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37,704,261 | 37,704,716 | 1 | 3 | 37,701,222 | train | <story><title>Leaked screenshot shows Amazon now tracking individual employee attendance</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-forced-rto-tracking-employee-office-attendance-2023-9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JCM9</author><text>My high school used to track attendance on if we showed up every day or not. Was I supposed think this was odd?<p>People can debate endlessly over the benefits, or not, of working in an office but it’s a perfectly reasonable thing for a company to want its workers to show up at an office and reasonable to measure if they actually do. This is a non story.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>isykt</author><text>&gt; People can debate endlessly over the benefits, or not, of working in an office but it’s a perfectly reasonable thing for a company to want its workers to show up at an office and reasonable to measure if they actually do. This is a non story.<p>Germany disagrees with you. This kind of employee surveillance is illegal.</text></comment> | <story><title>Leaked screenshot shows Amazon now tracking individual employee attendance</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-forced-rto-tracking-employee-office-attendance-2023-9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JCM9</author><text>My high school used to track attendance on if we showed up every day or not. Was I supposed think this was odd?<p>People can debate endlessly over the benefits, or not, of working in an office but it’s a perfectly reasonable thing for a company to want its workers to show up at an office and reasonable to measure if they actually do. This is a non story.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greesil</author><text>So much carrying of water for our corporate masters here. The pandemic showed that we could be effective remote. So what&#x27;s the point of this?</text></comment> |
25,178,289 | 25,178,131 | 1 | 2 | 25,176,939 | train | <story><title>Douane: Linux personal firewall with per application rule controls</title><url>https://douaneapp.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>azalemeth</author><text>An alternative that does not come with a potentially machine-bricking kernel panic bug is Opensnitch [1], last updated 14 months ago with a change to &quot;funding.yaml&quot; asking for donations.<p>A fork seems to be relatively alive [2] and I use it personally -- it works well, but is a bit of a PITA to build. Time to buy the devs a coffee...<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;evilsocket&#x2F;opensnitch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;evilsocket&#x2F;opensnitch</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gustavo-iniguez-goya&#x2F;opensnitch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gustavo-iniguez-goya&#x2F;opensnitch</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Douane: Linux personal firewall with per application rule controls</title><url>https://douaneapp.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cmroanirgo</author><text>&gt; <i>Warning: unfortunately the project is suffering of a kernel freeze bug [0] that can break your machine!</i><p>&gt; <i>You can follow the bug resolution from this issue.
Have a look at the Roadmap [1] to see when this issue should be fixed!</i><p>&gt; <i>The current version is 0.8.2</i><p>This does not seem to be the fastest of projects... The bug was reported 6 years ago.<p>From the bug report (6 months ago):<p>&gt; So, could a noob use it already without breaking the computer?<p>&gt; No, not yet<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;douaneapp&#x2F;douane-dkms&#x2F;-&#x2F;issues&#x2F;3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;douaneapp&#x2F;douane-dkms&#x2F;-&#x2F;issues&#x2F;3</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;douaneapp.com&#x2F;#roadmap" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;douaneapp.com&#x2F;#roadmap</a></text></comment> |
18,736,317 | 18,736,316 | 1 | 3 | 18,735,570 | train | <story><title>Germany closes its last hard-coal mine</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-30/germany-closes-last-coal-mine-despite-decades-of-supplies-needed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petermcneeley</author><text>From the article: &quot;Wind, solar and other renewable sources, which account for 55 percent of German electricity capacity, are even more subsidized than coal mining, adding about 25 billion euros to power bills last year.&quot;</text></item><item><author>blattimwind</author><text>German coal has been <i>heavily</i> subsidized for more than half a century. No one really knows how much money exactly went in there, but it&#x27;s assumed something like 200-350 billion euros (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.foes.de&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;Kohlesubventionen_1950_2008.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.foes.de&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;Kohlesubventionen_1950_2008.pdf</a>).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pgeorgi</author><text>The difference is that the subsidies for renewables had the purpose of propping up reshaping the power supply system, are time limited (20 years of life time, rates are locked in when the system is brought up, rates were falling over time) and decentralized (put up a panel on your roof that&#x27;s connected to the power grid, you&#x27;re eligible).<p>In contrast, the coal subsidies propped up a well-established industry with few players, with no end in sight and little oversight (as stated upthread: &quot;No one really knows how much money exactly went in there&quot;).</text></comment> | <story><title>Germany closes its last hard-coal mine</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-30/germany-closes-last-coal-mine-despite-decades-of-supplies-needed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petermcneeley</author><text>From the article: &quot;Wind, solar and other renewable sources, which account for 55 percent of German electricity capacity, are even more subsidized than coal mining, adding about 25 billion euros to power bills last year.&quot;</text></item><item><author>blattimwind</author><text>German coal has been <i>heavily</i> subsidized for more than half a century. No one really knows how much money exactly went in there, but it&#x27;s assumed something like 200-350 billion euros (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.foes.de&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;Kohlesubventionen_1950_2008.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.foes.de&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;Kohlesubventionen_1950_2008.pdf</a>).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jabiko</author><text>It makes sense to promote renewable energies, as this makes sense both from a social and environmental point of view.<p>Keeping coal mining on life support makes no sense. In the Ruhr area, the consequences of coal mining will still be felt for a very long time. It is necessary to run pumps for centuries to come so that the toxic mine water does not reach the groundwater level.</text></comment> |
31,389,486 | 31,389,491 | 1 | 3 | 31,388,223 | train | <story><title>See's Candies is Warren Buffett’s ‘dream’ investment</title><url>https://thehustle.co/how-a-small-candy-company-became-warren-buffetts-dream-investment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text><i>Competition generally eliminates these kinds of margins.</i><p>That&#x27;s last-century thinking, from when manufacturing cost dominated. Today, it&#x27;s all about building a monopoly and crushing any new entrants. Comcast. Apple. Google. Facebook. CVS. The US is down to four big banks.</text></item><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>is there branding to this? Because if Vitamin C is 10 bucks in bulk and 100 bucks in drug stores I&#x27;m about to open a 50 bucks vitamin C store in the US. Competition generally eliminates these kinds of margins. Quick check here on the German Amazon you can get Vitamin C ranging from 13€&#x2F;kilogram to 117€&#x2F;kilogram, they show that ratio explicitly.<p>If people want to pay 10x for the fancy bottle and name they can but I don&#x27;t think they lack the alternatives.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>It&#x27;s the slow and steady increase in prices that made it so profitable. About 5x over inflation during Buffett ownership.<p>This has happened to far too many items over the last few decades. Most of the things drugstores sell are cheap to make, but have steadily increased in price in the US over the last few decades. Vitamins used to be priced according to manufacturing cost. Slowly, the low-cost vitamins have been up-priced to match the expensive ones. Vitamin C is about $10&#x2F;Kg in bulk, but about $100&#x2F;Kg at a US drugstore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Barrin92</author><text>That&#x27;s not last century thinking. You can&#x27;t create any monopoly for generic drugs, by definition. You&#x27;re not even forced to buy an an expensive Apple or Google phone. You can buy a 200-300 dollar phone with more than decent specs. They reason why people are running around with 1k phones is because it&#x27;s a status symbol.<p>It&#x27;s exactly this century where you can buy anything at manufacturing cost from India or China if you want to, there&#x27;s an entire political class upset about it.<p>I mean I&#x27;ll give you Comcast, ISPs in the US in particular seem bad, but otherwise? Digital and electronic goods in particular have been driven down to the marginal cost of production, that&#x27;s why 90% of the former are free.</text></comment> | <story><title>See's Candies is Warren Buffett’s ‘dream’ investment</title><url>https://thehustle.co/how-a-small-candy-company-became-warren-buffetts-dream-investment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text><i>Competition generally eliminates these kinds of margins.</i><p>That&#x27;s last-century thinking, from when manufacturing cost dominated. Today, it&#x27;s all about building a monopoly and crushing any new entrants. Comcast. Apple. Google. Facebook. CVS. The US is down to four big banks.</text></item><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>is there branding to this? Because if Vitamin C is 10 bucks in bulk and 100 bucks in drug stores I&#x27;m about to open a 50 bucks vitamin C store in the US. Competition generally eliminates these kinds of margins. Quick check here on the German Amazon you can get Vitamin C ranging from 13€&#x2F;kilogram to 117€&#x2F;kilogram, they show that ratio explicitly.<p>If people want to pay 10x for the fancy bottle and name they can but I don&#x27;t think they lack the alternatives.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>It&#x27;s the slow and steady increase in prices that made it so profitable. About 5x over inflation during Buffett ownership.<p>This has happened to far too many items over the last few decades. Most of the things drugstores sell are cheap to make, but have steadily increased in price in the US over the last few decades. Vitamins used to be priced according to manufacturing cost. Slowly, the low-cost vitamins have been up-priced to match the expensive ones. Vitamin C is about $10&#x2F;Kg in bulk, but about $100&#x2F;Kg at a US drugstore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjeaff</author><text>Four big banks, but I don&#x27;t see much competitive advantage to having such large banks. In fact, many people choose one of the thousands of smaller, regional banks because customer service or services in general are better.</text></comment> |
8,735,777 | 8,735,012 | 1 | 2 | 8,734,752 | train | <story><title>HockeyApp Joins Microsoft</title><url>http://hockeyapp.net/blog/2014/12/11/hockeyapp-joins-microsoft.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neves</author><text>Hey, the business reason to buy it is clear. Nobody develops for Windows Phone, but everybody has the burden to develop for two plataforms: iOS and Android. If MS lower the burden and automatically makes it very, very easy to develop for Windows Phone, they will finally have some decent software in their plataform.</text></comment> | <story><title>HockeyApp Joins Microsoft</title><url>http://hockeyapp.net/blog/2014/12/11/hockeyapp-joins-microsoft.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andyjohnson0</author><text>I just signed-up with HockeyApp this morning and have been very impressed with the experience. Congratulations to the team!<p>Previously we&#x27;d been using TestFlight for iOS and the PLsy Store&#x27;s built-in beta-test functionality for Android, but it is convenient to have one service that supports a range of mobile OSs and a lower-friction deployment process.<p>When TestFlight was bought by Apple, they fairly quickly abandoned support for non-iOS pltforms. I&#x27;m confident that Microsoft isn&#x27;t short-sighted enough to do something similar.</text></comment> |
40,785,541 | 40,785,123 | 1 | 3 | 40,783,598 | train | <story><title>SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller</title><url>https://shraiwi.github.io/read.html?md=blog/simd-fast-esp32s3.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DeathArrow</author><text>&gt;For silicon that&#x27;s cheaper than the average coffee, that&#x27;s pretty cool.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s not the chip that it&#x27;s too cheap. Maybe it&#x27;s the coffee that&#x27;s too expensive.</text></comment> | <story><title>SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller</title><url>https://shraiwi.github.io/read.html?md=blog/simd-fast-esp32s3.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>picture</author><text>Also see this short post about SIMD on ESP32-S3, discussed previously. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitbanksoftware.blogspot.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;01&#x2F;surprise-esp32-s3-has-few-simd.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitbanksoftware.blogspot.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;01&#x2F;surprise-esp32-...</a></text></comment> |
