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23,287,982 | 23,287,353 | 1 | 2 | 23,283,675 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Who regrets choosing Elixir?</title><text>I’ve seen a few Elixir success stories posted here recently. Virtually all comments are from raving fans that have nothing but the best to say about Elixir.<p>As someone with primarily a Ruby &#x2F; Rails background, I’m choosing a language for a new API project and considering Elixir. I’m interested in hearing some counterpoints to Elixir, especially in how a smaller ecosystem Of 3rd party libraries slowed down development.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>carapace</author><text>This, twice.<p>Back in the day people would balk at hiring Python programmers saying, &quot;there are so many more Java programmers&quot;, and I used to say, &quot;Why would you hire a Java programmer who was unwilling or unable to learn Python?&quot;<p>Same logic applies here: Why would you hire a Python programmer who was unwilling or unable to learn Erlang? (Especially if you&#x27;re going to <i>pay</i> them to do it!)<p>If you can&#x27;t switch languages you&#x27;re a kind of <i>technician</i> not a programmer.<p>FWIW, having done it professionally for ~15 years I&#x27;ll never write another large project in Python again. Erlang&#x27;s runtime is so much better than Python&#x27;s it&#x27;s just ridiculous. I feel stupid for not realizing this sooner.</text></item><item><author>craigsmansion</author><text>&gt; there was no one left who could support an Erlang system.<p>If you have $200k &quot;python engineers&quot; on the payroll who wouldn&#x27;t jump at the opportunity to do some additional Erlang, maybe it&#x27;s time to reconsider your hiring practices and that is the real cautionary tale.</text></item><item><author>as-j</author><text>TL;DNR, use a language your company can support. It doesn&#x27;t matter how suited to the job a language is, if it&#x27;s single Engineer or small team, what happens when they move on? How do you support it? Who&#x27;s on call?<p>Not Elixir, but a cautionary tale from our Erlang project. ~8 years ago a our IoT backend was written in Erlang, this was the early days of IoT, so sure it made sense as a technology, could scale well, handle all the symmetric sessions, etc. It was a good tool for the job and in theory could scale well.<p>But, there&#x27;s always a but. We&#x27;re a Python shop on the backend and C on embedded devices. Engineers move on, there some lean times, and after a few years there was no one left who could support an Erlang system. So we hired for the position, and it&#x27;s key infrastructure, but not really a full time project, so we hired a Python+Erland person.<p>But! Now they&#x27;re on call 24&#x2F;7 since the regular on call roster are python people and when the Erlang service goes wrong, it&#x27;s call the one engineer. So, do you hire 2 or 3 people to support the service? No, you design it out. At the time is was 2018, and IoT services were a plenty, so we could use an existing service and python.<p>Another way of looking at it, let&#x27;s say it&#x27;s a critical service and you need at least 3 people to support it&#x2F;be on call. If each engineer costs $200k&#x2F;year, that&#x27;s $600k&#x2F;year. Does this new language save you that much over using a more generic and widly known language in the org?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icedchai</author><text>If I had a Python job (a language I enjoy) and I was forced to work in a language I don&#x27;t (say, Perl), I&#x27;d start complaining about it and looking for something else to do. I personally wouldn&#x27;t mind working with Erlang, but that isn&#x27;t the point. Many developers &quot;can&quot; do these things but it doesn&#x27;t mean they want to.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Who regrets choosing Elixir?</title><text>I’ve seen a few Elixir success stories posted here recently. Virtually all comments are from raving fans that have nothing but the best to say about Elixir.<p>As someone with primarily a Ruby &#x2F; Rails background, I’m choosing a language for a new API project and considering Elixir. I’m interested in hearing some counterpoints to Elixir, especially in how a smaller ecosystem Of 3rd party libraries slowed down development.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>carapace</author><text>This, twice.<p>Back in the day people would balk at hiring Python programmers saying, &quot;there are so many more Java programmers&quot;, and I used to say, &quot;Why would you hire a Java programmer who was unwilling or unable to learn Python?&quot;<p>Same logic applies here: Why would you hire a Python programmer who was unwilling or unable to learn Erlang? (Especially if you&#x27;re going to <i>pay</i> them to do it!)<p>If you can&#x27;t switch languages you&#x27;re a kind of <i>technician</i> not a programmer.<p>FWIW, having done it professionally for ~15 years I&#x27;ll never write another large project in Python again. Erlang&#x27;s runtime is so much better than Python&#x27;s it&#x27;s just ridiculous. I feel stupid for not realizing this sooner.</text></item><item><author>craigsmansion</author><text>&gt; there was no one left who could support an Erlang system.<p>If you have $200k &quot;python engineers&quot; on the payroll who wouldn&#x27;t jump at the opportunity to do some additional Erlang, maybe it&#x27;s time to reconsider your hiring practices and that is the real cautionary tale.</text></item><item><author>as-j</author><text>TL;DNR, use a language your company can support. It doesn&#x27;t matter how suited to the job a language is, if it&#x27;s single Engineer or small team, what happens when they move on? How do you support it? Who&#x27;s on call?<p>Not Elixir, but a cautionary tale from our Erlang project. ~8 years ago a our IoT backend was written in Erlang, this was the early days of IoT, so sure it made sense as a technology, could scale well, handle all the symmetric sessions, etc. It was a good tool for the job and in theory could scale well.<p>But, there&#x27;s always a but. We&#x27;re a Python shop on the backend and C on embedded devices. Engineers move on, there some lean times, and after a few years there was no one left who could support an Erlang system. So we hired for the position, and it&#x27;s key infrastructure, but not really a full time project, so we hired a Python+Erland person.<p>But! Now they&#x27;re on call 24&#x2F;7 since the regular on call roster are python people and when the Erlang service goes wrong, it&#x27;s call the one engineer. So, do you hire 2 or 3 people to support the service? No, you design it out. At the time is was 2018, and IoT services were a plenty, so we could use an existing service and python.<p>Another way of looking at it, let&#x27;s say it&#x27;s a critical service and you need at least 3 people to support it&#x2F;be on call. If each engineer costs $200k&#x2F;year, that&#x27;s $600k&#x2F;year. Does this new language save you that much over using a more generic and widly known language in the org?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>craigsmansion</author><text>Regrettably, also back in the day and probably around the same time, companies who wanted to hire &quot;outside of the box&quot; asked for Python. Not because they were python shops, but because they figured that people who had an interest in a new but not-quite-commercially viable language must have some sort of intrinsic interest in programming, and would likely make for better programmers.</text></comment> |
4,713,864 | 4,713,579 | 1 | 3 | 4,713,000 | train | <story><title>North Carolina teacher's resignation letter</title><url>http://dianeravitch.net/2012/10/27/nc-teacher-i-quit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justin_vanw</author><text>It's fine to grumble about testing, but the debate is not about the tests.<p>Teachers performance in the US has been terrible for many years. Partly this is because of bad management, partly because of low pay, and partly because of teacher unions preventing any action against the worst teachers and insistance on tenure tracks.<p>The reason testing is good isn't because it is somehow super accurate. It is good because it keeps teachers honest. Without testing, how do you measure teacher performance at all? How can you tell if someone who is capable of teaching well isn't just being lazy or getting distracted?<p>So, if you aren't a fan of testing as a way to measure and improve teacher effectiveness, please find an alternative that works better. Just not having any metric at all is far worse than the imperfect tests we have.<p>It's easy to point out problems. It's useful and important that people find flaws and fault. In this case, however, just pointing out the deficiencies in standardized testing doesn't help anyone unless it either leads to a more effective alternative, or improvements in standardized testing. Standardized tests might be very imperfect at measuring teacher performance, but it's far better to use the tool we have than to just throw up our arms and assume that all teachers are equally competent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Bud</author><text><i>So, if you aren't a fan of testing as a way to measure and improve teacher effectiveness, please find an alternative that works better. Just not having any metric at all is far worse than the imperfect tests we have.</i><p>This is a gigantic assumption which you have tossed out there without any support whatsoever. You are basically making an assumption which encompasses the <i>entire issue</i> in question, and then just blithely assuming you are correct.<p>In fact, the evidence which is staring us in the face indicates that you are not correct, and that we were far better off before we decided to let No Child Left Behind and a group of for-profit "education" companies co-opt our system and turn it into a giant standardized-test machine.<p>You want an alternative that works better? No problem. Go back to doing things the way we did them before January 2001. By the way, this would emphatically NOT mean that we had "no metric at all", of course...we had testing before 2001. We just didn't structure our entire system around constant standardized testing and force teachers to teach to those tests, that's all. We also had other metrics, such as observing how students do in college.</text></comment> | <story><title>North Carolina teacher's resignation letter</title><url>http://dianeravitch.net/2012/10/27/nc-teacher-i-quit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justin_vanw</author><text>It's fine to grumble about testing, but the debate is not about the tests.<p>Teachers performance in the US has been terrible for many years. Partly this is because of bad management, partly because of low pay, and partly because of teacher unions preventing any action against the worst teachers and insistance on tenure tracks.<p>The reason testing is good isn't because it is somehow super accurate. It is good because it keeps teachers honest. Without testing, how do you measure teacher performance at all? How can you tell if someone who is capable of teaching well isn't just being lazy or getting distracted?<p>So, if you aren't a fan of testing as a way to measure and improve teacher effectiveness, please find an alternative that works better. Just not having any metric at all is far worse than the imperfect tests we have.<p>It's easy to point out problems. It's useful and important that people find flaws and fault. In this case, however, just pointing out the deficiencies in standardized testing doesn't help anyone unless it either leads to a more effective alternative, or improvements in standardized testing. Standardized tests might be very imperfect at measuring teacher performance, but it's far better to use the tool we have than to just throw up our arms and assume that all teachers are equally competent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jbooth</author><text>Software developer performance in the US has been terrible for many years as well.<p>Maybe we should institute some standardized tests?<p>And if you're gonna complain about how measuring KLOC doesn't make any sense, well, it's not enough to just point out problems. You've gotta point out solutions. Be a team player.</text></comment> |
17,640,332 | 17,639,873 | 1 | 2 | 17,639,218 | train | <story><title>Dying Alone in Japan: The Industry Devoted to What’s Left Behind</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-18/japan-s-lonely-death-industry</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>I&#x27;m interested in how shrinking populations may impact generational wealth.<p>In past generations, where it was common for a successful person to have six, seven, or eight heirs, even a large inheritance was quickly dissipated over a few generations.<p>In a shrinking population, the opposite is true. A single child often inherits the wealth of two working adults. And childless couples will commonly leave anything remaining to a niece or nephew. This could have a consolidating effect on wealth distribution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdietrich</author><text>Most aristocracies practiced primogeniture to prevent this sort of dilution - the entire estate was inherited by the eldest son. America intentionally abolished primogeniture, precisely to prevent the perpetuation of the aristocracy or the creation of a new one.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Primogeniture" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Primogeniture</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fee_tail" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fee_tail</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jstor.org&#x2F;stable&#x2F;2953276" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jstor.org&#x2F;stable&#x2F;2953276</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Dying Alone in Japan: The Industry Devoted to What’s Left Behind</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-18/japan-s-lonely-death-industry</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>I&#x27;m interested in how shrinking populations may impact generational wealth.<p>In past generations, where it was common for a successful person to have six, seven, or eight heirs, even a large inheritance was quickly dissipated over a few generations.<p>In a shrinking population, the opposite is true. A single child often inherits the wealth of two working adults. And childless couples will commonly leave anything remaining to a niece or nephew. This could have a consolidating effect on wealth distribution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spaceflunky</author><text>I see this happening in the US now.<p>For example with homes, when grandparents died in the 80s&#x2F;90s a home was sold at a modest value and split among 3-5 heirs. Which amounted to very little per family after taxes.<p>Nowadays you have millennials set to inherit homes that are overvalued in the $1MM+ range and split among 1-2 heirs. Which can be a life changing sum of money. I personally know of people who feel little pressure in their lives because they know they stand to inherit a $1.5MM home plus whatever else their parents have at some point in their life.</text></comment> |
8,617,632 | 8,617,647 | 1 | 2 | 8,617,057 | train | <story><title>Keeping Secrets</title><url>https://medium.com/stanford-select/keeping-secrets-84a7697bf89f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eps</author><text>Pardon the longer quote, but I want to comment on this -<p><pre><code> Rather than trying to understand both sides of the
issue and make the “right” decision, Hellman said
that in the heat of the controversy, he listened to
his ego instead.
It was not until Hellman watched Day After Trinity,
a documentary about the development of the atomic
bomb, that he realized how dangerous his decision-
making process had been. The moment in the film that
troubled him most, he recalled, was when the Manhattan
Project scientists tried to explain why they continued
to work on the bomb after Hitler had been defeated and
the threat of a German atom bomb had disappeared. The
scientists “had figured out what they wanted to do and
had then come up with a rationalization for doing it,
rather than figuring out the right thing to do and
doing it whether or not it was what they wanted to do.&quot;
</code></pre>
This attitude - screw the consequences, let&#x27;s just scratch my curiosity itch - is <i>extremely</i> common in tech circles. Cryptonomicon did a good job presenting this issue in a highly digested form - that is when the Avi character is setting up a data haven for all the good reasons and the only people that show up for the (funding) presentation are the criminals and rogue government agents. I was messing with anonymous private p2p systems at the time when the book came out and it was frankly a shock to read, because somehow it was an obvious angle that I never considered at all. I was just <i>engineering</i> stuff because it was really interesting, but never did I consider the consequences of actual application. Realizing that there&#x27;s an ethical component to every technical project was quite an eye-opener and it had profound effect on how was viewing projects ever since. Perhaps it&#x27;s obvious to some or a non-issue to others, but then perhaps there are those here who can relate...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ableal</author><text>A short story that I read many years ago, possibly in an SF anthology, has stayed with me. I&#x27;ve forgotten who&#x27;s the author, and don&#x27;t necessarily agree with his point, but it is a good parable.<p>Briefly, a man comes to the house of a famous scientist, who happens to have a mentally disabled son. The unknown visitor comes to plead, politely, for the scientist to cease working on a super-weapon project. He is heard, but is rejected. The visitor accepts it well, and asks to use the bathroom before leaving.<p>After he has left, the scientist finds out that the man has given a gun to his son. He manages to get hold of the weapon without mishap, and wonders what kind of man would give a loaded gun to a disabled child ...</text></comment> | <story><title>Keeping Secrets</title><url>https://medium.com/stanford-select/keeping-secrets-84a7697bf89f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eps</author><text>Pardon the longer quote, but I want to comment on this -<p><pre><code> Rather than trying to understand both sides of the
issue and make the “right” decision, Hellman said
that in the heat of the controversy, he listened to
his ego instead.
It was not until Hellman watched Day After Trinity,
a documentary about the development of the atomic
bomb, that he realized how dangerous his decision-
making process had been. The moment in the film that
troubled him most, he recalled, was when the Manhattan
Project scientists tried to explain why they continued
to work on the bomb after Hitler had been defeated and
the threat of a German atom bomb had disappeared. The
scientists “had figured out what they wanted to do and
had then come up with a rationalization for doing it,
rather than figuring out the right thing to do and
doing it whether or not it was what they wanted to do.&quot;
</code></pre>
This attitude - screw the consequences, let&#x27;s just scratch my curiosity itch - is <i>extremely</i> common in tech circles. Cryptonomicon did a good job presenting this issue in a highly digested form - that is when the Avi character is setting up a data haven for all the good reasons and the only people that show up for the (funding) presentation are the criminals and rogue government agents. I was messing with anonymous private p2p systems at the time when the book came out and it was frankly a shock to read, because somehow it was an obvious angle that I never considered at all. I was just <i>engineering</i> stuff because it was really interesting, but never did I consider the consequences of actual application. Realizing that there&#x27;s an ethical component to every technical project was quite an eye-opener and it had profound effect on how was viewing projects ever since. Perhaps it&#x27;s obvious to some or a non-issue to others, but then perhaps there are those here who can relate...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arethuza</author><text>One of the many memorable parts of Cryptonomicon is where Randy asks Avi how long he wants to keep his secrets safe and gets the answer:<p><i>&quot;I want them to remain secret for as long as men are capable of evil.&quot;</i></text></comment> |
38,875,371 | 38,874,795 | 1 | 2 | 38,873,878 | train | <story><title>Google illegally refusing to bargain with employee union, says NLRB</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/google_illegally_refusing_to_bargain/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sjwhevvvvvsj</author><text>I literally had to take a training that said even if a “TVC” was a core contributor to a launch and the team got t-shirts, it was not allowed to give a shirt to the TVC. You can’t give a TVC a pencil without it being counted as “compensation”.<p>The way Googlers are fully accepting of what is clearly a tax dodge built on sacrificing the most pathetic acts of human dignity made me sick.</text></item><item><author>lokar</author><text>The vendor arrangement is in large part a pretext by Google to avoid their legal responsibilities. Also, the workers have the right to negotiate about more then pay and benefits, they can bargain over working conditions which Google controls.</text></item><item><author>Manuel_D</author><text>It&#x27;s pretty unclear to me what &quot;refusing to bargain&quot; means in this context. It sounds like these are employees of a different company, trying to bargain with Google instead of their employer:<p>&gt; &quot;As we&#x27;ve said before, we have no objection to these Cognizant employees electing to form a union,&quot; Google spokesperson Courtenay Mencini told The Register. &quot;We simply believe it&#x27;s only appropriate for Cognizant, as their employer, to engage in collective bargaining.&quot;<p>It details a similar situation with Accenture. Google&#x27;s position makes sense here: Accenture and Cognizant set their employees pay, benefits, etc. So they should be the ones negotiating with the union. If I&#x27;m a forward deployed engineer and I want better pay, I don&#x27;t negotiate with the customer I&#x27;m working with I negotiate with my boss.<p>Regardless, I don&#x27;t think the union has much in the way of leverage here besides drumming up negative PR for Google. The Alphabet Workers Union apparently has ~1,400 members: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alphabetworkersunion.org&#x2F;#:~:text=Our%20union%20of%201400%2B%20members,our%20solidarity%20with%20one%20another" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alphabetworkersunion.org&#x2F;#:~:text=Our%20union%20...</a>.<p>Google has over 170,000 employees and ~120,000 contractors. Even if it were exclusive to employees, the Alphabet Workers Union accounts for less than 1% of Google&#x27;s workforce.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>That lack of benefits is <i>legally mandated</i>, thanks to some high-profile court cases. It isn&#x27;t that Google or other companies simply <i>don&#x27;t want</i> to give those kinds of perks to contractors; no manager I&#x27;ve worked with has <i>ever</i> begrudged the cost of these kinds of perks and many were just as annoyed that they couldn&#x27;t give them to contractors. And it isn&#x27;t that they want to classify those perks as &quot;compensation&quot; and somehow bill the contractor for them. It&#x27;s that <i>if you give those kinds of benefits to a contractor, they can be involuntarily retroactively reclassified as an employee</i>.<p>Before that legal precedent existed, many companies were a lot more free about sharing those kinds of fun perks (social events, apparel, stickers, fun things that don&#x27;t have a substantial cost) with contractors. I would <i>love</i> to go back to a world in which companies could freely do that and thought nothing of it. And in <i>that</i> world, if some company arbitrarily denied those kinds of perks to contractors I&#x27;d agree that that was the company being unpleasant for no good reason.<p>If you want to complain about companies using contractors in places where you think they should be using employees, by all means do. There are certainly cases where companies use contractors where they should be using employees, and for that matter vice versa. There are also cases where contractors are a better choice (e.g. variable&#x2F;uncertain needs over time, employees of third-party companies that don&#x27;t <i>want</i> to be employees).<p>But if you accept that there are <i>any</i> valid reasons to have contractors and not just employees, <i>the legal requirements that you can&#x27;t give benefits to contractors are legal requirements imposed on the company, not arbitrary indignities invented by the company</i>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google illegally refusing to bargain with employee union, says NLRB</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/google_illegally_refusing_to_bargain/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sjwhevvvvvsj</author><text>I literally had to take a training that said even if a “TVC” was a core contributor to a launch and the team got t-shirts, it was not allowed to give a shirt to the TVC. You can’t give a TVC a pencil without it being counted as “compensation”.<p>The way Googlers are fully accepting of what is clearly a tax dodge built on sacrificing the most pathetic acts of human dignity made me sick.</text></item><item><author>lokar</author><text>The vendor arrangement is in large part a pretext by Google to avoid their legal responsibilities. Also, the workers have the right to negotiate about more then pay and benefits, they can bargain over working conditions which Google controls.</text></item><item><author>Manuel_D</author><text>It&#x27;s pretty unclear to me what &quot;refusing to bargain&quot; means in this context. It sounds like these are employees of a different company, trying to bargain with Google instead of their employer:<p>&gt; &quot;As we&#x27;ve said before, we have no objection to these Cognizant employees electing to form a union,&quot; Google spokesperson Courtenay Mencini told The Register. &quot;We simply believe it&#x27;s only appropriate for Cognizant, as their employer, to engage in collective bargaining.&quot;<p>It details a similar situation with Accenture. Google&#x27;s position makes sense here: Accenture and Cognizant set their employees pay, benefits, etc. So they should be the ones negotiating with the union. If I&#x27;m a forward deployed engineer and I want better pay, I don&#x27;t negotiate with the customer I&#x27;m working with I negotiate with my boss.<p>Regardless, I don&#x27;t think the union has much in the way of leverage here besides drumming up negative PR for Google. The Alphabet Workers Union apparently has ~1,400 members: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alphabetworkersunion.org&#x2F;#:~:text=Our%20union%20of%201400%2B%20members,our%20solidarity%20with%20one%20another" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alphabetworkersunion.org&#x2F;#:~:text=Our%20union%20...</a>.<p>Google has over 170,000 employees and ~120,000 contractors. Even if it were exclusive to employees, the Alphabet Workers Union accounts for less than 1% of Google&#x27;s workforce.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>voiceblue</author><text>Can someone knowledgeable explain this “tax dodge”? I was under the impression that the issue GP underlines (giving a contractor shirt&#x2F;pencil) is more about avoiding misclassification and stems from a lawsuit by Microsoft contractors claiming to be common law employees based on how they were treated and then demanding additional employee-only benefits.</text></comment> |
26,617,977 | 26,617,760 | 1 | 3 | 26,615,938 | train | <story><title>Terminal escape sequences in Git commit email field</title><url>https://twitter.com/ryancdotorg/status/1375484757916672000</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ericson2314</author><text>I&#x27;ve given it a lot of thought, and below is my one &quot;reformist&quot; idea to significantly improve things without breaking back compat so bad<p>Invert the shell and terminal: every shell command (with unredirected streams) gets it&#x27;s own pty.<p>- Like the those repl &quot;notebooks&quot; you can scroll each output separately, without hacks.<p>- Backgrounded processes won&#x27;t spew garbage when you are trying to type. They just continue running in their terminal. You can even background something like vim or a game that takes the whole terminal, and it&#x27;s just fine!<p>- Rather than hacking scroll back onto processes that might use tty stuff in expected ways, just straight-jacket them by giving them plain pipes instead! The OP exploits are then opt-in impossible.<p>- Having powershell-esque &quot;post-text&quot; commands that dispense with the bullshit are far easier to manage: also give them regular file descriptors and negotiate protocol or whatever, just like the above, rather than a pty.<p>- stdin can be a nice form with submit button rather than fixed (usually line) buffering policy.<p>- shell might even be simpler as there is less careful juggling of shared resources except where the programmer asks for it.<p>I also use ssh multiplexing instead of tmux for extra shells. When I do need to use tmux, I hate that read only mode prevents scrollback. The above builds nicely upon this:<p>- The persistent remote shell has as many ptys as needed before for chained commands which might still be running, or separate &quot;sessions&quot;<p>- The local client can use native UI elements for everything, no TUI jank.<p>- Scrolling over many (live or saved) terminals, the normal scrollback case, is possible and very side-effect free.<p>Anyone see any issues? I don&#x27;t for anything I do daily (git, coretuils, etc.)! I don&#x27;t think I have time to make this, so please someone else do.</text></item><item><author>st_goliath</author><text>&gt; Expect this stuff to change drastically in the next 5 years.<p>Bwahaha... is this your first encounter with backwards compatibility?<p>Changing this would be <i>very hard</i>, but this has <i>nothing</i> to do with somebody embracing some grand philosophy, but with <i>tons</i> of existing software relying on Unix like systems to, well ... be Unix-like, because that&#x27;s what the software was written for.</text></item><item><author>junon</author><text>I maintain chalk and a slew of other TTY related things.<p>Terminal emulators are, far and away, the most archaic computer technology we still use daily.<p>Believe me when I say, it&#x27;s a very hard problem to solve since everyone has subscribed to Unix&#x27;s philosophy of &quot;everything is text&quot;.<p>As much as I dislike Microsoft&#x27;s philosophies on software, they had the right idea with Powershell. Its execution is just abysmal.<p>Expect this stuff to change drastically in the next 5 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darrenf</author><text>&gt; <i>You can even background something like vim or a game that takes the whole terminal, and it&#x27;s just fine!</i><p>Focusing on this point, you can background vim just fine right now - I have tons of vim processes backgrounded all the time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Terminal escape sequences in Git commit email field</title><url>https://twitter.com/ryancdotorg/status/1375484757916672000</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ericson2314</author><text>I&#x27;ve given it a lot of thought, and below is my one &quot;reformist&quot; idea to significantly improve things without breaking back compat so bad<p>Invert the shell and terminal: every shell command (with unredirected streams) gets it&#x27;s own pty.<p>- Like the those repl &quot;notebooks&quot; you can scroll each output separately, without hacks.<p>- Backgrounded processes won&#x27;t spew garbage when you are trying to type. They just continue running in their terminal. You can even background something like vim or a game that takes the whole terminal, and it&#x27;s just fine!<p>- Rather than hacking scroll back onto processes that might use tty stuff in expected ways, just straight-jacket them by giving them plain pipes instead! The OP exploits are then opt-in impossible.<p>- Having powershell-esque &quot;post-text&quot; commands that dispense with the bullshit are far easier to manage: also give them regular file descriptors and negotiate protocol or whatever, just like the above, rather than a pty.<p>- stdin can be a nice form with submit button rather than fixed (usually line) buffering policy.<p>- shell might even be simpler as there is less careful juggling of shared resources except where the programmer asks for it.<p>I also use ssh multiplexing instead of tmux for extra shells. When I do need to use tmux, I hate that read only mode prevents scrollback. The above builds nicely upon this:<p>- The persistent remote shell has as many ptys as needed before for chained commands which might still be running, or separate &quot;sessions&quot;<p>- The local client can use native UI elements for everything, no TUI jank.<p>- Scrolling over many (live or saved) terminals, the normal scrollback case, is possible and very side-effect free.<p>Anyone see any issues? I don&#x27;t for anything I do daily (git, coretuils, etc.)! I don&#x27;t think I have time to make this, so please someone else do.</text></item><item><author>st_goliath</author><text>&gt; Expect this stuff to change drastically in the next 5 years.<p>Bwahaha... is this your first encounter with backwards compatibility?<p>Changing this would be <i>very hard</i>, but this has <i>nothing</i> to do with somebody embracing some grand philosophy, but with <i>tons</i> of existing software relying on Unix like systems to, well ... be Unix-like, because that&#x27;s what the software was written for.</text></item><item><author>junon</author><text>I maintain chalk and a slew of other TTY related things.<p>Terminal emulators are, far and away, the most archaic computer technology we still use daily.<p>Believe me when I say, it&#x27;s a very hard problem to solve since everyone has subscribed to Unix&#x27;s philosophy of &quot;everything is text&quot;.<p>As much as I dislike Microsoft&#x27;s philosophies on software, they had the right idea with Powershell. Its execution is just abysmal.<p>Expect this stuff to change drastically in the next 5 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spijdar</author><text>It&#x27;s not a direct match, but I think you&#x27;d be fascinated by aspects of Plan9&#x27;s model. It certainly comes closer to what you&#x27;ve described than Unix does. Depending on exactly what you mean or you&#x27;re envisioning, it might be <i>really</i> close.<p>The problem, of course, is this either breaks existing software or requires new software to be written from scratch to utilize the new frameworks. This was (one of) the reasons plan9 never gained much traction, and the big hurdle for any contender to the TTY&#x2F;shell throne.<p>(It&#x27;s also worth pointing out microsoft themselves reworked their terminal interfaces to be more unix-like for this very reason -- software compatibility)</text></comment> |
11,297,310 | 11,297,535 | 1 | 2 | 11,296,868 | train | <story><title>How the New York Times Sandbagged Bernie Sanders</title><url>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-the-new-york-times-sandbagged-bernie-sanders-20160315</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>libertymcateer</author><text>&gt; With last night&#x27;s victories for Clinton and Trump, the real question people should be asking themselves is what these two candidates have in common that have kept them winning, despite their having the two worst favorability ratings in the election?<p>Specious assumption. My conclusion is that the favorability ratings are bullshit.<p>To posit that a huge media conspiracy has caused millions of voters to vote huge, huge landslides in favor of these two people is just ridiculous compared with the probability that measuring very complex and ineffable metrics like &quot;favorability&quot; is a total crapshoot, especially in a world where voters like myself (and many HNers, I suspect) do not have landlines, use ad-blockers, do not click on advertising online and do not fill out surveys.<p>Tl;dr the likelihood of media influence controlling this election to such huge, huge landslide outcomes is overwhelmingly improbable compared to the high likelihood that favorability metrics are junk-science.</text></item><item><author>unclesaamm</author><text>With last night&#x27;s victories for Clinton and Trump, the real question people should be asking themselves is what these two candidates have in common that have kept them winning, despite their having the two worst favorability ratings in the election?<p>To me, media is an obvious one. Turner Broadcasting is a major corporate donor to Clinton, and the NYT is all but falling over themselves to build connections with a Clinton administration.<p>Another similarity is neither Clinton or Trump care that much about consistency, which makes them much shinier objects to cover. See this article for a rare example of the NYT even being unable to notice Hillary&#x27;s flip flopping: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.nytimes.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;13&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;campaign-stops&#x2F;which-side-are-you-on-hillary.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.nytimes.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;13&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;campaign-stops&#x2F;...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DSingularity</author><text>&gt; Tl;dr the likelihood of media influence controlling this election to such huge, huge landslide outcomes is overwhelmingly improbable compared to the high likelihood that favorability metrics are junk-science.<p>Overwhelmingly improbable? Oh man! What is that likelihood?<p>Please dont masquerade your opinions as facts by using terms like &quot;likelihood&quot; and &quot;improbable&quot;.<p>I have one question for you. If media influence over elections is so &quot;unlikely&quot; and so insignificant why would the NYT have tripped over itself to retitle and reword their article to make it seem like pro-Bernie?<p>Media influence is real. You will quickly notice after speaking to people outside your bubble that the average voters political almost always conform to that of the &quot;pundits&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>How the New York Times Sandbagged Bernie Sanders</title><url>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-the-new-york-times-sandbagged-bernie-sanders-20160315</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>libertymcateer</author><text>&gt; With last night&#x27;s victories for Clinton and Trump, the real question people should be asking themselves is what these two candidates have in common that have kept them winning, despite their having the two worst favorability ratings in the election?<p>Specious assumption. My conclusion is that the favorability ratings are bullshit.<p>To posit that a huge media conspiracy has caused millions of voters to vote huge, huge landslides in favor of these two people is just ridiculous compared with the probability that measuring very complex and ineffable metrics like &quot;favorability&quot; is a total crapshoot, especially in a world where voters like myself (and many HNers, I suspect) do not have landlines, use ad-blockers, do not click on advertising online and do not fill out surveys.<p>Tl;dr the likelihood of media influence controlling this election to such huge, huge landslide outcomes is overwhelmingly improbable compared to the high likelihood that favorability metrics are junk-science.</text></item><item><author>unclesaamm</author><text>With last night&#x27;s victories for Clinton and Trump, the real question people should be asking themselves is what these two candidates have in common that have kept them winning, despite their having the two worst favorability ratings in the election?<p>To me, media is an obvious one. Turner Broadcasting is a major corporate donor to Clinton, and the NYT is all but falling over themselves to build connections with a Clinton administration.<p>Another similarity is neither Clinton or Trump care that much about consistency, which makes them much shinier objects to cover. See this article for a rare example of the NYT even being unable to notice Hillary&#x27;s flip flopping: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.nytimes.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;13&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;campaign-stops&#x2F;which-side-are-you-on-hillary.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.nytimes.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;13&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;campaign-stops&#x2F;...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roderickm</author><text>Bias need not be coordinated or conspiratorial to exist in media. Trump and Clinton each have more than twice the earned (free) media coverage than their nearest competitors. The amount each campaign spends on bought media is a small fraction of what is bestowed by news editors and producers.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mediamatters.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;15&#x2F;ny-times-trumps-mammoth-advantage-in-free-media&#x2F;209262" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mediamatters.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;15&#x2F;ny-times-trumps-mamm...</a></text></comment> |
39,193,661 | 39,193,062 | 1 | 2 | 39,188,040 | train | <story><title>Finding the Air Cannon</title><url>https://www.twobraids.com/2024/01/air-cannon.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mdip</author><text>This is a clever approach and it got me wondering a few things.<p>An hour or so from where I live there have been complaints about an infrequent low rumbling sound for <i>years</i>[0]. I&#x27;d wondered -- at the time -- why you couldn&#x27;t just do something like they do with the gunshot detectors to find the source of the sound[1]. I suspect there must be a technical&#x2F;physics reason that I am not familiar with. This article re-enforced that thinking for me -- I think I&#x27;ve heard one of these air cannons, before (I have not heard the Windsor Hum), and its characteristics seem more like a gunshot kind of sound than what&#x27;s described here but ... if you can record the time it starts from three different points (and all you&#x27;re looking for is &quot;an area roughly the size of a large factory&quot; because it had always been suspected to be one of the plants along the river), wouldn&#x27;t this approach have been simple&#x2F;cheap enough to do to figure it out[2]?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;04&#x2F;898853311&#x2F;it-took-a-pandemic-mystery-of-windsor-hum-is-solved" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;04&#x2F;898853311&#x2F;it-took-a-pandemic-...</a> -- it was solved because a steel plant shut down and the problem went away.<p>[1] Part of the problem was that a subset of the population could hear it and a subset of that population noticed it enough to be bothered about it so it kind of led to a large number of people dismissing complaints as &quot;people who complain about WiFi signals harming their health&quot;<p>[2] And if I answer my own question: I suspect it probably was and I suspect the reason it wasn&#x27;t done is that nobody cared enough to do it, really. :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Finding the Air Cannon</title><url>https://www.twobraids.com/2024/01/air-cannon.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gwern</author><text>Fun historical trivia: shortly after winning the Nobel Prize, Bragg <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lawrence_Bragg#Work_on_sound_ranging" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lawrence_Bragg#Work_on_sound_r...</a> spent WWI working on exactly this problem <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Artillery_sound_ranging" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Artillery_sound_ranging</a></text></comment> |
21,860,804 | 21,860,556 | 1 | 2 | 21,859,612 | train | <story><title>OpenBSD system-call-origin verification</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/806776/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>quotemstr</author><text>I strongly support this policy not only for security, but also for general operating system robustness. Linux is pretty much the only system that places the ABI compatibility boundary and the machine privilege level boundary in the same place in the stack. I think that&#x27;s the wrong place: it pushes a lot of complexity that could be in userspace into the kernel, because the kernel is the first place past the ABI break. Linux would be better if nobody except libc were allowed to make system calls and we just made libc (or a giant VDSO) the ABI support boundary.<p>We should at the very least have a VDSO for every system call. There should be <i>some</i> opportunity to run code in userspace before a privilege transition. Doing so would give us a lot more flexibility than we have now.<p>For example, consider socketcall(2): for a long time, all Linux socket system calls (like recvmsg) were multiplexed through a single system call. A few years ago, the kernel community realized that this multiplexing was a bad idea and made individual system calls for all the traditional socket operations. But since we have to support old programs, we have socketcall(2) <i>and</i> the new system calls in the kernel. Why should we?<p>If the ABI support level had been libc all along, we could have changed the system call strategy (from multiplexing to fine-grained calls) transparently without bloating the kernel with compatibility code.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenBSD system-call-origin verification</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/806776/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gok</author><text>This is a pretty weak security mitigation since any ROP attack will typically achieve return-to-libc anyway, but yelling at people who make syscalls directly is good.</text></comment> |
26,228,399 | 26,228,452 | 1 | 2 | 26,227,339 | train | <story><title>Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020)</title><url>https://blog.discord.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to-rust-a190bbca2b1f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjjeii3</author><text>GO promised to be very fast, but if you check the actual benchmarks:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techempower.com&#x2F;benchmarks&#x2F;#section=test&amp;runid=8ca46892-e46c-4088-9443-05722ad6f7fb&amp;hw=ph&amp;test=plaintext" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techempower.com&#x2F;benchmarks&#x2F;#section=test&amp;runid=8...</a><p>High-level C# (asp.net) is almost twice as fast as GO in the benchmark... Rust is also in the top 3.<p>So, why should I use GO instead of C#, if ASP.NET&#x2F;C# is so blazing fast and requires a lot less lines of code to achieve the same? -&gt; It makes absolutely sense to switch to C# or Rust.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Shadonototro</author><text>Don&#x27;t look at that kind of benchmark, most cheat, and notice how latency is bad, because C# is not native code, so the JIT needs warmup just like java, wich introduces hicups and non-deterministic performance<p>So these perfect situations where you only do the same thing and call same code over and over never happen; never!<p>Anyways, GO isn&#x27;t popular for its RAW perf, GO is popular because:<p>- Simple language<p>- Native code<p>- GC<p>- Cross compilation<p>- Fast iteration (build&#x2F;rebuild&#x2F;deploy)<p>- Relatively tiny, statically compiled executable</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020)</title><url>https://blog.discord.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to-rust-a190bbca2b1f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjjeii3</author><text>GO promised to be very fast, but if you check the actual benchmarks:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techempower.com&#x2F;benchmarks&#x2F;#section=test&amp;runid=8ca46892-e46c-4088-9443-05722ad6f7fb&amp;hw=ph&amp;test=plaintext" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techempower.com&#x2F;benchmarks&#x2F;#section=test&amp;runid=8...</a><p>High-level C# (asp.net) is almost twice as fast as GO in the benchmark... Rust is also in the top 3.<p>So, why should I use GO instead of C#, if ASP.NET&#x2F;C# is so blazing fast and requires a lot less lines of code to achieve the same? -&gt; It makes absolutely sense to switch to C# or Rust.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>d1str0</author><text>Performance is rarely the top priority for a software engineering project. If you task a whole team to switch from Go to Rust or C# purely because “Rust goes brrr” you’re going to have a bad time.<p>I use Go because its decently fast, I like the syntax, has a great stdlib, and I feel like it’s very easy to share a Go codebase with other engineers.</text></comment> |
22,760,652 | 22,759,269 | 1 | 3 | 22,746,830 | train | <story><title>How to resolve a conflict when both sides are right</title><url>https://medium.dave-bailey.com/how-to-resolve-a-conflict-when-both-sides-are-right-1f375bc82f7f</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>quanticle</author><text><i>Suppose product development has slowed down, reported bugs have increased 30% since last month, and sprint velocity is down by 40%. Your engineer is feeling desperately unhappy and is terrified of building new features because of the risk to the system as a whole.<p>They want to stop building new features and refactor some of the system architecture. But what do you think their unmet universal need is here?</i><p>If I were in a situation like that, my &quot;unmet universal need&quot; would be &quot;a manager that understands the concept of technical debt and taking time for unit testing as opposed to spouting mindless psycho-babble at me&quot;.<p>More seriously, this article reinforces my view of NVC as a fundamentally <i>hostile</i> communication framework. By framing itself as the &quot;non-violent&quot; option, it makes any other form of communication &quot;violent&quot; by default, allowing the first person to wield NVC to claim an advantage. &quot;See, I&#x27;m being non-violent,&quot; he or she will say, and it will serve as an universal shield against all who would object to their claims.<p>My take is that if you&#x27;re in a situation where reported bugs have increased 30% and sprint velocity is down by 40%, no amount of NVC is going to solve that. What is going to solve it is management that&#x27;s clued in to the problems at hand. Is it that too much feature work has been done, too quickly, leaving no time for the engineers to attend to technical debt? Is it that the application&#x27;s architecture is unfit for the problem to which it is being applied, leading to lots of hacks and workarounds? Is it that the engineers are incompetent, and should be replaced?<p>In my experience situations where the bug-count goes up by 30% and sprint velocity goes down by 40% don&#x27;t just happen out of nowhere. In every situation I&#x27;ve been in where that&#x27;s happened, management has been warned repeatedly and well in advance that engineering was implementing short term hacks that would come back to bite us later on. To respond to something you were warned about with NVC baby-talk (as opposed to a clear and forthright, &quot;Yeah, we screwed up, how do we go forward from here?&quot;) seems like it would just make the problem worse.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to resolve a conflict when both sides are right</title><url>https://medium.dave-bailey.com/how-to-resolve-a-conflict-when-both-sides-are-right-1f375bc82f7f</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>supercanuck</author><text>The problem with businesses&#x2F;startup&#x2F;bosses trying to use these is that they come across as disingenuous and manipulative if you try to use these as a tool.<p>The core tenet of NVC is that: NVC is based on the assumption that all human beings have capacity for compassion and empathy. If you can&#x27;t exhibit these skills in your day to day life, it feels manipulative to others because you are asking others to be vulnerable.</text></comment> |
