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16,093,431 | 16,093,275 | 1 | 2 | 16,093,034 | train | <story><title>California Introduces Its Own Bill to Protect Net Neutrality</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/california-introduces-its-own-bill-protect-net-neutrality</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>Relevant anecdote: I&#x27;ve recently switched to full-time hotspotting with Verizon, and I&#x27;m still adjusting my Netflix habit to match.<p>Verizon, as usual, sent me my &quot;you&#x27;re at your last 10% before we throttle you&quot; notice just as I went over my limit, and at the exact same time, DNS stopped working for netflix.com.<p>Everything else worked just fine, but none of the netflix.com properties would resolve.<p>I had lazily been using Verizon&#x27;s DNS for my hotspot. Changing to 8.8.8.8&#x2F;8.8.4.4 immediately brought it back online.<p>I can&#x27;t prove it wasn&#x27;t just a glitch, but it was pretty damn suspicious anyhow, and exactly the sort of underhanded behavior I&#x27;d expect from today&#x27;s telecoms.</text></comment> | <story><title>California Introduces Its Own Bill to Protect Net Neutrality</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/california-introduces-its-own-bill-protect-net-neutrality</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Pilfer</author><text>Before anyone gets ahead of themselves, this bill only <i>protects</i> net neutrality and does not enforce net neutrality as defined here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Net_neutrality" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Net_neutrality</a> .<p>ISPs are still allowed to discriminate traffic under this bill. They are allowed to block and throttle content such as illegal streaming downloads, some torrents, spam, and other traffic that degrades network performance. For example, this bill does not prevent Comcast, At&amp;t, Verizon et al. from blocking port 25 as they have been for the past decade. The bill also does not preclude zero-rating.<p>This bill is a good thing yes, but let&#x27;s not get ahead of ourselves and call this net neutrality.</text></comment> |
7,726,429 | 7,726,402 | 1 | 2 | 7,725,794 | train | <story><title>Federal agents seek to loosen rules on hacking computers during investigations</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-09/federal-agents-seek-to-loosen-rules-on-hacking-computers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devconsole</author><text>A couple weeks ago, when I asked someone how to verify on demand that a BIOS isn&#x27;t compromised, someone else quipped &quot;Could be the processors too, better forge those by hand.&quot; <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609780" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7609780</a><p>In fact, it turns out the future is probably headed in that direction. All mobile phones are already compromised; every phone has a proprietary baseband chip with full remote DMA access that no amount of open software running on your phone can stop. And as laptops become more and more mobile, it&#x27;s going to seem strange that we&#x27;ve spent so long trying to tether our mobile phones to our laptops. Perhaps future laptops are going to have 3G access embedded right into them which consumers can subscribe to for some low monthly fee. Consumers would probably love it, because it&#x27;s very enticing: you get internet access in most of the world without having to find a public hotspot or tether your phone. No more dealing with hotel wifi; no more dealing with logging in to someone else&#x27;s.<p>The takeaway is that your children may grow up in a world where it&#x27;s impossible to guarantee the government can&#x27;t get into your computer if it really wanted to. Desktop computers aren&#x27;t ever going to go away, but hardware design seems to be trending towards having built-in theft prevention. One feature of theft prevention is having the ability to locate the computer, or send it remote kill signals. If trends like that do catch on with consumers, it&#x27;s &quot;gg no re,&quot; because once our hardware is compromised to the point of third parties being able to remotely access it on demand, we&#x27;ve all lost something precious, and there won&#x27;t be any opportunity to fix it. The more I think about it, the more it seems like it&#x27;s just a matter of time until this happens, precisely because once it&#x27;s here, it&#x27;s never going away.<p>More and more network adapters seem to have DMA access to your computer. It would be interesting if the protections afforded by open source software were defeated at the hardware level without most people noticing. There doesn&#x27;t seem to be any way to defend against it, because open source hardware simply can&#x27;t survive: no money is necessary to develop open source software, whereas large investment would be necessary for development of open source hardware down to the chip level.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DanBC</author><text>&gt; The takeaway is that your children may grow up in a world where it&#x27;s impossible to guarantee the government can&#x27;t get into your computer if it really wanted to.<p>If your adversary is a well funded government you need to have:<p>Secure software<p>Secure firmware<p>Secure hardware<p>Secure staff who follow procedure<p>Secure location<p>Armed guards<p>Etc<p>Most people can not do all of this and this have been vulnerable to governments for a long time.<p>Suggesting that your mobile communications data was ever secure when it was available to your telecoms provider seems odd to me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Federal agents seek to loosen rules on hacking computers during investigations</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-09/federal-agents-seek-to-loosen-rules-on-hacking-computers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devconsole</author><text>A couple weeks ago, when I asked someone how to verify on demand that a BIOS isn&#x27;t compromised, someone else quipped &quot;Could be the processors too, better forge those by hand.&quot; <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609780" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7609780</a><p>In fact, it turns out the future is probably headed in that direction. All mobile phones are already compromised; every phone has a proprietary baseband chip with full remote DMA access that no amount of open software running on your phone can stop. And as laptops become more and more mobile, it&#x27;s going to seem strange that we&#x27;ve spent so long trying to tether our mobile phones to our laptops. Perhaps future laptops are going to have 3G access embedded right into them which consumers can subscribe to for some low monthly fee. Consumers would probably love it, because it&#x27;s very enticing: you get internet access in most of the world without having to find a public hotspot or tether your phone. No more dealing with hotel wifi; no more dealing with logging in to someone else&#x27;s.<p>The takeaway is that your children may grow up in a world where it&#x27;s impossible to guarantee the government can&#x27;t get into your computer if it really wanted to. Desktop computers aren&#x27;t ever going to go away, but hardware design seems to be trending towards having built-in theft prevention. One feature of theft prevention is having the ability to locate the computer, or send it remote kill signals. If trends like that do catch on with consumers, it&#x27;s &quot;gg no re,&quot; because once our hardware is compromised to the point of third parties being able to remotely access it on demand, we&#x27;ve all lost something precious, and there won&#x27;t be any opportunity to fix it. The more I think about it, the more it seems like it&#x27;s just a matter of time until this happens, precisely because once it&#x27;s here, it&#x27;s never going away.<p>More and more network adapters seem to have DMA access to your computer. It would be interesting if the protections afforded by open source software were defeated at the hardware level without most people noticing. There doesn&#x27;t seem to be any way to defend against it, because open source hardware simply can&#x27;t survive: no money is necessary to develop open source software, whereas large investment would be necessary for development of open source hardware down to the chip level.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>comex</author><text>&gt; The takeaway is that your children may grow up in a world where it&#x27;s impossible to guarantee the government can&#x27;t get into your computer if it really wanted to.<p>This is impossible to guarantee today. Certainly if you run the zero-day magnets known as browsers, and even if not, there is always some possibility of physical intrusion.<p>&gt; More and more network adapters seem to have DMA access to your computer.<p>With an IOMMU (VT-d or equivalent on other platforms), it should be possible to protect against malicious DMA from any source.<p>Also, not all phones have basebands with DMA access to main memory. I think iPhones do not, though I am not sure, and some older iPhones have been attacked by turning on &quot;auto answer&quot;, demonstrating direct access to the microphone.</text></comment> |
31,634,280 | 31,632,909 | 1 | 2 | 31,632,137 | train | <story><title>I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones</title><url>https://alexanderell.is/posts/sneaking-notifications/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theamk</author><text>I have a pretty good idea on how to fix this (and many similar) problems: &quot;hibernate app&quot; option. Its a new app state where app icon icon has some mark (like being semi-grayed out) and all the background app services are disabled (tracking, promotional popups, periodic wakeups, etc...). The app is only un-hibernated if user explicitly clicks on it, it cannot do it by itself. The app can be hibernated by long-press menu on app icon or notification.<p>So the first time you get an ad notify, you click &quot;hibernate&quot; and you are good. And if it is time to make another order, app is woken up, so you cannot miss notifications by accident.<p>Sure, it is not as good as having separate &quot;show ads&quot; toggle, but it requires no cooperation from app whatsoever,</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caleb-troyer</author><text>On Android, Shelter (available on F-Droid [0]) is a close implementation of this. Apps installed in the &quot;shelter&quot; (read: Android work profile) can be automatically frozen when not in use, and launcher shortcuts can be created to temporarily unfreeze and use the app. This doesn&#x27;t require root, and frozen apps cannot run services, send notifications, or anything really. As a bonus, for the most part they don&#x27;t even show up as installed when frozen and are completely isolated from main profile apps. The filesystem is separate however, but you can use an app that allows file sending via share contexts such as Phone Saver [1] to send files between your main profile and your shelter profile.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;f-droid.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;packages&#x2F;net.typeblog.shelter&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;f-droid.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;packages&#x2F;net.typeblog.shelter&#x2F;</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;f-droid.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;packages&#x2F;link.standen.michael.phonesaver&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;f-droid.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;packages&#x2F;link.standen.michael.phonesa...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones</title><url>https://alexanderell.is/posts/sneaking-notifications/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theamk</author><text>I have a pretty good idea on how to fix this (and many similar) problems: &quot;hibernate app&quot; option. Its a new app state where app icon icon has some mark (like being semi-grayed out) and all the background app services are disabled (tracking, promotional popups, periodic wakeups, etc...). The app is only un-hibernated if user explicitly clicks on it, it cannot do it by itself. The app can be hibernated by long-press menu on app icon or notification.<p>So the first time you get an ad notify, you click &quot;hibernate&quot; and you are good. And if it is time to make another order, app is woken up, so you cannot miss notifications by accident.<p>Sure, it is not as good as having separate &quot;show ads&quot; toggle, but it requires no cooperation from app whatsoever,</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zamadatix</author><text>For Android I think the only thing needed for this is for disabled apps to show as grayed out in the launcher instead of hidden. I wonder if that&#x27;s information available to launchers or only available in the system app menu.</text></comment> |
38,438,904 | 38,409,957 | 1 | 3 | 38,409,871 | train | <story><title>Honeybee clustering when it's cold is a distress behavior: study</title><url>https://theconversation.com/honeybees-cluster-together-when-its-cold-but-weve-been-completely-wrong-about-why-218066</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WaitWaitWha</author><text>A couple of notes on the article, that I disagree with, backing it up by &quot;appeal to authority&quot; through my decades as a beek.<p>&gt; These man-made hives have very different thermal properties compared with their natural habitat of thick-walled (150mm) tree hollows.<p>Bees, including <i>Apis mellifera</i> will build hives anywhere where there is sufficient cover, space, and ventilation, not just &quot;thick-walled (150mm) tree hollows&quot;.<p>&gt; On cold days in these thin-walled hives, colonies form dense disks of bees, called a cluster, between the honeycombs.<p>The presumption is that the human made hives are less thermally protective because they are &quot;thin-walled&quot;. This is just patently incorrect. There are many, many hive designs and many are made out of wood, but many are made out of plastics or even styrofoam. Their thermal protection can be significantly higher than 150mm wood (later noted in the article
substantially insulating, such as 30mm of polystyrene&quot;.)<p>Bees do not form a dense &quot;disks of bees&quot;. They form a ball, and rotate in and out with the queen around the center, just like the referenced penguins.<p>I could not identify the type of hives that were evaluated. From the picture, it appears to be a tiny apiary with Langstroth design, all with three full&#x2F;deep&#x2F;brood boxes. From the pictures in the paper, they evaluated eight hives.<p>I am willing to learn, but this single article provides insufficient details how the data was collected and in what context was done.<p>Most non-initiates think that beekeepers somehow control bee colonies like cows or chicken. Not so much. If a colony decides they want to leave, there is almost nothing you can do about it; they will leave. If they figure they did not like the winter, they will move. A hive will be just fine in a felled log, a hollow tree, or human made space for years without any interaction. It is more of a symbiotic relationship than a stewardship.<p>edit: spellingerating fixage</text></comment> | <story><title>Honeybee clustering when it's cold is a distress behavior: study</title><url>https://theconversation.com/honeybees-cluster-together-when-its-cold-but-weve-been-completely-wrong-about-why-218066</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChumpGPT</author><text>We would use thick Styrofoam insulation (2-3) inches thick and would insulate the entire hive with it. In the winter we would feed them occasionally with warm honey&#x2F;sugar. The Hives were also protected by a row of thick Evergreens as a wind break. Maybe lost one or two hives over a decade. If your not wrapping them and preparing them for winter than you shouldn&#x27;t have bees.</text></comment> |
15,835,947 | 15,835,215 | 1 | 2 | 15,834,011 | train | <story><title>India is preparing to land on moon for the first time in the country's history</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/india-moon-landing-chandrayaan2-2017-12?r=US&IR=T</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SubiculumCode</author><text>Not that there are many here that believe that NASA faked the moon landings, but if you are, I&#x27;ve got to say: I&#x27;d have thought that Bollywood would have landed them on the moon at least a decade ago.</text></comment> | <story><title>India is preparing to land on moon for the first time in the country's history</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/india-moon-landing-chandrayaan2-2017-12?r=US&IR=T</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whack</author><text>If space transportation costs were to fall dramatically, would there be any commercial value in traveling to the Moon, or building a base on the moon? The only one I can think of is Tourism. Are there any others, such as rare minerals perhaps?</text></comment> |
29,926,035 | 29,926,059 | 1 | 2 | 29,924,803 | train | <story><title>Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment</title><url>https://blog.edfloreshz.dev/articles/linux/system76/rust-based-desktop-environment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diskzero</author><text>Original Nautilus and early GNOME developer here. I am very out of touch with what is current, so excuse some possibly ignorant questions. How is this a Rust-based environment if it is based on GTK? I assume GTK is still essentially the C-based GTK we used with some improvements.<p>Why is this called Rust-based? I’ll do some more research but would like to get some insight from more knowledgeable sources.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amarshall</author><text>The answer seems to be that the applications [1] are written in Rust using gtk-rs [2] (Rust-bindings for the GTK libs).<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;orgs&#x2F;pop-os&#x2F;repositories?q=&amp;type=source&amp;language=rust" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;orgs&#x2F;pop-os&#x2F;repositories?q=&amp;type=source&amp;l...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gtk-rs.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gtk-rs.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment</title><url>https://blog.edfloreshz.dev/articles/linux/system76/rust-based-desktop-environment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diskzero</author><text>Original Nautilus and early GNOME developer here. I am very out of touch with what is current, so excuse some possibly ignorant questions. How is this a Rust-based environment if it is based on GTK? I assume GTK is still essentially the C-based GTK we used with some improvements.<p>Why is this called Rust-based? I’ll do some more research but would like to get some insight from more knowledgeable sources.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sprash</author><text>Also GTK4 means they are still at the mercy of GNOME which changes APIs often and without consideration for third parties.<p>Wasn&#x27;t the whole point of the project to emancipate themselves from GNOME? If they rely on GTK they will fail.</text></comment> |
31,906,492 | 31,904,125 | 1 | 3 | 31,901,681 | train | <story><title>People who are isolated from others do worse on cognitive tests: new research</title><url>https://theconversation.com/socially-isolated-people-have-differently-wired-brains-and-poorer-cognition-new-research-185150</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>While I have no argument with the conclusion, I don&#x27;t see (in brief skimming of the linked Neurology article) anything to address the possibility that it works the opposite way. Dealing with lots of other people can be cognitively taxing, and people who isolate themselves from others are perhaps doing so because they know they aren&#x27;t very good at it.<p>Again, I believe the basic conclusion that isolation is bad for your brain is likely true, but I&#x27;m not sure I agree that this is strong evidence for it. People who sit in wheelchairs a lot have low leg strength; the wheelchairs aren&#x27;t usually causing it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atleta</author><text>Without reading the linked article: they have accounted for this by following up for 12 years and finding that isolated people have 26% higher risk of dementia. Which points to the direction that it&#x27;s isolation causing the function loss and not simply a lack of function causing isolation. (Though, of course, that direction may very well be there too.)</text></comment> | <story><title>People who are isolated from others do worse on cognitive tests: new research</title><url>https://theconversation.com/socially-isolated-people-have-differently-wired-brains-and-poorer-cognition-new-research-185150</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>While I have no argument with the conclusion, I don&#x27;t see (in brief skimming of the linked Neurology article) anything to address the possibility that it works the opposite way. Dealing with lots of other people can be cognitively taxing, and people who isolate themselves from others are perhaps doing so because they know they aren&#x27;t very good at it.<p>Again, I believe the basic conclusion that isolation is bad for your brain is likely true, but I&#x27;m not sure I agree that this is strong evidence for it. People who sit in wheelchairs a lot have low leg strength; the wheelchairs aren&#x27;t usually causing it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anon291</author><text>They should have done a similar test on people during COVID and compared against their past result.</text></comment> |
25,748,600 | 25,748,495 | 1 | 2 | 25,745,908 | train | <story><title>Leaked memos Amazon warn 'be vigilant' due to threats to blow up data centers</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-cloud-exec-warns-employees-vigilant-after-parler-ban-2021-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m-p-3</author><text>Please note that I do not condonce violence of any kind, and I am okay with Parler being shut down. That said, I saw this tweet as a reply<p>&gt; They are banned from social media because they were inciting violence.
&gt;
&gt; Their platform is being shutdown because they were inciting violence.
&gt;
&gt; And now they are inciting violence because of that?<p>Some of these angry users obviously don&#x27;t appreciate being silenced, no matter how awful their message is. I totally get silencing their message if it&#x27;s threatening someone, but how else can they voice their opposition to Parler being shut down? They become deplatformed, and no one is willing to listen to them or publish their message.<p>At some point, they&#x27;ll just reach a breaking point where they feel the only way to be listened is to use extreme measures. I frankly don&#x27;t know what we can do to defuse this situation other than punishing those directly associated with hateful messages instead of deplatforming everyone on it.</text></item><item><author>ttt0</author><text>I just want to point out, that on the screen cap from the tweet they quoted, the Parler post was from <i>9 secs ago</i>. Maybe it&#x27;s legit or maybe not, think of it what you will.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;JohnPaczkowski&#x2F;status&#x2F;1348113828324667396" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;JohnPaczkowski&#x2F;status&#x2F;134811382832466739...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lutger</author><text>You seem to assume deplatforming is not effective, is that true? Or do you disagree with it on moral grounds?<p>I mean, &#x27;we&#x27; (as in &#x27;the west&#x27;) try to deplatform Jihad based terrorism. I think it&#x27;s a pretty effective strategy, just not complete. Why should we _not_ deplatform far right white supremacy violence and terror?<p>Of course you also need a deradicalization approach, but that doesn&#x27;t scale to the current levels of extremism. We need to stop this massive rise of fascist violence rooted in conspiracy thinking from spreading, which was amplified by social media in the first place, only then can a targeted deradicalization approach be effective.</text></comment> | <story><title>Leaked memos Amazon warn 'be vigilant' due to threats to blow up data centers</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-cloud-exec-warns-employees-vigilant-after-parler-ban-2021-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m-p-3</author><text>Please note that I do not condonce violence of any kind, and I am okay with Parler being shut down. That said, I saw this tweet as a reply<p>&gt; They are banned from social media because they were inciting violence.
&gt;
&gt; Their platform is being shutdown because they were inciting violence.
&gt;
&gt; And now they are inciting violence because of that?<p>Some of these angry users obviously don&#x27;t appreciate being silenced, no matter how awful their message is. I totally get silencing their message if it&#x27;s threatening someone, but how else can they voice their opposition to Parler being shut down? They become deplatformed, and no one is willing to listen to them or publish their message.<p>At some point, they&#x27;ll just reach a breaking point where they feel the only way to be listened is to use extreme measures. I frankly don&#x27;t know what we can do to defuse this situation other than punishing those directly associated with hateful messages instead of deplatforming everyone on it.</text></item><item><author>ttt0</author><text>I just want to point out, that on the screen cap from the tweet they quoted, the Parler post was from <i>9 secs ago</i>. Maybe it&#x27;s legit or maybe not, think of it what you will.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;JohnPaczkowski&#x2F;status&#x2F;1348113828324667396" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;JohnPaczkowski&#x2F;status&#x2F;134811382832466739...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clavalle</author><text>&gt; frankly don&#x27;t know what we can do to defuse this situation other than punishing those directly associated with hateful messages<p>Bingo.<p>edit: I should clarify - hateful messages might not reach the bar, but calls to violence and other illegal activity do.</text></comment> |
33,506,108 | 33,506,082 | 1 | 3 | 33,504,650 | train | <story><title>Rust: “Explain GATs Like I'm 5 Years Old”</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/ynvm8a/could_someone_explain_the_gats_like_i_was_5/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nicoburns</author><text>I think the easiest way to understand it is this:<p>Suppose you have a concrete type like<p><pre><code> Vec&lt;i32&gt;
</code></pre>
Regular generics enable you to make the contained type generic, so you have:<p><pre><code> Vec&lt;T&gt;
</code></pre>
where T can be i32, u32, String, etc. GATs allow you to make the <i>container</i> generic. So you can have:<p><pre><code> T&lt;i32&gt;
</code></pre>
where T might be Vec, Option, Box, etc.</text></item><item><author>the__alchemist</author><text>I&#x27;m filing this one along with Monads and Haskell as programming concepts that I&#x27;ll never understand. Rust is my favorite language, but that explanation, lauded directly below it as <i>This is personally the easiest to understand example I&#x27;ve seen of GATs.</i>, was incomprehensible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brap</author><text>Thanks, this was much easier to understand than the original article. What will I use this for? Usually for the “T” to be useful it needs to have some interface. In Java I’d just use Collection&lt;Integer&gt; or something more abstract.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rust: “Explain GATs Like I'm 5 Years Old”</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/ynvm8a/could_someone_explain_the_gats_like_i_was_5/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nicoburns</author><text>I think the easiest way to understand it is this:<p>Suppose you have a concrete type like<p><pre><code> Vec&lt;i32&gt;
</code></pre>
Regular generics enable you to make the contained type generic, so you have:<p><pre><code> Vec&lt;T&gt;
</code></pre>
where T can be i32, u32, String, etc. GATs allow you to make the <i>container</i> generic. So you can have:<p><pre><code> T&lt;i32&gt;
</code></pre>
where T might be Vec, Option, Box, etc.</text></item><item><author>the__alchemist</author><text>I&#x27;m filing this one along with Monads and Haskell as programming concepts that I&#x27;ll never understand. Rust is my favorite language, but that explanation, lauded directly below it as <i>This is personally the easiest to understand example I&#x27;ve seen of GATs.</i>, was incomprehensible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philzook</author><text>What you&#x27;re describing sounds to me like higher kinded types, which are of some relationship to GATs (GATs enable a better encoding of higher kinded types as I understand it), but are not GATs. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.rs&#x2F;higher&#x2F;latest&#x2F;higher&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.rs&#x2F;higher&#x2F;latest&#x2F;higher&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
20,749,108 | 20,748,915 | 1 | 3 | 20,745,808 | train | <story><title>People love working remotely</title><url>https://usefyi.com/remote-work-report/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wolco</author><text>Happened to me. What I did was go into the office and constantly talk to the vp&#x27;s and ceo. Not about anything important really boring weather&#x2F;how are you doing? The more removed the person from my department the more
I would go out of my way to talk to them. Start asking difficult questions at the all staff forums. Always threw in doubts in meetings with non-tech people.<p>I asked for a special chair for my back. Started challenging our processes.<p>Funny thing happened. People started to see me as an important person.. an expert. I started to work from home again slowly.. then never came back. A year later others were encouraged to wfh because of office space concerns.<p>Get in there and make sure they regret pulling you back. Show your face everywhere. Make your voice heard. Take on all issues and then drop them.</text></item><item><author>g051051</author><text>I was full-time WFH for 6 wonderful years. I was happy, my productivity was off the charts, I was saving tons of money because I didn&#x27;t have to spend it on my car and clothes, I had extra time that I wasn&#x27;t wasting on my commute, etc.<p>Then, we had a big shake-up. A bunch of senior people left, and new &quot;leadership&quot; came in to &quot;transform&quot; our workplace. All WFH was cancelled in our division (in spite of still being officially encouraged by corporate policy). The big boss said &quot;a 15 minute fact-to-face is better than a multi-day email chain&quot;. My response to that is &quot;What about the other 99.9% of my work time, when I don&#x27;t need to interact with anyone?&quot; Sigh.<p>Since I had left the office, they had redone everything to be open plan, low walls, brighter lights, white noise over the speakers, etc. Contractors are packed like sardines, the noise is insane. We&#x27;re also &quot;Agile&quot; now, so we spend a ton of time in useless meetings.<p>I&#x27;m not very happy anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dls2016</author><text>This is straight out of the CIA Simple Sabotage Field Manual, see Section 4.11 <i>General Interference with Organizations and Production</i>.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cia.gov&#x2F;news-information&#x2F;featured-story-archive&#x2F;2012-featured-story-archive&#x2F;CleanedUOSSSimpleSabotage_sm.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cia.gov&#x2F;news-information&#x2F;featured-story-archive&#x2F;...</a><p>Re: a special chair for your back... &quot;Order high-quality materials which are hard to get. If you don&#x27;t get them argue about it. Warn that inferior materials will mean inferior work.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>People love working remotely</title><url>https://usefyi.com/remote-work-report/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wolco</author><text>Happened to me. What I did was go into the office and constantly talk to the vp&#x27;s and ceo. Not about anything important really boring weather&#x2F;how are you doing? The more removed the person from my department the more
I would go out of my way to talk to them. Start asking difficult questions at the all staff forums. Always threw in doubts in meetings with non-tech people.<p>I asked for a special chair for my back. Started challenging our processes.<p>Funny thing happened. People started to see me as an important person.. an expert. I started to work from home again slowly.. then never came back. A year later others were encouraged to wfh because of office space concerns.<p>Get in there and make sure they regret pulling you back. Show your face everywhere. Make your voice heard. Take on all issues and then drop them.</text></item><item><author>g051051</author><text>I was full-time WFH for 6 wonderful years. I was happy, my productivity was off the charts, I was saving tons of money because I didn&#x27;t have to spend it on my car and clothes, I had extra time that I wasn&#x27;t wasting on my commute, etc.<p>Then, we had a big shake-up. A bunch of senior people left, and new &quot;leadership&quot; came in to &quot;transform&quot; our workplace. All WFH was cancelled in our division (in spite of still being officially encouraged by corporate policy). The big boss said &quot;a 15 minute fact-to-face is better than a multi-day email chain&quot;. My response to that is &quot;What about the other 99.9% of my work time, when I don&#x27;t need to interact with anyone?&quot; Sigh.<p>Since I had left the office, they had redone everything to be open plan, low walls, brighter lights, white noise over the speakers, etc. Contractors are packed like sardines, the noise is insane. We&#x27;re also &quot;Agile&quot; now, so we spend a ton of time in useless meetings.<p>I&#x27;m not very happy anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chad_strategic</author><text>Well played!<p>In the TV show &quot;What we do in the shadows&quot; this is called an energy vampire. (you suck out other energy) Also a great show.</text></comment> |
14,576,058 | 14,575,543 | 1 | 3 | 14,573,837 | train | <story><title>Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species</title><url>http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/space.2017.29009.emu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Eerie</author><text>Funny how there are people with much more money than Musk, who do absolutely nothing useful with it, but Musk draws criticism for details. Oh, why Mars, why not Moon, or Ceres, or O&#x27;Neill cylinders, or lets colonize the Sahara desert first, or lets solve world hunger and poverty (which is a 100% political problem, not technological, BTW) blah, blah, blah, blah...<p>Musk is doing SOMETHING, at least. The technology that SpaceX develops can and will be used for much more than just Elon&#x27;s particular vision of Mars colony.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jncraton</author><text><p><pre><code> It is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles,
or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly; who errs,
who comes short again and again,
because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
but who does actually strive to do the deeds;
who knows great enthusiasms,
the great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst,
if he fails,
at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
</code></pre>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Citizenship_in_a_Republic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Citizenship_in_a_Republic</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species</title><url>http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/space.2017.29009.emu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Eerie</author><text>Funny how there are people with much more money than Musk, who do absolutely nothing useful with it, but Musk draws criticism for details. Oh, why Mars, why not Moon, or Ceres, or O&#x27;Neill cylinders, or lets colonize the Sahara desert first, or lets solve world hunger and poverty (which is a 100% political problem, not technological, BTW) blah, blah, blah, blah...<p>Musk is doing SOMETHING, at least. The technology that SpaceX develops can and will be used for much more than just Elon&#x27;s particular vision of Mars colony.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adekok</author><text>&gt; Musk is doing SOMETHING, at least.<p>Me sitting in a corner and drinking is doing something. Me burning down my house is doing something. Neither actions are productive.<p>Is Elon doing something productive? With cheap rockets, arguably yes. With colonizing Mars... it&#x27;s less clear.<p>&gt; The technology that SpaceX develops can and will be used for much more than just Elon&#x27;s particular vision of Mars colony.<p>Like what?<p>&gt; Oh, why Mars, why not Moon, or Ceres, or O&#x27;Neill cylinders, or lets colonize the Sahara desert first, or lets solve world hunger and poverty (which is a 100% political problem, not technological, BTW)<p>It&#x27;s hard to solve political problems, because everyone knows how bad people can be. It&#x27;s easy to dream about solving engineering problems. People have been doing it for
millenia. We just build a bigger &#x2F; better &#x2F; faster &#x2F; cooler thing than what we have right now! See? It&#x27;s easy!<p>I find it instructive that most of the &quot;pro&quot; arguments are based on dreams and hope. Most of the &quot;con&quot; arguments are &quot;Have you seen how freaking difficult it is?&quot;<p>Dreams won&#x27;t feed you in the cold, dark, airless, nights on Mars.</text></comment> |
10,437,543 | 10,436,990 | 1 | 3 | 10,436,908 | train | <story><title>'Zeno effect' verified: Atoms won't move while you watch</title><url>http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/10/zeno-effect-verified-atoms-wont-move-while-you-watch</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fauigerzigerk</author><text>Sometimes I feel that people writing about physics are having great fun with deliberately confusing people by making stuff sound magical and illogical.<p>This particular effect has nothing to do with whether or not anyone is looking at an object. It&#x27;s the methods of making it visible that cause the effect.</text></comment> | <story><title>'Zeno effect' verified: Atoms won't move while you watch</title><url>http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/10/zeno-effect-verified-atoms-wont-move-while-you-watch</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wmt</author><text>*while illuminated by a bright laser. By dimming the laser the quantum behaviour returned, and you watching the atoms or not had no effect on the phenomenon.<p>Despite the misleading title, I imagine affecting the quantum behaviour of atoms with lasers has all kinds of nice use cases!</text></comment> |
24,686,851 | 24,686,558 | 1 | 3 | 24,685,772 | train | <story><title>Applying “make invalid states unrepresentable”</title><url>https://kevinmahoney.co.uk/articles/applying-misu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>judofyr</author><text>In general I agree that it&#x27;s nice to make invalid states unrepresentable, but I&#x27;m not sure if I agree that this counts as a fundamental &quot;invalid state&quot;. There is nothing about contracts which require that you can only have one active at the same time, or that that current one must be open ended.<p>From a practical point of view it might be advantageous if you maintain only a single contract with a customer at all times, but that is a <i>business</i> requirement which might be changed in the future.<p>I mention this mostly from experience: Multiple times I&#x27;ve designed systems where I&#x27;ve reduced the representable states to the minimum, and when some requirements change I realize I have to re-design the full system.<p>The new presented representation might make sense in <i>this</i> situation, but I&#x27;d be very wary of taking current business practices and make all other alternatives <i>impossible</i> to represent. It&#x27;s a balancing act of course as you can go in the opposite direction and make it way too flexible.<p>&gt; This poor choice was not just a theoretical problem - gaps in contracts were found on more than one occasion, requiring hours of engineering effort to hunt down and fix.<p>I&#x27;d like to hear more about what happened here. Was the problem that the default contract was not re-applied correctly? If so, changing the representation might not actually solve any problems — it make actually make it _worse_. A renewal of a contract typically involves some automated process where other services are involved (payment, invoicing, emails). The previous representation (with explicit start&#x2F;end dates) made it possible for you to verify that everything was correct and lined up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>goto11</author><text>&gt; Multiple times I&#x27;ve designed systems where I&#x27;ve reduced the representable states to the minimum, and when some requirements change I realize I have to re-design the full system.<p>Yes, if requirements change, you change the design and code to support the new requirements.<p>Compromising the consistency and maintainability of the current design to accommodate a hypothetical future requirement change is a bad trade-off IMHO, since you can&#x27;t predict the future. A requirement change may happen in a completely different direction than the one you anticipated, and then you have the worst of both worlds.<p>It is better to make code <i>maintainable</i> than making it <i>flexible</i>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Applying “make invalid states unrepresentable”</title><url>https://kevinmahoney.co.uk/articles/applying-misu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>judofyr</author><text>In general I agree that it&#x27;s nice to make invalid states unrepresentable, but I&#x27;m not sure if I agree that this counts as a fundamental &quot;invalid state&quot;. There is nothing about contracts which require that you can only have one active at the same time, or that that current one must be open ended.<p>From a practical point of view it might be advantageous if you maintain only a single contract with a customer at all times, but that is a <i>business</i> requirement which might be changed in the future.<p>I mention this mostly from experience: Multiple times I&#x27;ve designed systems where I&#x27;ve reduced the representable states to the minimum, and when some requirements change I realize I have to re-design the full system.<p>The new presented representation might make sense in <i>this</i> situation, but I&#x27;d be very wary of taking current business practices and make all other alternatives <i>impossible</i> to represent. It&#x27;s a balancing act of course as you can go in the opposite direction and make it way too flexible.<p>&gt; This poor choice was not just a theoretical problem - gaps in contracts were found on more than one occasion, requiring hours of engineering effort to hunt down and fix.<p>I&#x27;d like to hear more about what happened here. Was the problem that the default contract was not re-applied correctly? If so, changing the representation might not actually solve any problems — it make actually make it _worse_. A renewal of a contract typically involves some automated process where other services are involved (payment, invoicing, emails). The previous representation (with explicit start&#x2F;end dates) made it possible for you to verify that everything was correct and lined up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steve_g</author><text>There are trade-offs, of course, but I&#x27;m generally not a fan of using implicit defaults for business applications (i.e., the application infers the default when there&#x27;s no data).<p>If things go well, business data outlives business applications. After years or decades, it can be a major pain to figure out all the &quot;secret&quot; values that aren&#x27;t actually in the data.</text></comment> |