11,278,757 | 11,278,417 | 1 | 2 | 11,277,758 | train | <story><title>The Powerful Emotional Pull of Old Video Games (2014)</title><url>http://nautil.us/blog/the-powerful-emotional-pull-of-old-video-games</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carsongross</author><text>Two non-nostalgia aspects of old games stand out to me:<p>1) The gameplay is often much easier to pick up quickly without a crutch mode because there were fewer degrees of freedom.<p>2) The artistry was at times amazing. Orson Wells said that &quot;the enemy of art is the absence of limitations&quot; and I think the 8-bit and 16-bit eras, in particular, demonstrated the truth of that maxim.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vlunkr</author><text>I also wanted to say that old video games can be appealing for reasons other than nostalgia. Only recently I played through chrono trigger and symphony of the night, both for the first time, and they are amazing even by today&#x27;s standards. People enjoy old books, movies, etc because they are still great, why can&#x27;t video games be the same way?</text></comment> | <story><title>The Powerful Emotional Pull of Old Video Games (2014)</title><url>http://nautil.us/blog/the-powerful-emotional-pull-of-old-video-games</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carsongross</author><text>Two non-nostalgia aspects of old games stand out to me:<p>1) The gameplay is often much easier to pick up quickly without a crutch mode because there were fewer degrees of freedom.<p>2) The artistry was at times amazing. Orson Wells said that &quot;the enemy of art is the absence of limitations&quot; and I think the 8-bit and 16-bit eras, in particular, demonstrated the truth of that maxim.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mangeletti</author><text>Wow, I could not agree more.<p>One more-recent case that really stands out is Command &amp; Conquer - Red Alert 2. This game had much simpler graphics than later RTS games, so the focus was mostly on gameplay. IMHO, this was the best RTS ever created[1], and the reason for this was that it was sort of at the peak of perfection for its level of graphical and spatial limitations.<p>1. I know Star Craft was epic as well, and Generals from the remaining remnants of Westwood combined with EA was great also. And... Dune. Red Alert, for me, was the sort of Vivaldi[1.1] culmination that built on all these past successes, just before the age of &quot;Moar Triangles!&quot; reached RTS.<p>1.1 (I heard you liked footnotes) Vivaldi, the Baroque composer, built upon the style of Corelli and others before him, even copied some aspects of their musical styles, but this is what made his music so great.</text></comment> |
5,519,545 | 5,519,676 | 1 | 3 | 5,519,184 | train | <story><title>STL File Viewing</title><url>https://github.com/blog/1465-stl-file-viewing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>subway</author><text>This is really cool, but I always feel kind of dirty putting my STL (or any other binary) files into a git repository.<p>I hope GitHub adds support for scad files soon. In theory it should be pretty easy since they already support STL -- have openscad generate an STL from the scad files on the fly.</text></comment> | <story><title>STL File Viewing</title><url>https://github.com/blog/1465-stl-file-viewing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kanzure</author><text>Yo github... while you're bothering, here are some other things that would be handy:<p>* Visual STL diffs, maybe by coloring deleted/added triangles. Possibly with a viewer on gh-pages or on the /:username/:reponame/commits/:branchname endpoint?<p>* DXF sucks, but yeah DXF rendering.<p>* Maybe consider thingiview.js (which does not use WebGL) or possibly a WebGL equivalent viewer. Controlled rotation, zooming, camera repositioning, etc. It seems that most of these features are implemented:<p><a href="https://github.com/josefprusa/Prusa3/blob/master/mini/z-bottom-left.stl" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/josefprusa/Prusa3/blob/master/mini/z-bott...</a><p><a href="https://github.com/josefprusa/Prusa3/blob/master/mini/y-motor.stl" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/josefprusa/Prusa3/blob/master/mini/y-moto...</a><p>* openscad rendering- I know this is a pain in the butt, especially since openscad still requires xserver. But at least it feels more like source code. There are some other options other than openscad that could be easier to render without an xserver, which would be fine in my book, I am not particularly attached to openscad.<p>* Other scripting/rendering options... maybe implicitcad, pythonocc (opencascade/python bindings), HeeksCAD/python, FreeCAD/python, OpenJSCAD, something like that. The problem with STL is that it's like transmitting compiled binaries to other developers, but what developers really want to work with is the source code. Having to commit STL is like having to commit compiled binaries.<p>* UI widgets for committing from SolidWorks, Pro/Engineer, CATIA, AutoCAD, HeeksCAD, FreeCAD, and other front-ends would be really useful. I would be happy to use github.com while working on my next fighter jet project.<p>* Upverter claims to support git, but really it's just a link to a remote git repository and you can't push your schematics to Upverter. Please feel free to eat their lying lunches. Maybe also circuitlab's (although they have never claimed to have git integration). So yeah, schematics.<p>* Some projects require thousands of parts that need to be included when rendering, especially in assemblies. It would be nice to be able to see a fully rendered image of a version of the repository contents. This quickly devolves into a mess of file format hell, which I imagine is not something you want to tackle. But maybe this could be done through continuous integration hooks or something?<p>For whatever it's worth, here's a terrible post-receive bash script I wrote in 2010 for scad rendering on a git server:<p><a href="http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/gitduino-post-receive.sh.txt" rel="nofollow">http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/gitduino-post-receive.sh.txt</a><p>* It would be exceedingly awesome if you could get the RepRap project to jump ship from svn to git. RepRap is the largest, most well organized open source hardware project, and I think it would be a great community to work with to show how strong git is for distributed hardware development.<p>There are already some really excellent RepRap projects in git repositories on github:<p><a href="https://github.com/josefprusa/PrusaMendel" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/josefprusa/PrusaMendel</a><p><a href="https://github.com/josefprusa/Prusa3/tree/master/mini" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/josefprusa/Prusa3/tree/master/mini</a></text></comment> |
10,199,912 | 10,199,874 | 1 | 2 | 10,199,401 | train | <story><title>Reducing workplace burnout: the benefits of exercise</title><url>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4393815/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unicornporn</author><text>I don&#x27;t get why cardiovascular training, like running, wouldn&#x27;t lead to the same feeling of accomplishment. You might not get stronger (in the same obvious way), but you will most certainly be faster.</text></item><item><author>NhanH</author><text>&gt; [...] <i>although it makes sense, for example, that improving at resistance training would lead to a sense of accomplishment.</i><p>It&#x27;s not just a sense of accomplishment, it&#x27;s an actual accomplishment: to be a stronger human being than you once was. And unlike most other accomplishment in life, you&#x27;re not under anyone&#x27;s whim or circumstantial luck. There were a big thread on HN just a few months ago on that: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9782083" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9782083</a></text></item><item><author>david_shaw</author><text>The most interesting part of the study (to me) was this:<p><i>&gt; Cardiovascular exercise was found to increase well-being and decrease psychological distress, perceived stress, and emotional exhaustion. Resistance training was noticeably effective in increasing well-being and personal accomplishment and to reduce perceived stress.</i><p>and<p><i>&gt; Different types of exercise may assist employees in different ways.</i><p>I&#x27;ve always been told that exercise improves feelings of well-being, reduces stress, etc. I&#x27;ve <i>never</i> heard about the different effects that different types of exercise can have on the psyche -- although it makes sense, for example, that improving at resistance training would lead to a sense of accomplishment. If taken to its logical conclusion, this study implies that we should be working out in different ways based on the psychological ailments we may be experiencing. That&#x27;s fascinating to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>totalrobe</author><text>If you don&#x27;t lift much, it is kind of hard to describe, but there is this feeling after lifting heavy shit that is just a total peace with the world.<p>Could have something to do with the hormones and neurotransmitters that the body gets flooded with after lifting, could just be light-headed, could be something to do with all the tiny muscle tears...not entirely sure.<p>On the flip side, I&#x27;m a bigger guy(6&#x27;5&quot;), and I just feel beat down and ache for days if I do any substantial distance running.<p>Sprinting though, seems to have similar physiological symptoms as lifting, and I believe several studies have shown that intensity rather than duration of exercise produces these effects.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reducing workplace burnout: the benefits of exercise</title><url>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4393815/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unicornporn</author><text>I don&#x27;t get why cardiovascular training, like running, wouldn&#x27;t lead to the same feeling of accomplishment. You might not get stronger (in the same obvious way), but you will most certainly be faster.</text></item><item><author>NhanH</author><text>&gt; [...] <i>although it makes sense, for example, that improving at resistance training would lead to a sense of accomplishment.</i><p>It&#x27;s not just a sense of accomplishment, it&#x27;s an actual accomplishment: to be a stronger human being than you once was. And unlike most other accomplishment in life, you&#x27;re not under anyone&#x27;s whim or circumstantial luck. There were a big thread on HN just a few months ago on that: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9782083" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9782083</a></text></item><item><author>david_shaw</author><text>The most interesting part of the study (to me) was this:<p><i>&gt; Cardiovascular exercise was found to increase well-being and decrease psychological distress, perceived stress, and emotional exhaustion. Resistance training was noticeably effective in increasing well-being and personal accomplishment and to reduce perceived stress.</i><p>and<p><i>&gt; Different types of exercise may assist employees in different ways.</i><p>I&#x27;ve always been told that exercise improves feelings of well-being, reduces stress, etc. I&#x27;ve <i>never</i> heard about the different effects that different types of exercise can have on the psyche -- although it makes sense, for example, that improving at resistance training would lead to a sense of accomplishment. If taken to its logical conclusion, this study implies that we should be working out in different ways based on the psychological ailments we may be experiencing. That&#x27;s fascinating to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arcanus</author><text>Remember this is statistical in nature. Your mileage may vary.<p>I&#x27;m a runner and have found absolutely fantastic feelings of accomplishment and pride, as well as an undeniably healthier and happier lifestyle.<p>I suspect, as Swizec implied below, it mostly perception. Many runners tend to be less quantitative about performance gains, and therefore have less obvious metrics for advancement.<p>Does lead to an interesting corollary: does &#x27;gamification&#x27; and quantification of athletic advancement improve retention of the habit?</text></comment> |
12,428,226 | 12,427,952 | 1 | 2 | 12,427,240 | train | <story><title>Lessons Learned from Software Rewrites</title><url>http://alexmartins.me/2016/07/28/lessons-learned-from-software-rewrites.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Terr_</author><text>I&#x27;ve been dealing with a corporate ERP system for some time now, and -- whether rewrite or refactor -- the biggest challenge has been that nobody is willing to assert how it <i>ought</i> to work.<p>At best, it&#x27;s &quot;reverse engineer it, tell me what it does, and then I&#x27;ll tell you what feature I&#x27;d like changed.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Lessons Learned from Software Rewrites</title><url>http://alexmartins.me/2016/07/28/lessons-learned-from-software-rewrites.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cottonseed</author><text>When I hear about rewrites, I always think about this comment:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11554288" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11554288</a></text></comment> |
