 | 29,807,573 | 1 | 3 | 29,806,385 | train | <story><title>My Evaluation of SvelteKit for Full-Stack Web App Development</title><url>https://cprimozic.net/blog/trying-out-sveltekit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>capableweb</author><text>Gatekeeping what should be called &quot;full stack&quot; based on your own requirements seems futile at best. Believe it or not, there are businesses built without using those things, even though you&#x27;ve never come across that in your life.<p>Besides that, I think the things you&#x27;re looking for are listed here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sveltesociety.dev&#x2F;components&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sveltesociety.dev&#x2F;components&#x2F;</a><p>Never used Svelte&#x2F;SvelteKit myself, but seems the framework takes a &quot;some batteries included, others available&quot; approach to the whole thing, which is one way to about it as well.</text></item><item><author>midrus</author><text>I&#x27;m really surprised at how easy anything is considered &quot;full stack&quot;. Where is the ORM&#x2F;data access library? The validation framework? The background jobs? The caching system? The translations&#x2F;i18n system? And the other 1000 things you do need for a full stack real life application? I definitely do have those things in Laravel, Django and rails. Next.js, nuxt.js, sveltekit etc are far, far from full stack. They can certainly run js in the backend, but that&#x27;s not full stack, you still need 10s of other packages.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>midrus</author><text>Yes, precisely because I&#x27;ve been involved in maintaining codebases built without real full stack frameworks is why I say what I said.<p>The problem we have in this industry, is that somebody reads these blog posts, and the next day at work they ditch the &quot;legacy rails&quot; and starts rewriting the monolith in sveltekit&#x2F;nextjs&#x2F;whatever because that&#x27;s what he&#x2F;she has been told is the modern way to do full stack.<p>No need to say those engineers will quit 1 year later after they realize the mess they&#x27;ve created with their lightweight and simple modern framework.<p>I&#x27;ve seen this too many times already.<p>It is not about gatekeeping. It is about engineers being humble and assume it is very likely that their code is very unlikely to be better tested, documented, cohesive and maintained than what you&#x27;re given in the real full stack frameworks.<p>Of course you can build anything even in assembler if you want. The question is if that&#x27;s the most useful thing to do with your company&#x27;s money.</text></comment> | <story><title>My Evaluation of SvelteKit for Full-Stack Web App Development</title><url>https://cprimozic.net/blog/trying-out-sveltekit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>capableweb</author><text>Gatekeeping what should be called &quot;full stack&quot; based on your own requirements seems futile at best. Believe it or not, there are businesses built without using those things, even though you&#x27;ve never come across that in your life.<p>Besides that, I think the things you&#x27;re looking for are listed here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sveltesociety.dev&#x2F;components&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sveltesociety.dev&#x2F;components&#x2F;</a><p>Never used Svelte&#x2F;SvelteKit myself, but seems the framework takes a &quot;some batteries included, others available&quot; approach to the whole thing, which is one way to about it as well.</text></item><item><author>midrus</author><text>I&#x27;m really surprised at how easy anything is considered &quot;full stack&quot;. Where is the ORM&#x2F;data access library? The validation framework? The background jobs? The caching system? The translations&#x2F;i18n system? And the other 1000 things you do need for a full stack real life application? I definitely do have those things in Laravel, Django and rails. Next.js, nuxt.js, sveltekit etc are far, far from full stack. They can certainly run js in the backend, but that&#x27;s not full stack, you still need 10s of other packages.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adamors</author><text>Some gatekeeping is necessary because soon JS frameworks will have redefined everything making it impossible to converse.</text></comment> |
39,466,191 | 39,466,307 | 1 | 3 | 39,465,614 | train | <story><title>GIMP 2.99.18: The last development preview before 3.0</title><url>https://www.gimp.org/news/2024/02/21/gimp-2-99-18-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vallode</author><text>Another comment mentioned GIMP may have assumptions of bad UX within their codebase which makes me think about long-lived and large scale projects like this in general. The technical debt of GIMP has been slowly amassing (like all projects) since 1995 (wow!) and I assume that as every year goes by it gets increasingly difficult to do a large scale re-write of any part of the logic.<p>Tools like Photopea[1] come along and throw a fresh perspective at things all the time, these tools never have the breadth and depth of feature support that GIMP has but basically always manage to &quot;one-up&quot; it over something.<p>How long will it take before GIMP has usability on-par with Photoshop? How long until it attains the aesthetic coherence necessary to win people over visually? I love GIMP, but is the battle against 20 years of technical debt even winnable?<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.photopea.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.photopea.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bemusedthrow75</author><text>Another really long-lived package, FreeCAD (it&#x27;s about six years younger), has tremendous parallels:<p>- bad (in places better called solipsistic) UX<p>- underlying architectural issues from its dependencies (e.g. OpenCascade&#x27;s OCCT and Coin3D)<p>- a flood of competing workbenches and plugins so users struggle with initial workflow, many abandoned or undermaintained<p>- something of a reliance on knowledge of Python scripting to solve advanced issues<p>- and (akin to GIMP avoiding non-destructive-editing for two decades) a fundamental architectural issue: topological naming problems that other CAD packages have solved<p>But things in FreeCAD land are changing <i>really</i> fast -- there&#x27;s a TNP implementation coming quite soon to core FreeCAD, there&#x27;s a core assembly workbench, a materials system and really significant GUI and UX improvements.<p>The reason is things are changing is that that people central to FreeCAD looked across the open source landscape to Blender, and saw how a project can be run, and how commercial companies could consult on top of it.<p>Everything has changed within a matter of three years. Despite its issues, FreeCAD is now exciting to watch.<p>Whereas GIMP seems to still be circling around looking for the best solutions to things they never finish. Krita has become the thing GIMP could have been, and it is nine years younger.</text></comment> | <story><title>GIMP 2.99.18: The last development preview before 3.0</title><url>https://www.gimp.org/news/2024/02/21/gimp-2-99-18-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vallode</author><text>Another comment mentioned GIMP may have assumptions of bad UX within their codebase which makes me think about long-lived and large scale projects like this in general. The technical debt of GIMP has been slowly amassing (like all projects) since 1995 (wow!) and I assume that as every year goes by it gets increasingly difficult to do a large scale re-write of any part of the logic.<p>Tools like Photopea[1] come along and throw a fresh perspective at things all the time, these tools never have the breadth and depth of feature support that GIMP has but basically always manage to &quot;one-up&quot; it over something.<p>How long will it take before GIMP has usability on-par with Photoshop? How long until it attains the aesthetic coherence necessary to win people over visually? I love GIMP, but is the battle against 20 years of technical debt even winnable?<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.photopea.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.photopea.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Pingk</author><text>The problems with GIMP are the same as Musescore before it was bought out - Having dedicated designers&#x2F;programmers allows more sweeping and coherent changes to be made.<p>Voluntary fixes are necessarily smaller in scope and suboptimal as a result, leading to more complexity when those systems need to be changed later.<p>I&#x27;m also reminded of Casey Muratori&#x27;s talk about software architecture being a reflection of the organisation that made it. Open source projects are at the extreme end where contributors and org charts are highly fluid, and communication between contributors is low-bandwidth, accelerating the complexity increase.</text></comment> |
11,858,494 | 11,857,748 | 1 | 3 | 11,857,395 | train | <story><title>Silicon Valley's housing crisis, in one sentence</title><url>http://www.vox.com/2016/6/7/11877378/silicon-valley-housing-crisis</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baron816</author><text>Why are people so adamantly opposed to density? Well, I know the reason is to prop up the value of their homes, but if you think about places like New York, London, and Paris, that argument doesn&#x27;t exactly hold. Those cities are incredibly dense and expensive, but people love living there enough to pay the high prices. People who can live <i>anywhere</i> choose to live there. I&#x27;m willing to bet that SV could triple its population, and property values would hold or increase. Supply will create it&#x27;s own demand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>FWIW that is the wrong question. People are opposed to change.<p>So Sunnyvale has been building a number of apartment buildings and condos around. There has been tremendous back pressure for <i>existing</i> residents (not me but I&#x27;m a rarity it seems). The root of their concern is that they don&#x27;t want the neighborhood experience to change from what <i>they</i> know (or knew) to something they don&#x27;t know. I talked to some folks who had moved into the apartments near downtown Murphy street. They <i>loved</i> them, easy access to Caltrain, lots of things to do and places to go, they are excited about future growth.<p>The issue in Sunnyvale at least is that people don&#x27;t seem to internalize that things change. They won&#x27;t acknowledge that their cute little bungalow house used to be an orchard (where only birds and perhaps squirrels lived, had we given them a say at City Council there would be no houses anywhere!). They will argue strongly for <i>their</i> values and <i>their</i> memories and opinions of what is &quot;right&quot; and what is &quot;wrong.&quot; Meanwhile we have people in their 20&#x27;s and 30&#x27;s who don&#x27;t want to own a car, they want tight walkable spaces with an easy way to get to San Francisco or the airport. Now maybe 20 years from now those same people will be resisting even denser housing or something I don&#x27;t know.<p>We could easily build 200,000 market rate dwellings on existing, unused, parcels in Sunnyvale and house close to half a million people in them. But for folks remember empty streets and quiet drives, those people are going to be really really unhappy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Silicon Valley's housing crisis, in one sentence</title><url>http://www.vox.com/2016/6/7/11877378/silicon-valley-housing-crisis</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baron816</author><text>Why are people so adamantly opposed to density? Well, I know the reason is to prop up the value of their homes, but if you think about places like New York, London, and Paris, that argument doesn&#x27;t exactly hold. Those cities are incredibly dense and expensive, but people love living there enough to pay the high prices. People who can live <i>anywhere</i> choose to live there. I&#x27;m willing to bet that SV could triple its population, and property values would hold or increase. Supply will create it&#x27;s own demand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; Well, I know the reason is to prop up the value of their homes<p>Yes, but not in the way you expect, which is why your comparison fails.<p>In many cases, its not to prop up the <i>market value</i> of their homes, but the features of the community which supports the <i>personal</i> value they place in their homes: its &quot;I live here, and I&#x27;d like to keep it the kind of place it is that led me to choose to live here&quot;.</text></comment> |
9,052,242 | 9,052,270 | 1 | 2 | 9,052,128 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: Sorry I broke the server</title><text>Experimenting with some code this evening and got so into it, I didn&#x27;t notice that I broke story submission for two hours. Argh!<p>Sorry everyone.<p>Edit: While you&#x27;re here... you can now view the comments you&#x27;ve upvoted by clicking on &quot;saved comments&quot; in your profile. It works like &quot;saved stories&quot;. Thanks to porker for the suggestion: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9050374.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mintplant</author><text>Seriously. I use HN as my &quot;am I connected to the internet?&quot; check, as it always loads instantly even when Google takes a while.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>Where there&#x27;s people working there are bound to be mistakes. Don&#x27;t sweat it, this is a free service after all and the service level for a non-advertising supported free service is absolutely incredible. I&#x27;d be more than happy to pay for HN as it is, you guys are doing a better job than most paid services when it comes to customer support, uptime and courtesy combined.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ponytech</author><text>I personally use : <a href="http://perdu.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;perdu.com</a> (up since 1998)
Which translate into:<p>Lost on the Internet?