5,989,027 | 5,988,829 | 1 | 2 | 5,988,184 | train | <story><title>Mastercard and Visa Start Banning VPN Providers</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/mastercard-and-visa-start-banning-vpn-providers-130703/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dangrossman</author><text>Keep in mind that this is about chargeback risk, not implementing some secret government policy. &quot;Anonymizing VPNs&quot; are a high risk service -- the people signing up for them are more often &quot;bad guys&quot; than tech professionals looking for privacy -- and they&#x27;re signing up with stolen payment information. There are far more hackers, crackers, carders, &quot;script kiddies&quot;, spammers and other people that need to hide their location or appear to be connecting from a different country than there are IT professionals interested in paying for extra privacy.<p>Adult sites, online pharmacies, ticket brokers are treated the same way, and that has nothing to do with evading the NSA. MasterCard added all internet services (the MCC -- merchant category code -- that covers ISPs) to a high risk tier earlier in the year; I got the letter from First Data in the mail myself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fingerprinter</author><text>&gt; Keep in mind that this is about chargeback risk,<p>First, I do not think this is about chargebacks, at all. I don&#x27;t know what it is about, but it&#x27;s not chargebacks. This looks like a blanket revocation of anonymizing&#x2F;VPN services. That isn&#x27;t how fraud&#x2F;risk engines work (note: I wrote several fraud&#x2F;risk engines for ecommerce&#x2F;banking&#x2F;travel industry as well as passive device fingerprinting).<p>Sure, make this a riskier transaction, flag it for review. Uh oh, CC info is from Ohio, but IP is from Russia? Up the risk. Same device that is trying to conduct this transaction also tried 30 others in the past two days? Flag for review, up the risk (several hundred more etc etc).<p>Second, I can&#x27;t think of a single thing that is legal to buy that is blanket revoked by some company like this.<p>Third, adult sites, online pharmacies, ticket brokers and the others are NOT treated the same way. They are treated as higher risk transactions that A. need more&#x2F;closer review B. have a more comprehensive&#x2F;exhaustive&#x2F;deeper risk rules engine run on them. and&#x2F;or C. have a special set of rules that apply specifically to that domain. The CC companies don&#x27;t just turn off buying an entire domain of goods (adult, online pharmacies, ticket brokers....or VPNs), that isn&#x27;t how they work.<p>If true, this smells of something different.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mastercard and Visa Start Banning VPN Providers</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/mastercard-and-visa-start-banning-vpn-providers-130703/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dangrossman</author><text>Keep in mind that this is about chargeback risk, not implementing some secret government policy. &quot;Anonymizing VPNs&quot; are a high risk service -- the people signing up for them are more often &quot;bad guys&quot; than tech professionals looking for privacy -- and they&#x27;re signing up with stolen payment information. There are far more hackers, crackers, carders, &quot;script kiddies&quot;, spammers and other people that need to hide their location or appear to be connecting from a different country than there are IT professionals interested in paying for extra privacy.<p>Adult sites, online pharmacies, ticket brokers are treated the same way, and that has nothing to do with evading the NSA. MasterCard added all internet services (the MCC -- merchant category code -- that covers ISPs) to a high risk tier earlier in the year; I got the letter from First Data in the mail myself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jnbiche</author><text>I&#x27;m pretty dismayed to read this. If you regularly connect to random wireless networks in cafes and hotels, you&#x27;re a moron if you don&#x27;t connect through a VPN. If you&#x27;re not connecting through a VPN all your non-SSL&#x2F;TLS traffic is available for reading for whatever bored cracker has found his way onto the router. Plus, not all sensitive sites implement SSL&#x2F;TLS and those that do often implement it poorly[1]. .<p>Not to even speak of the whole NSA spying thing.<p>Not all of us are corporate drones with the mother ship VPN to connect to, so we have to pay for ours.<p>I can&#x27;t believe the number of people here on HN who think that no one but criminals use VPNs.<p>1. <a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/04/90-of-popular-ssl-sites-vulnerable-to-exploits-researchers-find/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;2012&#x2F;04&#x2F;90-of-popular-ssl-si...</a></text></comment> |
24,817,010 | 24,816,420 | 1 | 3 | 24,816,014 | train | <story><title>Oracle founder donated $250k to Graham PAC in final days of TikTok deal</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/17/21520356/oracle-tiktok-larry-ellison-lindsey-graham-super-pac-donation-jaime-harrison</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TheRealDunkirk</author><text>$250K is lunch money for Larry Ellison. The _truly_ sad thing about American democracy isn&#x27;t that the government can be bought; it&#x27;s that it can be bought so cheaply, relatively speaking. If you want the government to hand over a whole new business line to one of the already-largest and most-successful businesses in the world, you&#x27;d think they&#x27;d have to drop an amount of money they might actually notice.</text></comment> | <story><title>Oracle founder donated $250k to Graham PAC in final days of TikTok deal</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/17/21520356/oracle-tiktok-larry-ellison-lindsey-graham-super-pac-donation-jaime-harrison</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>curiousgal</author><text>Blatant legal corruption asside (I mean it is the U.S., am I right?), I am more astonished by this tidbit<p>&gt; <i>Still, Harrison raised $57 million in the third quarter of this year, dwarfing Graham’s $28 million.</i><p>How the fuck do you raise 28 or 57 million dollars in 3 months and are state election campaigns <i>THAT</i> expensive??</text></comment> |
22,539,063 | 22,538,247 | 1 | 2 | 22,538,144 | train | <story><title>Robinhood maxed out credit line last month amid market tumult</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-10/robinhood-maxed-out-credit-line-last-month-amid-market-tumult</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alexpotato</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked in &quot;FinTech DevOps&quot; for the past 10 years and this reminds me of a story from a past job:<p>We hired the Global Head of Clearing [0] from a big bank and on their first day they were giving a presentation on their background and how financial clearing works.<p>Someone asked &quot;What is your nightmare scenario?&quot;<p>The response:<p><i>We have a large overnight position in a security. Our Prime Broker (PB) [1] comes back and says &quot;We disagree with you on the position so you can&#x27;t trade.&quot; Even if it turns out that the PB is wrong, by the time it all gets sorted out, the market has moved so much in that security that it bankrupts us. I&#x27;ve seen it happen to other firms and it&#x27;s not pretty.</i><p>I also started at Knight right after their big outage. [2] People like to talk about the big tech outages sinking financial firms but it can just as easily be plain old issues with bookkeeping that can blow up a firm.<p>0 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;terms&#x2F;c&#x2F;clearing.asp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;terms&#x2F;c&#x2F;clearing.asp</a><p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;professionals&#x2F;110415&#x2F;role-prime-broker.asp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;professionals&#x2F;110415&#x2F;r...</a><p>2 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thestreet.com&#x2F;investing&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;knight-capital-shuts-down-trading-on-electrical-outage-11752932" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thestreet.com&#x2F;investing&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;knight-capital-sh...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Robinhood maxed out credit line last month amid market tumult</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-10/robinhood-maxed-out-credit-line-last-month-amid-market-tumult</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>volak</author><text>“We determined it was prudent to draw on our credit line during the week of Feb. 24 in light of market volatility. That capital was returned in full last week.”<p>Headline should read &quot;Robinhood used credit that was available to them and paid it back&quot;<p>But that wouldn&#x27;t generate the desired panic or clicks now would it</text></comment> |
33,090,907 | 33,090,938 | 1 | 2 | 33,090,205 | train | <story><title>Study: Time-Restricted Eating Improves Cardiovascular Health for Firefighters</title><url>https://today.ucsd.edu/story/study-time-restricted-eating-improves-cardiovascular-health-for-firefighters</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xwdv</author><text>It screws up your semen.</text></item><item><author>colechristensen</author><text>Sauna seems pretty close, it’s just sitting somewhere hot on a regular basis and is quite pleasant.<p>Saw a study recently that showed broad, dose dependent health effects.<p>Personally it really seems to help when I’m overloaded with stress, in a direct immediate way.</text></item><item><author>nico</author><text>&gt; “It’s not a pill, but a healthy habit that can significantly reduce these three risks of disease without any adverse side effects.”<p>This is probably the case for a lot of health issues.<p>But we always want a pill that will fix the issues while allowing us not to change our habits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>getcrunk</author><text>Or fixes it depending on your life goals</text></comment> | <story><title>Study: Time-Restricted Eating Improves Cardiovascular Health for Firefighters</title><url>https://today.ucsd.edu/story/study-time-restricted-eating-improves-cardiovascular-health-for-firefighters</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xwdv</author><text>It screws up your semen.</text></item><item><author>colechristensen</author><text>Sauna seems pretty close, it’s just sitting somewhere hot on a regular basis and is quite pleasant.<p>Saw a study recently that showed broad, dose dependent health effects.<p>Personally it really seems to help when I’m overloaded with stress, in a direct immediate way.</text></item><item><author>nico</author><text>&gt; “It’s not a pill, but a healthy habit that can significantly reduce these three risks of disease without any adverse side effects.”<p>This is probably the case for a lot of health issues.<p>But we always want a pill that will fix the issues while allowing us not to change our habits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spoonjim</author><text>Most men have only about a 10-year period when they care about their semen quality, you can use the sauna the other 50 years.</text></comment> |
36,595,585 | 36,592,179 | 1 | 2 | 36,591,032 | train | <story><title>How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries</title><url>https://www.kodingkitty.com/blog/how-to-build-a-website/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gwern</author><text>This seems to fall into the &#x27;simplistic, not simple&#x27; school of thought. You can have a relatively simple website if it doesn&#x27;t <i>do</i> anything and if it cuts corners.<p>Take your dark mode, which is just about the only nontrivial feature I see on this page. (One could also criticize the low contrast of the appearance and other problems, but that&#x27;s less relevant to the simplicity thesis you&#x27;re claiming.)<p>First, your dark mode is implemented wrong in the lazy corner-cutting way of doing JS post-load instead of the correct way of CSS body classes; so you get the &#x27;flash of white&#x27; unavoidably on every page load - just what every dark mode user with their phone to their face at midnight wants to see! (If your solution doesn&#x27;t work, it doesn&#x27;t matter if it&#x27;s &#x27;simple&#x27; or &#x27;complex&#x27;.)<p>Second, you implement what is like 3 lines of JS (setting localstorage &amp; dark-mode) by pulling in what looks like an entire interpreter for a custom &#x27;hyperscript&#x27; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hyperscript.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hyperscript.org&#x2F;</a> language which seems to mostly just offer some sugar over JS; now, maybe you use &#x27;hyperscript&#x27; elsewhere for reasonable purposes, but surely pulling in a 96kb (uncached) library solely to run<p>def saveMode() if first classList.value of &lt;html&#x2F;&gt; contains &#x27;dark&#x27; set localStorage.kkColorMode to &#x27;dark&#x27; else set localStorage.kkColorMode to &#x27;light&#x27; end end<p><pre><code> init if localStorage.kkColorMode is empty set localStorage.kkColorMode to &#x27;light&#x27; end if localStorage.kkColorMode is &#x27;dark&#x27; add .dark to &lt;html&#x2F;&gt; end
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is a bit against the spirit of this &quot;simplicity is the ultimate perfection&quot; enterprise...? Personally, I feel like I see some easy perfection to add right there. (And is this hyperscript stuff also why the HTML doesn&#x27;t validate?)<p>Third, this binary toggle is a bad way to implement dark mode because it ignores system&#x2F;browser settings, so if a user has, say, enabled dark-mode on their smartphone OS, they still get served light-mode until they manually enable it; note that some systems change it based on local time&#x2F;ambient light too, which is quite nice... if websites &amp; apps respect it instead of overriding it. And since localstorage expires and users switch devices, they would have to do so repeatedly. Is this a good thing? A user probably would disagree with the developer who is touting how &#x27;simple&#x27; the dark-mode implementation is because they cut corners in handling system settings&#x2F;auto-dark-mode...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SPBS</author><text>Honestly if the goal is a website as simple as possible, dark mode should not belong there at all. We&#x27;ve had simple readable websites in 90s long before the dark mode fad was a thing, only having light mode is fine.<p>&gt; Third, this binary toggle is a bad way to implement dark mode because it ignores system&#x2F;browser settings, so if a user has, say, enabled dark-mode on their smartphone OS, they still get served light-mode until they manually enable it; note that some systems change it based on local time&#x2F;ambient light too, which is quite nice... if websites &amp; apps respect it instead of overriding it.<p>There&#x27;s so much complexity here that goes against the philosophy of a simple website if simplicity is the goal. They should just skip dark mode entirely. HN itself is perma light mode, it doesn&#x27;t stop me from reading it at night.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries</title><url>https://www.kodingkitty.com/blog/how-to-build-a-website/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gwern</author><text>This seems to fall into the &#x27;simplistic, not simple&#x27; school of thought. You can have a relatively simple website if it doesn&#x27;t <i>do</i> anything and if it cuts corners.<p>Take your dark mode, which is just about the only nontrivial feature I see on this page. (One could also criticize the low contrast of the appearance and other problems, but that&#x27;s less relevant to the simplicity thesis you&#x27;re claiming.)<p>First, your dark mode is implemented wrong in the lazy corner-cutting way of doing JS post-load instead of the correct way of CSS body classes; so you get the &#x27;flash of white&#x27; unavoidably on every page load - just what every dark mode user with their phone to their face at midnight wants to see! (If your solution doesn&#x27;t work, it doesn&#x27;t matter if it&#x27;s &#x27;simple&#x27; or &#x27;complex&#x27;.)<p>Second, you implement what is like 3 lines of JS (setting localstorage &amp; dark-mode) by pulling in what looks like an entire interpreter for a custom &#x27;hyperscript&#x27; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hyperscript.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hyperscript.org&#x2F;</a> language which seems to mostly just offer some sugar over JS; now, maybe you use &#x27;hyperscript&#x27; elsewhere for reasonable purposes, but surely pulling in a 96kb (uncached) library solely to run<p>def saveMode() if first classList.value of &lt;html&#x2F;&gt; contains &#x27;dark&#x27; set localStorage.kkColorMode to &#x27;dark&#x27; else set localStorage.kkColorMode to &#x27;light&#x27; end end<p><pre><code> init if localStorage.kkColorMode is empty set localStorage.kkColorMode to &#x27;light&#x27; end if localStorage.kkColorMode is &#x27;dark&#x27; add .dark to &lt;html&#x2F;&gt; end
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is a bit against the spirit of this &quot;simplicity is the ultimate perfection&quot; enterprise...? Personally, I feel like I see some easy perfection to add right there. (And is this hyperscript stuff also why the HTML doesn&#x27;t validate?)<p>Third, this binary toggle is a bad way to implement dark mode because it ignores system&#x2F;browser settings, so if a user has, say, enabled dark-mode on their smartphone OS, they still get served light-mode until they manually enable it; note that some systems change it based on local time&#x2F;ambient light too, which is quite nice... if websites &amp; apps respect it instead of overriding it. And since localstorage expires and users switch devices, they would have to do so repeatedly. Is this a good thing? A user probably would disagree with the developer who is touting how &#x27;simple&#x27; the dark-mode implementation is because they cut corners in handling system settings&#x2F;auto-dark-mode...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickelpro</author><text>&gt; First, your dark mode is implemented wrong in the lazy corner-cutting way of doing JS post-load ...<p>I agree with your whole comment, but the media query approach is also tricky.<p>You typically still want to <i>offer</i> a toggle while respecting prefers-color-scheme, and you <i>may</i> want to give priority to whatever choice the user has made with that toggle if they&#x27;ve used it on your site before. This still requires JS and localstorage.<p>So what to do? My preferred choice is having an inline style element of:<p>body {visibility: hidden; opacity: 0;}<p>This will maintain the previous page until DOMContentLoaded, at which point you can query prefers-color-element and localstorage, set the body class correctly, and let the page paint.</text></comment> |
18,076,121 | 18,075,394 | 1 | 3 | 18,069,677 | train | <story><title>'Super Mario Bros.' speedrunner hits nearly inhuman 4:55 world record</title><url>https://mashable.com/article/super-mario-bros-world-record/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamespo</author><text>what is the point of that</text></item><item><author>beaconstudios</author><text>Tool Assisted Speedrun. It means you perform input to the game programmatically meaning you can set the input perfectly on a per-frame basis.</text></item><item><author>lars_francke</author><text>For anyone else wondering:<p>TAS = Tool-assisted game movies
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tasvideos.org&#x2F;Game&#x2F;nes-super-mario-bros.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tasvideos.org&#x2F;Game&#x2F;nes-super-mario-bros.html</a></text></item><item><author>mrob</author><text>&gt;When Kosmic says he&#x27;s tied with the TAS run at 4-1, that means his inputs are matched up exactly with the program&#x27;s and he can&#x27;t physically do any better.<p>It means he can&#x27;t physically get a better time, but it does not mean his inputs are matched up exactly with the TAS. SMB1 level transitions are based around the &quot;frame rule&quot;, which means you don&#x27;t advance to the next level until the number of elapsed frames from the start of that level is a multiple of 21. This means it&#x27;s possible to have slightly imperfect input on all levels except 8-4 (the last level, so no waiting to advance to the next level there) and still get the same time as the TAS (unless the TAS reached the end of the level with no frames to spare). The TAS aims to reach the end of each level as fast as possible even if it would mean no overall time saving because of the wait for the multiple of 21 frames.<p>I think this mechanic has been very beneficial for speedrunning, because it gives clear sub-goals. When you hear runners talking about &quot;saving a frame rule&quot;, that means reaching the end of the level in time for an earlier multiple of 21 frames.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kibwen</author><text>If normal speedruns are like playing speed chess, tool-assisted speedruns are like finding the theoretically-optimal solutions to chess problems (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Chess_problem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Chess_problem</a>). Both of them require intense devotion to the game, though the first emphasizes physical ability and execution while the second emphasizes exhaustive thinking.</text></comment> | <story><title>'Super Mario Bros.' speedrunner hits nearly inhuman 4:55 world record</title><url>https://mashable.com/article/super-mario-bros-world-record/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamespo</author><text>what is the point of that</text></item><item><author>beaconstudios</author><text>Tool Assisted Speedrun. It means you perform input to the game programmatically meaning you can set the input perfectly on a per-frame basis.</text></item><item><author>lars_francke</author><text>For anyone else wondering:<p>TAS = Tool-assisted game movies
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tasvideos.org&#x2F;Game&#x2F;nes-super-mario-bros.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tasvideos.org&#x2F;Game&#x2F;nes-super-mario-bros.html</a></text></item><item><author>mrob</author><text>&gt;When Kosmic says he&#x27;s tied with the TAS run at 4-1, that means his inputs are matched up exactly with the program&#x27;s and he can&#x27;t physically do any better.<p>It means he can&#x27;t physically get a better time, but it does not mean his inputs are matched up exactly with the TAS. SMB1 level transitions are based around the &quot;frame rule&quot;, which means you don&#x27;t advance to the next level until the number of elapsed frames from the start of that level is a multiple of 21. This means it&#x27;s possible to have slightly imperfect input on all levels except 8-4 (the last level, so no waiting to advance to the next level there) and still get the same time as the TAS (unless the TAS reached the end of the level with no frames to spare). The TAS aims to reach the end of each level as fast as possible even if it would mean no overall time saving because of the wait for the multiple of 21 frames.<p>I think this mechanic has been very beneficial for speedrunning, because it gives clear sub-goals. When you hear runners talking about &quot;saving a frame rule&quot;, that means reaching the end of the level in time for an earlier multiple of 21 frames.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neetdavid</author><text>People use them as another tool for finding glitches and exploring the possibility space of the game&#x27;s systems. They&#x27;re basically using debugging tools and in some cases even looking at memory allocations etc.<p>As for full length tool assisted runs, I just find them to be a fascinating new lens to examine these games under. It&#x27;s cool (depending on who you ask...) to see what the game looks like when another computer program is piloting it perfectly towards the goal of &#x27;finish as fast as possible&#x27;</text></comment> |
10,375,430 | 10,375,625 | 1 | 2 | 10,375,005 | train | <story><title>In Bel-Air, someone is using 1,300 gallons of water per hour</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-1007-lopez-water-glutton-20151007-column.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradleybuda</author><text>This is disturbing; the journalist is advocating the outing&#x2F;doxxing of a private citizen who is breaking <i>no laws whatsoever</i> (at least as far as I can tell from the story). In the internet bully culture we have, that&#x27;s incredibly irresponsible.<p>If there&#x27;s something wrong with an individual using so much water (and there may very well be), then the right response is to change the laws, regulations, or rates to charge more or even to prohibit said water use; not to shame an individual who is acting legally within the system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cperciva</author><text>I agree. After all, it&#x27;s not as if this property owner isn&#x27;t paying for the extravagant water usage.<p>And if you think that $90,000&#x2F;year isn&#x27;t enough to reimburse society for this water usage... raise the damn prices. And if you think raising water rates would unfairly hurt the poor... take the increased revenue and hand it out as a per-capita water tax rebate.</text></comment> | <story><title>In Bel-Air, someone is using 1,300 gallons of water per hour</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-1007-lopez-water-glutton-20151007-column.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradleybuda</author><text>This is disturbing; the journalist is advocating the outing&#x2F;doxxing of a private citizen who is breaking <i>no laws whatsoever</i> (at least as far as I can tell from the story). In the internet bully culture we have, that&#x27;s incredibly irresponsible.<p>If there&#x27;s something wrong with an individual using so much water (and there may very well be), then the right response is to change the laws, regulations, or rates to charge more or even to prohibit said water use; not to shame an individual who is acting legally within the system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>Shaming people for doing things that are legal but nonetheless antisocial is the only way to avoid the situation where you have to make everything that&#x27;s <i>bad</i> also <i>illegal</i>. It&#x27;s a time-honored way of enforcing social norms and avoiding overly-legalistic social frameworks.</text></comment> |
3,074,235 | 3,073,702 | 1 | 2 | 3,072,978 | train | <story><title>US, Aus, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and S. Korea sign ACTA</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/10/us-signs-international-anti-piracy-accord.ars</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>linuxhansl</author><text>&#62; Until European Union authorities began leaking the document’s text, the Obama administration was claiming the accord was a "national security" secret.<p>I cannot even begin to express how much this disgusts me. This is the government that I fund with my tax dollars, that is supposed to work on my behalf. There should no operation in the dark.<p>I hope Europe does not sign this nonsense, although I am not keeping my hopes up.
The notion that "piracy" (even that word is the result of well oiled marketing campaign) will destroy the content makers (rather than the crappy, repetitive stuff they create) is widespread among politicians.</text></comment> | <story><title>US, Aus, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and S. Korea sign ACTA</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/10/us-signs-international-anti-piracy-accord.ars</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jrockway</author><text>Wow, this is scary. The technology that the pirates will develop to trade files unnoticed, combined with anonymous payment systems like Bitcoin, mean that people in the business of child abuse will have it even easier than they already do. It's great to criminalize college students sharing mix tapes or whatever, but the side effects are what's really frightening. (Also, if we're going to fine someone $1.3MM for sharing music, shouldn't we just kill them instead? Their life is ruined either way, but a quick and painless death seems much more humane than spending 60 years living in poverty as a slave to the recording industry.)<p>Won't someone <i>please</i> think of the children?<p>(Do we really want to start fighting a losing War On Sharing alongside our War On Drugs, War On Liquids-on-planes, and War on Afghanistan? Can society afford another losing war?)</text></comment> |
25,152,601 | 25,152,670 | 1 | 3 | 25,152,152 | train | <story><title>CDC advises Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving</title><url>https://www.axios.com/cdc-thanksgiving-travel-coronavirus-spread-48170cf3-8121-4bb5-bd37-2ddb507cdb55.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>qntty</author><text>Seems kind of silly to tell people who have been working at customer facing jobs this entire time that 8 hours at work is ok, but a few hours at dinner isn&#x27;t. It&#x27;s even more silly to blame working people for being unwilling to accept this contradiction rather than the government for being unwilling to pay people to stay home.</text></comment> | <story><title>CDC advises Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving</title><url>https://www.axios.com/cdc-thanksgiving-travel-coronavirus-spread-48170cf3-8121-4bb5-bd37-2ddb507cdb55.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>werber</author><text>I got a lot of flack for cancelling plans with my family, this honestly is a god send in terms of relationship management.</text></comment> |
31,089,898 | 31,089,810 | 1 | 2 | 31,085,051 | train | <story><title>De-AMP: Cutting out Google and enhancing privacy</title><url>https://brave.com/privacy-updates/18-de-amp/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nybble41</author><text>That was Mozilla&#x27;s objection to the Signed Exchange standard: you lose some privacy because the cache server can see the page data in the clear, even if they can&#x27;t modify it. But IMHO resisting Signed Exchange doesn&#x27;t help here at all, since you gave up that data to Google when you followed the link (which is <i>not</i> obfuscated). It makes no difference at that point what is shown in the address bar, as the page has already been served. Also, since Signed Exchange means you don&#x27;t have to trust the cache, it implies that Google&#x27;s cache could be replaced with a different (but still not fully trusted) server behind the scenes without changing the result.</text></item><item><author>jabbany</author><text>Google modifying the content is not really the threat model most people care that much about though (similar concerns exist with other caches&#x2F;cdns)...<p>Google redirecting traffic to servers they control to mine interaction and interest data on the other hand...</text></item><item><author>nybble41</author><text>The original version where the content was served from Google&#x27;s cache without any cryptographic verification but displayed as if it came from the original site was… misguided at best. It meant that you were trusting Google&#x27;s servers to only cache the content and not modify it.<p>The new system adds verification that the content is exactly what was intended by the original site, despite being served through a cache, so the user agent is no longer lying about which website the user is visiting. Sure, the data was fetched from Google, but that&#x27;s not the important part. It&#x27;s been verified to have originated from the server shown in the address bar.</text></item><item><author>37</author><text>This seems insane and malicious as hell and I can&#x27;t believe it&#x27;s being sold as a feature. It&#x27;s essentially just lying to users about which website they are currently visiting, or maybe I&#x27;m missing something.</text></item><item><author>tentacleuno</author><text>&gt; Second, AMP is bad for security. By design, AMP confuses users about what site they’re interacting with. Users think they’re interacting with the publisher, when in actuality the user is still within Google’s control. User-respecting browsers defend the site as the security and privacy boundary on the web, and systems like AMP intentionally confuse this boundary.<p>They&#x27;ve actually been pushing to confuse that boundary even more since 2019, with their Signed Exchanges specification[0][1]. In essence, when you (unintentionally) visit an AMP page from Google Search, the URL typically starts with google.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;websiteyouwantedtogoto.com. Signed Exchanges is essentially a way to drop the &quot;google.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;&quot; bit, as demonstrated by one of the animations on [0].<p>Even Cloudflare supported this and rolled it out on their free tier[2].<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;04&#x2F;instant-loading-amp-pages-from-your-own" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;04&#x2F;instant-lo...</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;4&#x2F;16&#x2F;18402628&#x2F;google-amp-url-problem-signed-exchange-original-chrome-cloudflare" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;4&#x2F;16&#x2F;18402628&#x2F;google-amp-url-p...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;announcing-amp-real-url&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;announcing-amp-real-url&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>37</author><text>&gt;It makes no difference at that point what is shown in the address bar<p>This is ridiculous. Of course it makes a difference. The address bar is how basically 100% of users know what site they are on.</text></comment> | <story><title>De-AMP: Cutting out Google and enhancing privacy</title><url>https://brave.com/privacy-updates/18-de-amp/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nybble41</author><text>That was Mozilla&#x27;s objection to the Signed Exchange standard: you lose some privacy because the cache server can see the page data in the clear, even if they can&#x27;t modify it. But IMHO resisting Signed Exchange doesn&#x27;t help here at all, since you gave up that data to Google when you followed the link (which is <i>not</i> obfuscated). It makes no difference at that point what is shown in the address bar, as the page has already been served. Also, since Signed Exchange means you don&#x27;t have to trust the cache, it implies that Google&#x27;s cache could be replaced with a different (but still not fully trusted) server behind the scenes without changing the result.</text></item><item><author>jabbany</author><text>Google modifying the content is not really the threat model most people care that much about though (similar concerns exist with other caches&#x2F;cdns)...<p>Google redirecting traffic to servers they control to mine interaction and interest data on the other hand...</text></item><item><author>nybble41</author><text>The original version where the content was served from Google&#x27;s cache without any cryptographic verification but displayed as if it came from the original site was… misguided at best. It meant that you were trusting Google&#x27;s servers to only cache the content and not modify it.<p>The new system adds verification that the content is exactly what was intended by the original site, despite being served through a cache, so the user agent is no longer lying about which website the user is visiting. Sure, the data was fetched from Google, but that&#x27;s not the important part. It&#x27;s been verified to have originated from the server shown in the address bar.</text></item><item><author>37</author><text>This seems insane and malicious as hell and I can&#x27;t believe it&#x27;s being sold as a feature. It&#x27;s essentially just lying to users about which website they are currently visiting, or maybe I&#x27;m missing something.</text></item><item><author>tentacleuno</author><text>&gt; Second, AMP is bad for security. By design, AMP confuses users about what site they’re interacting with. Users think they’re interacting with the publisher, when in actuality the user is still within Google’s control. User-respecting browsers defend the site as the security and privacy boundary on the web, and systems like AMP intentionally confuse this boundary.<p>They&#x27;ve actually been pushing to confuse that boundary even more since 2019, with their Signed Exchanges specification[0][1]. In essence, when you (unintentionally) visit an AMP page from Google Search, the URL typically starts with google.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;websiteyouwantedtogoto.com. Signed Exchanges is essentially a way to drop the &quot;google.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;&quot; bit, as demonstrated by one of the animations on [0].<p>Even Cloudflare supported this and rolled it out on their free tier[2].<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;04&#x2F;instant-loading-amp-pages-from-your-own" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;04&#x2F;instant-lo...</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;4&#x2F;16&#x2F;18402628&#x2F;google-amp-url-problem-signed-exchange-original-chrome-cloudflare" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;4&#x2F;16&#x2F;18402628&#x2F;google-amp-url-p...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;announcing-amp-real-url&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;announcing-amp-real-url&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jabbany</author><text>&gt; It makes no difference at that point what is shown in the address bar, as the page has already been served.<p>If this were truly the case (that it didn&#x27;t matter), the argument can be made that there is no reason to change the host -- just show it as google.com like it does now. The only reason that you&#x27;d want the address bar to show a different domain (i.e. the &quot;author&quot; rather than &quot;publisher&quot;) is exactly because it _does matter_ to the user!</text></comment> |
22,880,895 | 22,880,840 | 1 | 3 | 22,880,335 | train | <story><title>Covid-19 at a homeless shelter in Boston: Implications for universal testing</title><url>https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.12.20059618v1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jcp2fa</author><text>&gt; Cough (7.5%), shortness of breath (1.4%), and fever (0.7%) were all uncommon among COVID-positive individuals<p>It seems the more important point here is that the majority of the COVID-positive individuals were asymptomatic, putting another datapoint towards the conclusion that there are orders of magnitude more people that have this disease than have tested positive.<p>We need more studies to gather data on these asymptomatic cases if we want to reopen the economy soon. Imagine if 10+% of the population already had COVID and where immune, we&#x27;d be much closer to heard immunity than we currently think.</text></comment> | <story><title>Covid-19 at a homeless shelter in Boston: Implications for universal testing</title><url>https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.12.20059618v1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rb808</author><text>Also 15% of pregnant Moms in NYC had the virus. This could already be much more widely spread that people think.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnewyork.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;local&#x2F;nyc-hospital-finds-high-covid-19-infection-rate-but-few-symptoms-in-pregnant-women&#x2F;2372863&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnewyork.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;local&#x2F;nyc-hospital-finds-hig...</a></text></comment> |
25,211,977 | 25,211,922 | 1 | 2 | 25,210,644 | train | <story><title>Tips for Founders Doing Sales (From a Founder)</title><url>https://micael.substack.com/p/10-tips-for-founders-doing-sales</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>amoorthy</author><text>I&#x27;m an engineer turned bus-dev&#x2F;sales person. I found the transition very difficult and was recommended to sign up for sales coaching. It was excellent advice and I learned a lot about my inherent weaknesses when it comes to selling and how to compensate for them. I wrote a few of my lessons on my blog. A bit dated but perhaps of value to others:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.curiousjuice.com&#x2F;blog-0&#x2F;bid&#x2F;134157&#x2F;Sales-training-for-an-engineer-lessons-from-a-master" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.curiousjuice.com&#x2F;blog-0&#x2F;bid&#x2F;134157&#x2F;Sales-trainin...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.curiousjuice.com&#x2F;blog-0&#x2F;bid&#x2F;135376&#x2F;Secret-to-sales-success-ask-better-questions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.curiousjuice.com&#x2F;blog-0&#x2F;bid&#x2F;135376&#x2F;Secret-to-sal...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Tips for Founders Doing Sales (From a Founder)</title><url>https://micael.substack.com/p/10-tips-for-founders-doing-sales</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gumby</author><text>&gt; Get to know your customers before selling to them...The easiest way to go about this is to solve your own problem.<p>The headline is good advice but being your own first customer is rarely good.<p>First the bad:<p>1: if you have problem X and have the in house skills to fix it, it’s likely that your potential customers can fix it for themselves too.<p>2: you are not the same as anyone else: you can fake yourself out by believing that your potential customer thinks the same way you do. If your prospects are quite different from you (say you’re a programmer writing a tool for doctors) you’ll work harder to understand their real <i>and</i> perceived needs.<p>But sometimes this is good advice:<p>1 - Even if you are different from your customer (say you’re writing something broadly applicable like a web site design tool for small business), “eating your own dog food” will find bugs and infelicities faster.<p>2 - if your customer has the same needs as you perhaps you already know how to meet said customer easily, such as trade groups you’re already in.<p>In general the advice in this post was pretty basic and generic but I didn’t want to let the issue above pass I commented.</text></comment> |
35,173,806 | 35,173,672 | 1 | 2 | 35,166,892 | train | <story><title>Credit Suisse sheds nearly 25%, key backer says no more money</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/credit-suisse-shares-drop-fresh-record-low-cds-widen-2023-03-15/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtlmtlmtlmtl</author><text>Yep. I went and quickly looked them up on Wikipedia. They have a list of controversies so long that the outline of the &quot;controversies&quot; subheading won&#x27;t even fit on my phone screen.<p>Drug cartel money, strong ties to the Russian oligarchy, forex manipulation, corrupt dealings with African governments, destruction of records, tax fraud.<p>The list is extensive to say the least.</text></item><item><author>yalogin</author><text>Isn&#x27;t Credit Suisse the bank that laundered and legitimized all the money from the drug cartels? They kept getting slaps on the wrist for a bunch of atrocities and bad choices and now finally they are seeing some repercussions of those choices?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simplotek</author><text>&gt; The list is extensive to say the least.<p>Sometimes I wonder if the Swiss newfound love for a weirdly biased neutrality, which goes to the extent of destroying their own military gear instead of selling it to Ukraine, is rooted in appeasing certain Russians who stashed their fortunes in financial institutions such as Credit Suisse.</text></comment> | <story><title>Credit Suisse sheds nearly 25%, key backer says no more money</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/credit-suisse-shares-drop-fresh-record-low-cds-widen-2023-03-15/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtlmtlmtlmtl</author><text>Yep. I went and quickly looked them up on Wikipedia. They have a list of controversies so long that the outline of the &quot;controversies&quot; subheading won&#x27;t even fit on my phone screen.<p>Drug cartel money, strong ties to the Russian oligarchy, forex manipulation, corrupt dealings with African governments, destruction of records, tax fraud.<p>The list is extensive to say the least.</text></item><item><author>yalogin</author><text>Isn&#x27;t Credit Suisse the bank that laundered and legitimized all the money from the drug cartels? They kept getting slaps on the wrist for a bunch of atrocities and bad choices and now finally they are seeing some repercussions of those choices?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saiya-jin</author><text>As you write, you have no real clue about banking. Let me tell you, all that you wrote, and more, much more, can be said about every single big bank out there, anywhere.<p>How do I know this - I work for one of those, not (and never) CS. Since I started ours is rather spot clean from what I can see (but IT is very far from those who make similar decisions), what I see is regulatory downfall from their fuckups 15-30 years ago. Some of it was outright amoral criminal behavior, but most was due to bad processes and way too much incompetence in ie KYC checks. Too much focus on current cash flow, way too few questions about where the money came from. That&#x27;s thing of the past in regulated markets (but then you have the whole universe of tax havens, some also in US or conveniently around)</text></comment> |
36,062,774 | 36,062,849 | 1 | 2 | 36,041,845 | train | <story><title>SR-71 Blackbird Speed Check Story</title><url>https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Aircraft/Stories/sr-71-blackbird-speed-check-story</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelteter</author><text>I never tire of that story.<p>Growing up in an aviation family, I have heard endless cool stories (but few so cool).<p>One of my favorites was when my grandfather was flying when the F15 was in early flight development. The skies were much less busy, and there was a bit less formality.<p>Ground knew who was where, so it asked my grandfather, “would you like to see something interesting?” GD agreed, and moments later an F15 pulled up alongside him, pointed at an upward angle and maintaining what was a slow flight speed for it. The two pilots were close enough to exchange waves, and moments later the F15 rocketed away.<p>Most likely that day, the F15 was the fastest thing in the air for several hundred miles.</text></comment> | <story><title>SR-71 Blackbird Speed Check Story</title><url>https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Aircraft/Stories/sr-71-blackbird-speed-check-story</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hinkley</author><text>The SR-71&#x27;s actual top speed was classified, and the &#x27;official&#x27; top speed was faster than anything else in production.<p>At several points growing up someone would come up with a new plane that encroached on the SR-71&#x27;s speed record. Then a couple weeks later there would be an announcement about the SR-71 setting a new top speed.<p>I suspect someone in Intelligence had to decide that being officially the fastest was important, but exactly how fast being a secret made the plane and pilot a little bit safer. So they had to nudge the fiction a little bit closer to the truth any time there was a pretender. Or, manufacturing improvements nudged the maximum safe speed up over time, and they only bothered updating the public about this when a dick measuring contest was held in their honor. Or maybe both.</text></comment> |
24,386,970 | 24,386,978 | 1 | 2 | 24,373,633 | train | <story><title>GitHub Won’t Help You with Hiring</title><url>https://www.benfrederickson.com/github-wont-help-with-hiring/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zwayhowder</author><text>I made the mistake of thinking an active github account was a good proxy for &quot;Is this person interested in tech enough to work here?&quot;. I was called out on it at a conference (fortunately for me at a bar and not when I was on stage), by someone who pointed out that many people just don&#x27;t have time to work on side projects and push them to Github.<p>Maybe they work 8 hours a day on a bank or government project that is all private and then they spend the rest of the day acting as a care giver to a relative, studying, or volunteering in a women&#x27;s refuge. All noble activities that I would consider positives for a candidate, but I&#x27;d never know if I just checked &quot;Do you go home and cut code out of hours?&quot;.<p>I mistook my own privilege of free time as a universal truth and I&#x27;m glad I was called out on it early on and able to change my (interviewing&#x2F;screening) ways. I wonder what else I need someone to call me out on...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fxtentacle</author><text>In my case, I have found trying to contribute to open source to be a huge waste of time.<p>For example, I once found and patched a bug in paperclip, explained why it happened and sent a PR. It was ignored for 5 years and then they abandoned the project.<p>Or I once fixed Heroku issues by upgrading the ImageMagick version with a custom build pack. They featured it somewhere and suddenly I was getting entitled emails every day by random strangers who strongly felt that I should fix their Heroku deployment.<p>Then there&#x27;s the issue of dependencies. My cool tool for analysing satellite photos won&#x27;t be of much use to anyone who doesn&#x27;t have API access to a satellite ground station. I.e. there&#x27;s no benefit in making it open source.<p>And lastly, I&#x27;ve had the unpleasant experience of a company taking my open source project, adding copy protection and then selling it as theirs while simultaneously refusing to adhere to my license of either following GPL or paying for closed source use.<p>Nowadays, I only share source code for hobby projects with friends, but not publicly. Otherwise it&#x27;s more work and less pleasant for me.</text></comment> | <story><title>GitHub Won’t Help You with Hiring</title><url>https://www.benfrederickson.com/github-wont-help-with-hiring/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zwayhowder</author><text>I made the mistake of thinking an active github account was a good proxy for &quot;Is this person interested in tech enough to work here?&quot;. I was called out on it at a conference (fortunately for me at a bar and not when I was on stage), by someone who pointed out that many people just don&#x27;t have time to work on side projects and push them to Github.<p>Maybe they work 8 hours a day on a bank or government project that is all private and then they spend the rest of the day acting as a care giver to a relative, studying, or volunteering in a women&#x27;s refuge. All noble activities that I would consider positives for a candidate, but I&#x27;d never know if I just checked &quot;Do you go home and cut code out of hours?&quot;.<p>I mistook my own privilege of free time as a universal truth and I&#x27;m glad I was called out on it early on and able to change my (interviewing&#x2F;screening) ways. I wonder what else I need someone to call me out on...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewstuart</author><text>How I use Github <i>might possibly</i> show you my passion and enthusiasm and skill as a programmer.<p>What many fail to understand is that disinterest in Github <i>absolutely does not tell you anything meaningful about that programmer</i>.<p>Too many hiring managers&#x2F;recruiters&#x2F;HR people focus only on the first point, as some sort of religion.</text></comment> |
7,280,793 | 7,279,063 | 1 | 3 | 7,278,198 | train | <story><title>German tank problem</title><url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sparkman55</author><text>There is some practical relevance to software development here. One shouldn&#x27;t expose sequential IDs (a.k.a. serial numbers) to the public for anything non-public.<p>I see this Hacker News post has a numerical ID in the URL, for example; I can estimate the size of Hacker News given enough of these numbers... More directly, I can modify that numerical ID to crawl Hacker News.<p>Many sites do this; it&#x27;s generally better to generate a (random or hashed or generated from a natural key) &#x27;slug&#x27; to use as the key instead. For example, Amazon generates a unique, non-sequential, 10-digit alphanumeric string for each item in their catalog.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meritt</author><text>I&#x27;d advise against modifying that numerical ID. Recent history shows this is a punishable offense (hacking!) under the lovely CFAA and supported by the incompetent judicial system.</text></comment> | <story><title>German tank problem</title><url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sparkman55</author><text>There is some practical relevance to software development here. One shouldn&#x27;t expose sequential IDs (a.k.a. serial numbers) to the public for anything non-public.<p>I see this Hacker News post has a numerical ID in the URL, for example; I can estimate the size of Hacker News given enough of these numbers... More directly, I can modify that numerical ID to crawl Hacker News.<p>Many sites do this; it&#x27;s generally better to generate a (random or hashed or generated from a natural key) &#x27;slug&#x27; to use as the key instead. For example, Amazon generates a unique, non-sequential, 10-digit alphanumeric string for each item in their catalog.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>The flipside is that you can give off the impression of having a large user base&#x2F;product catalog&#x2F;etc if you number things sequentially... but start at a large non-round number.</text></comment> |