24,925,507 | 24,925,647 | 1 | 2 | 24,921,518 | train | <story><title>Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself</title><url>https://www.unionleader.com/news/courts/woman-accused-of-impersonating-prosecutor-dropping-criminal-charges-against-herself/article_1fdb1551-147d-53dd-ad45-6680bfc556fa.html?block_id=897573</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taneq</author><text>This reminds me of the classic phrase, “the butler did it”. It took me ages to realise that butlers aren’t naturally villainous, but rather were expected to take the fall for any malfeasance committed by the family.</text></item><item><author>kbenson</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen reports that it&#x27;s somewhat common for the rich in China[1], so there might be some info on what it costs there, and maybe some extrapolation could be made. Either the &quot;serve prison in lieu of me&quot; or &quot;say you were the one that committed the crime&quot; version. There are weird perverse incentives at play in some of the laws of criminal justice system in China.[2]<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=4339051" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=4339051</a><p>2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10173395" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10173395</a> (warning, the linked article describes very disturbing behavior and specific instances)</text></item><item><author>drpgq</author><text>Jeez I’m wondering what the going price would be for that today.</text></item><item><author>doublekill</author><text>Having someone else do your prison time was fairly common. Now with more cooperation between organizations and improved biometrics it has dropped.<p>Different people would be arrested, show up to court, or enter the prison. Impossible for organizations downstream to detect or assume a switch had happened.</text></item><item><author>mshumi</author><text>One has to wonder what legal frauds, asset grabs, and impersonations have transpired that were never discovered. Some perspective on this is the story of Alves dos Reis (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Alves_dos_Reis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Alves_dos_Reis</a>) who in 1924 stole ~1% of Portugal&#x27;s GDP in bank notes printed under forged orders. The scheme may have never been uncovered had Reis succeeded in maintaining a controlling interest in the Bank of Portugal and eliminated the paper trail.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dyingkneepad</author><text>&gt; It took me ages to realise that butlers aren’t naturally villainous, but rather were expected to take the fall for any malfeasance committed by the family.<p>I just realized that in Oct 28th, 2020. Thanks for that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself</title><url>https://www.unionleader.com/news/courts/woman-accused-of-impersonating-prosecutor-dropping-criminal-charges-against-herself/article_1fdb1551-147d-53dd-ad45-6680bfc556fa.html?block_id=897573</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taneq</author><text>This reminds me of the classic phrase, “the butler did it”. It took me ages to realise that butlers aren’t naturally villainous, but rather were expected to take the fall for any malfeasance committed by the family.</text></item><item><author>kbenson</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen reports that it&#x27;s somewhat common for the rich in China[1], so there might be some info on what it costs there, and maybe some extrapolation could be made. Either the &quot;serve prison in lieu of me&quot; or &quot;say you were the one that committed the crime&quot; version. There are weird perverse incentives at play in some of the laws of criminal justice system in China.[2]<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=4339051" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=4339051</a><p>2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10173395" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10173395</a> (warning, the linked article describes very disturbing behavior and specific instances)</text></item><item><author>drpgq</author><text>Jeez I’m wondering what the going price would be for that today.</text></item><item><author>doublekill</author><text>Having someone else do your prison time was fairly common. Now with more cooperation between organizations and improved biometrics it has dropped.<p>Different people would be arrested, show up to court, or enter the prison. Impossible for organizations downstream to detect or assume a switch had happened.</text></item><item><author>mshumi</author><text>One has to wonder what legal frauds, asset grabs, and impersonations have transpired that were never discovered. Some perspective on this is the story of Alves dos Reis (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Alves_dos_Reis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Alves_dos_Reis</a>) who in 1924 stole ~1% of Portugal&#x27;s GDP in bank notes printed under forged orders. The scheme may have never been uncovered had Reis succeeded in maintaining a controlling interest in the Bank of Portugal and eliminated the paper trail.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>effingwewt</author><text>edit- after reading up on this, I&#x27;m not sure where you got your information from but everything I could find shows it to just be the common detective&#x2F;mystery trope.</text></comment> |
22,526,680 | 22,526,642 | 1 | 3 | 22,525,762 | train | <story><title>Why does the coronavirus spread so easily between people?</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00660-x</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bhanhfo</author><text>I upvoted this just because of the nature.com link - but after I actually read it, I am disapointed. Summary:<p>Q: Why does the coronavirus spread so easily between people?<p>A: We don&#x27;t know yet<p>The results presented not verified by experiments yet.<p>&quot;But some researchers are cautious about overstating the role of the activation site in helping the coronavirus to spread more easily. “We don’t know if this is going to be a big deal or not,” says Jason McLellan, a structural biologist at the University of Texas at Austin&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giarc</author><text>&gt;A: We don&#x27;t know yet<p>That&#x27;s a gross oversimplification of the article. They have identified proteins and associated host-cell enzymes and can postulate why this combination would result in greater spread (and additionally why other organs are affected).</text></comment> | <story><title>Why does the coronavirus spread so easily between people?</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00660-x</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bhanhfo</author><text>I upvoted this just because of the nature.com link - but after I actually read it, I am disapointed. Summary:<p>Q: Why does the coronavirus spread so easily between people?<p>A: We don&#x27;t know yet<p>The results presented not verified by experiments yet.<p>&quot;But some researchers are cautious about overstating the role of the activation site in helping the coronavirus to spread more easily. “We don’t know if this is going to be a big deal or not,” says Jason McLellan, a structural biologist at the University of Texas at Austin&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmtroyer</author><text>So it is not a click-bait title, they are actually asking the question.</text></comment> |
35,471,362 | 35,466,979 | 1 | 3 | 35,465,729 | train | <story><title>Chrome ships WebGPU</title><url>https://developer.chrome.com/blog/webgpu-release/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FL33TW00D</author><text>This is very exciting! (I had suspected it would slip to 114)<p>WebGPU implementations are still pretty immature, but certainly enough to get started with. I&#x27;ve been implementing a Rust + WebGPU ML runtime for the past few months and have enjoyed writing WGSL.<p>I recently got a 250M parameter LLM running in the browser without much optimisation and it performs pretty well! (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;fleetwood___&#x2F;status&#x2F;1638469392794091520" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;fleetwood___&#x2F;status&#x2F;1638469392794091520</a>)<p>That said, matmuls are still pretty handicapped in the browser (especially considering the bounds checking enforced in the browser). From my benchmarking I&#x27;ve struggled to hit 50% of theoretical FLOPS, which is cut down to 30% when the bounds checking comes in. (Benchmarks here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FL33TW00D&#x2F;wgpu-mm">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FL33TW00D&#x2F;wgpu-mm</a>)<p>I look forward to accessing shader cores as they mentioned in the post.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>antimora</author><text>Oh great!<p>I am one of the contributors for Burn (Rust Deep Learning Framework). We have a plan adding a WebGPU backend (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;burn-rs&#x2F;burn&#x2F;issues&#x2F;243">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;burn-rs&#x2F;burn&#x2F;issues&#x2F;243</a>).<p>Here is more about the framework Burn: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;burn-rs.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;burn-rs.github.io&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Chrome ships WebGPU</title><url>https://developer.chrome.com/blog/webgpu-release/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FL33TW00D</author><text>This is very exciting! (I had suspected it would slip to 114)<p>WebGPU implementations are still pretty immature, but certainly enough to get started with. I&#x27;ve been implementing a Rust + WebGPU ML runtime for the past few months and have enjoyed writing WGSL.<p>I recently got a 250M parameter LLM running in the browser without much optimisation and it performs pretty well! (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;fleetwood___&#x2F;status&#x2F;1638469392794091520" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;fleetwood___&#x2F;status&#x2F;1638469392794091520</a>)<p>That said, matmuls are still pretty handicapped in the browser (especially considering the bounds checking enforced in the browser). From my benchmarking I&#x27;ve struggled to hit 50% of theoretical FLOPS, which is cut down to 30% when the bounds checking comes in. (Benchmarks here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FL33TW00D&#x2F;wgpu-mm">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FL33TW00D&#x2F;wgpu-mm</a>)<p>I look forward to accessing shader cores as they mentioned in the post.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>misterdata</author><text>Looking forward to your WebGPU ML runtime! Also, why not contribute back to WONNX? (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;webonnx&#x2F;wonnx">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;webonnx&#x2F;wonnx</a>)</text></comment> |
22,198,983 | 22,198,573 | 1 | 2 | 22,198,158 | train | <story><title>Libc++'s Implementation of std::string</title><url>https://joellaity.com/2020/01/31/string.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylanmclark</author><text>Reminds me of a talk a few years ago about Facebook&#x27;s internal implementation of std::string. They do the same short string optimization, but Facebook manages to outperform this implementation by storing 24 bytes (vs 23) in &quot;short string mode&quot;.<p>IIRC, Facebook achieves this by using the last byte as the flag byte. To signify short string mode, this flag is set 0. This allows it to also serve as the null terminator. Tricky!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lbrandy</author><text>hey i&#x27;ve worked on this stuff for awhile at fb.<p>One important update is that the primary rationale for us, at the time, to change std::string&#x27;s implementation to `fbstring` was to get SSO. We got huge perf wins for having SSO on std::string. (small string optimization for those unfamiliar with the initialism).<p>This, at the time, was a violation of the standard. By wording, SSO was not standard compliant.<p>Once the standard was changed (as of C++11) so that std::strings could have SSO, we removed our patches on the standard library and now use &quot;vanilla&quot; std::string (from libstdc++). We still have `folly::fbstring` for people who want that implementation (which is smaller, and has more in-situ capacity, because of various cleverness detailed in that talk), but it&#x27;s no longer our `std::string`.<p>For reference: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;folly&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;folly&#x2F;FBString.h" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;folly&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;folly&#x2F;FBString...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Libc++'s Implementation of std::string</title><url>https://joellaity.com/2020/01/31/string.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylanmclark</author><text>Reminds me of a talk a few years ago about Facebook&#x27;s internal implementation of std::string. They do the same short string optimization, but Facebook manages to outperform this implementation by storing 24 bytes (vs 23) in &quot;short string mode&quot;.<p>IIRC, Facebook achieves this by using the last byte as the flag byte. To signify short string mode, this flag is set 0. This allows it to also serve as the null terminator. Tricky!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjscott</author><text>I think this is the talk you&#x27;re referring to. If not, it&#x27;s still definitely worth a watch:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=kPR8h4-qZdk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=kPR8h4-qZdk</a></text></comment> |