Don&#x27;t worry, we will help
* &lt;----- you are here</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: Sorry I broke the server</title><text>Experimenting with some code this evening and got so into it, I didn&#x27;t notice that I broke story submission for two hours. Argh!<p>Sorry everyone.<p>Edit: While you&#x27;re here... you can now view the comments you&#x27;ve upvoted by clicking on &quot;saved comments&quot; in your profile. It works like &quot;saved stories&quot;. Thanks to porker for the suggestion: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9050374.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mintplant</author><text>Seriously. I use HN as my &quot;am I connected to the internet?&quot; check, as it always loads instantly even when Google takes a while.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>Where there&#x27;s people working there are bound to be mistakes. Don&#x27;t sweat it, this is a free service after all and the service level for a non-advertising supported free service is absolutely incredible. I&#x27;d be more than happy to pay for HN as it is, you guys are doing a better job than most paid services when it comes to customer support, uptime and courtesy combined.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iamwithnail</author><text>Hah, glad it&#x27;s not just me. It&#x27;s also the thing I hit if I&#x27;m trying to think of what I was doing&#x2F;am idle for a moment... typing &#x27;news.&#x27; just seems to flow from my fingers if they&#x27;re unoccupied.</text></comment> |
6,312,839 | 6,312,691 | 1 | 2 | 6,312,100 | train | <story><title>What did the tech CEO say to the worker he wanted to automate?</title><url>http://www.marketplace.org/topics/wealth-poverty/what-did-tech-ceo-say-worker-he-wanted-automate#.Uh6EtAC_2Bw.facebook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fnordfnordfnord</author><text>Yes, to be provocative about it, here are some options for what to do:<p>1. Support them comfortably for the rest of their lives, retrain the ones who wish to be retrained. (too crazy?)<p>2. Euthanize them in a kindly fashion, ie with laughing gas. (obviously ridiculous)<p>3. Euthanize them in a cruel way, ie humiliate them by making them beg their families for care and resources, starve the ones with no family. Let them die of exposure if they haven&#x27;t saved a fortune and can&#x27;t cope gracefully with rapid technological progress. (the way we&#x27;ve been doing it)</text></item><item><author>shubb</author><text>The thesis of the audio clip appears to be that an unsolved problem with automation is what becomes of the automated workers.<p>My girlfriend works in a government job, at a regulator.<p>Most jobs there exist because they insist in dealing with paper forms instead of internet ones - for most employees, half the work is in correcting invalid forms (e.g. no contact address).<p>The other half is in applying rules that they have to know because they have never been codified in a database (instead living in large regulation documents).<p>Recently, they have been downsizing. One of the employees that was fired was primarily responsible for sorting emails that arrive in a centralized inbox, allocating them equally to staff. She also ordered stationary, and watered plants. When she left, she was entirely replaced by 2 Outlook rules, one to allocate the mail, the other to periodically order stationary by automated mail.<p>I wonder what will become of that lady. She had a fear of technology, not even mastering how to send email though it was her primary role for 5 years. She regularly cried in the office, and when asked to do anything outside that small role, approached a nervous breakdown.<p>There are a lot of people who are not able to cope with advanced roles, by which I mean normal jobs a normal person could perform. Either we are willing to pay for them to be comfortably unemployed (as the CEO implies we should be), or we are not. I suspect we are not. So they will be punished, and made to feel terrible, until they are diagnosed with something and can be disabled. At this point, their livelyhood relies on not being able, and this seeps into the soul.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>omgsean</author><text>Optional number 4: Turn them into resources in the for-profit criminal justice system when they eventually turn to using and selling addictive drugs.</text></comment> | <story><title>What did the tech CEO say to the worker he wanted to automate?</title><url>http://www.marketplace.org/topics/wealth-poverty/what-did-tech-ceo-say-worker-he-wanted-automate#.Uh6EtAC_2Bw.facebook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fnordfnordfnord</author><text>Yes, to be provocative about it, here are some options for what to do:<p>1. Support them comfortably for the rest of their lives, retrain the ones who wish to be retrained. (too crazy?)<p>2. Euthanize them in a kindly fashion, ie with laughing gas. (obviously ridiculous)<p>3. Euthanize them in a cruel way, ie humiliate them by making them beg their families for care and resources, starve the ones with no family. Let them die of exposure if they haven&#x27;t saved a fortune and can&#x27;t cope gracefully with rapid technological progress. (the way we&#x27;ve been doing it)</text></item><item><author>shubb</author><text>The thesis of the audio clip appears to be that an unsolved problem with automation is what becomes of the automated workers.<p>My girlfriend works in a government job, at a regulator.<p>Most jobs there exist because they insist in dealing with paper forms instead of internet ones - for most employees, half the work is in correcting invalid forms (e.g. no contact address).<p>The other half is in applying rules that they have to know because they have never been codified in a database (instead living in large regulation documents).<p>Recently, they have been downsizing. One of the employees that was fired was primarily responsible for sorting emails that arrive in a centralized inbox, allocating them equally to staff. She also ordered stationary, and watered plants. When she left, she was entirely replaced by 2 Outlook rules, one to allocate the mail, the other to periodically order stationary by automated mail.<p>I wonder what will become of that lady. She had a fear of technology, not even mastering how to send email though it was her primary role for 5 years. She regularly cried in the office, and when asked to do anything outside that small role, approached a nervous breakdown.<p>There are a lot of people who are not able to cope with advanced roles, by which I mean normal jobs a normal person could perform. Either we are willing to pay for them to be comfortably unemployed (as the CEO implies we should be), or we are not. I suspect we are not. So they will be punished, and made to feel terrible, until they are diagnosed with something and can be disabled. At this point, their livelyhood relies on not being able, and this seeps into the soul.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drivingmenuts</author><text>#1 won&#x27;t happen - there&#x27;s too many people who want to toss unproductive people aside like so much dead wood. Unproductive people cost money and there&#x27;s a whole school of thought in the US that really, really (and I do mean really) resents that.<p>#3 is already being done and it&#x27;s working as intended (not that it is a good thing by any means), although it seems to be inefficient as far as that first group of thinkers is concerned.</text></comment> |
12,572,964 | 12,572,083 | 1 | 2 | 12,571,595 | train | <story><title>Bitcoin Wealth Distribution</title><url>https://blog.lawnmower.io/the-bitcoin-wealth-distribution-69a92cc4efcc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nullc</author><text>The text on the bottom more or less explains why this kind of analysis is almost worthless:<p>Due to the nature of easy &amp; anonymous address creation, and corporate account management inherent to Bitcoin &amp; the companies in the ecosystem, estimating the actual number of unique bitcoin holders as opposed to addresses is unfortunately much more difficult — &amp; not something we can glean from observing its blockchain alone.<p>Addresses can not only overstate user numbers when single people unknowingly control numerous addresses, but also understate user numbers when single addresses hold the funds of numerous unknown people, like an exchange who may control balances in a traditional database.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bitcoin Wealth Distribution</title><url>https://blog.lawnmower.io/the-bitcoin-wealth-distribution-69a92cc4efcc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>noobermin</author><text>The thing I don&#x27;t get with CS pop graphs (like this one) is if you want to show something is an obvious power law distribution, why don&#x27;t you plot it on a log-log graph? Then it will be perfectly obvious.</text></comment> |
29,062,298 | 29,062,235 | 1 | 2 | 29,060,874 | train | <story><title>Live Not by Lies (1974)</title><url>https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/live-not-by-lies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ls65536</author><text>Though written nearly half a century ago and in the context of what most might consider an otherwise completely antithetical system of politics and economics compared to what we believe we have in the West today, I can&#x27;t help but see how this essay remains incredibly relevant to us today, perhaps even more so in recent years than prior.<p>&quot;And as for him who lacks the courage to defend even his own soul: Let him not brag of his progressive views, boast of his status as an academician or a recognized artist, a distinguished citizen or general. Let him say to himself plainly: I am cattle, I am a coward, I seek only warmth and to eat my fill.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s important to stand up to lies and to speak against recognized propaganda for what it is, but how capable are we as a society even to recognize the propaganda and lies when we see them? And how many of us have the courage to do so in the face of it? When so many are in survival mode just to make it from one day to the next, this action tends to be deferred to some point in the future when those large masses of people have progressively less and less left to lose, with unfortunately often predictably violent outcomes, as history has shown.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>4wsn</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s important to stand up to lies and to speak against recognized propaganda for what it is, but how capable are we as a society even to recognize the propaganda and lies when we see them? And how many of us have the courage to do so in the face of it?<p>Feel-good rhetoric aside, your impact as an individual is limited and your defenses are fragile. In real terms, speaking out in even the most diplomatic way leads you to being aggressively silenced for not endorsing whatever the Sacred Infallible Truth may be in the time period that you live in, and there can be very severe consequences that impact your weakest link; your livelihood. The best you can feasibly do as an everyman is try with the people closest to you; the people that trust and respect you. Your partner, your family, your friends, your children. This is your only feasible option.<p>The issue with the passage you quoted (&quot;And as for him who lacks the courage to defend even his own soul...&quot;) is that it&#x27;s a call to arms yet it ignores the reality that you have no weapons with which to fight.<p>Reading between the lines of your post; if your society insists on going down a certain self-destructive path there&#x27;s not much you can feasibly do other than watch it and hope your perspective is the misguided one.</text></comment> | <story><title>Live Not by Lies (1974)</title><url>https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/live-not-by-lies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ls65536</author><text>Though written nearly half a century ago and in the context of what most might consider an otherwise completely antithetical system of politics and economics compared to what we believe we have in the West today, I can&#x27;t help but see how this essay remains incredibly relevant to us today, perhaps even more so in recent years than prior.<p>&quot;And as for him who lacks the courage to defend even his own soul: Let him not brag of his progressive views, boast of his status as an academician or a recognized artist, a distinguished citizen or general. Let him say to himself plainly: I am cattle, I am a coward, I seek only warmth and to eat my fill.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s important to stand up to lies and to speak against recognized propaganda for what it is, but how capable are we as a society even to recognize the propaganda and lies when we see them? And how many of us have the courage to do so in the face of it? When so many are in survival mode just to make it from one day to the next, this action tends to be deferred to some point in the future when those large masses of people have progressively less and less left to lose, with unfortunately often predictably violent outcomes, as history has shown.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noduerme</author><text>I think this is a powerful indictment of a sector of the current young generation who believe that &quot;violence is the voice of the voiceless,&quot; with perhaps even less knowledge of or regard for history than Lenin&#x27;s generation in Russia had:<p>&quot;All the other fateful means resorted to over the last century of Russia’s bitter history are even less fitting for us today—true, let’s not fall back on them! Today, when all the axes have hewn what they hacked, when all that was sown has borne fruit, we can see how lost, how drugged were those conceited youths who sought, through terror, bloody uprising, and civil war, to make the country just and content. No thank you, fathers of enlightenment! We now know that the vileness of the means begets the vileness of the result. Let our hands be clean!&quot;</text></comment> |