23,106,212 | 23,106,469 | 1 | 2 | 23,097,453 | train | <story><title>The Rise and Fall of BowieNet</title><url>http://www.openculture.com/2020/04/when-david-bowie-launched-his-own-internet-service-provider.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adventured</author><text>I&#x27;m sure a lot of people here have already seen it, however this 1999 interview with the BBC shows off Bowie&#x27;s early understanding of the value &amp; potential of the Internet (after the six minute mark):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=FiK7s_0tGsg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=FiK7s_0tGsg</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Rise and Fall of BowieNet</title><url>http://www.openculture.com/2020/04/when-david-bowie-launched-his-own-internet-service-provider.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>parenthesis</author><text>The `Bowie Bond&#x27; from around the same time, was a much more interesting innovation:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ftalphaville.ft.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;11&#x2F;2149761&#x2F;a-short-history-of-the-bowie-bond&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ftalphaville.ft.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;11&#x2F;2149761&#x2F;a-short-histo...</a></text></comment> |
14,907,882 | 14,907,731 | 1 | 3 | 14,905,385 | train | <story><title>Impossible Foods has raised $75M for its plant-based burgers</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/01/impossible-foods-just-raised-75-million-for-its-plant-based-burgers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrfusion</author><text>And msg is generally considered safe these days?</text></item><item><author>mmanfrin</author><text>Most burgers are improved with MSG, it is a miracle salt.</text></item><item><author>acchow</author><text>I tried the Impossible Meats burger - it was nowhere near as tasty as a beef burger. I think it could be improved drastically by just adding a little MSG tho.</text></item><item><author>L_Rahman</author><text>I remember reading the original impressions of the Impossible Foods ground meat and thinking it was just media buzz.<p>I promise you it is not.<p>At Momofuku&#x27;s Ssam Bar in the East Village of NYC, you can order an off menu item called Spicy Pork Sausage and Rice Cakes. It&#x27;s not really off the menu - the item has simply been around so long and is so well known to regulars that they left it off to make room for new dishes.<p>I&#x27;ve had it more times than I count.<p>At lunch time however, they serve Spicy &quot;Impossible Sausage&quot; and Rice Cakes. The first time I ordered it, I was ready to complain about one of my favorite things ruined by a hyped product.<p>But then I took my first bite, and it somehow tasted better than the pork sausage version. I&#x27;ve been back many times since and the Impossible Foods version of the dish is often tastier than the pork version.<p>Let that sink in for a moment. Impossible Foods was able to replace high quality pork sausage served in a beloved dish at one of New York&#x27;s buzziest restaurants and make the dish better.<p>The vast majority of ground meat in the American food chain is of lower quality. If Impossible Foods can replace that ground meat at scale, the ramifications are enormous. They will reduce by a huge margin the number of animal lives and quantity of CO2 necessary to feed us.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>entee</author><text>MSG is Monosodium Glutamate, the sodium salt of glutamate. Glutamate is an amino acid common in food, I assure you you eat tons of glutamate on a daily basis. There&#x27;s nothing inherently unsafe about it, and your body knows exactly what to do with it. In fact, your body is literally made with it.<p>That said glutamate is a neurotransmitter, so yeah you probably shouldn&#x27;t inject large quantities or anything.</text></comment> | <story><title>Impossible Foods has raised $75M for its plant-based burgers</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/01/impossible-foods-just-raised-75-million-for-its-plant-based-burgers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrfusion</author><text>And msg is generally considered safe these days?</text></item><item><author>mmanfrin</author><text>Most burgers are improved with MSG, it is a miracle salt.</text></item><item><author>acchow</author><text>I tried the Impossible Meats burger - it was nowhere near as tasty as a beef burger. I think it could be improved drastically by just adding a little MSG tho.</text></item><item><author>L_Rahman</author><text>I remember reading the original impressions of the Impossible Foods ground meat and thinking it was just media buzz.<p>I promise you it is not.<p>At Momofuku&#x27;s Ssam Bar in the East Village of NYC, you can order an off menu item called Spicy Pork Sausage and Rice Cakes. It&#x27;s not really off the menu - the item has simply been around so long and is so well known to regulars that they left it off to make room for new dishes.<p>I&#x27;ve had it more times than I count.<p>At lunch time however, they serve Spicy &quot;Impossible Sausage&quot; and Rice Cakes. The first time I ordered it, I was ready to complain about one of my favorite things ruined by a hyped product.<p>But then I took my first bite, and it somehow tasted better than the pork sausage version. I&#x27;ve been back many times since and the Impossible Foods version of the dish is often tastier than the pork version.<p>Let that sink in for a moment. Impossible Foods was able to replace high quality pork sausage served in a beloved dish at one of New York&#x27;s buzziest restaurants and make the dish better.<p>The vast majority of ground meat in the American food chain is of lower quality. If Impossible Foods can replace that ground meat at scale, the ramifications are enormous. They will reduce by a huge margin the number of animal lives and quantity of CO2 necessary to feed us.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmcgough</author><text>It&#x27;s ben heavily studied for decades and the whole msg scare has no science to back it up. It&#x27;s possible that some people have a sensitivity to MSG, but for &gt;99.99÷ of the population, it&#x27;s completely safe.<p>I buy shakers of it, it can be delicious in some meals.</text></comment> |
17,084,740 | 17,083,964 | 1 | 3 | 17,083,224 | train | <story><title>Browser extension that strips Google Analytics tokens from URL query strings</title><url>https://github.com/jparise/chrome-utm-stripper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>emgee_1</author><text>Marketing is evil.<p>It is lying on a massive scale.<p>If I want something I’ m go to look for it not the other way around.<p>If you track me I will dispise you and will root you out. Sort of &#x2F;r</text></item><item><author>annabellish</author><text>&gt;Marketing is not evil. It&#x27;s how the world works. You need to market something to be able to sell it.<p>Tracking of all kinds aren&#x27;t inherently evil. If companies didn&#x27;t abuse the various ways they tell us are &quot;how the world works&quot;, then nobody would ever have needed tracking or ad blockers.<p>Reality is that no matter how often marketing departments tell us that marketing is vital to the future of the species, people are generally running pretty short on goodwill in these areas. The responsible actors, if there are any, are swimming in a poisoned pond.</text></item><item><author>pastullo</author><text>Why do you need this? Is it because you are paranoid of being tracked?<p>UTMs offer a transparent, honest way of tracking where a user is coming from. This is super important for any company that runs multiple channel marketing.<p>Making impossible for company to track their marketing effort doesn&#x27;t protect your privacy. It just makes it tougher for companies to manage their marketing spending.<p>Marketing is not evil. It&#x27;s how the world works. You need to market something to be able to sell it.<p>I feel there is a paranoia about being tracked and privacy, where anything that is somehow tracking, is evil and must be stopped.<p>UTMs parameters are absolutely harmless and stripping them away offer no privacy benefit whatsoever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>&gt; Marketing is evil. ... It is lying on a massive scale.<p>&quot;Marketing&quot; spans a very large area of activity. At one end, it&#x27;s the signage in front of a store, or even on the door, that tells you what the place is.<p>You probably aren&#x27;t trying to insinuate that store signage (or the online equivalent, a domain name), is evil, but that&#x27;s essentially what you&#x27;re saying by being so broad. That doesn&#x27;t help the argument, doesn&#x27;t help you, and doesn&#x27;t result in useful discussion, so it&#x27;s probably worth being a bit more concise.</text></comment> | <story><title>Browser extension that strips Google Analytics tokens from URL query strings</title><url>https://github.com/jparise/chrome-utm-stripper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>emgee_1</author><text>Marketing is evil.<p>It is lying on a massive scale.<p>If I want something I’ m go to look for it not the other way around.<p>If you track me I will dispise you and will root you out. Sort of &#x2F;r</text></item><item><author>annabellish</author><text>&gt;Marketing is not evil. It&#x27;s how the world works. You need to market something to be able to sell it.<p>Tracking of all kinds aren&#x27;t inherently evil. If companies didn&#x27;t abuse the various ways they tell us are &quot;how the world works&quot;, then nobody would ever have needed tracking or ad blockers.<p>Reality is that no matter how often marketing departments tell us that marketing is vital to the future of the species, people are generally running pretty short on goodwill in these areas. The responsible actors, if there are any, are swimming in a poisoned pond.</text></item><item><author>pastullo</author><text>Why do you need this? Is it because you are paranoid of being tracked?<p>UTMs offer a transparent, honest way of tracking where a user is coming from. This is super important for any company that runs multiple channel marketing.<p>Making impossible for company to track their marketing effort doesn&#x27;t protect your privacy. It just makes it tougher for companies to manage their marketing spending.<p>Marketing is not evil. It&#x27;s how the world works. You need to market something to be able to sell it.<p>I feel there is a paranoia about being tracked and privacy, where anything that is somehow tracking, is evil and must be stopped.<p>UTMs parameters are absolutely harmless and stripping them away offer no privacy benefit whatsoever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gk1</author><text>&gt; If I want something I’ m go to look for it not the other way around.<p>And how are you going to find it? And how will you know that it&#x27;s the right solution to what you need? And how will you compare it against other alternatives?<p>Marketing is about all these things--not just advertising.</text></comment> |
18,375,814 | 18,375,543 | 1 | 3 | 18,374,994 | train | <story><title>So You Want to Learn Physics (2016)</title><url>https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2016/8/13/so-you-want-to-learn-physics</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrepd</author><text>Well I disagree with many of the book choices, but if there&#x27;s one thing that&#x27;s absolutely spot-on is this:<p>&gt;One big problem is that a lot of the popular books written about physics (especially those by famous physicists) are incredibly speculative and tend to present an unrealistic view of what the study of physics is all about. When you&#x27;re learning physics, it&#x27;s good to avoid these types of speculative books, and stick to the good ones that talk about the real physics we know exists.<p>Oh god yes. Why is it that whenever a lay person wants to talk about physics they talk about &quot;11 dimensions&quot;, &quot;string theory&quot;, or &quot;time dilation&quot;, or any similarly crazy-sounding term that they read in a massively incorrect pop-sci article. Basically it makes it sound like physics is about all this crazy complicated and far-fetched ideas, rather than simple and beautiful principles to understand reality, which is what it is.<p>I don&#x27;t know if I managed to convey what I mean.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ellius</author><text>I have a model with two kinds of knowledge: sexy knowledge and homely knowledge. I think the internet and mass media era in general have massively endorsed and empowered the projects and acquisition of sexy knowledge. If it doesn&#x27;t garner attention rapidly on a large scale, then it doesn&#x27;t go on TV. The problem is that most of the real projects of science and industry are about homely knowledge. It&#x27;s the little boring things like washing your hands that prevent catastrophic hospital deaths. But that&#x27;s not superficially interesting, or fun, and it doesn&#x27;t provide the knowledge bearer with any kind of moral or intellectual superiority by which they can affect pretensions of enlightenment. Quackery has always been a thing, but I think sexy knowledge lies somewhere before the frontier of quackery. It&#x27;s true, or plausibly true, information, but it is dramatically overvalued in our time and culture.</text></comment> | <story><title>So You Want to Learn Physics (2016)</title><url>https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2016/8/13/so-you-want-to-learn-physics</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrepd</author><text>Well I disagree with many of the book choices, but if there&#x27;s one thing that&#x27;s absolutely spot-on is this:<p>&gt;One big problem is that a lot of the popular books written about physics (especially those by famous physicists) are incredibly speculative and tend to present an unrealistic view of what the study of physics is all about. When you&#x27;re learning physics, it&#x27;s good to avoid these types of speculative books, and stick to the good ones that talk about the real physics we know exists.<p>Oh god yes. Why is it that whenever a lay person wants to talk about physics they talk about &quot;11 dimensions&quot;, &quot;string theory&quot;, or &quot;time dilation&quot;, or any similarly crazy-sounding term that they read in a massively incorrect pop-sci article. Basically it makes it sound like physics is about all this crazy complicated and far-fetched ideas, rather than simple and beautiful principles to understand reality, which is what it is.<p>I don&#x27;t know if I managed to convey what I mean.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pvg</author><text><i>Why is it that whenever a lay person wants to talk about physics they talk about</i><p>Because those things sound exotic and interesting. Just like (statistically) nobody goes to the natural history museum to look at chicken-sized dinosaurs.</text></comment> |
5,649,259 | 5,649,157 | 1 | 2 | 5,648,839 | train | <story><title>Entrepreneurs are the New Labor</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2012/09/03/entrepreneurs-are-the-new-labor-part-i/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>Investors have won? What? Founders have never had more power relative to investors than they do now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vinceguidry</author><text>There are three parts to this essay, He doesn't explain this point adequately until the end of the second. But you still won't get what he's saying unless you're already a follower and have digested the ideas in his blog.<p>Venkat trades in big, hairy concepts. The one he's using here is <i>legibility</i>. It's when information is structured in rigorous ways, defined by those using it as an instrument of power. It is the primary tool governments use against the people. An example is making every person have a current address listed on their driver's license. Governments stack these legibility requirements up so as to control commerce and extract rents. (taxes)<p>Venkat's argument is that investors won the game by forcing founders to be legible, reducing the information advantage they enjoyed historically. While it may look like founders have never had more power, in reality they've lost a crucial ability, to hoard critical inside information. It's really the only advantage they have, without it, they're at the mercy of investors. The ability to dictate terms is really inconsequential, more a function of fashion than actual power. Who cares if you get 2x the money you should have gotten? With information asymmetry, founders could easily wrangle 100x.</text></comment> | <story><title>Entrepreneurs are the New Labor</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2012/09/03/entrepreneurs-are-the-new-labor-part-i/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>Investors have won? What? Founders have never had more power relative to investors than they do now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>7Figures2Commas</author><text>Even if you assume that this is generally true, it doesn't mean that increased founder "power" has really come at the expense of investors.<p>The coordinated money printing by central banks around the world has injected trillions of dollars into the global economy, and the greatest beneficiaries of that have been a) firms in the financial sector and b) individuals who have significant exposure to financial markets.<p>This, of course, has a direct and indirect impact on Silicon Valley:<p>1. It's easier to raise a venture fund when LPs are doing well. Fed action has incentivized investment in riskier asset classes. Appetite for risk is broad-based and not concentrated in venture capital, but venture capital has certainly benefited.
2. Thanks to QE Infinity, the fortunes of many publicly-traded Silicon Valley companies have risen with the stock market and the IPO window is open. A handful of tech companies even sport 1999-like PE ratios. This has created enormous wealth in the Valley, much of it liquid, which has produced an angel (and super angel) boom.<p>Founders, particularly those with a track record and/or traction, may be able to negotiate better terms today than they could have even a few years ago, but that's largely because the dollars being invested in their companies are so cheap.<p>Who would you rather be: an entrepreneur who thinks he's getting a good deal because he got a higher valuation and retained more control, or the investor who gets to invest with Monopoly money?</text></comment> |
36,429,050 | 36,429,179 | 1 | 3 | 36,428,046 | train | <story><title>French govt. says users of uBlock Origin, Signal etc. are potential terrorists</title><url>https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2023/06/05/criminalization-of-encryption-the-8-december-case/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sofixa</author><text>As others have mentioned, context matters a lot. The arrested group came back from Syria (where they fought alongside YPG against ISIS) radicalised, and were monitored ever since then. Their alleged crime isn&#x27;t using Signal, it&#x27;s just that a French anti-terrorism law allows to be arrested for &quot;organisation with the intent to commit terrorist acts&quot;, which the DGSI(internal intelligence services) claims a radicalised group of people calling for a revolution, using encrypted communications, having a bunch of hunting weapons and ammunition, and materials for explosives is. A big stretch on the surface, but they were monitoring them for years, so who the hell knows what else they have.<p>The real problem is the unlawful detention of one of the men, for which a court finally intervened and he has been freed under surveillance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>csomar</author><text>&gt; As others have mentioned, context matters a lot.<p>No, it does not. While this group is indeed suspicious, detaining them without a proof (and using whatsapp as your proof) opens a serious precedent. Now anyone can be detain for that. And it&#x27;ll be used for serious suspicious cases later but also will be used against someone like you because someone in the police didn&#x27;t like how you walk.</text></comment> | <story><title>French govt. says users of uBlock Origin, Signal etc. are potential terrorists</title><url>https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2023/06/05/criminalization-of-encryption-the-8-december-case/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sofixa</author><text>As others have mentioned, context matters a lot. The arrested group came back from Syria (where they fought alongside YPG against ISIS) radicalised, and were monitored ever since then. Their alleged crime isn&#x27;t using Signal, it&#x27;s just that a French anti-terrorism law allows to be arrested for &quot;organisation with the intent to commit terrorist acts&quot;, which the DGSI(internal intelligence services) claims a radicalised group of people calling for a revolution, using encrypted communications, having a bunch of hunting weapons and ammunition, and materials for explosives is. A big stretch on the surface, but they were monitoring them for years, so who the hell knows what else they have.<p>The real problem is the unlawful detention of one of the men, for which a court finally intervened and he has been freed under surveillance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lannisterstark</author><text>&gt;context matters a lot<p>Not in this current context. You can&#x27;t detain someone willy nilly for &#x27;intentions&#x27; without such intentions being explicitly stated as proof in letters, emails, messages, threats etc.<p>This is authoritarian pandering 101.</text></comment> |
26,174,949 | 26,175,028 | 1 | 2 | 26,174,545 | train | <story><title>Electricity over $900/MWh in most of Western US now</title><url>http://www.caiso.com/pricemap/Pages/default.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>I need more context. Is that a lot? Is that low? Is it a big change from before? In what direction?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nimos</author><text>900&#x2F;Mwh is 90c per kwh. Normal wholesale is about 5-7c. Retail national average is about 14. Higher cost states are around 20c with Hawaii near 30c.</text></comment> | <story><title>Electricity over $900/MWh in most of Western US now</title><url>http://www.caiso.com/pricemap/Pages/default.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>I need more context. Is that a lot? Is that low? Is it a big change from before? In what direction?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevindong</author><text>The national US average is ~$104.50&#x2F;MWh (1000 kWh = 1 MWh). So, it&#x27;s about ~9 times more expensive right than than normal.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;electricity&#x2F;monthly&#x2F;epm_table_grapher.php?t=epmt_5_6_a" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;electricity&#x2F;monthly&#x2F;epm_table_grapher.ph...</a></text></comment> |
23,105,902 | 23,102,433 | 1 | 3 | 23,099,584 | train | <story><title>A brief introduction to the beauty of Information Theory</title><url>https://notamonadtutorial.com/a-brief-introduction-to-the-beauty-of-information-theory-8357f5b6a355</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dentalperson</author><text>Shameless plug: I&#x27;m trying to start an online reading group for &quot;Elements of Information Theory&quot; by Cover and Thomas.<p>If you&#x27;re interested, please join (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;mathreadinggroup&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;mathreadinggroup&#x2F;</a>) and the discord (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discord.gg&#x2F;D9FjZXs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discord.gg&#x2F;D9FjZXs</a>).</text></comment> | <story><title>A brief introduction to the beauty of Information Theory</title><url>https://notamonadtutorial.com/a-brief-introduction-to-the-beauty-of-information-theory-8357f5b6a355</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tuxxy</author><text>It&#x27;s funny seeing this at the top of HN today. I just wrote a utility in Rust this past weekend to calculate the Shannon and metric entropy of a file (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tuxxy&#x2F;entropy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tuxxy&#x2F;entropy&#x2F;</a>).<p>I really love the Shannon entropy equation. I don&#x27;t know why, but I just find it so fascinating and elegant. I love it so much that I even got it tattooed on my wrist recently haha! (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;__tux&#x2F;status&#x2F;1257737842308022275&#x2F;photo&#x2F;1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;__tux&#x2F;status&#x2F;1257737842308022275&#x2F;photo&#x2F;1</a>)</text></comment> |
13,016,251 | 13,016,485 | 1 | 3 | 13,015,944 | train | <story><title>Before You Grow</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/before-you-grow/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maximp</author><text>&quot;And if you’re just starting out, take the time to build a product your users love, no matter how long it takes. &quot;<p>There&#x27;s this weird balance between the lean &quot;get it out as soon as you can, fail fast&quot; and &quot;make sure it&#x27;s a good product before you ship&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsp1984</author><text>What Sam meant was &quot;take the time to build a product your users love, no matter how long it takes, <i>before you focus on growth</i> &quot; (addition mine).<p>You should absolutely release your product to customers to gather feedback as early as possible, just don&#x27;t fuel growth by spending before you&#x27;re sure you&#x27;ve got the product 100% right and people love it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Before You Grow</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/before-you-grow/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maximp</author><text>&quot;And if you’re just starting out, take the time to build a product your users love, no matter how long it takes. &quot;<p>There&#x27;s this weird balance between the lean &quot;get it out as soon as you can, fail fast&quot; and &quot;make sure it&#x27;s a good product before you ship&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blazespin</author><text>No, the rule still applies. Get it out fast so you can find out if your users love it. Just don&#x27;t push it to a broader audience.<p>Iphone app companies do this one neat trick for this. They release in foreign markets (Canada, Australia, etc) and make sure their users love their apps before releasing in the US.</text></comment> |
22,174,060 | 22,173,177 | 1 | 3 | 22,171,862 | train | <story><title>How Popular Is “Sign in with Apple”?</title><url>https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/01/28/sign-in-with-apple-popularity</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ehsankia</author><text>Apple continues to not give any care whatsoever to anything outside their walled garden. For the longest time you couldn&#x27;t even preview songs on iTunes store without having iTunes. Want to watch their biggest WWDC live? Had to use Safari until last year. Obviously iMessage and FaceTime are complete no-gos outside their walled garden too.<p>This is how they keep people in. They have to close down their walls as tightly as possible, to force people in. And once you&#x27;re in, they make it as hard as possible to leave.</text></item><item><author>habosa</author><text>I tried to do a Sign in with Apple integration on Android (wanted the app to have the same options across platforms).<p>Testing on Android was next to impossible. To test I needed an Apple ID with 2FA. But SMS 2FA was not good enough, you need the hardware-based 2FA. To get that you need a recent macOS or iOS device. As an Android developer I have no reason to own either of those.<p>Eventually I just had a friend who owns an iPhone try my app a few times.<p>Besides that, the Apple interface guidelines are nearly impossible to follow on Android because Apple doesn&#x27;t provide the logo or font assets you need to comply. There is no SDK whatsoever, just a spec.<p>Seems like a nice sign-in option for iPhone owners but it&#x27;s a portability disaster.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>&gt;<i>This is how they keep people in. They have to close down their walls as tightly as possible, to force people in. And once you&#x27;re in, they make it as hard as possible to leave.</i><p>I call old wives tales. I&#x27;m a close-to-20-years Apple user. The walled garden has never been a problem, more of a strength (integration, cohesion, etc).<p>Especially today where everything is a subscription, there has never been LESS of a walled garden in that regard. I can move anytime (and I do use also Windows and Linux) and I wont have any issue with OS X&#x2F;iOS.<p>I just wont have my apps -- which has been the case for every OS ever.<p>My music is in Spotify and Apple Music, my video is Netflix and Amazon Prime and Apple+, my email is Gmail, my eBooks in Kindle for Mac and iOS, I talk with friends with Skype, Facetime, Messenger and Whatsup. Even my iCloud apps (Calendar, email, etc) are available from any browser.<p>Some &quot;walled garden&quot;.<p>The reason I don&#x27;t want to move from OS X&#x2F;iOS is cohesion and usability. Despite BS like the 3+ years MBP keyboard fiasco or the not-really-useful BS touch strip, it&#x27;s still the best HW&#x2F;SW combo for my kind of computing (programming, lots of UNIXy stuff, lots of video and music as well).</text></comment> | <story><title>How Popular Is “Sign in with Apple”?</title><url>https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/01/28/sign-in-with-apple-popularity</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ehsankia</author><text>Apple continues to not give any care whatsoever to anything outside their walled garden. For the longest time you couldn&#x27;t even preview songs on iTunes store without having iTunes. Want to watch their biggest WWDC live? Had to use Safari until last year. Obviously iMessage and FaceTime are complete no-gos outside their walled garden too.<p>This is how they keep people in. They have to close down their walls as tightly as possible, to force people in. And once you&#x27;re in, they make it as hard as possible to leave.</text></item><item><author>habosa</author><text>I tried to do a Sign in with Apple integration on Android (wanted the app to have the same options across platforms).<p>Testing on Android was next to impossible. To test I needed an Apple ID with 2FA. But SMS 2FA was not good enough, you need the hardware-based 2FA. To get that you need a recent macOS or iOS device. As an Android developer I have no reason to own either of those.<p>Eventually I just had a friend who owns an iPhone try my app a few times.<p>Besides that, the Apple interface guidelines are nearly impossible to follow on Android because Apple doesn&#x27;t provide the logo or font assets you need to comply. There is no SDK whatsoever, just a spec.<p>Seems like a nice sign-in option for iPhone owners but it&#x27;s a portability disaster.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dcolkitt</author><text>Isn&#x27;t this kind of in the DNA of the company? Even going back to its first decade, what distinguished Apple from other early PC companies was that its O&#x2F;S was only meant to run on its hardware, and its hardware was only meant to run its O&#x2F;S.<p>This obviously didn&#x27;t work out for it in the late 80&#x27;s and 90&#x27;s. But its fortunes changed by the mobile device era. One challenge of this model is that you have to maintain execution excellence in not one, but two separate areas. Both your hardware and design execution, as well as your software engineering, have to be industry leading. If either one falls short, it brings down the other.</text></comment> |
13,953,244 | 13,953,199 | 1 | 2 | 13,952,976 | train | <story><title>Alpaca – Functional programming inspired by ML for the Erlang VM</title><url>https://github.com/alpaca-lang/alpaca/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>salimmadjd</author><text>Really hoping this project gets more traction.<p>I&#x27;m learning Elm now and I&#x27;m really liking the syntax to the level that other languages feel rather cluttered to me now.<p>The more I&#x27;m playing with types and learning to leverage them, the more I appreciate their power (yes, I&#x27;m late to the game) so making this statically typed is very interesting.<p>However, there seem to be a saturation of new languages and not sure if there is enough eyeballs left for a new language that does not have a large corporate backing (FB, Google, Apple) or happens not to arrive on a perfect time with the right set of answers. Maybe BEAM, ML&#x2F;Elm syntax and static typing is what everyone else is looking for.<p>Edit:
Video posted today of creator of Alpaca (Jeremy Pierre) giving a talk at Erlang Factory. It gives a nice overview of the state of the language -<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=cljFpz_cv2E" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=cljFpz_cv2E</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Alpaca – Functional programming inspired by ML for the Erlang VM</title><url>https://github.com/alpaca-lang/alpaca/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>platz</author><text>I continue to be believe even as a static typing fan that static types are fundamentally incompatible with OTP and it&#x27;s goals.<p>Distributed systems just seem to too thorny for static types to subjugate&#x2F;bend to their will.<p>Sure, you can declare global invariants ahead of time that your cluster must uphold, but it&#x27;s a bit less &quot;distributed&quot; in a real sense then</text></comment> |
7,148,144 | 7,145,958 | 1 | 2 | 7,145,219 | train | <story><title>SymPy Gamma: an open-source, Python-based alternative to Wolfram Alpha</title><url>http://www.sympygamma.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>primitivesuave</author><text>I used to work at Wolfram Research on Wolfram Alpha&#x27;s backend, and one of the most challenging technical problems we faced was free-form input. Although W|A has by no means perfected this, this is hardly an alternative - queries like &quot;factor the number 100&quot; fail because there is only the beginnings of a free-form transformer. Obviously, the usefulness of being able to answer &quot;factor one hundred&quot; is questionable, but W|A solved it out of Stephen Wolfram&#x27;s aspiration to be able to &quot;compute everything&quot;. Right now, this is just a programming language you can run on the web.<p>The other thing is that W|A has trillions of data points and what I am only allowed to describe as the beginnings of a semantic network for inferring relations between them. It was a vastly overcomplicated system that was difficult to work with, so I am quite confident that some day there will be an open-source alternative that anyone can contribute to.<p>The other thing to take into account is how this affects the future. Wolfram Research thought they were going to &quot;disrupt the calculator&quot; (I heard this ridiculous statement once at a meeting). In reality, Wolfram Alpha queries are more often for the sake of fun than for the sake of discovery (I know this because there was a big TV in the break room that would keep displaying things that people searched on Wolfram Alpha). Is it really that useful to be able to have a computer give you an answer to &quot;I have two apples, Jill has three apples. How many apples do we both have?&quot;<p><a href="http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=I+have+two+apples%2C+Jill+has+three+apples.+How+many+apples+do+we+both+have%3F" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=I+have+two+apples%2C+Ji...</a><p>Or is it more useful to make something that can take in symptoms of your current ailment and tell you which disease you are most likely to have? Wolfram Alpha does this as well.<p><a href="http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=I+have+a+fever+and+a+runny+nose" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=I+have+a+fever+and+a+ru...</a><p>Although the results are difficult to interpret. In my time at Wolfram Research, I was certainly convinced by the idea of knowledge engines and their ultimate emergence, but I think the way this will be accomplished is in more in a Google-esque fashion where their knowledge engine results are displayed alongside a real search algorithm. Best of luck to the people on this project, I hope you make the first step into creating an open source knowledge engine.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>topynate</author><text>&quot;I have two mangoes, Jill has three mangoes. How many mangoes do we both have?&quot;<p><a href="http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=I+have+two+mangoes%2C+Jill+has+three+mangoes.+How+many+mangoes+do+we+both+have%3F" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=I+have+two+mangoes%2C+J...</a><p>Doesn&#x27;t work, even though Wolfram Alpha knows what mangoes are enough to give me the nutritional value of three of them as its response instead.<p>&#x27;Oranges&#x27; as the noun works quickly. &#x27;Pens&#x27; doesn&#x27;t work at all, so it&#x27;s hardly surprising that &#x27;doowats&#x27; also fails. Surprisingly, even &#x27;pears&#x27; is a fruit too far.<p>On the other hand, &quot;I have two apples and one orange, Jill has three oranges. How many oranges do we both have?&quot; works very well.<p>So I have to ask, is this just a trick? I mean, did you program it to handle apples and oranges specifically, without attempting to do any sort of semantic comprehension? Because this is a big failing of Wolfram Alpha for me. It &#x27;knows&#x27; things but it doesn&#x27;t know them. It knows that a mango has 84 calories but not that it&#x27;s countable. Or perhaps it does know that and that knowledge just doesn&#x27;t propagate to more complex queries.</text></comment> | <story><title>SymPy Gamma: an open-source, Python-based alternative to Wolfram Alpha</title><url>http://www.sympygamma.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>primitivesuave</author><text>I used to work at Wolfram Research on Wolfram Alpha&#x27;s backend, and one of the most challenging technical problems we faced was free-form input. Although W|A has by no means perfected this, this is hardly an alternative - queries like &quot;factor the number 100&quot; fail because there is only the beginnings of a free-form transformer. Obviously, the usefulness of being able to answer &quot;factor one hundred&quot; is questionable, but W|A solved it out of Stephen Wolfram&#x27;s aspiration to be able to &quot;compute everything&quot;. Right now, this is just a programming language you can run on the web.<p>The other thing is that W|A has trillions of data points and what I am only allowed to describe as the beginnings of a semantic network for inferring relations between them. It was a vastly overcomplicated system that was difficult to work with, so I am quite confident that some day there will be an open-source alternative that anyone can contribute to.<p>The other thing to take into account is how this affects the future. Wolfram Research thought they were going to &quot;disrupt the calculator&quot; (I heard this ridiculous statement once at a meeting). In reality, Wolfram Alpha queries are more often for the sake of fun than for the sake of discovery (I know this because there was a big TV in the break room that would keep displaying things that people searched on Wolfram Alpha). Is it really that useful to be able to have a computer give you an answer to &quot;I have two apples, Jill has three apples. How many apples do we both have?&quot;<p><a href="http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=I+have+two+apples%2C+Jill+has+three+apples.+How+many+apples+do+we+both+have%3F" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=I+have+two+apples%2C+Ji...</a><p>Or is it more useful to make something that can take in symptoms of your current ailment and tell you which disease you are most likely to have? Wolfram Alpha does this as well.<p><a href="http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=I+have+a+fever+and+a+runny+nose" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=I+have+a+fever+and+a+ru...</a><p>Although the results are difficult to interpret. In my time at Wolfram Research, I was certainly convinced by the idea of knowledge engines and their ultimate emergence, but I think the way this will be accomplished is in more in a Google-esque fashion where their knowledge engine results are displayed alongside a real search algorithm. Best of luck to the people on this project, I hope you make the first step into creating an open source knowledge engine.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mh_yam</author><text>&quot;In reality, Wolfram Alpha queries are more often for the sake of fun than for the sake of discovery&quot;<p>In advanced math classes (upper undergraduate or graduate) it is almost impossible to check results or do a complex operation on a simple calculator.<p>In many cases I have to turn to a tool like Mathematica&#x2F;Wolfram Alpha. I have a W|A Pro account and it has worked wonders for me. For example, entering &quot;integral from 0 to infinity of (y<i>e^(-y)</i>((-1&#x2F;y)(e^(-t))+1&#x2F;y)) with respect to y&quot; into Wolfram Alpha is so much easier than doing the same with a TI-89. I can copy&#x2F;paste and adjust very easily and the software produces multiple interpretations&#x2F;representations which is very useful.</text></comment> |
21,158,820 | 21,158,691 | 1 | 3 | 21,158,402 | train | <story><title>Disney Bans Netflix Ads as Streaming’s Marketing Wars Intensify</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney-bans-netflix-ads-as-streamings-marketing-wars-intensify-11570199291?mod=rsswn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonjayr</author><text>Hulu shows commercials even if you pay.<p>I&#x27;m sure Netflix will start once revenue starts slipping.</text></item><item><author>1123581321</author><text>There are differences: no commercials, shows on demand, more shows, and higher quality (arguably) shows. Additionally, it’s possible to just subscribe to the one service you really like because they all have a lot of content.</text></item><item><author>thismyrealone</author><text>It just feels like the various streaming services are morphing into everything that we hated about cable television.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mortenjorck</author><text>Netflix shows commercials right now; they’re just commercials for other Netflix shows. I doubt they’ll start selling the post-roll space to third parties, though, as it’s evidently more profitable for them to use that space to keep you subscribing to the service than to make a few cents for an ad placement.<p>As for cable-style interstitial commercials, though, the only way I could see Netflix ever doing that is if the company were to enter a Blockbuster-level tailspin. It would be selling off the core Netflix experience just to stay afloat.</text></comment> | <story><title>Disney Bans Netflix Ads as Streaming’s Marketing Wars Intensify</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney-bans-netflix-ads-as-streamings-marketing-wars-intensify-11570199291?mod=rsswn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonjayr</author><text>Hulu shows commercials even if you pay.<p>I&#x27;m sure Netflix will start once revenue starts slipping.</text></item><item><author>1123581321</author><text>There are differences: no commercials, shows on demand, more shows, and higher quality (arguably) shows. Additionally, it’s possible to just subscribe to the one service you really like because they all have a lot of content.</text></item><item><author>thismyrealone</author><text>It just feels like the various streaming services are morphing into everything that we hated about cable television.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>excalibur</author><text>Hulu does offer an ad-free tier, it&#x27;s like double the cost of the basic plan. I haven&#x27;t sprung for it yet, but I&#x27;m sorely tempted.<p>I can see Netflix looking to a similar model in the future. What are they at now, $12.99? I can see the current base subscription going to $14.99, while simultaneously launching an ad-supported version priced around $7.99.<p>Edit: Netflix actually DOES offer a cheaper $8.99 plan currently. This one is restricted to one screen at a time, and does not offer content in HD. So if they stuck ads on it, maybe they could bring the price down to like $5.99.</text></comment> |
5,972,097 | 5,972,049 | 1 | 2 | 5,971,356 | train | <story><title>Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at School</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/06/stop-penalizing-boys-for-not-being-able-to-sit-still-at-school/276976/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pekk</author><text>Historically many, many children have sat still at school and behaved themselves.<p>That doesn&#x27;t mean that others should be stigmatized, but it&#x27;s not like this is impossible and unprecedented.</text></item><item><author>learc83</author><text>School is half education and half babysitting. The problem is that schools aren&#x27;t aware of that, and they try to cram too much learning&#x2F;work into a day at school. Kids just don&#x27;t have the attention span. College isn&#x27;t taught this way. Colleges realize that even young adults can&#x27;t handle 40 hours a week of continual instruction, why do we do this kids can?<p>I think the reason, is that we&#x27;re always behind other countries trying to &quot;catch up&quot;--50 years ago it was the Soviets, 20 years ago the Japanese, now it&#x27;s the &quot;global workforce&quot;.<p>In our frantic rush to compete with everyone else we end up forcing an overambitious curriculum on kids. How much time can kids really spend learning everyday? A few hours at the most?<p>I have a friend who teaches 1st grade, she knows kids at that age can&#x27;t spend time on focused learning for more than 20 or 30 minutes, but the school districts forces here to teach in 1 to 2 hour blocks and spend almost 6 hours out of the day instructing<p>(they get 15 minutes, no more, of recess; 30 minutes lunch, many times in silence because the lunchroom gets too loud; and on some days 45 minutes of focused PE).<p>What 6 or 7 year old can possibly sit still and study for 5 or 6 hours each day?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sarchertech</author><text>First, historically mass education of the type we now employ is only about a century old, and designed to produce factory workers not to promote creativity. Learning to handle monotonous boredom and obey orders was of primary importance to a factory worker.<p>Second, much of this is unprecedented. When my parents were children, they didn&#x27;t attend Kindergarten, and first grade was a half day. When my parents younger siblings were children, Kindergarten was a half day. When I was a child, I didn&#x27;t attend preschool.<p>In 3 generations we&#x27;ve added more than 2 years of education for every child, and that education is qualitatively quite different, even from what I experienced (Kindergarten 23 years ago)<p>When I was in kindergarten the majority of the day was playtime, we had 30 minutes of recess, 45 minutes of mostly freeform PE, 30 minutes of naptime, and a few hours of structured playtime (drawing, making crafts etc...).<p>From friends of mine who are teachers, since no child left behind, all of that has been removed or severely restricted. Recess is now 15 minutes, PE is more structured and not every day, no more naptime, and they don&#x27;t have time for freeform activities because the curriculum is so dense.<p>In Kindergarten we spent almost the whole year learning the Alphabet. Now the curriculum assumes that children already know it.<p>Teachers know this doesn&#x27;t work, but schools are obsessed with testing and metrics to the determinant of real education.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at School</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/06/stop-penalizing-boys-for-not-being-able-to-sit-still-at-school/276976/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pekk</author><text>Historically many, many children have sat still at school and behaved themselves.<p>That doesn&#x27;t mean that others should be stigmatized, but it&#x27;s not like this is impossible and unprecedented.</text></item><item><author>learc83</author><text>School is half education and half babysitting. The problem is that schools aren&#x27;t aware of that, and they try to cram too much learning&#x2F;work into a day at school. Kids just don&#x27;t have the attention span. College isn&#x27;t taught this way. Colleges realize that even young adults can&#x27;t handle 40 hours a week of continual instruction, why do we do this kids can?<p>I think the reason, is that we&#x27;re always behind other countries trying to &quot;catch up&quot;--50 years ago it was the Soviets, 20 years ago the Japanese, now it&#x27;s the &quot;global workforce&quot;.<p>In our frantic rush to compete with everyone else we end up forcing an overambitious curriculum on kids. How much time can kids really spend learning everyday? A few hours at the most?<p>I have a friend who teaches 1st grade, she knows kids at that age can&#x27;t spend time on focused learning for more than 20 or 30 minutes, but the school districts forces here to teach in 1 to 2 hour blocks and spend almost 6 hours out of the day instructing<p>(they get 15 minutes, no more, of recess; 30 minutes lunch, many times in silence because the lunchroom gets too loud; and on some days 45 minutes of focused PE).<p>What 6 or 7 year old can possibly sit still and study for 5 or 6 hours each day?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pessimizer</author><text>Also historically, many, many children have been thrown out of school or deemed ineducable because they couldn&#x27;t sit still in school and behave themselves.</text></comment> |
38,748,405 | 38,747,089 | 1 | 2 | 38,746,187 | train | <story><title>In 2023 Organic Maps got its first million users</title><url>https://organicmaps.app/news/2023-12-23/in-2023-organic-maps-got-its-first-million-users/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eisa01</author><text>I’m a contributor to OpenStreetMap, but what I find very lacking is the POI data<p>It’s only updated if there’s someone like me in the local area, or if it’s a tourist destination. But even then it can be sparse (eg just visited Merida, Bacalar and Valladolid in Mexico), and it’s worse in “non-western” countries<p>Tellingly, Overture Maps that use OSM for the street data to not use the POI data.<p>A lot of people pointed out that the POI data of Overture had mediocre quality. While that is true, they do at least have coverage in places OSM do not. If you know the name of the place you can at least find it<p>I’m not sure how this can become better, I’d think that a prerequisite would be that corporate users like Grab, DiDi, Uber start contributing<p>But that may not happen as they are not allowed to combine datasets [1]. Hence you have a chicken and egg problem: The dataset is not usable until it is complete…<p>The street data fundementally have the same problem, but that is easier to edit remotely and may be more stable in contrast to POIs<p>So I’m starting to question if it’s really worth it to continue update POIs in OSM, but I also would not know how to contribute to Overture as it does have quite some errors :)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OvertureMaps&#x2F;data&#x2F;discussions&#x2F;102">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OvertureMaps&#x2F;data&#x2F;discussions&#x2F;102</a><p>edit: Or maybe it is possible to conflate them, but that is not planned - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OvertureMaps&#x2F;data&#x2F;issues&#x2F;96">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OvertureMaps&#x2F;data&#x2F;issues&#x2F;96</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>szszrk</author><text>What do you think about Street Complete [0][1][2]?