37,895,403 | 37,894,487 | 1 | 2 | 37,893,555 | train | <story><title>GPL-3.0 licensed BIOS for Intel 8088 based computers</title><url>https://github.com/skiselev/8088_bios</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>molticrystal</author><text>I guess it isn&#x27;t so simple [0]<p><pre><code> msg_no_basic db &#x27;No ROM BASIC&#x27;, 0Dh, 0Ah, 0
;=========================================================================
; int_18 - execute ROM BASIC
; Note:
; Prints an error message since we don&#x27;t have ROM BASIC
;-------------------------------------------------------------------------
int_18:
mov si,msg_no_basic
call print
.1:
hlt
jmp .1
</code></pre>
[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;skiselev&#x2F;8088_bios&#x2F;blob&#x2F;dfff4fddc8ea73c8ac27435238449fb09b9ef252&#x2F;src&#x2F;bios.asm#L1211=">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;skiselev&#x2F;8088_bios&#x2F;blob&#x2F;dfff4fddc8ea73c8a...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>GPL-3.0 licensed BIOS for Intel 8088 based computers</title><url>https://github.com/skiselev/8088_bios</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrlonglong</author><text>This chap has also built a 8088 PC clone. I&#x27;m just wondering why not a 8086?</text></comment> |
38,130,673 | 38,126,034 | 1 | 2 | 38,125,348 | train | <story><title>Bringing garbage collected programming languages efficiently to WebAssembly</title><url>https://v8.dev/blog/wasm-gc-porting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samsquire</author><text>This is exciting.<p>I think WASM is an example of a thin waist [1] with its garbage collector and N+M rather than N×M. (N languages + M virtual machines + G garbage collectors). That&#x27;s a mature garbage collector in V8.<p>I was curious if there was a WASM to JVM and it seems there is one on GitHub, I haven&#x27;t used it I was just curious because the JVM is a mature (and parallel) garbage collector.<p>Now I&#x27;m excited for WASM Threads for true parallelism and not just IO parallelism because I didn&#x27;t think WASMGC would come out so soon.<p>The opportunity to solve async and parallelism and garbage collection EFFECTIVELY would strengthen WASM and not be a source of confusion or difficulty for developers. I think that&#x27;s why WASI is so important, a chance to define an API as stable as POSIX.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oilshell.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2022&#x2F;02&#x2F;diagrams.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oilshell.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2022&#x2F;02&#x2F;diagrams.html</a><p>2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cretz&#x2F;asmble">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cretz&#x2F;asmble</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kodablah</author><text>&gt; I was curious if there was a WASM to JVM and it seems there is one on GitHub [...] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cretz&#x2F;asmble">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cretz&#x2F;asmble</a><p>While it works well, this was mostly a fun project for me and I no longer really maintain it. I hope that the ideas and explanations of how I mapped WASM IR to JVM bytecodes helps whoever does build this in a more official capacity. I don&#x27;t have any plans to support WASM GC currently.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bringing garbage collected programming languages efficiently to WebAssembly</title><url>https://v8.dev/blog/wasm-gc-porting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samsquire</author><text>This is exciting.<p>I think WASM is an example of a thin waist [1] with its garbage collector and N+M rather than N×M. (N languages + M virtual machines + G garbage collectors). That&#x27;s a mature garbage collector in V8.<p>I was curious if there was a WASM to JVM and it seems there is one on GitHub, I haven&#x27;t used it I was just curious because the JVM is a mature (and parallel) garbage collector.<p>Now I&#x27;m excited for WASM Threads for true parallelism and not just IO parallelism because I didn&#x27;t think WASMGC would come out so soon.<p>The opportunity to solve async and parallelism and garbage collection EFFECTIVELY would strengthen WASM and not be a source of confusion or difficulty for developers. I think that&#x27;s why WASI is so important, a chance to define an API as stable as POSIX.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oilshell.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2022&#x2F;02&#x2F;diagrams.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oilshell.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2022&#x2F;02&#x2F;diagrams.html</a><p>2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cretz&#x2F;asmble">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cretz&#x2F;asmble</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kaba0</author><text>GraalVM can run WASM executables: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.graalvm.org&#x2F;latest&#x2F;reference-manual&#x2F;wasm&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.graalvm.org&#x2F;latest&#x2F;reference-manual&#x2F;wasm&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
24,849,420 | 24,849,335 | 1 | 2 | 24,848,984 | train | <story><title>The businesses where Google is biggest and the ones where it isn’t</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-businesses-where-google-is-biggest-and-the-ones-where-it-isnt-11603293145</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway5752</author><text>And nobody else comes close to having a competitive search product. I&#x27;ve used DDG and Bing. Perhaps search is the utility lines&#x2F;distribution and ads are the generation capacity, in a future disintermediation.<p>It&#x27;s hard to have a nuanced discussion about antitrust in the search market when this case is coming up 2 weeks before the election, and is actually about politically pressuring Google to give the party in power favorable treatment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krtkush</author><text>I use DDG and more often than not it is satisfactory. About 80% of my searches are via DDG and for the rest I have to use !g[1].<p>I usually end up adding &quot;reddit&quot; to my search terms to avoid crap results on both Google and DDG.<p>[1]I was very curious about my DDG vs !g searches and ended up making an extension for FF which measures just that - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;ddg-stats&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;ddg-stats&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The businesses where Google is biggest and the ones where it isn’t</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-businesses-where-google-is-biggest-and-the-ones-where-it-isnt-11603293145</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway5752</author><text>And nobody else comes close to having a competitive search product. I&#x27;ve used DDG and Bing. Perhaps search is the utility lines&#x2F;distribution and ads are the generation capacity, in a future disintermediation.<p>It&#x27;s hard to have a nuanced discussion about antitrust in the search market when this case is coming up 2 weeks before the election, and is actually about politically pressuring Google to give the party in power favorable treatment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>x87678r</author><text>&gt; And nobody else comes close to having a competitive search product. I&#x27;ve used DDG and Bing.<p>This was certainly true 10 years ago, now I can&#x27;t really tell the difference.</text></comment> |
4,775,125 | 4,774,666 | 1 | 3 | 4,774,470 | train | <story><title>Stackoverflow abuses nofollow (2011)</title><url>http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/id/104/stackoverflow-amongst-nofollow-web-abuse-sites</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kmontrose</author><text>This was dealt with more than a year ago, when we did remove nofollow from trusted posts links' <a href="http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/111279/remove-nofollow-on-links-deemed-reputable" rel="nofollow">http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/111279/remove-nofoll...</a>.<p>Would have been dealt with even earlier, but our experiments with it (<a href="http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/69032/130213" rel="nofollow">http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/69032/130213</a>) lead us to believe Google was starting to treat us as a link farm.<p>What we were seeing in our earlier attempt wasn't pages appearing lower in results (which could reasonably be expected in some cases as a result of the change; and we wouldn't care, 2nd on a search under an equally good resource is fine by us), but pages being removed entirely; almost universally pages that had newly un-nofollow-ed links to stores, or ad-laden sites (mostly legitimate posts, but some spam that stuck around for a bit before the community deleted it). So, "classified as link farm" seemed like the most likely problem. Google naturally won't tell you why your ranking drops, so it was (and remains) just an educated guess as to what happened.<p>So we stopped, putting it on the "wish we could, but reality doesn't let us"-list until Google reached out to us (among thousands of others, I'm sure) to change our nofollow practices. Google didn't describe any changes in their algorithm, but it seems reasonable to me that there would have been some tweaks around nofollow to accompany a new policy; again just an educated guess.<p>Basically, this is an old post complaining about a long since addressed concern that we had tried to address even earlier but ran into practical problems with.<p>While the exact details of our algorithm are secret by necessity, I will say that we've had to consider posts individually to prevent spammers from kiting a single account up to post nofollow-less spam content. People still try, it's kind of astounding how much spammers try (I suspect SEO's opaqueness cuts both ways here), but it doesn't work (well, you can get <i>one</i> link in your profile; but there's less SEO juice to pass and you are hard-capped at one, no matter how long it takes someone to delete your account).<p>Disclaimer: Stack Exchange employee, I was on all the relevant calls but has been a <i>couple years</i> so grain of salt and all that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stackoverflow abuses nofollow (2011)</title><url>http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/id/104/stackoverflow-amongst-nofollow-web-abuse-sites</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gojomo</author><text>Sites are free to overuse 'rel=nofollow', and search engines are free to selectively ignore it (for either link-discovery or ranking purposes).<p>The strongest point I see made by this author is about SO's hypocrisy: SO requires attribution to be with a link, and specify that link must not have 'rel=nofollow'. Yet their content relies heavily on references to elsewhere which are <i>all</i> 'rel=nofollow'ed.<p>A sense of fair play in attribution, and spirit of mutual assistance between reliable authorities, would suggest allowing at least some well-vetted outlinks to be unencumbered.</text></comment> |
22,428,966 | 22,428,921 | 1 | 3 | 22,425,593 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?</title><text>See title</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>atarian</author><text>Fat is actually one of the last things the body burns during starvation. Your muscles usually go first.</text></item><item><author>Tade0</author><text>My father had the misfortune of being a civilian in Kuwait during the first gulf war. What I learned from his stories is that the line between normalcy and utter chaos is thinner than one would think.<p>The war itself from the perspective of someone not actively participating is mostly <i>boring</i> (his words) - you can&#x27;t really go outside, cable is down(no internet back then), not much is happening.<p>But the brief transition period between peace and war is the worst. People desperately trying to stock up in the last minutes, quickly realizing that it&#x27;s pointless to stand in line and pay when there are so many more of them than the supermarket&#x27;s staff.<p>I, for one, &quot;prepared&quot; by weighing 10kg more than a few years ago. I have body fat to spare. My only worry is a good source of water-soluble vitamins.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>al_chemist</author><text>Not true.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Starvation_response" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Starvation_response</a><p>&gt; the body burns fat after first exhausting the contents of the digestive tract along with glycogen reserves stored in liver cells and after significant protein loss.[2] After prolonged periods of starvation, the body uses the proteins within muscle tissue as a fuel source.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?</title><text>See title</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>atarian</author><text>Fat is actually one of the last things the body burns during starvation. Your muscles usually go first.</text></item><item><author>Tade0</author><text>My father had the misfortune of being a civilian in Kuwait during the first gulf war. What I learned from his stories is that the line between normalcy and utter chaos is thinner than one would think.<p>The war itself from the perspective of someone not actively participating is mostly <i>boring</i> (his words) - you can&#x27;t really go outside, cable is down(no internet back then), not much is happening.<p>But the brief transition period between peace and war is the worst. People desperately trying to stock up in the last minutes, quickly realizing that it&#x27;s pointless to stand in line and pay when there are so many more of them than the supermarket&#x27;s staff.<p>I, for one, &quot;prepared&quot; by weighing 10kg more than a few years ago. I have body fat to spare. My only worry is a good source of water-soluble vitamins.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>liamcardenas</author><text>This makes no sense. Why would the body prefer to break down a functional store of energy when has access to a non-functional one?</text></comment> |