9,823,322 | 9,823,325 | 1 | 3 | 9,822,580 | train | <story><title>Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3bxduw/why_was_riama_along_with_a_number_of_other_large/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slg</author><text>&gt;Mr. Jackson, You are an immoral, hate-filled race baiter that has figured out how to manipulate the political system for your own gain. You&#x27;ve personally set back race relations year after year and continue to do more harm than good. Extorting money from companies to line your pockets and threatening to bus in protestors and create a fake racial controversy if they don’t agree to pay you off is NOT civil rights activism. My question is simple; how is your relationship with the illegitimate child you fathered in 1998 while cheating on your wife? Bonus question: How much money have you extorted from various people and companies over the years of practicing your shakedown scheme? Do you think Al Capone would be jealous of your business model if he were still alive?<p>That is the &quot;best&quot; question according to Reddit&#x27;s sorting algorithm. I think that easily qualifies as &quot;overly disrespectful&quot;.<p>It one thing to ask tough questions. It is another to call a man an immoral race baiter, say he set back his cause years, call him an extortionist, chastise him for an affair, and then insinuate he is worse than one of the most notorious criminals in US history all within a single paragraph. That isn&#x27;t a question, it is a personal attack.<p>I sadly don&#x27;t think it is surprising that a comment like that is posted. But it is a black eye on the Reddit community that it was upvoted more than any other question in the AMA.</text></item><item><author>Uhhrrr</author><text>I don&#x27;t think the questions were overly disrespectful. It&#x27;s an Ask Me Anything, not an Ask Me Respectful Things. And it&#x27;s not the first time someone has called him a shakedown artist or mentioned his out-of-wedlock child.</text></item><item><author>chernevik</author><text>Jesse Jackson had an AMA that did not go very well. Several of the most upvoted questions were simply disrespectful. The Reverend&#x27;s answers were mostly boilerplate and often unresponsive to the question. The AMA seems to have been part of some PR rollout -- Mother Jones had an article three days ago about Jackson taking on Silicon Valley. The event seems to have failed the rollout&#x27;s objectives.<p>Not a great moment for anyone: The AMA didn&#x27;t always feature the Reddit community at its best, but the Reverend didn&#x27;t show at all well under the spotlight of Radical Transparency.<p>Given all that, the timing and speed of the admin&#x27;s firing hardly seems coincidental. Reddit seems to have blown up a number of ongoing events, and upset an important chunk of its community, which hardly suggests that her firing relates to some long-term issue.<p>I can see why Reddit might feel the event wasn&#x27;t handled well.<p>But it is also very plausible that Jackson and his camp were deeply embarrassed, and insisted that someone be punished for that. So plausible, in fact, that I think Reddit really should give some account that demonstrates that this is _not_ what happened -- or admit that it did.<p>It is very surprising that this whole thing hasn&#x27;t gotten more coverage in the tech press.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zxcvcxz</author><text>The question was on point though. It was a tough question and it hurt, but the guy isn&#x27;t just &quot;some guy&quot; he goes on TV almost every night to push his political agenda. He was called out for being a hypocrite and people in his position deserve to be called out for being hypocritical, deceitful, and manipulative.<p>None of this is anything new though, it&#x27;s widely accepted that Jackson is a demagogue.</text></comment> | <story><title>Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3bxduw/why_was_riama_along_with_a_number_of_other_large/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slg</author><text>&gt;Mr. Jackson, You are an immoral, hate-filled race baiter that has figured out how to manipulate the political system for your own gain. You&#x27;ve personally set back race relations year after year and continue to do more harm than good. Extorting money from companies to line your pockets and threatening to bus in protestors and create a fake racial controversy if they don’t agree to pay you off is NOT civil rights activism. My question is simple; how is your relationship with the illegitimate child you fathered in 1998 while cheating on your wife? Bonus question: How much money have you extorted from various people and companies over the years of practicing your shakedown scheme? Do you think Al Capone would be jealous of your business model if he were still alive?<p>That is the &quot;best&quot; question according to Reddit&#x27;s sorting algorithm. I think that easily qualifies as &quot;overly disrespectful&quot;.<p>It one thing to ask tough questions. It is another to call a man an immoral race baiter, say he set back his cause years, call him an extortionist, chastise him for an affair, and then insinuate he is worse than one of the most notorious criminals in US history all within a single paragraph. That isn&#x27;t a question, it is a personal attack.<p>I sadly don&#x27;t think it is surprising that a comment like that is posted. But it is a black eye on the Reddit community that it was upvoted more than any other question in the AMA.</text></item><item><author>Uhhrrr</author><text>I don&#x27;t think the questions were overly disrespectful. It&#x27;s an Ask Me Anything, not an Ask Me Respectful Things. And it&#x27;s not the first time someone has called him a shakedown artist or mentioned his out-of-wedlock child.</text></item><item><author>chernevik</author><text>Jesse Jackson had an AMA that did not go very well. Several of the most upvoted questions were simply disrespectful. The Reverend&#x27;s answers were mostly boilerplate and often unresponsive to the question. The AMA seems to have been part of some PR rollout -- Mother Jones had an article three days ago about Jackson taking on Silicon Valley. The event seems to have failed the rollout&#x27;s objectives.<p>Not a great moment for anyone: The AMA didn&#x27;t always feature the Reddit community at its best, but the Reverend didn&#x27;t show at all well under the spotlight of Radical Transparency.<p>Given all that, the timing and speed of the admin&#x27;s firing hardly seems coincidental. Reddit seems to have blown up a number of ongoing events, and upset an important chunk of its community, which hardly suggests that her firing relates to some long-term issue.<p>I can see why Reddit might feel the event wasn&#x27;t handled well.<p>But it is also very plausible that Jackson and his camp were deeply embarrassed, and insisted that someone be punished for that. So plausible, in fact, that I think Reddit really should give some account that demonstrates that this is _not_ what happened -- or admit that it did.<p>It is very surprising that this whole thing hasn&#x27;t gotten more coverage in the tech press.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dikaiosune</author><text>The phrasing is awful, agreed. But as GP pointed out, it is &quot;ask me anything.&quot; further, each of the points raised are the kinds of thing I would expect to be addressed directly in a transparent interview format. Surely that user could have found a more respectful way to phrase it, but asking questions about someone&#x27;s right to a morally superior attitude when that is central to their PR? Not <i>that</i> out of line.</text></comment> |
25,893,810 | 25,891,848 | 1 | 3 | 25,890,653 | train | <story><title>SoftBank’s plan to sell Arm to Nvidia is hitting antitrust wall around the world</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/SoftBank-s-plan-to-sell-Arm-to-NVIDIA-is-hitting-antitrust-wall-around-the-world</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>klelatti</author><text>&gt; The CMA will look at the deal’s possible effect on competition in the UK. The CMA is likely to consider whether, following the takeover, Arm has an incentive to withdraw, raise prices or reduce the quality of its IP licensing services to NVIDIA’s rivals.<p>This is from the UK&#x27;s Competition and Markets Authority (UK&#x27;s antitrust regulator) web page [1] on this takeover and captures the key issue precisely.<p>Nvidia has every incentive withdraw, raise prices or reduce the quality of its IP licensing services to NVIDIA’s rivals because this would help NVIDIA&#x27;s own products (current and future) and NVIDIA makes a lot more on its own products than Arm makes on licenses.<p>I&#x27;d also add that there is almost no way that this could be properly policed post takeover.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;government&#x2F;news&#x2F;cma-to-investigate-nvidia-s-takeover-of-arm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;government&#x2F;news&#x2F;cma-to-investigate-nvidia...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>SoftBank’s plan to sell Arm to Nvidia is hitting antitrust wall around the world</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/SoftBank-s-plan-to-sell-Arm-to-NVIDIA-is-hitting-antitrust-wall-around-the-world</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wyuenho</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why Softbank won&#x27;t just put it back to the public market and list on the LSE.</text></comment> |
23,108,546 | 23,107,308 | 1 | 3 | 23,105,060 | train | <story><title>Google ends plans for smart city in Toronto</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52572362</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drusepth</author><text>I know there&#x27;s gonna be a lot of people here that are happy about this for various reasons (anti-Google, anti-&quot;smart cities&quot;, etc), but this is really disappointing for me.<p>It&#x27;s true that the concept of &quot;cities&quot; (or even just &quot;gatherings of people&quot;) predates the Internet by thousands of years, and that cities themselves haven&#x27;t adapted much to the Internet and what it enables in the 40ish years it&#x27;s been around. This project was inspiring because it embraced what&#x27;s possible in a new way and enabled many new possibilities that wouldn&#x27;t otherwise be possible in the typical piecemeal upgrades a city typically sees over time (especially in terms of construction guidelines and sustainability). People hated on Sidewalk Labs since its very inception, but I guess they bit off too much area and got shut down by the locals (and, I guess, covid-19 made a handy exit strategy).<p>Hopefully the next EPCOT equivalent will either be a new city that attracts the kind of people who would want to live there, or at least find a city that would be happy to host their &quot;experiments&quot;.<p>FWIW I previously worked at a &quot;smart cities&quot; company that I won&#x27;t besmirch, but I will say I would rather see a more well-known (and IMO trustworthy) company that has more experience managing and securing data at scale than them. In experimental projects like these, it just takes one &quot;city&#x27;s data leaks&quot; headline and the whole market chills.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Barrin92</author><text>The entire idea of a &quot;smart city&quot; is pure anathema to how vibrant cities function. It&#x27;s a technocratic wet dream, the digital version of Robert Moses and Corbusier making a comeback. The people preoccupied with this should read some Alain Bertaud and learn how markets work and then go do more productive things with their time than trying to micromanage cities.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google ends plans for smart city in Toronto</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52572362</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drusepth</author><text>I know there&#x27;s gonna be a lot of people here that are happy about this for various reasons (anti-Google, anti-&quot;smart cities&quot;, etc), but this is really disappointing for me.<p>It&#x27;s true that the concept of &quot;cities&quot; (or even just &quot;gatherings of people&quot;) predates the Internet by thousands of years, and that cities themselves haven&#x27;t adapted much to the Internet and what it enables in the 40ish years it&#x27;s been around. This project was inspiring because it embraced what&#x27;s possible in a new way and enabled many new possibilities that wouldn&#x27;t otherwise be possible in the typical piecemeal upgrades a city typically sees over time (especially in terms of construction guidelines and sustainability). People hated on Sidewalk Labs since its very inception, but I guess they bit off too much area and got shut down by the locals (and, I guess, covid-19 made a handy exit strategy).<p>Hopefully the next EPCOT equivalent will either be a new city that attracts the kind of people who would want to live there, or at least find a city that would be happy to host their &quot;experiments&quot;.<p>FWIW I previously worked at a &quot;smart cities&quot; company that I won&#x27;t besmirch, but I will say I would rather see a more well-known (and IMO trustworthy) company that has more experience managing and securing data at scale than them. In experimental projects like these, it just takes one &quot;city&#x27;s data leaks&quot; headline and the whole market chills.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>netcan</author><text>I&#x27;d like us to be more forward looking, ambitious and experimental with our cities as well, especially in the west.<p>But... I think there&#x27;s an institutional aspect here that needs resolution before we can. The internet is worryingly centralised. A small number of extremely profitable companies monopolise huge markets. Google tends to do this with data.<p>I think the reticence was justified: &quot;<i>Who owns the data? What kind of monopoly are google eventually going to have?</i>&quot; These are fair. A financial success case for google is some sort of data-centric monopoly. They don&#x27;t really do business another way. It&#x27;s fair to be dubious of their endgame.</text></comment> |