I know it doesn&#x27;t let you provide all and any data, but I find it super friendly.<p>It lets you add details to objects that already exist in OSM. It looks very polished, has nice map, icons, and this default style of sticking to your actual location like some location based games for crazy people (I&#x27;m a former Ingress player, Enlightened FTW).<p>My neighborhood has all details about building size, roofs, street lights, you know if there are markings on the ground on street crossings (for people with poor vision), each path has clear info of what&#x27;s it&#x27;s made of, and stores has open&#x2F;close hours provided. Super cool, easy to use and has real impact.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;streetcomplete.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;streetcomplete.app&#x2F;</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;f-droid.org&#x2F;packages&#x2F;de.westnordost.streetcomplete&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;f-droid.org&#x2F;packages&#x2F;de.westnordost.streetcomplete&#x2F;</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;search?q=street%20complete&amp;c=apps">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;search?q=street%20complete&amp;c=a...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>In 2023 Organic Maps got its first million users</title><url>https://organicmaps.app/news/2023-12-23/in-2023-organic-maps-got-its-first-million-users/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eisa01</author><text>I’m a contributor to OpenStreetMap, but what I find very lacking is the POI data<p>It’s only updated if there’s someone like me in the local area, or if it’s a tourist destination. But even then it can be sparse (eg just visited Merida, Bacalar and Valladolid in Mexico), and it’s worse in “non-western” countries<p>Tellingly, Overture Maps that use OSM for the street data to not use the POI data.<p>A lot of people pointed out that the POI data of Overture had mediocre quality. While that is true, they do at least have coverage in places OSM do not. If you know the name of the place you can at least find it<p>I’m not sure how this can become better, I’d think that a prerequisite would be that corporate users like Grab, DiDi, Uber start contributing<p>But that may not happen as they are not allowed to combine datasets [1]. Hence you have a chicken and egg problem: The dataset is not usable until it is complete…<p>The street data fundementally have the same problem, but that is easier to edit remotely and may be more stable in contrast to POIs<p>So I’m starting to question if it’s really worth it to continue update POIs in OSM, but I also would not know how to contribute to Overture as it does have quite some errors :)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OvertureMaps&#x2F;data&#x2F;discussions&#x2F;102">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OvertureMaps&#x2F;data&#x2F;discussions&#x2F;102</a><p>edit: Or maybe it is possible to conflate them, but that is not planned - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OvertureMaps&#x2F;data&#x2F;issues&#x2F;96">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OvertureMaps&#x2F;data&#x2F;issues&#x2F;96</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mpol</author><text>An idea might be to have an &quot;Adopt Your Own Neighbourhood&quot; campaign. I don&#x27;t know if this is seen as wanted in the OSM community, it might attract a lot of low-effort contributions which might wear out longtime volunteers.<p>The way I started contributing to OSM is when I was tired of seeing old or no POI data and thought &quot;enough is enough&quot;. I first started editing the shopping mall in my neighbourhood, then the schools, and so forth. It is now 5 years later and I can quite keep up locally with POI.</text></comment> |
16,833,463 | 16,832,542 | 1 | 2 | 16,832,210 | train | <story><title>Diaspora* social network federation protocol</title><url>https://diaspora.github.io/diaspora_federation/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sleavey</author><text>An open protocol sounds like the only sustainable solution that protects privacy. Are there any other popular, open protocols in the wild?</text></item><item><author>supermdguy</author><text>I added this link, instead of the main diaspora* page, because I&#x27;ve been looking into open social network _protocols_, instead of just distributed social network systems. An open protocol would enable much more competition in the social network space, since users would still be able to communicate with their friends when trying out a new social networking app.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edhelas</author><text>XMPP :)<p>Fully realtime, can handle huge load, several serious servers out there, interesting clients. XMPP can do IM, but it can also do social networking (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xmpp.org&#x2F;extensions&#x2F;xep-0060.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xmpp.org&#x2F;extensions&#x2F;xep-0060.html</a> XEP-0060: Publish-Subscribe, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xmpp.org&#x2F;extensions&#x2F;xep-0277.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xmpp.org&#x2F;extensions&#x2F;xep-0277.html</a> XEP-0277: Microblogging over XMPP) for many years now.<p>I&#x27;m working on Movim a social network fully relying on the XMPP protocol <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;movim.eu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;movim.eu&#x2F;</a>, we already have many nice features social and IM wise.</text></comment> | <story><title>Diaspora* social network federation protocol</title><url>https://diaspora.github.io/diaspora_federation/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sleavey</author><text>An open protocol sounds like the only sustainable solution that protects privacy. Are there any other popular, open protocols in the wild?</text></item><item><author>supermdguy</author><text>I added this link, instead of the main diaspora* page, because I&#x27;ve been looking into open social network _protocols_, instead of just distributed social network systems. An open protocol would enable much more competition in the social network space, since users would still be able to communicate with their friends when trying out a new social networking app.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jgroszko</author><text>These open protocols seem pretty cool, but I&#x27;m curious what sort of improvements for privacy people expect them to offer? Federating with other servers just means you&#x27;re trusting each server operator with your (semi?)-public data. Additionally most people don&#x27;t have the technical know-how to run their own servers, so users will most likely concentrate on a few large servers anyway, defeating the decentralized advantages...</text></comment> |
39,490,662 | 39,489,258 | 1 | 3 | 39,481,670 | train | <story><title>I Spent a Week with Gemini Pro 1.5–It's Fantastic</title><url>https://every.to/chain-of-thought/i-spent-a-week-with-gemini-pro-1-5-it-s-fantastic</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Eliezer</author><text>This is a slightly strange article to read if you happen to <i>be</i> Eliezer Yudkowsky. Just saying.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>firtoz</author><text>Can you please let me know your exact thoughts and feelings as verbosely as possible? I&#x27;m training a very specific AI model and need this data - just kidding.</text></comment> | <story><title>I Spent a Week with Gemini Pro 1.5–It's Fantastic</title><url>https://every.to/chain-of-thought/i-spent-a-week-with-gemini-pro-1-5-it-s-fantastic</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Eliezer</author><text>This is a slightly strange article to read if you happen to <i>be</i> Eliezer Yudkowsky. Just saying.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>p1esk</author><text>Why? I see your book was mentioned in the article, but I don&#x27;t see what&#x27;s strange about it.</text></comment> |
2,325,789 | 2,325,844 | 1 | 2 | 2,325,588 | train | <story><title>Dramatic escalation in Japan (Fukushima Nuke Plant)</title><url>http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Possible_damage_at_Fukushima_Daiichi_2_1503111.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>forensic</author><text>Whether you like it or not, the beliefs of most intellectual engineer types is that the nuclear power plant dangers have been solved.<p>It's inconceivable (cue sound clip from Princess Bride) to most of us that extremely extensive and effective contingency plans are not in place.<p>The nuclear risk is obvious, and so any nuclear construction's main emphasis must be on handling all possible contingencies... right?<p>If Fukushima does end up being a "Big Deal" that is going to forcibly shift the world view of many many engineers and hackers. It will represent a piece of data that is fundamentally at odds with our view of the world.<p>The facts will eventually win out, but for the short term, it is necessary that we go through these cycles of disbelief and then shock. Because that's just reality.<p>I will be shocked if Fukushima causes serious harm to humans because until now it has been inconceivable to me that people making nuke plants could possibly underestimate the risks. If my inaccurate beliefs are shattered by the harsh reality of nuclear related deaths then... that's just how it will have to be. I'll have to eat my hat. I'm not looking forward to it.<p>In the meantime I have to go with what I know. Which is that this should not be an issue that threatens human life.</text></item><item><author>jedsmith</author><text>The information coming out of Japan right now is very piecemeal and very incomplete. We are also depending on an organization without a stellar reputation when it comes to telling the truth[1], and a culture programmed to downplay very bad things. It has really pained me to see people rush to believe that everything is fine.<p>Conclusions at any stage of this crisis have been premature, but HN seems to want a heavy dose of finality to a crisis that isn't even over yet. Apparently people don't want it to be a big deal, but it's slowly turning into a big deal. It just is. Instead of big essays and conclusions about how the powers-that-be have it under control complete with inaccurate depictions of how a reactor works, why don't we focus on facts?<p>With that in mind, we do not know how bad it is. Anyone who says they do is lying to you. It isn't over, and it is a basic fact of logic that we will not be able to reflect on how bad this is or was until it is <i>over</i>.<p>At the risk of a neener-neener I told you so, I presented some of this viewpoint[2] on the self-aggrandizing risk management Ph.D.'s <i>everything's fine</i> piece, but my viewpoint was drowned out by people wanting to rush to a conclusion so they can put the crisis out of sight and out of mind.<p>[1]: <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/06/17/tokyo.scandal/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/06/17/tokyo.s...</a><p>[2]: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2319305" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2319305</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tycho</author><text>Is it even possible to handle <i>all</i> contingencies though? I don't know enough to do the maths, but when you've got<p><pre><code> four different reactors
an earthquake
followed by a tsunami
followed by loss of electricity for the emergency pumps
followed by parts of the plant blowing up
followed by tons of dust getting in the way
followed by possibly more aftershocks
followed by possibly more tsunamis
followed by possible injuries to the personnel needed to run these operations
considering other equipment can break down
considering political pressures to make certain decisions
considering some of the physics/chemistry here may be entirely novel
...
</code></pre>
Think of all the different permutations in those variables, just how many scenarios have been prepared for? It has to be more complicated than just 'if casing 1 fails, casing 2 will stop it, and if casing 2 fails, casing 3 is there'</text></comment> | <story><title>Dramatic escalation in Japan (Fukushima Nuke Plant)</title><url>http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Possible_damage_at_Fukushima_Daiichi_2_1503111.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>forensic</author><text>Whether you like it or not, the beliefs of most intellectual engineer types is that the nuclear power plant dangers have been solved.<p>It's inconceivable (cue sound clip from Princess Bride) to most of us that extremely extensive and effective contingency plans are not in place.<p>The nuclear risk is obvious, and so any nuclear construction's main emphasis must be on handling all possible contingencies... right?<p>If Fukushima does end up being a "Big Deal" that is going to forcibly shift the world view of many many engineers and hackers. It will represent a piece of data that is fundamentally at odds with our view of the world.<p>The facts will eventually win out, but for the short term, it is necessary that we go through these cycles of disbelief and then shock. Because that's just reality.<p>I will be shocked if Fukushima causes serious harm to humans because until now it has been inconceivable to me that people making nuke plants could possibly underestimate the risks. If my inaccurate beliefs are shattered by the harsh reality of nuclear related deaths then... that's just how it will have to be. I'll have to eat my hat. I'm not looking forward to it.<p>In the meantime I have to go with what I know. Which is that this should not be an issue that threatens human life.</text></item><item><author>jedsmith</author><text>The information coming out of Japan right now is very piecemeal and very incomplete. We are also depending on an organization without a stellar reputation when it comes to telling the truth[1], and a culture programmed to downplay very bad things. It has really pained me to see people rush to believe that everything is fine.<p>Conclusions at any stage of this crisis have been premature, but HN seems to want a heavy dose of finality to a crisis that isn't even over yet. Apparently people don't want it to be a big deal, but it's slowly turning into a big deal. It just is. Instead of big essays and conclusions about how the powers-that-be have it under control complete with inaccurate depictions of how a reactor works, why don't we focus on facts?<p>With that in mind, we do not know how bad it is. Anyone who says they do is lying to you. It isn't over, and it is a basic fact of logic that we will not be able to reflect on how bad this is or was until it is <i>over</i>.<p>At the risk of a neener-neener I told you so, I presented some of this viewpoint[2] on the self-aggrandizing risk management Ph.D.'s <i>everything's fine</i> piece, but my viewpoint was drowned out by people wanting to rush to a conclusion so they can put the crisis out of sight and out of mind.<p>[1]: <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/06/17/tokyo.scandal/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/06/17/tokyo.s...</a><p>[2]: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2319305" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2319305</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>juiceandjuice</author><text>It's never been 'inconceivable' that nuclear plants would fail. Nuclear energy was a risk nations were willing to take to keep you plugged in, making this post right now. You're faulting engineering that predates the microprocessor, at a power plant scheduled to be decommissioned soon, for failing in the two worst natural disasters (earthquake + tsunami) in Japan's modern history.<p>I just wanted to make that clear.</text></comment> |
31,370,167 | 31,367,527 | 1 | 3 | 31,365,437 | train | <story><title>The other kind of staff software engineer</title><url>https://earthly.dev/blog/line-staff/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adamgordonbell</author><text>Author here. Working at a tech company as a developer vs working at a non-tech company are very different.<p>These two types of roles were called line vs staff when I took a business school class and I think the differences between these two types of roles have a big impact on what the job is like, even if doing the same type of work. It&#x27;s a bit confusing because it overlaps with &#x27;staff software engineer&#x27; term.<p>I recall hearing stats before that the vast majority of developers work at non-tech companies, but I almost never hear their stories. They are the dark matter of software developers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anoy8888</author><text>I am a Staff software engineer in a consumer goods company. I got quickly promoted to it manger , head of it and then CIO. The tech is shallow but it exposes me to production, supply chain , sales , finance and pretty much every aspect of the operations. I report directly to CEO. We typically buy erp but small softwares , I choose to write myself so that I got some practice on coding. I go to home before 6 and enjoy my weekends</text></comment> | <story><title>The other kind of staff software engineer</title><url>https://earthly.dev/blog/line-staff/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adamgordonbell</author><text>Author here. Working at a tech company as a developer vs working at a non-tech company are very different.<p>These two types of roles were called line vs staff when I took a business school class and I think the differences between these two types of roles have a big impact on what the job is like, even if doing the same type of work. It&#x27;s a bit confusing because it overlaps with &#x27;staff software engineer&#x27; term.<p>I recall hearing stats before that the vast majority of developers work at non-tech companies, but I almost never hear their stories. They are the dark matter of software developers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text><i>&gt; They are the dark matter of software developers.</i><p>That reminds me of an article that was linked from here, a couple of years ago, titled “IT Runs On Java 8”[0].<p>I worked for hardware manufacturers, for most of my career, and can report that it’s even worse.<p>That’s because the company does have an engineering culture, but one with drastically different priorities and processes.<p>Our software shops were expected to run in hardware patterns.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vickiboykis.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;10&#x2F;it-runs-on-java-8&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vickiboykis.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;10&#x2F;it-runs-on-java-8&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
6,451,513 | 6,451,682 | 1 | 2 | 6,449,546 | train | <story><title>Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/google-hangoutsgtalk-glitch-sends-chats-to-wrong-recipients-7000021195/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bluecalm</author><text>Also synchronization sucks. I often use it from my desktop only to get &quot;new message&quot; notification on my phone somewhere around 10 minutes in the conversation with some messages from the beginning. It also loses message regularly so I am now used to ask for copy pasting if it&#x27;s obvious something got lost.
Blatant disregard of things like sorting via status (or displaying that at all) or introducing more of them is another thing.
It looks like some crazy manager designed his evil plan and convinced all his bosses that it&#x27;s the way to go. The app sucks, everyone I know hates it, they forced feeded it to users with Android update with no way to go back to gtalk.<p>It&#x27;s amazing how they completely ignore what people want in the name of some lucid vision of how web talk should be done.
Worse yet, they first lured people in by releasing an awesome app (gtalk) killing most of the competition and then changed it to &quot;Google way of doing web&quot; without asking anybody and with competition already (almost) dead.
&#x2F;rant</text></item><item><author>sssparkkk</author><text>Besides the fact that this is a pretty serious bug, I&#x27;m rather underwhelmed by the care Google has been taking of their hangouts product after releasing it last May.<p>And I&#x27;m not even talking about things like online-status &#x27;missing&#x27; (it&#x27;s a design decision on their end), but more the general experience of using hangouts.<p>As far as I can tell you&#x27;re still not able to mute the new message sound, without turning off notifications all together (hangouts in Gmail). Chatter picking up in a hangout and you want to mute it for a while? Again, not possible. Turn off all notifications for that hangout and chances are you&#x27;ll completely forget you were ever part of that conversation (snoozing notifications hangouts-wide makes sure you miss all other personal messages sent to you as well).<p>Uploading a photo on a slow network is a pretty terrible experience: it&#x27;ll start telling you the upload has failed and it&#x27;s retrying (no progress to be seen anywhere). If you delete the message and try again, you&#x27;ll probably end up with two of the same messages in your conversation, because often it doesn&#x27;t appear to correctly &#x27;receive&#x27; your deletion request either.<p>When you&#x27;ve received a photo that you need to save to your gallery (maybe you want to zoom-in a little, or share it with someone else?), be prepared to hit that save button for a while until you finally get a confirmation that the photo has actually been saved.<p>Stuff like this is not a problem when it&#x27;s your first release, but 4 months on you&#x27;d expect a company like Google to be able to iron out quirks like these. But no, we get extra emoji as one of the few updates to the hangouts platform.<p>[edit: spelling]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ZoFreX</author><text>&gt; Worse yet, they first lured people in by releasing an awesome app (gtalk) killing most of the competition and then changed it to &quot;Google way of doing web&quot; without asking anybody and with competition already (almost) dead.<p>I believe you could call this &quot;Embrace, extend, extinguish&quot;?</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/google-hangoutsgtalk-glitch-sends-chats-to-wrong-recipients-7000021195/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bluecalm</author><text>Also synchronization sucks. I often use it from my desktop only to get &quot;new message&quot; notification on my phone somewhere around 10 minutes in the conversation with some messages from the beginning. It also loses message regularly so I am now used to ask for copy pasting if it&#x27;s obvious something got lost.
Blatant disregard of things like sorting via status (or displaying that at all) or introducing more of them is another thing.
It looks like some crazy manager designed his evil plan and convinced all his bosses that it&#x27;s the way to go. The app sucks, everyone I know hates it, they forced feeded it to users with Android update with no way to go back to gtalk.<p>It&#x27;s amazing how they completely ignore what people want in the name of some lucid vision of how web talk should be done.
Worse yet, they first lured people in by releasing an awesome app (gtalk) killing most of the competition and then changed it to &quot;Google way of doing web&quot; without asking anybody and with competition already (almost) dead.