25,124,764 | 25,125,071 | 1 | 3 | 25,121,416 | train | <story><title>Git is too hard</title><url>https://changelog.com/posts/git-is-simply-too-hard</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wpietri</author><text>&gt; You might as well ask how to unsend an email.<p>That is also a reasonable request.<p>I&#x27;m unable to fathom the notion that if a computer doesn&#x27;t work the way people want, the answer is for people to adapt to the computer. The whole point of computers is to do things for people.<p>With physical messages, unsending has at least partial support. Before the mailman picks up from my porch, I can grab a sent message any time. If you FedEx the envelope, you can cancel before delivery. With a university&#x27;s mail system, you can get the receiving department&#x27;s admin to return something even later in the chain. And of course, you can always tell a recipient, &quot;Hey, I sent you the wrong box, just send that back.&quot;<p>The reason email doesn&#x27;t support unsending is not some essential property of messaging. It&#x27;s just that at the time our email protocol was defined, both our hardware and software was pretty primitive, so we locked in a very primitive model of messaging. But note that more modern systems, like Slack and Facebook Messenger, happily let you unsend things. And consequently, they&#x27;re effectively replacing email for most users.</text></item><item><author>thrwyoilarticle</author><text>+1. The very first question:<p>&gt;Oh, I just pushed a change. I really didn’t wanna push that, so how do I undo it?<p>Is a Github problem, not a git problem. You might as well ask how to unsend an email. If you don&#x27;t know what git push means, you shouldn&#x27;t be using it and are playing with intellectual property fire.<p>The conflation of Github with git is responsible for a lot of confusion. Having Github be your first interaction with git is a disaster.<p>Regardless, there&#x27;s no shortage of blog posts complaining about git being hard. But there is a shortage of effective, popular competitors. I think that, actually, many-chefs many-branch differential version control is just a hard problem and creating a simple model for it is much harder than complaining about git.</text></item><item><author>rakoo</author><text>&gt; I’ve used it since GitHub was in beta<p>This is the root of the author&#x27;s issue. As another commented, git is born in a world where computers are mostly offline, people are highly technical, and will spend a lot of time manually crafting the messages they will send to the numerous collaborators. It is an alone-first software. What the author wants (and exactly what I want as well: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25002318" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25002318</a>) is the complete opposite: a system that knows it&#x27;s connected to other people, where changes are instantly propagated and easily visible, where the differentiator between &quot;branches&quot; is not &quot;what computer does it reside on&quot; but &quot;who did it&quot;. That&#x27;s the model behind GitHub, after all.<p>git is complex because it&#x27;s working with a very complicated model that is not in line with what most people expect today. As I said in my other comment it seems that fossil works with that flow, but I haven&#x27;t tried it. However what is sure is that it doesn&#x27;t make sense to ask git to become what it fundamentally is not.<p>EDIT: There might be a solution with wrappers. When you look at git-annex assistant (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git-annex.branchable.com&#x2F;assistant&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git-annex.branchable.com&#x2F;assistant&#x2F;</a>) you can see that the right amount of abstraction can provide something closer to what we expect... but at this point it&#x27;s not git anymore, so we might as well start from scratch.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>horsawlarway</author><text>I think you&#x27;re twisting the problem statement a little here.<p>Asking &quot;How do I unsend an email&quot; is just as unreasonable as asking &quot;Hey, give me that gift I gave you back&quot;.<p>The problem is that, regardless of your intent, you&#x27;ve given something to someone and they own it now.<p>You can&#x27;t undo that without involving the 3rd party (Or breaking the law and stealing it, digitally for the email).<p>And I want to be clear upfront - THIS IS A GOOD THING.<p>I don&#x27;t want Amazon to be able to &quot;unsend&quot; my receipts. I don&#x27;t want Google to be able to &quot;unsend&quot; my support chat log. I don&#x27;t want my boss to be able to &quot;unsend&quot; his approval for my time off.<p>This system is designed explicitly to put the <i>USER</i> first. But it treats each side of the exchange as user, and values them equally - If they disagree, it&#x27;s not the system&#x27;s job to resolve that, they have to talk it out.<p>Slack and Messenger (and a lot of other modern chat) have an arbiter - They don&#x27;t require users to agree because they own the content, not the users. In a company slack, I haven&#x27;t given you anything when I message you. I&#x27;ve just pinned something to the company message board. I can take it down, and so can anyone else who has the key. It&#x27;s not mine and it&#x27;s not yours - It is very clearly owned by the company.<p>That can work great in a well structured environment, but I have to laugh when you say its replacing email. It&#x27;s not a replacement, it&#x27;s a complement - They are not the same things.<p>Just like an oral promise with no witnesses is NOT the same as a signed receipt. Use each as needed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Git is too hard</title><url>https://changelog.com/posts/git-is-simply-too-hard</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wpietri</author><text>&gt; You might as well ask how to unsend an email.<p>That is also a reasonable request.<p>I&#x27;m unable to fathom the notion that if a computer doesn&#x27;t work the way people want, the answer is for people to adapt to the computer. The whole point of computers is to do things for people.<p>With physical messages, unsending has at least partial support. Before the mailman picks up from my porch, I can grab a sent message any time. If you FedEx the envelope, you can cancel before delivery. With a university&#x27;s mail system, you can get the receiving department&#x27;s admin to return something even later in the chain. And of course, you can always tell a recipient, &quot;Hey, I sent you the wrong box, just send that back.&quot;<p>The reason email doesn&#x27;t support unsending is not some essential property of messaging. It&#x27;s just that at the time our email protocol was defined, both our hardware and software was pretty primitive, so we locked in a very primitive model of messaging. But note that more modern systems, like Slack and Facebook Messenger, happily let you unsend things. And consequently, they&#x27;re effectively replacing email for most users.</text></item><item><author>thrwyoilarticle</author><text>+1. The very first question:<p>&gt;Oh, I just pushed a change. I really didn’t wanna push that, so how do I undo it?<p>Is a Github problem, not a git problem. You might as well ask how to unsend an email. If you don&#x27;t know what git push means, you shouldn&#x27;t be using it and are playing with intellectual property fire.<p>The conflation of Github with git is responsible for a lot of confusion. Having Github be your first interaction with git is a disaster.<p>Regardless, there&#x27;s no shortage of blog posts complaining about git being hard. But there is a shortage of effective, popular competitors. I think that, actually, many-chefs many-branch differential version control is just a hard problem and creating a simple model for it is much harder than complaining about git.</text></item><item><author>rakoo</author><text>&gt; I’ve used it since GitHub was in beta<p>This is the root of the author&#x27;s issue. As another commented, git is born in a world where computers are mostly offline, people are highly technical, and will spend a lot of time manually crafting the messages they will send to the numerous collaborators. It is an alone-first software. What the author wants (and exactly what I want as well: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25002318" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25002318</a>) is the complete opposite: a system that knows it&#x27;s connected to other people, where changes are instantly propagated and easily visible, where the differentiator between &quot;branches&quot; is not &quot;what computer does it reside on&quot; but &quot;who did it&quot;. That&#x27;s the model behind GitHub, after all.<p>git is complex because it&#x27;s working with a very complicated model that is not in line with what most people expect today. As I said in my other comment it seems that fossil works with that flow, but I haven&#x27;t tried it. However what is sure is that it doesn&#x27;t make sense to ask git to become what it fundamentally is not.<p>EDIT: There might be a solution with wrappers. When you look at git-annex assistant (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git-annex.branchable.com&#x2F;assistant&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git-annex.branchable.com&#x2F;assistant&#x2F;</a>) you can see that the right amount of abstraction can provide something closer to what we expect... but at this point it&#x27;s not git anymore, so we might as well start from scratch.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>weehoo</author><text>You can’t unsend an email because you can’t force someone else to delete something. Emails end up as files on someone else’s server. Claiming this is a UX issue is intentionally missing the point. If this is legitimately a foreign concept to you, an afternoon setting up postfix and playing around with it might be worth your time. Email is a protocol, not a program. A “delete” request would be just that, a request.<p>You can “unsend” on those platforms because the GUI does not display files saved locally, it always fetches them from the server. If you could “unsend” on a version control platform, then it would cease to be distributed version control. The code would have to live inside the VCS app (the same way messages are in memory in slack), or you’d have to give a network daemon delete privileges on your file system.<p>Imagine if youtube-dl used the model you’re proposing. Letting the git equivalent of “unsend” propagate through the system takes you from a redundant system to, not a system with a single point of failure, but even worse, a system with many points of failure.<p>Git is for helping develop open source projects, where sometimes a random gal who will never show up again fixes a small thing and sends the maintainer the diff through email. If you want a tool for the high trust environment of your individual team, git will never be what you want. It literally wouldn’t work for its intended workflow if it did what you want.</text></comment> |
20,726,981 | 20,726,868 | 1 | 2 | 20,726,631 | train | <story><title>GNU Parallel 2018</title><url>https://zenodo.org/record/1146014</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tbrock</author><text>It’s a shame that this tool is so incredibly useful but simultaneously so unergonomic to use that it requires a 12 page manual.<p>Every time I reach for it the magical incantations that finally get it working properly are so completely unmemorable that it’s begging to have a modern replacement (like httpie is to curl).<p>If someone wrote a version with a better interface it would be instantly adopted in preference to this. Might be a good weekend project.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>faitswulff</author><text>&gt; ..a 12 page manual.<p>My first thought was, &quot;12 pages isn&#x27;t so bad.&quot; Then I loaded the page and realized you had a typo and meant _112_ page manual.<p>That is enough to scare me off of trying to use parallel for casual tasks.</text></comment> | <story><title>GNU Parallel 2018</title><url>https://zenodo.org/record/1146014</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tbrock</author><text>It’s a shame that this tool is so incredibly useful but simultaneously so unergonomic to use that it requires a 12 page manual.<p>Every time I reach for it the magical incantations that finally get it working properly are so completely unmemorable that it’s begging to have a modern replacement (like httpie is to curl).<p>If someone wrote a version with a better interface it would be instantly adopted in preference to this. Might be a good weekend project.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jarfil</author><text>The biggest problem with parallel is not the implementation but the command line options specification. The shell has no generic way of defining multiple streams feeding multiple placeholders, so parallel ends up using its own syntax which has to be different in order not to interfere with the base shell syntax. If the same functionality was integrated directly into the shell, it could be less complicated and more generic.</text></comment> |