22,083,421 | 22,083,402 | 1 | 2 | 22,083,121 | train | <story><title>Cartridge cannot be used until printer is enrolled in HP Instant Ink</title><url>https://twitter.com/ryandonsullivan/status/1218149470220632064</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jackson1way</author><text>I don‘t understand why people keep buying these inkjet scam printers. It‘s been like this for almost 2 decades.<p>That‘s about the time I switched to laser printers. Currently I equipped myself and my family with a Brother HL 3152CDW. I got it for around 160-180€. The included toners print 1-2k pages. A new toner does 2-2,5k and costs around 60€ per color (genuine Brother) or around 50-60€ for a 4-color-toner set from noname brands. We have the printer since maybe 3-4 years and had to buy 1 black toner. I think I got a noname cartridge for around 25€.<p>If you want a smaller device and save a little money, get a b&#x2F;w laser printer for less than 100€.<p>If I need to print photos, I go to a store with instant printing kiosks. It takes a few minutes to print dozens of photos and it‘s cheap, around 0,20-0,30€ per print (10x15cm).<p>I hope laser printers will never become such a scam product like inkjet...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jaclaz</author><text>&gt;I hope laser printers will never become such a scam product like inkjet...<p>They can already be, JFYI.<p>For years I had HP printers (only), when they (particularly their drivers) started to become crap (around 10 years ago) I switched to Brother (small office, 3-4 printers, very little print volume).<p>Lately, on two different multifunctions, &quot;low cost&quot; but rated for around 10,000-15,000 pages per month (we do like 1&#x2F;10th of that or less) multifunction B&#x2F;W laser printers, the fuser (rated for 100,000 pages) failed, on one machine at 18,000 pages, on the other at 46,000, printers are 3 or 4 years old (models DCP-8110DN and MFC-8520DN).<p>Cost of the spare fuser around 150 Euro! + some 30-50 Euro of labour, total 180-200.<p>Cost of a comparable brand new printer from Brother around 200-220 Euro.<p>After some research, I found out that half the world experienced the same on that particular &quot;printing engine&quot;, which was used on several Brother models, and new series printer use a different one, with a fuser hopefully more reliable.<p>Anyway, besides the money involved, the obvious choice, buying two new printers would have meant sending to waste some 15 kg x 2 = 30 kg of material, so searched and found a few videos about the issue, bought for 25 Euro each two &quot;fuser refurbishing kits&quot; from China (roller+sleeve+grease) and in less than two hours time I &quot;fixed&quot; (at least temporarily) the issue (it is too recent to know how long the fusers will last).<p>Imagine that your car, that you paid some 30,000 Euro and that reasonably could do 200,000 km, at 50,000 and right out of warranty breaks a piston and you can only replace the whole engine block and it is a 28,000 Euro repair.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cartridge cannot be used until printer is enrolled in HP Instant Ink</title><url>https://twitter.com/ryandonsullivan/status/1218149470220632064</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jackson1way</author><text>I don‘t understand why people keep buying these inkjet scam printers. It‘s been like this for almost 2 decades.<p>That‘s about the time I switched to laser printers. Currently I equipped myself and my family with a Brother HL 3152CDW. I got it for around 160-180€. The included toners print 1-2k pages. A new toner does 2-2,5k and costs around 60€ per color (genuine Brother) or around 50-60€ for a 4-color-toner set from noname brands. We have the printer since maybe 3-4 years and had to buy 1 black toner. I think I got a noname cartridge for around 25€.<p>If you want a smaller device and save a little money, get a b&#x2F;w laser printer for less than 100€.<p>If I need to print photos, I go to a store with instant printing kiosks. It takes a few minutes to print dozens of photos and it‘s cheap, around 0,20-0,30€ per print (10x15cm).<p>I hope laser printers will never become such a scam product like inkjet...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GordonS</author><text>I put up with crappy inkjets for years, but last year finally had <i>enough</i> and bought a Brother DCP-L2530DW, for only £135.<p>What a revelation! Cartridges that seem to last forever, it never jams, it doesn&#x27;t take an eternity to start and stop, it doesn&#x27;t waste ink on every startup, it doesn&#x27;t need &quot;realigned&quot; or &quot;unclogged&quot; or &quot;cleaned&quot; 3 times <i>every single time</i> I just want to print something...<p>I&#x27;m never going back to inkjets. I encourage anyone who is still putting up with them to make the switch to a small laser printer.</text></comment> |
32,216,641 | 32,216,462 | 1 | 3 | 32,213,101 | train | <story><title>At 88, Poker Legend Doyle Brunson Is Still Bluffing. Or Is He?</title><url>https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/doyle-brunson-poker-legend/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vaidhy</author><text>The comments here are so heavily jargon laden that I have no idea what I was reading.. gto, plo, nlo, then with numbers behind them, etc.. Is there a glossary to understand those terms?</text></comment> | <story><title>At 88, Poker Legend Doyle Brunson Is Still Bluffing. Or Is He?</title><url>https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/doyle-brunson-poker-legend/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>saucymew</author><text>Highly recommend Doyle&#x27;s &quot;Poker Wisdom of a Champion&quot; for a throwback look at the wild days of poker in the 60&#x27;s.<p>The story of the tennis match prop bet alone was worth it. Let the dog die!</text></comment> |
11,238,740 | 11,238,573 | 1 | 2 | 11,238,360 | train | <story><title>Revealed: the 30-year economic betrayal dragging down Generation Y’s income</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/07/revealed-30-year-economic-betrayal-dragging-down-generation-y-income</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dpina</author><text>This appears to be correct based on everyone of my age sharing the same problems, but the article doesn&#x27;t give any reasons on why it happens. Would be good to get some more information on causes as this is a rather very interesting topic. Any HN readers have good sources?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fucking_tragedy</author><text>Profits from labor&#x27;s vastly increased productivity over the 40 years have been captured almost entirely by employers&#x2F;owners&#x2F;shareholders.<p>Nothing ever trickled down. What power we had to recapture the gains you and your parents worked hard for has been whittled away by years of anti-labor legislation and rhetoric.<p>Negotiating for increased wage for the average laborer in a non-unicorn market is difficult. Without union representation, it is a solitary worker with little funds versus firms and industries made up thousands of well-moneyed and well-lawyered people who share the same interest in wanting to make sure you never see more money than they absolutely have to give you. Without solidarity, you can be fired and replaced without repercussions for your employer from your fellow workers, all of whom share the interest in seeing you get paid fairly so that one day they might, too.<p>Globalization has made it easy to avoid pesky things like fair compensation, hours, working conditions, benefits and taxes that we&#x27;ve come to take for granted in the US.</text></comment> | <story><title>Revealed: the 30-year economic betrayal dragging down Generation Y’s income</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/07/revealed-30-year-economic-betrayal-dragging-down-generation-y-income</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dpina</author><text>This appears to be correct based on everyone of my age sharing the same problems, but the article doesn&#x27;t give any reasons on why it happens. Would be good to get some more information on causes as this is a rather very interesting topic. Any HN readers have good sources?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lkrubner</author><text>The world economy slowed in 1973. No one really knows why. Some books focus on the effects in the USA, some focus elsewhere. In the West this has been &quot;The Great Stagnation&quot; whereas in several countries in Asia this has been &quot;The Great Bounce Back&quot; as formerly wealthy civilizations, such as China, recovered some of the ground they lost in the 1800s.<p>Sad to say, I&#x27;m not aware of any books that tell the whole international story.<p>For the USA, there have been an abundance of books and articles showing the decline of the middle class:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;billmoyers.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;01&#x2F;26&#x2F;middle-class&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;billmoyers.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;01&#x2F;26&#x2F;middle-class&#x2F;</a><p>Tyler Cowen came up with the phrase Great Stagnation:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Great-Stagnation-America-Low-Hanging-Eventually&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0525952713&#x2F;ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1457354526&amp;sr=8-3&amp;keywords=tyler+cowen" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Great-Stagnation-America-Low-Hanging-E...</a><p>Some writers treat this as a political issue:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Boiling-Point-Republicans-Middle-Class-Prosperity&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0679404619&#x2F;ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1457354859&amp;sr=8-4&amp;keywords=decline+of+middle+class" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Boiling-Point-Republicans-Middle-Class...</a><p>Some writers focus on long-term factors that have little to do with politics. Robert Gordon got good reviews for his historical analysis of the specialness of the 2nd Industrial Revolution 1860-1940, and why the current era is not as robust:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;The-Rise-Fall-American-Growth&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0691147728&#x2F;ref=pd_rhf_dp_s_cp_1?ie=UTF8&amp;dpID=51N3J9armvL&amp;dpSrc=sims&amp;preST=_SL500_SR92%2C135_&amp;refRID=0TSBYD4ETDER5E9DVG22" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;The-Rise-Fall-American-Growth&#x2F;dp&#x2F;06911...</a></text></comment> |