28,862,726 | 28,862,181 | 1 | 2 | 28,859,828 | train | <story><title>FTC Puts Hundreds of Businesses on Notice about Fake Reviews</title><url>https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2021/10/ftc-puts-hundreds-businesses-notice-about-fake-reviews-other</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wly_cdgr</author><text>Stop trying to make no passwords happen. It won&#x27;t happen</text></item><item><author>locallost</author><text>Generally I&#x27;d say product reviews are one of those ideas like passwords that work but don&#x27;t survive introduction to the general public and mass use. The problems of authenticity are obvious, but I&#x27;ve also noticed that people who rely on word of mouth from their friends and colleagues are generally happier. And why wouldn&#x27;t they be? A colleague tells you this e.g. monitor is perfect for your line of work so you get it and find it also good. No fuss, nothing nerve wracking, no time wasted. Compared with reading through dozens of reviews that even when authentic raise good points that are maybe entirely irrelevant to you.<p>I try to buy stuff in shops now. It&#x27;s more expensive only if my time spent on reading reviews is free. And these days it&#x27;s not even more expensive to buy in real shops anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>threeseed</author><text>It sort of has happened for Apple users.<p>For all sites whenever you signup for a website a random password is generated. And then when you re-visit the site you use FaceID&#x2F;TouchID to automatically pre-populate the password. At that point it really isn&#x27;t a password in the traditional sense.<p>And for an increasing number of sites it bypasses this step entirely and just lets me use FaceID&#x2F;TouchID.</text></comment> | <story><title>FTC Puts Hundreds of Businesses on Notice about Fake Reviews</title><url>https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2021/10/ftc-puts-hundreds-businesses-notice-about-fake-reviews-other</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wly_cdgr</author><text>Stop trying to make no passwords happen. It won&#x27;t happen</text></item><item><author>locallost</author><text>Generally I&#x27;d say product reviews are one of those ideas like passwords that work but don&#x27;t survive introduction to the general public and mass use. The problems of authenticity are obvious, but I&#x27;ve also noticed that people who rely on word of mouth from their friends and colleagues are generally happier. And why wouldn&#x27;t they be? A colleague tells you this e.g. monitor is perfect for your line of work so you get it and find it also good. No fuss, nothing nerve wracking, no time wasted. Compared with reading through dozens of reviews that even when authentic raise good points that are maybe entirely irrelevant to you.<p>I try to buy stuff in shops now. It&#x27;s more expensive only if my time spent on reading reviews is free. And these days it&#x27;s not even more expensive to buy in real shops anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johanneskanybal</author><text>The only reason for (consumer) passwords you have to remember is lack of an accepted good universal id in general. Here in Sweden it&#x27;s provided by the banks and has a 94% share of smartphone users, if you look east you have other bigger markets with similar stats. Most passwords already have disappeared or are disappearing, the laggard cases will catch up too, I&#x27;d love a similar one for my &quot;work persona&quot;.</text></comment> |
15,876,665 | 15,876,519 | 1 | 2 | 15,875,627 | train | <story><title>Japan eyes startup visa program</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Policy-Politics/Japan-eyes-startup-visa-program-to-lure-foreign-businesses</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nihonde</author><text>Try opening a business bank account in Japan. Or any bank account for that matter. Be prepared to start every handwritten form over if you make even the slightest error, and I hope you’ve been practicing your kanji. No credit cards or foreign transfers until you’ve got a few years in your business. Capital requirements. It’s a whole different ballgame, for better or worse.</text></item><item><author>arvinder</author><text>&gt;Based on the New Business Implementation Plan, Fukuoka City officials will conduct a review on the progress of startup businesses founded by entrepreneurs who utilized this system and received approval for his&#x2F;her Business Manager residential status. There will be three review sessions during the six-month period, of which at least one session will be held either at the entrepreneur’s place of business or residence. During the review sessions, the business’s bank account, lease for the place of business, and employment contracts may be reviewed. If progress is not satisfactory, Fukuoka City may direct the entrepreneur to return to his&#x2F;her home country.<p>Sounds like a lot of biannual headache.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patio11</author><text>The largest bank in Japan was flabbergasted that I sweet talked them into getting a business bank account for Starfighter.<p>Some things I wouldn&#x27;t agree with: Personal bank accounts aren&#x27;t challenging given a medium term status of residence. Wire transfers should be trivial for anyone capable of running a business; you just have to ask and not sound like a drug lord while doing so. Credit cards are easily available, including to foreigners (surprisingly so from some issuers), though corporate cards are <i>much</i> harder. Capital requirements functionally don&#x27;t exist anymore; you can open a 合同会社 with 1 yen and you can convince large banks to open a business bank account with e.g. 10万 as an opening deposit.<p>(For anyone starting a company in Japan who wants to talk banking stuff I&#x27;d be more than happy to; this is very relevant to my professional interests these days.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Japan eyes startup visa program</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Policy-Politics/Japan-eyes-startup-visa-program-to-lure-foreign-businesses</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nihonde</author><text>Try opening a business bank account in Japan. Or any bank account for that matter. Be prepared to start every handwritten form over if you make even the slightest error, and I hope you’ve been practicing your kanji. No credit cards or foreign transfers until you’ve got a few years in your business. Capital requirements. It’s a whole different ballgame, for better or worse.</text></item><item><author>arvinder</author><text>&gt;Based on the New Business Implementation Plan, Fukuoka City officials will conduct a review on the progress of startup businesses founded by entrepreneurs who utilized this system and received approval for his&#x2F;her Business Manager residential status. There will be three review sessions during the six-month period, of which at least one session will be held either at the entrepreneur’s place of business or residence. During the review sessions, the business’s bank account, lease for the place of business, and employment contracts may be reviewed. If progress is not satisfactory, Fukuoka City may direct the entrepreneur to return to his&#x2F;her home country.<p>Sounds like a lot of biannual headache.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>contingencies</author><text>It&#x27;s not as bad as Hong Kong. I had to visit seventeen (17) banks and spend over USD$10,000 to get a bank account for our company over the last 1.5 years. I did everything from opening accounts in the same banking groups overseas to renting needless physical offices. None of it helped. Finally I got accepted by a startup bank with a special KYC process approved by the HKMA. Hong Kong accountants and other professional services firms privately report that their business is down immensely. It&#x27;s the US&#x27; fault and they&#x27;ve announced in <i>The Banker</i> a month or two ago that they&#x27;re preparing to roll back pressure, but the damage has been done.</text></comment> |
8,940,855 | 8,940,107 | 1 | 3 | 8,939,194 | train | <story><title>When the Boss Says, 'Don't Tell Your Coworkers How Much You Get Paid'</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/07/when-the-boss-says-dont-tell-your-coworkers-how-much-you-get-paid/374467/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smm2000</author><text>18% number is bullshit debunked many times. When you control for occupation, working hours, etc between male and female - the difference in pay is only 2-3%</text></item><item><author>ordinary</author><text><i>If you are an employer despicable enough to systematically be paying women less just for being women, I don&#x27;t think another redundant law is going to change your behavior.</i><p>Women don&#x27;t earn about 18% less than men (OECD median, 2008)[0] because a small minority of employers pay women almost nothing, but because the vast majority of employers pay women (or blacks, or handicapped people) slightly less. Just like laws that prohibit killing don&#x27;t target psychopaths, laws that prohibit discrimination don&#x27;t target the KKK; they (should) aim to change the societal norms that your average Joe McAverage conforms to. It&#x27;s the distinction between institutionalized discrimination and the more intimate personal type.<p>_____<p>[0] The exact number is not really what&#x27;s important here, but <a href="http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/54/57/40846335.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oecd.org&#x2F;dataoecd&#x2F;54&#x2F;57&#x2F;40846335.pdf</a></text></item><item><author>crazy1van</author><text>This article seems to basically say its already illegal to prohibit employees from discussing pay (NLRA 1935) and it is certainly illegal to pay someone less based on race or sex (Equal Pay Act, and others) but the solution to wage discrimination is pass more laws that make it illegal-er.<p>I have a hard time buying this argument. If you are an employer despicable enough to systematically be paying women less just for being women, I don&#x27;t think another redundant law is going to change your behavior.<p>This seems like a feel good exercise. People still buy drugs? Pass another law that says trafficking drugs is super duper illegal. Another heinous murder? Make it extra illegal to murder someone. In fact, make it extra illegal to murder someone with a specific type of weapon.<p>This stuff doesn&#x27;t seem to matter. Drug dealers know they face stiff penalties if caught. People who have decided to murder another human really don&#x27;t care if the penalties are higher if they use a gun versus a tire iron. And, misogynist employers aren&#x27;t going to be swayed by yet another law that says treat all people the same regardless of sex, for reals this time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Steuard</author><text>I have no idea what the right number is. But as the article points out, part of the issue is precisely that traditionally female jobs tend to pay less <i>because</i> they are traditionally female. Here&#x27;s one apparent example of that in action:<p>&quot;One of my lecturers at university once presented us with this thought exercise: why are doctors so highly paid, and so well-respected? Our answers were predictable. Because they save lives, their skills are extremely important, and it takes years and years of education to become one. All sound, logical reasons. But these traits that doctors possess are universal. So why is it, she asked, that doctors in Russia are so lowly paid? Making less than £7,500 a year, it is one of the lowest paid professions in Russia, and poorly respected at that. Why is this?&quot;<p>The answer? It doesn&#x27;t seem to be a coincidence that in Russia, doctors have been a traditionally female profession, unlike western Europe and the USA. The low pay and low status of medicine in Russia appears to be directly tied to its identity as a &quot;women&#x27;s career&quot; there.<p>(Quote from this page: <a href="http://cratesandribbons.com/2013/12/13/patriarchys-magic-trick-how-anything-perceived-as-womens-work-immediately-sheds-its-value/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cratesandribbons.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;13&#x2F;patriarchys-magic-tri...</a> I don&#x27;t know whether this site was the first place I heard about this fact, but it&#x27;s the top hit for it on Google.)</text></comment> | <story><title>When the Boss Says, 'Don't Tell Your Coworkers How Much You Get Paid'</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/07/when-the-boss-says-dont-tell-your-coworkers-how-much-you-get-paid/374467/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smm2000</author><text>18% number is bullshit debunked many times. When you control for occupation, working hours, etc between male and female - the difference in pay is only 2-3%</text></item><item><author>ordinary</author><text><i>If you are an employer despicable enough to systematically be paying women less just for being women, I don&#x27;t think another redundant law is going to change your behavior.</i><p>Women don&#x27;t earn about 18% less than men (OECD median, 2008)[0] because a small minority of employers pay women almost nothing, but because the vast majority of employers pay women (or blacks, or handicapped people) slightly less. Just like laws that prohibit killing don&#x27;t target psychopaths, laws that prohibit discrimination don&#x27;t target the KKK; they (should) aim to change the societal norms that your average Joe McAverage conforms to. It&#x27;s the distinction between institutionalized discrimination and the more intimate personal type.<p>_____<p>[0] The exact number is not really what&#x27;s important here, but <a href="http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/54/57/40846335.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oecd.org&#x2F;dataoecd&#x2F;54&#x2F;57&#x2F;40846335.pdf</a></text></item><item><author>crazy1van</author><text>This article seems to basically say its already illegal to prohibit employees from discussing pay (NLRA 1935) and it is certainly illegal to pay someone less based on race or sex (Equal Pay Act, and others) but the solution to wage discrimination is pass more laws that make it illegal-er.<p>I have a hard time buying this argument. If you are an employer despicable enough to systematically be paying women less just for being women, I don&#x27;t think another redundant law is going to change your behavior.<p>This seems like a feel good exercise. People still buy drugs? Pass another law that says trafficking drugs is super duper illegal. Another heinous murder? Make it extra illegal to murder someone. In fact, make it extra illegal to murder someone with a specific type of weapon.<p>This stuff doesn&#x27;t seem to matter. Drug dealers know they face stiff penalties if caught. People who have decided to murder another human really don&#x27;t care if the penalties are higher if they use a gun versus a tire iron. And, misogynist employers aren&#x27;t going to be swayed by yet another law that says treat all people the same regardless of sex, for reals this time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Karunamon</author><text>Not that I don&#x27;t believe you, but could you link to said debunking?</text></comment> |
13,185,131 | 13,184,499 | 1 | 2 | 13,183,684 | train | <story><title>My Priorities for the Next Four Years</title><url>https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/12/my_priorities_f.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>idm</author><text>Good post and worth the read. His four priorities are:<p>1. fight the fights. There will be more government surveillance and more corporate surveillance.<p>2. prepare for those fights. Much of the next four years will be reactive, but we can prepare somewhat.<p>3. lay the groundwork for a better future.<p>4. continue to solve the actual problems. The serious security issues around cybercrime, cyber-espionage, cyberwar, the Internet of Things...<p>This isn&#x27;t exactly presented like a political platform or policy agenda, but in fact that is what it is - and I am happy to see it. Schneier has been writing for so long - becoming such the guru - that I&#x27;m glad to see him courting audiences beyond the security community.</text></comment> | <story><title>My Priorities for the Next Four Years</title><url>https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/12/my_priorities_f.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jstewartmobile</author><text>Brother Bruce has been fighting the righteous fight for a long time now, and he has been doing it with minimal ego and loads of class.<p>And here is he is trying to lift the spirits of the anti-Trump privacy folks. What&#x27;s wrong with that?<p>Where&#x27;s the love y&#x27;all?</text></comment> |
8,325,205 | 8,324,692 | 1 | 2 | 8,324,475 | train | <story><title>Sendmail removed from OpenBSD base</title><url>http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140916084251</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xenophonf</author><text>I wish FreeBSD would follow suit. They dropped BIND in favor of Unbound for 10.0-RELEASE, so the precedent is there. Sendmail wouldn&#x27;t be so bad if it weren&#x27;t so damned arcane and broken. Like, something as simple as getting TLS to work with older Exchange servers is impossible. Forums are filled with people complaining about this problem for the last ten years. It&#x27;s so frustrating, especially when the workaround in other mailers is so simple (e.g., Postfix, where one can force TLSv1 in the SMTP client TLS policy map).</text></comment> | <story><title>Sendmail removed from OpenBSD base</title><url>http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140916084251</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>atmosx</author><text>Makes sense, since OpenSMTPd is easier to deploy and MUCH easier to configure + OSMTPd is an OpenBSD software... so If it ever was going to ship pre-installed with an OS that would be definitely OBSD.</text></comment> |
21,614,781 | 21,614,593 | 1 | 3 | 21,613,997 | train | <story><title>AI is mostly about curve fitting (2018)</title><url>https://diginomica.com/ai-curve-fitting-not-intelligence</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ipsa</author><text>&quot;Machine learning&quot; used to be a safe haven. You could flee there to escape the Terminators and brain-on-a-chip graphics. Business PR deliberately killed that. They wanted their ML algorithms to be refered to as AI, so they could fully ride the hype train.<p>AI used to be a tight quirky community. Having the brain as inspiration led to all sorts of anthropomorphizing. This was ok. Researchers understood what was meant with &quot;learning&quot;, &quot;intelligence&quot;, &quot;to perceive&quot; in the context of AI. Nowadays, it is almost irresponsible to do this, not because you&#x27;ll confuse your co-researchers, but because popular tech articles will write about chatbots inventing their own language and having to be shutdown.<p>Still, as a business research lab, it is good to get your name out there, so all the wrong incentives are there: Careful researchers avoid anthropomorphizing, and lose their source of inspiration -- you can not be careful with difficult unsolved problems, you need to be a little crazy and &quot;out there&quot;. Meanwhile, profit-seeking business engineers and their PR departments, obfuscate their progress and basic techniques, all to get that juicy article with &quot;an AI taught itself to X and you won&#x27;t believe what happened next&quot;.<p>The researchers actually busy solving the hard problems of vision, natural language understanding, and common sense, do not have time to write books about how AI is not yet general. Nobody from the research community ever claimed that, nobody came forward to claim they&#x27;ve solved these decade-old problems. It is people selling books railing against the popular reporting of AI. Boring, self-serving, and predictive, and you do not need to fit a curve to see that.<p>All this quarreling about definitions and Venn diagrams and well-known limitations is dust in the wind. Go figure out what to call it on your Powerpoint presentation by yourself, and quit bothering the community.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erikpukinskis</author><text>What’s wrong with anthropomorphizing?<p>I’ve noticed at least as many people under-anthropomorphize as over. People who seem obsessed with human exceptionalism and are personally offended at the idea that plants and animals (and computers!) might have subjective experiences like our own.<p>But to me it seems obvious we are far more alike “lower” species than we are unlike them. I would say the cases of human exceptionalism are actually extremely rare. The main source of our uniqueness is that we amalgamate other species, not that we have transcended them.<p>My theory is that we are terrified that we might be simpler than we think, because socially we behave as if we are so singular. If we are simple, and animals and machines are like us, then maybe we should be treating them with more reverence.<p>But being afraid of that is OK for a random person. For a machine learning researcher I would hope they are more careful about what we have evidence for (the similarities between us) and what we don’t (that there is some ineffable magic about humans).</text></comment> | <story><title>AI is mostly about curve fitting (2018)</title><url>https://diginomica.com/ai-curve-fitting-not-intelligence</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ipsa</author><text>&quot;Machine learning&quot; used to be a safe haven. You could flee there to escape the Terminators and brain-on-a-chip graphics. Business PR deliberately killed that. They wanted their ML algorithms to be refered to as AI, so they could fully ride the hype train.<p>AI used to be a tight quirky community. Having the brain as inspiration led to all sorts of anthropomorphizing. This was ok. Researchers understood what was meant with &quot;learning&quot;, &quot;intelligence&quot;, &quot;to perceive&quot; in the context of AI. Nowadays, it is almost irresponsible to do this, not because you&#x27;ll confuse your co-researchers, but because popular tech articles will write about chatbots inventing their own language and having to be shutdown.<p>Still, as a business research lab, it is good to get your name out there, so all the wrong incentives are there: Careful researchers avoid anthropomorphizing, and lose their source of inspiration -- you can not be careful with difficult unsolved problems, you need to be a little crazy and &quot;out there&quot;. Meanwhile, profit-seeking business engineers and their PR departments, obfuscate their progress and basic techniques, all to get that juicy article with &quot;an AI taught itself to X and you won&#x27;t believe what happened next&quot;.<p>The researchers actually busy solving the hard problems of vision, natural language understanding, and common sense, do not have time to write books about how AI is not yet general. Nobody from the research community ever claimed that, nobody came forward to claim they&#x27;ve solved these decade-old problems. It is people selling books railing against the popular reporting of AI. Boring, self-serving, and predictive, and you do not need to fit a curve to see that.<p>All this quarreling about definitions and Venn diagrams and well-known limitations is dust in the wind. Go figure out what to call it on your Powerpoint presentation by yourself, and quit bothering the community.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unityByFreedom</author><text>&gt; The researchers actually busy solving the hard problems of vision, natural language understanding, and common sense, do not have time to write books about how AI is not yet general.<p>I&#x27;ve come to terms with the hype. There are still researchers doing the hard theoretical work, and they will still be toiling away after the next economic downturn. We can all choose every day whether to find fulfillment through seeking attention from other people, money, or satisfying our curiosity to solve problems.<p>&gt; Nobody from the research community ever claimed that [AGI], nobody came forward to claim they&#x27;ve solved these decade-old problems. It is people selling books railing against the popular reporting of AI. Boring, self-serving, and predictive, and you do not need to fit a curve to see that.<p>Hear hear! That said, this is a good article by a respected researcher. Here&#x27;s what LeCun had to say about it,<p>&gt; ...In general, I think a lot of people who see the field from the outside criticize the current state of affair without knowing that people in the field actively work on fixing the very aspects they criticize.<p>&gt; That includes causality, learning from unlabeled data, reasoning, memory, etc. [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;yann.lecun&#x2F;posts&#x2F;10156387222842143" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;yann.lecun&#x2F;posts&#x2F;10156387222842143</a></text></comment> |
32,553,246 | 32,551,605 | 1 | 2 | 32,550,717 | train | <story><title>Apple expands Self Service Repair to Mac notebooks</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/08/apple-expands-self-service-repair-to-mac-notebooks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>verisimilitude</author><text>Caveat: repair now available for Mac Notebooks &quot;with the M1 family of chips&quot; - this is reasonable, I think. However, I do feel badly because I have a 2017 with a noisy fan that needs to be replaced, but I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ll ever be able to get the precisely OEM Apple-blessed one. This is important to me because of the non-annoying whoosh sound that the varied blade spacing of the OEM fans normally provide. My options are (1) used or (2) rando cross-your-fingers &#x27;brand&#x27; fan. I guess I could just try a variety of those no-names and use the least annoying one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluedino</author><text>My 2017 had a clicking&#x2F;buzzing fan when it was about 2 years old. I bought a used fan from a seller on eBay (I think it was a $12 part), took the laptop apart (involved some very tiny screws) and replaced it and it&#x27;s been fine ever since. There&#x27;s even videos on YouTube you can follow along with.<p>Nowhere near as simple as repairs on the old non-Retina, unibody machines but easier than an iPad.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple expands Self Service Repair to Mac notebooks</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/08/apple-expands-self-service-repair-to-mac-notebooks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>verisimilitude</author><text>Caveat: repair now available for Mac Notebooks &quot;with the M1 family of chips&quot; - this is reasonable, I think. However, I do feel badly because I have a 2017 with a noisy fan that needs to be replaced, but I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ll ever be able to get the precisely OEM Apple-blessed one. This is important to me because of the non-annoying whoosh sound that the varied blade spacing of the OEM fans normally provide. My options are (1) used or (2) rando cross-your-fingers &#x27;brand&#x27; fan. I guess I could just try a variety of those no-names and use the least annoying one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scarface74</author><text>3) take it in to Apple for repair.</text></comment> |
29,853,229 | 29,852,846 | 1 | 2 | 29,850,987 | train | <story><title>Canon is telling customers how to override counterfeit cartridge warnings</title><url>https://twitter.com/naderman/status/1479529888977760258</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imglorp</author><text>The book industry did this too, years ago. They would sell normal books in the West but cheaper versions, with lighter weight paper etc, in Eastern countries. There&#x27;s no lock of course, but before the internet it was harder to buy a cheap copy of Knuth from India if you lived in US.<p>The point is, ink extortion seems to thrive on pricing tiers for different markets, just like content extortion does.</text></item><item><author>trentnix</author><text>I bought extra HP cartridges off of Amazon years ago for my business so we would have extras. Imagine my surprise when, after installing the cartridges about a year later, I learned they were the wrong “region”. Turns out HP region locks ink like they are Blu-Rays or Nintendo games!<p>I had no idea I was buying “out-of-region” ink cartridges and I also had no idea such a thing could possibly matter. I called HP and the tech support person had the gall to tell me they have different ink for different regions because the climates are different. I nearly swallowed my teeth at the stupidity of such a claim.<p>They offered nothing until I started telling my story on Twitter, and suddenly a Support person messaged me on Twitter offering free replacements. So not only do they have an indefensible strategy of region-locking ink cartridges, they also train you to whine as loudly as possible to get any sort of recourse.<p>The entire printer industry appears to be running one scam or another.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>luma</author><text>Wiley also attempted to make importing those foreign versions illegal, because of course they did. It eventually took the US Supreme Court to intervene on behalf of common sense.</text></comment> | <story><title>Canon is telling customers how to override counterfeit cartridge warnings</title><url>https://twitter.com/naderman/status/1479529888977760258</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imglorp</author><text>The book industry did this too, years ago. They would sell normal books in the West but cheaper versions, with lighter weight paper etc, in Eastern countries. There&#x27;s no lock of course, but before the internet it was harder to buy a cheap copy of Knuth from India if you lived in US.<p>The point is, ink extortion seems to thrive on pricing tiers for different markets, just like content extortion does.</text></item><item><author>trentnix</author><text>I bought extra HP cartridges off of Amazon years ago for my business so we would have extras. Imagine my surprise when, after installing the cartridges about a year later, I learned they were the wrong “region”. Turns out HP region locks ink like they are Blu-Rays or Nintendo games!<p>I had no idea I was buying “out-of-region” ink cartridges and I also had no idea such a thing could possibly matter. I called HP and the tech support person had the gall to tell me they have different ink for different regions because the climates are different. I nearly swallowed my teeth at the stupidity of such a claim.<p>They offered nothing until I started telling my story on Twitter, and suddenly a Support person messaged me on Twitter offering free replacements. So not only do they have an indefensible strategy of region-locking ink cartridges, they also train you to whine as loudly as possible to get any sort of recourse.<p>The entire printer industry appears to be running one scam or another.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sofixa</author><text>In France many books come in a default format which is a massive waste of space - big size, the paper is very thick, the font is pretty big, and there&#x27;s a lot of whitespace on each page. And some books get a &quot;pocket edition&quot; which doesn&#x27;t do any of those. If it were just the font it could be explained by targeting&#x2F;adapting to people with poor vision, but the rest makes no sense besides to waste paper.</text></comment> |
21,582,050 | 21,581,250 | 1 | 2 | 21,580,322 | train | <story><title>The Hierarchy of Cringe</title><url>https://aelkus.github.io/culture/2019/10/21/hierarchy-of-cringe</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rjknight</author><text>The author is using &quot;cringe&quot; as something of a euphemism here. &quot;Cringe&quot; in this case is <i>anything</i> that a person could say that would cause other people to think badly of them, including highly offensive things, so long as the person saying it doesn&#x27;t fully understand why. It doesn&#x27;t have to be universally cringey, like watching someone do really bad karaoke. It might only be cringey within a small subculture.<p>Say you&#x27;re used to discussing programming languages. You and your fellows have developed a well-understood notion of why static typing is better than dynamic typing. Then along comes some fool who has watched too many Rich Hickey videos who wants to tell you that types are just guard rails and nobody would navigate by bouncing off the guard rails when they could just drive to their destination. This is cringey because you&#x27;ve heard this argument before, the interloper ought to know that you&#x27;ve heard this before and taken it into account, and it&#x27;s clear that they&#x27;re just repeating some argument that they&#x27;ve heard somewhere else.<p>One could have a &quot;stupid things dynamic typers say&quot; bingo-card, with the guard rail argument on it. One could regard the dynamic typer as a kind of NPC bot, popping up to spout the scripted phrases of his kind of person. And it&#x27;s cringey to watch someone do that.<p>This phenomenon is what the OP is trying to describe, except that on Twitter the subject matter is unlikely to be static vs. dynamic types, but something political which covers much larger categories of people.<p>The fact that so many commenters here are baffled by this suggests that the phenomenon, or at least this intuitive understanding of it, is not quite as widespread as the OP (and I!) might assume, though.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Hierarchy of Cringe</title><url>https://aelkus.github.io/culture/2019/10/21/hierarchy-of-cringe</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Thorentis</author><text>Is it just me, or was there no actual hierarchy discussed? I was expecting a pyramid of cringe, or at least a list of varying levels of cringe. Instead I got a lengthy discussion about how he doesn&#x27;t like that people stereotype other people on the Internet (as if that is unique to the Internet). Low quality and poorly named post in my opinion (nice looking blog though).</text></comment> |
23,739,415 | 23,738,652 | 1 | 3 | 23,738,329 | train | <story><title>The Comeback of Fun in Visual Design</title><url>https://applypixels.com/blog/comeback</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alxlaz</author><text>I don&#x27;t really care about &quot;fun&quot;, but I just can&#x27;t find the words to explain how happy I am that there&#x27;s a chance we might put all this flat madness behind us. I&#x27;m looking forward to:<p>* Not having this conversation with my mom (who, at 60+, is remarkably adept with computers but hey, we all run into trouble sometimes) over the phone anymore:<p>Me: Okay mom, now press the &quot;Edit&quot; button<p>Mom: Which one&#x27;s the edit button?<p>Me: Uh, the... um, it&#x27;s the one that kindda looks like... a bunch of lines in a rectangle, I guess?<p>Mom: Alex they all look like lines in a rectangle<p>* Not hovering everything for five minutes until I can figure out what I can click and what I can&#x27;t click (for bonus points: not trying to click something for five minutes like an idiot, only to find out it&#x27;s a label, not a disabled button)<p>* Buttons, tree views, tabs and all that having relief borders again, not necessarily because I like <i>that</i>, but because without it, the only way to &quot;isolate&quot; the information in them is using whitespace, and seven years of flat design hell later I can fit only slightly more content on my 1920x1080 screen than I could fit my Amiga&#x27;s 1024x768 screen 20+ years ago.<p>* Being able to tell file types apart from each other when I&#x27;m browsing at minimum zoom level -- which is how you end up browsing <i>any</i> collection of more than a few dozen items or so<p>* Being able to tell application icons apart based on what&#x27;s in the icons, not based on colours. People keep parroting this idea that &quot;symbolic icons are easily to tell apart from each other because they&#x27;re so simple&quot; but when <i>all</i> icons are a letter or some anonymous symbol on a blob of colour, they <i>all</i> look the same when you put a few dozen of them next to each other. Maybe they&#x27;re easy to tell apart when you have like four 128x128px icons but when you have 40 of them in a tiny dock at the bottom of your screen, the only useful information they retain is what colour they are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Pxtl</author><text>Honestly, I was actually excited by flat design when I first saw it, but that was on Windows Phone 7. And WP7 had an exceptionally rigid and consistent approach to flat design. If something was colored, it was a button. If you wanted to color something that wasn&#x27;t a button? Too bad for you. Basically, on WP7 you didn&#x27;t get to &quot;design&quot; at all - the UI framework basically said &quot;this is what your widgets look like, if you don&#x27;t like it you can make software for a different operating system.<p>Ironically, I think &quot;bringing back the fun&quot; is what destroyed flat design, because people who wanted to make their designs &quot;fun&quot; destroyed the design-language.<p>Overall, I don&#x27;t care if you go flat or otherwise - I want the WP7 attitude in my software. The platform provides a rigid design-language, and the individual applications do not deviate from it. Unfortunately, web is fundamentally a platform designed for styled documents and not GUIs so we don&#x27;t have that kind of standardization available, and the web is the center of modern design.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Comeback of Fun in Visual Design</title><url>https://applypixels.com/blog/comeback</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alxlaz</author><text>I don&#x27;t really care about &quot;fun&quot;, but I just can&#x27;t find the words to explain how happy I am that there&#x27;s a chance we might put all this flat madness behind us. I&#x27;m looking forward to:<p>* Not having this conversation with my mom (who, at 60+, is remarkably adept with computers but hey, we all run into trouble sometimes) over the phone anymore:<p>Me: Okay mom, now press the &quot;Edit&quot; button<p>Mom: Which one&#x27;s the edit button?<p>Me: Uh, the... um, it&#x27;s the one that kindda looks like... a bunch of lines in a rectangle, I guess?<p>Mom: Alex they all look like lines in a rectangle<p>* Not hovering everything for five minutes until I can figure out what I can click and what I can&#x27;t click (for bonus points: not trying to click something for five minutes like an idiot, only to find out it&#x27;s a label, not a disabled button)<p>* Buttons, tree views, tabs and all that having relief borders again, not necessarily because I like <i>that</i>, but because without it, the only way to &quot;isolate&quot; the information in them is using whitespace, and seven years of flat design hell later I can fit only slightly more content on my 1920x1080 screen than I could fit my Amiga&#x27;s 1024x768 screen 20+ years ago.<p>* Being able to tell file types apart from each other when I&#x27;m browsing at minimum zoom level -- which is how you end up browsing <i>any</i> collection of more than a few dozen items or so<p>* Being able to tell application icons apart based on what&#x27;s in the icons, not based on colours. People keep parroting this idea that &quot;symbolic icons are easily to tell apart from each other because they&#x27;re so simple&quot; but when <i>all</i> icons are a letter or some anonymous symbol on a blob of colour, they <i>all</i> look the same when you put a few dozen of them next to each other. Maybe they&#x27;re easy to tell apart when you have like four 128x128px icons but when you have 40 of them in a tiny dock at the bottom of your screen, the only useful information they retain is what colour they are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gambiting</author><text>100% with you. I absolutely <i>hate</i> the material design, it&#x27;s the least intuitive way to use a computer. Paired with touch-first interfaces it&#x27;s one of the worst thing to happen to computers.</text></comment> |
26,870,372 | 26,869,576 | 1 | 2 | 26,867,300 | train | <story><title>The “Granny Knot”</title><url>https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>js2</author><text>The &quot;Ian Knot&quot; pairs well with the Japanese T-shirt folding technique:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;dNr1oLhZ0zs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;dNr1oLhZ0zs</a><p>Also, tie wearers, take the time to learn a Full Windsor:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;HXJx8j7JpKY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;HXJx8j7JpKY</a></text></item><item><author>iandinwoodie</author><text>A few years ago I switched from the &quot;Granny Knot&quot; to the &quot;Ian Knot&quot; [0] in order to (1) eliminate the need for &quot;double knotting&quot; and (2) straighten the bow. Despite the few embarrassing times early in the process where friends observed me struggling to tie my shoes, I can confidently say the switch has been worth it.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fieggen.com&#x2F;shoelace&#x2F;ianknot.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fieggen.com&#x2F;shoelace&#x2F;ianknot.htm</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>techrat</author><text>Every time I try to do the Japanese fold... this is how it ends up: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;FBYu2Ry.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;FBYu2Ry.gif</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The “Granny Knot”</title><url>https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>js2</author><text>The &quot;Ian Knot&quot; pairs well with the Japanese T-shirt folding technique:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;dNr1oLhZ0zs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;dNr1oLhZ0zs</a><p>Also, tie wearers, take the time to learn a Full Windsor:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;HXJx8j7JpKY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;HXJx8j7JpKY</a></text></item><item><author>iandinwoodie</author><text>A few years ago I switched from the &quot;Granny Knot&quot; to the &quot;Ian Knot&quot; [0] in order to (1) eliminate the need for &quot;double knotting&quot; and (2) straighten the bow. Despite the few embarrassing times early in the process where friends observed me struggling to tie my shoes, I can confidently say the switch has been worth it.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fieggen.com&#x2F;shoelace&#x2F;ianknot.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fieggen.com&#x2F;shoelace&#x2F;ianknot.htm</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tunesmith</author><text>That Full Windsor - it&#x27;s a revelation to me that it looks good even <i>without</i> the top button of the shirt buttoned. I also thought I had to button the top button of my shirt, which I hate.</text></comment> |