18,186,421 | 18,183,453 | 1 | 3 | 18,182,003 | train | <story><title>Python is becoming the world’s most popular programming language</title><url>https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/07/26/python-is-becoming-the-worlds-most-popular-coding-language</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevesimmons</author><text>&gt; try to maintain &gt; 10k LOC codebases in Python to understand what I mean<p>Lots of companies successfully manage far larger Python codebases.<p>We have a 35M LOC Python codebase with 2500 active developers making 25000 commits per week and continuous deployment globally of new code.<p>(I gave a talk on it at PyData London in April: &quot;Python at Massive Scale&quot;)</text></item><item><author>qalmakka</author><text>Languages have always come and gone; Python has always mattered, it&#x27;s simply finally showing itself as a much more suited tool for certain tasks (such as CS education, lightweight scripting by data scientists, glueing together large frameworks, ...). While popular, it can&#x27;t really hit every single spot required in software development; try to maintain &gt; 10k LOC codebases in Python to understand what I mean.<p>The point that I&#x27;m trying to say is that, while we&#x27;re living in a moment where python is at the center of everything, it won&#x27;t last forever; it never does. Something better always shows up, given enough time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patagonia</author><text>Perhaps paradoxically it is easier to maintain a gigantic Python code base than it is to maintain one that is small or medium sized.<p>The reasoning, a gigantic code base means infrastructure and tooling investment will obviously pay off. It probably even means you get one or more dedicated resources of this sort. Whereas a small to medium sized codebase might bump into some of the same issues as a larger code base but not justify such investments.</text></comment> | <story><title>Python is becoming the world’s most popular programming language</title><url>https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/07/26/python-is-becoming-the-worlds-most-popular-coding-language</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevesimmons</author><text>&gt; try to maintain &gt; 10k LOC codebases in Python to understand what I mean<p>Lots of companies successfully manage far larger Python codebases.<p>We have a 35M LOC Python codebase with 2500 active developers making 25000 commits per week and continuous deployment globally of new code.<p>(I gave a talk on it at PyData London in April: &quot;Python at Massive Scale&quot;)</text></item><item><author>qalmakka</author><text>Languages have always come and gone; Python has always mattered, it&#x27;s simply finally showing itself as a much more suited tool for certain tasks (such as CS education, lightweight scripting by data scientists, glueing together large frameworks, ...). While popular, it can&#x27;t really hit every single spot required in software development; try to maintain &gt; 10k LOC codebases in Python to understand what I mean.<p>The point that I&#x27;m trying to say is that, while we&#x27;re living in a moment where python is at the center of everything, it won&#x27;t last forever; it never does. Something better always shows up, given enough time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jernfrost</author><text>Is this made as a cluster of independent programs or is this actually a monolith, where you can access all functionality from some python method or class?</text></comment> |
28,777,016 | 28,775,428 | 1 | 3 | 28,774,910 | train | <story><title>Twitch is hacked, and its source code leaked</title><url>https://kotaku.com/report-twitch-is-hacked-and-its-source-code-is-in-the-1847808252</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nemothekid</author><text>This is a pretty thorough and high profile hack on a major tech company - this isn&#x27;t something I&#x27;d expect from an Amazon owned property. The hack (allegedly, I haven&#x27;t downloaded it) includes<p>* Entire git histories<p>* Internal&#x2F;Private AWS SDKs<p>* Encrypted Password dumps and payout reports<p>It&#x27;s so comprehensive I&#x27;m very curious into how an attacker got that level of access. I can&#x27;t think of another, large, corporate web 2.0 startup who&#x27;s gotten owned in a similar fashion. Could the same attack work on Amazon? YouTube?<p>It&#x27;s also strange that someone who has this level of access to what is presumably a multi-billion dollar company decided to just leak the data? Maybe they did try to ransom it, but I&#x27;d imagine someone with this kind of access inside Twitch must have had some creative way of making money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>madrox</author><text>There were no encrypted password dumps. No production secrets were leaked (according to the article). What&#x27;s here is no more than what your average Twitch engineer has access to.<p>Yes, that included payout data. Anyone with &quot;staff&quot; access to the site (which any employee can have) has access to any streamer&#x27;s dashboard, which includes payout data.<p>I don&#x27;t think this was an attack. Based on the data so far I think it was a disgruntled engineer. Obviously if more gets leaked later I may revise that opinion.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitch is hacked, and its source code leaked</title><url>https://kotaku.com/report-twitch-is-hacked-and-its-source-code-is-in-the-1847808252</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nemothekid</author><text>This is a pretty thorough and high profile hack on a major tech company - this isn&#x27;t something I&#x27;d expect from an Amazon owned property. The hack (allegedly, I haven&#x27;t downloaded it) includes<p>* Entire git histories<p>* Internal&#x2F;Private AWS SDKs<p>* Encrypted Password dumps and payout reports<p>It&#x27;s so comprehensive I&#x27;m very curious into how an attacker got that level of access. I can&#x27;t think of another, large, corporate web 2.0 startup who&#x27;s gotten owned in a similar fashion. Could the same attack work on Amazon? YouTube?<p>It&#x27;s also strange that someone who has this level of access to what is presumably a multi-billion dollar company decided to just leak the data? Maybe they did try to ransom it, but I&#x27;d imagine someone with this kind of access inside Twitch must have had some creative way of making money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skilled</author><text>I&#x27;m hoping we will get to see a transparent report (from hacker or Twitch) on how this happened.<p>I think anyone would be excited to hack Twitch as the site alone - or any big platform for that matter - but this is quite literally someone just downloading the entire Twitch ecosystem and publishing it online.</text></comment> |
29,454,301 | 29,453,265 | 1 | 2 | 29,435,786 | train | <story><title>Tips on adding JSON output to your CLI app</title><url>https://blog.kellybrazil.com/2021/12/03/tips-on-adding-json-output-to-your-cli-app/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonw</author><text>I hadn&#x27;t seen jc before (by the author of this piece: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kellyjonbrazil&#x2F;jc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kellyjonbrazil&#x2F;jc</a> ) - what a great idea! It has parsers for around 80 different classic Unix utilities such that it can convert their output to JSON.<p><pre><code> ~ % dig example.com | jc --dig | jq
[
{
&quot;id&quot;: 61315,
&quot;opcode&quot;: &quot;QUERY&quot;,
&quot;status&quot;: &quot;NOERROR&quot;,
&quot;flags&quot;: [
&quot;qr&quot;,
&quot;rd&quot;,
&quot;ra&quot;
],
&quot;query_num&quot;: 1,
&quot;answer_num&quot;: 1,
&quot;authority_num&quot;: 0,
&quot;additional_num&quot;: 1,
&quot;opt_pseudosection&quot;: {
&quot;edns&quot;: {
&quot;version&quot;: 0,
&quot;flags&quot;: [],
&quot;udp&quot;: 512
}
},
&quot;question&quot;: {
&quot;name&quot;: &quot;example.com.&quot;,
&quot;class&quot;: &quot;IN&quot;,
&quot;type&quot;: &quot;A&quot;
},
&quot;answer&quot;: [
{
&quot;name&quot;: &quot;example.com.&quot;,
&quot;class&quot;: &quot;IN&quot;,
&quot;type&quot;: &quot;A&quot;,
&quot;ttl&quot;: 85586,
&quot;data&quot;: &quot;93.184.216.34&quot;
}
],
&quot;query_time&quot;: 29,
&quot;server&quot;: &quot;10.0.0.1#53(10.0.0.1)&quot;,
&quot;when&quot;: &quot;Sun Dec 05 15:12:08 PST 2021&quot;,
&quot;rcvd&quot;: 56,
&quot;when_epoch&quot;: 1638745928,
&quot;when_epoch_utc&quot;: null
}
]</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Tips on adding JSON output to your CLI app</title><url>https://blog.kellybrazil.com/2021/12/03/tips-on-adding-json-output-to-your-cli-app/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>b3morales</author><text>Another DON&#x27;T, silently switching between JSON and human-readable depending on whether the output destination is a pipe. Just an extra hassle when I&#x27;m writing my downstream command. Or could be phrased as a DO: give the user a switch to pick the output format, if you have both.</text></comment> |
22,558,253 | 22,557,429 | 1 | 2 | 22,556,156 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Was the Y2K crisis real?</title><text>There was very little fallout to the Y2K bug, which begs the question: was the Y2K crisis real and well handled or not really a crisis at all?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>davismwfl</author><text>From someone who went through it and dealt with code, it was a real problem but I also think it was handled poorly publicly. The issues were known for a long time, but the media hyped it into a frenzy because a few higher profile companies and a lot of government systems had not been updated. In fact, there were still a number of government systems that were monkey patched with date workarounds and not properly fixed well into the 2000&#x27;s (I don&#x27;t know about now but it wouldn&#x27;t shock me).<p>There was a decent influx of older devs using the media hype as a way to get nice consulting dollars, nothing wrong with that, but in the end the problem and associated fix was not really a major technical hurdle, except for a few cases. It is also important to understand a lot of systems were not in a SQL databases at the time, many were in ISAM, Pic, dBase (ouch), dbm&#x27;s (essentially NoSql before NoSql hype) or custom db formats (like flat files etc) that required entire databases to be rewritten, or migrated to new solutions.<p>My 2 cents, it was a real situation that if ignored could have been a major economic crisis, most companies were addressing it in various ways in plenty of time but the media latched on to a set of high profile companies&#x2F;government systems that were untouched and hyped it. If you knew any Cobol or could work a Vax or IBM mainframe you could bank some decent money. I was mainly doing new dev work but I did get involved in fixing a number of older code bases, mainly on systems in non-popular languages or on different hardware&#x2F;OS because I have a knack for that and had experience on most server&#x2F;mainframe architectures you could name at that time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_red</author><text>&gt;dbase<p>At the time I was managing a dBase &#x2F; FoxPro medical software package...we were a small staff who had to come up with Y2K mitigation on our own.<p>Our problem is we only had source code for &quot;our&quot; part of the chain...other data was being fed into the system from external systems where we had no vendor support.<p>Thus our only conceivable plan was to do the old:<p><pre><code> If $year&lt;10;
date=&quot;20$year&quot;
else
date=&quot;19$year&quot;
</code></pre>