33,429,812 | 33,429,704 | 1 | 2 | 33,426,879 | train | <story><title>My First Piano</title><url>https://www.jeromeleroy.com/complog-content/2022/10/31/my-first-piano-a-story-of-hurt-healing-and-joy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reikonomusha</author><text>First, to clarify, there are &quot;keyboards&quot; and there are &quot;digital pianos&quot;. Keyboards typically have 60ish keys, keys that are light or thin, and sound that is low quality. Digital pianos, on the other hand, have full-sized keys that are weighted like a grand piano, have a connection for a traditional piano pedal, and usually have a good sound quality. Keyboards are not appropriate for learning most kinds of &quot;serious&quot; piano music.<p>A digital piano is perfectly fine to learn on. They&#x27;re pretty good quality these days. You can put headphones on and not disturb anybody. (Grand pianos are comparatively loud.) There&#x27;s no question that you can reach an advanced level of playing on a good quality digital piano, like the better ones from Roland, Kawai, or Yamaha.<p>However, you lose a lot of really fine-grained control of sound. I&#x27;m talking about <i>really</i> fine stuff that classical pianists appreciate. For instance, pressing the pedal on a digital won&#x27;t give you any feedback from the felt rubbing on the strings. Most classically trained teachers would recommend an acoustic over this fact alone.<p>An acoustic grand also has more opportunities to change and shape the color of the tone. A technician can make the piano warmer or brighter for example.<p>Some teachers claim an acoustic will lead to vastly better physical technique. I haven&#x27;t seen this substantiated by any actual experiment though, so it might just be a tale among teachers.<p>With that said, an acoustic grand is <i>not</i> an investment. Maintaining it costs $100s per year. Keeping it in tip-top shape costs $1000 every 5 years or so, in top of the $100s paid for tuning. They require TLC to keep them in good condition.<p>Acoustic pianos also slowly break down. The crown of the soundboard flattens, the strings lose brilliance, the felts compress, the hammers wear out, etc.<p>But an acoustic will probably give you the greatest degree of connectedness to your music that a digital could not.</text></item><item><author>jrussino</author><text>For someone who knows next to nothing about pianos: If I (or perhaps my children) want to learn&#x2F;play the piano today, what are the benefits of having a real piano at home vs an electronic keyboard? It seems to me that a low-end&#x2F;&quot;budget&quot; upright or baby grand piano costs around as much as a high-end electronic keyboard. What are the differences in sound and&#x2F;or over-all playing experience?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jefftk</author><text><i>&gt; First, to clarify, there are &quot;keyboards&quot; and there are &quot;digital pianos&quot;. Keyboards typically have 60ish keys, keys that are light or thin, and sound that is low quality.</i><p>I describe myself as playing &quot;keyboard&quot; and call my instrument a &quot;keyboard&quot;, even though by your definitions it wouldn&#x27;t be one -- I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s how the word is usually used? I think most people, including most musicians, would consider a digital piano a kind of keyboard.</text></comment> | <story><title>My First Piano</title><url>https://www.jeromeleroy.com/complog-content/2022/10/31/my-first-piano-a-story-of-hurt-healing-and-joy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reikonomusha</author><text>First, to clarify, there are &quot;keyboards&quot; and there are &quot;digital pianos&quot;. Keyboards typically have 60ish keys, keys that are light or thin, and sound that is low quality. Digital pianos, on the other hand, have full-sized keys that are weighted like a grand piano, have a connection for a traditional piano pedal, and usually have a good sound quality. Keyboards are not appropriate for learning most kinds of &quot;serious&quot; piano music.<p>A digital piano is perfectly fine to learn on. They&#x27;re pretty good quality these days. You can put headphones on and not disturb anybody. (Grand pianos are comparatively loud.) There&#x27;s no question that you can reach an advanced level of playing on a good quality digital piano, like the better ones from Roland, Kawai, or Yamaha.<p>However, you lose a lot of really fine-grained control of sound. I&#x27;m talking about <i>really</i> fine stuff that classical pianists appreciate. For instance, pressing the pedal on a digital won&#x27;t give you any feedback from the felt rubbing on the strings. Most classically trained teachers would recommend an acoustic over this fact alone.<p>An acoustic grand also has more opportunities to change and shape the color of the tone. A technician can make the piano warmer or brighter for example.<p>Some teachers claim an acoustic will lead to vastly better physical technique. I haven&#x27;t seen this substantiated by any actual experiment though, so it might just be a tale among teachers.<p>With that said, an acoustic grand is <i>not</i> an investment. Maintaining it costs $100s per year. Keeping it in tip-top shape costs $1000 every 5 years or so, in top of the $100s paid for tuning. They require TLC to keep them in good condition.<p>Acoustic pianos also slowly break down. The crown of the soundboard flattens, the strings lose brilliance, the felts compress, the hammers wear out, etc.<p>But an acoustic will probably give you the greatest degree of connectedness to your music that a digital could not.</text></item><item><author>jrussino</author><text>For someone who knows next to nothing about pianos: If I (or perhaps my children) want to learn&#x2F;play the piano today, what are the benefits of having a real piano at home vs an electronic keyboard? It seems to me that a low-end&#x2F;&quot;budget&quot; upright or baby grand piano costs around as much as a high-end electronic keyboard. What are the differences in sound and&#x2F;or over-all playing experience?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iainmerrick</author><text><i>However, you lose a lot of really fine-grained control of sound. I&#x27;m talking about</i> really <i>fine stuff that classical pianists appreciate. For instance, pressing the pedal on a digital won&#x27;t give you any feedback from the felt rubbing on the strings. Most classically trained teachers would recommend an acoustic over this fact alone.</i><p>I actually agree with you for the most part, but I think the digital experience is (or at least can be) even closer than you realise.<p>I have a digital piano that does a very good impersonation of half-pedalling, and when you press down the pedal you can hear the whole soundboard gently vibrate. It was high-end when I bought it over ten years ago. Sound quality has improved a <i>lot</i> since then, touch and feel is at least as good.</text></comment> |
11,884,175 | 11,884,169 | 1 | 3 | 11,883,695 | train | <story><title>Facebook threatens to delete synced photos if users don't download new photo app</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/11/11908500/facebook-moments-auto-sync-notice-deletion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaitsu</author><text>They seem to go about these things in the wrong way. Take Messenger for example, there was no good reason to remove access to this via a browser on mobile devices. I don&#x27;t want to have to install an app for something that was previously available in a browser. If you can&#x27;t provide me with <i>all</i> of the features of messenger in the browser then that&#x27;s fine. I thought we were meant to be progressing towards a truly open web accessible to all, regardless of device.<p>This is just another example of Facebook doing whatever they please just because they can. I wonder how long that will last until people start moving away from the platform.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tobtoh</author><text>&gt; If you can&#x27;t provide me with all of the features of messenger in the browser then that&#x27;s fine.<p>And I&#x27;d also prefer if they don&#x27;t try and hijack other features.<p>I had installed Messenger, but had notifications turned off because I don&#x27;t care to be interrupted every time someone sends me a new message when I&#x27;m not actively participating in the chat.<p>Today, someone tried to call me (as in voice call), via the Messenger app. Because notifications were turned off, I didn&#x27;t realise they had tried to call even though I had the phone with me at the time because it&#x27;s treated as a &#x27;data&#x27; call via Messenger rather than a real phone call.<p>Given that I can&#x27;t separate the functionality of &#x27;text chatting&#x27; from &#x27;phone calls&#x27; made in Messenger, I&#x27;ve now uninstalled it so friends can&#x27;t pseudo-call me via Messenger.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook threatens to delete synced photos if users don't download new photo app</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/11/11908500/facebook-moments-auto-sync-notice-deletion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaitsu</author><text>They seem to go about these things in the wrong way. Take Messenger for example, there was no good reason to remove access to this via a browser on mobile devices. I don&#x27;t want to have to install an app for something that was previously available in a browser. If you can&#x27;t provide me with <i>all</i> of the features of messenger in the browser then that&#x27;s fine. I thought we were meant to be progressing towards a truly open web accessible to all, regardless of device.<p>This is just another example of Facebook doing whatever they please just because they can. I wonder how long that will last until people start moving away from the platform.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rpgmaker</author><text>&gt; I thought we were meant to be progressing towards a truly open web accessible to all, regardless of device.<p>Not at all. It&#x27;s the other way around actually. I think Silicon Valley, out of sheer pettiness, has betrayed the principles that were supposed to guide the WWW.</text></comment> |
9,243,304 | 9,243,320 | 1 | 3 | 9,242,260 | train | <story><title>The Hacker Who Drank Ayahuasca</title><url>https://medium.com/@Grayfox/the-hacker-who-drank-ayahuasca-517148aa1ed4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jzelinskie</author><text>There are also stories of people dying and the locals dumping their bodies elsewhere so that they don&#x27;t ruin others experiences or stop people from coming to try the &#x27;Medicine&#x27;. IIRC, the primary drug in Ayahuasca is DMT, which can be acquired other ways (that are less likely to make you puke) than drinking their jungle juice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rosser</author><text>Yeah, that happened. There&#x27;s another center in the jungle I know of that changes its name every time they have a guest die. And I&#x27;ve heard stories of &quot;shamans&quot; who add a paralytic to the dose they give attractive young female guests...<p>But you know what? Those are the exceptions. I&#x27;ve taken ayahuasca dozens of times, and am booked for another trip to Peru next month. I&#x27;ve been fortunate only to work with reputable people, and have consistently only met others in my travels that have also worked with reputable people.<p>Please don&#x27;t judge a tradition that&#x27;s thousands of years old, and actually remarkably safe — with a few caveats, that the reputable folks will screen for — on the basis of a couple of cretins who look at the plants and the gringo tourists and just see dollar signs.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Hacker Who Drank Ayahuasca</title><url>https://medium.com/@Grayfox/the-hacker-who-drank-ayahuasca-517148aa1ed4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jzelinskie</author><text>There are also stories of people dying and the locals dumping their bodies elsewhere so that they don&#x27;t ruin others experiences or stop people from coming to try the &#x27;Medicine&#x27;. IIRC, the primary drug in Ayahuasca is DMT, which can be acquired other ways (that are less likely to make you puke) than drinking their jungle juice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vinceguidry</author><text>&gt; IIRC, the primary drug in Ayahuasca is DMT, which can be acquired other ways (that are less likely to make you puke) than drinking their jungle juice.<p>I strongly suspect that with psychedelics, the context in which they are taken is far more influential on the kind of experience you have than the actual neurochemical effects. A sugar pill given to you by a man in a white coat and a soothing bedside manner is going to have a bigger effect than the same pill given to you by your next-door neighbor the handyman.<p>The service these fake shamans are providing can be of value even though the shamans are fake.</text></comment> |
11,302,621 | 11,302,141 | 1 | 2 | 11,302,125 | train | <story><title>Lisp Flavoured Erlang 1.0 released after 8 years of development</title><url>https://github.com/rvirding/lfe</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eggy</author><text>Great news! I wanted to learn BEAM&#x2F;OTP, but had tried
Erlang briefly years ago, and then went back to Common Lisp. Now I can try to learn BEAM&#x2F;OTP in a syntax that is more appealing to me than Elixir&#x27;s Ruby-like syntax. I like Elixir, and it is very popular, but true runtime macros are available in LFE 1.0. In addition, Robert Virding was one of the co-creators of Erlang, so his devotion to bringing the best Lisp he could to the BEAM platform within its confines, comes with some authority. The Google Group Lisp Flavoured Erlang is a very responsive community and resource for getting started. Congratulations LFE on your v1.0!