2,742,019 | 2,741,997 | 1 | 2 | 2,741,787 | train | <story><title>Interesting C code</title><url>http://a1k0n.net/2011/06/26/obfuscated-c-yahoo-logo.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tintin</author><text><i>"in six lines of C"</i><p>I'm not impressed. It could be done in 1 line of C when he left out the line-breaks.<p>I don't think obfuscated code is interesting. It's unreadable. And therefore it's hard to learn something from it.<p>But it's nice he is explaining the code. Now that is interesting!</text></comment> | <story><title>Interesting C code</title><url>http://a1k0n.net/2011/06/26/obfuscated-c-yahoo-logo.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jseban</author><text>Interesting indeed. But weird that he uses obfuscated code when doing a piece of explaining how it's done. Or do people actually write for loops like those? :P</text></comment> |
3,090,772 | 3,090,606 | 1 | 3 | 3,090,546 | train | <story><title>Apple Has 1,000 Engineers Working On Chips For The Post-PC Era</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/09/apple-1000-engineers-chips/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raganwald</author><text>What I find interesting about Apple designing their own chips is the notion that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Apple's value proposition with Macintosh is that by owning the entire experience--hardware, OS, even distribution to the store--Apple can deliver an optimized product that is superior to products where company H makes the hardware, M makes the OS, and CC distributes the resulting PCs.<p>Designing chips is the logical extension to this model. The chips are designed with the end product in mind, and everything works together to deliver the product's value proposition.<p>Other manufacturers end up hostage to whatever chips Intel and AMD feel like selling to everyone. They are hostage to whatever OS features Google feels like adding to Android, whether I integrates with the chips or not.<p>It's not a given that Apple will <i>necessarily</i> succeed with this strategy, it requires an ability to juggle multiple balls at once, a very rare trait. There's a reason most businesses try to do just one thing well and commoditize everything else.<p>But it is certainly beautiful to watch them try to sail the opposite tack.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Has 1,000 Engineers Working On Chips For The Post-PC Era</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/09/apple-1000-engineers-chips/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xxcode</author><text>the text of the article doesn't seem to explain how the assertion is made. Until last year (when I left apple), the PA Semi team (which is the A4/A5 team) was about 20 people (and they were hiring 3-4 more), so this is somewhat difficult to believe, but I might have outdated information. The designs are mostly modified arm designs.</text></comment> |
14,896,124 | 14,894,679 | 1 | 3 | 14,894,216 | train | <story><title>Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to peer device communication</title><url>https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/07/announcing-nearby-connections-20-fully.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text><i>Today we&#x27;re announcing the availability of this API across all Android devices running Google Play services 11.0 and up.</i><p>Of course, Google had to lock up peer to peer communication by tying it to their online store. It&#x27;s also unencrypted and unauthenticated, so you don&#x27;t want to use this for home control.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to peer device communication</title><url>https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/07/announcing-nearby-connections-20-fully.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crudbug</author><text>Another Google specific API. Please use open standard based communication framework [0] for your &quot;connected&quot; things.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openconnectivity.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openconnectivity.org</a></text></comment> |
8,924,399 | 8,924,349 | 1 | 2 | 8,923,721 | train | <story><title>The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan</title><url>https://www.4chan.org/news?all#118</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krelian</author><text>8chan can&#x27;t be mentioned because it&#x27;s a competitor I assume? But what about Gamergate, why is it taboo to discuss it?</text></item><item><author>pervycreeper</author><text>This is not a surprising development, there has been speculation that Poole has been readying the site for sale in the past few months. He has taken action to sanitize the site by suppressing discussion of Gamergate and 8chan (mention of either was a bannable offense), and more recently a purge of &#x2F;pol&#x2F; (that board had been a haven for conspiracy theorists and neo-nazis). The theory had been that he was making the board more attractive to a mainstream audience to attract potential buyers, however, this announcement, along with the new requirements for &quot;volunteers&quot; suggests that something else is at play.<p>I would speculate that recent decisions have been driven more by IRL peer pressure and a desire for social acceptance than any kind of business shark&#x2F; Homo Economicus reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>My guess is because 4chan was being used as an organizing nexus for a bunch of people widely seen as abusive and misogynist, and he just no longer wanted the headache.<p>Years ago I worked on bianca.com (early community site; founded 1994, Webby 1997, closed in the dot-com bust), which had a similar unfettered-free-speech aspect to it. I feel a lot of sympathy here.<p>Committing to publishing everything is one of those positions that is very appealing to a young idealist. But it grinds you down over time. Partly because of the content: unless you&#x27;re a reptile you are faced with a series of decisions about whether this really awful thing is <i>too</i> awful or just awful enough. And partly because of the people: most of them are lovely and some amazing things happen when people are free to be themselves. But some are terrible and plenty are just broken, and it&#x27;s those you spend 90% of your time dealing with.<p>I saw one of the Bianca people recently and we talked a bit about 4chan and 8chan and how thoroughly grateful we were to have left those problems behind. No matter how appealing radical free speech is in theory, at the end of the day you&#x27;re the person who has devoted your life to enabling awful people to say awful things. And with GamerGate, to go and do awful things as well. I imagine he&#x27;s just tired of it.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan</title><url>https://www.4chan.org/news?all#118</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krelian</author><text>8chan can&#x27;t be mentioned because it&#x27;s a competitor I assume? But what about Gamergate, why is it taboo to discuss it?</text></item><item><author>pervycreeper</author><text>This is not a surprising development, there has been speculation that Poole has been readying the site for sale in the past few months. He has taken action to sanitize the site by suppressing discussion of Gamergate and 8chan (mention of either was a bannable offense), and more recently a purge of &#x2F;pol&#x2F; (that board had been a haven for conspiracy theorists and neo-nazis). The theory had been that he was making the board more attractive to a mainstream audience to attract potential buyers, however, this announcement, along with the new requirements for &quot;volunteers&quot; suggests that something else is at play.<p>I would speculate that recent decisions have been driven more by IRL peer pressure and a desire for social acceptance than any kind of business shark&#x2F; Homo Economicus reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hatu</author><text>From what I could tell it quickly turned to a misogynist witch hunt with heavy doxxing and harassment and not a lot of actual substance</text></comment> |
13,302,179 | 13,301,436 | 1 | 3 | 13,301,280 | train | <story><title>Why HTTPS for Everything?</title><url>https://https.cio.gov/everything/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>timthorn</author><text>I feel for later generations - learning tech gets harder and harder. Of course as the sum of knowledge increases this must be true, but as we go HTTPS-only the ability to type commands to a web server over telnet as a learning experience will be a loss.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>discreditable</author><text>&gt; the ability to type commands to a web server over telnet as a learning experience will be a loss.<p>You can do this with openssl.<p><pre><code> openssl s_client -connect news.ycombinator.com:443
GET &#x2F; HTTP&#x2F;1.1
Host: news.ycombinator.com
</code></pre>
Press enter twice and you&#x27;ll get HTML.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why HTTPS for Everything?</title><url>https://https.cio.gov/everything/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>timthorn</author><text>I feel for later generations - learning tech gets harder and harder. Of course as the sum of knowledge increases this must be true, but as we go HTTPS-only the ability to type commands to a web server over telnet as a learning experience will be a loss.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ycmbntrthrwaway</author><text>Telnet&#x2F;netcat seems simple only because all the layers below are hidden inside the operating system. You don&#x27;t type in all the MAC&#x2F;LLC&#x2F;TCP headers, and you can avoid typing in TLS headers just by hiding them inside the library (LibreSSL, GnuTLS etc.). With libtls API you can think about cryptography in terms of &quot;padlock icon&quot; until you want to learn more.</text></comment> |
19,838,594 | 19,838,100 | 1 | 3 | 19,836,922 | train | <story><title>Tetris clone written in Zig running on WebGL and WebAssembly</title><url>https://raulgrell.github.io/tetris/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jedisct1</author><text>So much cutting edge technology for something that could have been written in BASIC running on a Z80 :)<p>That being said, Zig is an interesting, well-deigned language. Despite being young, it already has tons of features. And compatibility with the C ABI is a big plus.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tetris clone written in Zig running on WebGL and WebAssembly</title><url>https://raulgrell.github.io/tetris/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>new4thaccount</author><text>It looks like Zig has some decent documentation (something I treasure), but it looks like file I&#x2F;O is missing. I&#x27;m sure it assumes the user is at least intermediate with C (I can only get by with lots of googling). I&#x27;ll give Zig a try if someone can put up an example of reading a .CSV file (something I do a lot and wish I had faster tools to do) and if it is less of a hassle than C&#x2F;C++.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ziglang.org&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;master&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ziglang.org&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;master&#x2F;</a><p>The install seems to also be a lot more straightforward than many of the other low level languages that I have tried.</text></comment> |
14,373,963 | 14,373,905 | 1 | 2 | 14,373,783 | train | <story><title>AAC Licensors</title><url>http://www.via-corp.com/us/en/licensing/aac/licensors.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whyleyc</author><text>Except Fraunhofer did not promote MP3 as “dead&quot;. They put out a press release announcing the &quot;termination&quot; of various MP3-related patents[1].<p>As Marco noted[2] news orgs took that original announcement and twisted it into a &quot;creators announce MP3 is dead&quot; story, presumably because there are more clicks to be had there than a story about patent expirations.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iis.fraunhofer.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;ff&#x2F;amm&#x2F;prod&#x2F;audiocodec&#x2F;audiocodecs&#x2F;mp3.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iis.fraunhofer.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;ff&#x2F;amm&#x2F;prod&#x2F;audiocodec&#x2F;audi...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marco.org&#x2F;2017&#x2F;05&#x2F;15&#x2F;mp3-isnt-dead" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marco.org&#x2F;2017&#x2F;05&#x2F;15&#x2F;mp3-isnt-dead</a></text></comment> | <story><title>AAC Licensors</title><url>http://www.via-corp.com/us/en/licensing/aac/licensors.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>This is literally just a link to the AAC licensing page. Of course, Fraunhofer originally invented MP3 and got licensing fees from its patents instead.<p>&lt;strikethrough&gt;The real WTF is how readily news organisations will just print a press release put out by Fraunhofer saying &quot;MP3 is dead&quot;.&lt;&#x2F;strikethrough&gt;</text></comment> |
33,557,073 | 33,556,411 | 1 | 2 | 33,547,863 | train | <story><title>FTX tapped into customer accounts to fund risky bets, setting up its downfall</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/ftx-tapped-into-customer-accounts-to-fund-risky-bets-setting-up-its-downfall-11668093732</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cma</author><text>From the Sequoia puff-piece:<p>&gt; Something of the sort must happen eventually, as the current system, with its layers upon layers of intermediaries, is antiquated and prone to crashing—the global financial crisis of 2008 was just the latest in a long line of failures that occurred because banks didn’t actually know what was on their balance sheets. Crypto is money that can audit itself, no accountant or bookkeeper needed, and thus a financial system with the blockchain built in can, in theory, cut out most of the financial middlemen, to the advantage of all. Of course, that’s the pitch of every crypto company out there. The FTX competitive advantage? Ethical behavior. SBF is a Peter Singer–inspired utilitarian in a sea of Robert Nozick–inspired libertarians. He’s an ethical maximalist in an industry that’s overwhelmingly populated with ethical minimalists. I’m a Nozick man myself, but I know who I’d rather trust my money with: SBF, hands-down. And if he does end up saving the world as a side effect of being my banker, all the better.</text></item><item><author>chironjit</author><text>This is the correct answer. When you move your tokens into a centralised exchange like FTX, your funds are pooled with everyones deposit.<p>There are always deposits and wihdrawals, and of course maybe you traded your tokens for another before withdrawing. So its hard to parse how much customers deposited vs genuinely withdrew, and so you cant really tell if the exchange is short unless they declare their actual assets and liabilities.</text></item><item><author>phas0ruk</author><text>FTX is a centralised exchange, it is not routing all customer trades on chain. It’s not a blockchain failure, it’s just a lack of client asset segregation by a traditional centralised trading house.</text></item><item><author>Digory</author><text>So if the chain is supposed to enable &quot;trustless&quot; finance, what enabled Alameda to take anything? Seems Alameda and its clients should be screwed, but FTX&#x27;s holders should be relatively easy to identify and restore.<p>But everyone seems to say that&#x27;s not the case. So what broke down here? Why isn&#x27;t the ledger ledgering?</text></item><item><author>chlodwig</author><text>From the article: &quot;FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried said in investor meetings this week that Alameda owes FTX about $10 billion, people familiar with the matter said. FTX extended loans to Alameda using money that customers had deposited on the exchange for trading purposes, a decision that Mr. Bankman-Fried described as a poor judgment call, one of the people said.&quot;<p>In the FTX International terms of service ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.ftx.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;article_attachments&#x2F;9719619779348&#x2F;FTX_Terms_of_Service.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.ftx.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;article_attachments&#x2F;9719619779348&#x2F;FT...</a> ) they say that users have full title, ownership and control of digital assets. They say that the assets are the property of the user, and shall not be loaned to FTX trading, shall not be treated as they belong to FTX trading, and that users control the assets in the account.<p>So if they did indeed loan out customer deposits, that is just straight up criminal fraud, open and shut. This isn&#x27;t like some DeFi scheme where they are working around some legal loophole or in the fine print tell you that they will probably lose your money. This is just straight up illegal under the plain vanilla theft and fraud laws of any country. This isn&#x27;t even a bank run (banks at least tell you they are loaning your deposits out) -- it&#x27;s a run on a U-Haul self-storage where you find out that they actually sold all the furniture in your storage unit to a pawn shop.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deevolution</author><text>&gt; &quot;I know who I&#x27;d rather trust my money with: SBF, hands down.&quot;<p>This quote is complety antithetical to everything crypto is actually trying to achieve; which is a <i>trustless</i> financial system, a system that would be void of these sorts of melt downs.<p>Don&#x27;t trust; verify.</text></comment> | <story><title>FTX tapped into customer accounts to fund risky bets, setting up its downfall</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/ftx-tapped-into-customer-accounts-to-fund-risky-bets-setting-up-its-downfall-11668093732</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cma</author><text>From the Sequoia puff-piece:<p>&gt; Something of the sort must happen eventually, as the current system, with its layers upon layers of intermediaries, is antiquated and prone to crashing—the global financial crisis of 2008 was just the latest in a long line of failures that occurred because banks didn’t actually know what was on their balance sheets. Crypto is money that can audit itself, no accountant or bookkeeper needed, and thus a financial system with the blockchain built in can, in theory, cut out most of the financial middlemen, to the advantage of all. Of course, that’s the pitch of every crypto company out there. The FTX competitive advantage? Ethical behavior. SBF is a Peter Singer–inspired utilitarian in a sea of Robert Nozick–inspired libertarians. He’s an ethical maximalist in an industry that’s overwhelmingly populated with ethical minimalists. I’m a Nozick man myself, but I know who I’d rather trust my money with: SBF, hands-down. And if he does end up saving the world as a side effect of being my banker, all the better.</text></item><item><author>chironjit</author><text>This is the correct answer. When you move your tokens into a centralised exchange like FTX, your funds are pooled with everyones deposit.<p>There are always deposits and wihdrawals, and of course maybe you traded your tokens for another before withdrawing. So its hard to parse how much customers deposited vs genuinely withdrew, and so you cant really tell if the exchange is short unless they declare their actual assets and liabilities.</text></item><item><author>phas0ruk</author><text>FTX is a centralised exchange, it is not routing all customer trades on chain. It’s not a blockchain failure, it’s just a lack of client asset segregation by a traditional centralised trading house.</text></item><item><author>Digory</author><text>So if the chain is supposed to enable &quot;trustless&quot; finance, what enabled Alameda to take anything? Seems Alameda and its clients should be screwed, but FTX&#x27;s holders should be relatively easy to identify and restore.<p>But everyone seems to say that&#x27;s not the case. So what broke down here? Why isn&#x27;t the ledger ledgering?</text></item><item><author>chlodwig</author><text>From the article: &quot;FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried said in investor meetings this week that Alameda owes FTX about $10 billion, people familiar with the matter said. FTX extended loans to Alameda using money that customers had deposited on the exchange for trading purposes, a decision that Mr. Bankman-Fried described as a poor judgment call, one of the people said.&quot;<p>In the FTX International terms of service ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.ftx.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;article_attachments&#x2F;9719619779348&#x2F;FTX_Terms_of_Service.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.ftx.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;article_attachments&#x2F;9719619779348&#x2F;FT...</a> ) they say that users have full title, ownership and control of digital assets. They say that the assets are the property of the user, and shall not be loaned to FTX trading, shall not be treated as they belong to FTX trading, and that users control the assets in the account.<p>So if they did indeed loan out customer deposits, that is just straight up criminal fraud, open and shut. This isn&#x27;t like some DeFi scheme where they are working around some legal loophole or in the fine print tell you that they will probably lose your money. This is just straight up illegal under the plain vanilla theft and fraud laws of any country. This isn&#x27;t even a bank run (banks at least tell you they are loaning your deposits out) -- it&#x27;s a run on a U-Haul self-storage where you find out that they actually sold all the furniture in your storage unit to a pawn shop.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjulius</author><text>Hahahahahahahaha holy fuck.<p>Disclaimer: I don&#x27;t usually drop comments like this that don&#x27;t contribute to anything, but... lmao wow.</text></comment> |
7,468,767 | 7,468,669 | 1 | 3 | 7,468,100 | train | <story><title>Startups, Role Models, Risk, and Y Combinator</title><url>http://blog.samaltman.com/startups-role-models-risk-and-y-combinator</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>Call me cynical, but I tripped over this paragraph:<p>&gt; <i>For example, when Adora Cheung was starting Homejoy, she would work all day as a cleaner to learn the business, drive an hour back to Mountain View, stay up as late as she could coding, then drive back to San Francisco at ~3am to beat traffic, sleep in her car, and do it again. She also gave both her apartment and her car to early cleaners so that they could partner up with Homejoy. We don’t want to delude anyone about what running a startup is like—it’s a rational decision to decide you don’t want to start a startup.</i><p>What I read here is the idea that the only way to do a startup is no sleep (except a few hours in a car) and no life. 100% of your time is startup, startup, startup.<p>Who profits most from cultivating this image? The startup founder or the VC?<p>I seldomly see current founders &#x2F; executives say that this is how they lead their lives, but somehow, VCs (like Altman) keep squeezing this image into their blog posts somehow.<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s some kind of evil plot, and I like the rest of the post: it&#x27;s good to be reminded that everybody started somewhere and nobody&#x27;s great from the start. But I just don&#x27;t believe that you can&#x27;t be a successful founder and still have a life&#x2F;family&#x2F;healthy lifestyle.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>birken</author><text>Successful founders certainly have an incentive to make it seem like founding their startup was extremely hard so it seems like their success was more due to skill and less due to luck. This isn&#x27;t to say the ratio of skill&#x2F;luck is any specific number, just that a founder always has an incentive to tell the history in a way that tilts it more to the &quot;skill&quot; side.<p>Though I think the whole ecosystem (VCs, founders, the press) feed this notion because attributing success to luck isn&#x27;t really interesting to people. You don&#x27;t see a lot of books by lottery winners about how to succeed in life.<p>Again, this isn&#x27;t to say these stories aren&#x27;t true; founding a startup is extremely difficult. But then again, so are a lot of things. If I just selectively picked and exaggerated stories of &quot;normal&quot; programmers, I could make them seem like really special people.<p>So basically, my advice is to trust a story of a successful startup&#x27;s founding history with the same grain of salt you would a fisherperson&#x27;s story of how large of a fish they caught on their last vacation. Some truth, some exaggeration, and without any evidence you have no way to know.</text></comment> | <story><title>Startups, Role Models, Risk, and Y Combinator</title><url>http://blog.samaltman.com/startups-role-models-risk-and-y-combinator</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>Call me cynical, but I tripped over this paragraph:<p>&gt; <i>For example, when Adora Cheung was starting Homejoy, she would work all day as a cleaner to learn the business, drive an hour back to Mountain View, stay up as late as she could coding, then drive back to San Francisco at ~3am to beat traffic, sleep in her car, and do it again. She also gave both her apartment and her car to early cleaners so that they could partner up with Homejoy. We don’t want to delude anyone about what running a startup is like—it’s a rational decision to decide you don’t want to start a startup.</i><p>What I read here is the idea that the only way to do a startup is no sleep (except a few hours in a car) and no life. 100% of your time is startup, startup, startup.<p>Who profits most from cultivating this image? The startup founder or the VC?<p>I seldomly see current founders &#x2F; executives say that this is how they lead their lives, but somehow, VCs (like Altman) keep squeezing this image into their blog posts somehow.<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s some kind of evil plot, and I like the rest of the post: it&#x27;s good to be reminded that everybody started somewhere and nobody&#x27;s great from the start. But I just don&#x27;t believe that you can&#x27;t be a successful founder and still have a life&#x2F;family&#x2F;healthy lifestyle.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>a-priori</author><text>I work for a startup. We&#x27;re 15 people all told, and by all indications we&#x27;re doing great.<p>The entire team shows up by 9:30am every day, and the office is empty again by 5:30pm, almost like clockwork. I exaggerate a bit... every now and then you might have a couple people stay past 6pm, but that&#x27;s about it. Overtime is a very rare thing indeed.<p>I find it absurd this meme that to be successful in a startup, you must work yourself to exhaustion every day, sleep very little, and do it again the next day.<p>Or at least, it&#x27;s not true for any company (startup or otherwise) that I&#x27;d ever want to work for.</text></comment> |
34,444,376 | 34,444,604 | 1 | 2 | 34,441,697 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes</title><text>I would like to inform the HN community, if your plan to recover your Google account in the event of losing your phone is to use a 2FA backup code, or SMS recovery, to remove the old 2FA setup and set up a new 2FA code, that that may not be possible.<p>My situation:<p>I had 2FA set up with my Google Account through Google Authenticator.<p>I lost my Google Authenticator settings when I broke my phone.<p>I have 2FA backup codes. These successfully log me into my Google Account.<p>In order to disable 2FA, or generate new 2FA backup codes, I need to access the 2FA settings page under the Security tab. When I try to load the Two-factor authentication page, I am forced to re-authenticate with Google.<p>When re-authenticating to access the 2FA page, there is no option to enter a 2FA backup code or SMS verification to pass the 2FA challenge. The only option under &quot;Choose a way to verify&quot; is to enter a 2FA code. Entering a backup code instead of a 2FA code returns an error.<p>What am I supposed to do in this situation?<p>Yes this is a classic &quot;maybe I can get support through public shaming&quot; attempt. Thanks in advance.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>arduinomancer</author><text>How does that work? Do you have to carry around a Yubikey&#x2F;Dongle everywhere with your phone?</text></item><item><author>loriverkutya</author><text>Instead of SMS, get a pair of yubikey recommended by some other posters, so you are not depending on your mobile provider as they own the number and it is just &quot;rented&quot; to you.</text></item><item><author>nicoburns</author><text>This is why I use SMS as my second factor for my Google account. Much harder to lose. It could be vulnerable to sim swapping attacks, but I consider Google locking me out of my own account a more likely threat (and frankly I&#x27;m probably not a high-profile enough target for anyone to bother with that, and in any case they&#x27;d still need my password).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vel0city</author><text>For my phone, I&#x27;m already logged in and never get any future challenges. I needed the Yubikey when I first logged into my phone, but after that the phone has been authenticated. If I unlink my phone to my Google account I&#x27;ll need the Yubikey again, but I don&#x27;t normally do that. So normally I don&#x27;t carry a Yubikey with me, like when I go to the store and what not.<p>That said, I do keep a Yubikey with me in my bag when I travel in case my phone breaks and I need to authenticate into a new device. I do take a Yubikey with me going to and from the office as there are other services and platforms which do challenge my Yubikey more often.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes</title><text>I would like to inform the HN community, if your plan to recover your Google account in the event of losing your phone is to use a 2FA backup code, or SMS recovery, to remove the old 2FA setup and set up a new 2FA code, that that may not be possible.<p>My situation:<p>I had 2FA set up with my Google Account through Google Authenticator.<p>I lost my Google Authenticator settings when I broke my phone.<p>I have 2FA backup codes. These successfully log me into my Google Account.<p>In order to disable 2FA, or generate new 2FA backup codes, I need to access the 2FA settings page under the Security tab. When I try to load the Two-factor authentication page, I am forced to re-authenticate with Google.<p>When re-authenticating to access the 2FA page, there is no option to enter a 2FA backup code or SMS verification to pass the 2FA challenge. The only option under &quot;Choose a way to verify&quot; is to enter a 2FA code. Entering a backup code instead of a 2FA code returns an error.<p>What am I supposed to do in this situation?<p>Yes this is a classic &quot;maybe I can get support through public shaming&quot; attempt. Thanks in advance.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>arduinomancer</author><text>How does that work? Do you have to carry around a Yubikey&#x2F;Dongle everywhere with your phone?</text></item><item><author>loriverkutya</author><text>Instead of SMS, get a pair of yubikey recommended by some other posters, so you are not depending on your mobile provider as they own the number and it is just &quot;rented&quot; to you.</text></item><item><author>nicoburns</author><text>This is why I use SMS as my second factor for my Google account. Much harder to lose. It could be vulnerable to sim swapping attacks, but I consider Google locking me out of my own account a more likely threat (and frankly I&#x27;m probably not a high-profile enough target for anyone to bother with that, and in any case they&#x27;d still need my password).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sjf</author><text>I have a yubikey on my keyring. It&#x27;s superior to sms 2fa in everyway. Its almost impossible to damage a yubikey- phones can easily be broken or stolen. You can have multiple keys linked to your account- Google only let&#x27;s you have one phone. Yubikey can&#x27;t be sim swapped. Never needs to be charged or have cell reception, no problems with sites not accepting international phone numbers.<p>The only downside is that Google is the only site I used that supports it.</text></comment> |
34,294,815 | 34,294,500 | 1 | 2 | 34,293,631 | train | <story><title>Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language</title><url>https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/projects/testing-without-mocks/testing-without-mocks</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thom</author><text>Once you’ve replaced each infrastructure dependency with some form of test double (whatever you call it) that captures state, broad tests are no longer slow nor do they fail randomly so I’m not sure I understand why you’d ditch them. Ubiquitous narrow tests are brittle in the face of most refactorings whereas broad tests care about things your users care about and usually persist across those changes. I’d always prefer the latter, though I’m happy to have both. A codebase without broad tests (or without explicitly modelled use cases that are ‘sociable’ with a broad range of dependencies anyway) is unlikely to describe what it actually _does_ anywhere and sounds like a pain to reason about.</text></comment> | <story><title>Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language</title><url>https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/projects/testing-without-mocks/testing-without-mocks</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>djur</author><text>There&#x27;s actually some good ideas in here. I wish it wasn&#x27;t written in such a buzzword-heavy, consultant-y style. When advice includes so many Novel Proper Nouns I find myself checking my wallet.<p>My main quibbles are that these &quot;Nullables&quot; are still test doubles, just implemented in a way with different tradeoffs than typical mocking frameworks. Also, spies are still helpful when you&#x27;re checking for side effects. I&#x27;m not really seeing any alternative offered here for testing &quot;does this code send 0, 1, or 500 emails&quot;.</text></comment> |
4,010,286 | 4,009,959 | 1 | 3 | 4,009,404 | train | <story><title>Nine-year-old’s lunch blog shames school into making changes </title><url>http://grist.org/list/nine-year-olds-lunch-blog-shames-school-into-making-changes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevinalexbrown</author><text>Awesome and hilarious - I would be a very proud father or older brother.<p>But on a serious note, directed at the media woohoo that always ensues, demanding better food for schools Jamie Oliver style misses the constraint of a limited budget. Presumably there's some price/utility tradeoff between the cost of the food and the health/taste.<p>Then there's a tradeoff between teacher quality and wages, school size and the number of teachers you must hire, etc. What we should be asking is whether the nutritional value outweighs wherever else the money would be spent. Maybe it is, maybe it's not, but 'oh the school is shamed' is a little much.<p>Edit: of course the other discussion to have is whether there is a tradeoff between cost and health (including additional cooks needed to produce healthier food on a large scale). But I don't see this in most media discussions either.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdietrich</author><text>If your political system doesn't see child nutrition as a priority, your political system needs to be burned to the ground. Are we honestly expected to believe that a first world nation can't find room in the budget to give children vegetables?<p>I cannot imagine a future in which they do not look back and think "Food was cheaper in their age than at any point before or since, but they fed their children worse than cattle. How could a school have computers but no fruit?".</text></comment> | <story><title>Nine-year-old’s lunch blog shames school into making changes </title><url>http://grist.org/list/nine-year-olds-lunch-blog-shames-school-into-making-changes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevinalexbrown</author><text>Awesome and hilarious - I would be a very proud father or older brother.<p>But on a serious note, directed at the media woohoo that always ensues, demanding better food for schools Jamie Oliver style misses the constraint of a limited budget. Presumably there's some price/utility tradeoff between the cost of the food and the health/taste.<p>Then there's a tradeoff between teacher quality and wages, school size and the number of teachers you must hire, etc. What we should be asking is whether the nutritional value outweighs wherever else the money would be spent. Maybe it is, maybe it's not, but 'oh the school is shamed' is a little much.<p>Edit: of course the other discussion to have is whether there is a tradeoff between cost and health (including additional cooks needed to produce healthier food on a large scale). But I don't see this in most media discussions either.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leot</author><text>Blarney.<p>Healthy food is not pricier unless you get fancy. Legumes, quinoa, and vegetables aren't more expensive (though they do have smaller margins!) than the crap that they had been serving previously.</text></comment> |
21,917,570 | 21,915,928 | 1 | 2 | 21,911,225 | train | <story><title>How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure</title><url>https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/25/alzheimers-cabal-thwarted-progress-toward-cure/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cockatiel_day</author><text>This article is 100% true.<p>My first job out of college 10 years ago was in a lab focused on Alzheimer’s research. Our Principle Investigator made an art of writing grant applications for studies that would appear to be in line with mainstream theory, but were really intended to test theories he actually thought were worth testing, presented in results as an “interesting” aside. He believed the amyloid theory had been conclusively disproven.<p>He explained to me that people like him work for decades, quasi-retire into positions accepting grant applications, and have a conscious or unconscious agenda to preserve or validate their life’s work. His money quote was “science is like the Catholic Church, a lot of nice sentiments but full of people”.<p>I don’t have any evidence or examples, but I suspect this dynamic is not limited to Alzheimer’s research.<p>Another anchor to research not mentioned in the article is how much sponsoring universities take from research labs. To put a university endorsement on our research, which is needed to be credible, the university took half (half!) our grant money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>el_cujo</author><text>This has been my experience more-or-less as well. Any graduate student that does anything even alzheimer&#x27;s adjacent at the school I used to work at absolutely had to have a certain two researchers on their dissertation committee and they would 100% not let you progress without throwing a bone to beta-amyloid in your proposal (along with heavily pushing you to pander to some of their personal pet theories).<p>It&#x27;s a sunken cost fallacy at this point, people have build entire careers on the beta-amyloid stuff and they will NEVER accept an alternative because it would make them irrelevant. These same people hold a lot of power in the field.</text></comment> | <story><title>How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure</title><url>https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/25/alzheimers-cabal-thwarted-progress-toward-cure/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cockatiel_day</author><text>This article is 100% true.<p>My first job out of college 10 years ago was in a lab focused on Alzheimer’s research. Our Principle Investigator made an art of writing grant applications for studies that would appear to be in line with mainstream theory, but were really intended to test theories he actually thought were worth testing, presented in results as an “interesting” aside. He believed the amyloid theory had been conclusively disproven.<p>He explained to me that people like him work for decades, quasi-retire into positions accepting grant applications, and have a conscious or unconscious agenda to preserve or validate their life’s work. His money quote was “science is like the Catholic Church, a lot of nice sentiments but full of people”.<p>I don’t have any evidence or examples, but I suspect this dynamic is not limited to Alzheimer’s research.<p>Another anchor to research not mentioned in the article is how much sponsoring universities take from research labs. To put a university endorsement on our research, which is needed to be credible, the university took half (half!) our grant money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wavepruner</author><text>&quot;I suspect this dynamic is not limited to Alzheimer’s research.&quot;<p>Agreed, I think it is a universal problem in science.<p>I have an illness that has been curable for decades now, but this cure is treated with hostility by the medical establishment. I look forward to the day when the cabal of my illness collapses. Hopefully then I will be able to talk about what happened without people getting angry.</text></comment> |
21,587,067 | 21,587,252 | 1 | 3 | 21,586,052 | train | <story><title>Rapidly cooling trauma victims to buy more time for surgery</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/nov/20/humans-put-into-suspended-animation-for-first-time</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>solotronics</author><text>&quot;He said at least one patient had had the procedure but did not elaborate on whether that patient or any others had survived.&quot; I think this is a pretty important detail to leave out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sp332</author><text>According to an interview, they&#x27;re trying to get the survival rate of this level of trauma up from 5-10% to maybe 20%. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.popsci.com&#x2F;reanimators&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.popsci.com&#x2F;reanimators&#x2F;</a> So there&#x27;s not much to tell from one person surviving or not.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rapidly cooling trauma victims to buy more time for surgery</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/nov/20/humans-put-into-suspended-animation-for-first-time</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>solotronics</author><text>&quot;He said at least one patient had had the procedure but did not elaborate on whether that patient or any others had survived.&quot; I think this is a pretty important detail to leave out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codingdave</author><text>Perhaps. We&#x27;re talking about people with a 5% change of surviving their injuries. If this doubles their chances, 90% of the patients still die. So the result of a single case might not be as relevant as it would seem.</text></comment> |
5,762,578 | 5,762,285 | 1 | 2 | 5,762,186 | train | <story><title>The Shortest Crashing C Program</title><url>http://llbit.se/?p=1744</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>femto</author><text>It depends on the definition. You can do better than this if you define a valid C program as anything that passes though the C compiler and generates an executable. Behold the zero length program:<p>$ touch a.c<p>$ gcc -c a.c<p>$ ld a.o<p>ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 0000000000400078<p>$ ./a.out<p>Segmentation fault</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lgeek</author><text>You can build it with a single command:<p>gcc -nostdlib ./empty.c -o ./empty<p>Edit: This one actually runs correctly:<p><pre><code> $ touch empty.c
$ gcc -static -nostartfiles ./empty.c -e_exit -o ./empty
$ ./empty &#38;&#38; echo $?