It worked in 99.9% of the cases which was enough for us to limp thru and just fix the bad cases by hand as they happened. Eventually we migrated off the whole stack over the next few years so stopped being a problem. I&#x27;m sure many mitigation strategies did the same....</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Was the Y2K crisis real?</title><text>There was very little fallout to the Y2K bug, which begs the question: was the Y2K crisis real and well handled or not really a crisis at all?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>davismwfl</author><text>From someone who went through it and dealt with code, it was a real problem but I also think it was handled poorly publicly. The issues were known for a long time, but the media hyped it into a frenzy because a few higher profile companies and a lot of government systems had not been updated. In fact, there were still a number of government systems that were monkey patched with date workarounds and not properly fixed well into the 2000&#x27;s (I don&#x27;t know about now but it wouldn&#x27;t shock me).<p>There was a decent influx of older devs using the media hype as a way to get nice consulting dollars, nothing wrong with that, but in the end the problem and associated fix was not really a major technical hurdle, except for a few cases. It is also important to understand a lot of systems were not in a SQL databases at the time, many were in ISAM, Pic, dBase (ouch), dbm&#x27;s (essentially NoSql before NoSql hype) or custom db formats (like flat files etc) that required entire databases to be rewritten, or migrated to new solutions.<p>My 2 cents, it was a real situation that if ignored could have been a major economic crisis, most companies were addressing it in various ways in plenty of time but the media latched on to a set of high profile companies&#x2F;government systems that were untouched and hyped it. If you knew any Cobol or could work a Vax or IBM mainframe you could bank some decent money. I was mainly doing new dev work but I did get involved in fixing a number of older code bases, mainly on systems in non-popular languages or on different hardware&#x2F;OS because I have a knack for that and had experience on most server&#x2F;mainframe architectures you could name at that time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unilynx</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t know about now but it wouldn&#x27;t shock me<p>We&#x27;ll be up for a few Y2K bugs at the start of every decade because &#x27;year += year &lt; n ? 2000 : 1900&#x27; was such an easy workaround, for n=20,30,40,...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pymnts.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;payment-methods&#x2F;2020&#x2F;new-years-bug-takes-nyc-parking-meters-offline&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pymnts.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;payment-methods&#x2F;2020&#x2F;new-years-b...</a></text></comment> |
10,026,147 | 10,025,502 | 1 | 2 | 10,024,681 | train | <story><title>Why Rent Is So High and Pay So Low</title><url>https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/why-your-rent-is-so-high-and-your-pay-is-so-low-tom-streithorst</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adam419</author><text>Here&#x27;s another solution:<p>Respect the wisdom of markets. Allow corrections to take place and don&#x27;t bury malinvestment under the rug only for it rear it&#x27;s ugly head worse later on by acting as if you have a better intuition on what the price of money should be.<p>Most people accept the virtue of free markets. Yet many don&#x27;t see that the actions the Fed has been taking destroys the concept of a market by artificially supplementing supply or demand in an unbounded way based on a perceived sense of greater understanding.<p>The problem is it&#x27;s really hard for most of these policy makers to build a platform based on &quot;Let&#x27;s do nothing and let the markets correct themselves&quot;. In such complex domains like an economy the action bias is very real, problematic, and the best thing to eliminate if you want to renormalize markets.</text></item><item><author>nostromo</author><text>This article doesn&#x27;t answer the question and seems primary based on nostalgia.<p>My theory: the Fed&#x27;s zero interest rate policy is very good at inflating asset values: S&amp;P500, housing, you name it.<p>Rising income is a second-order effect: we hope that rising asset values will lead to increased wages. That used to be the case, but no longer is. Why? Because of automation and globalization probably.<p>So, the Fed has the pedal to the metal for seven whole years and we get mediocre job growth, no real wage growth, but screaming high housing costs and stock market. And who owns the most real-estate and stocks? The wealthy do, which is why inequality is growing.<p>Even though I&#x27;m critiquing the Fed&#x27;s policy, I don&#x27;t have the answers and would probably pursue the same policy. It&#x27;s a real conundrum. Perhaps basic income, or some other &quot;throw money from helicopters&quot; idea is the solution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BenoitEssiambre</author><text>The value of money is completely determined by fed actions and allowing it to drift in detrimental value paths would be the farthest thing from respecting the markets. Economy wide &quot;malinvestment&quot; is not a thing. It entails that a person living off of others is more productive than a person working. It&#x27;s nonsense.<p>Although money should be just an intermediary tool for trade and negotiation, an artificial asset that is neutral, in the short run this intrinsically valueless paper can distort the markets, even if it has predictable value, but only if it is manipulated into being a store of value that has a better risk adjusted return than private market stores of value.<p>Paper money has no intrinsic value in itself. If the fed keeps it predictably devaluing fast enough, always moving it towards its intrinsic value, it acts as a very useful enabler of trade by creating a unit of measurement for value and medium of exchange.<p>But unfortunately, for fiat to enable trade, it also has to artificially be made into a store of value. If this paper is made into a store of value that retains value better than private stores of value (such as stocks, bonds, or just stockpiles of stuff), it jams the markets for private stores of value. It turns savers into accumulators of pieces of paper or numbers in accounts instead of being holders of things that are backed by economic activity and wealth creation. It becomes a subsidy from investors, entrepreneur, job creators and workers to holders of pieces of paper. It is the worst kind of subsidy
because it blocks wealth and welfare creation.<p>The only way for central banks to allow private markets to function properly, is to get money out of the way by making sure it always devalues fast enough that it doesn&#x27;t overly displace private stores of value that are backed by real economic activity.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Rent Is So High and Pay So Low</title><url>https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/why-your-rent-is-so-high-and-your-pay-is-so-low-tom-streithorst</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adam419</author><text>Here&#x27;s another solution:<p>Respect the wisdom of markets. Allow corrections to take place and don&#x27;t bury malinvestment under the rug only for it rear it&#x27;s ugly head worse later on by acting as if you have a better intuition on what the price of money should be.<p>Most people accept the virtue of free markets. Yet many don&#x27;t see that the actions the Fed has been taking destroys the concept of a market by artificially supplementing supply or demand in an unbounded way based on a perceived sense of greater understanding.<p>The problem is it&#x27;s really hard for most of these policy makers to build a platform based on &quot;Let&#x27;s do nothing and let the markets correct themselves&quot;. In such complex domains like an economy the action bias is very real, problematic, and the best thing to eliminate if you want to renormalize markets.</text></item><item><author>nostromo</author><text>This article doesn&#x27;t answer the question and seems primary based on nostalgia.<p>My theory: the Fed&#x27;s zero interest rate policy is very good at inflating asset values: S&amp;P500, housing, you name it.<p>Rising income is a second-order effect: we hope that rising asset values will lead to increased wages. That used to be the case, but no longer is. Why? Because of automation and globalization probably.<p>So, the Fed has the pedal to the metal for seven whole years and we get mediocre job growth, no real wage growth, but screaming high housing costs and stock market. And who owns the most real-estate and stocks? The wealthy do, which is why inequality is growing.<p>Even though I&#x27;m critiquing the Fed&#x27;s policy, I don&#x27;t have the answers and would probably pursue the same policy. It&#x27;s a real conundrum. Perhaps basic income, or some other &quot;throw money from helicopters&quot; idea is the solution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tcbawo</author><text>This is a gray area. If we allowed a large automaker to go bankrupt, we probably would have lost the supply chain and many supporting industries which would be gone (from the US) forever. Same with banks. As much as we detest bailing out bankers, allowing the US to economy to be cut off from credit would create lasting collateral damage.</text></comment> |
38,686,178 | 38,685,016 | 1 | 2 | 38,684,904 | train | <story><title>Terrapin Attack for prefix truncation in SSH</title><url>https://terrapin-attack.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>This is wonderful.<p>Secure transport protocols all do some kind of handshake to set up a session, agree on keys, etc. Modern secure transport protocols (everything since SSL2) authenticate the handshake, so a MITM can&#x27;t just edit the messages and, like, stick both sides on the NULL cipher (don&#x27;t have a NULL cipher, though).<p>Ever since Kocher and SSL 3.0, the gold standard for handshake authentication has been to keep a transcript of all the handshake messages, and just hash them to fingerprint the entire handshake. You can look at Noise for a streamlined, slick version of the same concept.<p>SSH does something else: it looks at the handshake as a vehicle for setting up a DH-style key exchange; that&#x27;s all it&#x27;s for, everything else happens inside the secure transport that key exchange provides. So instead of doing a transcript hash, SSH picks out the handshake values that will end up being inputs to the key exchange, and hashes those.<p>The problem is: SSH also does implicit sequence numbers; receivers keep track of how many messages they&#x27;ve received, senders keep track of how many they&#x27;ve sent. Not only that, but SSH has (for reasons passing understanding) a NOP message (`IGNORE`). `IGNORE` carries no data used to do key generation, so it has no impact on the handshake authentication --- but it does impact sequence numbers.<p>Result: MITM attackers can set sequence numbers to arbitrary values (by injecting `IGNORE`s in the handshake), and then <i>edit out</i> subsequent messages (by just not sending them). If you&#x27;re using ChaPoly (and often if you&#x27;re using CBC), the protocol will sync up and keep going. You can use this to, for instance, snipe out extension messages (for things like keystroke timing mitigation) from the beginning of an SSH session.<p>This is a pretty obvious problem! It&#x27;s absolutely not something you can just accept from a secure transport protocol. And you could look at SSH and SSL3 and see &quot;SSH is doing something really different and less sophisticated than SSL3&quot;. But it took until 2023 for someone to do the legwork to figure out how broken it was.</text></comment> | <story><title>Terrapin Attack for prefix truncation in SSH</title><url>https://terrapin-attack.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>colmmacc</author><text>This paper is the best protocol security research I&#x27;ve seen in a while. Thankfully the consequences aren&#x27;t too big - everyone should update ssh (which will be a pain!) - but it likely doesn&#x27;t need to happen at breakneck pace. This issue isn&#x27;t quite as serious as prior issues that impacted TLS&#x2F;SSL.<p>Two things stand out to me;<p>1. That the SSH protocol lacked a robust transcript hash all along, this seems like a staggering decision, and even though I&#x27;d read the RFCs, I&#x27;d never put this together. Turns out it&#x27;s to allow for injection of messages designed to defeat traffic analysis? Not the right way to do it.<p>2. The SSH handshake had been formally verified ... and the proofs are still &quot;true&quot;. But the researchers found non-obvious gaps between the environmental assumptions for the proofs and what is actually true in the real world. Formal verification is still the most comprehensive and exhaustive form of testing that we have, but gaps can really bite you. It is like relying Pythagoras&#x27; theorem for a triangle, but then it turns out that your triangles are on the surface of a sphere, which isn&#x27;t a plane. The math itself is right, but the environment
was different all along.</text></comment> |