OT, but I also use Extempore - the music, graphics livecoding environment with a great language, xtlang that I believe was based upon S7 scheme and has an LLVM backend [1]. There are some s-expression to WebAssembly projects floating around too. All around good news for all the choices to work with up front no matter your preferences.<p><pre><code> [1] http:&#x2F;&#x2F;extempore.moso.com.au&#x2F;</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Lisp Flavoured Erlang 1.0 released after 8 years of development</title><url>https://github.com/rvirding/lfe</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vdaniuk</author><text>Robert Virding has just announced the release on twitter <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;rvirding&#x2F;status&#x2F;710259707819249664" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;rvirding&#x2F;status&#x2F;710259707819249664</a><p>I feel that this LFE release further validates BEAM as a promising platform for future development of new programming languages. Also I look forward to reading SICP converted to LFE. Available chapters can be found here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gitbook.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;lfe&#x2F;sicp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gitbook.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;lfe&#x2F;sicp</a></text></comment> |
11,873,742 | 11,873,475 | 1 | 2 | 11,873,102 | train | <story><title>Tesla Model S Suspension Failures Under Scrutiny by Safety Agency</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/10/business/tesla-model-s-nhtsa-suspension-failure.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hackuser</author><text>I found this part very interesting:<p><i>In the case of the Model S’s suspension, Tesla took care of repairs for some customers who complained to the company, on the condition that they agreed in writing not to talk about the issue or how Tesla dealt with it. The agreements, however, stirred up discussion on online bulletin boards.<p>Dailykanban.com, an auto industry blog, posted excerpts from what it said was an agreement. It said, in part: “You agree to keep confidential our provision of the Goodwill, the terms of this agreement and the incidents or claims leading or related to our provision of the Goodwill.” “Goodwill” is the term Tesla used to refer to any repairs or compensation it made because of a suspension failure.<p>The agreement posted on the blog released Tesla from any liability and barred the car owners from filing legal proceedings against the company.</i><p>---<p>More and more I get the sense that Musk is in firm control of everything I read about his companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigiain</author><text>FWIW, I&#x27;ve seen that sort of language about &quot;goodwill repairs&quot; for instances where a company agrees to fix things that are out of warranty - a friend signed something similar to that to get a replacement frame on a Ducati ST4 which was ~3 years out of warranty. They covered the cost of a new frame and several thousand dollars worth of labour to install, but asked for an NDA (rumours from the time suggest they didn&#x27;t enforce the NDA requirement, and fixed people&#x27;s bikes anyway if they refused to sign).</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla Model S Suspension Failures Under Scrutiny by Safety Agency</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/10/business/tesla-model-s-nhtsa-suspension-failure.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hackuser</author><text>I found this part very interesting:<p><i>In the case of the Model S’s suspension, Tesla took care of repairs for some customers who complained to the company, on the condition that they agreed in writing not to talk about the issue or how Tesla dealt with it. The agreements, however, stirred up discussion on online bulletin boards.<p>Dailykanban.com, an auto industry blog, posted excerpts from what it said was an agreement. It said, in part: “You agree to keep confidential our provision of the Goodwill, the terms of this agreement and the incidents or claims leading or related to our provision of the Goodwill.” “Goodwill” is the term Tesla used to refer to any repairs or compensation it made because of a suspension failure.<p>The agreement posted on the blog released Tesla from any liability and barred the car owners from filing legal proceedings against the company.</i><p>---<p>More and more I get the sense that Musk is in firm control of everything I read about his companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saulrh</author><text>He kind of had to be if electric vehicles were going to have a chance. Look at the &quot;batteries are fire hazards&quot; shitstorm - because his company is new and interesting, the press is going to be <i>much</i> harder on it than they would be on any other manufacturer. Given how much I hear about Tesla, I suspect that his information control roughly balances out the muckraking into something like the truth.</text></comment> |
14,973,820 | 14,973,567 | 1 | 2 | 14,972,788 | train | <story><title>Designing Zachtronics' TIS-100 (2015)</title><url>http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/244969/Things_we_create_tell_people_who_we_are_Designing_Zachtronics_TIS100.php?print=1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spjwebster</author><text>I recently lost more of my life than I care to admit to Zachtronics&#x27; more graphically pleasing follow-up Shenzhen I&#x2F;O [1] that I think I first heard about from HN [2].<p>The backstory that unfolds through your fake inbox actually gives the devilishly tricky game some direction, and the post-solution histograms showing just how many people solved the same puzzle cheaper, with fewer instructions and with lower power consumption than you tug at your ego and keep you obsessing over the same puzzle long after you&#x27;ve solved it. There&#x27;s even a fun Solitaire variation buried in there for good measure, which was evidently so popular they also released it as a standalone game [3].<p>1: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zachtronics.com&#x2F;shenzhen-io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zachtronics.com&#x2F;shenzhen-io&#x2F;</a><p>2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12660253" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12660253</a><p>3: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;570490&#x2F;SHENZHEN_SOLITAIRE&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;570490&#x2F;SHENZHEN_SOLITAIRE&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Designing Zachtronics' TIS-100 (2015)</title><url>http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/244969/Things_we_create_tell_people_who_we_are_Designing_Zachtronics_TIS100.php?print=1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>asciimo</author><text>The first time I heard about this game someone mentioned another assembly language game called Human Resource Machine. I was so captivated by the design of HRM (I&#x27;m a fan of the publisher, Tomorrow Corporation, thanks to Little Inferno), I forgot all about TIS-100. I&#x27;m happy to be reminded.<p>Seems that the Internet likes to compare these two games. Here they are compared on Slant.io: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slant.co&#x2F;versus&#x2F;6230&#x2F;6231&#x2F;~tis-100_vs_human-resource-machine" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slant.co&#x2F;versus&#x2F;6230&#x2F;6231&#x2F;~tis-100_vs_human-reso...</a></text></comment> |
7,336,236 | 7,335,905 | 1 | 2 | 7,334,778 | train | <story><title>Keurig Will Use DRM In New Coffee Maker</title><url>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140227/06521826371/keurig-will-use-drm-new-coffee-maker-to-lock-out-refill-market.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcampbell1</author><text>I waste 7 pounds of petroleum driving to work, and .01 lbs from my morning k-cup. My time has value, and I am not going to waste it greenwashing.</text></item><item><author>mikegioia</author><text>I actively try to dissuade people from buying Keurig machines, or any &quot;coffee pod&quot; machine and this is just another reason why. Aside from the fact that the coffee is watery, the pods just add such an unnecessary amount of garbage to something that doesn&#x27;t need to generate any waste.<p>I think the concept is cool but re-usable pods are the way to go. This is stupid of Keurig.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ssharp</author><text>I have a Breville machine that allows you to pour in a heap of coffee beans, and it grinds and automatically fills the filter with your desired strength based on how much water you put in the machine. I believe they also make one that has a water reservoir that you periodically fill and you can just dial in a cup amount and it does everything else for you.<p>I&#x27;ve been pretty happy with it since I get fresh ground coffee and don&#x27;t need to measure it. You still have to clean the filter after every use, but really it takes me less than 60 seconds to clean out the filter and fill the machine with water. Grinding the coffee and measuring it out manually was the biggest bottleneck in my daily coffee routine, so the Breville has at least eliminated that step.<p>Now if I could only plumb water directly to it...</text></comment> | <story><title>Keurig Will Use DRM In New Coffee Maker</title><url>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140227/06521826371/keurig-will-use-drm-new-coffee-maker-to-lock-out-refill-market.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcampbell1</author><text>I waste 7 pounds of petroleum driving to work, and .01 lbs from my morning k-cup. My time has value, and I am not going to waste it greenwashing.</text></item><item><author>mikegioia</author><text>I actively try to dissuade people from buying Keurig machines, or any &quot;coffee pod&quot; machine and this is just another reason why. Aside from the fact that the coffee is watery, the pods just add such an unnecessary amount of garbage to something that doesn&#x27;t need to generate any waste.<p>I think the concept is cool but re-usable pods are the way to go. This is stupid of Keurig.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nsmnsf</author><text>&gt; I waste 7 pounds of petroleum driving to work<p>Yes... that is also a problem.</text></comment> |
3,806,833 | 3,806,862 | 1 | 2 | 3,806,601 | train | <story><title>Speed Hashing</title><url>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/04/speed-hashing.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codinghorror</author><text>Well, I'd say a hash that has no need whatsoever to be tamper-proof (no attackers, ever) and cares only about speed is a <i>checksum</i> -- so maybe a terminology issue.<p>I agree there are certainly other uses for hashes, just trying to distinguish between hashes and checksums.<p>Re-reading what I wrote, I open with "Hashes are a bit like fingerprints for data. A given hash uniquely represents a file, or any arbitrary collection of data" so the context of this article is hash functions that are able to uniquely identify something in a reliable, trustworthy way -- either checksums (fast, no need for security) or hashing (slower, more reliable, possibly "secure" for some definition of secure), but always in the context of "can I <i>trust</i> this value to tell me that the data is really what I think it is?"<p>Of course there is a tradeoff with speed; a person's name can be good enough identifier (checksum) in some circumstances, but maybe other circumstances require more reliability like DNA or fingerprints (secure-ish hash), at the cost of being far slower to collect and validate and way more onerous.</text></item><item><author>judofyr</author><text>Nitpicks. It seems that he's talking about password hashing:<p>&#62; "Hashes are designed to be tamper-proof". Wrong. <i>Cryptographically secure</i> hash functions are.<p>&#62; "Hashes, when used for security, need to be slow." Wrong. <i>Password hashes</i> needs this; not SHA1/MD5 etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nadam</author><text>I am afraid the terminology you use is not canonical.<p>A hash (function) is any function that maps a big variable-length data structure to a smaller (fixed-length) data structure.<p>A checksum is a special hash (function) which has the purpose of detecting accidental errors during transmission or storage. (This makes them different from hash functions used for example in hash tables. For example relevant question: minimum how many badly transmitted bits are needed to break the error detection in the case of a specific checksum?)<p>A cryptographic hash function is another kind of special hash function which also has a very good definition on wikipedia.<p>(Basically these are the definitions on Wikipedia, and I think they are fine. If the terminology you use would be canonical we would use the name 'checksum table' instead of 'hash table', and it would be quite illogical also, because the term 'checksum' really includes purpose in its name 'checking something').</text></comment> | <story><title>Speed Hashing</title><url>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/04/speed-hashing.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codinghorror</author><text>Well, I'd say a hash that has no need whatsoever to be tamper-proof (no attackers, ever) and cares only about speed is a <i>checksum</i> -- so maybe a terminology issue.<p>I agree there are certainly other uses for hashes, just trying to distinguish between hashes and checksums.<p>Re-reading what I wrote, I open with "Hashes are a bit like fingerprints for data. A given hash uniquely represents a file, or any arbitrary collection of data" so the context of this article is hash functions that are able to uniquely identify something in a reliable, trustworthy way -- either checksums (fast, no need for security) or hashing (slower, more reliable, possibly "secure" for some definition of secure), but always in the context of "can I <i>trust</i> this value to tell me that the data is really what I think it is?"<p>Of course there is a tradeoff with speed; a person's name can be good enough identifier (checksum) in some circumstances, but maybe other circumstances require more reliability like DNA or fingerprints (secure-ish hash), at the cost of being far slower to collect and validate and way more onerous.</text></item><item><author>judofyr</author><text>Nitpicks. It seems that he's talking about password hashing:<p>&#62; "Hashes are designed to be tamper-proof". Wrong. <i>Cryptographically secure</i> hash functions are.<p>&#62; "Hashes, when used for security, need to be slow." Wrong. <i>Password hashes</i> needs this; not SHA1/MD5 etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pbsd</author><text>Secure hashes <i>need</i> to be fast. If you look at the ongoing SHA-3 competition, you will see an enormous focus on speed, on both software and hardware.<p>Why do they need to be fast? They're used <i>everywhere</i>. Opening up notepad.exe, you'll verify a handful of digital signatures, each of which will compute a hash of the binary as first order of business. HMAC is used in virtually every secure network protocol worth using --- it uses an underlying hash as building block. Need a fast (determistic) pseudorandom generator? Hashes it is.<p>Password hashing (and key derivation) is about the single use of hashes that requires computational hardness. It <i>should</i> be treated separately.</text></comment> |