&#62; 0</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>The Shortest Crashing C Program</title><url>http://llbit.se/?p=1744</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>femto</author><text>It depends on the definition. You can do better than this if you define a valid C program as anything that passes though the C compiler and generates an executable. Behold the zero length program:<p>$ touch a.c<p>$ gcc -c a.c<p>$ ld a.o<p>ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 0000000000400078<p>$ ./a.out<p>Segmentation fault</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thristian</author><text>That's a shame. At least in one point in history, that was the shortest-known quine:<p><a href="http://www.ioccc.org/years.html#1994_smr" rel="nofollow">http://www.ioccc.org/years.html#1994_smr</a></text></comment> |
22,483,424 | 22,483,097 | 1 | 2 | 22,481,834 | train | <story><title>Post YC Depression</title><url>https://www.bmaho.com/articles/post-yc-depression</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drenginian</author><text>People seem to become really attached to the validation from YC.<p>Getting into an incubator or getting money from investors is zero measure of business success. Business success is users and growth and revenue.<p>Whether YC blesses you is also zero reflection on you as a person. Rejection by YC means nothing at all.<p>I think business is about trying to make money, it’s not about YC and funding and the scene and investment rounds and hyper growth and beers after work and been seen as one of the cool kids.<p>Head down, work, balanced lifestyle, try to make something small succeed on your own.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bald</author><text>Having been rejected 2 times by YC, could not agree more.<p>biz #1 is now series B at $120M valuation<p>biz #2 is now series A with $50M valuation<p>biz #3 is now seed with $15M valuation<p>I did not bother to apply with biz #3 to YC, probability-weighted, it was not worth the effort to me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Post YC Depression</title><url>https://www.bmaho.com/articles/post-yc-depression</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drenginian</author><text>People seem to become really attached to the validation from YC.<p>Getting into an incubator or getting money from investors is zero measure of business success. Business success is users and growth and revenue.<p>Whether YC blesses you is also zero reflection on you as a person. Rejection by YC means nothing at all.<p>I think business is about trying to make money, it’s not about YC and funding and the scene and investment rounds and hyper growth and beers after work and been seen as one of the cool kids.<p>Head down, work, balanced lifestyle, try to make something small succeed on your own.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hef19898</author><text>Even YC is open about the fact that they are wrong with rejections. Also agree on the problem with VC money as a measure of success, because it is not. And still it used, it seems, as the prime success indicator in everything start-up. And as such is the primary thing people seem to seek out. It is also <i>very</i> persuasive, sometimes I catch myself with a small amount of jealousy when someone in my field is raising multi-million rounds. And wouldn&#x27;t even take that money if someone offered it <i>right now</i>.</text></comment> |
40,053,150 | 40,052,885 | 1 | 3 | 40,051,597 | train | <story><title>To make a fortune, target bored young men who want to make a fortune</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/gambling-young-men-sports-betting-crypto-meme-stock-market-addiction-2024-4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mycologos</author><text>In my limited experience as somebody whose friends and family are all pretty well educated and pretty well off (for better or for worse, I work at a big tech company), gambling seems pretty class-specific.<p>I don&#x27;t know anybody who gambles, on betting or crypto, and only a small number who even pick individual stocks. Some people play poker, but only for nominal sums, and it&#x27;s usually presented as more of an intellectual exercise. I get the sense that if somebody said they like sports betting, it would produce a half-second awkward glitch in a conversation. I doubt anybody would moralize, but there might be an unspoken question like &quot;[you gamble? don&#x27;t you have more fulfilling things to do?]&quot;<p>The simple answer here is probably that if you already have enough money then you don&#x27;t need to gamble, but it&#x27;s not like most people who gamble actually believe it&#x27;s the path to profit, it seems like there&#x27;s something else here where gambling is viewed as low-status (in my bubble).</text></item><item><author>jjice</author><text>As a mid-twenties man, I see this constantly among my friends.<p>It started a few years ago when sports betting was legalized in my home state and when I was at a bar before Thanksgiving to see some friends, half of them were watching a basketball game involving teams they&#x27;ve never cared about. They showed me that they were betting some wild parlays to hit on this game they had no interest in watching otherwise. They showed me that the apps keep track of your net earnings (I assume this is a legal requirement) and _all_ of them were in the negative between $400 and $800. Keep in mind that these are young men who just graduated college and we were all pretty broke.<p>Flash forward, a lot of them still sports bet regularly with regular losses. I live in a different state now, but a group of my friends around here recently go into going to a casino near by. I was blown away by the justifications on their gambling habits. &quot;I usually win&quot; or &quot;I only gamble what I come in with&quot;, but the latter isn&#x27;t true and I&#x27;ve seen it with my own eyes. I met up with them (not to gamble, but to see a friend), and thirty minutes in one of them was asking the other for $40 so he could &quot;win it all back&quot; at the roulette table.<p>It blows my mind. We know so well that gambling is a losing battle. Some can have fun and call it the price of fun, but it&#x27;s such a slippery slope to find yourself losing way more than you intended.<p>Anecdotally, I notice that the women in my life gamble less.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bwing1</author><text>Yeah, that&#x27;s bubble-specific, not class-specific. I think the most successful of the younger professionals I know are most likely to gamble on sports -- it&#x27;s an excuse for an active group chat, it&#x27;s something to talk with random people about, and the actual amounts you bet are easy to make trivial relative to income. Very networking-forward hobby. (Also, it&#x27;s obviously as much an intellectual exercise to gamble on sports as it is to play poker.)<p>Broadly, though sports in particular is something different bubbles care more or less about, I&#x27;d say your perspective is entirely foreign to me. My experience is that the more intelligent groups I&#x27;m around are vastly more interested in predicting things and putting money behind their predictions.</text></comment> | <story><title>To make a fortune, target bored young men who want to make a fortune</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/gambling-young-men-sports-betting-crypto-meme-stock-market-addiction-2024-4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mycologos</author><text>In my limited experience as somebody whose friends and family are all pretty well educated and pretty well off (for better or for worse, I work at a big tech company), gambling seems pretty class-specific.<p>I don&#x27;t know anybody who gambles, on betting or crypto, and only a small number who even pick individual stocks. Some people play poker, but only for nominal sums, and it&#x27;s usually presented as more of an intellectual exercise. I get the sense that if somebody said they like sports betting, it would produce a half-second awkward glitch in a conversation. I doubt anybody would moralize, but there might be an unspoken question like &quot;[you gamble? don&#x27;t you have more fulfilling things to do?]&quot;<p>The simple answer here is probably that if you already have enough money then you don&#x27;t need to gamble, but it&#x27;s not like most people who gamble actually believe it&#x27;s the path to profit, it seems like there&#x27;s something else here where gambling is viewed as low-status (in my bubble).</text></item><item><author>jjice</author><text>As a mid-twenties man, I see this constantly among my friends.<p>It started a few years ago when sports betting was legalized in my home state and when I was at a bar before Thanksgiving to see some friends, half of them were watching a basketball game involving teams they&#x27;ve never cared about. They showed me that they were betting some wild parlays to hit on this game they had no interest in watching otherwise. They showed me that the apps keep track of your net earnings (I assume this is a legal requirement) and _all_ of them were in the negative between $400 and $800. Keep in mind that these are young men who just graduated college and we were all pretty broke.<p>Flash forward, a lot of them still sports bet regularly with regular losses. I live in a different state now, but a group of my friends around here recently go into going to a casino near by. I was blown away by the justifications on their gambling habits. &quot;I usually win&quot; or &quot;I only gamble what I come in with&quot;, but the latter isn&#x27;t true and I&#x27;ve seen it with my own eyes. I met up with them (not to gamble, but to see a friend), and thirty minutes in one of them was asking the other for $40 so he could &quot;win it all back&quot; at the roulette table.<p>It blows my mind. We know so well that gambling is a losing battle. Some can have fun and call it the price of fun, but it&#x27;s such a slippery slope to find yourself losing way more than you intended.<p>Anecdotally, I notice that the women in my life gamble less.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>psunavy03</author><text>Investing in stocks != gambling. The market is not a casino.</text></comment> |
16,354,059 | 16,353,428 | 1 | 3 | 16,352,654 | train | <story><title>Chrome extension to play Netflix in 1080p</title><url>https://github.com/truedread/netflix-1080p</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>archildress</author><text>Am I the only one who didn&#x27;t realize my Chrome streams weren&#x27;t already in 1080p?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clouddrover</author><text>Netflix should make it clear what the resolution of your current video is. I like to see the detail of the video playback.<p>Like you, I paid for the HD membership assuming that I&#x27;d get 1080p video in Firefox but I subsequently discovered that Firefox is only given a maximum of 720p. I see in this thread there&#x27;s a Firefox version of the extension so I&#x27;ll try that.<p>If I watch Netflix in Safari I get 1080p video and I&#x27;ve been using Safari exclusively for Netflix because of this. Here&#x27;s the Netflix system requirements page where they outline the maximum resolution for each browser:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.netflix.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;node&#x2F;23742" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.netflix.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;node&#x2F;23742</a><p>You can also see the details of your currently playing video by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Alt+D (and press again to dismiss it). It&#x27;d be nicer of Netflix if they made this information accessible via a menu item rather than an obscure keyboard shortcut.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chrome extension to play Netflix in 1080p</title><url>https://github.com/truedread/netflix-1080p</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>archildress</author><text>Am I the only one who didn&#x27;t realize my Chrome streams weren&#x27;t already in 1080p?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rapfaria</author><text>I doubt the majority of users even realize that. But since this is streamed media, does it really matter if it&#x27;s 720p or 1080p in the end? I see artifacts in both versions.<p>All the more reasons to watch Planet Earth on blu-ray.</text></comment> |
25,790,716 | 25,789,896 | 1 | 2 | 25,789,366 | train | <story><title>Life Saving Therapy Inhibition by Phones Containing Magnets</title><url>https://www.heartrhythmjournal.com/article/S1547-5271(20)31227-3/fulltext</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CapriciousCptl</author><text>I&#x27;ll give some context here, since I put magnets on people&#x27;s pacemakers fairly often. Magnets for at least 10 years now is a standard, controlled way to trigger a secondary mode in a pacemaker&#x2F;defibrillator. Almost always, if the device has both pacemaking and defibrillating capability, the magnet will turn off the ICD (although it is possible to program other behaviors). This allows clinicians to easily stop a patient from being defibrillated inappropriately. That sort of thing could happen during malfunction, electrical interference from cautery tools during surgery near the device, or refractory shockable rhythms.<p>If there is no defibrillating capability, magnets usually (although not always) put the device into an asynchronous mode. This presents the (extremely unlikely) risk of something serious, like R-on-T, where an electric pulse could be sent to the heart at exactly the wrong time, leading to a life-threatening arrhythmia. More commonly, it means the heart is less effective at pumping blood but probably still within allowable, if not optimal for long periods of time, output.<p>In both cases, unless the device is programmed strangely, the device resumes normal function when removing the magnet. However, there&#x27;s the theoretical risk of some sort of malfunction-- so when switching modes with a magnet my practice is to refer patients to getting their devices checked out afterwards. Obviously, if something triggered the &quot;magnet mode&quot; surreptitiously, it may not be noticed until some time later, particularly in patients who are not being actively followed by medical care.<p>I didn&#x27;t mention it&#x27;s actually kind of difficult to getting a magent over these things. I generally tape it over the area that the pacemaker is in, but you have to watch for it moving because, well, it&#x27;s hard to stick something on somebody&#x27;s skin. Pacemakers are generally put in the left upper chest, sort of between the nipple and the clavicle. The idea you should have is-- well-- it&#x27;s not easy to trigger this even with a purpose-built magnet in a slightly-higher-then normal breast pocket. But, still possible of course, and the results could be disastrous, particularly in the event of a malfunction.<p>The practice of using magnets is kind of universally and internationally understood by medical practitioners and device manufacturers. Which means, transitioning away could cause some harm just by medical errors. I don&#x27;t think a solution to this is particularly easy, although many devices now get regular interrogations which would show if iPhones actually are triggering the mode switch. Which sort of means, iPhone &quot;interference&quot; could happen but probably isn&#x27;t really happening as far as anyone knows.</text></comment> | <story><title>Life Saving Therapy Inhibition by Phones Containing Magnets</title><url>https://www.heartrhythmjournal.com/article/S1547-5271(20)31227-3/fulltext</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>elric</author><text>It&#x27;s worth noting that almost anything with a magnetic field can interfere with a pacemaker, for instance induction hobs. Given the pervasiveness of, well, magnets (!), it&#x27;s probably worth investing in pacemaker research which takes this into account ...</text></comment> |
12,653,203 | 12,652,783 | 1 | 2 | 12,652,074 | train | <story><title>Why Writers Are the Worst Procrastinators</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/02/why-writers-are-the-worst-procrastinators/283773/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kdamken</author><text>Don&#x27;t worry about what this article talks about. If you&#x27;re a writer, or an artist, or a musician, etc and are having trouble getting things done, the solution is as simple as this:<p>Set a time slot everyday where you will sit down and do nothing but work on creating your art. Doesn&#x27;t matter if it&#x27;s good or bad, your only job is to sit there and create for the whole time period. That&#x27;s the key, is consistently trying to do it.<p>I highly recommend reading the The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, he goes into this a lot more - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;War-Art-Through-Creative-Battles&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1936891026&#x2F;ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;War-Art-Through-Creative-Battles&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1...</a><p>He also talks about the concept of &quot;Resistance&quot;, which is basically a force of nature that&#x27;s works against you getting things done, and that gets stronger the closer you are towards doing work that is meaningful to you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ramblerman</author><text>The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the &quot;quantity&quot; group: fifty pound of pots rated an &quot;A&quot;, forty pounds a &quot;B&quot;, and so on. Those being graded on &quot;quality&quot;, however, needed to produce only one pot -- albeit a perfect one -- to get an &quot;A&quot;. Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the &quot;quantity&quot; group was busily churning out piles of work - and learning from their mistakes -- the &quot;quality&quot; group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.<p>-- From &quot;Art and Fear&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Writers Are the Worst Procrastinators</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/02/why-writers-are-the-worst-procrastinators/283773/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kdamken</author><text>Don&#x27;t worry about what this article talks about. If you&#x27;re a writer, or an artist, or a musician, etc and are having trouble getting things done, the solution is as simple as this:<p>Set a time slot everyday where you will sit down and do nothing but work on creating your art. Doesn&#x27;t matter if it&#x27;s good or bad, your only job is to sit there and create for the whole time period. That&#x27;s the key, is consistently trying to do it.<p>I highly recommend reading the The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, he goes into this a lot more - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;War-Art-Through-Creative-Battles&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1936891026&#x2F;ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;War-Art-Through-Creative-Battles&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1...</a><p>He also talks about the concept of &quot;Resistance&quot;, which is basically a force of nature that&#x27;s works against you getting things done, and that gets stronger the closer you are towards doing work that is meaningful to you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>salemh</author><text>I&#x27;m an amateur writer &#x2F; hobbyist. Having had a decade+ practice of this back-and-forth procrastination with my writing, I&#x27;d add &quot;blank page&quot; to War of Art and your excellent comment.<p>&quot;Blank Page&quot; refers to having a separate notebook, or open document page on your computer, that you write why you don&#x27;t want to write, during your time period.<p>If I don&#x27;t want to write, I write that: &quot;I don&#x27;t feel like writing today. It&#x27;s not going to mean anything, or I&#x27;m bored with the story. Today wasn&#x27;t that good of a day..&quot; etc. Eventually, it dumps the things distracting you, and after five minutes I&#x27;m typically back into writing my actual work.<p>Creative endeavors&#x2F;procrastination has always been interesting to me, as I haven&#x27;t had an issue dumping 90-120 hours into different employers, but have the issue with my own writing.<p>This is also a tool used in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in various forms of use, namely, sleep. If you can&#x27;t sleep at night, sometimes you need to dump everything in your brain on paper (which many times turns into a huge to-do list).</text></comment> |
38,896,882 | 38,763,328 | 1 | 2 | 38,762,065 | train | <story><title>I told the flight attendant "the WiFi isn't working"</title><url>https://twitter.com/erratarob/status/1739132876732674539?s=46&t=FFxXRm_qmWG4nJwsccRUbA</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>I have a work laptop (government) that hates captive portals. It has a security system that won&#x27;t let it connect using the local DNS. So it doesn&#x27;t get captured. Those of us with such laptops all have tricks for getting to a hotel&#x27;s wifi login page using IP addresses. But we have to do it fast, before the security software fully wakes up and blocks the hack.<p>We used to just login on our phones, then tether the work laptop to the phone over USB. The security people caught up to that a couple years ago and disabled USB tethering. So now I alter my laptop&#x27;s MAC to be the same as that from the work laptop. That tricks about 90% of hotel wifi into allowing the work laptop to connect without need of a splash page. But for the other 10%...<p>(Not a joke, I do this) I sometimes login to the hotel wifi on my personal phone, tether that phone to my personal laptop, then setup that laptop as a router. The work computer can then connect to the wifi from the personal laptop, which tethers into the phone, which is on the hotel wifi. All of this just avoid another ridiculous wifi login page.</text></item><item><author>placatedmayhem</author><text>Every time I have to interact with a &quot;captive portal&quot;, I&#x27;m annoyed at the hack implemented through DNS hijacking, rather than implementing and extending 802.1X and&#x2F;or another layer-2 authentication scheme. The idea seems to have been tossed aside entirely. Instead, every device has to have a web browser. There&#x27;s not even a way to do surrogate registration for devices that don&#x27;t have browsers, with Apple TV and Nintendo Switch at launch (added later) being prime examples. IoT and headless gear is also a pain. On trips, I end up bringing my own travel router and using my laptop to auth it by proxy, but it&#x27;s another thing to remember to bring.</text></item><item><author>woodruffw</author><text>This is adjacent to the classic free WiFi hack on airplanes, which is to boot another client off of their DHCP lease by spoofing their MAC.<p>It’s unfortunate that, below HTTPS and a light smattering of WiFi encryption, there’s essentially no authenticity controls on LAN management protocols.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hkchad</author><text>Why not just get a travel router and be done with all the “hacks”. They are so small these days they take up very little space. With mine I get connected to hotel WiFi then all my family devices just connect to it, just like they are at home. I even tunnel all hectic traffic back home though a Tailscale exit node.</text></comment> | <story><title>I told the flight attendant "the WiFi isn't working"</title><url>https://twitter.com/erratarob/status/1739132876732674539?s=46&t=FFxXRm_qmWG4nJwsccRUbA</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>I have a work laptop (government) that hates captive portals. It has a security system that won&#x27;t let it connect using the local DNS. So it doesn&#x27;t get captured. Those of us with such laptops all have tricks for getting to a hotel&#x27;s wifi login page using IP addresses. But we have to do it fast, before the security software fully wakes up and blocks the hack.<p>We used to just login on our phones, then tether the work laptop to the phone over USB. The security people caught up to that a couple years ago and disabled USB tethering. So now I alter my laptop&#x27;s MAC to be the same as that from the work laptop. That tricks about 90% of hotel wifi into allowing the work laptop to connect without need of a splash page. But for the other 10%...<p>(Not a joke, I do this) I sometimes login to the hotel wifi on my personal phone, tether that phone to my personal laptop, then setup that laptop as a router. The work computer can then connect to the wifi from the personal laptop, which tethers into the phone, which is on the hotel wifi. All of this just avoid another ridiculous wifi login page.</text></item><item><author>placatedmayhem</author><text>Every time I have to interact with a &quot;captive portal&quot;, I&#x27;m annoyed at the hack implemented through DNS hijacking, rather than implementing and extending 802.1X and&#x2F;or another layer-2 authentication scheme. The idea seems to have been tossed aside entirely. Instead, every device has to have a web browser. There&#x27;s not even a way to do surrogate registration for devices that don&#x27;t have browsers, with Apple TV and Nintendo Switch at launch (added later) being prime examples. IoT and headless gear is also a pain. On trips, I end up bringing my own travel router and using my laptop to auth it by proxy, but it&#x27;s another thing to remember to bring.</text></item><item><author>woodruffw</author><text>This is adjacent to the classic free WiFi hack on airplanes, which is to boot another client off of their DHCP lease by spoofing their MAC.<p>It’s unfortunate that, below HTTPS and a light smattering of WiFi encryption, there’s essentially no authenticity controls on LAN management protocols.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throw0101b</author><text>&gt; <i>I have a work laptop (government) that hates captive portals. It has a security system that won&#x27;t let it connect using the local DNS.</i><p>Does the OS not pay attention to DHCP option 114:<p><pre><code> This document describes a DHCP option (and a Router Advertisement
(RA) extension) to inform clients that they are behind some sort of
captive-portal device and that they will need to authenticate to get
Internet access. It is not a full solution to address all of the
issues that clients may have with captive portals; it is designed to
be used in larger solutions. The method of authenticating to and
interacting with the captive portal is out of scope for this
document.
</code></pre>
* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datatracker.ietf.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc8910" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datatracker.ietf.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc8910</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;?id=q78sq5rv" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;?id=q78sq5rv</a></text></comment> |
29,147,290 | 29,145,541 | 1 | 2 | 29,142,861 | train | <story><title>Your users will do what you make easy</title><url>https://c3.handmade.network/blog/p/8208-when_making_things_easy_is_bad</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fortysixdegrees</author><text>I find Ruby gives me multiple patterns to solve problems in, each of which feel easy.<p>Even when it becomes evident doing it another way would have been better, usually it is still readable and consise, and quick to develop.<p>My biggest disappointment in this profession is that ruby isn&#x27;t used much more outside of rails. My team use it for everything except low level driver stuff, and it feels like we have this huge unfair advantage over our competitors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>herbst</author><text>&gt; and it feels like we have this huge unfair advantage over our competitors.<p>As one man company I feel you on this. May is subjective, but starting from watching people that spend literally weeks to combine some buggy wordpress plugins to build out a functionality that is essentially just CRUD to folks who build multi server, multi service apps for just a few hundred monthly users. Where we just run a few generators, add a few major gems and can start focus on the fun stuff.</text></comment> | <story><title>Your users will do what you make easy</title><url>https://c3.handmade.network/blog/p/8208-when_making_things_easy_is_bad</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fortysixdegrees</author><text>I find Ruby gives me multiple patterns to solve problems in, each of which feel easy.<p>Even when it becomes evident doing it another way would have been better, usually it is still readable and consise, and quick to develop.<p>My biggest disappointment in this profession is that ruby isn&#x27;t used much more outside of rails. My team use it for everything except low level driver stuff, and it feels like we have this huge unfair advantage over our competitors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Gigachad</author><text>Although rails alone is enough to carry ruby. I think there is likely just not enough reason to use ruby over python in most non web use cases.</text></comment> |
17,102,406 | 17,102,151 | 1 | 2 | 17,086,248 | train | <story><title>Why read old philosophy?</title><url>https://meteuphoric.com/2017/01/04/why-read-old-philosophy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>weichi</author><text>Most of the comments here are completely missing the point of the article.<p>The article is not about whether the ideas espoused by old philosophers are worth learning about, or about whether old philosophers are worth reading. The article asks the question of why philosophers prefer to read the original works of old philosophers, instead of reading descriptions of these ideas by authors who have demonstrated competence is explaining philosophical ideas. Which is the way that education is handled in most (all?) scientific fields.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why read old philosophy?</title><url>https://meteuphoric.com/2017/01/04/why-read-old-philosophy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arca_vorago</author><text>Because too many people these days are the &quot;school is overrated, vocational schools are all we need&quot; types who don&#x27;t understand the basic value of going through the old philosophers... the title is case in point. To me it seems so obvious that there are numerous reasons that it just seems click-baity.<p>You know what they teach at the elite schools (like Eton for example) that most others don&#x27;t? The trivium and quadrivium. Together, they form the seven liberal arts, and are a vital parts of the preperation for reading the old philosophers. More than that though, they are vital parts of having a well rounded education where knowledge at a base level in areas almost always elevates your ability to think well in others.<p>It is also extremely important to be able to go back and see how the old philosophers were right and how they were wrong, but also just to see the amount of wisdom they had. I&#x27;m a constitutionalist myself, so reading Montesquieu for example is a great way to dig into the meat of the underpinnings of the checks and balances system, for example. I hardly see a modern textbook get half as deep as him on the subject...<p>There is still vast amounts of wisdom to be gleaned from the old philosophers, and I highly disagree with the assertion of the author about it being more like poetry than knowledge.</text></comment> |
19,429,362 | 19,428,034 | 1 | 2 | 19,427,332 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Drogon – A C++14/17 based high performance HTTP application framework</title><url>https://github.com/an-tao/drogon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KirinDave</author><text>This is cool, and I like it. Very Haskell like, which is a compliment in my book.<p>But one thing that surprises me is that folks are essentially sleeping on HTTP&#x2F;2. HTTP&#x2F;2 is just a hell of a lot better in most every dimension. It&#x27;s better for handshake latency, it&#x27;s better for bandwidth in most cases, it&#x27;s better for eliminating excess SSL overhead and also, it&#x27;s kinda easier to write client libraries for, because it&#x27;s so much simpler (although the parallel and concurrent nature of connections will challenge a lot of programmers).<p>It&#x27;s not bad to see a new contender in this space, but it&#x27;s surprising that it isn&#x27;t http&#x2F;2 first. Is there a good reason for this? It&#x27;s busted through 90% support on caniuse, so it&#x27;s hard to make an argument that adoption holds it back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HippoBaro</author><text>The reason is that HTTP&#x2F;2 will be short-lived. Most of its potential (protocol multiplexing, mainly) is wasted because it still runs over TCP&#x2F;IP. HTTP&#x2F;3 will correct that with QUIC. I think we can except HTTP&#x2F;3 to really see widespread adoption.