&#x2F;rant</text></item><item><author>sssparkkk</author><text>Besides the fact that this is a pretty serious bug, I&#x27;m rather underwhelmed by the care Google has been taking of their hangouts product after releasing it last May.<p>And I&#x27;m not even talking about things like online-status &#x27;missing&#x27; (it&#x27;s a design decision on their end), but more the general experience of using hangouts.<p>As far as I can tell you&#x27;re still not able to mute the new message sound, without turning off notifications all together (hangouts in Gmail). Chatter picking up in a hangout and you want to mute it for a while? Again, not possible. Turn off all notifications for that hangout and chances are you&#x27;ll completely forget you were ever part of that conversation (snoozing notifications hangouts-wide makes sure you miss all other personal messages sent to you as well).<p>Uploading a photo on a slow network is a pretty terrible experience: it&#x27;ll start telling you the upload has failed and it&#x27;s retrying (no progress to be seen anywhere). If you delete the message and try again, you&#x27;ll probably end up with two of the same messages in your conversation, because often it doesn&#x27;t appear to correctly &#x27;receive&#x27; your deletion request either.<p>When you&#x27;ve received a photo that you need to save to your gallery (maybe you want to zoom-in a little, or share it with someone else?), be prepared to hit that save button for a while until you finally get a confirmation that the photo has actually been saved.<p>Stuff like this is not a problem when it&#x27;s your first release, but 4 months on you&#x27;d expect a company like Google to be able to iron out quirks like these. But no, we get extra emoji as one of the few updates to the hangouts platform.<p>[edit: spelling]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rryan</author><text>Killing the competition? There is lots of healthy competition in the messaging&#x2F;chat space:<p>Facebook Chat, WhatsApp, iMessage, SnapChat, Instagram, Skype, etc.<p>If anything gChat is a struggling platform that didn&#x27;t make the transition to the mobile era -- that&#x27;s the <i>entire reason Hangouts exists</i>.<p>Edited: to use more polite tone.</text></comment> |
35,004,692 | 35,004,611 | 1 | 2 | 34,985,786 | train | <story><title>Non-linear career paths are the future</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinecastrillon/2023/02/26/why-non-linear-career-paths-are-the-future/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>For a decade at Amazon, nearly everyone I worked with was following the linear, expected path. High school, university, degree, FAANG job. Amazon basically didn&#x27;t interview SDE1s unless they were new grads. For a number of years that policy was explicit from our Director because &quot;we find that works out best&quot;.<p>Now I&#x27;m at Shopify, where it feels like a complete 180. More than half my team took non-traditional paths- former dietician, government clerk, logger (like with a chainsaw). My team doesn&#x27;t even seem like an outlier.<p>One thing I&#x27;ve noticed: the women I work with now are far more likely to have taken a non-linear path to get here. They weren&#x27;t encouraged to go into that career when they were in high school, but later in life realized it was a good choice. One really great staff dev I&#x27;ve worked with told me how she was encouraged to be a tech recruiter (and did), then slowly realized she could be the one making the huge salaries she was offering people.<p>Amazon would never have given them a chance. And funny enough, Amazon struggles to hire women in dev roles.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>r-s</author><text>Did Shopify have a choice?<p>Many Canadians who got computer science degrees left to work for American companies for 2x-3x more money.</text></comment> | <story><title>Non-linear career paths are the future</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinecastrillon/2023/02/26/why-non-linear-career-paths-are-the-future/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>For a decade at Amazon, nearly everyone I worked with was following the linear, expected path. High school, university, degree, FAANG job. Amazon basically didn&#x27;t interview SDE1s unless they were new grads. For a number of years that policy was explicit from our Director because &quot;we find that works out best&quot;.<p>Now I&#x27;m at Shopify, where it feels like a complete 180. More than half my team took non-traditional paths- former dietician, government clerk, logger (like with a chainsaw). My team doesn&#x27;t even seem like an outlier.<p>One thing I&#x27;ve noticed: the women I work with now are far more likely to have taken a non-linear path to get here. They weren&#x27;t encouraged to go into that career when they were in high school, but later in life realized it was a good choice. One really great staff dev I&#x27;ve worked with told me how she was encouraged to be a tech recruiter (and did), then slowly realized she could be the one making the huge salaries she was offering people.<p>Amazon would never have given them a chance. And funny enough, Amazon struggles to hire women in dev roles.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>diob</author><text>It also keeps the base those that have the privilege to turn down other jobs and focus solely on getting hired at Amazon (or other FAANG) right out of college.<p>A good chunk of folks (among whom exist great developers) are those that are focused on working a job while graduating, and getting to a point where they have stable finances. Then they focus on things like &quot;what kind of job&quot; do I want, and &quot;where do I want to work&quot;. That could be years and years down the line though.<p>So it enforces an aristocracy &#x2F; pedigree of sorts, but folks are hesitant to admit as such.</text></comment> |
34,690,639 | 34,689,879 | 1 | 2 | 34,674,814 | train | <story><title>All programming philosophies are about state</title><url>https://www.worldofbs.com/minimize-state/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wruza</author><text>I’ve been a programmer all my life, got first sw job around 2000 in business-oriented area (consulting + programming + “ops”). Before that were 5-7 years of toy programming as a kid. I experimented with tech a lot, got into paradigms early and never restricted myself to a single language&#x2F;env&#x2F;os&#x2F;hw. I haven’t created nothing big, stellar or rocket science, but a couple of my projects lived for 10-17 years and counting.<p>Mind you, this “state management” thing and the fuss around it, which pops up for last ten years more actively, was never a concern that I found particularly useful to have a name for. 20+ years of a mediocre career and I still don’t get it, neither why, nor what the problem is. Maybe that’s why it is mediocre? Living in a bs country doesn’t help either. Otoh, I can make things work and ship mvps next week once there’s a plan and determination. (No, it’s not PHP.)<p>I <i>believe</i> that the fuss part comes from the fact that software becomes more and more low-level uncontrollably, so there’s a lot of self-imposed state that business isn’t even aware of and which becomes per-LoC routine that is easy to stumble upon but hard to document or explain to a person outside. State belongs to business and is not in your control, all other state is parasite. Mapping business state 1:1 in your program keeps everything simple to do, to change, to grow. It’s usually imperative, sometimes declarative (that’s where programming emerges) and never functional. Parasitic state’s place is under a rug. Library, syntactic sugar, framework, db&#x2F;service, platform, whatever.<p>To conclude, well, I have nothing to say really. Still confusing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dgb23</author><text>Maybe you simply gravitated towards sensible ways of dealing with it?<p>There are quite a bunch of things that are _hard_ (IMO) and related to state management a non-exclusive list of examples:<p>- GUIs in general, the more interactive they are, the more state you need to manage.<p>- Caching (at any level) is a form of state. You need to be aware of how and when data changes and who changes it and which parts of the caching are affected, when you care about it etc.<p>- Memory and disk allocation are state. You need to be aware of what your resources are and when to free them up. You might use locks to make sure your data doesn&#x27;t get corrupted. At a higher layer you might have authorization models to restrict access.<p>- TCP is state. What do you do when connections fail or get interrupted? Do you store&#x2F;buffer messages to be processed at a later time? What does that mean for the receiver?<p>- SQL databases are stateful. Do you ever need to know what happened when? How do you restore previous state? How do you make that efficient? Are backups&#x2F;snapshots good enough or can you leverage something more granular?</text></comment> | <story><title>All programming philosophies are about state</title><url>https://www.worldofbs.com/minimize-state/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wruza</author><text>I’ve been a programmer all my life, got first sw job around 2000 in business-oriented area (consulting + programming + “ops”). Before that were 5-7 years of toy programming as a kid. I experimented with tech a lot, got into paradigms early and never restricted myself to a single language&#x2F;env&#x2F;os&#x2F;hw. I haven’t created nothing big, stellar or rocket science, but a couple of my projects lived for 10-17 years and counting.<p>Mind you, this “state management” thing and the fuss around it, which pops up for last ten years more actively, was never a concern that I found particularly useful to have a name for. 20+ years of a mediocre career and I still don’t get it, neither why, nor what the problem is. Maybe that’s why it is mediocre? Living in a bs country doesn’t help either. Otoh, I can make things work and ship mvps next week once there’s a plan and determination. (No, it’s not PHP.)<p>I <i>believe</i> that the fuss part comes from the fact that software becomes more and more low-level uncontrollably, so there’s a lot of self-imposed state that business isn’t even aware of and which becomes per-LoC routine that is easy to stumble upon but hard to document or explain to a person outside. State belongs to business and is not in your control, all other state is parasite. Mapping business state 1:1 in your program keeps everything simple to do, to change, to grow. It’s usually imperative, sometimes declarative (that’s where programming emerges) and never functional. Parasitic state’s place is under a rug. Library, syntactic sugar, framework, db&#x2F;service, platform, whatever.<p>To conclude, well, I have nothing to say really. Still confusing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mjburgess</author><text>The text of a program does not show what is in memory, or what the devices attached to the machine are doing. You hope that if you run the program, in your head, you can reliably guess -- but often, you make mistakes.<p>Controlling &quot;state&quot; amounts to trying to force the world to match the text of your program as closely as possible, so you don&#x27;t go wrong.</text></comment> |
16,326,645 | 16,326,441 | 1 | 2 | 16,322,720 | train | <story><title>Americans are spending less on clothing</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-death-of-clothing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryanianian</author><text>This.<p>I see two things happening here: (1) American spending less on clothing and (2) Americans having less self-pride in their attire and presentation.<p>I&#x27;ve spent a fair amount of time in Latin American countries, and a real sure-fire way to identify tourists is to look for people poorly-dressed or those who look like they just don&#x27;t care about how they look.<p>E.g., despite much of Mexico being quite hot, you will almost never see a local Mexican wearing shorts, even on beaches. Tee-shirts <i>maybe</i> but almost always a freshly-washed button-up shirt. (Or a swimsuit if they&#x27;re swimming obviously.) This is true of other Latin countries too in my travels. It&#x27;s really humbling to see.</text></item><item><author>rb808</author><text>That doesn&#x27;t explain why people in the poorest countries dress better than Americans. People living in the slums of India&#x2F;Nigeria&#x2F;Brazil are more likely to have a collared shirt and dress pants than an American going to work in an office.</text></item><item><author>freejulian</author><text>All these explanations are rather complicated. I think the simplest explanation is the best: people don&#x27;t have the free money to spend on clothing.<p>This is evidenced by the following facts: 1) Wages have been stagnant 2) Cost of living has been increasing well beyond the stated 2% rate of inflation.</text></item><item><author>randcraw</author><text>IMHO there are three clear causes for this trend:<p>1) US business fashion is increasingly casual. Ties, skirts, suits, coordinated outfits, scarves, leather soled shoes -- all are passe, even in button down East Coast Fortune 100 companies (other than for aspiring managers or those in banking&#x2F;finance).<p>2) Color is passe. Shades of black and grey dominate wardrobes, especially in large cities. Thus fewer accessories are needed, since all shades of gray look OK with all sheens of black.<p>3) More people are working from home several days a week, so nobody cares how you&#x27;re dressed. I&#x27;m astonished at how fast this has changed here (outside Philly). Probably 2&#x2F;3 our cubes are empty on most days. Five years ago, they were full, because upper management insisted we be physically present and that we follow a dress code (no jeans). But now that management is no longer physically co-located with staff, and almost all meetings are online, nobody cares where you are or what you wear.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maerF0x0</author><text>It&#x27;s not &quot;self pride&quot; its a bucking of the trend of what &quot;looks good&quot; .<p>It&#x27;s not that I cannot afford to wear suits. Its that I dont like suits. Add in the marginal cost difference and I&#x27;d rather wear a tshirt. It&#x27;s the market punishing the inefficiency of requiring your workers (or date) to dress in a certain manner when it adds no true value.</text></comment> | <story><title>Americans are spending less on clothing</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-death-of-clothing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryanianian</author><text>This.<p>I see two things happening here: (1) American spending less on clothing and (2) Americans having less self-pride in their attire and presentation.<p>I&#x27;ve spent a fair amount of time in Latin American countries, and a real sure-fire way to identify tourists is to look for people poorly-dressed or those who look like they just don&#x27;t care about how they look.<p>E.g., despite much of Mexico being quite hot, you will almost never see a local Mexican wearing shorts, even on beaches. Tee-shirts <i>maybe</i> but almost always a freshly-washed button-up shirt. (Or a swimsuit if they&#x27;re swimming obviously.) This is true of other Latin countries too in my travels. It&#x27;s really humbling to see.</text></item><item><author>rb808</author><text>That doesn&#x27;t explain why people in the poorest countries dress better than Americans. People living in the slums of India&#x2F;Nigeria&#x2F;Brazil are more likely to have a collared shirt and dress pants than an American going to work in an office.</text></item><item><author>freejulian</author><text>All these explanations are rather complicated. I think the simplest explanation is the best: people don&#x27;t have the free money to spend on clothing.<p>This is evidenced by the following facts: 1) Wages have been stagnant 2) Cost of living has been increasing well beyond the stated 2% rate of inflation.</text></item><item><author>randcraw</author><text>IMHO there are three clear causes for this trend:<p>1) US business fashion is increasingly casual. Ties, skirts, suits, coordinated outfits, scarves, leather soled shoes -- all are passe, even in button down East Coast Fortune 100 companies (other than for aspiring managers or those in banking&#x2F;finance).<p>2) Color is passe. Shades of black and grey dominate wardrobes, especially in large cities. Thus fewer accessories are needed, since all shades of gray look OK with all sheens of black.<p>3) More people are working from home several days a week, so nobody cares how you&#x27;re dressed. I&#x27;m astonished at how fast this has changed here (outside Philly). Probably 2&#x2F;3 our cubes are empty on most days. Five years ago, they were full, because upper management insisted we be physically present and that we follow a dress code (no jeans). But now that management is no longer physically co-located with staff, and almost all meetings are online, nobody cares where you are or what you wear.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dopeboy</author><text>I was in Mexico last week near Cancun and observed exactly that. I always saw the locals with jeans and a nice shirt. There&#x27;s no way I could do that in 85F weather.</text></comment> |
35,126,742 | 35,125,856 | 1 | 2 | 35,124,056 | train | <story><title>Nushell.sh ls | where size > 10mb | sort-by modified</title><url>https://www.nushell.sh/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtlmtlmtlmtl</author><text>For some reason I never liked to do it the &quot;right way&quot;. First of all it doesn&#x27;t seem to actually matter.<p>But most of all the cat way just aligns with my mental model more. Data flows left to right, if you catch my drift.<p>It also makes it easier to add arguments to the end if re-running it.</text></item><item><author>codetrotter</author><text>Historically we would discourage shell users from<p><pre><code> cat somefile.txt | whatever
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and instead tell them to use either<p><pre><code> whatever &lt; somefile.txt
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or, if the command accepts input file names as arguments then use those like<p><pre><code> whatever somefile.txt
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or<p><pre><code> whatever -i somefile.txt
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etc<p>But perhaps in fish, “useless use of cat” is not so useless and would be recommended?<p>(I mean aside from the fact that they seem to recommend their “open” command, and so they probably prefer their own “open” over “cat”.)</text></item><item><author>akira2501</author><text>So, &#x27;&gt;&#x27; isn&#x27;t for redirection anymore. How does one do that?<p><pre><code> open foo.txt | append &quot;world&quot;| save --raw foo.txt
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Oh.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kccqzy</author><text>Besides it&#x27;s also a fail-safe way to make sure the program doesn&#x27;t modify the original file.<p><pre><code> random-app .&#x2F;myfile.txt
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The app opens the file on its own. It could decide to write to it.<p><pre><code> cat .&#x2F;myfile.txt | random-app
</code></pre>
The app receives chunks of the file from a pipe. It doesn&#x27;t know where the original file is.<p>This is especially useful if you aren&#x27;t sure the program will by default modify the file (such as formatters).</text></comment> | <story><title>Nushell.sh ls | where size > 10mb | sort-by modified</title><url>https://www.nushell.sh/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtlmtlmtlmtl</author><text>For some reason I never liked to do it the &quot;right way&quot;. First of all it doesn&#x27;t seem to actually matter.<p>But most of all the cat way just aligns with my mental model more. Data flows left to right, if you catch my drift.<p>It also makes it easier to add arguments to the end if re-running it.</text></item><item><author>codetrotter</author><text>Historically we would discourage shell users from<p><pre><code> cat somefile.txt | whatever
</code></pre>
and instead tell them to use either<p><pre><code> whatever &lt; somefile.txt
</code></pre>
or, if the command accepts input file names as arguments then use those like<p><pre><code> whatever somefile.txt
</code></pre>
or<p><pre><code> whatever -i somefile.txt
</code></pre>
etc<p>But perhaps in fish, “useless use of cat” is not so useless and would be recommended?<p>(I mean aside from the fact that they seem to recommend their “open” command, and so they probably prefer their own “open” over “cat”.)</text></item><item><author>akira2501</author><text>So, &#x27;&gt;&#x27; isn&#x27;t for redirection anymore. How does one do that?<p><pre><code> open foo.txt | append &quot;world&quot;| save --raw foo.txt
</code></pre>
Oh.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Arnavion</author><text>&gt;But most of all the cat way just aligns with my mental model more. Data flows left to right, if you catch my drift.<p>Using `&lt;` doesn&#x27;t change that model. You can write `&lt; somefile.txt whatever`. I always write my commandlines as `&lt;in_file cmd1 | cmd2 | cmd3 &gt;out_file`<p>(Though annoyingly this doesn&#x27;t work for feeding input to while loops. `&lt; &lt;(echo a; echo b; echo c;) while read -r foo; do echo &quot;$foo&quot;; done` is invalid syntax; it needs to be `while read -r foo; do echo &quot;$foo&quot;; done &lt; &lt;(echo a; echo b; echo c;)`)</text></comment> |
39,671,585 | 39,669,173 | 1 | 3 | 39,668,053 | train | <story><title>GrapheneOS finds Bluetooth memory corruption via ARM MTE</title><url>https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/112066872276203917</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dtx1</author><text>GrapheneOS is so far ahead in terms of security than anything else that it makes chosing anything but pixel hardware really questionable. But I <i>REALLY</i> want replaceable batteries. Why does everything have to suck nowadays?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>strcat</author><text>Pixels are currently the only devices meeting our security requirements. Other Android devices don&#x27;t even come close. Hardware memory tagging support is one of many major security advantages of Pixels. Our official list of hardware requirements is available here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grapheneos.org&#x2F;faq#future-devices" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grapheneos.org&#x2F;faq#future-devices</a>. These requirements are fully provided by 8th generation Pixels. 6th&#x2F;7th generation Pixels are only missing MTE, BTI and PAC but MTE is the most valuable feature on the list of hardware requirements. Proper security patches are even more important, which are not available in the same way outside Pixels.<p>Android has monthly, quarterly and yearly releases. Other Android OEMs only ship the monthly security backports with only all of the Critical&#x2F;High severity fixes, not most of the Moderate&#x2F;Low severity fixes including most privacy fixes. This is PARTLY addressed by using an alternate OS shipping these patches, but every alternate OS available for those devices rolls back security in a lot of ways. Firmware and a lot of the device support code comes from the OEM in practice. Running Android 14 QPR2 on top of Android 12 kernel &#x2F; drivers is possible but will be missing the security improvements for a huge portion of the OS.<p>The batteries in Pixels aren&#x27;t trivial to replace without damaging the device, but it&#x27;s officially supported and there are official parts available:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ifixit.com&#x2F;Device&#x2F;Google_Pixel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ifixit.com&#x2F;Device&#x2F;Google_Pixel</a><p>We simply can&#x27;t support insecure devices without the basics. Our hardware requirement list includes very basic things not provided by most Android OEMs along with more advanced features such as MTE which we now consider basic requirements for decent security. We want to support other devices, but those devices must meet these requirements. Memory tagging is a baseline feature supported by standard Cortex ARMv9 cores. It&#x27;s unfortunate that Qualcomm is not implementing support for it and that OEMs using an SoC supporting it are not bothering to set it up. It&#x27;s sad having a feature available in the CPU architecture that&#x27;s not usable due to the SoC or OEM.</text></comment> | <story><title>GrapheneOS finds Bluetooth memory corruption via ARM MTE</title><url>https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/112066872276203917</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dtx1</author><text>GrapheneOS is so far ahead in terms of security than anything else that it makes chosing anything but pixel hardware really questionable. But I <i>REALLY</i> want replaceable batteries. Why does everything have to suck nowadays?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sytten</author><text>Agreed but they do drop support for older pixel devices very very quickly which is kinda of PITA. At least the Pixel 8 is supposed to be supported 7 years.</text></comment> |
37,865,660 | 37,865,718 | 1 | 2 | 37,864,867 | train | <story><title>Scrollbars are becoming a problem</title><url>https://artemis.sh/2023/10/12/scrollbars.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>speeder</author><text>I don&#x27;t use dark mode for contrast, I use because a lot of software &quot;light mode&quot; is just plain white. And screens been getting more and more powerful.<p>Often using software without white mode the thing is so bright, that the walls near me get lighted up as if I was using a flashlight or something.<p>Thus I have to make the screen less bright, but often this also make the screen colors and contrast get all screwy and I still can&#x27;t see anything.<p>I miss Win 9x era grey interface... it wasn&#x27;t beautiful but I could actually see stuff.</text></item><item><author>Pannoniae</author><text>I have come to a funny realisation recently. It&#x27;s not my eyesight which is becoming worse, it&#x27;s the UIs which are becoming worse. The tiny scrollbars with laughable contrast are in no way accessible to anyone. I&#x27;ve recently switched to using KDE with the Oxygen theme and it&#x27;s a joy to use without any eye strain.<p>These scrollbars are absolutely pathetic, with no room for customisation. (good luck theming a locked-down application) It&#x27;s blatant how UI designers don&#x27;t give a damn about the users&#x27; needs, not even in FOSSland. I am not entirely sure why this is the case but it&#x27;s a sad regression from the days when we had good-looking, functional, accessible and snappy software. Not locked-down, unthemable electron bullshit.<p>Also, we wouldn&#x27;t need &quot;dark mode&quot; or the such if the UIs had any contrast and were legible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Groxx</author><text>... Ya know, I haven&#x27;t thought about that before, but screens <i>are</i> a lot brighter now aren&#x27;t they. I wonder how much of the dark mode thing is just that the old good defaults are now eye-burningly bright, so of course people don&#x27;t like them as much.</text></comment> | <story><title>Scrollbars are becoming a problem</title><url>https://artemis.sh/2023/10/12/scrollbars.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>speeder</author><text>I don&#x27;t use dark mode for contrast, I use because a lot of software &quot;light mode&quot; is just plain white. And screens been getting more and more powerful.<p>Often using software without white mode the thing is so bright, that the walls near me get lighted up as if I was using a flashlight or something.<p>Thus I have to make the screen less bright, but often this also make the screen colors and contrast get all screwy and I still can&#x27;t see anything.<p>I miss Win 9x era grey interface... it wasn&#x27;t beautiful but I could actually see stuff.</text></item><item><author>Pannoniae</author><text>I have come to a funny realisation recently. It&#x27;s not my eyesight which is becoming worse, it&#x27;s the UIs which are becoming worse. The tiny scrollbars with laughable contrast are in no way accessible to anyone. I&#x27;ve recently switched to using KDE with the Oxygen theme and it&#x27;s a joy to use without any eye strain.<p>These scrollbars are absolutely pathetic, with no room for customisation. (good luck theming a locked-down application) It&#x27;s blatant how UI designers don&#x27;t give a damn about the users&#x27; needs, not even in FOSSland. I am not entirely sure why this is the case but it&#x27;s a sad regression from the days when we had good-looking, functional, accessible and snappy software. Not locked-down, unthemable electron bullshit.<p>Also, we wouldn&#x27;t need &quot;dark mode&quot; or the such if the UIs had any contrast and were legible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wkat4242</author><text>True. I use my screen with 0% brightness during the day and I have to reduce contrast during the night (which leads to reduced colour depth). Using dark mode is unavoidable for this reason.<p>Display manufacturers should really not just look at the maximum brightness but also the minimum.</text></comment> |
19,431,990 | 19,432,123 | 1 | 3 | 19,430,880 | train | <story><title>In a study of senior CS majors, U.S. students are tops in skills</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/education/us-students-have-achieved-world-domination-in-computer-science-skillsfor-now</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>harias</author><text>&gt; Once the students were selected, the researchers then administered the Major Field Test in Computer Science, an exam that was developed by the U.S. Educational Testing Service and is regularly updated.<p>There is a huge variation among countries in how subjects are taught and tested. I would like to add that many of my peers have resorted to streamlining for whiteboard interviews, and unsurprisingly, they end up with well-paying jobs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bfrydl</author><text>I took a look at the sample questions for the test, having never heard of it. It&#x27;s 66 multiple choice questions, and many of them seem like “gotcha” questions where one of the answers is an off-by-one error or something like that.<p>And how about this lovely question:<p>&gt; A personal identification number that opens a certain lock consists of a sequence of 3 DIFFERENT digits from 0 though 9, inclusive. How many possible PINs are there?<p>Putting aside the value of this question in the first place, the correct answer is 720 but it also includes the answer 1000 in case you didn&#x27;t notice the emphasis on “different”.<p>Doesn&#x27;t seem like a great test to me unless it&#x27;s about your reading comprehension and ability to decipher code with single-letter variable names.</text></comment> | <story><title>In a study of senior CS majors, U.S. students are tops in skills</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/education/us-students-have-achieved-world-domination-in-computer-science-skillsfor-now</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>harias</author><text>&gt; Once the students were selected, the researchers then administered the Major Field Test in Computer Science, an exam that was developed by the U.S. Educational Testing Service and is regularly updated.<p>There is a huge variation among countries in how subjects are taught and tested. I would like to add that many of my peers have resorted to streamlining for whiteboard interviews, and unsurprisingly, they end up with well-paying jobs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mc91</author><text>&gt; many of my peers have resorted to streamlining for whiteboard interviews, and unsurprisingly, they end up with well-paying jobs<p>I switched into programming and am low paid, and am doing this right now for interviews. Practicing for whiteboard interviews, or coding tests (real time online and in person).<p>I re-read the language docs and then did (so far) 20 or so self-timed programming tests. Most of them I did in 5-30 minutes, 1 or 2 I got stuck on and subsequently reviewed. After finishing reading the language docs I will read though the platform docs, and may do some quizzes on that as well. As well as whiteboard high level class creation tests (HAS-A, IS-A).<p>The tests have a lot of array stuff, String manipulation, using long instead of int, casting from one type to another, doing a lot of stuff with maps and sorting maps by value. It also uses things then can be done quickly and compactly in streams. I do these things once in a while, but now have it memorized and down cold.<p>Hopefully this all leads to the latter result you mentioned.</text></comment> |
29,628,935 | 29,628,889 | 1 | 2 | 29,627,097 | train | <story><title>European alternatives for digital products</title><url>https://european-alternatives.eu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spaniard89277</author><text>So why does Europe have such hard time popping new software ventures like the US? Is it market fragmentation? Languages? Is it capital allocation related problems?<p>I feel that the ability to bootstrap projects in all the large EU countries is way harder than the US, or smaller euro ones (like the Netherlands or Estonia).<p>In Spain for example, the cost of something similar of an LLC is way higher than in the US, not to mention that you have to pay almost 400€&#x2F;month (at minimum) just for owning the company as Social Security fee, even if I&#x27;m also working for someone else paying my social security through my salary.<p>It&#x27;s a huge burden if you&#x27;re in my situation, which is having an average salary, not a lot of savings and you don&#x27;t have a family that bails you out.<p>Also, this listing lacks a few more that I listed here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iagovar.com&#x2F;mapas&#x2F;european-web-hosting-alternatives" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iagovar.com&#x2F;mapas&#x2F;european-web-hosting-alternatives</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>macco</author><text>I think the biggest problem is the small home market &#x2F; fragmented market.<p>While the EU has a very well integrated market for industry goods, for services (where I would include software) the market is less than perfect.<p>The language barrier is the biggest strangle for EU software entrepreneurship &#x2F; platform business in my opinion.<p>The second-biggest obstacle imho is funding. If you want to grow really fast, it is hard to get enough money.<p>Third, I would rank ecosystem in general, besides money.<p>I think over regulation is not as bad as it is often said. All developed countries have regulations in place, some more some less.</text></comment> | <story><title>European alternatives for digital products</title><url>https://european-alternatives.eu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spaniard89277</author><text>So why does Europe have such hard time popping new software ventures like the US? Is it market fragmentation? Languages? Is it capital allocation related problems?<p>I feel that the ability to bootstrap projects in all the large EU countries is way harder than the US, or smaller euro ones (like the Netherlands or Estonia).<p>In Spain for example, the cost of something similar of an LLC is way higher than in the US, not to mention that you have to pay almost 400€&#x2F;month (at minimum) just for owning the company as Social Security fee, even if I&#x27;m also working for someone else paying my social security through my salary.<p>It&#x27;s a huge burden if you&#x27;re in my situation, which is having an average salary, not a lot of savings and you don&#x27;t have a family that bails you out.<p>Also, this listing lacks a few more that I listed here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iagovar.com&#x2F;mapas&#x2F;european-web-hosting-alternatives" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iagovar.com&#x2F;mapas&#x2F;european-web-hosting-alternatives</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>s_dev</author><text>&gt;So why does Europe have such hard time popping new software ventures like the US?<p>The US has a very mature and developed tech VC scene. Where&#x27;s Europes isn&#x27;t as mature. Also clustering is a thing -- why didn&#x27;t Silicon Valley happen in New York either -- many of the conditions were there just like California but it didn&#x27;t materialize and Europe was simply a mess in the aftermath of WWII there weren&#x27;t going to be many tech revolutions taking place there.<p>In fact ironically enough there was such a congregation of talent in Berlin in the 1930s that some have predicted a second &quot;Renaissance&quot; was inevitable were it not for WWII.</text></comment> |
14,984,291 | 14,983,037 | 1 | 3 | 14,981,886 | train | <story><title>Tableau acquires ClearGraph, a data analysis startup using natural language</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/09/tableau-acquires-cleargraph-a-startup-that-lets-you-analyze-your-data-using-natural-language/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sprobertson</author><text>I&#x27;ve been working on a (soon to be) open source version of this, I didn&#x27;t realize there was a real business version out there. So far it works great alongside Salesforce e.g. &quot;Find me appointments in San Mateo today set by Jason Jones&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tableau acquires ClearGraph, a data analysis startup using natural language</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/09/tableau-acquires-cleargraph-a-startup-that-lets-you-analyze-your-data-using-natural-language/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>burton32</author><text>There&#x27;s a lot of movement in this space at the moment.
I&#x27;m aware of the following players:<p>- Veezoo www.veezoo.com<p>- Wizdee www.wizdee.com<p>- Kueri www.kueri.me</text></comment> |
12,302,739 | 12,301,985 | 1 | 3 | 12,299,013 | train | <story><title>Pendulum – Python datetimes made easy</title><url>https://github.com/sdispater/pendulum</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sdispater</author><text>Pendulum is a new library for Python to ease datetimes, timedeltas and timezones manipulation.<p>It is heavily inspired by [Carbon](<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;carbon.nesbot.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;carbon.nesbot.com</a>) for PHP.<p>Basically, the Pendulum class is a replacement for the native datetime one with some useful and intuitive methods, the Interval class is intended to be a better time delta class and, finally, the Period class is a datetime-aware timedelta.<p>Timezones are also easier to deal with: Pendulum will automatically normalize your datetime to handle DST transitions for you.<p><pre><code> import pendulum
pendulum.create(2013, 3, 31, 2, 30, 0, 0, &#x27;Europe&#x2F;Paris’)
# 2:30 for the 31th of March 2013 does not exist
# so pendulum will return the actual time which is 3:30+02:00
&#x27;2013-03-31T03:30:00+02:00’
dt = pendulum.create(2013, 3, 31, 1, 59, 59, 999999, &#x27;Europe&#x2F;Paris’)
&#x27;2013-03-31T01:59:59.999999+01:00’
dt = dt.add(microseconds=1)
&#x27;2013-03-31T03:00:00+02:00’
dt.subtract(microseconds=1)
&#x27;2013-03-31T01:59:59.999998+01:00’
</code></pre>
To those wondering: yes I know [Arrow](<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;crsmithdev.com&#x2F;arrow&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;crsmithdev.com&#x2F;arrow&#x2F;</a>) exists but its flaws and strange API (you can throw almost anything at get() and it will do its best to determine what you wanted, for instance) motivated me to start this project. You can check why I think Arrow is flawed here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pendulum.eustace.io&#x2F;faq&#x2F;#why-not-arrow" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pendulum.eustace.io&#x2F;faq&#x2F;#why-not-arrow</a><p>Link to the official documentation: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pendulum.eustace.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pendulum.eustace.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;</a><p>Link to the github project: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sdispater&#x2F;pendulum" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sdispater&#x2F;pendulum</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jsmeaton</author><text>Cool library, I&#x27;ll definitely be looking into this more closely in the future. The automatic handling of ambiguous time during timezone transitions is curious. As an example, Django punts on automatic handling and requires a user to choose between pre and post transition (I wrote the is_dst handling): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;django&#x2F;django&#x2F;blob&#x2F;19e20a2a3f763388bba9263d56db34012e90cf5b&#x2F;django&#x2F;utils&#x2F;timezone.py#L368" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;django&#x2F;django&#x2F;blob&#x2F;19e20a2a3f763388bba926...</a><p>What if you were to begin with a time at 3:30 and then subtract an hour. Would your library properly return 1:30? What if a user had a naive time at 3:30, subtracted an hour, and then converted to an aware time using your library? For what it&#x27;s worth, I think moving to 3:30 is the correct behaviour in the vast amount of cases. Requiring a user to provide a direction to move and throwing an exception if they don&#x27;t is dangerous. How often are users going to see this exception, if at all? Just wondering how much you&#x27;ve considered cases, if they exist, that would be better off moving to 1:30.<p>I&#x27;ll add one more thing. As soon as I started browsing the page I thought &quot;why would I use this over arrow?&quot;. Great to see you addressed that by default. I didn&#x27;t know about some of arrows shortcomings&#x2F;bugs, so they were really useful.<p>Handling dates, times, and timezones in particular is a tricky problem, as evident by the large number of libraries in each language trying to get it right. If you haven&#x27;t already, I&#x27;d really recommend reading the blog posts of Jon Skeet regarding Noda Time <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.nodatime.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.nodatime.org&#x2F;</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codeblog.jonskeet.uk&#x2F;category&#x2F;nodatime&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codeblog.jonskeet.uk&#x2F;category&#x2F;nodatime&#x2F;</a> even if it turns up some corner cases you haven&#x27;t considered, or validates ones you have.<p>Thanks!</text></comment> | <story><title>Pendulum – Python datetimes made easy</title><url>https://github.com/sdispater/pendulum</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sdispater</author><text>Pendulum is a new library for Python to ease datetimes, timedeltas and timezones manipulation.<p>It is heavily inspired by [Carbon](<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;carbon.nesbot.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;carbon.nesbot.com</a>) for PHP.<p>Basically, the Pendulum class is a replacement for the native datetime one with some useful and intuitive methods, the Interval class is intended to be a better time delta class and, finally, the Period class is a datetime-aware timedelta.<p>Timezones are also easier to deal with: Pendulum will automatically normalize your datetime to handle DST transitions for you.<p><pre><code> import pendulum
pendulum.create(2013, 3, 31, 2, 30, 0, 0, &#x27;Europe&#x2F;Paris’)
# 2:30 for the 31th of March 2013 does not exist
# so pendulum will return the actual time which is 3:30+02:00
&#x27;2013-03-31T03:30:00+02:00’
dt = pendulum.create(2013, 3, 31, 1, 59, 59, 999999, &#x27;Europe&#x2F;Paris’)
&#x27;2013-03-31T01:59:59.999999+01:00’
dt = dt.add(microseconds=1)
&#x27;2013-03-31T03:00:00+02:00’
dt.subtract(microseconds=1)
&#x27;2013-03-31T01:59:59.999998+01:00’
</code></pre>
To those wondering: yes I know [Arrow](<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;crsmithdev.com&#x2F;arrow&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;crsmithdev.com&#x2F;arrow&#x2F;</a>) exists but its flaws and strange API (you can throw almost anything at get() and it will do its best to determine what you wanted, for instance) motivated me to start this project. You can check why I think Arrow is flawed here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pendulum.eustace.io&#x2F;faq&#x2F;#why-not-arrow" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pendulum.eustace.io&#x2F;faq&#x2F;#why-not-arrow</a><p>Link to the official documentation: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pendulum.eustace.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pendulum.eustace.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;</a><p>Link to the github project: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sdispater&#x2F;pendulum" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sdispater&#x2F;pendulum</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dvl</author><text>I already faced some of mentioned problems using Arrow, I&#x27;ll give pendulum a try tomorrow.</text></comment> |
35,947,431 | 35,946,085 | 1 | 3 | 35,944,994 | train | <story><title>Mormon whistleblower says his church is a “clandestine hedge fund”</title><url>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mormon-whistleblower-ensign-peak-church-investment-fund-allegations-60-minutes-transcript-2023-05-14/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reaperman</author><text>Due to separation of church and state, churches aren’t supposed to participate in political speech either but the largest ones pretty unanimously do every major election. Legally that’s supposed to trigger taxation but it’s political suicide for anyone to go after them for this.</text></item><item><author>mcv</author><text>Tax exemption should be a non-issue. Churches shouldn&#x27;t be for-profit businesses, they should be associations with members contributing to a common, partly charitable goal (although honestly it&#x27;s also just a club). That&#x27;s what they conceptually are, and that&#x27;s how they should work.<p>They should be treated as charitable organisations at best, and then also held to those standards. Any church run as a business should not be considered a church at all.<p>(Disclaimer: I&#x27;m a member of a Dutch church, and I have no idea what our tax situation is.)</text></item><item><author>once_inc</author><text>My main issue isn&#x27;t the fact that the church is hoarding money and keeping, it is with the fact that the US government makes exemptions for them. What is the reasoning behind the tax-exemption and the exemption to reveal all financial information? Level the playing field and let the church be about its own business.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>donatj</author><text>Separation of church and state is a restriction on the state from being religious, not the church from being political.<p>The bill of rights is a list of restrictions on the state by very definition.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mormon whistleblower says his church is a “clandestine hedge fund”</title><url>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mormon-whistleblower-ensign-peak-church-investment-fund-allegations-60-minutes-transcript-2023-05-14/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reaperman</author><text>Due to separation of church and state, churches aren’t supposed to participate in political speech either but the largest ones pretty unanimously do every major election. Legally that’s supposed to trigger taxation but it’s political suicide for anyone to go after them for this.</text></item><item><author>mcv</author><text>Tax exemption should be a non-issue. Churches shouldn&#x27;t be for-profit businesses, they should be associations with members contributing to a common, partly charitable goal (although honestly it&#x27;s also just a club). That&#x27;s what they conceptually are, and that&#x27;s how they should work.<p>They should be treated as charitable organisations at best, and then also held to those standards. Any church run as a business should not be considered a church at all.<p>(Disclaimer: I&#x27;m a member of a Dutch church, and I have no idea what our tax situation is.)</text></item><item><author>once_inc</author><text>My main issue isn&#x27;t the fact that the church is hoarding money and keeping, it is with the fact that the US government makes exemptions for them. What is the reasoning behind the tax-exemption and the exemption to reveal all financial information? Level the playing field and let the church be about its own business.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meragrin_</author><text>&gt; churches aren’t supposed to participate in political speech<p>You either misunderstand or misstated. The entire reason they are protected is because of their political speech. They aren&#x27;t supposed to be actively endorsing, funding, or participating in campaigning for a politician. Most everything else is fair game.</text></comment> |
28,247,770 | 28,247,577 | 1 | 2 | 28,246,286 | train | <story><title>Sometimes it is just a bad battery</title><url>https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/08/19/batt/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cgearhart</author><text>“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”<p>I bought an old BMW some time back. I took it in to the dealership for an inspection before purchase and I mentioned that the A&#x2F;C wasn’t working before inspection. They charged me what you’d expect (plus extra to diagnose _just_ the A&#x2F;C) but gave the car a completely clean bill of health aside from the A&#x2F;C, which they attributed to a bad blower motor.<p>I asked the seller to have that fixed before sale, and they took it to another shop who replaced the blower…and still nothing. That shop kept the car for 2 more weeks and came up with nothing for answers. They took it to another BMW dealership who inspected it for another week and came up with nothing.<p>So I turned to Google. Found a likely problem, but needed BMW dealership to confirm with proprietary tools. The BMW dealership had <i>no idea</i> what I was talking about. I had to literally tell them “can you plug in the foo widget and go to the bar screen and check the baz value shown there? Now can you hit Reset in the corner?” Magically, the A&#x2F;C started working.<p>I’m not sure how “right to repair” plays into my story. My real point is that technicians are human and imperfect; troubleshooting is hard. It’s not necessarily a conspiracy that they make mistakes, nor is it personal that they believe the diagnostic data in front of them over some random person _convinced_ it’s a specific problem—even when it seems completely obvious once the problem is fixed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sometimes it is just a bad battery</title><url>https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/08/19/batt/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jfoucher</author><text>My car was behaving strangely recently. Sometimes when I gave it the beans it would pop up a flurry of scary error messages about the engine, that I had to take it to the mechanic to have it checked out and so on.<p>500 € later and the mechanic could not fix the issue.<p>Other times, just turning on the engine it would complain that some filter was almost full. And once, on a longer than usual trip, it gave up on me in a pretty steep incline and I had to stop on the side of the road, let it cool down a while, and turn it on again and it worked mostly fine if I didn&#x27;t accelerate too much.<p>Then a few weeks ago it did not start at all. So I measured the battery and it turned out it was toast. I had a friend bring me to buy a new one and swapped it in.<p>The car started fine. But incredibly, it never again displayed any error messages and seems to be completely fixed!<p>Not really phone related, but yeah, sometimes it can be (surprisingly) just the battery...</text></comment> |
19,751,959 | 19,751,922 | 1 | 3 | 19,750,610 | train | <story><title>Who Killed Lard? (2012)</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/02/03/146356117/who-killed-lard</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ThJ</author><text>This story doesn&#x27;t really explain what killed lard in Europe. They don&#x27;t sell Crisco or any other kind of shortening here in Norway, for example. Norwegian recipes often call for butter, but rarely for lard. Few things are ever deep fried and in pie crusts, we use butter, not lard. The closest thing you can find to shortening in a Norwegian supermarket is coco fat. The only thing I know of that was traditionally cooked in lard is donuts, which are literally named lardrings (smultringer) in Norwegian.<p>What happened in Norway is that butter was rationed because of WWII and they introduced margarine (another product of hydrogenation) as a substitute, and after the war, it was promoted as a healthier alternative to butter.<p>Lard must&#x27;ve been around, especially in other parts of Europe than Norway, but I doubt these domestic American events killed it.<p>I often see Americans attempting to explain why things happen in their country by pointing to domestic events, with said events failing to account for an identical thing happening all over the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>da_chicken</author><text>&gt; This story doesn&#x27;t really explain what killed lard in Europe.<p>It&#x27;s NPR. It&#x27;s an American news channel. It&#x27;s not trying to detail the history of Europe.<p>I don&#x27;t mean to take this out on you because your comment is informative and interesting, but I&#x27;m really getting frustrated with this so often being the top comment&#x27;s criticism on HN, or being the top responding criticism to the top comment on HN. Simply put, it&#x27;s a Eurocentric criticism. It always reads like, &quot;Why didn&#x27;t this journalist consider Europe when they wrote this piece?&quot;<p>Perhaps it&#x27;s different on European sites, but American sites don&#x27;t bother contextualizing which nation they&#x27;re talking about because the context is already self-evident to the primary Anglo American audience. News stories don&#x27;t appear in English as a lingua franca; it&#x27;s just the primary language.<p>It&#x27;s not that we don&#x27;t care about Europe. It&#x27;s just too far away. Europe just isn&#x27;t the default American context. We don&#x27;t qualify our journalism if it&#x27;s only about America.</text></comment> | <story><title>Who Killed Lard? (2012)</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/02/03/146356117/who-killed-lard</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ThJ</author><text>This story doesn&#x27;t really explain what killed lard in Europe. They don&#x27;t sell Crisco or any other kind of shortening here in Norway, for example. Norwegian recipes often call for butter, but rarely for lard. Few things are ever deep fried and in pie crusts, we use butter, not lard. The closest thing you can find to shortening in a Norwegian supermarket is coco fat. The only thing I know of that was traditionally cooked in lard is donuts, which are literally named lardrings (smultringer) in Norwegian.<p>What happened in Norway is that butter was rationed because of WWII and they introduced margarine (another product of hydrogenation) as a substitute, and after the war, it was promoted as a healthier alternative to butter.<p>Lard must&#x27;ve been around, especially in other parts of Europe than Norway, but I doubt these domestic American events killed it.<p>I often see Americans attempting to explain why things happen in their country by pointing to domestic events, with said events failing to account for an identical thing happening all over the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gambiting</author><text>There is absolutely zero issue buying lard in Poland. Literally any store will have some in fridges next to meat.</text></comment> |
38,219,106 | 38,218,196 | 1 | 2 | 38,217,457 | train | <story><title>Microsoft steals access data: Beware of the new Outlook (German)</title><url>https://www.heise.de/news/Microsoft-krallt-sich-Zugangsdaten-Achtung-vorm-neuen-Outlook-9357691.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>robbiep</author><text>I recently bought a surface 5 for my parents, who need a windows machine for their accounting software.<p>My initial impression was, this is pretty cool.