13,531,366 | 13,530,814 | 1 | 2 | 13,529,790 | train | <story><title>Club Penguin is shutting down</title><url>http://puffl.es/2jMtlPJ</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cyberferret</author><text>Ah, I remember my older son being quite addicted to CP back in the day. It seemed to be a cool platform, really easy for kids to use and interact with their friends. I think I even paid for a couple of annual subscriptions.<p>But I think I will be sadder to see it go than my son would, purely from a nostalgia standpoint and for the sake of remembering those days of innocence...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phailhaus</author><text>That is such an unfortunate acronym...</text></comment> | <story><title>Club Penguin is shutting down</title><url>http://puffl.es/2jMtlPJ</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cyberferret</author><text>Ah, I remember my older son being quite addicted to CP back in the day. It seemed to be a cool platform, really easy for kids to use and interact with their friends. I think I even paid for a couple of annual subscriptions.<p>But I think I will be sadder to see it go than my son would, purely from a nostalgia standpoint and for the sake of remembering those days of innocence...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ourmandave</author><text>My daughter too, back in the day. I used to play the games so she&#x27;d have coins to spend. I got quite good at making pizzas.</text></comment> |
2,134,809 | 2,134,700 | 1 | 2 | 2,134,542 | train | <story><title>The Inside Story of How Facebook Responded to Tunisian Hacks</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/the-inside-story-of-how-facebook-responded-to-tunisian-hacks/70044/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dansingerman</author><text>I have a bit of a problem with the description of the hack as "The software was basically a country-level keystroke logger"<p>I think this is unnecessary dumbing down.<p>For most readers who already knows what a keylogger is, it should be fairly obvious to them that this is not what they were doing.<p>For any reader who does not know what a keylogger is, describing the hack as being like a keylogger is not going to help them understand.<p>Furthermore, if you are in the demographic that know what a keylogger is, but can't see how that it is obvious that is not what was going on here, it just obscures what was really at play here: authenticating over (unencrypted) HTTP.<p>The writer probably did not want to make this a story about authenticating over HTTP, but misdescribing a central feature of the story is misleading.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Inside Story of How Facebook Responded to Tunisian Hacks</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/the-inside-story-of-how-facebook-responded-to-tunisian-hacks/70044/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>csomar</author><text>I didn't see a shift from http to https in the protests day. However, pages that report anti-government news, asked their audience to use <a href="https://login" rel="nofollow">https://login</a>. so they can open censored pages.<p>Back to Facebook, it had played a very important role and was key to the protests success. In the past, information is spread through word of mouth. There isn't trust, when it's spread that way and also no images or videos. The information that arrives isn't quite adequate.<p>Emails and forums are good, but due to Video websites censoring, they can't play an important role, since only a few fraction of the Web users in Tunisia can run a proxy.<p>Facebook changed everything, anti-gov. pages have from 200K to 600K fans. That's more than the half of the connected Tunisian population. In the last days, activity on Facebook was terrible, I would estimate that I post 50 to 100 videos, status and images; same for my friends.<p>Information spread essentially from these few pages with huge popularity. In a discussion, Admins seems to be using proxies and VPN to make secure connections and they have an anonymous Facebook account to communicate with the protesters (receive videos, photos, and information).<p>The urgent news would take only 30 minutes at most to spread through the network. Most of my friends, spend all the night (and dawn?) until late 4 and 5 A.M.</text></comment> |
27,592,526 | 27,591,490 | 1 | 3 | 27,591,037 | train | <story><title>A CCTV Company Is Paying Remote Workers in India to Yell at Armed Robbers</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avnnn/a-cctv-company-is-paying-remote-workers-in-india-to-yell-at-armed-robbers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lbutler</author><text>When I worked at a water utility we would occasionally have people breaking into our remote sites like water towers either to vandalise them or climb the assets for the view.<p>When you just want people off your site ASAP we found providing the operators with remote loudspeakers and allowing them to say &quot;Hey we can see you, we&#x27;ve called the police&quot; was a very effective way to convince anyone that was trespassing to leave.<p>Though we did lose a few cameras when kids decided to throw rocks at the CCTV system before they left...</text></comment> | <story><title>A CCTV Company Is Paying Remote Workers in India to Yell at Armed Robbers</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avnnn/a-cctv-company-is-paying-remote-workers-in-india-to-yell-at-armed-robbers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thatguy0900</author><text>I was thinking this would be like home security cameras and how fun it would be to yell at home thieves all day. What a depressing reality it&#x27;s just berating your own convenience store staff for taking a soda.</text></comment> |
13,378,145 | 13,376,478 | 1 | 2 | 13,375,350 | train | <story><title>The Inside Story of BitTorrent Inc’s Collapse</title><url>https://backchannel.com/the-inside-story-of-bittorrents-bizarre-collapse-a0766a5442d7#---199-286.jihd0r4lo</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>conradev</author><text>I wish BitTorrent Live was made open source. There are a number of companies working on &quot;P2P CDNs&quot; for live streaming[1][2][3], but all of their work is proprietary. The companies&#x27; sales pitches are usually around efficiency: it allows providers to pay for less CDN capacity.<p>I&#x27;m more interested in the decentralization aspect. It makes live streams hard to censor and easy to distribute.<p>The closest open source equivalent we have is PPSPP (Peer-to-Peer Streaming Peer Protocol), or RFC 7574[4]. Unfortunately, the reference implementation, libswift[5], was seemingly abandoned a few years ago. In addition, PPSPP only deals with a stream of bytes, and while it was made with video in mind there is no implementation that handles video well: making different swarms for different quality levels, intelligent chunking, perhaps even deterministic encoding[6].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.peer5.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.peer5.com</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;viblast.com&#x2F;pdn&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;viblast.com&#x2F;pdn&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.streamroot.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.streamroot.io</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc7574" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc7574</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;libswift&#x2F;libswift&#x2F;blob&#x2F;devel&#x2F;TODO" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;libswift&#x2F;libswift&#x2F;blob&#x2F;devel&#x2F;TODO</a><p>[6] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ndsl.kaist.edu&#x2F;~kyoungsoo&#x2F;papers&#x2F;mmsys14.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ndsl.kaist.edu&#x2F;~kyoungsoo&#x2F;papers&#x2F;mmsys14.pdf</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Inside Story of BitTorrent Inc’s Collapse</title><url>https://backchannel.com/the-inside-story-of-bittorrents-bizarre-collapse-a0766a5442d7#---199-286.jihd0r4lo</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>empath75</author><text>Bittorrent is an amazing protocol, but it seemed like creating a &#x27;Bittorrent&#x27; company is like trying to start an &quot;Http&quot; company.</text></comment> |
3,486,261 | 3,485,817 | 1 | 2 | 3,485,599 | train | <story><title>Quixey Challenge: Fix a bug in 1 minute to win $100. Refer a winner to win $50.</title><url>http://quixeychallenge.com</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>foob</author><text>I just won (#7 - foob) and I felt the need to post here to tell people that the person I spoke with from Quixey afterwards was very friendly and that I enjoyed talking to him. I was really just playing for the $100 but after speaking with him I felt like I should inquire about job opportunities. This is pretty much the opposite of what happened after my only other programming challenge experience.<p>I don't know if people saw this or not but a while back Instagram had a programming challenge inspired by the Darpa Shredder Challenge. They were offering a t-shirt for correct solutions and promised explicitly that every solution would get a personal response. They got more entries than they were expecting and didn't give t-shirts to everyone (which is somewhat understandable). What is much worse is that they didn't even bother to respond to correct solutions. I spent over an hour on it (including the bonus part) and they couldn't even send me a copy and pasted letter of something like "Thanks for playing! We got more attention than we expected and won't be able to give you a t-shirt but we do appreciate you playing." I would never consider working for a company that would respond to an unexpected number of solicited entries by simply ignoring them. I doubt that I'm the only person who was permanently turned off about Instagram by having my email and solution simply deleted without being looked at or responded to.</text></comment> | <story><title>Quixey Challenge: Fix a bug in 1 minute to win $100. Refer a winner to win $50.</title><url>http://quixeychallenge.com</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DannyPage</author><text>Maybe it's just me, but I don't think you should have to sign-in to do the practices.</text></comment> |
28,596,764 | 28,597,053 | 1 | 2 | 28,592,683 | train | <story><title>Advice to New Managers: Don't Joke About Firing People (2020)</title><url>https://staysaasy.com/engineering/2020/06/09/Don%27t-Joke.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foobarian</author><text>Do you have any tips&#x2F;signs to look out for :-)</text></item><item><author>indigochill</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen a couple of mass layoffs. How much you see that coming can be a function of how close to the decision-making you are and how familiar you are with the process. As I&#x27;ve advanced, I&#x27;ve progressively seen it coming farther out. But the first one was totally out of the blue to me.<p>Individual firings seem a bit more predictable.</text></item><item><author>ransom1538</author><text>Off topic. Do firings come out of the blue though? I was a VP for a while (not anymore) - but when the person I had to fire was about to get fired, they KNEW it as soon as the door opened. Firing someone is the worst experience ever - the only reason I had to fire someone was because WE screwed up in the interview process.</text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>That&#x27;s excellent advice that many have learned the hard way...<p>Honestly even as a non-manager it&#x27;s a very bad idea. When I was a junior one of my colleagues was called to the manager&#x27;s office. I assumed it would be for some mundane project scheduling or whatever, so I jokingly said &quot;you&#x27;re getting fired&quot; as he was going there. And he was.<p>This is one of these memories that come back to haunt you late at night when you&#x27;re trying to sleep...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>redshirtrob</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen a couple mass layoffs. I survived one, but did not survive the next one a few years later.<p>This is very general advice and you need to correlate it with other events, but it&#x27;s been a pretty strong indicator something was up: Keep an eye on your manager&#x27;s priorities especially if they shift in a ways you can&#x27;t explain.<p>One example from early in my career: Our manager abruptly became much less interested in product status and overall progress. To his credit he scheduled a call (we were a remote office) a couple weeks later in which he said the following: &quot;Commit your code. Ignore all policies and procedures. Work at your own pace.&quot;<p>We suspected as much, but that call was the confirmation. Ironically, the organization was so large, and the layoffs so huge, they had to arrange financing just to complete the layoffs. This led to a one to two month period where we were employed, but had nothing to do. It was really weird. Generally we&#x27;d come to the office, play a bit of Half-Life, then adjourn to my friend&#x27;s basement to work on the BattleBot we were building.</text></comment> | <story><title>Advice to New Managers: Don't Joke About Firing People (2020)</title><url>https://staysaasy.com/engineering/2020/06/09/Don%27t-Joke.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foobarian</author><text>Do you have any tips&#x2F;signs to look out for :-)</text></item><item><author>indigochill</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen a couple of mass layoffs. How much you see that coming can be a function of how close to the decision-making you are and how familiar you are with the process. As I&#x27;ve advanced, I&#x27;ve progressively seen it coming farther out. But the first one was totally out of the blue to me.<p>Individual firings seem a bit more predictable.</text></item><item><author>ransom1538</author><text>Off topic. Do firings come out of the blue though? I was a VP for a while (not anymore) - but when the person I had to fire was about to get fired, they KNEW it as soon as the door opened. Firing someone is the worst experience ever - the only reason I had to fire someone was because WE screwed up in the interview process.</text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>That&#x27;s excellent advice that many have learned the hard way...<p>Honestly even as a non-manager it&#x27;s a very bad idea. When I was a junior one of my colleagues was called to the manager&#x27;s office. I assumed it would be for some mundane project scheduling or whatever, so I jokingly said &quot;you&#x27;re getting fired&quot; as he was going there. And he was.<p>This is one of these memories that come back to haunt you late at night when you&#x27;re trying to sleep...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hondo77</author><text>At a recent company I was at, there was a lot of data in Grafana. <i>A lot</i>. The executives were acting weird so I created a graph comparing this year&#x27;s revenue with last year&#x27;s (no good news there). I predicted that layoffs were coming on the following Thursday. On the following Wednesday I came into work a little early and the big conference room was full of managers. Layoffs happened shortly afterwards (40% of the company).</text></comment> |