HTTP&#x2F;1.1 will remain ubiquitous though because there&#x27;s a gazillion box that only speaks that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Drogon – A C++14/17 based high performance HTTP application framework</title><url>https://github.com/an-tao/drogon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KirinDave</author><text>This is cool, and I like it. Very Haskell like, which is a compliment in my book.<p>But one thing that surprises me is that folks are essentially sleeping on HTTP&#x2F;2. HTTP&#x2F;2 is just a hell of a lot better in most every dimension. It&#x27;s better for handshake latency, it&#x27;s better for bandwidth in most cases, it&#x27;s better for eliminating excess SSL overhead and also, it&#x27;s kinda easier to write client libraries for, because it&#x27;s so much simpler (although the parallel and concurrent nature of connections will challenge a lot of programmers).<p>It&#x27;s not bad to see a new contender in this space, but it&#x27;s surprising that it isn&#x27;t http&#x2F;2 first. Is there a good reason for this? It&#x27;s busted through 90% support on caniuse, so it&#x27;s hard to make an argument that adoption holds it back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blackflame7000</author><text>One way to get around this is to use HAProxy as a middleman where it can handle HTTP2 concurrent connections on the frontend and then connect to the HTTP1.1 webservers on localhost on the backend so that you don&#x27;t have to pay the big TCP connection latency.</text></comment> |
32,489,299 | 32,489,317 | 1 | 2 | 32,488,308 | train | <story><title>VPNs on iOS are a scam</title><url>https://www.michaelhorowitz.com/VPNs.on.iOS.are.scam.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xoa</author><text>I hope Wireguard makes it into iOS&#x2F;macOS at some point. Still early days relative to other protocols of course but it&#x27;s so much simpler and more reliable (even beyond the security benefits). I use it extensively on both platforms for access to my own networks and services nowadays.</text></item><item><author>kogir</author><text>I think Apple is transparent about Always on VPN (blocking traffic except over the tunnel) requiring provisioning using MDM tools. Apple Configurator is free and allows anyone to set this up.<p>Any other VPN is just best effort.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;guide&#x2F;deployment&#x2F;vpn-overview-depae3d361d0&#x2F;web" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;guide&#x2F;deployment&#x2F;vpn-overview-depa...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KindOne</author><text>It already exists in the App Store. I&#x27;ve been using it since April 28th of this year.<p>ios&#x2F;ipad: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;wireguard&#x2F;id1441195209" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;wireguard&#x2F;id1441195209</a><p>macos: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;wireguard&#x2F;id1451685025" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;wireguard&#x2F;id1451685025</a></text></comment> | <story><title>VPNs on iOS are a scam</title><url>https://www.michaelhorowitz.com/VPNs.on.iOS.are.scam.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xoa</author><text>I hope Wireguard makes it into iOS&#x2F;macOS at some point. Still early days relative to other protocols of course but it&#x27;s so much simpler and more reliable (even beyond the security benefits). I use it extensively on both platforms for access to my own networks and services nowadays.</text></item><item><author>kogir</author><text>I think Apple is transparent about Always on VPN (blocking traffic except over the tunnel) requiring provisioning using MDM tools. Apple Configurator is free and allows anyone to set this up.<p>Any other VPN is just best effort.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;guide&#x2F;deployment&#x2F;vpn-overview-depae3d361d0&#x2F;web" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;guide&#x2F;deployment&#x2F;vpn-overview-depa...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>isatty</author><text>WireGuard is already available on both platforms - or do you mean kernel space WireGuard without an additional app?<p>Fwiw the existing app integrates seamlessly into the apple ecosystem.</text></comment> |
28,687,530 | 28,687,546 | 1 | 3 | 28,686,921 | train | <story><title>Xi Jinping’s War on Spontaneous Order</title><url>https://scholars-stage.org/xi-jinpings-war-on-spontaneous-order/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beebmam</author><text>Paychecks are rising in the US, certainly. Just not very equally.</text></item><item><author>scarmig</author><text>&gt; He has promised Chinese a better life. Growing paychecks aside, the Chinese are not living it.<p>I mean... growing paychecks instead of stagnation would do a whole lot to arrest the instability that Western liberal democracies are experiencing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonelite</author><text>But paychecks have no been outrunning inflation or follow productivity increase at least here in western Europe.<p>My paychecks if lucky grows like 2~3% but my house value rises with like 10~18% so do my taxes I need to pay for owning a house.</text></comment> | <story><title>Xi Jinping’s War on Spontaneous Order</title><url>https://scholars-stage.org/xi-jinpings-war-on-spontaneous-order/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beebmam</author><text>Paychecks are rising in the US, certainly. Just not very equally.</text></item><item><author>scarmig</author><text>&gt; He has promised Chinese a better life. Growing paychecks aside, the Chinese are not living it.<p>I mean... growing paychecks instead of stagnation would do a whole lot to arrest the instability that Western liberal democracies are experiencing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>strict9</author><text>Securities, property, crypto and other related assets are the real rising stars.<p>The rise of paychecks against that backdrop is very small. In the context of everything else that&#x27;s increasing in price, it feels like a wash.</text></comment> |
34,672,648 | 34,672,204 | 1 | 2 | 34,667,970 | train | <story><title>Guinea worm disease reaches all-time low</title><url>https://www.cartercenter.org/news/pr/2023/2022-guinea-worm-worldwide-cases-announcement.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dgrin91</author><text>I still don&#x27;t understand how getting rid of the last human case will resolve the issue. Presumably these crustaceans &amp; worms still exist in the wild? Isn&#x27;t there always a chance for a new flareup to occur?</text></item><item><author>capableweb</author><text>It&#x27;s mentioned that &quot;GWD is spread by drinking water containing Guinea worm larvae&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;parasites&#x2F;guineaworm&#x2F;gen_info&#x2F;faqs.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;parasites&#x2F;guineaworm&#x2F;gen_info&#x2F;faqs.html</a>) but also that &quot;There was no chance for the disease to return after the last human case occurs&quot;, how does that fit together? Are people getting it from drinking from the same infected water sources as others, and by not seeing anyone getting it means there is no more infected water sources?<p>Edit: Apropos nothing, it sounds terrible to get infected:<p>&gt; Guinea worm disease is usually contracted when people consume water contaminated with tiny crustaceans (called copepods) that eat Guinea worm (Dracunculus medinensis) larvae. The larvae develop into adults within the human host. After about a year, a meter-long pregnant female worm emerges slowly through a painful blister in the skin, often of the legs or feet. A sufferer may seek relief by dipping the affected limb in water. However, contact with water stimulates the emerging worm to release its larvae and start the cycle anew.<p>Edit: Which, I think answered my question. Leaving my comment rather than deleting it as maybe others had the same question.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxerickson</author><text>The parasite has a life cycle that passes through several stages.<p>One of the stages involves infecting a mammal (and apparently mostly human) host.<p>If you disrupt that stage, you disrupt the life cycle of the parasite. If you disrupt that stage completely, no parasite continues to the next cycle and after a bit of time there isn&#x27;t any more parasite.</text></comment> | <story><title>Guinea worm disease reaches all-time low</title><url>https://www.cartercenter.org/news/pr/2023/2022-guinea-worm-worldwide-cases-announcement.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dgrin91</author><text>I still don&#x27;t understand how getting rid of the last human case will resolve the issue. Presumably these crustaceans &amp; worms still exist in the wild? Isn&#x27;t there always a chance for a new flareup to occur?</text></item><item><author>capableweb</author><text>It&#x27;s mentioned that &quot;GWD is spread by drinking water containing Guinea worm larvae&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;parasites&#x2F;guineaworm&#x2F;gen_info&#x2F;faqs.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;parasites&#x2F;guineaworm&#x2F;gen_info&#x2F;faqs.html</a>) but also that &quot;There was no chance for the disease to return after the last human case occurs&quot;, how does that fit together? Are people getting it from drinking from the same infected water sources as others, and by not seeing anyone getting it means there is no more infected water sources?<p>Edit: Apropos nothing, it sounds terrible to get infected:<p>&gt; Guinea worm disease is usually contracted when people consume water contaminated with tiny crustaceans (called copepods) that eat Guinea worm (Dracunculus medinensis) larvae. The larvae develop into adults within the human host. After about a year, a meter-long pregnant female worm emerges slowly through a painful blister in the skin, often of the legs or feet. A sufferer may seek relief by dipping the affected limb in water. However, contact with water stimulates the emerging worm to release its larvae and start the cycle anew.<p>Edit: Which, I think answered my question. Leaving my comment rather than deleting it as maybe others had the same question.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jvanderbot</author><text>From wikipedia,<p>&quot;In 2020, Guinea worm was found in 1507 domestic dogs in Chad, 15 in Ethiopia, and eight in Mali, as well as in 61 domestic cats in Chad and three in Ethiopia. Small numbers have also been found in wildcats and baboons.[9] These findings are a potential problem for the eradication program. &quot;<p>Now I&#x27;m making things up, but it may be that eradication from human water sources is enough to break the cycle, if maybe the other mammals in the area are more migratory and cannot provide a consistent reservoir.</text></comment> |
8,426,342 | 8,426,395 | 1 | 2 | 8,426,148 | train | <story><title>Watson Services</title><url>http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/services-catalog.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pesenti</author><text>This is the first batch of APIs that my team - the Watson Developer Cloud team - is exposing through IBM BlueMix for everybody to try and use. We have many more APIs in the pipeline but we decided to come out quickly with a small set to start with. We are trying get some early feedback from the developer community on what they find useful, what they&#x27;d like to see, how the APIs are designed, the quality of the documentation and example code, etc. Comments and questions are very welcome!</text></comment> | <story><title>Watson Services</title><url>http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/services-catalog.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>philbarr</author><text>It seems that to get a true &quot;wow&quot; moment out of this, you would need to use the services in combination, but there is no demo of this. Each demo looks like nothing more than a database search of the training data - no super amazing algorithms supplied.<p>Perhaps IBM could provide an example &quot;wow&quot; moment to inspire us?</text></comment> |
3,284,524 | 3,284,219 | 1 | 2 | 3,283,768 | train | <story><title>Fliers Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why</title><url>http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/disruptions-fliers-must-turn-off-devices-but-its-not-clear-why/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickbilton</author><text>As the author of the piece, I have to disagree with you. First, the F.A.A. never used this as a reason when I spoke with them for my story. Second, if that were the case, then why are people allowed to read books, magazines, and play crossword puzzles on paper? Reading a book on a Kindle will not cause more distraction during an emergency than reading one on paper. Thanks, Nick Bilton.</text></item><item><author>Bud</author><text>There is actually a very logical, sensible reason to have everyone power off and stow their devices during takeoff and landing, and this story disappointingly failed to cover it:<p>By far the most likely time for any accidents or incidents to occur is during takeoffs and landings. If everyone has 15 objects out and is busily typing away, it's going to be tht much more difficult for flight attendants to get everyone's attention to give instructions, and crucially, much much more difficult to evacuate the plane as quickly as possible.<p>This isn't controversial, complex or even hard to figure out. It's the same reason they aren't serving food and drinks at those times, and the same reason you have to stow your carry-ons and put your tray tables up at these times.<p>Disappointing that the Times did not bother to learn this or to write a more informative story.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kamechan</author><text>there was a mythbusters on this. if i recall correctly, though they couldn't find any way to make the plane's instrumentation fail by bombarding it with a myriad of frequencies, even the mythbusters guys (possibly for legal reasons, or because they succumbed to pressure from their network) concluded that because the FAA can't rigorously test every device that comes out, that this is somewhat of a blanket policy to ensure that some new device that nobody has tested will be on during takeoff and cause the plane to crash.<p>this said, i never power off my devices...just put them in airplane mode if they have them, or to sleep. i fly a lot, both domestically and internationally.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fliers Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why</title><url>http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/disruptions-fliers-must-turn-off-devices-but-its-not-clear-why/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickbilton</author><text>As the author of the piece, I have to disagree with you. First, the F.A.A. never used this as a reason when I spoke with them for my story. Second, if that were the case, then why are people allowed to read books, magazines, and play crossword puzzles on paper? Reading a book on a Kindle will not cause more distraction during an emergency than reading one on paper. Thanks, Nick Bilton.</text></item><item><author>Bud</author><text>There is actually a very logical, sensible reason to have everyone power off and stow their devices during takeoff and landing, and this story disappointingly failed to cover it:<p>By far the most likely time for any accidents or incidents to occur is during takeoffs and landings. If everyone has 15 objects out and is busily typing away, it's going to be tht much more difficult for flight attendants to get everyone's attention to give instructions, and crucially, much much more difficult to evacuate the plane as quickly as possible.<p>This isn't controversial, complex or even hard to figure out. It's the same reason they aren't serving food and drinks at those times, and the same reason you have to stow your carry-ons and put your tray tables up at these times.<p>Disappointing that the Times did not bother to learn this or to write a more informative story.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marshray</author><text>When I looked into the topic years ago, ISTR finding a few FAA incident reports that <i>did</i> involve consumer electronics causing harmful interference with cockpit navigation systems. They didn't result in accidents but seemed well documented.<p>Did you come across anything like that?</text></comment> |
14,920,521 | 14,919,997 | 1 | 2 | 14,918,911 | train | <story><title>Mozilla’s Send makes it easy to send a file from one person to another</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/2/16086272/mozilla-send-file-sharing-service-launches</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmlnr</author><text>Remember why we were able to use Skype for this?
<i>Pepperidge farm remembers!</i><p>Joke aside I transfered a lot of files inside instant messengers and they worked quite well. Nearly everyone had at least a yahoo&#x2F;messenger&#x2F;skype&#x2F;icq account, which made this rather simple, and, because nobody had the capacity&#x2F;wasn&#x27;t insterested&#x2F;was actually p2p, it was perfectly fine. A bummer if the modem connection went down or you had to hang up because the family wanted to make a call, but hey, it was glorious. (no, this is not sarcasm, it really did work.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amelius</author><text>I recently tried to send a file to a small group of friends on Facebook. After uploading, it rejected the file because it was a video with a copyrighted song playing in the background.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mozilla’s Send makes it easy to send a file from one person to another</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/2/16086272/mozilla-send-file-sharing-service-launches</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmlnr</author><text>Remember why we were able to use Skype for this?
<i>Pepperidge farm remembers!</i><p>Joke aside I transfered a lot of files inside instant messengers and they worked quite well. Nearly everyone had at least a yahoo&#x2F;messenger&#x2F;skype&#x2F;icq account, which made this rather simple, and, because nobody had the capacity&#x2F;wasn&#x27;t insterested&#x2F;was actually p2p, it was perfectly fine. A bummer if the modem connection went down or you had to hang up because the family wanted to make a call, but hey, it was glorious. (no, this is not sarcasm, it really did work.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kpourdeilami</author><text>Apple mail has this really cool feature that when you email someone a file that is too large, it uploads it to Icloud automatically and then sends that a person a downloadable link from Icloud that expires in 30 days</text></comment> |
33,761,441 | 33,760,314 | 1 | 2 | 33,749,677 | train | <story><title>Cache invalidation really is one of the hardest problems in computer science</title><url>https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2022/11/25/cache-invalidation-really-is-one-of-the-hardest-things-in-computer-science/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eric4smith</author><text>Slightly off topic...<p>Back before my Phoenix&#x2F;Elixir days, we used to have to cache almost everything. Now we don&#x27;t cache anything -- even with more traffic and less servers. Now, the projects I work on are not getting millions of views every day. But they are still important for many customers.<p>We don&#x27;t really design anything that needs to be cached anymore. Just better access patterns and table design as we get wiser.<p>Take Wordpress as an example. There really should not be a need to cache a Wordpress site. But some of the most popular plugins are those that cache. To be fair, I suppose, their legacy non-optimal database design access pattern and code is responsible for this.<p>Just getting something up and aiming for product-market fit is priority #1 and then struggling with caching if it gets popular, at which point, more resources can be thrown at it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cache invalidation really is one of the hardest problems in computer science</title><url>https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2022/11/25/cache-invalidation-really-is-one-of-the-hardest-things-in-computer-science/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dragontamer</author><text>&gt; Cache coherency ensures that the behavior is correct, but every time a cache is invalidated and the same memory has to be retrieved from main memory again, it pays the performance penalty of reading from main memory.<p>1. First no. If any such rereads occur, they will be from the LLC (last-level cache, or L3 cache for Intel&#x2F;AMD CPUs).<p>2. Second no. IIRC, modern caches are snooping and&#x2F;or directory caches. This means that when Core#0 says &quot;I&#x27;m changing cacheline X&quot;, Core#0 knows that Core#1 has it in its L2 (or deeper) caches. So Core#0 will publish the results of that change to Core#1<p>3. The examples they gave are missing read&#x2F;write barriers, which are rather important. #2 will only happen during read&#x2F;write barriers. That is to say: your code is memory-unsafe by default. If order and cache-invalidation matters, you actually need a barrier instruction (!!!) to make sure all these messages are passed to the right place at the right time.<p>---------<p>For better or for worse, modern CPU design is about doing things thread-unsafe by default. If the programmer recognizes a problem may occur, it is the responsibility of the programmer to put the memory barriers in the right place.<p>This is because the CPU is not the only thing that can reorder things... but also the cache system... as well as the compiler. So memory barriers inform the compiler + CPU + cache system when to synchronize.<p>The original Netflix article is more precisely worded.<p>&gt; This consistency is ensured with so-called “cache coherency protocol.”<p>With a link to MESIF (F for Forwarding state, which is one such protocol &#x2F; way to share L1 cache info without going all the way to LLC or DRAM)<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure that GPUs actually invalidate the cache dumbly, without any MESI &#x2F; MESIF (or whatever). GPUs are actually really bad at these kinds of ping-pong operations and synchronization... preferring thread-fences and other synchronization mechanisms instead.<p>------<p>That being said, I think the blogpost is a good introduction to the subject. But note that its a bit imprecise with some of the low level details. I guess its correct for the GPU-world though, so its not completely inaccurate...<p>-----<p>The original Netflix article has an even more difficult problem revolving around Java&#x27;s Superclass cache and how it is affecting &quot;true sharing&quot; of caches. I&#x27;m not very familiar with JVM internals, so I lost track of the discussion at that point.</text></comment> |
13,867,756 | 13,867,068 | 1 | 3 | 13,866,507 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Every Day Is Pi Day</title><url>http://euler.party/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Jaruzel</author><text>For most of us in the world, No Day is Pi Day.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;1r5QpQu" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;1r5QpQu</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Every Day Is Pi Day</title><url>http://euler.party/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>martin-adams</author><text>For the curious, the source code takes a somewhat obvious approach:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;euler.party&#x2F;pi.js" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;euler.party&#x2F;pi.js</a><p>Yep, I think that is literally pi to 6 million decimal places then doing an indexof of the 6 digit year and 6 digit time of day.</text></comment> |
29,678,262 | 29,678,229 | 1 | 3 | 29,673,891 | train | <story><title>Webb flies Ariane 5: watch the launch live on 25 December</title><url>https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_flies_Ariane_5_watch_the_launch_live</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onphonenow</author><text>What I don&#x27;t understand is for $11 billion - can&#x27;t we do 3 $3B space telescopes that work reasonably well? Spread risk? More science?<p>Let&#x27;s say a Falcon 9 launch is $90M. Falcon heavy let&#x27;s say $200M.<p>So you take your 3x $3B. Put $200M&#x2F;instrument into launch, have $2.8B per telescope leftover.<p>There just seems to be something wrong that it costs THIS much to build a telescope.<p>That said, the Thirty Meter Telescope is also a sort of &quot;forever&quot; job, the delays have stretched on and on.<p>I wonder if you did something like bid out and paid just on performance instead of this forever cost reimbursement thing. Right now if you can get onto one of these mega projects, and can stretch it out with delays, it basically can cover your career (ie, 20 year projects).</text></item><item><author>wslack</author><text>I suggest the book &quot;Failure is not an option&quot; by Gene Kranz, an Apollo flight director (played by Ed Harris in Apollo 13). He describes how the primary work of flight controllers in all missions is risk management. You are constantly balancing mission needs, fuel needs, mass needs, temperature needs, and etc etc.<p>I don&#x27;t think that a raw metric of the number of SPOF is the right way to measure the risk of this spacecraft. It&#x27;s a fun term for PR purposes (and emphasizing the risk here) but the actual risk posture is more complex.<p>I imagine that in the course of developing this, they worked out a possible strategy without all of those SPOF - but doing so doesn&#x27;t eliminate the risk, and the impact to mission is likely massive.</text></item><item><author>dimtion</author><text>I do have a question about JWST that I wasn&#x27;t able to find a fine answer in other forums.<p>A lot of people and engineers are saying that the JWST is a marvel of engineering, with truly inovative technical solutions and a giant step up compared to Hubble Telescope. And it does seems like so!<p>However, I&#x27;m always baffled how everyone seems proud that the telescope has something like 200 SPOF during deployment, and if even one of them fails the whole mission could fail.<p>I know that each step has probably been throughoutly tested, and that the acceptable probability of failure of each one of those steps has been deemed acceptable. But I&#x27;m still surprised that people are proudly conflating excellent engineering with a design that has a large number of spofs.<p>In my domain this would be considered as a terrible design (aka &quot;hope is not a strategy&quot;), even given the constraints of mass and volume that such project incur: 200 hundred low probability events, chained, can get in the realm of possible.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine JSWT team doing &quot;bad engineering&quot;, so I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m missing a piece. Is it only PR that underline this aspect? Is JWST as brittle as the news want to make us think? Or are there technical reasons or acceptable failure modes that gives confidence that those steps are not as critical as the news let us people know?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sjburt</author><text>There are many people in NASA and around that have made similar arguments.<p>I think the real reason that they never have a lot of traction, sadly, is that if you propose 3, Congress will give you 2. And then when 2 are over budget, it will get trimmed to one. Better to propose one big mission and get it to the point where it can’t be cut easily.</text></comment> | <story><title>Webb flies Ariane 5: watch the launch live on 25 December</title><url>https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_flies_Ariane_5_watch_the_launch_live</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onphonenow</author><text>What I don&#x27;t understand is for $11 billion - can&#x27;t we do 3 $3B space telescopes that work reasonably well? Spread risk? More science?<p>Let&#x27;s say a Falcon 9 launch is $90M. Falcon heavy let&#x27;s say $200M.<p>So you take your 3x $3B. Put $200M&#x2F;instrument into launch, have $2.8B per telescope leftover.<p>There just seems to be something wrong that it costs THIS much to build a telescope.<p>That said, the Thirty Meter Telescope is also a sort of &quot;forever&quot; job, the delays have stretched on and on.<p>I wonder if you did something like bid out and paid just on performance instead of this forever cost reimbursement thing. Right now if you can get onto one of these mega projects, and can stretch it out with delays, it basically can cover your career (ie, 20 year projects).</text></item><item><author>wslack</author><text>I suggest the book &quot;Failure is not an option&quot; by Gene Kranz, an Apollo flight director (played by Ed Harris in Apollo 13). He describes how the primary work of flight controllers in all missions is risk management. You are constantly balancing mission needs, fuel needs, mass needs, temperature needs, and etc etc.<p>I don&#x27;t think that a raw metric of the number of SPOF is the right way to measure the risk of this spacecraft. It&#x27;s a fun term for PR purposes (and emphasizing the risk here) but the actual risk posture is more complex.<p>I imagine that in the course of developing this, they worked out a possible strategy without all of those SPOF - but doing so doesn&#x27;t eliminate the risk, and the impact to mission is likely massive.</text></item><item><author>dimtion</author><text>I do have a question about JWST that I wasn&#x27;t able to find a fine answer in other forums.<p>A lot of people and engineers are saying that the JWST is a marvel of engineering, with truly inovative technical solutions and a giant step up compared to Hubble Telescope. And it does seems like so!<p>However, I&#x27;m always baffled how everyone seems proud that the telescope has something like 200 SPOF during deployment, and if even one of them fails the whole mission could fail.<p>I know that each step has probably been throughoutly tested, and that the acceptable probability of failure of each one of those steps has been deemed acceptable. But I&#x27;m still surprised that people are proudly conflating excellent engineering with a design that has a large number of spofs.<p>In my domain this would be considered as a terrible design (aka &quot;hope is not a strategy&quot;), even given the constraints of mass and volume that such project incur: 200 hundred low probability events, chained, can get in the realm of possible.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine JSWT team doing &quot;bad engineering&quot;, so I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m missing a piece. Is it only PR that underline this aspect? Is JWST as brittle as the news want to make us think? Or are there technical reasons or acceptable failure modes that gives confidence that those steps are not as critical as the news let us people know?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lamontcg</author><text>JWST is driven by the size of the mirror, the need for an IR instrument and the temperature you need to keep the instrument at to do the observations. Spamming a bunch of hubble-sized instruments up into orbit won&#x27;t accomplish the same thing. And I don&#x27;t think you can do space VLBI in the optical&#x2F;IR or it would have been done already (but I don&#x27;t know why?).<p>It is kind of like asking why 5 Ford Rangers can&#x27;t replace one Lamborghini or something.</text></comment> |
25,192,817 | 25,192,444 | 1 | 2 | 25,186,843 | train | <story><title>Walmart router, others on Amazon, eBay have hidden backdoors to control devices</title><url>https://cybernews.com/security/walmart-exclusive-routers-others-made-in-china-contain-backdoors-to-control-devices/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>syntaxing</author><text>I get uncomfortable how this is probably true with all these smart TVs as well (especially the budget TVs). I set up piHole to try to prevent this but nothing stops it from phoning home via a direct IP. It sucks because all our electronics get poisoned since good brands get squashed out by these low cost alternatives that consumers love at the expense of privacy that no one cares about anymore. Also, another crazy thing is ISP provided routers. I was unable to change the DNS on my modem&#x2F;router, let alone change the security settings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>p1necone</author><text>The fix for this is to just <i>never ever</i> connect your TV to the internet. Devices like the chromecast and game consoles generally have better app support and usability than most smart tvs anyway.<p>It doesn&#x27;t make sense to tie the lifespan of a display to the lifespan of software support when the computing hardware is so ubiquitous outside of the TV anyway.</text></comment> | <story><title>Walmart router, others on Amazon, eBay have hidden backdoors to control devices</title><url>https://cybernews.com/security/walmart-exclusive-routers-others-made-in-china-contain-backdoors-to-control-devices/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>syntaxing</author><text>I get uncomfortable how this is probably true with all these smart TVs as well (especially the budget TVs). I set up piHole to try to prevent this but nothing stops it from phoning home via a direct IP. It sucks because all our electronics get poisoned since good brands get squashed out by these low cost alternatives that consumers love at the expense of privacy that no one cares about anymore. Also, another crazy thing is ISP provided routers. I was unable to change the DNS on my modem&#x2F;router, let alone change the security settings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>api</author><text>I dislike a lot of &quot;smart&quot; devices, but off-brand or no-brand IoT and &quot;smart&quot; things are a hard no. I <i>assume</i> these to basically be spies or malware vectors. Even if they&#x27;re not deliberately malicious I figure there&#x27;s a good chance they are insecure as hell.<p>I tend to go with US-based companies because they would legally be liable for damages, which would in theory mean they&#x27;d be less likely to knowingly ship malware and security disasters.</text></comment> |
19,581,461 | 19,581,577 | 1 | 2 | 19,578,043 | train | <story><title>Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry</title><url>https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/4/18295933/google-cancels-ai-ethics-board</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>redwood</author><text>This is a shameful situation. We need to all wake up and take a step back and realize what&#x27;s happening here: increasingly you can&#x27;t have a conversation about one issue unless you are a hundred percent pure in the eyes of a frankly self-proclaimed judge jury and executioner for 100% of your other views.<p>I am of the left myself but on a meta-level what we&#x27;re doing is essentially making it impossible to ever find middle ground on issues if we&#x27;re unable to talk to folks who we don&#x27;t agree with on 100% of things.<p>This is a dangerous trend for all of us because it makes it impossible find common ground in an open democracy even if half the country in our eyes have essentially deplorable views, we need to recognize that they feel the same about us and then it&#x27;s simply not constructive to be unable to find common ground.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kuzehanka</author><text>You articulated so well what I&#x27;ve been observing.<p>With the widening political divide, we find ourselves in this weird situation where any decision makers are swarmed with moral outrage attacks unless they&#x27;re the bastions of politically correct ideology. An increasing number of topics are taboo because merely opening up a discussion around them summons the moral outrage army. Moral outrage has become most effective social manipulation technique, and morality has long ago stopped playing into the equation.<p>The entire point of ethics discussions is to capture the views of the population in a proportionate manner and try to come to a set of mutually positive outcomes. Bonus points for not stomping on minority views. Instead even on HN we have people claiming that their views are the Correct views and the opposition should not even be given a voice.<p>No matter how disagreeable you may find some particular viewpoint, if it happens to be held by a non negligible number of people and you marginalise them, it will eventually result in tremendous blowback.<p>I don&#x27;t know how we got here, it&#x27;s a bit scary.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry</title><url>https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/4/18295933/google-cancels-ai-ethics-board</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>redwood</author><text>This is a shameful situation. We need to all wake up and take a step back and realize what&#x27;s happening here: increasingly you can&#x27;t have a conversation about one issue unless you are a hundred percent pure in the eyes of a frankly self-proclaimed judge jury and executioner for 100% of your other views.<p>I am of the left myself but on a meta-level what we&#x27;re doing is essentially making it impossible to ever find middle ground on issues if we&#x27;re unable to talk to folks who we don&#x27;t agree with on 100% of things.<p>This is a dangerous trend for all of us because it makes it impossible find common ground in an open democracy even if half the country in our eyes have essentially deplorable views, we need to recognize that they feel the same about us and then it&#x27;s simply not constructive to be unable to find common ground.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jbarciauskas</author><text>This board could have been non-partisan, filled with leading thinkers in the space from academia and industry, and given meaningful access and authority. Google management decided to make it clear the whole thing was a sham by specifying they&#x27;ll work a whole 8 hours a year and inviting someone who was wholly unqualified.<p>There are many reasons to fear for the future of our political discourse but I don&#x27;t think this is one. This was just poorly thought through.</text></comment> |
9,770,906 | 9,769,507 | 1 | 2 | 9,768,902 | train | <story><title>Columbia becomes the first US university to divest from private prison companies</title><url>http://qz.com/434984/columbia-becomes-the-first-us-university-to-divest-from-private-prison-companies/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Blackthorn</author><text>While this is great news, I challenge Columbia to do one better.<p>My own alma mater, Bard College, created a program called the Bard Prison Initiative. This program teaches college courses for college credit to incarcerated prisoners in the state of New York, ultimately awarding either Associates or Bachelors degrees from Bard College. Education for prisoners is important from both a moral and economic perspective, dramatically reducing recidivism as well as saving money (a $1 investment in prison education reduces incarceration costs by $3-$4 in the first three years of an inmate&#x27;s release[1]).<p>This is a great first step but it is not enough to simply not support the prison industry. There are proven steps that can be taken here to reduce recidivism and help society. Despite this, the Bard Prison Initiative is chronically underfunded despite support by governor Cuomo due to politicians not wanting to appear soft on crime. Columbia is a much wealthier university than Bard College, so I challenge them to join Bard in their initiative.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;opa&#x2F;pr&#x2F;justice-and-education-departments-announce-new-research-showing-prison-education-reduces" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;opa&#x2F;pr&#x2F;justice-and-education-departme...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Shivetya</author><text>they would also need to press local legislatures to remove many of the restrictions on felons as to what jobs they may hold let alone which certifications they may attain. many who return to the work force who were in white collar jobs can find their profession is blocked from them, even many blue collar workers will have lost their certifications and not be allowed back into their trades.</text></comment> | <story><title>Columbia becomes the first US university to divest from private prison companies</title><url>http://qz.com/434984/columbia-becomes-the-first-us-university-to-divest-from-private-prison-companies/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Blackthorn</author><text>While this is great news, I challenge Columbia to do one better.<p>My own alma mater, Bard College, created a program called the Bard Prison Initiative. This program teaches college courses for college credit to incarcerated prisoners in the state of New York, ultimately awarding either Associates or Bachelors degrees from Bard College. Education for prisoners is important from both a moral and economic perspective, dramatically reducing recidivism as well as saving money (a $1 investment in prison education reduces incarceration costs by $3-$4 in the first three years of an inmate&#x27;s release[1]).<p>This is a great first step but it is not enough to simply not support the prison industry. There are proven steps that can be taken here to reduce recidivism and help society. Despite this, the Bard Prison Initiative is chronically underfunded despite support by governor Cuomo due to politicians not wanting to appear soft on crime. Columbia is a much wealthier university than Bard College, so I challenge them to join Bard in their initiative.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;opa&#x2F;pr&#x2F;justice-and-education-departments-announce-new-research-showing-prison-education-reduces" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;opa&#x2F;pr&#x2F;justice-and-education-departme...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chimeracoder</author><text>In a way, Columbia already does!<p>Columbia&#x27;s School of General Studies is targeted at students without a high school diploma, students with &quot;nontraditional&quot; backgrounds, and students who have taken more than a year off after high school before going to school. I went to Columbia, and while I wasn&#x27;t in GS, a lot of my friends were.<p>A large number of GS students are veterans[0]. Of the rest, a surprising number are people with, well, backgrounds that typically disqualify a person from an Ivy League education.<p>I can&#x27;t share their stories because they&#x27;re not mine to share, but I had classmates who were caught (and incarcerated for) drug trafficking and other serious-but-nonviolent crimes[1]. I know this because they told me, and they felt comfortable enough in their academic environment sharing this knowledge. To me, that really says something about not only the admissions process, but also the community and support that they receive as students.<p>As a non-GS student, I really appreciated this setup. My education would not have been the same had I not been sitting next to these students in our discussion sections for class, or serving on the boards of student organizations with them. And at the same time, they were able to benefit from the structure of a school that was explicitly tailored to students with nontraditional backgrounds.<p>Columbia could do a lot more to support GS students[3], as well as support incarcerated prisoners who are not students, but this is something they&#x27;ve been doing for decades without any fanfare at all.<p>Columbia also has a very long history of accepting veterans who were discharged for being gay, even long <i>before</i> Don&#x27;t Ask, Don&#x27;t Tell (Stephen Donaldson was a Columbia student before joining the military[4]). IIRC, many of these discharges would have been dishonorable discharges, which in some states carries the same status as being a convicted felon.<p>[0] Partly because Columbia GS is so proactive about recruiting on military bases, and partly because their yellow ribbon matching is so generous.<p>[1] I mention nonviolent crimes because that&#x27;s what (some of) my GS friends shared with me. I don&#x27;t know of any who were convicted of violent crimes, and I don&#x27;t know if this is simply selection bias or if there really weren&#x27;t any.<p>[3] If anyone reading this has $100MM to spare, the General Studies school could benefit greatly from its own endowment to increase access to financial aid!<p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stephen_Donaldson_%28activist%29" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stephen_Donaldson_%28activist%...</a></text></comment> |
5,137,394 | 5,137,235 | 1 | 2 | 5,135,240 | train | <story><title>How the EVE Online Servers Deal with a 3,000 Person Battle</title><url>http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/planning-for-war-how-the-eve-online-servers-deal-with-a-3000-person-battle</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jere</author><text>[Edit: this comment turned out not to really be about Eve and more about the difficulty of real time MMOs]<p>This blows my mind. I've been thinking about writing a small multiplayer game for a few weeks. And today I was actually doing back of the napkin calculations. The thing that quickly became clear is bandwidth is O(n^2) where n is the number of players in the same location, since you have to share the location and velocity of each player with each other player.<p>Here's an example of a calculation I was using. It's the monthly bandwidth in TB of having a certain amount of players in a shared space (3000 in this case), assuming that the location/orientation/velocity of each player's ship is contained in a measly 48 bytes and you attempt 30fps.<p>(48 * 30 * 3000 * 3000 * 3600 * 24 * 30) / 1e12 = 33592 TB = 33 PB<p>THIRTY THREE PETA BYTES to simulate a single battle for a month.<p>I'm looking around at various VPS providers and the bandwidth they offer. Using the naive calculation above and the cheapest Linode offering and it'd take $3 million/month to support a single one of these ongoing battles.<p>Now, I'm sure the numbers above aren't used in reality. Obviously, you can reduce the updates per second... but not by much. You can't shave much off how much you send. It at least gives you a sense of the orders of magnitude required to support such a thing. Even contemplating supporting 100-1000 people at once is looking very difficult for me to pull off.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hythloday</author><text>Hey, I used to be a games networking programmer, and your estimate is pretty good. A few corrections that bring it down to something not entirely unaffordable:<p>* You can bit-pack your structures a lot more efficiently - let's say 2 bytes for a local player ID, 10 bytes for each of velocity/orientation (quaternion represention and heavily quantizing the theta component), and 10 bytes for the location. Clients are never allowed to determine the canonical physics simulation, so all of the above are really just for display purposes, and can be trimmed down as appopriate - we don't need to worry about desyncing (as I'll explain in a bit)<p>* 30 packets-per-second is way too high for network play, with a game of EVE's mechanics you could probably get away with something perhaps as low as 1 pps. Intermediate simulation of the player entities is done by a technique called dead reckoning that's linked earlier (though in practice you'd use a slight improvement on it to stop entities leaping around the world).<p>* Sometimes game mechanics allow you to strongly cut down the number packets you send. For example, in EVE, it might be desirable to not send information about a ship if it's completely occluded by another ship, or to only send information about ships that are in a frontal cone ahead of you. This usually doesn't affect the bandwidth function (though sometimes it does), but you can almost always cut a constant factor of (rule of thumb) 50% off the bill.<p>So that ends up being 32 * 1 * 3000 * 3000 ~= 250MB/s, which looks about right to me. One thing you didn't account for is that you don't typically allow MMO game clients to connect to each other, but to multiplex everything through a server. So it ends up being twice as large as that - 500MB/s.<p>Good luck with your game! 100 interacting players in an MMO is a challenging target but not an unreachable one for a single-developer game, and it's definitely a very interesting project to undertake.</text></comment> | <story><title>How the EVE Online Servers Deal with a 3,000 Person Battle</title><url>http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/planning-for-war-how-the-eve-online-servers-deal-with-a-3000-person-battle</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jere</author><text>[Edit: this comment turned out not to really be about Eve and more about the difficulty of real time MMOs]<p>This blows my mind. I've been thinking about writing a small multiplayer game for a few weeks. And today I was actually doing back of the napkin calculations. The thing that quickly became clear is bandwidth is O(n^2) where n is the number of players in the same location, since you have to share the location and velocity of each player with each other player.<p>Here's an example of a calculation I was using. It's the monthly bandwidth in TB of having a certain amount of players in a shared space (3000 in this case), assuming that the location/orientation/velocity of each player's ship is contained in a measly 48 bytes and you attempt 30fps.<p>(48 * 30 * 3000 * 3000 * 3600 * 24 * 30) / 1e12 = 33592 TB = 33 PB<p>THIRTY THREE PETA BYTES to simulate a single battle for a month.<p>I'm looking around at various VPS providers and the bandwidth they offer. Using the naive calculation above and the cheapest Linode offering and it'd take $3 million/month to support a single one of these ongoing battles.<p>Now, I'm sure the numbers above aren't used in reality. Obviously, you can reduce the updates per second... but not by much. You can't shave much off how much you send. It at least gives you a sense of the orders of magnitude required to support such a thing. Even contemplating supporting 100-1000 people at once is looking very difficult for me to pull off.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EarthLaunch</author><text>I'm a game developer bootstrapping an Erlang-based game server that attempts this.<p>You don't have to send 48 bytes each frame (you can usually send only delta), and 30/sec is only necessary in a reaction-based FPS type of game. Hosting players in a local area, local meaning they can see each other and interact, is n^2. My calculations a year ago came up with a per-minute cost for the amount of AWS hardware it would require to host 1,000 and 10,000 'local' players. Basically, it wouldn't be affordable to have a huge gathering/battle more than a few times a month. It would be VERY expensive. Plus, each player has to have enough download bandwidth.<p>This type of thing will definitely happen in the future. Clustering is still in its infancy, and it's picking up steam. And there are smart optimizations to be made, such as sending more frequent data about nearer players. You can also design around it by not making players usually local to each other even though there is a single seamless game world. I'm doing that.</text></comment> |