They’ve replicated to Apple unboxing experience, and it even tries to do a passable job of the Mac startup and setup experience.<p>Until:<p>- I can’t log in without a Microsoft account (apparently you can remove this later, but I still haven’t worked out how to do it, and I’m not about to set my parents up with <i>another</i> email&#x2F;password combo, so they’re using mine to start<p>- it asks for a keyboard locale, which then relocated the @ symbol somewhere totally bizarre (why it would allow this instead of forcing the keyboard it is installed with is beyond me, and I just chose UK vs USA, as I am used to this choice being more important for autocorrect and AUS spelling is more UK than US. No - apparently there are a bunch of keyboard layout differences that will then mean you need to google in an external device to work out why the @ symbol has moved, which means you can’t log in with your Microsoft account<p>- there’s 45 minutes of software updates<p>- ‘New’ outlook is the default choice. My parents use Google workspaces. The message informing me that all their email would be mirrored on Microsoft servers was horrifying. It took me an hour to determine it still had ‘old’ outlook installed but it was not default.<p>- I was continually horrified at how it tried to sell me things or inject ads or data or news feeds into every component of the operating system<p>Bottom line, it’s going back to the store. It’s nice that in their move to compete with Apple they’ve also introduced a 60 day no questions return policy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft steals access data: Beware of the new Outlook (German)</title><url>https://www.heise.de/news/Microsoft-krallt-sich-Zugangsdaten-Achtung-vorm-neuen-Outlook-9357691.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hnbad</author><text>It sounds like the new Outlook is a thin wrapper around the cloud version, so the IMAP sync happens in the cloud, not locally. I wonder how MS is supposed to do this without having the remote IMAP password transmitted to the cloud version of Outlook.<p>This sounds less like &quot;Microsoft steals your data&quot; and more like &quot;Microsoft replaced Desktop Outlook with OWA&quot;.</text></comment> |
24,832,925 | 24,831,352 | 1 | 2 | 24,828,509 | train | <story><title>Better Git diff output for Ruby, Python, Elixir, Go</title><url>https://tekin.co.uk/2020/10/better-git-diff-output-for-ruby-python-elixir-and-more</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nikeee</author><text>I use delta as a diff tool:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dandavison&#x2F;delta" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dandavison&#x2F;delta</a><p>It also offers contextual information as well as side-by-side diffs. For syntax highlighting, it uses the same as bat (the cat clone).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CGamesPlay</author><text>Worth pointing out that this is not mutually exclusive with the article. You can use both, the article (when combined with this pager) will affect what appears inside the chunk header.</text></comment> | <story><title>Better Git diff output for Ruby, Python, Elixir, Go</title><url>https://tekin.co.uk/2020/10/better-git-diff-output-for-ruby-python-elixir-and-more</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nikeee</author><text>I use delta as a diff tool:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dandavison&#x2F;delta" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dandavison&#x2F;delta</a><p>It also offers contextual information as well as side-by-side diffs. For syntax highlighting, it uses the same as bat (the cat clone).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hak8or</author><text>This looks like a great command line alternative to git diff or diff, but I have to admit that I greatly prefer meld when I need a quick diff against non version controlled files, or sublime merge when using revision controlled files.</text></comment> |
36,794,497 | 36,791,957 | 1 | 3 | 36,790,196 | train | <story><title>Remote code execution in OpenSSH’s forwarded SSH-agent</title><url>https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2023/07/19/cve-2023-38408-remote-code-execution-in-opensshs-forwarded-ssh-agent</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sullivanmatt</author><text>This sounds way worse than it is.<p>To be clear, the &quot;remote&quot; part of the code execution is that an attacker controlling your destination server can cause your <i>client</i> to run an attacker-controlled payload, <i>if</i> the client is forwarding their credentials (`ssh -A`). Most people don&#x27;t tend to make connections to arbitrary SSH hosts, and certainly they don&#x27;t do it while forwarding their credentials along.<p>It&#x27;s a neat attack, and I applaud the Qualys team on their find, but this is not any sort of emergency situation for 99.99% of systems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gunapologist99</author><text>I beg to differ: this does <i>not</i> sound way worse than it is. If anything, it&#x27;s understating the issue.<p>Not only can it be exploited across a wide variety of clients across multiple platforms, but all that&#x27;s required is that you&#x27;re using key forwarding.<p>This is devastating, because it&#x27;s not just that you control the destination server and steal the keys, but you can take over the user&#x27;s entire workstation.<p>Once you&#x27;ve got the user&#x27;s entire workstation, you potentially have access to everything else they have, from their email, to other SSH hosts, to key loggers, to Git repos. This is about as bad as it gets, and all because someone is using Agent Forwarding.<p>Best of all, the victim has <i>no idea</i> that they&#x27;ve been completely compromised. They can live inside your machine for years, upgrade their sploits, and generally exfiltrate all of your secrets.<p>Never use agent forwarding. Just don&#x27;t. &quot;Agent forwarding should be enabled with caution&quot; in the man page is another massive understatement. Even if you <i>think</i> you need it, check the other responses in this thread for examples of how to work around it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Remote code execution in OpenSSH’s forwarded SSH-agent</title><url>https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2023/07/19/cve-2023-38408-remote-code-execution-in-opensshs-forwarded-ssh-agent</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sullivanmatt</author><text>This sounds way worse than it is.<p>To be clear, the &quot;remote&quot; part of the code execution is that an attacker controlling your destination server can cause your <i>client</i> to run an attacker-controlled payload, <i>if</i> the client is forwarding their credentials (`ssh -A`). Most people don&#x27;t tend to make connections to arbitrary SSH hosts, and certainly they don&#x27;t do it while forwarding their credentials along.<p>It&#x27;s a neat attack, and I applaud the Qualys team on their find, but this is not any sort of emergency situation for 99.99% of systems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TechBro8615</author><text>The attacker controlled destination server could be a compromised host, so this enables lateral movement from a deployed VM or remote dev machine into a developer laptop.</text></comment> |
24,243,853 | 24,243,361 | 1 | 3 | 24,242,863 | train | <story><title>AutoCXX: Safely call C++ from Rust with auto generated bindings</title><url>https://github.com/google/autocxx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fluffy87</author><text>I wonder how it can auto generate safe bindings for C++.<p>To do that, it would essentially need to literally prove that the C++ code is thread and memory safe, which is an open research problem at
Best, and probably impossible since it requires solving the halting problem.<p>If it can do that, then the actual binding generation would be the most uninteresting part of this work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steveklabnik</author><text>See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dtolnay&#x2F;cxx&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dtolnay&#x2F;cxx&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1</a> for some of this debate.</text></comment> | <story><title>AutoCXX: Safely call C++ from Rust with auto generated bindings</title><url>https://github.com/google/autocxx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fluffy87</author><text>I wonder how it can auto generate safe bindings for C++.<p>To do that, it would essentially need to literally prove that the C++ code is thread and memory safe, which is an open research problem at
Best, and probably impossible since it requires solving the halting problem.<p>If it can do that, then the actual binding generation would be the most uninteresting part of this work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yoshuaw</author><text>I read &quot;safely call&quot; as &quot;does not require `unsafe {}` to call&quot;. Invariants will still need to be manually upheld to ensure the C++ code will work as expected.</text></comment> |
2,113,942 | 2,113,327 | 1 | 3 | 2,113,064 | train | <story><title>Threewords.me is up for private auction</title><url>http://sale.threewords.me/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BrandonWatson</author><text>If anyone ever questions the value of the idea versus the value of execution, use this as a cuationary tale. Here's my post outlining this very idea from 2 years ago:<p><a href="http://www.manyniches.com/n00b-notes/my3words/" rel="nofollow">http://www.manyniches.com/n00b-notes/my3words/</a><p>2 years. I even registered the domain my3words.com.<p>What did I do with it? Not much. I have no idea if Mark saw my post or not. I kind of hope he did, so that I can feel a little better about not executing. That maybe I inspired him.<p>However, that doesn't change the bottom line. He executed. Worth-ful. I had the idea, but didn't execute. Worthless.<p>Hats off to Mark.</text></comment> | <story><title>Threewords.me is up for private auction</title><url>http://sale.threewords.me/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>markbao</author><text>Glad to see this already submitted :)<p>Yeah, I'm working on way too much stuff, and threewords.me started up as a side project that I didn't have any interest in continuing it long-term (more interested in developing <a href="http://supportbreeze.com" rel="nofollow">http://supportbreeze.com</a> and others).<p>The press curve has slowed, but a lot of users are still hitting the site (new and returning) — every new feature I get is hugely adopted within minutes.</text></comment> |
36,500,725 | 36,500,173 | 1 | 2 | 36,499,498 | train | <story><title>Open source AI is critical – Hugging Face CEO before US Congress</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/ai/hugging-face-ceo-tells-us-house-open-source-ai-is-extremely-aligned-with-american-interests/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smoldesu</author><text>Yeah, this is a perfect microcosm of how &quot;the system&quot; works. This guy is right! He just got there too late, with too little money and not enough fanfare.<p>Sam Altman, on the other hand? He&#x27;s the figurehead of a consumer-facing product with a brilliant marketing team and probably a crack team of lobbyists to boot. He&#x27;s got billions of dollars in Microsoft funding and a product you can go use for free. All he&#x27;s got to do is roll in there first with an AI alarmist response and convince lawmakers the state-of-the-art is dangerous. After all, OpenAI is synonymous with SOTA, right? So we follow the industry leaders, without really looking where they&#x27;re headed. And now we end up here.<p>Oh how I wish Open Source software was fairly represented in court. But ideas don&#x27;t pay for themselves, and money talks <i>awful</i> loud...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jazzyjackson</author><text>&gt; All he&#x27;s got to do is roll in there first with an AI alarmist response and convince lawmakers the state-of-the-art is dangerous.<p>Mr Altman didn&#x27;t go before congress to convince them of anything, he was invited by Blumenthal to make their case to the media. Congress is embarrassed that social media got out of hand and is chomping at the bit to regulate AI. There was no disagreement at the testimony, the intentions of government and industry are aligned perfectly here - roll out the red carpet for centralized control, regulate competition out of existence.</text></comment> | <story><title>Open source AI is critical – Hugging Face CEO before US Congress</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/ai/hugging-face-ceo-tells-us-house-open-source-ai-is-extremely-aligned-with-american-interests/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smoldesu</author><text>Yeah, this is a perfect microcosm of how &quot;the system&quot; works. This guy is right! He just got there too late, with too little money and not enough fanfare.<p>Sam Altman, on the other hand? He&#x27;s the figurehead of a consumer-facing product with a brilliant marketing team and probably a crack team of lobbyists to boot. He&#x27;s got billions of dollars in Microsoft funding and a product you can go use for free. All he&#x27;s got to do is roll in there first with an AI alarmist response and convince lawmakers the state-of-the-art is dangerous. After all, OpenAI is synonymous with SOTA, right? So we follow the industry leaders, without really looking where they&#x27;re headed. And now we end up here.<p>Oh how I wish Open Source software was fairly represented in court. But ideas don&#x27;t pay for themselves, and money talks <i>awful</i> loud...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jstarfish</author><text>The government&#x27;s interests are going to align more with OpenAI&#x27;s, and they would be fools <i>not</i> to eliminate open source&#x2F;local models.<p>Anything local bypasses traversal of any network edges they can tap and monitor. Anything you ask Google is logged, and your search history can be subpoenaed, same as with any public library and the books you check out. OpenAI or whatever gatekeeper would assume that role and charge tolls.<p>Do the same research with Vicuna-13B-ggml or whatever and nobody can sniff out what you&#x27;re doing. Which sounds great for people who just want to jerk off and be left alone, but has terrifying implications for anybody tasked with stopping more-malicious users.<p>Unfortunately nobody can ever compromise on these things. Best case would be adopting a law like the recent one in NL, where given probable cause the government can hack into your machine, but that won&#x27;t happen. The only alternative in their favor is banning local models and open-source development of them altogether.</text></comment> |
1,247,211 | 1,247,104 | 1 | 2 | 1,246,999 | train | <story><title>Bringing Down a Copycat Site</title><url>http://www.xequte.com/fraud/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dcx</author><text>I found the below comment on the 2004 slashdot discussion. IMO this is the best way to handle this - thought it would add value to discussion on HN (edit - formatting):<p><i>"1. Immediately(!) purchase the stolen software, using a Mastercard or Visa. The resulting download is evidence, and the purchase itself will be used later. Make every effort to identify who (URL, domain name, contact info, company name, etc.) is actually processing this credit card transaction (hint: it's usually not the kid in Pakistan).<p>2. Notify the contact info of the domain of the infringement. Use a DMCA-compliant notification.<p>3. Notify the next upstream ISP of that domain of same.<p>4. Notify the domain's registrar. Some have TOS which forbid illegal activity.<p>5. Is the bad guy still up? Then start notifying the credit card processor that they have participated in a sale of stolen goods. Use a letter that calmly documents the date of purchase, how you identified the download as a stolen copy of your software, etc.<p>6. When your credit card bill arrives, follow the instructions on the back of the bill to contest that purchase. Inform the credit card company of everything that's happened, including dates and times and copies of correspondence<p>7. Join the ASP [asp-shareware.org]. It's a chance to notify fellow software producers that their software is being ripped off along with yours (and increase the pressure on a particular pirate site). It's also a way of supporting an organization that works to support your right to make a living selling software.<p>The linchpin in this effort is credit card processing. I don't care if you live on a small island that you rule yourself, if you take Mastercard/Visa transactions, you rely on American companies and American law. These giant companies grant smaller companies the right to parcel out merchant accounts, and they can cause non-trivial financial pain for merchant accounts that generate too many complaints for them.<p>The wheels of the law can take much time to grind to a conclusion, and not always in your favor. Visa/Mastercard can issue a $20,000 fine in a much shorter time, and they don't have to consult a jury.<p>In the Wild West of Internet fraud that involves money flow, Mastercard/Visa is judge, jury, and executioner. Most victims simply don't know enough to bring their case to them, or the amount of fraud would be dropping."</i>
<a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134264&#38;cid=11211953" rel="nofollow">http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134264&#38;cid=1121...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Bringing Down a Copycat Site</title><url>http://www.xequte.com/fraud/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ck2</author><text>They should have used the DMCA.
You don't go to the registrar, you go to the host.<p>You can takedown nearly any site hosted in the USA within a few hours these days (even with content you don't actually own, if you don't mind being counter-noticed or even sued).</text></comment> |
10,374,306 | 10,373,141 | 1 | 2 | 10,372,789 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: Unicorns aren't ad-supported</title><text>Looking at the &quot;Complete list of unicorns&quot;[1], something stands out. Out of the top 50 startups by valuation, only three, Snapchat, Pintrest, and Vice, are ad-supported. The others all sell a product or service paid for by its users.
Advertising may have powered the first dot-com boom, but it&#x27;s not powering this one.<p>[1] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbinsights.com&#x2F;research-unicorn-companies&#x2F;</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>NumberCruncher</author><text>Startups are the penny stocks of the 21ht century. Buy 4% of a company for 40 M$, talk a lot about how this company is valued at 1 B$, wait until enought people belive it, make an IPO, take the money and run (a.k.a. pump and dumping). Would Jordan Belfort still be in business he would high probably be a VC.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: Unicorns aren't ad-supported</title><text>Looking at the &quot;Complete list of unicorns&quot;[1], something stands out. Out of the top 50 startups by valuation, only three, Snapchat, Pintrest, and Vice, are ad-supported. The others all sell a product or service paid for by its users.
Advertising may have powered the first dot-com boom, but it&#x27;s not powering this one.<p>[1] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbinsights.com&#x2F;research-unicorn-companies&#x2F;</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway13337</author><text>Anyone else surprised by Blue Apron and Hellofresh making the list?<p>I can&#x27;t imagine there are two multibillion dollar food recipe delivery subscription companies.<p>Is this as crazy as I think it is?</text></comment> |
9,486,484 | 9,486,327 | 1 | 3 | 9,485,237 | train | <story><title>PM of Singapore Shares His C++ Sudoku Solver Source Code</title><url>https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B2G2LjIu7WbdfjhaUmVzc1lCR2hUdk5fZllCOHdtbFItbU5qYzdqZGVxdmlnRkJyYVQ4VU0&usp=sharing&usp=sharing&urp=https://drive.google.com/folderview?id%3D0B2G2LjIu7W#list</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arianvanp</author><text>Please remember that Signapore has no free speech. I am kind of angry we&#x27;re cirlclejerking about a PM whose a criminal according to my view <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Human_rights_in_Singapore" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Human_rights_in_Singapore</a><p>Can we please just ignore this dictator and be amazed about code of other people instead?<p>It just feels wrong.... I think freedom of speech is a very very important part of the hacker community. I think no sane person would want this person in charge of his country. Coder or not.</text></item><item><author>nothrabannosir</author><text>I like this one a lot:<p><pre><code> Entry[Square] = BLANK; &#x2F;&#x2F; Could be moved out of the loop
</code></pre>
Maybe I&#x27;m reading too much into it, but this type of thinking makes me smile. The guilty perfectionism, &quot;this can be improved.&quot;<p>Were I from Singapore, I&#x27;d be happy to see it in the person in charge of my country.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ilija139</author><text>As a foreigner living for 2 years in Singapore and coming from an unstable country I can say that Singaporeans have more freedom than any other citizens in the world. Like Mr. Calvin Cheng says:<p>&quot;I tell you what freedom is.<p>Freedom is being able to walk on the streets unmolested in the wee hours in the morning, to be able to leave one&#x27;s door open and not fear that one would be burgled. Freedom is the woman who can ride buses and trains alone; freedom is not having to avoid certain subway stations after night falls. Freedom is knowing our children can go to school without fear of drugs, or being mowed down by some insane person with a gun. Freedom is knowing that we are not bound by our class, our race, our religion, and we can excel for the individuals that we are - the freedom to accomplish. Freedom is living in one of the least corrupt societies in the world, knowing that our ability to get things done is not going to be limited by our ability to pay someone. Freedom is fresh air and clean streets, because nothing is more inimical to our liberty of movement than being trapped at home because of suffocating smog.<p>These are the freedoms that Singaporeans have, freedoms that were built on the vision and hard work of Mr Lee, our first Prime Minister. And we have all of these, these liberties, while also being one of the richest countries in the world.&quot;<p>The whole article is great <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.straitstimes.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;singapore&#x2F;more-singapore-stories&#x2F;story&#x2F;commentary-singapores-success-and-the-myth-trade-offs-20" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.straitstimes.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;singapore&#x2F;more-singapore-st...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>PM of Singapore Shares His C++ Sudoku Solver Source Code</title><url>https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B2G2LjIu7WbdfjhaUmVzc1lCR2hUdk5fZllCOHdtbFItbU5qYzdqZGVxdmlnRkJyYVQ4VU0&usp=sharing&usp=sharing&urp=https://drive.google.com/folderview?id%3D0B2G2LjIu7W#list</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arianvanp</author><text>Please remember that Signapore has no free speech. I am kind of angry we&#x27;re cirlclejerking about a PM whose a criminal according to my view <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Human_rights_in_Singapore" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Human_rights_in_Singapore</a><p>Can we please just ignore this dictator and be amazed about code of other people instead?<p>It just feels wrong.... I think freedom of speech is a very very important part of the hacker community. I think no sane person would want this person in charge of his country. Coder or not.</text></item><item><author>nothrabannosir</author><text>I like this one a lot:<p><pre><code> Entry[Square] = BLANK; &#x2F;&#x2F; Could be moved out of the loop
</code></pre>
Maybe I&#x27;m reading too much into it, but this type of thinking makes me smile. The guilty perfectionism, &quot;this can be improved.&quot;<p>Were I from Singapore, I&#x27;d be happy to see it in the person in charge of my country.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>squeaky-clean</author><text>It&#x27;s funny, I have next to no knowledge on the current state of Singapore or it&#x27;s politics. I have no idea what this man&#x27;s political views are, or how well he has been leading. But seeing this code (and little bit of personality left in comments like the grandparent post) does make me like the PM more, as a person and a leader. It&#x27;s not really rational, but it&#x27;s the truth.<p>I guess I finally understand the whole &quot;I want a president I could play sports &#x2F; grab a beer &#x2F; whatever with&quot; sentiment.</text></comment> |
38,120,650 | 38,119,926 | 1 | 2 | 38,118,147 | train | <story><title>Apple Patent Shows GPU Dynamic Caching Has Been in Development for Years</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/software/macos/apple-patent-shows-gpu-dynamic-caching-has-been-in-development-for-years</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text><i>Apple&#x27;s GPU Dynamic Caching ensures that cache and memory spaces are dynamically assigned based on the actual needs of different tasks and workloads</i><p>Isn&#x27;t this not too different from what Intel DVMT was doing twenty years ago?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dynamic_video_memory_technology" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dynamic_video_memory_technolog...</a><p>Then again, this is the same Apple that took &quot;integrated graphics&quot; &#x2F; &quot;UMA&quot; as a marketing point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jasper_</author><text>No, it&#x27;s about replacing the static shader register allocation with more of a cache, allowing for more dynamic occupancy usage of the GPU. Memory is still memory.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Patent Shows GPU Dynamic Caching Has Been in Development for Years</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/software/macos/apple-patent-shows-gpu-dynamic-caching-has-been-in-development-for-years</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text><i>Apple&#x27;s GPU Dynamic Caching ensures that cache and memory spaces are dynamically assigned based on the actual needs of different tasks and workloads</i><p>Isn&#x27;t this not too different from what Intel DVMT was doing twenty years ago?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dynamic_video_memory_technology" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dynamic_video_memory_technolog...</a><p>Then again, this is the same Apple that took &quot;integrated graphics&quot; &#x2F; &quot;UMA&quot; as a marketing point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foota</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this is correct. My understanding is that this is about more efficiently utilizing the GPUs available resources (e.g., cache) at the core-ish level. Like imagine if hyperthreads could share register space based on what they&#x27;re doing at the time, I think.</text></comment> |
21,158,734 | 21,158,672 | 1 | 3 | 21,158,402 | train | <story><title>Disney Bans Netflix Ads as Streaming’s Marketing Wars Intensify</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney-bans-netflix-ads-as-streamings-marketing-wars-intensify-11570199291?mod=rsswn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>1123581321</author><text>There are differences: no commercials, shows on demand, more shows, and higher quality (arguably) shows. Additionally, it’s possible to just subscribe to the one service you really like because they all have a lot of content.</text></item><item><author>thismyrealone</author><text>It just feels like the various streaming services are morphing into everything that we hated about cable television.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cj</author><text>&gt; no commercials<p>Anyone who watches Hulu has heard &quot;will play with a commercial before and after the show&quot;. Hulu has been increasing the number of ads they include. It used to be ad free for many shows. Then they went to 30 second ads. Now they&#x27;re stuffing 180 seconds or more on many shows.<p>&gt; higher quality (arguably) shows<p>Definitely arguable. My feeling is the quality is going down quite a bit, but I think that&#x27;s because the demand for content volume has increased (in the era of binge watching, a single TV series is started and over in one weekend).<p>&gt; Additionally, it’s possible to just subscribe to the one service you really like because they all have a lot of content.<p>This might be true now. But there are multiple high profile streaming services launching in the next year (e.g. Disney+), which is prompting Disney to pull all content off other platforms.</text></comment> | <story><title>Disney Bans Netflix Ads as Streaming’s Marketing Wars Intensify</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney-bans-netflix-ads-as-streamings-marketing-wars-intensify-11570199291?mod=rsswn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>1123581321</author><text>There are differences: no commercials, shows on demand, more shows, and higher quality (arguably) shows. Additionally, it’s possible to just subscribe to the one service you really like because they all have a lot of content.</text></item><item><author>thismyrealone</author><text>It just feels like the various streaming services are morphing into everything that we hated about cable television.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonjayr</author><text>Hulu shows commercials even if you pay.<p>I&#x27;m sure Netflix will start once revenue starts slipping.</text></comment> |
29,028,342 | 29,027,770 | 1 | 2 | 29,027,328 | train | <story><title>Computer-1 mini-ITX Chassis</title><url>https://teenage.engineering/products/computer-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gambiting</author><text>I mean...neat? But the price is insane. £195 for a very basic case that you have to assemble yourself?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Puts</author><text>I think anyone complaining about the price is missing something. Anything produced in small quantities will be expensive and I wouldn’t even assume they themselves thinks this product is gonna be profitable. I suspect a lot of the projects TE puts out is more about showcasing their design language to then be able to do collaborations with other brands like IKEA who can take a product to a broader market.<p>In other words their products are like business cards sold to a niche category of people who like products that look like a collaboration between Dieter Rams and Simone Giertz.</text></comment> | <story><title>Computer-1 mini-ITX Chassis</title><url>https://teenage.engineering/products/computer-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gambiting</author><text>I mean...neat? But the price is insane. £195 for a very basic case that you have to assemble yourself?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kirby64</author><text>It&#x27;s Teenage Engineering. None of their stuff is cheap, and you&#x27;re paying mainly for the aesthetic.</text></comment> |
3,145,529 | 3,145,524 | 1 | 2 | 3,145,330 | train | <story><title>It’s Not China; It’s Efficiency That Is Killing Our Jobs</title><url>http://dyske.com/paper/945</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>timr</author><text><i>"while efficiency eliminates certain jobs, it just shifts employments to other sectors as long as people continue to innovate."</i><p>Oh yeah? Prove it. (Hint: when you do, you should wait patiently for your Nobel, because you'll have earned it. You're re-stating a very popular theory, but that popularity doesn't make the theory a fact.)<p>The problem that I have with the "innovation" canard is that it inherently assumes equality of potential for every worker in the labor force: we don't have much room for unintelligent people in our society if you now have to "innovate" just to get a job. Most people can't innovate, and never will.<p>Your argument about candle-makers is also a straw man: thus far through our history, we've been able to replace each declining low-skill industry with the ascendancy of another equally low-skill industry (argiculture to factory labor, factory labor to "service" work, etc.) But that era appears to be coming to an end. In a world where there are no jobs for people in the bottom X% of intelligence, we don't automatically get more innovation -- we just get structurally unemployed people.</text></item><item><author>littlegiantcap</author><text>I absolutely loathe these arguments.<p>The economy is not a zero sum game! When I gain a dollar another person doesn't inherently lose one. We build wealth, and while efficiency eliminates certain jobs, it just shifts employments to other sectors as long as people continue to innovate. For this argument to hold any sort of water we would still be fretting over what to do with all the unemployed candle makers after the advent of electricity. The answer isn't to move backwards, or as the author suggest to promote inefficiency, but to use our creativity to move forward. The world has plenty of problems that need fixing, and as long as there are problems with the world, and there always will be, and as long as we as a society and a planet continue to strive to make tomorrow better than the day before it, we will continue to innovate and create jobs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forensic</author><text>The anti-luddite argument is actually an argument in favor of social darwinism.<p>When people say that the jobs will shift to other sectors, they are really saying that an elite few will control all the wealth and if you can't appeal to their self-interest you are expendable.<p>The elite few who control all the wealth right now are not even spending or investing their money. They are just sitting on it. Because they'd rather have the money tomorrow than the services of the poor today. This is another way of saying that the current world's poor are expendable to the elite.<p>I don't see this mindset changing any time soon. All logic indicates that the world's poor are going to starve to death in their ghettos while the elite technologists sit on their money piles -- money piles defended by predator drones and LDAP.</text></comment> | <story><title>It’s Not China; It’s Efficiency That Is Killing Our Jobs</title><url>http://dyske.com/paper/945</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>timr</author><text><i>"while efficiency eliminates certain jobs, it just shifts employments to other sectors as long as people continue to innovate."</i><p>Oh yeah? Prove it. (Hint: when you do, you should wait patiently for your Nobel, because you'll have earned it. You're re-stating a very popular theory, but that popularity doesn't make the theory a fact.)<p>The problem that I have with the "innovation" canard is that it inherently assumes equality of potential for every worker in the labor force: we don't have much room for unintelligent people in our society if you now have to "innovate" just to get a job. Most people can't innovate, and never will.<p>Your argument about candle-makers is also a straw man: thus far through our history, we've been able to replace each declining low-skill industry with the ascendancy of another equally low-skill industry (argiculture to factory labor, factory labor to "service" work, etc.) But that era appears to be coming to an end. In a world where there are no jobs for people in the bottom X% of intelligence, we don't automatically get more innovation -- we just get structurally unemployed people.</text></item><item><author>littlegiantcap</author><text>I absolutely loathe these arguments.<p>The economy is not a zero sum game! When I gain a dollar another person doesn't inherently lose one. We build wealth, and while efficiency eliminates certain jobs, it just shifts employments to other sectors as long as people continue to innovate. For this argument to hold any sort of water we would still be fretting over what to do with all the unemployed candle makers after the advent of electricity. The answer isn't to move backwards, or as the author suggest to promote inefficiency, but to use our creativity to move forward. The world has plenty of problems that need fixing, and as long as there are problems with the world, and there always will be, and as long as we as a society and a planet continue to strive to make tomorrow better than the day before it, we will continue to innovate and create jobs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>littlegiantcap</author><text>I don't view my candle maker argument as a straw man rather than an example. I could provide more examples starting at the industrial revolution moving forward, and I assure you there are countless, which would by definition make it not a straw man argument because I'm not misrepresenting anyone's position nor am I cherry picking 1 instance to prove my own argument.<p>As far as you're argument for unskilled labor, I have two things to say. 1. I think you are greatly overestimating and marginalizing people. Plenty, if not the majority of people have the ability to be innovators at least in some small way. 2. Even if your argument about unskilled labor does hold water, which I don't believe it does, you can break down a task into enough moving parts, or create a user experience in a way that people don't necessarily need to have genius levels of knowledge to be productive with the tools given to them. A perfect example is the military, where you take something like operating a jet aircraft and make it more accessible to people. There are countless of other examples in almost every field.<p>Finally, I can't prove it. I'm not a professional economist, I don't have the background nor the data to provide any sort of coherent theory on the subject. What can I point to though is history, the history of innovation throughout time. Horses to cars, the transition to computers, the internet, there are so many things that have increased efficiency and people have shifted and adapted and continued to innovate and move forward and there continue to be jobs and task for people.</text></comment> |
13,981,424 | 13,980,989 | 1 | 3 | 13,980,600 | train | <story><title>I’m Not “Black Enough” for Inc. Magazine</title><url>https://facesoffounders.org/im-not-black-enough-for-inc-magazine-337569d54a6b</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>uncletaco</author><text>There&#x27;s something that always bothers me when someone sees a statistic that says &quot;Among racial and ethnic groups, African Americans had the highest poverty rate, 27.4 percent, followed by Hispanics at 26.6 percent and whites at 9.9 percent.&quot; and flips it to say &quot;almost 75% of blacks are not poor!&quot;<p>Yes, that&#x27;s true, but if I were to go further and look at the source he cited&#x27;s fact sheet on African Americans then I&#x27;d see some interesting factoids about wealth. For instance:<p>&gt; In 2010, the median wealth, or net worth, for black families was $4,900, compared to median wealth for whites of $97,000.<p>&gt; Blacks are nearly twice as likely as whites to have zero or negative net worth—33.9 percent compared to 18.6 percent.<p>So yes, we can say &quot;nearly 75% of Blacks are not poor&quot; but that doesn&#x27;t really work as a jumping off point for any argument about black wealth, at least in my opinion.<p>It looks to me like this guy has taken his suburban upper class experience (he called his living situation &quot;Huxtable-esque&quot;) and assumed that all black people who are living above the poverty line are somehow doing just as well as he is. Therefore the media is going out of its way to find the &quot;archetypal&quot; black entrepreneur who comes from that ~25% of blacks who grew up in poverty. I don&#x27;t really buy that argument, especially because being above the poverty line doesn&#x27;t really speak to matters of wealth, class, and social mobility.<p>I&#x27;m not saying any of this to diminish his success, I&#x27;m happy he&#x27;s made it, but I think he&#x27;s failed to recognize his (sadly) exceptional situation that doesn&#x27;t really speak for the rest of the 75%.<p>EDIT: cleaned up some grammar.</text></comment> | <story><title>I’m Not “Black Enough” for Inc. Magazine</title><url>https://facesoffounders.org/im-not-black-enough-for-inc-magazine-337569d54a6b</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway_45</author><text>67% of black kids have a single parent so if you randomly picked a black person they would likely have been raised by a single parent home. He states that he came from a dual parent household from the suburbs. So he isn&#x27;t an average black person just from statistical point of view. He got really lucky. I think if you give black kids two parents some money and a good school they would probably do as well as everyone else.</text></comment> |
26,545,594 | 26,543,213 | 1 | 3 | 26,540,121 | train | <story><title>The ecosystem of the Go programming language</title><url>https://henvic.dev/posts/go/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hnlmorg</author><text>&gt; <i>Ignore comments about how go is simple to write. There&#x27;s a fair amount of bad go code and people break rules all the time.</i><p>This is one of the most famous straw man arguments made in software development and I&#x27;ve seen it used against a plethora of different programming languages -- each time completely missing the point that you can get bad developers writing bad code in any language. The fact it happens in Go isn&#x27;t a testament not to how difficult it is but rather how good of a job the language has done attracting newer developers.<p>&gt; <i>Go is not a simple language. Please learn from my mistakes, and ignore arbitrary metrics like how go has fewer keywords. The complexity doesn&#x27;t go away, it&#x27;s hidden away somewhere.</i><p>I completely disagree. Having fewer keywords does make Go simpler to learn and simpler to read other peoples code. The opinionated nature of Go also makes it simpler to collaborate.<p>Writing software isn&#x27;t simple but that complexity of turning ideas into code doesn&#x27;t change significantly from one language to another (generally speaking). You still have to solve a problem using logic and functions. I find the harder problems with software development is collaboration (eg ensuring everyone is following the same coding styles) and reading back old code. Go makes those things easier than some -- not all but definitely some -- languages.<p>I say this based on 30 years of experience writing software in more than a dozen different programming languages.</text></item><item><author>preommr</author><text>Go is not a simple language. Please learn from my mistakes, and ignore arbitrary metrics like how go has fewer keywords. The complexity doesn&#x27;t go away, it&#x27;s hidden away somewhere.<p>If anybody wants to learn go, ignore everything about how easy it is to learn. Because it&#x27;s extremely deceptive. Take time to actually read through a lot of the important underlying concepts like how slices work.<p>Ignore comments about how go is simple to write. There&#x27;s a fair amount of bad go code and people break rules all the time. From official sdks to standard libs. Go can be extremely difficult to both write and read. It&#x27;s implicit interfaces and judicious abuse of interface{} can make tracing how a library is supposed to work a PITA. Writing go can be difficult because of a lack of some language constructs that leave you unsure how to proceed.<p>If you can, use goland. I use vscode and it&#x27;s... not pretty. Almost every single thread I&#x27;ve seen on reddit recommends goland. My experience with vscode has been very unpleasant, particularly with go plus.<p>OTOH, things like criticisms about it&#x27;s error handling are overblown. At best it&#x27;s a mild nuisance, and more often than not, a good thing that makes error handling explicit and clear.<p>There are many things about go that have made me appreciate it&#x27;s existence. There are also many things that have left me absolutely baffled at how bad it is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheDong</author><text>&gt; Having fewer keywords does make Go simpler to learn and simpler to read other peoples code<p>Go carefully touts how few reserved keywords it has, but I think it would actually be a simpler to reason about language if it had more reserved keywords.<p>For example, you may notice that &quot;true&quot;, &quot;false&quot;, &quot;len&quot;, &quot;new&quot;, etc all aren&#x27;t reserved keywords.<p>This sometimes does lead to bugs, for example someone may make a function, like &quot;func memoize(new func(...interface{}) interface{}) func(...interface{}) interface{}&quot;, which shadows a common builtin function with a function argument.<p>Usually, the above leads to a compiler error when you try to use the &quot;copy&quot; argument (a value) as a function, but every once in a while, you end up with a type-compatible shadow, at which point things can really break.<p>It would be less confusing if things like &quot;new&quot;, &quot;len&quot;, &quot;copy&quot;, and &quot;true&quot; were keywords, rather than builtins that someone may accidentally alias and shadow.<p>If you account for things like rather essential builtins as well, go&#x27;s list of keywords starts to look far less impressive, and on-par with java or C#.</text></comment> | <story><title>The ecosystem of the Go programming language</title><url>https://henvic.dev/posts/go/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hnlmorg</author><text>&gt; <i>Ignore comments about how go is simple to write. There&#x27;s a fair amount of bad go code and people break rules all the time.</i><p>This is one of the most famous straw man arguments made in software development and I&#x27;ve seen it used against a plethora of different programming languages -- each time completely missing the point that you can get bad developers writing bad code in any language. The fact it happens in Go isn&#x27;t a testament not to how difficult it is but rather how good of a job the language has done attracting newer developers.<p>&gt; <i>Go is not a simple language. Please learn from my mistakes, and ignore arbitrary metrics like how go has fewer keywords. The complexity doesn&#x27;t go away, it&#x27;s hidden away somewhere.</i><p>I completely disagree. Having fewer keywords does make Go simpler to learn and simpler to read other peoples code. The opinionated nature of Go also makes it simpler to collaborate.<p>Writing software isn&#x27;t simple but that complexity of turning ideas into code doesn&#x27;t change significantly from one language to another (generally speaking). You still have to solve a problem using logic and functions. I find the harder problems with software development is collaboration (eg ensuring everyone is following the same coding styles) and reading back old code. Go makes those things easier than some -- not all but definitely some -- languages.<p>I say this based on 30 years of experience writing software in more than a dozen different programming languages.</text></item><item><author>preommr</author><text>Go is not a simple language. Please learn from my mistakes, and ignore arbitrary metrics like how go has fewer keywords. The complexity doesn&#x27;t go away, it&#x27;s hidden away somewhere.<p>If anybody wants to learn go, ignore everything about how easy it is to learn. Because it&#x27;s extremely deceptive. Take time to actually read through a lot of the important underlying concepts like how slices work.<p>Ignore comments about how go is simple to write. There&#x27;s a fair amount of bad go code and people break rules all the time. From official sdks to standard libs. Go can be extremely difficult to both write and read. It&#x27;s implicit interfaces and judicious abuse of interface{} can make tracing how a library is supposed to work a PITA. Writing go can be difficult because of a lack of some language constructs that leave you unsure how to proceed.<p>If you can, use goland. I use vscode and it&#x27;s... not pretty. Almost every single thread I&#x27;ve seen on reddit recommends goland. My experience with vscode has been very unpleasant, particularly with go plus.<p>OTOH, things like criticisms about it&#x27;s error handling are overblown. At best it&#x27;s a mild nuisance, and more often than not, a good thing that makes error handling explicit and clear.<p>There are many things about go that have made me appreciate it&#x27;s existence. There are also many things that have left me absolutely baffled at how bad it is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>preommr</author><text>&gt; This is one of the most famous straw man arguments made in software development and I&#x27;ve seen it used against a plethora of different programming languages -- each time completely missing the point that you can get bad developers writing bad code in any language.<p>This is a fair point since I wasn&#x27;t very clear, and I am talking about something that&#x27;s fairly subjective and abstract. I think the more claims a language makes, the more open it is to failure. I just googled is &quot;rust difficult to learn&quot;, and the first answer is &quot;no&quot;. It&#x27;s all relative, but I am sure that most of us have heard that rust does have a steep learning curve. The only other language that I can think of that advertises itself as easy is python. And I think it has a lot of faults in those claims too. But python does a much better job of being easy than go does. It&#x27;s completely different leagues.<p>Again, this is a messy point to make, either somebody understand what I am trying to say or they should leave it at that because trying to qualify ideas like this is fuitless.<p>&gt; I completely disagree. Having fewer keywords does make Go simpler to learn and simpler to read other peoples code.<p>I really don&#x27;t think skipping keywords like public and using casing makes things simpler. A quick google search shows that go has 6 less keywords than c. I mean, c&#x27;mon...<p>&gt; I say this based on 30 years of experience writing software in more than a dozen different programming languages.<p>If you&#x27;ve had years of experience in old school c&#x2F;cpp, then (I would assume) go will be a lot easier, and a lot better in comparison.</text></comment> |