31,051,212 | 31,050,443 | 1 | 3 | 31,047,409 | train | <story><title>When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code</title><url>https://freakingrectangle.wordpress.com/2022/04/15/how-to-freaking-hire-great-developers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>olliej</author><text>No, <i>every</i> project I have worked on has review gated commits. It is a &#x2F;basic&#x2F; step in ensuring that a project maintains a high quality codebase. Review does cause delays, because reviewing takes time, but we&#x27;ve generally found that the speed &quot;gained&quot; through poor change control is more than made up for through bad code.<p>Review also shouldn&#x27;t be causing ego antagonisms. You&#x27;re coworkers. You have to be able to work together. That&#x27;s called having a job.<p>Every project I have worked on in a professional setting has had mandatory code review, with review acting as a gate. That&#x27;s been required in order to maintain software quality despite the quality of engineers I&#x27;ve worked with.</text></item><item><author>rileyphone</author><text>Sure there are a 1% of megaprojects that require additional process, but for the rest PRs are a method to control code quality socially. They introduce delays and foster ego antagonisms, so less methodical ways to control quality are optimal if the requirements are met (buy-in + skill) and complexity isn&#x27;t too great.</text></item><item><author>anyfoo</author><text>I&#x27;m sorry, no, there&#x27;s plenty of code that requires much more than two sets of eyes, and outside discussion, for any project above a certain size. I trust your experience that the teams and projects worked out like that, but they must have been suitable to that approach, which is definitely not universal.<p>As one example, do you think cross-functional changes to the Linux kernel from even trusted contributors can just be merged without review and feedback from people across all affected subparts of the kernel, as long as they have been written through pair programming? That&#x27;s a big open source example, but plenty of companies have plenty of projects for which that already applies as well.<p>&gt; The prs where dogmatic as more junior teams get caught up in superficial things such as names, package structure, syntax preferences rather than what the pr actually does.<p>That is an easy trap to fall into (and wildly annoying), but it does not mean that PRs have no use outside of that.</text></item><item><author>BFLpL0QNek</author><text>Skipping pr’s is not equal to skipping code review.<p>If you pair, there’s two sets of eyes, to commit both pairs have to sign a commit. You can also organise a demo&#x2F;quick mob session before commit. Then there’s a level of trust in your teammates.<p>PR’s are great for open source projects as act as gatekeeper so not everyone can commit freely. If you need to gate keep your team members then I’d question the strength of your team.<p>The best teams I worked on who delivered working code fast, efficiently even when they are some of the most complex projects I worked on committed straight to trunk, had a very good build pipeline (super import) and worked closely together for review. The standards where extremely high yet the general feeling was it was less dogmatic, micromanaged or kept behind a gatekeeper.<p>The projects I’ve worked on with dogmatic pr’s generally failed to deliver anything in any amount of reasonable time. The prs where dogmatic as more junior teams get caught up in superficial things such as names, package structure, syntax preferences rather than what the pr actually does.</text></item><item><author>zdragnar</author><text>&gt; Bonus points for no PR’s and trunk driven development as that shows a very mature team.<p>Ugh, pass. Trunk development is fine. Skipping PRs just brings back nightmares of SVN. Even if 90% of PRs are approved without comment, it&#x27;s extremely helpful for everyone to have a second set of eyes on work before it is merged in.</text></item><item><author>BFLpL0QNek</author><text>I like this approach.<p>Far to often I’ve interviewed at places and been grilled by the interviewer only to find out when you start the quality isn’t great, what you where grilled on you won’t be working on “as that’s to hard” or “we don’t do that” despite being grilled on it and the level of skill not to great they just want senior people. It’s the bait and switch.<p>At least being taken through existing code you know what you are getting yourself in to. Also looking at the current open pull requests and closed pull requests to see the standard and speed of delivery. Bonus points for no PR’s and trunk driven development as that shows a very mature team.<p>My simpler interviews have often been with companies that have held a higher bar than the ones with tougher interviews. Those companies have often been sink or swim though and if you don’t make the grade you’ll be kicked out pretty quick. My last company had a reputation for new starts disappearing and not great that way, but the team was probably the strongest bunch of people I’ve ever worked with as only do good survived.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chiefalchemist</author><text>Agreed. I&#x27;d like to add that PRs are not only a means to review code to improve that code. They&#x27;re also way for new hires and jr devs to learn new things, how the hive mind thinks, etc. This is, ideally, today&#x27;s PRs help improve tomorrow&#x27;s code as well.</text></comment> | <story><title>When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code</title><url>https://freakingrectangle.wordpress.com/2022/04/15/how-to-freaking-hire-great-developers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>olliej</author><text>No, <i>every</i> project I have worked on has review gated commits. It is a &#x2F;basic&#x2F; step in ensuring that a project maintains a high quality codebase. Review does cause delays, because reviewing takes time, but we&#x27;ve generally found that the speed &quot;gained&quot; through poor change control is more than made up for through bad code.<p>Review also shouldn&#x27;t be causing ego antagonisms. You&#x27;re coworkers. You have to be able to work together. That&#x27;s called having a job.<p>Every project I have worked on in a professional setting has had mandatory code review, with review acting as a gate. That&#x27;s been required in order to maintain software quality despite the quality of engineers I&#x27;ve worked with.</text></item><item><author>rileyphone</author><text>Sure there are a 1% of megaprojects that require additional process, but for the rest PRs are a method to control code quality socially. They introduce delays and foster ego antagonisms, so less methodical ways to control quality are optimal if the requirements are met (buy-in + skill) and complexity isn&#x27;t too great.</text></item><item><author>anyfoo</author><text>I&#x27;m sorry, no, there&#x27;s plenty of code that requires much more than two sets of eyes, and outside discussion, for any project above a certain size. I trust your experience that the teams and projects worked out like that, but they must have been suitable to that approach, which is definitely not universal.<p>As one example, do you think cross-functional changes to the Linux kernel from even trusted contributors can just be merged without review and feedback from people across all affected subparts of the kernel, as long as they have been written through pair programming? That&#x27;s a big open source example, but plenty of companies have plenty of projects for which that already applies as well.<p>&gt; The prs where dogmatic as more junior teams get caught up in superficial things such as names, package structure, syntax preferences rather than what the pr actually does.<p>That is an easy trap to fall into (and wildly annoying), but it does not mean that PRs have no use outside of that.</text></item><item><author>BFLpL0QNek</author><text>Skipping pr’s is not equal to skipping code review.<p>If you pair, there’s two sets of eyes, to commit both pairs have to sign a commit. You can also organise a demo&#x2F;quick mob session before commit. Then there’s a level of trust in your teammates.<p>PR’s are great for open source projects as act as gatekeeper so not everyone can commit freely. If you need to gate keep your team members then I’d question the strength of your team.<p>The best teams I worked on who delivered working code fast, efficiently even when they are some of the most complex projects I worked on committed straight to trunk, had a very good build pipeline (super import) and worked closely together for review. The standards where extremely high yet the general feeling was it was less dogmatic, micromanaged or kept behind a gatekeeper.<p>The projects I’ve worked on with dogmatic pr’s generally failed to deliver anything in any amount of reasonable time. The prs where dogmatic as more junior teams get caught up in superficial things such as names, package structure, syntax preferences rather than what the pr actually does.</text></item><item><author>zdragnar</author><text>&gt; Bonus points for no PR’s and trunk driven development as that shows a very mature team.<p>Ugh, pass. Trunk development is fine. Skipping PRs just brings back nightmares of SVN. Even if 90% of PRs are approved without comment, it&#x27;s extremely helpful for everyone to have a second set of eyes on work before it is merged in.</text></item><item><author>BFLpL0QNek</author><text>I like this approach.<p>Far to often I’ve interviewed at places and been grilled by the interviewer only to find out when you start the quality isn’t great, what you where grilled on you won’t be working on “as that’s to hard” or “we don’t do that” despite being grilled on it and the level of skill not to great they just want senior people. It’s the bait and switch.<p>At least being taken through existing code you know what you are getting yourself in to. Also looking at the current open pull requests and closed pull requests to see the standard and speed of delivery. Bonus points for no PR’s and trunk driven development as that shows a very mature team.<p>My simpler interviews have often been with companies that have held a higher bar than the ones with tougher interviews. Those companies have often been sink or swim though and if you don’t make the grade you’ll be kicked out pretty quick. My last company had a reputation for new starts disappearing and not great that way, but the team was probably the strongest bunch of people I’ve ever worked with as only do good survived.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dhzhzjsbevs</author><text>People seem to have forgotten what code was like back in the bad old days.<p>Fuck that dogpile of bullshit.<p>You&#x27;ve never seen a 1200 line diy function to parse XML have you?</text></comment> |
15,879,136 | 15,878,781 | 1 | 2 | 15,878,627 | train | <story><title>Android vulnerability allows attackers to modify apps</title><url>https://www.guardsquare.com/en/blog/new-android-vulnerability-allows-attackers-modify-apps-without-affecting-their-signatures</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>r3bl</author><text>Out of all the Android vulnerabilities so far, and out of all the devices that are not running an up-to-date versions of Android, what&#x27;s your theory as to why we have yet to discover a large Android botnet?</text></comment> | <story><title>Android vulnerability allows attackers to modify apps</title><url>https://www.guardsquare.com/en/blog/new-android-vulnerability-allows-attackers-modify-apps-without-affecting-their-signatures</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aluhut</author><text>All those problems and I sit here with my Moto and the last patch from February...<p>Good my guarantee runs out soon so I can switch to something I can patch myself.</text></comment> |
22,763,090 | 22,762,764 | 1 | 2 | 22,761,747 | train | <story><title>QUIC – Will It Replace TCP/IP?</title><url>https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/663/382768</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_vbdg</author><text>Nah, I think it won&#x27;t.<p>1. Not everything needs encryption, so QUIC&#x27;s built-in TLS doesn&#x27;t always make sense.<p>2. Not everything that needs encryption needs TLS specifically. TLS is not a one-size-fits-all solution.<p>These reflect the fact that QUIC is a transport protocol for the WWW more than a TCP replacement.<p>By the way, does anyone know why QUIC specifically put NewReno as its official congestion control [0]? Different environments benefit from different algorithms so I don&#x27;t see why.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;draft-ietf-quic-recovery-12#section-4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;draft-ietf-quic-recovery-12#sect...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vasilvv</author><text>&gt; By the way, does anyone know why QUIC specifically put NewReno as its official congestion control [0]? Different environments benefit from different algorithms so I don&#x27;t see why.<p>It&#x27;s a &quot;reasonable default&quot;, in the sense that it normally works quite well, and is easy to implement. The dangerous thing about congestion control is that it&#x27;s really easy to get it wrong and not notice (as noticing requires performance testing and monitoring).<p>Google QUIC uses BBR on the server side. I wrote the initial version of said BBR implementation, and it took a lot of effort to get it to a production-ready state, so I would not generally recommend writing BBR from scratch. CUBIC is much simpler than BBR, but is also prone to subtle bugs like [0].<p>&gt; 2. Not everything that needs encryption needs TLS specifically. TLS is not a one-size-fits-all solution.<p>I&#x27;m actually curious what use cases you have in mind. TLS definitely does not cover 100% of all possible cases, but I&#x27;ve seen a surprising number of cases where people rolled their own thing when using (D)TLS would have just worked.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitsup.blogspot.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;thanks-google-tcp-team-for-open-source.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitsup.blogspot.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;thanks-google-tcp-team-fo...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>QUIC – Will It Replace TCP/IP?</title><url>https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/663/382768</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_vbdg</author><text>Nah, I think it won&#x27;t.<p>1. Not everything needs encryption, so QUIC&#x27;s built-in TLS doesn&#x27;t always make sense.<p>2. Not everything that needs encryption needs TLS specifically. TLS is not a one-size-fits-all solution.<p>These reflect the fact that QUIC is a transport protocol for the WWW more than a TCP replacement.<p>By the way, does anyone know why QUIC specifically put NewReno as its official congestion control [0]? Different environments benefit from different algorithms so I don&#x27;t see why.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;draft-ietf-quic-recovery-12#section-4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;draft-ietf-quic-recovery-12#sect...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajrw</author><text>The spec still says NewReno, but I believe Google are mainly using BBR, if not BBR v2.</text></comment> |
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