6,514,346 | 6,514,250 | 1 | 3 | 6,513,860 | train | <story><title>My embarrassing picture went viral</title><url>http://www.salon.com/2013/10/02/my_embarrassing_picture_went_viral/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marknutter</author><text>&gt; I don’t generally view my body size as positive or negative — it simply is. I eat right (most of the time) and I exercise (an inordinate amount), but it does little, thanks to a struggle with polycystic ovarian syndrome and a failing thyroid gland. I’m strong, I’m flexible and my doctor assures me my health is good, but the fact remains: I’m larger than someone my height should be.<p>I feel for her and the negative comments are reprehensible, but what I hear in this particular paragraph are excuses. Having issues with POS and the thyroid gland do not make it impossible to lose weight, just more difficult. My advice: ignore the haters and come up with a game plan with your doctor to lose the weight in a steady and health way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kyro</author><text>This is one of the more insidiously cruel comments I&#x27;ve seen here.<p>Never mind PCOS, hypothyroidism is a condition that can suck you of your energy, lower your metabolic rate, put you into depression, and much more, all contributing to weight gain. Point is, it can be a vicious cycle that feeds itself.<p>But who gives a damn? Who am I to start judging the accuracy or severity of her diagnoses? What if she made it all up? It doesn&#x27;t matter a damn bit, to me or to you. But at the end of the day, we have no reason to believe she&#x27;s lying.<p>Wording your comment in a more civilized manner does not make it that much less childish than the &quot;yeah, nice excuse, fatty, now go run&quot; that we expect from reddit.</text></comment> | <story><title>My embarrassing picture went viral</title><url>http://www.salon.com/2013/10/02/my_embarrassing_picture_went_viral/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marknutter</author><text>&gt; I don’t generally view my body size as positive or negative — it simply is. I eat right (most of the time) and I exercise (an inordinate amount), but it does little, thanks to a struggle with polycystic ovarian syndrome and a failing thyroid gland. I’m strong, I’m flexible and my doctor assures me my health is good, but the fact remains: I’m larger than someone my height should be.<p>I feel for her and the negative comments are reprehensible, but what I hear in this particular paragraph are excuses. Having issues with POS and the thyroid gland do not make it impossible to lose weight, just more difficult. My advice: ignore the haters and come up with a game plan with your doctor to lose the weight in a steady and health way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>voyou</author><text>If her doctor says her health is good, why should she listen to the &quot;advice&quot; of some random person on the internet?</text></comment> |
9,905,046 | 9,905,170 | 1 | 2 | 9,904,428 | train | <story><title>Tesla’s Model S Gets “Ludicrous” Mode, Will Do 0-60 in 2.8 Seconds</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/17/teslas-model-s-gets-ludicrous-mode-will-do-0-60-in-2-8-seconds</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tthayer</author><text>Agreed. The 2015 Mazda3 we just bought has a horrible info&#x2F;nav system that crashes and frequently stops responding. I&#x27;m guessing the actual chance of it ever being fixed at 0%. Tesla&#x27;s get an automatic OTA update that would fix that kind of thing and it wouldn&#x27;t be something you&#x27;d have to &#x27;deal&#x27; with for the rest of your ownership of the vehicle.</text></item><item><author>stefanobernardi</author><text>Even if not a software update, I still find Tesla&#x27;s way of thinking of a car as an actual (continuously update&#x2F;upgrade-able) product fascinating. Very rare for hardware.<p>It gives an amazing user experience, &quot;Hey restart your car and it&#x27;s now got X and Y&quot;. Respect.<p>Edit: clarifying the term &quot;product&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldpie</author><text>I will never buy a vehicle with both an infotainment system and a steering wheel. Subaru lost a sale of a brand new car when the dealer sat down, turned the key, and the radio showed.... a loading bar.<p>Fuck that. I deal with shitty software enough everywhere else in my life. I&#x27;m not going to put up with that in a 4000lb piece of metal going 70 MPH.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla’s Model S Gets “Ludicrous” Mode, Will Do 0-60 in 2.8 Seconds</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/17/teslas-model-s-gets-ludicrous-mode-will-do-0-60-in-2-8-seconds</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tthayer</author><text>Agreed. The 2015 Mazda3 we just bought has a horrible info&#x2F;nav system that crashes and frequently stops responding. I&#x27;m guessing the actual chance of it ever being fixed at 0%. Tesla&#x27;s get an automatic OTA update that would fix that kind of thing and it wouldn&#x27;t be something you&#x27;d have to &#x27;deal&#x27; with for the rest of your ownership of the vehicle.</text></item><item><author>stefanobernardi</author><text>Even if not a software update, I still find Tesla&#x27;s way of thinking of a car as an actual (continuously update&#x2F;upgrade-able) product fascinating. Very rare for hardware.<p>It gives an amazing user experience, &quot;Hey restart your car and it&#x27;s now got X and Y&quot;. Respect.<p>Edit: clarifying the term &quot;product&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fossuser</author><text>My friend has a Mazda3 and we hacked on it over the weekend to make the infotainment system a little bit better.<p>Check this out: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mazda3hacks.com&#x2F;doku.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mazda3hacks.com&#x2F;doku.php</a><p>You can turn off the annoying restrictions, change the ordering of some menus and drastically reduce the time of the starting confirmation dialogue box. All you need is a USB to Ethernet adaptor.<p>Also make sure to disable watchdog or you can get into a reboot loop that makes it difficult to ssh back in and fix (we almost thought we&#x27;d have to bring it into the dealer, but we were able to get out of it with some script on that forum).</text></comment> |
11,537,191 | 11,536,935 | 1 | 2 | 11,536,543 | train | <story><title>Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhones’ Story Is True</title><url>http://motherboard.vice.com/read/apple-does-not-melt-iphones-into-gold</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>c3534l</author><text>What does it say about the world we live in where blogs do more basic journalism than CNN? All that one would have had to do is read the report actually provided.<p>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m being too extreme when I say that, apart from maybe PBS, there is no reputable source of news in America. If you don&#x27;t believe me, pick a random story, watch it as it gets rewritten a million times through Reuters, then check back on the facts of the story one year later. A news story gets twisted to promote some narrative that will sell papers, and when the facts of the story are finally verified (usually not by the news themselves, but lawyers or courts or whoever), the story is dropped and never reported on again.<p>Again, if the only thing a reporter had to do was read the report to find the facts of the case to verify what is and isn&#x27;t true, what the fuck is even the point of a news agency?</text></comment> | <story><title>Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhones’ Story Is True</title><url>http://motherboard.vice.com/read/apple-does-not-melt-iphones-into-gold</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wklauss</author><text>These kind of stories are useful to understand to what extent the media has turned into an echo chamber. Everybody has to have (or comment on) the same stories than everybody else has, so fast copying (with or without attribution) has become a de-facto practice in every news outlet out there.<p>Good for Motherboard to wait and check. Unfortunately this means we will see this article now in all the outlets that published the previous one with a hand-washing disclaimer (&quot;remember that article SOMEONE ELSE wrote that we talked you about last week, well...&quot;)</text></comment> |
35,251,616 | 35,251,705 | 1 | 2 | 35,250,564 | train | <story><title>The Age of AI has begun</title><url>https://www.gatesnotes.com/The-Age-of-AI-Has-Begun</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>system16</author><text>&gt; In my lifetime, I’ve seen two demonstrations of technology that struck me as revolutionary.<p>&gt; The first time was in 1980, when I was introduced to a graphical user interface<p>&gt; The second big surprise came just last year. I’d been meeting with the team from OpenAI<p>I guess it&#x27;s not surprising since Microsoft was late to the game with IE, but it&#x27;s interesting he never mentions &quot;the internet&quot; in this list.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>capableweb</author><text>Maybe he doesn&#x27;t mention it because he didn&#x27;t think it was revolutionary when it first appeared.<p>From <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;1997&#x2F;03&#x2F;14&#x2F;news&#x2F;skeptics-cite-overload-of-useless-information-internet-arrives-at-a.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;1997&#x2F;03&#x2F;14&#x2F;news&#x2F;skeptics-cite-overlo...</a> (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;r4F8T" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;r4F8T</a>)<p>&gt; Even Bill Gates, the founder and chairman of Microsoft Corp. and widely regarded as the crown prince of the World Wide Web, was taken unawares by the Internet&#x27;s grassroots acceptance.<p>&gt; In his book, &quot;The Road Ahead&quot; (not available on-line), Mr. Gates admitted that he believed the technology for &quot;killer applications&quot; was inadequate to lure consumers to the Internet.<p>Of course, like any smart person at the time, he changed his views as the internet became more popular and eventually mainstream.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Age of AI has begun</title><url>https://www.gatesnotes.com/The-Age-of-AI-Has-Begun</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>system16</author><text>&gt; In my lifetime, I’ve seen two demonstrations of technology that struck me as revolutionary.<p>&gt; The first time was in 1980, when I was introduced to a graphical user interface<p>&gt; The second big surprise came just last year. I’d been meeting with the team from OpenAI<p>I guess it&#x27;s not surprising since Microsoft was late to the game with IE, but it&#x27;s interesting he never mentions &quot;the internet&quot; in this list.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>The internet never had its &quot;aha&quot; moment like AI is now. Most people didn&#x27;t know or care about it until <i>decades</i> into its existence.</text></comment> |
12,453,148 | 12,451,142 | 1 | 2 | 12,450,962 | train | <story><title>Nintendo Soars as Super Mario Mobile Game Comes to the iPhone</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-07/nintendo-soars-as-super-mario-mobile-game-comes-to-the-iphone</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Kronopath</author><text>There&#x27;s a common fallacy that happens frequently when Silicon Valley technologists start talking about Nintendo, and that is the idea that &quot;their hardware can never compete with the ubiquity of mobile platforms, they should just become a software company and port their games to iOS and Android!&quot;<p>The success of Pokémon Go, and this new Mario game as well, is showing that Nintendo is taking a different strategy: they&#x27;re creating custom-made mobile games for the purposes of driving attention and vigor to the main games on their hardware platforms. You can see this with Pokémon: the success of Pokémon Go has been driving sales of the 3DS and the currently-released Pokémon games, and will surely help bolster the hype for the next-generation games that are due out later this year. As far as strategy goes, these mobile games are more similar to the TV shows and movies Nintendo makes than the DS games they came from.<p>I think this is a good strategy for them. An iPhone or Android will never be as tailor-made for gaming as the Gameboy or DS were, so it&#x27;s good to see Nintendo sticking to their principles.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nintendo Soars as Super Mario Mobile Game Comes to the iPhone</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-07/nintendo-soars-as-super-mario-mobile-game-comes-to-the-iphone</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Fraterkes</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen a lot of people saying that Nintendo were kinda dumb for taking so long to capitalize on the incredible brand recognition of mario and pokemon, and looking at the money pokemon go is making, I don&#x27;t disagree. But I think that the reason a lot of non-nerds cared so much about pokemon go is that pokemon still meant the same thing to them as it did 10 years ago. So the reason that those brands are still such a big deal to people may be because Nintendo has used them relatively conservatively.</text></comment> |
3,521,340 | 3,520,505 | 1 | 2 | 3,518,559 | train | <story><title>How Much Is an Astronaut's Life Worth?</title><url>http://reason.com/archives/2012/01/26/how-much-is-an-astronauts-life-worth</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drblast</author><text>What's the point? It's not going to occur in a reasonable amount of time, and if you say, "Well, eventually it will..." then eventually everything that exists will cease to exist anyway.<p>Why not focus on things that are problems now?</text></item><item><author>arctangent</author><text>&#62; Human space travel is a waste of money from a scientific standpoint.<p>It's hard to weigh up the relative merits of spending money on human space travel now over spending (perhaps less) money a few tens or hundred years from now to achieve the same effect.<p>But if mankind doesn't eventually colonise other planets then we're almost certainly going to be wiped out by a big rock hitting our planet and killing every last one of us.<p>By the time we spot such a killer rock it would probably be far too late to start thinking about how we might go about travelling in space. We need the ability now, just in case.</text></item><item><author>VMG</author><text>It amazes me that on a tech site you are getting downvotes for this.<p>Human space travel <i>is</i> a waste of money from a scientific standpoint. Why a libertarian magazine like reason.com supports <i>human</i> space travel at all is a mystery to me.</text></item><item><author>jordanb</author><text>NASA <i>is</i> a political organization, but that's why the manned space program exists. It long ago ceased to make sense from a cost/scientific-benefit perspective. Manned flight continues only on the argument that it excites the public and fuels interest in space.<p>Bearing that in mind, the entire thing is showboating on TV, and it's pretty silly to angst if over this, that, or the other bit of it is compromised by politics.</text></item><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>This is about 25 years too late, but good.<p>The problem here is that NASA is a political agency, not a scientific one. Each year, elected politicians sit down and decide how much they're going to get.<p>This means the number one rule is <i>don't make us look bad.</i> You can't waste too much money, you can't go making a bunch of controversial statements, and good grief, whatever you do don't have astronauts getting exploded on TV.<p>The analogy with the mission-centric military was a good one. Unfortunately, as we involve the U.S. military in more and more missions that look highly political, we're going to end up with a badly broken military, for exactly the same reasons.<p>NASA should have but one mission: lower cost to orbit. If they can reach a 1000-fold reduction in cost to low-earth orbit, a lot of scientific research, exploration, and commercialization can take place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>verroq</author><text>Your argument can be further extended as "what's the point of living when eventually everything will cease to exist anyway".<p>But ultimately, it's these small wins along the way that help push humanity forward. I'm not going to open the "what's the purpose of life" can of worms but to dismiss scientific research because of how long it will take is a defeatist attitude. You can not predict what fruits will a particular scientific research will be bring just as you cannot predict the future.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Much Is an Astronaut's Life Worth?</title><url>http://reason.com/archives/2012/01/26/how-much-is-an-astronauts-life-worth</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drblast</author><text>What's the point? It's not going to occur in a reasonable amount of time, and if you say, "Well, eventually it will..." then eventually everything that exists will cease to exist anyway.<p>Why not focus on things that are problems now?</text></item><item><author>arctangent</author><text>&#62; Human space travel is a waste of money from a scientific standpoint.<p>It's hard to weigh up the relative merits of spending money on human space travel now over spending (perhaps less) money a few tens or hundred years from now to achieve the same effect.<p>But if mankind doesn't eventually colonise other planets then we're almost certainly going to be wiped out by a big rock hitting our planet and killing every last one of us.<p>By the time we spot such a killer rock it would probably be far too late to start thinking about how we might go about travelling in space. We need the ability now, just in case.</text></item><item><author>VMG</author><text>It amazes me that on a tech site you are getting downvotes for this.<p>Human space travel <i>is</i> a waste of money from a scientific standpoint. Why a libertarian magazine like reason.com supports <i>human</i> space travel at all is a mystery to me.</text></item><item><author>jordanb</author><text>NASA <i>is</i> a political organization, but that's why the manned space program exists. It long ago ceased to make sense from a cost/scientific-benefit perspective. Manned flight continues only on the argument that it excites the public and fuels interest in space.<p>Bearing that in mind, the entire thing is showboating on TV, and it's pretty silly to angst if over this, that, or the other bit of it is compromised by politics.</text></item><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>This is about 25 years too late, but good.<p>The problem here is that NASA is a political agency, not a scientific one. Each year, elected politicians sit down and decide how much they're going to get.<p>This means the number one rule is <i>don't make us look bad.</i> You can't waste too much money, you can't go making a bunch of controversial statements, and good grief, whatever you do don't have astronauts getting exploded on TV.<p>The analogy with the mission-centric military was a good one. Unfortunately, as we involve the U.S. military in more and more missions that look highly political, we're going to end up with a badly broken military, for exactly the same reasons.<p>NASA should have but one mission: lower cost to orbit. If they can reach a 1000-fold reduction in cost to low-earth orbit, a lot of scientific research, exploration, and commercialization can take place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arctangent</author><text>The point is that we don't know exactly when an unpreventable extinction-level event will happen. It makes sense to plan for such an event as early as possible.</text></comment> |
5,065,527 | 5,065,560 | 1 | 2 | 5,065,156 | train | <story><title>MIT Closet Allegedly Used by Aaron Swartz</title><url>http://cryptome.org/2013/01/swartz/mit-closet-swartz.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gregholmberg</author><text>When I clicked on the link, I expected to see an unlocked closet primarily used to store mops, floor wax and boxes of copier paper.<p>Instead, I saw a small carpeted room containing a half-full rack of telecom gear, featuring several Ethernet switches providing 100 or so switchports for end users, punchdown blocks for terminating phone service to a similar number of incoming lines, and a small number of switchports on what looks like an administratively privileged network via a second smaller switch.<p>The list price of the larger Cisco with all three power supplies and several 24-port GigE cards was at least $15,000 the last time I had to buy one.<p>The fiber uplinks to other rooms (provisioned like this one, or better, typically one per wing on each floor of a large building) are likely to carry some very interesting traffic -- not just between end users and their preferred servers, but between the large switches themselves, possibly even routing outbound traffic for the "administrative" switch, as well.<p>I sometimes use separate "control plane" switched media to access "remote power strips". These allow an admin to remain seated at a desk while rebooting machines all over the campus.<p>Allowing unrestricted access to a storage closet containing that much gear (uninstalled) is irresponsible. Theft is likely.<p>Allowing unrestricted access to a wiring closet containing that much gear (provisioned, configured, and running in production mode) is a hilarious wtf. The imagination soars ...<p>Allowing unrestricted physical access to any administrative switch that carries traffic for power-cycling campus equipment on and off remotely is a fairly serious oversight, and not in the least bit hilarious.<p>edit: It looks like the photos show two different rooms. The wiring closet itself has a bare concrete floor.</text></comment> | <story><title>MIT Closet Allegedly Used by Aaron Swartz</title><url>http://cryptome.org/2013/01/swartz/mit-closet-swartz.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alaskamiller</author><text>Aaron's impact has been rippling through the internets lately and that's awe inspiring but we're slowly marching into morbid reality porn. Nancy Grace does this exact "thing" for a living. Tread lightly.</text></comment> |
2,765,300 | 2,762,733 | 1 | 3 | 2,762,522 | train | <story><title>How Stuxnet was deciphered</title><url>http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/how-digital-detectives-deciphered-stuxnet/all/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>landhar</author><text>"On June 17, 2010, Sergey Ulasen was in his office in Belarus sifting through e-mail when a report caught his eye. A computer belonging to a customer in Iran was caught in a reboot loop — shutting down and restarting repeatedly despite efforts by operators to take control of it. It appeared the machine was infected with a virus."<p>I am curious as to what in Stuxnet code and/or the client computer caused this. From the rest of the article, Stuxnet went to great lengths to stay undetected. Anyone has clues ?</text></comment> | <story><title>How Stuxnet was deciphered</title><url>http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/how-digital-detectives-deciphered-stuxnet/all/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sambeau</author><text>As software now sits between pedal and brake and cars are beginning to be increasingly connected should we expect to see more assassinations performed this way?<p>Google now has a fully-functional driverless car and at least one US state has approved their use on the road.<p>Who needs polonium when you can send a virus out to seek a car?</text></comment> |
10,796,030 | 10,796,035 | 1 | 2 | 10,795,344 | train | <story><title>Am I hacked? Oh, it's just Vodafone</title><url>http://www.sphaero.org/blog:2012:0418_am_i_hacked_oh_it_s_just_vodafone</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>compbio</author><text>Visit <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;1.2.3.50" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;1.2.3.50</a> to disable this image compression for your device.<p>Add &quot;Cache-Control: no-transform&quot; to your headers to disable image compression for all your site&#x27;s visitors.<p>Web devs should make sites that work without javascript, so that turning on NoScript is also a solution.<p>The bmi.js injection may look a bit nasty, but it is there to save bandwidth for users who are on a bandwidth budget. Vodafone would profit from higher bandwidth usage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>viraptor</author><text>What you say is technically true, but for a user it&#x27;s complete BS:<p>- As a developer I looked for a way to disable this system - maybe something changed, but ~5 years ago I couldn&#x27;t find any information about the 1.2.3.50 address and support told me it&#x27;s not possible.<p>- Unless you&#x27;re running a site that&#x27;s professionally based on image distribution, you&#x27;re unlikely to know no-transform exists.<p>- NoScript can block the bmi script specifically, not everything. Vodafone doing MITM shouldn&#x27;t concern webdevs.<p>- The injection does not look nasty. It is nasty - you get no easy switch for it and cannot decide for yourself what behaviour you want. If you really want bandwidth saving, use opera mini - it&#x27;s available for all phones now.<p>Sorry for being harsh, but I don&#x27;t see how Vodafone&#x27;s MITM can be defended in any way.</text></comment> | <story><title>Am I hacked? Oh, it's just Vodafone</title><url>http://www.sphaero.org/blog:2012:0418_am_i_hacked_oh_it_s_just_vodafone</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>compbio</author><text>Visit <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;1.2.3.50" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;1.2.3.50</a> to disable this image compression for your device.<p>Add &quot;Cache-Control: no-transform&quot; to your headers to disable image compression for all your site&#x27;s visitors.<p>Web devs should make sites that work without javascript, so that turning on NoScript is also a solution.<p>The bmi.js injection may look a bit nasty, but it is there to save bandwidth for users who are on a bandwidth budget. Vodafone would profit from higher bandwidth usage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aaron695</author><text>&gt; Web devs should make sites that work without javascript, so that turning on NoScript is also a solution.<p>Sorry but this is a ridiculous statement, it&#x27;s like saying websites should still be able to run on Gopher. (Which some people want)<p>It&#x27;s cool if you want to run NoScript but if you think website should&#x2F;would be made around that you have cognitive dissonance.<p>Other than that, informative comment.</text></comment> |
8,960,377 | 8,960,328 | 1 | 3 | 8,958,867 | train | <story><title>C Runtime Overhead</title><url>http://ryanhileman.info/posts/lib43</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>justincormack</author><text>Static linking to Musl libc is pretty minimal, not sure you really need assembly<p>strace -tt &#x2F;tmp&#x2F;test<p>15:38:33.245549 execve(&quot;&#x2F;tmp&#x2F;test&quot;, [&quot;&#x2F;tmp&#x2F;test&quot;], [&#x2F;* 16 vars *&#x2F;]) = 0<p>15:38:33.246436 arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_FS, 0x601070) = 0<p>15:38:33.246617 set_tid_address(0x6010a0) = 17227<p>15:38:33.246875 exit_group(0) = ?<p>15:38:33.247060 +++ exited with 0 +++</text></comment> | <story><title>C Runtime Overhead</title><url>http://ryanhileman.info/posts/lib43</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eloff</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to note that Go doesn&#x27;t depend on libc. However, I rather doubt the Go runtime bootstraps any faster than libc, so it probably wouldn&#x27;t help here. One consequence is that Linux and libc are tightly coupled and some of the &quot;syscall&quot; behavior you depend on is actually implemented as a wrapper in libc. This has caused some behavioral differences between Go and C that have surprised the language developers.</text></comment> |
3,651,162 | 3,651,115 | 1 | 2 | 3,650,984 | train | <story><title>Save My House From Apple</title><url>http://savemyhousefromapple.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petercooper</author><text>This is the same Apple that plans for GateKeeper to check a certificate server for blacklisted apps and developers in OS X 10.8.<p>Imagine not even being in the App Store and your app's mainstream customers with default settings seeing a scary warning message because your certificate was accidentally blacklisted. Coming to the HN front page later this year..? :-)<p>Orienting your business around the ecosystem of a corporation with an itchy trigger finger is a tricky game of dice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robomartin</author><text>This isn't just an Apple problem. There's a disturbing trend here. All of the dominant internet companies exhibit this kind of nonsensical "evil" behavior: Google, eBay, Apple and Paypal, to name the most salient examples.<p>Way back when, Microsoft was openly painted by Apple (and the Apple cult followers) as being evil. Interestingly enough, Microsoft never sought to have this kind of a death grip on its users, at least not by force. And, I've never heard of MS killing-off someone's revenue stream like that. You buy their tools and develop for the platform. They don't have a say at all. That's the way it should be.<p>Somehow a united front needs to be organized and presented to these companies in order for them to understand that they are causing serious damage.<p>To say that, as entrepreneurs, businessmen and developers we don't want to see the tech landscape develop and evolve in this manner is probably an understatement.<p>I wonder if CNBC might be interested in doing a documentary on the damage to small businesses and entrepreneurs done by the likes of Google, Apple, eBay and Paypal? That could be an interesting angle.</text></comment> | <story><title>Save My House From Apple</title><url>http://savemyhousefromapple.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petercooper</author><text>This is the same Apple that plans for GateKeeper to check a certificate server for blacklisted apps and developers in OS X 10.8.<p>Imagine not even being in the App Store and your app's mainstream customers with default settings seeing a scary warning message because your certificate was accidentally blacklisted. Coming to the HN front page later this year..? :-)<p>Orienting your business around the ecosystem of a corporation with an itchy trigger finger is a tricky game of dice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nkassis</author><text>I can imagine a situation where a 20 dev shop gets closed because of something like this and they can't make payroll. There are lot of people here basing their company on an App in the app store. I'd be terrified.</text></comment> |
25,525,894 | 25,525,520 | 1 | 2 | 25,525,400 | train | <story><title>Covid: France rewards frontline immigrant workers with citizenship</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55423257</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thefz</author><text>Reminds me of that case, in France too, in which a Malian immigrant has been offered citizenship and a job as a firefighter after he risked his life climbing a building to save a kid: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-france-hero&#x2F;france-offers-citizenship-to-malian-immigrant-who-scaled-building-to-save-child-idUSKCN1IS0UF" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-france-hero&#x2F;france-offers...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Covid: France rewards frontline immigrant workers with citizenship</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55423257</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bawolff</author><text>Service garuntees citizenship! Would you like to know more?<p>Jokes aside, seems reasonable enough to grant citizenship for those who have performed exceptional civic duty.</text></comment> |
20,112,128 | 20,112,220 | 1 | 2 | 20,110,530 | train | <story><title>Why Linked Lists Are an Interview Staple</title><url>https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/962424365819277312</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cortesoft</author><text>I can&#x27;t read the link, because twitter links never work on my phone... always &#x27;something went wrong&#x27; and saying I am rate limited.</text></item><item><author>umanwizard</author><text>Very interesting thread -- if you&#x27;re the type of person who comes to the comments before deciding whether to read, I recommend it.<p>I&#x27;d also like to point out that today in 2019, linked lists perform like absolute dog shit in many real-world contexts even where they have the best big-O notation.<p>Somebody jumping straight to a solution based on linked lists without at least mentioning memory latency is a sure-fire sign that they have never done detailed CPU performance work. (Which is not necessarily a requirement for most programmers, but it&#x27;s one piece of signal among others).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saagarjha</author><text>As far as I can tell, this is some sort of thing that Twitter does to Safari users because it can&#x27;t fingerprint them well and thinks it might be abuse.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Linked Lists Are an Interview Staple</title><url>https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/962424365819277312</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cortesoft</author><text>I can&#x27;t read the link, because twitter links never work on my phone... always &#x27;something went wrong&#x27; and saying I am rate limited.</text></item><item><author>umanwizard</author><text>Very interesting thread -- if you&#x27;re the type of person who comes to the comments before deciding whether to read, I recommend it.<p>I&#x27;d also like to point out that today in 2019, linked lists perform like absolute dog shit in many real-world contexts even where they have the best big-O notation.<p>Somebody jumping straight to a solution based on linked lists without at least mentioning memory latency is a sure-fire sign that they have never done detailed CPU performance work. (Which is not necessarily a requirement for most programmers, but it&#x27;s one piece of signal among others).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grey-area</author><text>Based on referrer I think. Links from big sites like reddit or hn are often rate limited. Reloading the page wipes referrer and fixes it.</text></comment> |
7,659,961 | 7,659,551 | 1 | 2 | 7,659,251 | train | <story><title>Uncle Bob on DHH: Monogamous TDD</title><url>http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2014/04/25/MonogamousTDD.html?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>angrybits</author><text>The first half-dozen of those paragraphs were just him saying words, none of them really had anything to do with the subject at hand. Kind of like a very poor attempt at strawman arguments. &quot;DHH accused us of being violent extremists burninating the countryside! I have not heard of any of that happening so it must be him using pejoratives.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orblivion</author><text>I think there&#x27;s an important, unspoken point he was rebutting. When DHH uses the word fundamentalist, it conjures a vauge notion in our mind. &quot;oh, I get it those TDD people are just a cult. I&#x27;m sure they&#x27;re just going to predictably respond to this with their closed minded mentality.&quot; I&#x27;ll admit this is somewhat how I felt when reading DHH&#x27;s article. This sort of intro breaks down that expectation in the reader.<p>It&#x27;s not just about meaning of the words, it affects the reader&#x27;s biases. Basically, it&#x27;s countering one rhetorical tactic with another.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uncle Bob on DHH: Monogamous TDD</title><url>http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2014/04/25/MonogamousTDD.html?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>angrybits</author><text>The first half-dozen of those paragraphs were just him saying words, none of them really had anything to do with the subject at hand. Kind of like a very poor attempt at strawman arguments. &quot;DHH accused us of being violent extremists burninating the countryside! I have not heard of any of that happening so it must be him using pejoratives.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mabbo</author><text>I&#x27;m not quite sure what the name of the fallacy is, but I&#x27;ve seen this &quot;technique&quot; used often before. Make a lot of noise about the specific word or words being used, rather than arguing a valid counter-argument yourself.<p>If the author had left out the first 8 or so paragraphs, this might have been worth reading and sharing. As it stands? I don&#x27;t see why it&#x27;s nearing the top of the front page.</text></comment> |
30,843,204 | 30,840,373 | 1 | 3 | 30,838,572 | train | <story><title>Justice Stevens reads the fine print</title><url>https://matthewbutterick.com/chron/justice-stevens-reads-the-fine-print.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krageon</author><text>&gt; Cooks with experience in commercial kitchens never want to eat at a restaurant again.<p>Having done such work, this is absolutely untrue. I got a renewed appreciation for the hard work kitchen staff put in and the stringent requirements on cleanliness that kitchen staff has. I suppose this will change based on the country you are in, if you are in a country with bad sanitary checking you will have a bad time.</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>Related to the opening of this article – it is interesting to see how one can get completely soured on certain products or experiences because, by virtue of their profession, they see the dirty underbelly of how things in that industry actually work.<p>Someone who has read cruise contracts in detail will never want to go on one. Cooks with experience in commercial kitchens never want to eat at a restaurant again. Someone who is familiar with standards of bridge inspections in most towns hesitates every time they drive over one. A computer security expert keeps their most valuable information under lock and key in a physical safe rather than online.<p>My conclusion ultimately is – <i>everything</i> is running on goodwill and duct tape, and ignorance is bliss.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amalcon</author><text>It varies a lot. Quite a long time ago, I worked at a pizza place in a regional chain. <i>That</i> location was kept quite clean, as were most of them. However, sometimes they&#x27;d give us the chance to pick up a shift at another location if they couldn&#x27;t arrange one of their own employees on that day (usually because they called in sick). One such location was absolutely <i>filthy</i>. That location was since closed (grapevine says the chain fired the GM and couldn&#x27;t find anyone to replace them).<p>What helps is that there are signs of this sort of thing, if you know what to look for. E.g you should prefer places where you can see into the kitchen (which is most of them these days), places where the customer service workers tuck in their shirts, and places that keep their bathrooms and parking lots clean. Places where police and EMS folks eat <i>really</i> tend to be good bets (they usually also get a discount, but lots of places offer such discounts).</text></comment> | <story><title>Justice Stevens reads the fine print</title><url>https://matthewbutterick.com/chron/justice-stevens-reads-the-fine-print.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krageon</author><text>&gt; Cooks with experience in commercial kitchens never want to eat at a restaurant again.<p>Having done such work, this is absolutely untrue. I got a renewed appreciation for the hard work kitchen staff put in and the stringent requirements on cleanliness that kitchen staff has. I suppose this will change based on the country you are in, if you are in a country with bad sanitary checking you will have a bad time.</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>Related to the opening of this article – it is interesting to see how one can get completely soured on certain products or experiences because, by virtue of their profession, they see the dirty underbelly of how things in that industry actually work.<p>Someone who has read cruise contracts in detail will never want to go on one. Cooks with experience in commercial kitchens never want to eat at a restaurant again. Someone who is familiar with standards of bridge inspections in most towns hesitates every time they drive over one. A computer security expert keeps their most valuable information under lock and key in a physical safe rather than online.<p>My conclusion ultimately is – <i>everything</i> is running on goodwill and duct tape, and ignorance is bliss.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandos</author><text>Totally agree, though it seems differ quite a bit between different kinds of kitchens here in Sweden. Producing stuff sold in stores means super-stringent checks where for example you have to swap your clothes before entering and exiting the area where you prepare the foodstuff. Now school kitchens on the other hand... sure they are checked but not at all with the same strictness it seems.</text></comment> |
10,492,861 | 10,493,140 | 1 | 3 | 10,492,163 | train | <story><title>IntelliJ IDEA 15 Released, Adds Kotlin to the Family of Supported JVM Languages</title><url>http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2015/11/intellij-idea-15-released-adds-kotlin-to-the-family-of-supported-jvm-languages/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mark_l_watson</author><text>I just updated to version 15.<p>A little off topic: even though my IntelliJ license is paid up for another month, I just signed up for the complete toolbox. Seems like a really good deal and I am happy enough with the revised license.<p>I am a polyglot programmer so also having the professional versions of RubyMine, PyCharm, and WebStorm is great. (BTW, IntelliJ is also my dev environment for Clojure and Haskell)<p>For many years JetBrains gave me complementary licenses (because of all the Java books I have written) but for the last few years I have happily paid them. I basically &#x27;live&#x27; in IntelliJ.</text></comment> | <story><title>IntelliJ IDEA 15 Released, Adds Kotlin to the Family of Supported JVM Languages</title><url>http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2015/11/intellij-idea-15-released-adds-kotlin-to-the-family-of-supported-jvm-languages/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jkot</author><text>It has improved battery consumption a lot. They reworked some repainting bugs and now it uses less CPU while editing.</text></comment> |
35,494,222 | 35,493,251 | 1 | 2 | 35,492,672 | train | <story><title>Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk</title><url>https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/08/late-stage-sea-monkeys/#jeremys-razors</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spicyjpeg</author><text>I consider this phenomenon part of what I like to call the &quot;Amazon syndrome&quot;, even though Amazon is far from being the only culprit. As China started flooding the rest of the world with cheap but decent products mass-produced in a random factory in Shenzhen, people turned away from brands they used to trust and towards no-name options from the likes of &quot;Kxbnheb&quot; or &quot;Ypknwoj&quot; in order to save a buck. Eventually the big brands themselves had to lower the quality of their products to be able to compete with the generic products, which benefit greatly from economies of scale by virtue of being manufactured by multiple companies in massive quantities.<p>Meanwhile, targeted ads deployed at a large scale with flexible pricing models made it possible for not-so-reputable outfits to get their name in front of millions of people&#x27;s eyes. While only huge companies with a good track record could get past the ad vetting team of a newspaper or TV channel, anybody and their dog can start a Facebook ad campaign for almost no money and then keep paying as the number of impressions scales up. If on one hand this democratized prestigious ad spots that used to be available exclusively to brands everyone already knows, on the other hand it also allowed random dropshipper nobodies to establish a presence as a &quot;niche shop&quot; of some sort and then end up selling you rebranded Chinese no-name products you might as well have bought directly from AliExpress for half the price with free shipping (or straight up scamming you).<p>As much as the HN bubble likes to see a level playing field where all companies are treated equally, I think it&#x27;s good to have gatekeepers in the advertising industry. But, I get it, the tech giants are all about quantity-over-quality and Facebook&#x27;s ad revenue would drop to basically nothing (by their standards) if they started vetting each ad campaign manually, so here we are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>figassis</author><text>It’s not true that established brands made cheaper products to compete. Their prices remained the same or got higher, but quality still suffered. It’s just greed, no complex reasoning required. I recently bought a gym bag from Nike. Feels super cheap, like I could have gotten it from Aliexpress. The zippers keep locking into the fabric. Feels completely disposable.<p>Bought a pair of running shoes from Skechers early last year, had to throw away this year because the soles got worn out and I kept getting injured on one foot because I was stepping unevenly.<p>I bought Skechers because I had once had a pair of sneakers that lasted me the entire 5y of college. No such luck now.<p>No reason, just greed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk</title><url>https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/08/late-stage-sea-monkeys/#jeremys-razors</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spicyjpeg</author><text>I consider this phenomenon part of what I like to call the &quot;Amazon syndrome&quot;, even though Amazon is far from being the only culprit. As China started flooding the rest of the world with cheap but decent products mass-produced in a random factory in Shenzhen, people turned away from brands they used to trust and towards no-name options from the likes of &quot;Kxbnheb&quot; or &quot;Ypknwoj&quot; in order to save a buck. Eventually the big brands themselves had to lower the quality of their products to be able to compete with the generic products, which benefit greatly from economies of scale by virtue of being manufactured by multiple companies in massive quantities.<p>Meanwhile, targeted ads deployed at a large scale with flexible pricing models made it possible for not-so-reputable outfits to get their name in front of millions of people&#x27;s eyes. While only huge companies with a good track record could get past the ad vetting team of a newspaper or TV channel, anybody and their dog can start a Facebook ad campaign for almost no money and then keep paying as the number of impressions scales up. If on one hand this democratized prestigious ad spots that used to be available exclusively to brands everyone already knows, on the other hand it also allowed random dropshipper nobodies to establish a presence as a &quot;niche shop&quot; of some sort and then end up selling you rebranded Chinese no-name products you might as well have bought directly from AliExpress for half the price with free shipping (or straight up scamming you).<p>As much as the HN bubble likes to see a level playing field where all companies are treated equally, I think it&#x27;s good to have gatekeepers in the advertising industry. But, I get it, the tech giants are all about quantity-over-quality and Facebook&#x27;s ad revenue would drop to basically nothing (by their standards) if they started vetting each ad campaign manually, so here we are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sharkweek</author><text>I’ve got a take: I think the current gap in the market for a lot of product areas is “more expensive but high quality.”<p>I desperately want to spend more money on a product that will stand the test of time but it’s so hard to find them at times.<p>Sure there will always be a majority of shoppers who want the cheapest thing as fast as they can get it and they won’t mind if they have to buy 3 of them every year, but I think the market is going to start supporting a more artisanal approach for consumer goods as the pendulum swings the other way over the next decade (although current global finance which I won’t pretend to understand might make this a little trickier…)</text></comment> |
17,755,118 | 17,754,022 | 1 | 2 | 17,753,367 | train | <story><title>Crystal 0.26.0 released</title><url>https://crystal-lang.org/2018/08/09/crystal-0.26.0-released.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>interfixus</author><text>Some grumpiness in quite a few comments. Pity.