15,843,942 | 15,843,938 | 1 | 3 | 15,843,631 | train | <story><title>Integrating “safe” languages into OpenBSD?</title><url>https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=151233345723889&w=2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hood_syntax</author><text>I&#x27;m pretty sure that attack you describe is mentioned in literature as essentially undefeatable. I really wish I could remember exactly what the name of it was; the gist is, there has to be a first compiler somewhere. If at any point in the chain, the compiler is infected with a self-propagating virus that hides itself in the byte code of the binary, it can ensure that the exploit is in every future version of the compiler.<p>I may be remembering the details a bit wrong, but it was a good read.</text></item><item><author>akerro</author><text>&gt;Such ecosystems come with incredible costs. For instance, rust cannot
&gt;even compile itself on i386 at present time because it exhausts the
&gt;address space.<p>Is cargo supported on i386 platforms? Also Rust complies itself, afaik there is no way to compile Rust&#x2F;Cargo but to use previous version of it. If one of the past builds of Rust is backdoored, any version between then and now is backdoored, language is safe, environment... as safe as it was never compromised. OpenBSD compiles everywhere where C code works, Rust&#x2F;Cargo works where it&#x27;s supported and it will takes decades to catch-up on some architectures.</text></item><item><author>xwvvvvwx</author><text>Maybe I&#x27;m misunderstanding but there is a pretty serious effort to rewrite all the gnu coreutils in Rust:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;uutils&#x2F;coreutils" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;uutils&#x2F;coreutils</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zdw</author><text>You&#x27;re looking for &quot;Reflections on Trusting Trust&quot; by Ken Thompson, one of the original co-authors of Unix:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dl.acm.org&#x2F;citation.cfm?id=358210" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dl.acm.org&#x2F;citation.cfm?id=358210</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Integrating “safe” languages into OpenBSD?</title><url>https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=151233345723889&w=2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hood_syntax</author><text>I&#x27;m pretty sure that attack you describe is mentioned in literature as essentially undefeatable. I really wish I could remember exactly what the name of it was; the gist is, there has to be a first compiler somewhere. If at any point in the chain, the compiler is infected with a self-propagating virus that hides itself in the byte code of the binary, it can ensure that the exploit is in every future version of the compiler.<p>I may be remembering the details a bit wrong, but it was a good read.</text></item><item><author>akerro</author><text>&gt;Such ecosystems come with incredible costs. For instance, rust cannot
&gt;even compile itself on i386 at present time because it exhausts the
&gt;address space.<p>Is cargo supported on i386 platforms? Also Rust complies itself, afaik there is no way to compile Rust&#x2F;Cargo but to use previous version of it. If one of the past builds of Rust is backdoored, any version between then and now is backdoored, language is safe, environment... as safe as it was never compromised. OpenBSD compiles everywhere where C code works, Rust&#x2F;Cargo works where it&#x27;s supported and it will takes decades to catch-up on some architectures.</text></item><item><author>xwvvvvwx</author><text>Maybe I&#x27;m misunderstanding but there is a pretty serious effort to rewrite all the gnu coreutils in Rust:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;uutils&#x2F;coreutils" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;uutils&#x2F;coreutils</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edwincheese</author><text>I think you are referring to “Reflections on Trusting Trust” by Ken Thompson.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ece.cmu.edu&#x2F;~ganger&#x2F;712.fall02&#x2F;papers&#x2F;p761-thompson.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ece.cmu.edu&#x2F;~ganger&#x2F;712.fall02&#x2F;papers&#x2F;p761-thomp...</a></text></comment> |
13,849,357 | 13,849,470 | 1 | 2 | 13,847,301 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Nomouse</title><url>https://github.com/brhs/nomouse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WesleyJohnson</author><text>I&#x27;ve never understood the sentiment that using a mouse is bad. I see blog posts all the time about how a programmer&#x27;s job is more thinking than writing code and&#x2F;or writing good programs is also about taking out just as much code as you put in. So if writing programs is a deliberate and methodical process that - I&#x27;d argue it&#x27;s also slow. Why then is there antithesis that mice slow you down and you need keyboard shortcuts to be faster and more productive?<p>Maybe I&#x27;m just an old-schooler?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chipotle_coyote</author><text>I <i>suspect</i> a lot more of it is perception than people imagine: keeping your hands on the keyboard all the time seems like it intuitively must be faster. Early research in human-computer interfaces suggests that this isn&#x27;t actually the case, though. From 1989:<p>&quot;We&#x27;ve done a cool $50 million of R&amp;D on the Apple Human Interface. We discovered, among other things, two pertinent facts: (1) Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing. (2) The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding.&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.asktog.com&#x2F;TOI&#x2F;toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.asktog.com&#x2F;TOI&#x2F;toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html</a><p>It&#x27;s very easy on HN to find the pro-keyboard arguments. The pro-mouse argument is, more or less, that the context switch that really costs you time isn&#x27;t the one involving the mouse, but the one involving remembering and&#x2F;or finding the keyboard shortcut or function key.<p>Vim and Emacs style movement commands are faster than the mouse in certain contexts, but I&#x27;m dubious that&#x27;s universally true. &quot;I want to jump to line 123&quot; is easy, but what about &quot;I want to move the cursor to the open brace character right <i>there</i>&quot;? No matter how much of a seasoned pro you may be, you&#x27;re going to have to think for a moment about how to do to that: &quot;let me count the &#x27;{&#x27; characters between the current point and where I want it to be. Three, so &#x27;3&#x2F;{&lt;cr&gt;&#x27;.&quot; The mouse may make you move your hand, but it doesn&#x27;t make you have to <i>stop and count.</i><p>(It&#x27;s also worth remembering that while mouse selection may not be as rich as &quot;select within brackets&quot; type commands, nearly all editors <i>do</i> have basic semantic mouse selection: double-click and drag to select by word, triple-click and drag to select by line. This can be a lot faster than you might think.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Nomouse</title><url>https://github.com/brhs/nomouse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WesleyJohnson</author><text>I&#x27;ve never understood the sentiment that using a mouse is bad. I see blog posts all the time about how a programmer&#x27;s job is more thinking than writing code and&#x2F;or writing good programs is also about taking out just as much code as you put in. So if writing programs is a deliberate and methodical process that - I&#x27;d argue it&#x27;s also slow. Why then is there antithesis that mice slow you down and you need keyboard shortcuts to be faster and more productive?<p>Maybe I&#x27;m just an old-schooler?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hugodahl</author><text>For me, the difference between keyboard shortcuts, and command line interface for that matter is that the same operation can be done semi-autonomously with the emphasis being on the variation (filename, path, flags, etc.) for the task at hand (no pun intended?). Performing the same operation with the mouse, there must be proper &quot;setup&quot; (get windows visible, or at least open to Alt&#x2F;Cmd+Tab between them), and deliberate, visually tracked, hand&#x2F;eye coordinated operations to perform the same operation.<p>For example, I can very quickly run a &quot;full build&quot; by pressing Shift+F6 and simultaneously turn my attention to the build output. Doing the same with the mouse, I would need to move the mouse pointer to the &quot;Build&quot; menu, after possibly spending a few seconds awkwardly looking for the pointer across multiple screens which vary in resolution&#x2F;scale, click, move again down to the &quot;Rebuild Solution&quot; and click. Then at some later point in time, possibly have to reach out and move the mouse for the sole reason of getting the pointer out of the way of my field of view.<p>True anecdote: more than once, doing the operation the &quot;GUI&quot; way in the past, while trying to find the right windows, has truly derailed my train of thought as to what my next operation was to be.<p>Also, I may just be an old-schooler as well, cutting my teeth on command line OSes and network environments (Netware v3.11 anyone?)</text></comment> |
15,173,909 | 15,171,230 | 1 | 2 | 15,169,188 | train | <story><title>“Google: it is time to return to not being evil”</title><url>https://vivaldi.com/blog/google-return-to-not-being-evil/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>(I used to work on the webserver for Google Search. Left Google several years ago, have no more vested interest in them.)<p>The reason for the browser-sniffing in search is a combination of ease of testing + latency reduction. By supporting a known set of browsers, you can write a test plan for each and shard it out among contractors (or ideally, automate it with a Selenium config). Manual tests run on every release (2&#x2F;week when I left, maybe more now), and automated tests run on every changelist (thousands&#x2F;week), so you can see how adding additional browsers to the testing matrix can consume significant resources. Very often cutting-edge features will launch on Chrome only and then if users like them, they&#x27;ll get ported over to all the other browsers. (Or, just as often, the project is canceled and the feature is unlaunched on Chrome a year later, which IMHO isn&#x27;t a great habit on Google&#x27;s part but it is what it is.)<p>If you&#x27;re manually spoofing your user agent, then Google figures that you know what you&#x27;re doing and it&#x27;s &quot;use at your own risk anyway&quot;, and that if you get a broken experience, your first thought will be to disable the user-agent spoofing.<p>Additionally, browser-sniffing lets you serve only the JS needed for that particular browser, and not all of the hacks&#x2F;polyfills&#x2F;bugfixes&#x2F;workarounds needed for browsers that the user isn&#x27;t using. This is probably less of an issue now that things are more standard, but when I started (&#x27;09), not needing to serve all of the IE6 workarounds when the user was on Chrome or Firefox saved <i>a lot</i> of latency for users that were on modern browsers.</text></item><item><author>Jonnax</author><text>Google are really shitty with their web browser especially on mobile.<p>If you run Firefox you get a stripped down version of Google Search also with no infinite scrolling for images and low resolution.<p>Use a user agent spoofer like this:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-GB&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;chrome-ua-on-google-android&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-GB&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;chrome-ua-on-...</a><p>And it seems to work fine on Firefox.<p>I&#x27;m sure their official excuse is that they only support WebKit based browsers on mobile, like it&#x27;s the new Internet Explorer with some modern day ActiveX</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>int_19h</author><text>The real problem here is optics. There are certainly many valid technical and business reasons to target specific browsers - we&#x27;ve heard them all back in the day when &quot;Best viewed in Internet Explorer&quot; was a standard disclaimer on more than half of all websites out there. That arrangement did not work to the advantage of either the users or Google, though. So Google invested significant resources in web standards and alternative browsers, breaking the Microsoft monopoly. But now that Chrome is rapidly approaching the position that IE held, the users and the web developers are getting a feeling of deja vu, and Google&#x27;s behavior - however motivated - plays right into that.</text></comment> | <story><title>“Google: it is time to return to not being evil”</title><url>https://vivaldi.com/blog/google-return-to-not-being-evil/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>(I used to work on the webserver for Google Search. Left Google several years ago, have no more vested interest in them.)<p>The reason for the browser-sniffing in search is a combination of ease of testing + latency reduction. By supporting a known set of browsers, you can write a test plan for each and shard it out among contractors (or ideally, automate it with a Selenium config). Manual tests run on every release (2&#x2F;week when I left, maybe more now), and automated tests run on every changelist (thousands&#x2F;week), so you can see how adding additional browsers to the testing matrix can consume significant resources. Very often cutting-edge features will launch on Chrome only and then if users like them, they&#x27;ll get ported over to all the other browsers. (Or, just as often, the project is canceled and the feature is unlaunched on Chrome a year later, which IMHO isn&#x27;t a great habit on Google&#x27;s part but it is what it is.)<p>If you&#x27;re manually spoofing your user agent, then Google figures that you know what you&#x27;re doing and it&#x27;s &quot;use at your own risk anyway&quot;, and that if you get a broken experience, your first thought will be to disable the user-agent spoofing.<p>Additionally, browser-sniffing lets you serve only the JS needed for that particular browser, and not all of the hacks&#x2F;polyfills&#x2F;bugfixes&#x2F;workarounds needed for browsers that the user isn&#x27;t using. This is probably less of an issue now that things are more standard, but when I started (&#x27;09), not needing to serve all of the IE6 workarounds when the user was on Chrome or Firefox saved <i>a lot</i> of latency for users that were on modern browsers.</text></item><item><author>Jonnax</author><text>Google are really shitty with their web browser especially on mobile.<p>If you run Firefox you get a stripped down version of Google Search also with no infinite scrolling for images and low resolution.<p>Use a user agent spoofer like this:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-GB&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;chrome-ua-on-google-android&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-GB&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;chrome-ua-on-...</a><p>And it seems to work fine on Firefox.<p>I&#x27;m sure their official excuse is that they only support WebKit based browsers on mobile, like it&#x27;s the new Internet Explorer with some modern day ActiveX</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nialv7</author><text>I interned at Google once. And the first thing they told us at the orientation is that they put the users first.<p>Is that a lie then? Because what you said seems to imply Google puts the convenience of the developers first.</text></comment> |
26,509,518 | 26,509,272 | 1 | 2 | 26,506,920 | train | <story><title>We found and fixed a rare race condition in our session handling</title><url>https://github.blog/2021-03-18-how-we-found-and-fixed-a-rare-race-condition-in-our-session-handling/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bvanderveen</author><text>Well that&#x27;s embarrassing. Passing a mutable dictionary—containing callbacks that could be closed over heaven-even-knows-what, no less!—between threads? And it&#x27;s re-used between requests?<p>They are lucky this wasn&#x27;t much, much worse.<p>Why does the error reporting service need to call the web thread back anyway?<p>Yet another case where immutable-everything would have prevented this hairball from accreting in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arkadiyt</author><text>&gt; Well that&#x27;s embarrassing.<p>An IDOR is embarrassing - this was a complex bug and Github&#x27;s investigation&#x2F;response was great here. I&#x27;d be proud if my company handled a security incident like this.</text></comment> | <story><title>We found and fixed a rare race condition in our session handling</title><url>https://github.blog/2021-03-18-how-we-found-and-fixed-a-rare-race-condition-in-our-session-handling/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bvanderveen</author><text>Well that&#x27;s embarrassing. Passing a mutable dictionary—containing callbacks that could be closed over heaven-even-knows-what, no less!—between threads? And it&#x27;s re-used between requests?<p>They are lucky this wasn&#x27;t much, much worse.<p>Why does the error reporting service need to call the web thread back anyway?<p>Yet another case where immutable-everything would have prevented this hairball from accreting in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matthewaveryusa</author><text>Never underestimate the inertia of working code that makes money.</text></comment> |
25,423,163 | 25,423,424 | 1 | 3 | 25,422,839 | train | <story><title>Slack is the right tool for the wrong way to work</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/slack-is-the-right-tool-for-the-wrong-way-to-work</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>Here&#x27;s what this conversation always boils down to:<p>Slack is a tool, just like one of probably dozens you use in your day-to-day work. It doesn&#x27;t set or enforce any guidelines for how it should be used. If left unchecked it has a tendency to amplify the worst parts of your company&#x27;s culture. If you make an effort to moderate it, it can be a huge asset to productivity.<p>Speaking of the example in the article, there is absolutely no reason clients should have direct message channels with your company&#x27;s employees and expect to get a response 24&#x2F;7. This is true with email, Slack, SMS and every other form of communication.<p>The criticism I most often hear is &quot;Slack expects me to be online all the time&quot;. No, YOUR COMPANY expects you to be online all the time. Slack can be closed with one click.</text></comment> | <story><title>Slack is the right tool for the wrong way to work</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/slack-is-the-right-tool-for-the-wrong-way-to-work</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oneplane</author><text>Slack is fine and works fine. As a user, you can very easily turn it off and on at will, mute it, even set status messages like &quot;I will check my messages twice a day&quot;.<p>There are plenty of &#x27;product X is bad&#x27; write-ups, but all of them try to blame something while the blame is for something intangible which is much harder to write a clever title for.<p>Same goes for the open office; that can work just fine if you make sure everyone shuts their mouth while working; having your &#x27;own&#x27; office space with lots of distractions isn&#x27;t any better than having a &#x27;shared&#x27; space with the same distractions. The problem is the distraction, not the space. At best you would state that a certain type of space makes a certain type of distraction easier to occur. But that&#x27;s a lot more words when you catch more eyeballs with &#x27;office bad, isolation good&#x27;.<p>Before we complained about the office, home, or Slack, we complained about Email. And before that about the phone and the pager. This isn&#x27;t new. What&#x27;s new is the scale and the amount of people not taking steps to do what works for them.</text></comment> |
29,449,933 | 29,448,520 | 1 | 2 | 29,447,741 | train | <story><title>Kubernetes at Home with K3s</title><url>https://blog.nootch.net/post/kubernetes-at-home-with-k3s/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alias_neo</author><text>Unlike OP I DO love Kubernetes.<p>I didn&#x27;t like it initially (years ago, when Docker Swarm was still worth mentioning) but I spent a year+ during the pandemic learning it on work time and porting one of our products. I deployed k3s at home and love it.<p>Unlike many, we deploy our product on-prem to customers who want to be hands off (not always technical) so I had to get very familiar with deploying and configuring in a variety of environments from bare metal to cloud providers to Raspberry Pi and redeploying over and over, not just the workload but the entire cluster.<p>While at one time Docker was my preferred method of deploying software everywhere, it&#x27;s now Kubernetes.<p>I blogged a 4 part series[0][1][2][3] about the process (read: tutorial) and caveats of deploying K3s to devices like the Raspberry Pi. It also covers monitorings with Influx&#x2F;Telegraf, rotating logs and reducing write to SD cards (see the caveats), discusses networking considerations and storage and a few other things I thought might he useful to a beginner.<p>Kubernetes is my preferred way to deploy any software at home now and I have a basic template for deploying anything that runs in a container with auto-ingress, DNS, certificates (from my internal CA), storage etc all auto-configured.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;2byt.es&#x2F;post&#x2F;bantamcloud&#x2F;01-build&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;2byt.es&#x2F;post&#x2F;bantamcloud&#x2F;01-build&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;2byt.es&#x2F;post&#x2F;bantamcloud&#x2F;02-configure&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;2byt.es&#x2F;post&#x2F;bantamcloud&#x2F;02-configure&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;2byt.es&#x2F;post&#x2F;bantamcloud&#x2F;025-caveats&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;2byt.es&#x2F;post&#x2F;bantamcloud&#x2F;025-caveats&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;2byt.es&#x2F;post&#x2F;bantamcloud&#x2F;03-kubernetes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;2byt.es&#x2F;post&#x2F;bantamcloud&#x2F;03-kubernetes&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Kubernetes at Home with K3s</title><url>https://blog.nootch.net/post/kubernetes-at-home-with-k3s/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrweasel</author><text>&gt; I miss its programmatic approach to deployments<p>That seems to be people main justification for using Kubernetes. We really need to find an solution that will allow us to deploy software programmatically, without dragging along the complexity of Kubernetes.<p>I know, Kubernetes is “easy” on AWS, Azure or GCP. Well great, but many of us can’t use managed Kubernetes. Now we’re stuck managing on-prem cluster, just so the developers can deploy three containers and an ingress controller while complaining that they need to update their YAML because some API changed again.<p>Kubernetes is great, for some project, just not most. Sadly we’re don’t have any good alternative for deploying to VMs.</text></comment> |
24,699,386 | 24,699,796 | 1 | 2 | 24,698,449 | train | <story><title>Hiring for tech jobs has increased more than 100% in these Midwestern cities</title><url>https://www.purpose.jobs/blog/hiring-tech-jobs-has-increased-in-midwestern-cities</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dexwiz</author><text>Moved from the Midwest to the Bay Area, and tech comes in two forms: IT departments at major industrial firms (manufacturing, chemical, pharma, etc), or companies that are eventually bought by West Coast companies. The pay cap is much lower. Becoming a millionaire through stocks and wages is harder, but you will still be in the top 10% of earners overall.<p>If you want to live in a mansion, the Midwest makes this dream obtainable. Buy a 6 bedroom, lake (reservoir) side, 4k sqr ft home for less than a million. Of if you want an acre of lawn, but not live too far in the country.<p>What you will find is that people are friendly, as long as you look like them (white). (EDIT: This gets more pronounced the more rural you are. Cities tend to be more accepting. What you will find is that rural areas have more relative sway on thought compared to the West Coast.) Towns outside of major metropolitan areas are dying as most major industries that supported that last two generations have left. Drugs are a huge issue, but its not as obvious because the floor for homelessness is so much lower. The only major infrastructure and building projects that get approved are sports stadiums, because idiots in local government rather have sports teams than functioning schools.<p>What the Midwest does have is solid engineering and research universities, that graduate thousands of STEM oriented students a year. Unfortunately there are often over an hour from the nearest 250k+ city. I went to one, and I think less than 25% of my friends stayed in state. The brain drain is real.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacobriis</author><text>&quot;What you will find is that people are friendly, as long as you look like them (white).&quot;<p>Be aware that when people say things like this they often do so to feel virtuous themselves like only they are so enlightened that only they even consider being friendly to non white people.<p>The idea that people in the Midwest (which has a population of over 65 million people similar to France and the UK) are only friendly to white people is pretty crazy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hiring for tech jobs has increased more than 100% in these Midwestern cities</title><url>https://www.purpose.jobs/blog/hiring-tech-jobs-has-increased-in-midwestern-cities</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dexwiz</author><text>Moved from the Midwest to the Bay Area, and tech comes in two forms: IT departments at major industrial firms (manufacturing, chemical, pharma, etc), or companies that are eventually bought by West Coast companies. The pay cap is much lower. Becoming a millionaire through stocks and wages is harder, but you will still be in the top 10% of earners overall.<p>If you want to live in a mansion, the Midwest makes this dream obtainable. Buy a 6 bedroom, lake (reservoir) side, 4k sqr ft home for less than a million. Of if you want an acre of lawn, but not live too far in the country.<p>What you will find is that people are friendly, as long as you look like them (white). (EDIT: This gets more pronounced the more rural you are. Cities tend to be more accepting. What you will find is that rural areas have more relative sway on thought compared to the West Coast.) Towns outside of major metropolitan areas are dying as most major industries that supported that last two generations have left. Drugs are a huge issue, but its not as obvious because the floor for homelessness is so much lower. The only major infrastructure and building projects that get approved are sports stadiums, because idiots in local government rather have sports teams than functioning schools.<p>What the Midwest does have is solid engineering and research universities, that graduate thousands of STEM oriented students a year. Unfortunately there are often over an hour from the nearest 250k+ city. I went to one, and I think less than 25% of my friends stayed in state. The brain drain is real.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sarora27</author><text>&gt; What you will find is that people are friendly, as long as you look like them (white).<p>Grew up (Indian-American) in the midwest and can confirm this is true with a large majority of people there.<p>If you don&#x27;t look like them, they will be cordial to your face but then subtly make it very clear how they actually think about you.</text></comment> |
35,349,002 | 35,349,063 | 1 | 2 | 35,347,540 | train | <story><title>Microsoft's Software Is Malware</title><url>https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.en.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>didgetmaster</author><text>&gt;Nonfree software is controlled by its developers, which puts them in a position of power over the users...<p>The implication is that FOSS developers have no control over their users. Sure, you COULD fork your favorite tool&#x27;s repository and spend many hours trying to figure out how to make it do &#x27;what you want instead of what the developers wanted&#x27;; but very few people are really willing and&#x2F;or able to do that.<p>Nearly all software (open source or proprietary) except trivial programs, are controlled by the developers who build it and maintain it. They are given that power by the mere fact that most programs are sufficiently complex that few others can and will assume control instead. If someone does (and that someone isn&#x27;t you) then the new boss is same as the old boss (to quote a line from a song by The Who).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EvanAnderson</author><text><i>Sure, you COULD fork your favorite tool&#x27;s repository ... to make it do &#x27;what you want ...’ few people are really willing and&#x2F;or able to do that.</i><p>Free software makes it possible for me (my business, etc) to pay someone other than the original developer to make the software do what I want. No proprietary license gets me that.<p>In the context of personal use software by an individual it may not make sense to pay, but in the context of groups of individuals or a business it becomes viable.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft's Software Is Malware</title><url>https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.en.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>didgetmaster</author><text>&gt;Nonfree software is controlled by its developers, which puts them in a position of power over the users...<p>The implication is that FOSS developers have no control over their users. Sure, you COULD fork your favorite tool&#x27;s repository and spend many hours trying to figure out how to make it do &#x27;what you want instead of what the developers wanted&#x27;; but very few people are really willing and&#x2F;or able to do that.<p>Nearly all software (open source or proprietary) except trivial programs, are controlled by the developers who build it and maintain it. They are given that power by the mere fact that most programs are sufficiently complex that few others can and will assume control instead. If someone does (and that someone isn&#x27;t you) then the new boss is same as the old boss (to quote a line from a song by The Who).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ben0x539</author><text>While it&#x27;d take many hours to figure out how to make some random FOSS code to do what I want if what I want is anything particularly interesting, finding out where to comment out the code that eg phones home, or makes annoying noises, and then sharing that patch with everybody else is much easier and more realistic. Sure, it doesn&#x27;t entirely remove the power of the developers and particularly the people who control the official releases page, but it feels like a real, meaningful check on their power. It becomes even more meaningful if you&#x27;re not just some rando but maybe the &quot;user&quot; in question is an org who can actually devote resources to maintain changes to some FOSS code, saving you from having to enter into some sort of partnership with the developer.</text></comment> |
14,196,489 | 14,195,960 | 1 | 3 | 14,193,503 | train | <story><title>Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-25/alphabet-s-self-driving-cars-to-get-their-first-real-riders</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonmc12</author><text>Am I the only one feeling the press + big tech narrative of &quot;driverless vehicles = safety&quot; is way ahead of itself? OK, &quot;driver error is blamed for 94% of crashes&quot;, but what is the validation strategy to show where driverless cars can quantifiably improve? In 2016, Philip Koopman of CMU discusses that there are non-trivial engineering challenges of achieving safety in NHTSA Level 4 vehicle automation: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;users.ece.cmu.edu&#x2F;~koopman&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;koopman16_sae_autonomous_validation.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;users.ece.cmu.edu&#x2F;~koopman&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;koopman16_sae_autono...</a><p>If we are building the safest transportation system, what role do driverless vehicles play? Wouldn&#x27;t that be the narrative that actually saves the most lives?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smlacy</author><text>Your argument is about the same as &quot;Humans can calculate arithmetic perfectly accurately, why do we need computers to do it for us?&quot;<p>There are a host of obvious reasons why even a &quot;simple&quot; L4 car will beat a human hands down:<p>* Reaction time.<p>* 360 awareness &#x2F; visibility.<p>* Lack of exaggerated &quot;Human Reflex&quot; to surprising events (i.e. swerving violently to avoid a dog, and hitting other vehicles)<p>* Keeping perfect space around the vehicle for safe stopping at all times. (don&#x27;t tailgate, don&#x27;t get rear-ended)<p>* Assuming a LIDAR-based system, virtually no difference in day vs. night vision. No &quot;sun in your eyes&quot; or &quot;road glare&quot;.<p>* No fatigue related accidents.<p>* No DUI and related prescription drug accidents.<p>* No distraction-based accidents. (kids, cellphone, food)<p>* No &quot;road rage&quot; based accidents.<p>I could go on, but this should drive the point home pretty clearly, IMHO.</text></comment> | <story><title>Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-25/alphabet-s-self-driving-cars-to-get-their-first-real-riders</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonmc12</author><text>Am I the only one feeling the press + big tech narrative of &quot;driverless vehicles = safety&quot; is way ahead of itself? OK, &quot;driver error is blamed for 94% of crashes&quot;, but what is the validation strategy to show where driverless cars can quantifiably improve? In 2016, Philip Koopman of CMU discusses that there are non-trivial engineering challenges of achieving safety in NHTSA Level 4 vehicle automation: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;users.ece.cmu.edu&#x2F;~koopman&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;koopman16_sae_autonomous_validation.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;users.ece.cmu.edu&#x2F;~koopman&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;koopman16_sae_autono...</a><p>If we are building the safest transportation system, what role do driverless vehicles play? Wouldn&#x27;t that be the narrative that actually saves the most lives?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vkou</author><text>It is. We&#x27;ve seen some spectacular self-driving vehicle failures in the past while. Teslas running into half-opened garage doors, vehicles pulled over on the shoulder, the side of a semi, navigating roundablouts by driving into the ditch, driving on the wrong side of the road, yelling at the driver for staying in their lane...</text></comment> |
35,585,273 | 35,584,722 | 1 | 2 | 35,584,563 | train | <story><title>SUVs more dangerous to cyclists than other cars, study suggests</title><url>https://road.cc/content/news/suvs-more-dangerous-cyclists-than-other-cars-300605</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dathinab</author><text>Idk. about the US but where I live in the EU a _lot_ of people think that driving a SUV without needing the off-road capabilities is at least egoistic if not outright asocial.<p>And given that this area (and many others) have &quot;good enough(1)&quot; streets so that the huge majority of people don&#x27;t need the off-road capabilities of a SUV it&#x27;s pretty easy to be for people to assume that you are egoistic or worse when they see you driving a SUV.<p>This bias is probably reinforced by the coincidence(?) that the group of people driving SUVs here has a big overlap with some groups often associated with entitled egoistic behaviour.<p>Somehow it often feels that the people insisting on driving a SUV without a need for it are using it like an armor they ware because they are afraid of the outside world.<p>(1): The requirements for a road to not need a SUV are pretty low IMHO. Sure you might need a &quot;good enough&quot; ground clearance, motor and brakes in mountain areas, but you can get that without an SUV, many (most?) new non-sport cars fall into this category.</text></comment> | <story><title>SUVs more dangerous to cyclists than other cars, study suggests</title><url>https://road.cc/content/news/suvs-more-dangerous-cyclists-than-other-cars-300605</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>suzzer99</author><text>It&#x27;s not just cyclists. A year ago I saw a middle-aged couple both go up onto the hood of a Prius that was rounding a right turn without looking. I think they were both fine. If it was an SUV they&#x27;d have been knocked forward so hard they&#x27;d have been seriously injured or killed.</text></comment> |
9,479,274 | 9,478,913 | 1 | 3 | 9,478,544 | train | <story><title>What happens after you’re arrested at a protest in New York</title><url>https://medium.com/@noralev/what-happens-after-you-re-arrested-at-a-protest-in-new-york-975bb34fb47c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mschuster91</author><text>&gt; This was super distressing for a lot of people, as those belongings usually included wallet, phone, and keys. So after you are done at Central Booking, you are basically left with no possessions or money, and no way to get into your home or contact anyone.<p>Please, someone tell me this is fucking illegal.</text></comment> | <story><title>What happens after you’re arrested at a protest in New York</title><url>https://medium.com/@noralev/what-happens-after-you-re-arrested-at-a-protest-in-new-york-975bb34fb47c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>revelation</author><text>NYPD needs to be disbanded. If you have officers repeating the same conduct one just got charged with depraved heart murder for, it&#x27;s out of control.<p>This stuff is simple enough. Get out of your escort, stand among the other normal people and do some dogfooding of the police experience. I guess nobody higher up wants to spend the day doing that, because at the end of it there wouldn&#x27;t be anyone still employed at NYPD.</text></comment> |
29,772,057 | 29,772,102 | 1 | 2 | 29,770,105 | train | <story><title>I Built a Shed (2020)</title><url>https://eduardosasso.co/blog/how-i-built-a-wfh-shed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hinkley</author><text>I was going to post about code violations but I’ll just tuck it under yours here so we don’t flood the top level (although one could argue that this really deserves it).<p>I had to stop reading r&#x2F;diy because half the stuff in there made me angry. Especially people building lofts to store heavy stuff without knowing anything about construction.<p>You can’t overlap rooflines like this. That’s how they allow people to build small outbuildings but make large projects have to get permits. If the roofs “touch” then you’re using a loophole to make an illegal addition to your house instead of a shed.<p>&gt; The way I did it was to run both wires inside a 3&#x2F;4 inch PVC conduit using 14&#x2F;2 electrical wiring + 100ft cat6 ethernet cable.<p>You are going to get somebody killed. I didn’t see you dig a trench, which means you have a single <i>plastic</i> conduit carrying power and data and exposed to the air. It’s supposed to be grounded metal buried conduit to create a faraday cage that can’t be electrified by nearby lightning strikes or hit by a tree or debris in a wind storm. And deep enough the next owner doesn’t kill themselves planting a hydrangea.<p>I have half a mind to doxx you to your city planning office.</text></item><item><author>ohazi</author><text>Not that anything about this shed is built to code, but this takes the cake:<p>&gt; PRO TIP Use screws for everything; if you mess up, remove the screws and redo it; with nails, it’s a lot harder to do that.<p>You absolutely should not do this for framing, and most building codes specify the type and size of nails that you <i>must</i> use when fastening load-bearing structural components.<p>Screws are convenient, sure, but they are necessarily much harder than nails and are prone to embrittlement and cracking, while nails are soft and pliable. You <i>can</i> get structural screws, but they&#x27;re uncommon, expensive, and I&#x27;d wager they weren&#x27;t used here (they&#x27;re <i>much</i> beefier than a similarly rated framing nail).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tharkun__</author><text>I like your parent&#x27;s explanation of <i>why</i> screws are not allowed by code in some places and also saying that yes, screws actually <i>can</i> be used, if you use the right ones, even if they aren&#x27;t allowed by code in some places.<p>I really like that because just mentioning code doesn&#x27;t do any good. Just because code says something doesn&#x27;t mean that it makes sense. There&#x27;s tons of omissions in codes or stuff that is unnecessarily restrictive or way not enough to be safe.<p>Screws are the perfect example. If code forbids screws but you are going to use the proper screws that are (with good reason) allowed in other jurisdictions that has a completely different vibe to it than someone blogging about using dry wall screws to frame a house. One is a safety concern and why inspections are a good thing, while another is a minor case of ignoring code without any concerns and where an inspection would suck (if you were the homeowner doing some work yourself). If they want to use something that is more expensive and let&#x27;s them do something themselves that they wouldn&#x27;t be able to do at all if they had to use nails, more power to them! Change code to allow the right type of screws!<p>Your second part of the reply does the same, it sort of explains why you think it&#x27;s a bad idea (and I agree that it is for various reasons).<p>Could you explain <i>why</i> it is not a good idea to overlap roof lines?</text></comment> | <story><title>I Built a Shed (2020)</title><url>https://eduardosasso.co/blog/how-i-built-a-wfh-shed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hinkley</author><text>I was going to post about code violations but I’ll just tuck it under yours here so we don’t flood the top level (although one could argue that this really deserves it).<p>I had to stop reading r&#x2F;diy because half the stuff in there made me angry. Especially people building lofts to store heavy stuff without knowing anything about construction.<p>You can’t overlap rooflines like this. That’s how they allow people to build small outbuildings but make large projects have to get permits. If the roofs “touch” then you’re using a loophole to make an illegal addition to your house instead of a shed.<p>&gt; The way I did it was to run both wires inside a 3&#x2F;4 inch PVC conduit using 14&#x2F;2 electrical wiring + 100ft cat6 ethernet cable.<p>You are going to get somebody killed. I didn’t see you dig a trench, which means you have a single <i>plastic</i> conduit carrying power and data and exposed to the air. It’s supposed to be grounded metal buried conduit to create a faraday cage that can’t be electrified by nearby lightning strikes or hit by a tree or debris in a wind storm. And deep enough the next owner doesn’t kill themselves planting a hydrangea.<p>I have half a mind to doxx you to your city planning office.</text></item><item><author>ohazi</author><text>Not that anything about this shed is built to code, but this takes the cake:<p>&gt; PRO TIP Use screws for everything; if you mess up, remove the screws and redo it; with nails, it’s a lot harder to do that.<p>You absolutely should not do this for framing, and most building codes specify the type and size of nails that you <i>must</i> use when fastening load-bearing structural components.<p>Screws are convenient, sure, but they are necessarily much harder than nails and are prone to embrittlement and cracking, while nails are soft and pliable. You <i>can</i> get structural screws, but they&#x27;re uncommon, expensive, and I&#x27;d wager they weren&#x27;t used here (they&#x27;re <i>much</i> beefier than a similarly rated framing nail).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lazide</author><text>Keep in mind, while yes this is a huge code issue mixing low voltage and high voltage - ‘it depends’ in a lot of jurisdictions on other elements.<p>Following is for other folks running across this, in case it helps them.<p>At least in California, I’m pretty sure it’s code compliant to use <i>rated</i> non-metallic conduit for outside high voltage runs for instance. That conduit is made of PVC. It’s the grey plastic electrical conduit at every hardware store (if branded as UV resistant&#x2F;outdoor rated).<p>Normal PVC pipe (for water) falls apart at too low a temperature and becomes super brittle when exposed to
Sunlight surprisingly quickly.<p>It’s a much better idea to use EMT or even ‘hard’ conduit depending on how it’s exposed, but it’s not required. EMF protection is nice, but I haven’t seen a such a requirement for power feeds in residential anyway. If using 3 phase and some industrial equipment I imagine you’d be a jerk to not do so, but most residential neighborhoods here have overhead unshielded lines anyway.<p>Running to a separate detached building has a bunch of rules around grounding (for which you’ll find multiple mutually exclusive and conflicting codes across the county). Many areas don’t have lightning suppression rules though.<p>Depending on exactly how the building is constructed (technically ‘mobile’ vs ‘fixed) also changes codes a lot. Running the equivalent of an extension cord to a ‘mobile’ structure (which can be functionally fixed) is perfectly fine as long as it’s GFCI protected for instance. Not that he did that.<p>Ideally it would be a separate sub panel, grounded and protected as such, with proper rated conduit, etc.<p>But the bar is a lot lower than what you’re saying if someone follows some basic guidelines. And can be done safely.<p>But yeah, Article Author - you’re going to get someone killed. Jesus.</text></comment> |
20,291,673 | 20,291,326 | 1 | 2 | 20,290,449 | train | <story><title>FAA Finds New Risk on 737 Max, Orders Boeing to Make Changes</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-26/faa-finds-new-risk-on-737-max-and-orders-boeing-to-make-changes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>th0ma5</author><text>To be fair, ignoring user input could have potentially have saved Air France 447... I mean I actually can&#x27;t think of an automated fool proof system that would&#x27;ve fixed 447, but incorrect input was a major factor.</text></item><item><author>rjvehn</author><text>There are a myriad of issues that put the planes at risk, but I think that the fact that when the control system (MCAS) is engaged causes it to ignore feedback is the biggest issue of all.<p>&quot;But with the MCAS activated, said Fehrm, those breakout switches wouldn’t work. MCAS assumes the yoke is already aggressively pulled back and won’t allow further pullback to counter its action, which is to hold the nose down.<p>Fehrm’s analysis is confirmed in the instructions Boeing sent to pilots last weekend. The bulletin sent to American Airlines pilots emphasizes that pulling back the control column will not stop the action.<p>Fehrm said that the Lion Air pilots would have trained on 737 simulators and would have learned over many years of experience that <i>pulling back on the yoke stops any automatic tail maneuvers pushing the nose down.</i>&quot; [0].<p>If you bought a new computer, how pissed off would you be if you lost data not because of a hard-drive failure, but because of a weird design decision of the 1 penny caps lock key? Imagine spending the time to setup a proper RAID system and losing everything because of a <i>design decision</i> in the keyboard.<p>I mean if the media keeps reporting about the small stuff that&#x27;s wrong, it&#x27;s going to make people go &quot;well planes are complex and things happen&quot; and almost ignore the seriousness of a design decision that ignores user input.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seattletimes.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;boeing-aerospace&#x2F;faa-evaluates-a-potential-design-flaw-on-boeings-737-max-after-lion-air-crash&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seattletimes.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;boeing-aerospace&#x2F;faa-e...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>halter73</author><text>IIRC, the cockpit voice recording included a comment from one of the co-pilots about how pulling back on the yoke couldn&#x27;t cause a stall. The assumption was that the Airbus&#x27;s fly-by-wire system would prevent it and ensure the aircraft still climbed as long as the pilot held back on the stick.<p>The co-pilot apparently didn&#x27;t realize that the sensor issue that disabled the autopilot also disabled the stall prevention. And that&#x27;s despite an audible &quot;STALL&quot; warning being repeated in the background.<p>The captain was not in the cockpit when the whole situation started, but as he re-entered the cockpit during the stall he saw one of the co-pilots holding back on the yoke and told him to push the yoke forward to prevent the stall. The co-pilot followed the instructions, but only for a few seconds before pulling the yoke back again.<p>All of this is to say if the plane hadn&#x27;t been <i>known</i> to ignore user inputs in most situations, the co-pilot might not have assumed the Airbus would do the right thing and climb no matter what when pulling back on the yoke. So in a sense, <i>never</i> ignoring user inputs might have also saved Air France 447.</text></comment> | <story><title>FAA Finds New Risk on 737 Max, Orders Boeing to Make Changes</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-26/faa-finds-new-risk-on-737-max-and-orders-boeing-to-make-changes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>th0ma5</author><text>To be fair, ignoring user input could have potentially have saved Air France 447... I mean I actually can&#x27;t think of an automated fool proof system that would&#x27;ve fixed 447, but incorrect input was a major factor.</text></item><item><author>rjvehn</author><text>There are a myriad of issues that put the planes at risk, but I think that the fact that when the control system (MCAS) is engaged causes it to ignore feedback is the biggest issue of all.<p>&quot;But with the MCAS activated, said Fehrm, those breakout switches wouldn’t work. MCAS assumes the yoke is already aggressively pulled back and won’t allow further pullback to counter its action, which is to hold the nose down.<p>Fehrm’s analysis is confirmed in the instructions Boeing sent to pilots last weekend. The bulletin sent to American Airlines pilots emphasizes that pulling back the control column will not stop the action.<p>Fehrm said that the Lion Air pilots would have trained on 737 simulators and would have learned over many years of experience that <i>pulling back on the yoke stops any automatic tail maneuvers pushing the nose down.</i>&quot; [0].<p>If you bought a new computer, how pissed off would you be if you lost data not because of a hard-drive failure, but because of a weird design decision of the 1 penny caps lock key? Imagine spending the time to setup a proper RAID system and losing everything because of a <i>design decision</i> in the keyboard.<p>I mean if the media keeps reporting about the small stuff that&#x27;s wrong, it&#x27;s going to make people go &quot;well planes are complex and things happen&quot; and almost ignore the seriousness of a design decision that ignores user input.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seattletimes.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;boeing-aerospace&#x2F;faa-evaluates-a-potential-design-flaw-on-boeings-737-max-after-lion-air-crash&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seattletimes.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;boeing-aerospace&#x2F;faa-e...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cyberferret</author><text>Basic rudimentary &#x27;stick and rudder&#x27; flying skills was a big factor in AF447&#x27;s crash. All old school pilots know that when you aircraft is in a nose high stall condition, you <i>never</i> keep pulling back on the stick, but instead push it forwards to lower the nose and get the wings flying again.<p>The fact that the co-pilot in question kept holding the stick to the back stops was the main reason that the aircraft wallowed into the sea. Weirdly, he <i>did</i> let go of the stick for a brief few seconds, which was the only time during the harrowing descent that the aircraft started to behave normally, but then he pulled it back and held it back right up until impact.<p>Yep, the aircraft could have ignored these inputs, but the inputs are counter to what any reasonably skilled pilot would have done. (Note: Different to the MAX crashes where pulling back on the stick under speed IS the accepted way to stop a descent.)</text></comment> |
12,066,159 | 12,066,164 | 1 | 2 | 12,065,912 | train | <story><title>The Rustonomicon: The Dark Arts of Advanced and Unsafe Rust Programming</title><url>https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/README.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rattray</author><text>I really hope nobody mistakes the sexy title of this book as a reason to learn unsafe rust. If it can be done without this advanced feature, it probably should.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vvanders</author><text>&gt; However if you intend to write unsafe code -- or just want to dig into the guts of the language -- this book contains invaluable information.<p>Agreed, however I think the latter part of the intro is worthwhile to anyone who wants a deeper understanding of Rust.<p>I&#x27;ve always found that a in depth understanding of what you use pays off in unforeseen ways.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Rustonomicon: The Dark Arts of Advanced and Unsafe Rust Programming</title><url>https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/README.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rattray</author><text>I really hope nobody mistakes the sexy title of this book as a reason to learn unsafe rust. If it can be done without this advanced feature, it probably should.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluejekyll</author><text>It&#x27;s true. I have a 30k+ LoC project, and it has zero unsafe code blocks.<p>Though I do have another project that exports a C API, and that requires unsafe, though it&#x27;s literally only for wrapping&#x2F;unwrapping pointers.</text></comment> |
27,933,133 | 27,932,282 | 1 | 2 | 27,930,562 | train | <story><title>Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel</title><text>This is the inaugural &quot;Meet the Batch&quot; post that we discussed a few days ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27877280" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27877280</a>. There are 8 startups in this thread. I&#x27;ve attempted to squeeze a reference to each in the title above. The initial order is random.<p>Direct links to each startup:<p>Portão 3 (YC S21) - Corporate travel for Latin America - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;portao3.com.br&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;portao3.com.br&#x2F;</a>,
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930563" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930563</a><p>Sitenna (YC S21) - A marketplace for wireless cell sites - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sitenna.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sitenna.com&#x2F;</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930564" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930564</a><p>ContainIQ (YC S21) - Kubernetes observability based on eBPF - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.containiq.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.containiq.com&#x2F;</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930569" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930569</a><p>Appollo (YC S21) - A single API for launching to eCommerce platforms - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tryappollo.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tryappollo.com&#x2F;</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930570" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930570</a><p>Beau (YC S21) - Automate repetitive client-facing tasks - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beau.to&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beau.to&#x2F;</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930568" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930568</a><p>Telm.ai (YC S21) - Real-time data quality monitoring - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telm.ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telm.ai&#x2F;</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930566" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930566</a><p>Filadd (YC S21) - Online courses for LatAm university - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;courses.filadd.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;courses.filadd.com&#x2F;</a>, entrance exams <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930567" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930567</a><p>Shimmer (YC S21) - Online video support groups for mental health - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shimmer.care" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shimmer.care</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930565" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930565</a><p>You are invited to share your questions, thoughts, feedback, and experiences in any of these spaces! Simply reply to the founder&#x27;s post you want to discuss.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Robrechtlr</author><text>Hi YC, We’re Darrell, Jibril, and Robrecht, the co-founders of Appollo (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tryappollo.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tryappollo.com&#x2F;</a>). Appollo is a single API to launch your app to all eCommerce platforms. Appollo enables you to create 1 app with our APIs and launch it to all the eCommerce platforms while also letting you maintain it as 1 app. Previously, you had to create and maintain an app separately for Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce, Square, Wix, SquareSpace, Etsy, etc. Before Appollo, we were working on a live stream application for eCommerce stores, which was how we were confronted with this problem. Looking forward to your feedback!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>harrisonjackson</author><text>At first I thought this was so you could sell retail products through all these different platforms.<p>I was thinking.... WHY?!<p>But it is actually for ecommerce plugins&#x2F;apps&#x2F;add-ons and the customers are those companies making shopify plugins so they can develop once and deploy everywhere.<p>Echoing other comments - a more clear description &#x2F; example or word other than &quot;App&quot; might help. I think Add-On or Plugin might be more clear in your one liner when referencing all the platforms.<p>Good luck on the launch! Hope the &quot;meet the batch&quot; thing doesn&#x27;t flop.</text></comment> | <story><title>Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel</title><text>This is the inaugural &quot;Meet the Batch&quot; post that we discussed a few days ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27877280" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27877280</a>. There are 8 startups in this thread. I&#x27;ve attempted to squeeze a reference to each in the title above. The initial order is random.<p>Direct links to each startup:<p>Portão 3 (YC S21) - Corporate travel for Latin America - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;portao3.com.br&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;portao3.com.br&#x2F;</a>,
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930563" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930563</a><p>Sitenna (YC S21) - A marketplace for wireless cell sites - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sitenna.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sitenna.com&#x2F;</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930564" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930564</a><p>ContainIQ (YC S21) - Kubernetes observability based on eBPF - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.containiq.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.containiq.com&#x2F;</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930569" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930569</a><p>Appollo (YC S21) - A single API for launching to eCommerce platforms - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tryappollo.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tryappollo.com&#x2F;</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930570" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930570</a><p>Beau (YC S21) - Automate repetitive client-facing tasks - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beau.to&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beau.to&#x2F;</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930568" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930568</a><p>Telm.ai (YC S21) - Real-time data quality monitoring - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telm.ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telm.ai&#x2F;</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930566" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930566</a><p>Filadd (YC S21) - Online courses for LatAm university - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;courses.filadd.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;courses.filadd.com&#x2F;</a>, entrance exams <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930567" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930567</a><p>Shimmer (YC S21) - Online video support groups for mental health - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shimmer.care" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shimmer.care</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930565" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27930565</a><p>You are invited to share your questions, thoughts, feedback, and experiences in any of these spaces! Simply reply to the founder&#x27;s post you want to discuss.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Robrechtlr</author><text>Hi YC, We’re Darrell, Jibril, and Robrecht, the co-founders of Appollo (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tryappollo.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tryappollo.com&#x2F;</a>). Appollo is a single API to launch your app to all eCommerce platforms. Appollo enables you to create 1 app with our APIs and launch it to all the eCommerce platforms while also letting you maintain it as 1 app. Previously, you had to create and maintain an app separately for Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce, Square, Wix, SquareSpace, Etsy, etc. Before Appollo, we were working on a live stream application for eCommerce stores, which was how we were confronted with this problem. Looking forward to your feedback!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dangrossman</author><text>You have a pricing page but there&#x27;s not a single dollar sign on it. I have no idea what this costs.<p>I also took a quick look at your API documentation, and I couldn&#x27;t figure out how I&#x27;d use this.<p>I run several popular Shopify and WooCommerce apps right now. Their primary integration point with the store is via injecting a script tag into all pages, using Shopify&#x27;s ScriptTag API or WordPress&#x27;s wp_head hook.<p>I couldn&#x27;t find how I&#x27;d do this using Apollo.</text></comment> |
18,815,215 | 18,812,598 | 1 | 2 | 18,808,488 | train | <story><title>Exploiting the Math.expm1 typing bug in V8</title><url>https://abiondo.me/2019/01/02/exploiting-math-expm1-v8/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>titzer</author><text>Hi, TLM of the WebAssembly runtime in V8 here.<p>TLDR: it&#x27;s asm.js&#x27;s fault. And yes, complexity.<p>The reason that WebAssembly JIT code memory is still RMW (for now) is actually really unfortunate. As you might know, V8&#x27;s JIT code memory for JS is only writable when the application is quiesced (i.e. JS is not running) and the JIT is either finishing a function or the garbage collector is moving JITted code. It&#x27;s read-execute otherwise. It&#x27;s never both writable and executable at the same time. We generally refer to this as WX protection (i.e. writeable&#x2F;executable exclusive).<p>In the case of WebAssembly, it&#x27;s asm.js that&#x27;s the real culprit here. Internally in V8, asm.js code is translated to WebAssembly by a very quick custom-built parser that validates asm.js&#x27;s type system while parsing and emits WebAssembly bytecode along the way. The WebAssembly bytecode is then fed to the WebAssembly engine for compilation.<p>Well...not so fast. In order to meet our performance goals for fast asm.js validation and startup, the WebAssembly engine does not do up-front compilation of Wasm code coming from asm.js. Instead, it does on-demand compilation of asm.js code, compiling the Wasm bytecode corresponding to each asm.js function upon first execution. We call this &quot;lazy compilation&quot;.<p>We originally shipped lazy compilation cooperating with the WX mechanism executable for JS code. That is, upon every (lazy) compilation of asm.js code, we&#x27;d flip the permission bits on the code space in order to write in the little bit of machine code generated for each function. Problem is, that permission flip is expensive--like really expensive. So expensive that we had to unship WX protection because it made asm.js code unusably slow.<p>We&#x27;re working on fixing this, as we are keenly aware of the risk exposure here.</text></item><item><author>wahern</author><text>Interesting how at the end, after acquiring out-of-bounds write access, that it was easiest to leverage the WebAssembly infrastructure to execute code than to build a ROP chain.<p>Apparently WebAssembly heap memory storing generated code is not write protected <i>at</i> <i>all</i>. I guess whatever architecture they have for managing typed memory chunks doesn&#x27;t make it sufficiently easy to manipulate protection bits dynamically, and the WebAssembly folks were content to leave compiled WebAssembly chunks are RWX.<p>It&#x27;s unfortunate that this thread hasn&#x27;t been upvoted. It really drives home the futility of expecting something as complex as V8 to ever be safe enough to sandbox arbitrary code. And it has little to do with the language of the implementation--the same engine re-written in Rust would have been just as susceptible to the two exploits.<p>I guess it&#x27;s just too inconvenient to accept reality. I&#x27;m still surprised that Cloudflare and AWS have actually convinced themselves they can make such architectures secure[1]. Less shocked that everybody is else is so credulous.<p>Though, I <i>am</i> shocked that Netflix is so credulous. A recent blog post described how they use AWS Lambda functions to manage their CA private key. But, again, because of how limited KMS is I guess it&#x27;s too inconvenient to not trust Lambda. KMS really should support asymmetric key operations; it&#x27;s ridiculous it&#x27;s still not supported. I guess AWS&#x27;s KMS &quot;cloud HSM&quot; solution just wouldn&#x27;t scale (in terms of CPU) if people could do that.<p>[1] Absolute security is impossible, but as complex as this exploit was it&#x27;s obviously still far too trivial. It&#x27;s a totally unwarranted and unreasonable expectation that bad actors are incapable of reading (if not manipulate) co-hosted Lambda or Cloudflare Worker projects. Writing a non-JIT&#x27;d engine with a simplified memory architecture is not only feasible, it would be an obvious candidate for formal verification. But the demands for performance are just too strong and so, as always, security takes a back-seat to performance and speed-to-market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abiondo</author><text>Author here - thanks for this! I was wondering why Wasm was RWX.<p>My 2c: I think that there will be risk of code injection as long as write_protect_code_memory in Heap is writable. Changing that flag will usually mess things up and crash writing to RX memory (CodeSpaceMemoryModificationScope won&#x27;t switch to RW), but a well-crafted exploit might be able to get a fresh executable MemoryChunk (which will now be RWX). It&#x27;s likely complex to exploit, but the incentive is that code injection is more reliable than ROP when targeting multiple builds (unless you build the chain dynamically, which is slow and often painful).</text></comment> | <story><title>Exploiting the Math.expm1 typing bug in V8</title><url>https://abiondo.me/2019/01/02/exploiting-math-expm1-v8/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>titzer</author><text>Hi, TLM of the WebAssembly runtime in V8 here.<p>TLDR: it&#x27;s asm.js&#x27;s fault. And yes, complexity.<p>The reason that WebAssembly JIT code memory is still RMW (for now) is actually really unfortunate. As you might know, V8&#x27;s JIT code memory for JS is only writable when the application is quiesced (i.e. JS is not running) and the JIT is either finishing a function or the garbage collector is moving JITted code. It&#x27;s read-execute otherwise. It&#x27;s never both writable and executable at the same time. We generally refer to this as WX protection (i.e. writeable&#x2F;executable exclusive).<p>In the case of WebAssembly, it&#x27;s asm.js that&#x27;s the real culprit here. Internally in V8, asm.js code is translated to WebAssembly by a very quick custom-built parser that validates asm.js&#x27;s type system while parsing and emits WebAssembly bytecode along the way. The WebAssembly bytecode is then fed to the WebAssembly engine for compilation.<p>Well...not so fast. In order to meet our performance goals for fast asm.js validation and startup, the WebAssembly engine does not do up-front compilation of Wasm code coming from asm.js. Instead, it does on-demand compilation of asm.js code, compiling the Wasm bytecode corresponding to each asm.js function upon first execution. We call this &quot;lazy compilation&quot;.<p>We originally shipped lazy compilation cooperating with the WX mechanism executable for JS code. That is, upon every (lazy) compilation of asm.js code, we&#x27;d flip the permission bits on the code space in order to write in the little bit of machine code generated for each function. Problem is, that permission flip is expensive--like really expensive. So expensive that we had to unship WX protection because it made asm.js code unusably slow.<p>We&#x27;re working on fixing this, as we are keenly aware of the risk exposure here.</text></item><item><author>wahern</author><text>Interesting how at the end, after acquiring out-of-bounds write access, that it was easiest to leverage the WebAssembly infrastructure to execute code than to build a ROP chain.<p>Apparently WebAssembly heap memory storing generated code is not write protected <i>at</i> <i>all</i>. I guess whatever architecture they have for managing typed memory chunks doesn&#x27;t make it sufficiently easy to manipulate protection bits dynamically, and the WebAssembly folks were content to leave compiled WebAssembly chunks are RWX.<p>It&#x27;s unfortunate that this thread hasn&#x27;t been upvoted. It really drives home the futility of expecting something as complex as V8 to ever be safe enough to sandbox arbitrary code. And it has little to do with the language of the implementation--the same engine re-written in Rust would have been just as susceptible to the two exploits.<p>I guess it&#x27;s just too inconvenient to accept reality. I&#x27;m still surprised that Cloudflare and AWS have actually convinced themselves they can make such architectures secure[1]. Less shocked that everybody is else is so credulous.<p>Though, I <i>am</i> shocked that Netflix is so credulous. A recent blog post described how they use AWS Lambda functions to manage their CA private key. But, again, because of how limited KMS is I guess it&#x27;s too inconvenient to not trust Lambda. KMS really should support asymmetric key operations; it&#x27;s ridiculous it&#x27;s still not supported. I guess AWS&#x27;s KMS &quot;cloud HSM&quot; solution just wouldn&#x27;t scale (in terms of CPU) if people could do that.<p>[1] Absolute security is impossible, but as complex as this exploit was it&#x27;s obviously still far too trivial. It&#x27;s a totally unwarranted and unreasonable expectation that bad actors are incapable of reading (if not manipulate) co-hosted Lambda or Cloudflare Worker projects. Writing a non-JIT&#x27;d engine with a simplified memory architecture is not only feasible, it would be an obvious candidate for formal verification. But the demands for performance are just too strong and so, as always, security takes a back-seat to performance and speed-to-market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>This is super-interesting back story, thanks for taking the time to share it.</text></comment> |
26,316,764 | 26,316,855 | 1 | 3 | 26,302,416 | train | <story><title>React Cosmos – Build UIs at Scale</title><url>https://reactcosmos.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>skidding</author><text>Wow, author of Cosmos here. For the record I didn&#x27;t post this. So thanks to OP and everyone who upvoted. It&#x27;s cool that Cosmos still generates new interest after so many years.<p>Yes, Cosmos is very similar to Storybook. It&#x27;s also older, and I&#x27;m only saying this because I&#x27;m tired of getting asked how does it differ. Both projects provide an isolated component environment to help tackle complexity in single page apps. The difference boils down to setup compatibility and personal taste.<p>I&#x27;m not gonna lie, some of the comments are tough to process, but what can you do. I still appreciate all feedback and as usual I&#x27;ll try to incorporate it as best as I can.</text></comment> | <story><title>React Cosmos – Build UIs at Scale</title><url>https://reactcosmos.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>root_axis</author><text>I <i>love</i> Cosmos! We used to use storybook a few years back but it required ongoing maintenance whenever we made changes to our build configs which meant it would slowly fall behind the rest of our application over time. The brilliance of Cosmos is that it relies on your existing configs to build the components, so it&#x27;s just a &quot;set it and forget it&quot; setup. Being able to produce static builds is also great and we rely on this to generate component previews in our CI so that QA can review component appearance and behavior before we even merge them into development. The Cosmos UI hooks are also a clever use of hooks that allow the fixtures to be tested by non-technical people in a manner that aligns with the logical boundaries of the component&#x27;s design from an engineering perspective. The approach to designating a fixture file using the .fixture extension is also low effort meaning engineers actually do it. It&#x27;s awesome, I highly recommend it if you work on a complex react front-end with many individual components.</text></comment> |
40,368,280 | 40,368,448 | 1 | 2 | 40,366,867 | train | <story><title>What went wrong with UniSuper and Google Cloud?</title><url>https://danielcompton.net/google-cloud-unisuper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eitally</author><text>I don&#x27;t see any value in Google being more transparent here if it was either 1) legitimately a unique bug, or 2) customer error with a Terraform script.<p>Fwiw -- and I know there are plenty of googlers here -- the OMG isn&#x27;t locked down and it was legitimately a unique bug. I appreciate the forensic analysis of public statements that the author of this post strung together, but it doesn&#x27;t really advance the conversation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anytime5704</author><text>I want to know!<p>Used to work on GCE, but as the article mentioned, there are a lot of safeguards built in over there to prevent you from accidentally deleting things and account wipeout has a grace period to prevent a lapse in billing from deleting anything.</text></comment> | <story><title>What went wrong with UniSuper and Google Cloud?</title><url>https://danielcompton.net/google-cloud-unisuper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eitally</author><text>I don&#x27;t see any value in Google being more transparent here if it was either 1) legitimately a unique bug, or 2) customer error with a Terraform script.<p>Fwiw -- and I know there are plenty of googlers here -- the OMG isn&#x27;t locked down and it was legitimately a unique bug. I appreciate the forensic analysis of public statements that the author of this post strung together, but it doesn&#x27;t really advance the conversation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonw</author><text>It matters because if it was a customer error I would want to know what the error was in order to better avoid it myself.</text></comment> |
27,671,894 | 27,670,938 | 1 | 2 | 27,668,935 | train | <story><title>YouTube reinstates Right Wing Watch</title><url>https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/youtube-reinstates-channel-devoted-exposing-conservative-extremism-rcna1286</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>I think fixing popular &quot;mistakes&quot; like this is problematic in its own way. Google&#x2F;YouTube approach the problem of moderation by using unreliable systems and correcting mistakes when there is enough of a popular outrage. The problem is, people who can&#x27;t generate the outrage are subject to Google&#x27;s poor moderation.<p>If Google did not fix mistakes that generated a lot of outrage, then competitors could differentiate themselves by providing better moderation policies and whenever some popular account got banned from YouTube that would generate a lot of traffic for alternatives. As is, if something popular gets banned, YouTube will &quot;correct&quot; their error while they ignore things below this threshold. This simultaneously subjects everyone to their poor moderation and stifles an advantage that competitors might enjoy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>supernintendo</author><text>I just assumed it was common knowledge that Google doesn’t even try to implement human support resources. From what I can tell, literally 100% of YouTube support tickets go to what is essentially a spam inbox with auto-reply and the only way to have your concerns be dealt with is to have a personal connection to someone in upper management.</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube reinstates Right Wing Watch</title><url>https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/youtube-reinstates-channel-devoted-exposing-conservative-extremism-rcna1286</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>I think fixing popular &quot;mistakes&quot; like this is problematic in its own way. Google&#x2F;YouTube approach the problem of moderation by using unreliable systems and correcting mistakes when there is enough of a popular outrage. The problem is, people who can&#x27;t generate the outrage are subject to Google&#x27;s poor moderation.<p>If Google did not fix mistakes that generated a lot of outrage, then competitors could differentiate themselves by providing better moderation policies and whenever some popular account got banned from YouTube that would generate a lot of traffic for alternatives. As is, if something popular gets banned, YouTube will &quot;correct&quot; their error while they ignore things below this threshold. This simultaneously subjects everyone to their poor moderation and stifles an advantage that competitors might enjoy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asdfasgasdgasdg</author><text>I mean, it&#x27;s pretty obvious why they don&#x27;t do that. The only people that would benefit by such a policy are not stakeholders in the decision. All actual stakeholders (Google, the banned channel, and YouTube users who want to watch the content) benefit from a policy that use social and manual signals as one layer of defense against incorrect bans.</text></comment> |
24,761,886 | 24,761,723 | 1 | 3 | 24,761,430 | train | <story><title>Spotify, Ever the Fans of Openness</title><url>https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/10/12/spotify-songshift</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>actuator</author><text>Previous discussion(1 day old) on the same news: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24746001" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24746001</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Spotify, Ever the Fans of Openness</title><url>https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/10/12/spotify-songshift</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>echelon</author><text>I fucking hate the modern Internet. Everybody takes and nobody gives. We&#x27;ve regressed from the 90&#x27;s&#x2F;00&#x27;s.<p>These platforms only care about lock-in. Spotify doesn&#x27;t really add anything. The only convenience over Winamp is social sharing.<p>All of the platforms are catered to mass audiences anyway and suck for power users. They only want to extract money and are doing it the easiest way possible. Customers that don&#x27;t complain about lack of features.<p>I posit that nobody in any of these orgs deeply cares about music.</text></comment> |
6,844,071 | 6,844,064 | 1 | 3 | 6,843,756 | train | <story><title>A Bug in the Bug Bounty</title><url>http://engineering.prezi.com/blog/2013/12/03/a-bug-in-the-bugbounty/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MrZongle2</author><text>Prezi&#x27;s apparently trying to cover their posteriors in the wake of Shubham&#x27;s disclosure and subsequent snub ( <a href="http://blog.shubh.am/prezi-bug-bounty/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.shubh.am&#x2F;prezi-bug-bounty&#x2F;</a> ).<p><i>&quot;We greatly value this feedback.&quot;</i><p>Weak sauce. Shubham&#x27;s disclosure saved Prezi from a future nightmare. If they&#x27;re not going to pay him from the bug bounty coffers, they should at least try and sound more like grateful humans rather than a pissy HR department trying to do damage control.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>I think that&#x27;s a bit harsh. I read the full email exchange he posted at the end of his article[1], and they went to some length to explain their position at the end of that exchange, and while I and many other wish it was different, I find their position <i>understandable</i>. With any number of past security submissions already deemed inadmissible for a bounty based on being out of bounds, how do they justify doing it in this one case? I think they were heading this direction anyway, and if anything this just sped up the time frame.<p>1: <a href="http://blog.shubh.am/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/LetterLog_Prezi.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.shubh.am&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;LetterLog_Pr...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A Bug in the Bug Bounty</title><url>http://engineering.prezi.com/blog/2013/12/03/a-bug-in-the-bugbounty/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MrZongle2</author><text>Prezi&#x27;s apparently trying to cover their posteriors in the wake of Shubham&#x27;s disclosure and subsequent snub ( <a href="http://blog.shubh.am/prezi-bug-bounty/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.shubh.am&#x2F;prezi-bug-bounty&#x2F;</a> ).<p><i>&quot;We greatly value this feedback.&quot;</i><p>Weak sauce. Shubham&#x27;s disclosure saved Prezi from a future nightmare. If they&#x27;re not going to pay him from the bug bounty coffers, they should at least try and sound more like grateful humans rather than a pissy HR department trying to do damage control.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dnautics</author><text><i>Whilst waiting for their response, I realised that I would rather not accept their “swag”, and decided to instead, send off an email indicating why I wished to walk away with nothing....<p>Anyways, they did try and get it right, by emailing me an apology as well as responding to my constructive criticism.</i><p>Before shubham posted anything.</text></comment> |
26,002,467 | 26,002,423 | 1 | 3 | 26,001,179 | train | <story><title>I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit</title><url>https://drewdevault.com/2021/02/02/Anti-Wayland-horseshit.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DCKing</author><text>I&#x27;m beating a dead horse at this point, but there&#x27;s no such thing as &quot;switching to Wayland&quot;.<p>What most people mean when they &quot;switch to Wayland&quot; is that they&#x27;re switching from Gnome on X11 to a &quot;pure Gnome&quot; stack that uses Wayland and a bunch of other Freedesktop standards for interopability. There is absolutely no code from the &quot;Wayland project&quot; running there, because the Wayland implementation is Gnome&#x27;s own (it&#x27;s called Mutter). Similarly, KDE&#x27;s implementation is in KWin itself. The source article is from an author of yet another window manager (Sway) implementing Wayland.<p>What you&#x27;re observing is not &quot;Wayland not being there yet&quot;, it&#x27;s <i>Gnome not being there yet</i>. All of these deficiencies have nothing to do with Wayland itself: they&#x27;re general QA issues that plague an underfunded Linux desktop that&#x27;s making a slow technology transition.</text></item><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>Every 6 months I try switching to Wayland. I spend an hour or so using it for regular desktop gnome use and fixing minor bugs (ie. The kind I can fix with a config tweak). I then switch back again because it just isn&#x27;t there yet.<p>Recent issues:<p>* The brightness control for my screen doesn&#x27;t work with it.<p>* The mouse sometimes lags<p>* Graphical corruption in Chromium when on webgl sites.<p>* Blank screen after resume from hibernate.<p>* Seems to randomly freeze forever sometimes after an OOM killer run.<p>* Chromecast wouldn&#x27;t work</text></item><item><author>AnIdiotOnTheNet</author><text>&gt; In the case of Wayland, the “vague authority” are a bunch of volunteers who have devoted tens of thousands of hours of their free time towards making free shit for you.<p>That does not mean anyone is under an obligation to like it.<p>&gt; Maybe Wayland doesn’t work for your precious use-case. More likely, it does work, and you swallowed some propaganda based on an assumption which might have been correct 7 years ago.<p>If you insist on disregarding people&#x27;s use cases, don&#x27;t be surprised they don&#x27;t like your software. I&#x27;ve been down this road a lot with FOSS software: &quot;I don&#x27;t use it because it doesn&#x27;t do what I need&quot;, &quot;sure it does!&quot;, &quot;no, it really doesn&#x27;t&quot;, &quot;well you don&#x27;t need that anyway!&quot;...<p>On the whole however, I can certainly understand the frustration at having to deal with a community that gets annoyed at anything that changes simply because they&#x27;re already so used to the garbage pile they have that they now hold the delusion that it&#x27;s actually not garbage.<p>In my admittedly somewhat distanced opinion, Wayland&#x27;s biggest mistakes were not launching with a coherent strategy for replicating functionality like screen sharing, screenshots, and to a lesser extent remote desktop&#x2F;applications. They just punted and said &quot;that&#x27;s a compositor problem!&quot; as though that was supposed to make it ok. People have thus harbored some inherent resentment ever since.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>corty</author><text>It is actually one of the big, unfixable, conceptual problems of Wayland that all the effort is duplicated in each compositor. The Wayland concept pushes out most of the work to the DEs. That of course will result in tons of predictable inconsistency, incompatibility, bugs, delays, consolidations and general pain. Wayland devs are then generally in the lazy &quot;worksforme, use sway (or whatever)&quot; position while the user (of some other compositor) will be out there complaining to yet another maintainer duplicating yet another feature badly. Lather, rinse, repeat.<p>Wayland is bad design, and it shows in the users&#x27; and maintainers&#x27; attrition.</text></comment> | <story><title>I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit</title><url>https://drewdevault.com/2021/02/02/Anti-Wayland-horseshit.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DCKing</author><text>I&#x27;m beating a dead horse at this point, but there&#x27;s no such thing as &quot;switching to Wayland&quot;.<p>What most people mean when they &quot;switch to Wayland&quot; is that they&#x27;re switching from Gnome on X11 to a &quot;pure Gnome&quot; stack that uses Wayland and a bunch of other Freedesktop standards for interopability. There is absolutely no code from the &quot;Wayland project&quot; running there, because the Wayland implementation is Gnome&#x27;s own (it&#x27;s called Mutter). Similarly, KDE&#x27;s implementation is in KWin itself. The source article is from an author of yet another window manager (Sway) implementing Wayland.<p>What you&#x27;re observing is not &quot;Wayland not being there yet&quot;, it&#x27;s <i>Gnome not being there yet</i>. All of these deficiencies have nothing to do with Wayland itself: they&#x27;re general QA issues that plague an underfunded Linux desktop that&#x27;s making a slow technology transition.</text></item><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>Every 6 months I try switching to Wayland. I spend an hour or so using it for regular desktop gnome use and fixing minor bugs (ie. The kind I can fix with a config tweak). I then switch back again because it just isn&#x27;t there yet.<p>Recent issues:<p>* The brightness control for my screen doesn&#x27;t work with it.<p>* The mouse sometimes lags<p>* Graphical corruption in Chromium when on webgl sites.<p>* Blank screen after resume from hibernate.<p>* Seems to randomly freeze forever sometimes after an OOM killer run.<p>* Chromecast wouldn&#x27;t work</text></item><item><author>AnIdiotOnTheNet</author><text>&gt; In the case of Wayland, the “vague authority” are a bunch of volunteers who have devoted tens of thousands of hours of their free time towards making free shit for you.<p>That does not mean anyone is under an obligation to like it.<p>&gt; Maybe Wayland doesn’t work for your precious use-case. More likely, it does work, and you swallowed some propaganda based on an assumption which might have been correct 7 years ago.<p>If you insist on disregarding people&#x27;s use cases, don&#x27;t be surprised they don&#x27;t like your software. I&#x27;ve been down this road a lot with FOSS software: &quot;I don&#x27;t use it because it doesn&#x27;t do what I need&quot;, &quot;sure it does!&quot;, &quot;no, it really doesn&#x27;t&quot;, &quot;well you don&#x27;t need that anyway!&quot;...<p>On the whole however, I can certainly understand the frustration at having to deal with a community that gets annoyed at anything that changes simply because they&#x27;re already so used to the garbage pile they have that they now hold the delusion that it&#x27;s actually not garbage.<p>In my admittedly somewhat distanced opinion, Wayland&#x27;s biggest mistakes were not launching with a coherent strategy for replicating functionality like screen sharing, screenshots, and to a lesser extent remote desktop&#x2F;applications. They just punted and said &quot;that&#x27;s a compositor problem!&quot; as though that was supposed to make it ok. People have thus harbored some inherent resentment ever since.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gnulinux</author><text>Why does this distinction matter? Gnome on X works perfectly fine, Gnome on Wayland does not. Why does it matter it to state that Wayland is a protocol, not the implementation?</text></comment> |
2,390,318 | 2,390,223 | 1 | 3 | 2,389,994 | train | <story><title>Apple’s boring hardware updates</title><url>http://www.marco.org/4222285032</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zdw</author><text>My wager for this summer/fall is an "iPhone 4S" with the A5 processor, with almost no other hardware changes.<p>Plus a launch of iOS 5, with a revamped notification system, more developer API's, and possibly some UI reworks (iOS is looking pretty long in the tooth compared to things like Windows Phone 7)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>6ren</author><text>I think it will be dual A5, like the iPad: they have to keep up with (and actually, they surpass) the competition - HTC and LG have already announced dual core.<p>Perhaps they'll also try to bump up the resolution to 720p, and add HDMI out. A reason not to is so they don't cannibalize iPad sales - but that's short-sighted, and historically not Apple's style.<p>We may also see the rumored cut-down, retail-for-$200 iPhone - my addition is that it will have a similar form-factor as the current nano.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple’s boring hardware updates</title><url>http://www.marco.org/4222285032</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zdw</author><text>My wager for this summer/fall is an "iPhone 4S" with the A5 processor, with almost no other hardware changes.<p>Plus a launch of iOS 5, with a revamped notification system, more developer API's, and possibly some UI reworks (iOS is looking pretty long in the tooth compared to things like Windows Phone 7)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wdewind</author><text>Mine too, but the current VZW iPhone doesn't support 4g/LTE, so my bet would be for that.</text></comment> |
14,247,319 | 14,244,828 | 1 | 2 | 14,243,976 | train | <story><title>Cap'n Proto 0.6 released – 2.5 years of improvements</title><url>https://capnproto.org/news/2017-05-01-capnproto-0.6-msvc-json-http-more.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DonbunEf7</author><text>As usual, nobody has said &quot;capability&quot; yet, which is unfortunate, because one of Capn&#x27;s biggest strengths is that it embodies the object-capability model and is cap-safe as a result.<p>Edit: Why does this matter? Well, first, it matters because so little software is capability-safe. Capn&#x27;s RPC subsystem is based directly upon E&#x27;s CapTP protocol. (E is the classic capability-safe language.) As a result, the security guarantees afforded by cap-safe construction are <i>extended across the wire</i> to cover the entire distributed system. This security guarantee holds even if not every component of individual nodes is cap-safe, and that&#x27;s how Sandstorm works.<p>Continuing on, there&#x27;s also historical stuff going on. HN loves JSON; JSON is based on E&#x27;s DataL mini-language for data serialization. HN loves ECMAScript; ES&#x27;s technical committee is steered by ex-E language designers who have been porting features from E into ES.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cap'n Proto 0.6 released – 2.5 years of improvements</title><url>https://capnproto.org/news/2017-05-01-capnproto-0.6-msvc-json-http-more.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drej</author><text>This might be a contrarian view, maybe I&#x27;m misunderstanding it. To me, much of message passing is not performance critical, so it would be well served by JSON&#x2F;YAML&#x2F;XML for easy implementation&#x2F;testing&#x2F;debugging. If one needs performance, he can just send bytes over, which can be (de)serialised in a (couple) dozen SLOC. Sure, when you&#x27;re talking about very complex structures, RPC, dynamic schemas etc., then you might opt for something like this, but let&#x27;s be honest - that&#x27;s quite a minority of current users, isn&#x27;t it?<p>I never minded these frameworks, but then I wanted to write a few parsers for some file formats and they used Thrift&#x2F;Flatbuffers to encode a few ints, which seemed like a major overkill. There was no RPC, no packet loss, no nothing.</text></comment> |
1,286,514 | 1,286,544 | 1 | 3 | 1,286,391 | train | <story><title>Banned from buying iPads... for life.</title><url>http://www.protocolsnow.com/2010/04/17/how-i-went-from-apple-store-newbie-to-lifetime-ban-in-one-week/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cscotta</author><text>I'm surprised by the outrage in this post. This is a very common - indeed, necessary - practice in retail.<p>A friend of mine manages a high-end retail store in the area. He tells me that there are a number of people who match this buying profile. The products either show up on Craigslist, eBay, or are moved out of state to be sold elsewhere, often in markets the retailer is unwilling or unable to enter for a variety of reasons. Like it or not, in pretty much any retail environment, this practice is unacceptable.<p>He also tells me that these small groups of people will often approach customers in the parking lot as they exit their vehicle, offering them cash to enter the store, buy the goods with a few crisp hundred-dollar bills, and to keep the change. This gray market is very real.<p>Beyond that, the guy admits he knew of the policy and was willingly violating it. There's really not much room for outrage here.</text></comment> | <story><title>Banned from buying iPads... for life.</title><url>http://www.protocolsnow.com/2010/04/17/how-i-went-from-apple-store-newbie-to-lifetime-ban-in-one-week/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thestoicattack</author><text>I have no problem with the iPad-limit policy. The annoying part was that the clerk was not able to volunteer any information at all about what the policy actually says. From the customer's tone it seems like he wasn't going to throw a fit, but it would be nice if Apple were slightly more forthcoming.</text></comment> |
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