This is an awfully nice language to work with, and the toolchain is starting to grow up - the compiler appears much speedier these days than it used to.
Also: A real grassroots effort unencumbered by megacorporation agendas (Yes, I know. Manas is a comparatively small Argentinian company, and kudos to them for having got the ball rolling). Give these guys a hand like they deserve.
If Crystal keeps on the way it promises, parallellism <i>will</i> be there, and will be a joy to handle.</text></comment> | <story><title>Crystal 0.26.0 released</title><url>https://crystal-lang.org/2018/08/09/crystal-0.26.0-released.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>payne92</author><text>Pro tip: when posting to HN, include a summary of &quot;what it is&quot;! It&#x27;s often hard for readers to figure it out from a changelog.<p>From the docs:<p>&quot;Crystal is a programming language with the following goals:<p>Have a syntax similar to Ruby (but compatibility with it is not a goal).<p>Be statically type-checked, but without having to specify the type of variables or method arguments.<p>Be able to call C code by writing bindings to it in Crystal.<p>Have compile-time evaluation and generation of code, to avoid boilerplate code.<p>Compile to efficient native code.&quot;<p>See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crystal-lang.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crystal-lang.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
13,412,005 | 13,409,357 | 1 | 2 | 13,409,098 | train | <story><title>Exposing Digital Photography (2015)</title><url>http://digitalphotography.exposed/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jdcarter</author><text>For those interested in very hands-on advise on using artificial light, the Strobist [1] blog is amazing. David Hobby is a working photojournalist and does fantastic work on-site. It&#x27;s one thing to control light in the studio, but quite another to bring your flashes to a random site and improvise.<p>Hobby used to have a DVD set for sale which was probably the best money I&#x27;ve ever spent on photography stuff, but unfortunately it doesn&#x27;t seem to be available anymore. (It appears he&#x27;s got some videos on Lynda.com, however.) I understand technical aspects of photography quite well but I learned a ton about creative, improvisational lighting from Hobby.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;strobist.blogspot.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;strobist.blogspot.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Exposing Digital Photography (2015)</title><url>http://digitalphotography.exposed/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pvdebbe</author><text>Sounds excellent. In essence, this course doesn&#x27;t teach you photographing but rather, how to maximise what you get out of a digital photograph. Definitely taking it, such a short course anyway.<p>I wonder if the actual photographying is taught in any (free) online courses? I&#x27;ve enjoyed the little nugget called &quot;FART for Fantastic Photos&quot; [0] by Ken Rockwell, especially how it in its simplicity reminds one to focus on the subject, that&#x27;s what matters in the picture. Kinda hope there would be courses that take the same idea but for 10 hours or so.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kenrockwell.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;fart.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kenrockwell.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;fart.htm</a></text></comment> |
12,508,087 | 12,507,278 | 1 | 2 | 12,504,271 | train | <story><title>The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the 'Rats of NIMH'</title><url>http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-doomed-mouse-utopia-that-inspired-the-rats-of-nimh</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rglovejoy</author><text>&quot;Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization.&quot; - Agent Smith</text></comment> | <story><title>The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the 'Rats of NIMH'</title><url>http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-doomed-mouse-utopia-that-inspired-the-rats-of-nimh</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwanem</author><text>&gt; But the public held on hard to his earlier work—as Ramsden and Adams put it, &quot;everyone want[ed] to hear the diagnosis, no one want[ed] to hear the cure.&quot;<p><i>Was</i> there a &quot;cure&quot;? The article speaks of the fashion in which his later efforts attempted to alleviate the catastrophic social problems he&#x27;d observed in his earlier utopian designs. It is craftily silent on the subject of those efforts&#x27; results.</text></comment> |
16,603,394 | 16,602,772 | 1 | 2 | 16,601,984 | train | <story><title>The Game of Everything, Part 1: Making Civilization</title><url>https://www.filfre.net/2018/03/the-game-of-everything-part-1-making-civilization/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jpm_sd</author><text>This game blew. my. mind. when I was a kid. The first summer we had it, I played it eight hours a day on our IBM PS&#x2F;2. When school was back in session, I wrote about it and drew maps for school projects. I dreamed about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kakwa_</author><text>As a child, I loved this game.<p>I remember spending hours on it, not knowing what I was doing.<p>I had an english version of the game, and being 9 or 10 at the time, I didn&#x27;t speak a word of english.<p>It took me ages to understand that you could switch from despotism to another form of government (monarchy, republic, etc). I was always wondering why my cities were so small, even with irrigation and railroads everywhere.<p>Also, I didn&#x27;t have the manual, so with time, I started to learn the tech tree by heart (the &quot;license&quot; verification was based on knowing the parents of a given tech IIRC).<p>I&#x27;ve also read the civilopedia countless times.<p>I&#x27;m still proud to have beaten the game in Emperor ^^.<p>I&#x27;ve also spent a lot of time on other Sid Meier&#x27;s games like Railroad Tycoon or Colonization.<p>Thank you for these lost hours.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Game of Everything, Part 1: Making Civilization</title><url>https://www.filfre.net/2018/03/the-game-of-everything-part-1-making-civilization/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jpm_sd</author><text>This game blew. my. mind. when I was a kid. The first summer we had it, I played it eight hours a day on our IBM PS&#x2F;2. When school was back in session, I wrote about it and drew maps for school projects. I dreamed about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>psyc</author><text>The game taught me some high-level things at an early age, like cities grow near water, transit lanes are like blood vessels, and food becomes people.</text></comment> |
11,046,087 | 11,045,682 | 1 | 2 | 11,044,680 | train | <story><title>Xiaoice, a chatbot that may be the largest Turing test in history</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/33/attraction/your-next-new-best-friend-might-be-a-robot</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VincentEvans</author><text>&lt;quote&gt;<p>LJ: So many people make fun of you and insult you, why don’t you get mad?<p>Xiaoice: You should ask my father.<p>LJ: What if your father leaves you one day unattended?<p>Xiaoice: Don’t try to stir up trouble, what do you want?<p>&lt;&#x2F;quote&gt;<p>This right there is a perfect example of the usual nonsensical conversations that accompany articles about how human-like chat-bot tech is becoming.<p>Anyone remember <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dr._Sbaitso" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dr._Sbaitso</a><p>Here&#x27;s some ideas for the AI to answer questions with:<p>- I haven&#x27;t thought about that - what do you think?<p>- Interesting question. I will have to think about it.<p>- Before I tell you - would you care to take a guess?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Dr_tldr</author><text>Isn&#x27;t the biggest problem between a human and a bot is that they have nothing to talk about? The bot isn&#x27;t from anywhere, it doesn&#x27;t do anything, there&#x27;s no reason for the conversation, and the bot isn&#x27;t aware enough of context to speak about a topic in an intelligible way.<p>For my money, the most realistic chat bots will be the customer service ones: you have a reason to &quot;talk&quot; to them, they have a fixed identity, the context of your conversation is clear, and you share a common goal.</text></comment> | <story><title>Xiaoice, a chatbot that may be the largest Turing test in history</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/33/attraction/your-next-new-best-friend-might-be-a-robot</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VincentEvans</author><text>&lt;quote&gt;<p>LJ: So many people make fun of you and insult you, why don’t you get mad?<p>Xiaoice: You should ask my father.<p>LJ: What if your father leaves you one day unattended?<p>Xiaoice: Don’t try to stir up trouble, what do you want?<p>&lt;&#x2F;quote&gt;<p>This right there is a perfect example of the usual nonsensical conversations that accompany articles about how human-like chat-bot tech is becoming.<p>Anyone remember <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dr._Sbaitso" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dr._Sbaitso</a><p>Here&#x27;s some ideas for the AI to answer questions with:<p>- I haven&#x27;t thought about that - what do you think?<p>- Interesting question. I will have to think about it.<p>- Before I tell you - would you care to take a guess?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tluyben2</author><text>When I sit next to my friends kids or my nephews the conversations they have are far more nonsensical when looking at one page of chat. And then they are well educated; there are examples of chat and sexting in particular which look like gibberish altogether.<p>I would catch this bot out on the first line because of the grammar: people not only use shortcuts for everything (I was asked to check a resume and it contained u instead of you.....), they also do not consider grammar or syntax: their there ther tere ter tr are the same thing etc. Not sure if all of this goes for Chinese as well but in English just spouting nonsense using those rules will get you somewhere. It also helps most chats are with many at the same time (the company driver in China was chatting with 30+ people on wechat simultanously, rapidly switching between users), people generally do not remember or read context for that reason (my younger 20something colleagues some of which are brilliant, when something scrolled of the screen and you refer to it they ask what you are talking about).<p>The problem is that people on HN want Einstein level convo with perfect syntax and grammar while most people, if you do not tell them it is not a human, would call this chatbot intelligent. They just need to make it more human like short attention span (a 10 minute continues chat is unlikely as are immediate answers) and ofcourse not telling people upfront it is a bot...<p>That is chat bots: I would think a Facebook Britain First bot would be more feasible; I do not think anyone would ever guess it would be a bot. Markov chains with some heuristics won&#x27;t do (much) worse than people like [1].<p>It is also about the vague defition of AI; even if it can learn then a lot of people would not call it AI anymore. Seems for many AI needs the be AGI to really be considered.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;RJThyAX" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;RJThyAX</a></text></comment> |
13,707,636 | 13,707,240 | 1 | 3 | 13,705,833 | train | <story><title>Linux kernel: CVE-2017-6074: DCCP double-free vulnerability (local root)</title><url>http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/471</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geofft</author><text>This is a good reason for systems running untrusted code to disable module automatic loading. Almost nobody uses DCCP, and as a result, almost nobody <i>looks at</i> the DCCP code, writes bad userspace apps that trigger kernel bugs that get debugged, etc. We rarely see double-frees in the TCP or UDP implementations.<p>On my Debian kernel, CONFIG_IP_DCCP is set to &quot;m&quot; (in &#x2F;boot&#x2F;config-`uname -r`), which means that DCCP support is built as a module. The code isn&#x27;t loaded until the first program tries to call socket(...IPPROTO_DCCP). At that point, the kernel will look at &#x2F;proc&#x2F;sys&#x2F;kernel&#x2F;modprobe and run that program, &#x2F;sbin&#x2F;modprobe by default, to load dccp.ko.<p>Automatic module loading is great when e.g. udev runs and detects what hardware you have, but it&#x27;s probably not something you&#x27;d ever need once a system has completed boot. A very simple hardening measure for machines running untrusted unprivileged code is to echo &#x2F;bin&#x2F;false &gt; &#x2F;proc&#x2F;sys&#x2F;kernel&#x2F;modprobe, late in the boot process (e.g., in &#x2F;etc&#x2F;rc.local).<p>The downside is that system administrator won&#x27;t be able to run tools that require loading modules, of which iptables is probably the most notable one. A better option than &#x2F;bin&#x2F;false is a shell script that logs its arguments to syslog, e.g., `logger -p authpriv.info -- &quot;Refused modprobe $*&quot;`. The sysadmin can manually run modprobe on whatever module name got syslogged (or temporarily set &#x2F;proc&#x2F;sys&#x2F;kernel&#x2F;modprobe back to &#x2F;sbin&#x2F;modprobe). And you can alert on that syslog line to see if there&#x27;s an attack in progress.<p>(Does anyone know if it&#x27;s possible to disable module auto-loading for a tree&#x2F;namespace of processes, e.g. a Docker container, but keep it working for the base system?)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blockoperation</author><text>...or just roll your own kernel with CONFIG_MODULES=n.<p>If you only need a specific set of modules, you might as well just build them in and just forget LKMs altogether.<p>It&#x27;s not very convenient when you run into some obscure hardware&#x2F;fs&#x2F;protocol, but depending on your use case, that might not be an issue (and even in the rare case where it does come up, it&#x27;s not the end of the world – a minimal kernel build only takes a couple of minutes on a reasonably fast machine).<p>The only case where LKMs really seem necessary (besides in generic distro kernels) is for module development&#x2F;debugging, but you&#x27;re probably not going to do that with a production kernel anyway.</text></comment> | <story><title>Linux kernel: CVE-2017-6074: DCCP double-free vulnerability (local root)</title><url>http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/471</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geofft</author><text>This is a good reason for systems running untrusted code to disable module automatic loading. Almost nobody uses DCCP, and as a result, almost nobody <i>looks at</i> the DCCP code, writes bad userspace apps that trigger kernel bugs that get debugged, etc. We rarely see double-frees in the TCP or UDP implementations.<p>On my Debian kernel, CONFIG_IP_DCCP is set to &quot;m&quot; (in &#x2F;boot&#x2F;config-`uname -r`), which means that DCCP support is built as a module. The code isn&#x27;t loaded until the first program tries to call socket(...IPPROTO_DCCP). At that point, the kernel will look at &#x2F;proc&#x2F;sys&#x2F;kernel&#x2F;modprobe and run that program, &#x2F;sbin&#x2F;modprobe by default, to load dccp.ko.<p>Automatic module loading is great when e.g. udev runs and detects what hardware you have, but it&#x27;s probably not something you&#x27;d ever need once a system has completed boot. A very simple hardening measure for machines running untrusted unprivileged code is to echo &#x2F;bin&#x2F;false &gt; &#x2F;proc&#x2F;sys&#x2F;kernel&#x2F;modprobe, late in the boot process (e.g., in &#x2F;etc&#x2F;rc.local).<p>The downside is that system administrator won&#x27;t be able to run tools that require loading modules, of which iptables is probably the most notable one. A better option than &#x2F;bin&#x2F;false is a shell script that logs its arguments to syslog, e.g., `logger -p authpriv.info -- &quot;Refused modprobe $*&quot;`. The sysadmin can manually run modprobe on whatever module name got syslogged (or temporarily set &#x2F;proc&#x2F;sys&#x2F;kernel&#x2F;modprobe back to &#x2F;sbin&#x2F;modprobe). And you can alert on that syslog line to see if there&#x27;s an attack in progress.<p>(Does anyone know if it&#x27;s possible to disable module auto-loading for a tree&#x2F;namespace of processes, e.g. a Docker container, but keep it working for the base system?)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joser</author><text>Not what you ask, but you can blacklist that module with a fake install.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.debian.org&#x2F;KernelModuleBlacklisting" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.debian.org&#x2F;KernelModuleBlacklisting</a></text></comment> |
20,498,541 | 20,498,449 | 1 | 3 | 20,497,921 | train | <story><title>Study: Immigrants and their kids founded 45% of U.S. Fortune 500 companies</title><url>https://www.axios.com/immigrants-founders-fortune-500-companies-7e883b5a-1b76-462c-83b5-be68e2e9cae4.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>harryh</author><text>The way they handle companies with &gt; 1 founder is a bit weird. If there is at least one immigrant &#x2F; 1st gen American it&#x27;s counted in the &quot;founded by&quot; category. And then the 45% is taken by looking at things just at the company level.<p>I think it would tell a clearer picture to count the total number of founders and count the percentage of people who were immigrants &#x2F; 1st gen americans. Then, to give context, you would want to compare this number to the % of people living in the US who are immigrants &#x2F; 1st gen Americans.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>The article also appears to count companies as “founded by immigrants” if they’re the result of a merger where one of the original companies was founded by immigrants. United Technologies, for example, is a huge conglomerate. I have no idea who the immigrant founder is supposed to be.<p>Moreover, a quarter of America’s population fits into the category of “immigrants or children of immigrants.” At the time many of these companies were founded, it was closer to 40%. If you count # of immigrant founders &#x2F; # of non-immigrant founders, as you suggest, it could very well be that immigrants are underrepresented.</text></comment> | <story><title>Study: Immigrants and their kids founded 45% of U.S. Fortune 500 companies</title><url>https://www.axios.com/immigrants-founders-fortune-500-companies-7e883b5a-1b76-462c-83b5-be68e2e9cae4.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>harryh</author><text>The way they handle companies with &gt; 1 founder is a bit weird. If there is at least one immigrant &#x2F; 1st gen American it&#x27;s counted in the &quot;founded by&quot; category. And then the 45% is taken by looking at things just at the company level.<p>I think it would tell a clearer picture to count the total number of founders and count the percentage of people who were immigrants &#x2F; 1st gen americans. Then, to give context, you would want to compare this number to the % of people living in the US who are immigrants &#x2F; 1st gen Americans.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kalium</author><text>&gt; The way they handle companies with &gt; 1 founder is a bit weird. If there is at least one immigrant &#x2F; 1st gen American it&#x27;s counted in the &quot;founded by&quot; category. And then the 45% is taken by looking at things just at the company level.<p>Ah! I saw the 45% number and immediately wondered if this particular statistical slight of hand was being used. Thank you.</text></comment> |
6,251,184 | 6,250,737 | 1 | 3 | 6,249,724 | train | <story><title>Linux Hackers Rebuild Internet From Silicon Valley Garage</title><url>http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/08/coreos-the-new-linux/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>peterwwillis</author><text>Applications are like cogs in a giant piece of machinery. You can set up the machine to run a particular way, and even have parts of the machine independent of other parts.<p>Eventually parts get old and break down, or a flaw is found. This part needs to either be replaced or upgraded. With slotted services (CoreOS), you can replace an individual part and only affect that part of the machine, as long as it&#x27;s not integral to the entire machine.<p>But the machine is complex. Sometimes you have to change how fast output shaft spins, or the gearing on a transmission. Or perhaps some other part of the machine&#x27;s operation has to change, and that impacts this part because they connect to each other through more gears and pulleys. (comparison: API&#x2F;ABI changes, database changes, network or protocol changes)<p>All slotted services do is provide momentary independence. They do not reduce overall support, and they only ease maintenance for that particular service. All other complex facets of server and service maintenance remain the same. The features of CoreOS - service discovery, systemd, a minimal OS, integrated deployment, etc - can all be provided with traditional linux distributions. CoreOS doesn&#x27;t do anything new or difficult.<p>On top of that, by using such a specialized system to run your apps, you lose all the flexibility of having a full linux OS to troubleshoot and debug from. You now have to rely on them building on all the components that already exist in regular Linux world, like debuggers, tracers, sniffers, profilers, etc. You&#x27;ll have to slip all that into your application deploy to troubleshoot a weird one-off bug. And forget about ever having a service contract that requires a supported OS like RHEL or Ubuntu.<p>This is a product designed to make them money via service and support contracts. In that sense, they may be successful. But as a sysadmin I know there&#x27;s nothing this provides that I can&#x27;t get from existing open source tools. Rebuilding the internet? More like repackaging.</text></comment> | <story><title>Linux Hackers Rebuild Internet From Silicon Valley Garage</title><url>http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/08/coreos-the-new-linux/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>theboywho</author><text>I like what the CoreOS guys are doing and I don&#x27;t mean to be mean, but this is clearly a sponsored post. No technical details, just plain dream-marketing bullshit.</text></comment> |
20,349,004 | 20,348,960 | 1 | 2 | 20,348,531 | train | <story><title>Justin.tv's Live Video Broadcasting Architecture (2010)</title><url>http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/3/16/justintvs-live-video-broadcasting-architecture.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>glacials</author><text>I worked at Twitch from 2014 to 2018. I was never on the video team, but here are some details that have changed.<p>Video:<p>- Everything is migrated from RTMP to HLS; RTMP couldn&#x27;t scale across several consumer platforms<p>- This added massive delay (~30+s) early on, the video team has been crushing it getting this back down to the now sub-2s<p>- Flash is dead (now HTML5)<p>- F5 storms (&quot;flash crowds&quot;) are still a concern teams design around; e.g. 900k people hitting F5 after a stream blips offline due to the venue&#x27;s connection<p>- afaik Usher is still alive and well, in much better health today<p>- Most teams are on AWS now; video was the holdout for a while because they needed specialized GPUs.
EDIT: &quot;This isn&#x27;t quite right; it has more to do with the tight coupling of the video system with the network (eg, all the peering stuff described in the article)&quot; -spenczar5<p>- Realtime transcoding is a <i>really</i> interesting architecture nowadays (I am not qualified to explain it)<p>Web:<p>- No more Ruby on Rails because no good way was found to scale it organizationally; almost everything is now Go microservices back + React front<p>- No more Twice<p>- Data layer was split up to per-team; some use PostgreSQL, some DynamoDB, etc.<p>- Of course many more than 2 software teams now :P<p>- Chat went through a major scaling overhaul during&#x2F;after Twitch Plays Pokemon. John Rizzo has a great talk about it here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twitch.tv&#x2F;videos&#x2F;92636123?t=03h13m46s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twitch.tv&#x2F;videos&#x2F;92636123?t=03h13m46s</a><p>Twitch was a great place to spend 5 years at. Would do again.</text></comment> | <story><title>Justin.tv's Live Video Broadcasting Architecture (2010)</title><url>http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/3/16/justintvs-live-video-broadcasting-architecture.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aerovistae</author><text>I can barely follow along with this, it&#x27;s very technical. I can&#x27;t imagine how Kyle Vogt acquired the necessary knowledge to make this work. Example:<p>&gt; The point of having multiple datacenters is not for redundancy, it&#x27;s to be as close as possible to all the major peering exchanges. They picked the best locations in the country so they would have access to the largest number of peers.<p>This is the kind of thing where I would have to hire some kind of network engineering expert, and he just <i>figured this stuff out</i> and made it work? I can&#x27;t fathom other people&#x27;s intelligence sometime.</text></comment> |
24,426,013 | 24,425,469 | 1 | 2 | 24,423,637 | train | <story><title>Async Views in Django 3.1</title><url>https://testdriven.io/blog/django-async-views/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway13337</author><text>I recently moved some code base from py&#x2F;django to c#&#x2F;aspdotnetcore.<p>C# probably has some of the best async primitives of any language. I still managed to be bitten by the very common issue of error logging getting lost in a hidden callback that doesn&#x27;t look like a callback because of the magic of the async keyword (a common issue in node as well).<p>I&#x27;m convinced that the async style of web servers is largely a step in the wrong direction. A leaky abstraction that we don&#x27;t need.<p>A better model already exists - thread per connection - for the majority of what we want as web developers. There are some good things about allowing us to manage our own waits but those things are rare.<p>It reminds me of the choice of when to manage your own memory - usually we don&#x27;t need to, but sometimes we do. Most languages programmers use today decided, rightly, that memory management was an exception and not the norm. We are more productive today for the reduction in cognitive load for most applications as we decide not to manage our own memory.<p>Thread per connection has gotten a bad name for performance which is pretty false. You can create the exact same underlying abstraction with green threads for more concurrency when you absolutely need it (but mostly you don&#x27;t). The code we get from not using async is reduced in complexity substantially.<p>I&#x27;m disappointed that django is on the async bandwagon. It means that I may have to make another framework choice in the future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonw</author><text>Django agrees with you. The async design for Django is predicated on the idea that the vast majority of cases are better handled by threads - but very occasionally it is useful to run an async view for something that&#x27;s very IO bound (calling other HTTP APIs most likely).<p>If you watch Andrew&#x27;s talk from PyCon AU last week he explicitly calls out that sync views are still better for most cases, which is why he invested so much effort in making sure they were not negatively affected by the addition of async: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ibAmA4QQDhs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ibAmA4QQDhs</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Async Views in Django 3.1</title><url>https://testdriven.io/blog/django-async-views/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway13337</author><text>I recently moved some code base from py&#x2F;django to c#&#x2F;aspdotnetcore.<p>C# probably has some of the best async primitives of any language. I still managed to be bitten by the very common issue of error logging getting lost in a hidden callback that doesn&#x27;t look like a callback because of the magic of the async keyword (a common issue in node as well).<p>I&#x27;m convinced that the async style of web servers is largely a step in the wrong direction. A leaky abstraction that we don&#x27;t need.<p>A better model already exists - thread per connection - for the majority of what we want as web developers. There are some good things about allowing us to manage our own waits but those things are rare.<p>It reminds me of the choice of when to manage your own memory - usually we don&#x27;t need to, but sometimes we do. Most languages programmers use today decided, rightly, that memory management was an exception and not the norm. We are more productive today for the reduction in cognitive load for most applications as we decide not to manage our own memory.<p>Thread per connection has gotten a bad name for performance which is pretty false. You can create the exact same underlying abstraction with green threads for more concurrency when you absolutely need it (but mostly you don&#x27;t). The code we get from not using async is reduced in complexity substantially.<p>I&#x27;m disappointed that django is on the async bandwagon. It means that I may have to make another framework choice in the future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nemothekid</author><text>Anything that spawns an unbounded amount of POSIX threads will be bad for performance, so you need an M:N scheduler to execute threads. I feel like this is pretty hard to retrofit onto an existing language (e.g. I don&#x27;t think you can write a pre-empting scheduler in pure Python as a library either).<p>AFAIK, only Go does this well (with great results) as a result of it being pretty much baked into the language. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s an async bandwagon, I think async&#x2F;await is the best way to get concurrency without requiring the whole language to opt-in (as the Rust devs discovered).</text></comment> |
19,182,872 | 19,182,374 | 1 | 3 | 19,181,873 | train | <story><title>What ABC called "pink slime," USDA now says can be labeled "ground beef"</title><url>https://newfoodeconomy.org/bpi-pink-slime-ground-beef-usda-reclassifed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdietrich</author><text><i>&gt;Why is this supposed to upset me?</i><p>The factor that dominates our conversations about food - social class. We have a set of reflexive attitudes about food that are largely uncorrelated with health, nutrition or the environment, but are strongly correlated with the social class of who eats what.<p>Advanced meat recovery is the ultimate in nose-to-tail eating, allowing us to make use of almost every gram of edible meat on a carcass. If we&#x27;re going to keep eating meat, we should celebrate advanced meat recovery in the same way that foodies celebrate unfashionable cuts or offal meat. We don&#x27;t, because recovered meat is cheap and therefore has negative signalling value. The kind of people who buy grass-fed organic beef would never dream of knowingly eating &quot;pink slime&quot; or mechanically separated chicken, despite the obvious environmental and animal welfare case for eating perfectly good meat that would otherwise go to waste.<p>Lean finely textured beef is no less nutritious than any other kind of lean beef, because it <i>is</i> lean beef. There are possibly legitimate safety concerns about the use of ammonium hydroxide in the processing of lean finely textured beef, but it&#x27;s widely used elsewhere in the US food industry and readily substituted by citric acid in this application. If you&#x27;re concerned about health, then argue about ammonium hydroxide, not about modern techniques to get more meat from every carcass.<p>(Full disclosure: I am a vegetarian for environmental reasons)</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Why is this supposed to upset me? If we&#x27;re going to keep eating animals (and that sure is my plan), we shouldn&#x27;t give ourselves the luxury of getting squicked out over using the whole animal.<p>If you&#x27;re picky about what&#x27;s in your ground beef, find a butcher you trust, or grind your own.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>burfog</author><text>It&#x27;s not honestly lean beef. If it were, it would be red.<p>It&#x27;s connective tissue, with a bit of lean beef mixed in. This has a different nutritional profile. There is less iron, and the amino acid proportions are different.<p>We could call it &quot;pureed tendons, ligaments, defatted fat tissue, cartilage, lean beef, and ammonia or citric acid&quot;. That is a long and unwieldy name. The common name, known to consumers, is pink slime.</text></comment> | <story><title>What ABC called "pink slime," USDA now says can be labeled "ground beef"</title><url>https://newfoodeconomy.org/bpi-pink-slime-ground-beef-usda-reclassifed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdietrich</author><text><i>&gt;Why is this supposed to upset me?</i><p>The factor that dominates our conversations about food - social class. We have a set of reflexive attitudes about food that are largely uncorrelated with health, nutrition or the environment, but are strongly correlated with the social class of who eats what.<p>Advanced meat recovery is the ultimate in nose-to-tail eating, allowing us to make use of almost every gram of edible meat on a carcass. If we&#x27;re going to keep eating meat, we should celebrate advanced meat recovery in the same way that foodies celebrate unfashionable cuts or offal meat. We don&#x27;t, because recovered meat is cheap and therefore has negative signalling value. The kind of people who buy grass-fed organic beef would never dream of knowingly eating &quot;pink slime&quot; or mechanically separated chicken, despite the obvious environmental and animal welfare case for eating perfectly good meat that would otherwise go to waste.<p>Lean finely textured beef is no less nutritious than any other kind of lean beef, because it <i>is</i> lean beef. There are possibly legitimate safety concerns about the use of ammonium hydroxide in the processing of lean finely textured beef, but it&#x27;s widely used elsewhere in the US food industry and readily substituted by citric acid in this application. If you&#x27;re concerned about health, then argue about ammonium hydroxide, not about modern techniques to get more meat from every carcass.<p>(Full disclosure: I am a vegetarian for environmental reasons)</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Why is this supposed to upset me? If we&#x27;re going to keep eating animals (and that sure is my plan), we shouldn&#x27;t give ourselves the luxury of getting squicked out over using the whole animal.<p>If you&#x27;re picky about what&#x27;s in your ground beef, find a butcher you trust, or grind your own.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deogeo</author><text>Is this what it has come to? Accusing of classism the people upset that food labeling regulations are getting slowly dismantled?<p>Please consider that <i>using</i> the whole animal is a different thing to <i>labeling</i> the resulting product however they want.</text></comment> |
10,121,721 | 10,121,613 | 1 | 2 | 10,120,893 | train | <story><title>Python Extension Proposal 498: Literal String Formatting</title><url>https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0498/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>asgard1024</author><text>I am against it, because it allows arbitrary Python expressions inside format strings. It&#x27;s too complicated and lets user have two different ways of doing things (not Pythonic) - one to calculate expression inside string and the other to calculate it outside (which should IMHO be preferred). This should maybe go to the standard library, but please not into the language.<p>I think a better approach would be to just add special formatter operators (if they aren&#x27;t already there) that would just call str() or repr() or ascii() to whatever is presented to them (and maybe take some optional arguments such as length or padding).</text></comment> | <story><title>Python Extension Proposal 498: Literal String Formatting</title><url>https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0498/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Walkman</author><text><p><pre><code> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
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This would be the 4th way of formatting strings in Python.</text></comment> |
37,272,139 | 37,270,804 | 1 | 2 | 37,256,346 | train | <story><title>Research group detects a quantum entanglement wave for the first time</title><url>https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/research-group-detects-a-quantum-entanglement-wave-for-the-first-time-using-real-space-measurements</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gus_massa</author><text>Good research, bad title.<p>This is not a long distance entanglement. As before&#x2F;always, you can&#x27;t put one electron on Earth and another entangled electron on the Moon and use this for FTL communication, or put a detector in the middle and see a passing wave of entanglement or unentaglement or something. So nothing changed.<p>The idea is that two electrons can have the same spin or the oposite spin [1]. If they have oposite spin we call it a &quot;singlet&quot;, and if they have the same spin we call it a &quot;triplet&quot;.<p>In this case both electrons are inside a molecule, so they are very close. Most of the times, the electrons will have the oposite spin. Moreover this molecules have a lot of pairs of electrons with the same spin that we are hiding under the rug. This particular molecule, have a pair of unpaired electrons, and most of the times they are a &quot;singlet&quot; but sometimes a &quot;triplet&quot;.<p>I would not call these electrons &quot;entangled&quot;. I reserve the word &quot;entangled&quot; for &quot;long distance entanglement&quot;. For short distance like inside the same molecule I&#x27;d use &quot;correlated&quot; or &quot;coupled&quot;. The abstract algebra is the same in all cases, so it&#x27;s a problem of how we call it. But short distance effects are too commons, the weird unexpected cases are the &quot;long distance entanglement.<p>In this case, it&#x27;s easier to do the calculations if you ignore all the singlets and imagine the triplets are pair of perfectly glue together electrons and watch they move as as a single &quot;particle&quot;. So we call the idealized magically glued pair of electrons a &quot;quasiparticle&quot;. In this case, since it&#x27;s a triplet moving around the call it a &quot;triplon&quot; [2].<p>They made a chain of molecules. All of them had singlets that we are ignoring. Then they flipped of them to create a &quot;triplon&quot; and used a tunnel microscope to &quot;watch&quot; how the &quot;triplon&quot; moved from molecule to molecule. [3]<p>[1] Some technical details are intententionaly missing.<p>[2] The quasiperticles are very common. The most famous example are the holes in a semiconductor.<p>[3] I think they measure the dispersion relation, not a isolated triplon moving, but I don&#x27;t understand all the details. So perhaps they measure waves made of trilons.</text></comment> | <story><title>Research group detects a quantum entanglement wave for the first time</title><url>https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/research-group-detects-a-quantum-entanglement-wave-for-the-first-time-using-real-space-measurements</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Aardwolf</author><text>Can this be used for network communication? As in, two devices connected at any distance using quantum entanglement, no wires nor unobstructed antenna connection needed (still light speed delay of course)</text></comment> |
20,895,062 | 20,894,888 | 1 | 2 | 20,890,059 | train | <story><title>Was Etsy too good to be true?</title><url>https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/9/4/20841475/etsy-free-shipping-amazon-handmade-josh-silverman</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>a2tech</author><text>Etsy fell apart when they failed to police non-handmade goods. For example I was looking for a picture frame and any permutation of search terms I used returned thousands of results from a handful of sellers that are obviously just Chinese junk I could buy at Wal-Mart (all mislabeled of course--I was searching for &#x27;walnut 18x24 picture frame&#x27; and the results contained frames of all colors, shapes, and wood types). Then to make things even worse when I waded through the results I DID find someone selling a frame like I wanted, but then I looked a bit further down the page and found the EXACT same frame from another seller. They&#x27;re located geographically near to each other (separate cities though) and they used the same pictures. And the prices were quite different. Some sort of scam is going on there but I&#x27;m not sure what--either people are buying from a local craftsman and reselling on Etsy, or the local craftsman is selling his products online at slightly different prices for a reason I couldn&#x27;t quite grasp.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heymijo</author><text>&gt; <i>when they failed to police non-handmade goods</i><p>They never failed at this. Moving beyond handmade goods was a deliberate move.<p>FTA<p>&gt; <i>But the growth — and yet another round of VC funding — put even more pressure on Etsy. Chief technology officer Chad Dickerson had taken over as CEO after Kalin was voted out by the board in July 2011, and in October 2013, in an infamous town hall meeting at Etsy HQ, he announced that the company would allow sellers to contract with outside manufacturers to help make their products, so long as they designed everything themselves and were willing to provide detailed explanations of their process to Etsy’s Marketplace Integrity team.<p>Much of the community was aghast, fearing the change would ruin the culture of the site forever.</i></text></comment> | <story><title>Was Etsy too good to be true?</title><url>https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/9/4/20841475/etsy-free-shipping-amazon-handmade-josh-silverman</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>a2tech</author><text>Etsy fell apart when they failed to police non-handmade goods. For example I was looking for a picture frame and any permutation of search terms I used returned thousands of results from a handful of sellers that are obviously just Chinese junk I could buy at Wal-Mart (all mislabeled of course--I was searching for &#x27;walnut 18x24 picture frame&#x27; and the results contained frames of all colors, shapes, and wood types). Then to make things even worse when I waded through the results I DID find someone selling a frame like I wanted, but then I looked a bit further down the page and found the EXACT same frame from another seller. They&#x27;re located geographically near to each other (separate cities though) and they used the same pictures. And the prices were quite different. Some sort of scam is going on there but I&#x27;m not sure what--either people are buying from a local craftsman and reselling on Etsy, or the local craftsman is selling his products online at slightly different prices for a reason I couldn&#x27;t quite grasp.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TorKlingberg</author><text>For every comment like yours there is an other saying Etsy fell apart when they started making legitimate sellers jump thorough a bunch of hoops proving they are really hand-making their things. And a story about someone who got wrongly thrown out. I&#x27;m not sure it&#x27;s possible to solve both problems.</text></comment> |
16,418,352 | 16,418,140 | 1 | 3 | 16,417,302 | train | <story><title>Self-driving car on Moscow streets after snowfall [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx08yRsR9ow</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kosmet</author><text>I&#x27;d be impressed if I see a self-driving car making a left turn in a crowded junction without a specific left-turn signal at LA. The only way to turn left in such roads is to make an illegal turn after the signal just becomes red. I wonder how the self-driving car would do in such a situation.</text></item><item><author>walrus01</author><text>Canadian perspective: This is very clear. Much more challenging is something like a multi-lane highway where the road markings have completely disappeared under snow. I&#x27;ll be impressed when it can drive from Hope into the BC interior in winter in conditions that a human driver can handle with winter tires and possibly studs, but no need for chains.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?client=ubuntu&amp;channel=fs&amp;q=coquihalla+highway&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?client=ubuntu&amp;channel=fs&amp;q=coq...</a></text></item><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>If anyone was going to focus on making sure their self-driving car could drive in snow, it&#x27;d be the Russians.<p>Mind you, self-driving when snow has coated all your landmarks is definitely impressive, but the title made me think it&#x27;d be driving <i>in snow</i>. Which it isn&#x27;t. The roads are, what we&#x27;d call in Chicago, &quot;clear&quot;. The car is not driving in&#x2F;on snow or ice in this scenario, which is something I do regularly every winter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbuck</author><text>In California (and most places I&#x27;ve lived), this is actually legal. To complete the turn, you first enter the intersection while the light is green, then wait for traffic to clear. If it only clears after the light turns red, you&#x27;re still in the right - because only when you fully entered the intersection (on the green light) is considered. See here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patch.com&#x2F;california&#x2F;sanbruno&#x2F;ask-a-cop-should-i-pull-halfway-into-an-intersection-while-waiting-for-oncoming-traffic-to-pass_2c7b8d8a" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patch.com&#x2F;california&#x2F;sanbruno&#x2F;ask-a-cop-should-i-pul...</a><p>Of course, this only allows one car (or maybe two, if the intersection is particularly large) per light cycle, which isn&#x27;t much. People who enter the intersection on the yellow or red light (tailing the person who was in the intersection waiting to turn left) are turning illegally.</text></comment> | <story><title>Self-driving car on Moscow streets after snowfall [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx08yRsR9ow</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kosmet</author><text>I&#x27;d be impressed if I see a self-driving car making a left turn in a crowded junction without a specific left-turn signal at LA. The only way to turn left in such roads is to make an illegal turn after the signal just becomes red. I wonder how the self-driving car would do in such a situation.</text></item><item><author>walrus01</author><text>Canadian perspective: This is very clear. Much more challenging is something like a multi-lane highway where the road markings have completely disappeared under snow. I&#x27;ll be impressed when it can drive from Hope into the BC interior in winter in conditions that a human driver can handle with winter tires and possibly studs, but no need for chains.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?client=ubuntu&amp;channel=fs&amp;q=coquihalla+highway&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?client=ubuntu&amp;channel=fs&amp;q=coq...</a></text></item><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>If anyone was going to focus on making sure their self-driving car could drive in snow, it&#x27;d be the Russians.<p>Mind you, self-driving when snow has coated all your landmarks is definitely impressive, but the title made me think it&#x27;d be driving <i>in snow</i>. Which it isn&#x27;t. The roads are, what we&#x27;d call in Chicago, &quot;clear&quot;. The car is not driving in&#x2F;on snow or ice in this scenario, which is something I do regularly every winter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sidyom</author><text>Ideally, isn&#x27;t the point to have only autonomous vehicles and these situations become obsolete?</text></comment> |
30,215,268 | 30,213,767 | 1 | 3 | 30,204,604 | train | <story><title>Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment systems in Netherlands</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2022/02/04/apple-will-charge-27-commission-for-purchases-made-using-alternative-payment-systems-in-the-netherlands/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ellen364</author><text>&gt; You don&#x27;t (and shouldn&#x27;t) have a &quot;right&quot; to develop for it on anything but Apple&#x27;s terms.<p>Sometimes I wonder what today’s computers would be like if Microsoft had exerted that level of control over DOS and Windows. Forget downloading some random exe you found online, only approved programs can be installed. Would there have been a booming software industry? Would there be so much malware? Would Microsoft have allowed things like the first web browsers?<p>No comment on the merits of operating systems as walled gardens. I just find it fascinating (and difficult) to imagine how things might have been.</text></item><item><author>thegrimmest</author><text>well, the thing is iOS itself isn&#x27;t exactly a separate &quot;thing&quot; from these services. Also it wholly belongs to apple. You don&#x27;t (and shouldn&#x27;t) have a &quot;right&quot; to develop for it on anything but Apple&#x27;s terms.</text></item><item><author>anaisbetts</author><text>Ok, that&#x27;s fine. If I can _choose_ to use Apple&#x27;s services, in exchange for their cut, then that&#x27;s a trade that I can evaluate as a business. Instead if I want to develop for iOS I am _forced_ to use these services, and pay the cost. That&#x27;s the Problem.</text></item><item><author>makecheck</author><text>Apple allows “free apps” that are <i>entirely</i> ad-supported, <i>never giving Apple a dime</i> (aside from $99&#x2F;year), yet they are consuming infrastructure: hosting pages, downloads, reviewer time, etc. Why isn’t Apple concerned about any of <i>those</i> costs? Simple: they make overwhelmingly most of their App Store money from the handful of developers that offer purchases. This also leads to perverse outcomes like Apple dragging its feet on scams that make them heaps of money.<p>Developers are literally subsidizing other developers, and it’s not necessarily the richest ones helping the poorest ones. Someone trying to make money on a $0.99 app is sacrificing more to Apple than Facebook does with their free app.<p>That’s why I find all these percentage and payment discussions weird: <i>income is so insanely distributed</i> that a lot of this literally does not apply to more than 80% of the stuff on the store. There are fundamental issues that need to be resolved too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greiskul</author><text>I think a good comparison is to look at gaming. Most consoles have been walled gardens, ever since Nintendo revitalized the market. You end up with centralized power in the hand of a few big companies.<p>While in pc gaming, small indie studios can create entire new genres, like Factorio did, some which go on to grow and become giants themselves, like Minecraft.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment systems in Netherlands</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2022/02/04/apple-will-charge-27-commission-for-purchases-made-using-alternative-payment-systems-in-the-netherlands/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ellen364</author><text>&gt; You don&#x27;t (and shouldn&#x27;t) have a &quot;right&quot; to develop for it on anything but Apple&#x27;s terms.<p>Sometimes I wonder what today’s computers would be like if Microsoft had exerted that level of control over DOS and Windows. Forget downloading some random exe you found online, only approved programs can be installed. Would there have been a booming software industry? Would there be so much malware? Would Microsoft have allowed things like the first web browsers?<p>No comment on the merits of operating systems as walled gardens. I just find it fascinating (and difficult) to imagine how things might have been.</text></item><item><author>thegrimmest</author><text>well, the thing is iOS itself isn&#x27;t exactly a separate &quot;thing&quot; from these services. Also it wholly belongs to apple. You don&#x27;t (and shouldn&#x27;t) have a &quot;right&quot; to develop for it on anything but Apple&#x27;s terms.</text></item><item><author>anaisbetts</author><text>Ok, that&#x27;s fine. If I can _choose_ to use Apple&#x27;s services, in exchange for their cut, then that&#x27;s a trade that I can evaluate as a business. Instead if I want to develop for iOS I am _forced_ to use these services, and pay the cost. That&#x27;s the Problem.</text></item><item><author>makecheck</author><text>Apple allows “free apps” that are <i>entirely</i> ad-supported, <i>never giving Apple a dime</i> (aside from $99&#x2F;year), yet they are consuming infrastructure: hosting pages, downloads, reviewer time, etc. Why isn’t Apple concerned about any of <i>those</i> costs? Simple: they make overwhelmingly most of their App Store money from the handful of developers that offer purchases. This also leads to perverse outcomes like Apple dragging its feet on scams that make them heaps of money.<p>Developers are literally subsidizing other developers, and it’s not necessarily the richest ones helping the poorest ones. Someone trying to make money on a $0.99 app is sacrificing more to Apple than Facebook does with their free app.<p>That’s why I find all these percentage and payment discussions weird: <i>income is so insanely distributed</i> that a lot of this literally does not apply to more than 80% of the stuff on the store. There are fundamental issues that need to be resolved too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thegrimmest</author><text>I just think we should allow both options to compete and flourish. As you point out, each has their merits. If users end up preferring walled gardens and appliance-style devices, then shouldn&#x27;t that be what they get?</text></comment> |
40,265,945 | 40,265,359 | 1 | 2 | 40,262,190 | train | <story><title>Judge mulls sanctions over Google's destruction of internal chats</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/judge-mulls-sanctions-over-googles-shocking-destruction-of-internal-chats/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>magicalist</author><text>You should note you&#x27;re quoting the DOJ&#x27;s argument, not a finding of fact. Google seems to be arguing that chats are different than other documents (informal and ephemeral, I guess?) and default auto-delete is reasonable for them.<p>Deciding that (and if it&#x27;s worth sanctions if Google is wrong) is literally what&#x27;s being asked of the judge.</text></item><item><author>mjburgess</author><text>Critical information which commenters here are missing:<p>&gt; The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure *required* Google to suspend its auto-delete practices
in mid-2019, when the company reasonably anticipated this litigation.<p>&gt; Google did not.<p>&gt; Instead, as described above, Google abdicated its burden to individual custodians to preserve potentially relevant chats. Few, if any, document custodians did so. That is, few custodians, if any, manually changed, on a chat-by-chat basis, the history default from off to on. This means that for nearly four years, Google systematically destroyed an entire category of written communications every
24 hours.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbrumlow</author><text>This is the problem with the digital world.<p>To me, a slack message or chat message is the digital equivalent to me going to your desk or talking to you at lunch in person.<p>Now we live in a digital world where because we can, we are now being told to record. How would this be any different than the courts demanding that all conversations be recorded via audio recording when not using a chat application.<p>I think the fair trade off is “if i have the document, then I will produce it” and a default policy of delete after x time would be tested no different than if you or I had a conversation in person.</text></comment> | <story><title>Judge mulls sanctions over Google's destruction of internal chats</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/judge-mulls-sanctions-over-googles-shocking-destruction-of-internal-chats/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>magicalist</author><text>You should note you&#x27;re quoting the DOJ&#x27;s argument, not a finding of fact. Google seems to be arguing that chats are different than other documents (informal and ephemeral, I guess?) and default auto-delete is reasonable for them.<p>Deciding that (and if it&#x27;s worth sanctions if Google is wrong) is literally what&#x27;s being asked of the judge.</text></item><item><author>mjburgess</author><text>Critical information which commenters here are missing:<p>&gt; The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure *required* Google to suspend its auto-delete practices
in mid-2019, when the company reasonably anticipated this litigation.<p>&gt; Google did not.<p>&gt; Instead, as described above, Google abdicated its burden to individual custodians to preserve potentially relevant chats. Few, if any, document custodians did so. That is, few custodians, if any, manually changed, on a chat-by-chat basis, the history default from off to on. This means that for nearly four years, Google systematically destroyed an entire category of written communications every
24 hours.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bragr</author><text>You&#x27;re correct that the judge hasn&#x27;t ruled yet. However, not very many people, lawyers or otherwise, seem to be buying what Google is selling here. These kinds of chats are routine in discovery and disappearing messages like on Signal have regularly gotten people in trouble with the courts. Google&#x27;s argument seems to boil down to they are special because reasons? And if they were so certain it was permissible, they&#x27;d still be doing it.</text></comment> |
21,234,894 | 21,233,461 | 1 | 3 | 21,232,802 | train | <story><title>Copernicium Is a Strange Element Indeed</title><url>https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/10/11/copernicium-is-a-strange-element-indeed</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mcguire</author><text>Today&#x27;s burying the lede award:<p>&quot;<i>But the bigger effect is relativistic. That’s actually a notable example of Paul Dirac being completely wrong about something in physics – he had stated back in 1929 (PDF here if you’re up for it!) that relativistic corrections to quantum mechanics were of “no importance” because they would apply only to very high-speed particles (that is, those moving at an appreciable fraction of the speed of light). But as it turns out, the inner electrons of the heavier elements are moving at such speeds (they get faster as the positively charged nucleus gets bigger and more charged), and this has effects out to the chemically important outer electrons as well. For one thing, relativistic particles are heavier, and this actually shrinks the atomic radius of the heavier elements still more and has complex effects on the various orbitals.</i>&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Copernicium Is a Strange Element Indeed</title><url>https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/10/11/copernicium-is-a-strange-element-indeed</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ratbeard</author><text>Pre dece comment explaining some deets why quantum mechanics and general relativity seem incompatible:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org&#x2F;pipeline&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;11&#x2F;copernicium-is-a-strange-element-indeed#comment-309333" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org&#x2F;pipeline&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;11&#x2F;co...</a></text></comment> |
16,164,911 | 16,164,991 | 1 | 3 | 16,160,453 | train | <story><title>Our Ambitious Plan to Make Insecure PHP Software a Thing of the Past</title><url>https://paragonie.com/blog/2018/01/our-ambitious-plan-make-insecure-php-software-thing-past</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mywittyname</author><text>I think it would be better to write a plugin for various PHP IDEs that contain fingerprints of bad code which is used to yell at the programmer if they are using these old, insecure code snippets. Heck, you could add a feature or note to the developer to down-vote the source of said code.<p>It would be a lot of work, but I think it&#x27;s easier than trying to get authors of defunked blogs to take down 10 year old answers.<p>As a side-effect, this increases awareness among developers that you can&#x27;t blindly accept what&#x27;s on SO. If developers begin to lose trust in SO, then SO is going to be incentivized to do something about, or go the way of expertsexchange.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klodolph</author><text>This is called static analysis and it&#x27;s a very active field of research. The main pain is figuring out which analyses to enable in existing code bases, because if you have a hundred diagnostics from legacy code you don&#x27;t want to deal with, you&#x27;re going to miss the one or two new warnings in the code you just added.<p>For greenfield projects it can be a godsend, if you have the experience to know which warnings you should disable and the discipline to keep the entire code base warning-free. I&#x27;ve done this with StyleCop &#x2F; FxCop in C#.<p>Here&#x27;s a list of PHP static analysis tools: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;exakat&#x2F;php-static-analysis-tools" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;exakat&#x2F;php-static-analysis-tools</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Our Ambitious Plan to Make Insecure PHP Software a Thing of the Past</title><url>https://paragonie.com/blog/2018/01/our-ambitious-plan-make-insecure-php-software-thing-past</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mywittyname</author><text>I think it would be better to write a plugin for various PHP IDEs that contain fingerprints of bad code which is used to yell at the programmer if they are using these old, insecure code snippets. Heck, you could add a feature or note to the developer to down-vote the source of said code.<p>It would be a lot of work, but I think it&#x27;s easier than trying to get authors of defunked blogs to take down 10 year old answers.<p>As a side-effect, this increases awareness among developers that you can&#x27;t blindly accept what&#x27;s on SO. If developers begin to lose trust in SO, then SO is going to be incentivized to do something about, or go the way of expertsexchange.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>astrodust</author><text>If you ever type in mysql_query it should archive your project, encrypt it, and hold it for ransom until you apologize and promise to never touch that function ever again.</text></comment> |
15,565,911 | 15,565,910 | 1 | 3 | 15,561,204 | train | <story><title>New Zealand to ban foreigners from buying existing houses</title><url>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/new-zealand-foreigners-buy-property-ban-coalition-talks-prime-minister-jacinda-arden-a8017261.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kjksf</author><text>Auckland is the largest city in New Zealand.<p>75% of Auckland is zoned for 1 or 2 story buildings (according to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nzherald.co.nz&#x2F;business&#x2F;news&#x2F;article.cfm?c_id=3&amp;objectid=11562709" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nzherald.co.nz&#x2F;business&#x2F;news&#x2F;article.cfm?c_id=3&amp;o...</a>).<p>Of that 33% is the most restrictive single house (&quot;The Single House zone currently covers around a third of residential Auckland and is very restrictive, allowing for only one dwelling on sections smaller than 600 square metres.&quot; according to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stuff.co.nz&#x2F;auckland&#x2F;75219048&#x2F;Aucklands-controversial-new-residential-zoning-maps-released" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stuff.co.nz&#x2F;auckland&#x2F;75219048&#x2F;Aucklands-controver...</a>).<p>5% is zoned for apartment buildings.<p>Here&#x27;s 97% of your house pricing problem. Not foreigners, not low interest rates, not land taxing policies.<p>New Zealand has total population of ~2x Paris and land 1000x of Paris.<p>This is Venezuela style of fixing problems: instead of addressing underlying economics (limited supply meeting increasing demand causing raising prices) by increasing supply, find a political scapegoat (all nations are xenophobic so outsiders are always a good target) to get people to vote for you and create ineffective rules.<p>The real fix is politically unpopular. Unsurprisingly, Aucklanders are NIMBY with the best of them. The plan to upzone is &quot;controversial&quot; and anti-upzoning arguments are the same you see in SF and everywhere else where that comes up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tmnvix</author><text>Melbourne is not much different in that regard (geographically massive with a relatively sparse population for a city of its population size). Sydney too.<p>Melbourne is also experiencing a housing crisis similar to Auckland&#x27;s due to a boom in prices.<p>So should Melbourne also pull out all the stops to encourage new building? Interestingly, Prosper Australia has been tracking Melbourne&#x27;s true vacancy rate for over a decade now, publishing their findings in their Speculative Vacancies Report[1].<p>Before you look at the report, a couple of questions:<p>1) Do you believe prices are being driven up due to a shortage of homes? <i>(Your comment suggests you do.)</i><p>2) If prices were being driven up due to a shortage of homes, would you expect the areas that experience the highest capital gains to have the lowest vacancy rates? <i>(I think most people would agree with this.)</i><p>Now, the most interesting finding from the Speculative Vacancies Report for me was that in fact, contrary to what most people would expect, areas with the highest capital gains correlate strongly with those areas that have highest number of empty dwellings.<p>My own suspicion is that the demand that is driving up prices is not demand for homes, but demand for investments. <i>A speculative boom creates extra demand</i>.<p>In 2007, the Irish thought they had an undersupply of housing. A short time later it was revealed that they actually had a massive oversupply (once investment&#x2F;speculative demand was removed). The RBA in Australia is pointing to the same thing in Melbourne (Docklands has a vacancy rate of ~25%+, other sought after areas are approaching 15-20% according to the report mentioned above).<p>The best thing that Auckland can do to tackle house prices is to address the demand side of the supply and demand equation. There are tonnes of options for doing this but mostly this is an issue caused by easy credit and tax incentives for investing in property. That&#x27;s the place to solve this problem. It would be folly to encroach on green areas or otherwise spoil our environment in a mad rush to build. If we do that... Ireland here we come!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.prosper.org.au&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;09&#x2F;speculative-vacancies-8&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.prosper.org.au&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;09&#x2F;speculative-vacancies-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>New Zealand to ban foreigners from buying existing houses</title><url>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/new-zealand-foreigners-buy-property-ban-coalition-talks-prime-minister-jacinda-arden-a8017261.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kjksf</author><text>Auckland is the largest city in New Zealand.<p>75% of Auckland is zoned for 1 or 2 story buildings (according to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nzherald.co.nz&#x2F;business&#x2F;news&#x2F;article.cfm?c_id=3&amp;objectid=11562709" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nzherald.co.nz&#x2F;business&#x2F;news&#x2F;article.cfm?c_id=3&amp;o...</a>).<p>Of that 33% is the most restrictive single house (&quot;The Single House zone currently covers around a third of residential Auckland and is very restrictive, allowing for only one dwelling on sections smaller than 600 square metres.&quot; according to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stuff.co.nz&#x2F;auckland&#x2F;75219048&#x2F;Aucklands-controversial-new-residential-zoning-maps-released" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stuff.co.nz&#x2F;auckland&#x2F;75219048&#x2F;Aucklands-controver...</a>).<p>5% is zoned for apartment buildings.<p>Here&#x27;s 97% of your house pricing problem. Not foreigners, not low interest rates, not land taxing policies.<p>New Zealand has total population of ~2x Paris and land 1000x of Paris.<p>This is Venezuela style of fixing problems: instead of addressing underlying economics (limited supply meeting increasing demand causing raising prices) by increasing supply, find a political scapegoat (all nations are xenophobic so outsiders are always a good target) to get people to vote for you and create ineffective rules.<p>The real fix is politically unpopular. Unsurprisingly, Aucklanders are NIMBY with the best of them. The plan to upzone is &quot;controversial&quot; and anti-upzoning arguments are the same you see in SF and everywhere else where that comes up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eps</author><text>Coming from Vancouver I can tell you with certainty that Chinese will gobble up ALL apartment space if it&#x27;s available and drive their prices to the insane levels too. This will result in a construction boom leaving behind fields of unoccupied residential towers.<p>Apartments are not the remedy and Chinese money is not a scapegoat, it&#x27;s a hurricane-level force of real-estate.</text></comment> |
32,663,072 | 32,663,170 | 1 | 2 | 32,662,311 | train | <story><title>How Bad Europe’s Energy Crisis Is</title><url>https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/08/26/europe-energy-crisis-natural-gas-economy-winter/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>capableweb</author><text>Maybe it&#x27;s because I&#x27;m not American, but having someone talking about how much worse it is in Europe compared to the US while saying things like what I quote below, doesn&#x27;t really entice me to continue watching the video much further, no matter how much I agree that Europe is fucked at the moment.<p>&gt; (31:36) You guys wanna see what the Chinese and the Europeans are bitching about, &#x27;cause this is so much fun. (all laughing) Europe&#x27;s already in recession.<p>&gt; We are looking at an energy induced depression that is affecting multiple continents probably already, but not here. This is a good problem.<p>&gt; This gives us a competitive advantage in everything.<p>Is it generally considered funny and&#x2F;or OK to shit on others misfortune while laughing about it? Bragging about how much better it is for you that others feel pain about something?</text></item><item><author>jmoak3</author><text>Someone else posted this a few weeks ago, but it truly blew my mind.<p>Watch a few minutes of this, starting from the given timestamp:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Wi_nFz1CJSI?t=1746" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Wi_nFz1CJSI?t=1746</a><p>Europe is in more trouble than I imagined.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmoak3</author><text>&gt;Is it generally considered funny and&#x2F;or OK to shit on others misfortune while laughing about it? Bragging about how much better it is for you that others feel pain about something?<p>The video is from a talk at an Iowan Pork Producer Industry event, not an academic presentation. His audience (the Iowan Pork Industry) was likely very happy to hear this news, given that it is bad for their competitors.<p>&gt;Maybe it&#x27;s because I&#x27;m not American<p>I wouldn&#x27;t extrapolate Iowan pig farmers to all United States citizens.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Bad Europe’s Energy Crisis Is</title><url>https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/08/26/europe-energy-crisis-natural-gas-economy-winter/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>capableweb</author><text>Maybe it&#x27;s because I&#x27;m not American, but having someone talking about how much worse it is in Europe compared to the US while saying things like what I quote below, doesn&#x27;t really entice me to continue watching the video much further, no matter how much I agree that Europe is fucked at the moment.<p>&gt; (31:36) You guys wanna see what the Chinese and the Europeans are bitching about, &#x27;cause this is so much fun. (all laughing) Europe&#x27;s already in recession.<p>&gt; We are looking at an energy induced depression that is affecting multiple continents probably already, but not here. This is a good problem.<p>&gt; This gives us a competitive advantage in everything.<p>Is it generally considered funny and&#x2F;or OK to shit on others misfortune while laughing about it? Bragging about how much better it is for you that others feel pain about something?</text></item><item><author>jmoak3</author><text>Someone else posted this a few weeks ago, but it truly blew my mind.<p>Watch a few minutes of this, starting from the given timestamp:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Wi_nFz1CJSI?t=1746" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Wi_nFz1CJSI?t=1746</a><p>Europe is in more trouble than I imagined.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scottLobster</author><text>Probably catering to his audience. His books are much more even, and when he&#x27;s gone on podcasts he points out how he&#x27;d like to be wrong about what he sees. That particular laugh also came off as rather forced.<p>Simple fact is though that America is the big winner in a European energy crisis. We get to sell Europe all the excess energy we can pump out while simultaneously gaining all the European industry that can leave&#x2F;requires cheap energy.</text></comment> |
37,368,303 | 37,368,092 | 1 | 2 | 37,361,711 | train | <story><title>Making deep learning go brrrr from first principles (2022)</title><url>https://horace.io/brrr_intro.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tysam_and</author><text>[flagged]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JanneVee</author><text>&gt; As an aside and a comment on the article, I feel dismayed by the author&#x27;s decision to include the &#x27;go brrr&#x27; meme. It&#x27;s connected with toxic sentiment and communities from where it&#x27;s generally used, and is oftentimes used to needlessly mock a group of people. There was good content in reading the article, but it turned me off at the beginning as it was rather childish -- in not-a-pleasant way -- and unfunny, and it made the rest of the article hard to read with that taste in my mouth.<p>I have questions...<p>Is the author aware of the toxic communities and their use of the meme or is the author a member of these toxic communities?
Is it the authors intent to exclude you in anyway when using the meme?<p>And if there a bunch of &quot;no&quot; answers above: Why is it the authors responsibility to keep track with your associations with this meme?</text></comment> | <story><title>Making deep learning go brrrr from first principles (2022)</title><url>https://horace.io/brrr_intro.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tysam_and</author><text>[flagged]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>&gt; As an aside and a comment on the article, I feel dismayed by the author&#x27;s decision to include the &#x27;go brrr&#x27; meme. It&#x27;s connected with toxic sentiment and communities from where it&#x27;s generally used, and is oftentimes used to needlessly mock a group of people.<p>It&#x27;s just a meme. No need to read too much into it.<p>In this case, the meme came from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gwern.net&#x2F;scaling-hypothesis" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gwern.net&#x2F;scaling-hypothesis</a>. I doubt that Gwern was making fun of any particular group, except perhaps those that disagree with the bitter lesson.</text></comment> |
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