13,611,458 | 13,609,421 | 1 | 2 | 13,606,863 | train | <story><title>How To Write With Style (1999)</title><url>http://www.novelr.com/2008/08/16/vonnegut-how-to-write-with-style</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adyavanapalli</author><text>As someone who hasn&#x27;t read any Vonnegut, what would you recommend I read first?</text></item><item><author>mr_overalls</author><text>I had the good fortune to hear him speak at my university in the late 1990s. Fantastic. Notably, he talked just like he wrote - good-natured, quirky, avuncular, a little bit cynical.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth, when you read Vonnegut, you&#x27;re getting the real Vonnegut. He put his heart into his writings, leaving all of us (and future generations) the richer for it.</text></item><item><author>alextheparrot</author><text>I absolutely adore Vonnegut. Reading his works taught me more about writing than any English teacher and formed my world view more than any other author. I wish I could have met him before he passed, but it is hard not to feel like you&#x27;re conversing directly with him through his books.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ashark</author><text>The Big Two are <i>Cat&#x27;s Cradle</i> and <i>Slaughterhouse Five</i>. They&#x27;re the two you&#x27;re mostly likely to end up talking with someone about, or to have familiarity assumed by an article or something. If we were to make it a Big Three the third one would be <i>Breakfast of Champions</i>.<p>His worst are probably <i>Slapstick</i> and <i>Timequake</i>, and the latter&#x27;s so full of references to his earlier works that you wouldn&#x27;t want to make it an early read regardless.<p>The short fiction&#x2F;non-fic collections published during his lifetime are generally great. Big exception for <i>A Man Without a Country</i> which was pretty mediocre overall. Anything posthumous is suspect and should be deferred until you&#x27;ve worked through the earlier stuff, if not avoided entirely. Not that there&#x27;s nothing good in there, it&#x27;s just that the average quality is way lower.<p>Personal favorites of mine that don&#x27;t generally make best-of lists are <i>Deadeye Dick</i> and <i>Bluebeard</i>. If you&#x27;re reading him for the sci-fi connection rather than as general fiction, you want the Big Two plus <i>Sirens of Titan</i> (which would probably be #4 in a &quot;big four&quot; as far as importance-to-have-read) mainly.</text></comment> | <story><title>How To Write With Style (1999)</title><url>http://www.novelr.com/2008/08/16/vonnegut-how-to-write-with-style</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adyavanapalli</author><text>As someone who hasn&#x27;t read any Vonnegut, what would you recommend I read first?</text></item><item><author>mr_overalls</author><text>I had the good fortune to hear him speak at my university in the late 1990s. Fantastic. Notably, he talked just like he wrote - good-natured, quirky, avuncular, a little bit cynical.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth, when you read Vonnegut, you&#x27;re getting the real Vonnegut. He put his heart into his writings, leaving all of us (and future generations) the richer for it.</text></item><item><author>alextheparrot</author><text>I absolutely adore Vonnegut. Reading his works taught me more about writing than any English teacher and formed my world view more than any other author. I wish I could have met him before he passed, but it is hard not to feel like you&#x27;re conversing directly with him through his books.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ranko</author><text>Slaughterhouse-five - probably his most well-known work, and at least partly based on his own experiences in Dresden in World War II.<p>It&#x27;s a very Vonnegut book, and a great gateway to the rest of his writing.</text></comment> |
2,670,439 | 2,670,414 | 1 | 3 | 2,670,243 | train | <story><title>MIT professor's hack to recruit students</title><url>http://librarylab.law.harvard.edu/blog/2011/06/01/gaming-the-library/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ScottBurson</author><text>Ah, so Jerry Lettvin died.<p>I took a couple of courses from him as an undergrad. He was quite a character. Here's a Jerry quote for you: "The brain is not a computer. The brain is a gland." I don't even know if he believed that, but he loved to stir controversy -- and announcing this at the MIT AI Lab c. 1982 certainly accomplished that!<p>I would say "RIP", but he probably already has his lab set up and is hard at work, wherever he is :-)</text></comment> | <story><title>MIT professor's hack to recruit students</title><url>http://librarylab.law.harvard.edu/blog/2011/06/01/gaming-the-library/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ajkessler</author><text>I bet many people's first reaction to this story is something along the lines of "Look what we're losing if print dies!" or "This is why print will never die!"<p>But, think about Kindle's bookmarks. You can see highlights and notes from everyone who has ever read the book. That's insane! That's Lettvin's hack, scaled to the max. The problem is obviously filtering all that data, but look how much larger the pool gets: now the professor doesn't just have the pool from MIT to choose from, he might have the whole <i>world</i> to choose from.<p>What an awesome time we live in.</text></comment> |
38,325,295 | 38,323,871 | 1 | 2 | 38,300,425 | train | <story><title>NilAway: Practical nil panic detection for Go</title><url>https://www.uber.com/en-NL/blog/nilaway-practical-nil-panic-detection-for-go/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anonacct37</author><text>I do like the approach of static code analysis.<p>I found it a little funny that their big &quot;win&quot; for the nilness checker was some code logging nil panics thousands of time a day. Literally an example where their checker wasn&#x27;t needed because it was being logged at runtime.<p>It&#x27;s a good idea but they need some examples where their product beats running &quot;grep panic&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>NilAway: Practical nil panic detection for Go</title><url>https://www.uber.com/en-NL/blog/nilaway-practical-nil-panic-detection-for-go/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>carbocation</author><text>Just tried this out on some of my own code and it nails the warts that I had flagged as TODOs (and a few more...). The tool gives helpful info about the source of the nil, too. This is great.</text></comment> |
23,255,757 | 23,255,684 | 1 | 2 | 23,246,672 | train | <story><title>The death of corporate research labs</title><url>https://blog.dshr.org/2020/05/the-death-of-corporate-research-labs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>legitster</author><text>Holdup. Lack of anti-trust enforcement is blamed (among other things) for the end of corporate R&amp;D, but Monopoly breakup is exactly what killed Bell labs! 9 smaller companies weren&#x27;t going to fund their own lab, and the only reason the lab existed was to find new markets to explore.
In fact, nearly all of the examples of successful R&amp;D labs came from corporations that so dominated their industry they put money into finding new investments: Xerox. Kodak Eastmann. Google might meet this definition.<p>I think we also overrate the significance of the corporate labs. There are not a lot of successful examples where the host company actually profited from the invention. Just a lot that bungled them or prematurely killed them (like when AT&amp;T almost invented the internet). Or snuck out accidentally (like the Xerox Alto).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>badrabbit</author><text>It&#x27;s not being too large that forced a split up but their anti-competitive practices and positions. The regional bells still were big enough to run their own research labs.<p>Imagine if Alphabet was broken up, Google search can still afford to run a research lab, as can youtube.<p>The problem I think is how easy it is for large companies to acquire smaller companies. It&#x27;s how they expand or enter a market, they refuse to be bothered to bootstrap a new org-unit. They just devour smaller, innovative and creative companies. Look at Google, they couldn&#x27;t be creative and patient enough to compete with youtube so they gulp up youtube. It&#x27;s the bigcorp M.O.<p>So why bother with R&amp;D when you can just buy a smaller company that does R&amp;D, tests the market and builds a brand for you? My answer: you will suffer from brain drain.and reputation loss,when you buy a smaller company,consumers assume that brand is now dead. You become a cemerery of dreams and ideas. You become an IBM,HP,Xerox and AT&amp;T. Once the damage is done it becomes nearl impossible to recover from. I like IBM as the best example, they are doing superb amounta of innovation even today but look at all their initiatives lack any traction or competitive edge. They have a ton of smart people working on brand new areas of tech like quantum computing,but their reputation and overall culture has not been great. They&#x27;ve been declining consistently. Look at yahoo, yahoo!! They had legitimate means to compete with google toe-to-toe,they relied too much on aquisitions as did Verizon that recently aquired them for a meager $4B.<p>In the end I blame all this on how publicly traded companies prioritize quarterly profits as opposed to multi-year growth. Acquiring bumps up the stock value for a while, spending billions starting from scratch competing or developing a new concept is risky so stocks go down.</text></comment> | <story><title>The death of corporate research labs</title><url>https://blog.dshr.org/2020/05/the-death-of-corporate-research-labs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>legitster</author><text>Holdup. Lack of anti-trust enforcement is blamed (among other things) for the end of corporate R&amp;D, but Monopoly breakup is exactly what killed Bell labs! 9 smaller companies weren&#x27;t going to fund their own lab, and the only reason the lab existed was to find new markets to explore.
In fact, nearly all of the examples of successful R&amp;D labs came from corporations that so dominated their industry they put money into finding new investments: Xerox. Kodak Eastmann. Google might meet this definition.<p>I think we also overrate the significance of the corporate labs. There are not a lot of successful examples where the host company actually profited from the invention. Just a lot that bungled them or prematurely killed them (like when AT&amp;T almost invented the internet). Or snuck out accidentally (like the Xerox Alto).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>victoro</author><text>Anti-trust enforcement can take many forms -- breaking companies up is just one of the most extreme and obvious ones -- but often just the threat of action was enough since for a while the US government backed it up.<p>A big reason Bell Labs was created and perpetuated was because AT&amp;T feared being broken up. Bell Labs was effectively a PR vehicle they used to show the US government that they were giving back to the community, and an excuse to continue operating as a de-facto state-sanctioned monopoly. Today&#x27;s toothless FTC and DoJ don&#x27;t really inspire that kind of fear.<p>Source (sort of, paraphrased) - This is a big theme of The Idea Factory which describes the heyday of Bell Labs.<p>(Edited to further develop my thought)</text></comment> |
26,781,199 | 26,781,276 | 1 | 2 | 26,780,192 | train | <story><title>RMS addresses the free software community</title><url>https://www.fsf.org/news/rms-addresses-the-free-software-community</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Osmose</author><text>The Minsky defense was not the primary, most important reason RMS can&#x27;t serve as an effective, inclusive leader for free software, it was just the one that got the most attention. This does nothing to address the numerous complaints of harassment towards MIT students, the _other_ times he spoke out in implicit support of pedophilia, the public gaffes that are unacceptable as a public representative (e.g. the foot skin eating thing), and the fact that the FSF under Stallman kinda lost to open source anyway and hasn&#x27;t really done anything besides virtue signal to others about how pure and ethical they are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NoImmatureAdHom</author><text>He has been treated unfairly many times and that is, completely independent of whether he&#x27;s the best choice as leader for the FSF, wrong. You do it here: &quot;the _other_times he spoke out in implicit support of pedophilia...&quot;. He wants to have a discussion about what makes sex between people of varying ages wrong. He applies normative principles to it and can&#x27;t see why it&#x27;s wrong (e.g., age of consent varies...why would what is okay in one place be abominable 100 meters away?). I&#x27;m sure professional philosophers have written on this at length, and without being punished for going down the exact same road he has. But more importantly he doesn&#x27;t understand very well that the mere mention of this line of inquiry is borderline reputation suicide because of [blue-team elite coastal] public mores idiosyncratic to 2020 rich western countries.<p>I&#x27;m also not sure why &quot;inclusive&quot; is a good criterion for FSF leader, it seems like just a hollow shibboleth buzzword at this point. People who harp on &quot;inclusion&quot; are usually the most interested in exclusion.</text></comment> | <story><title>RMS addresses the free software community</title><url>https://www.fsf.org/news/rms-addresses-the-free-software-community</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Osmose</author><text>The Minsky defense was not the primary, most important reason RMS can&#x27;t serve as an effective, inclusive leader for free software, it was just the one that got the most attention. This does nothing to address the numerous complaints of harassment towards MIT students, the _other_ times he spoke out in implicit support of pedophilia, the public gaffes that are unacceptable as a public representative (e.g. the foot skin eating thing), and the fact that the FSF under Stallman kinda lost to open source anyway and hasn&#x27;t really done anything besides virtue signal to others about how pure and ethical they are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davexunit</author><text>He&#x27;s mistreated many FSF staff members, many LibrePlanet attendees, many GNU project contributors, etc. The fact that the public discourse is focused on the Epstein-related comments does RMS and the FSF a huge favor by pointing the spotlight away from the real issue which has been happening for <i>decades</i>.</text></comment> |
40,905,834 | 40,904,887 | 1 | 3 | 40,903,870 | train | <story><title>Xpra: Persistent Remote Applications for X11</title><url>https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BLKNSLVR</author><text>I tried Xpra for remote applications some four to five years ago when I migrated from Windows to Linux and needed a Remote Desktop (type) alternative.<p>I stuck with it for a while in advance of numerous other options, until I found NoMachine - which doesn&#x27;t do remote applications but does do full remote desktop and has the closest &#x27;feel&#x27; to being local-machine than anything other than Windows Remote Desktop.<p>I (ironically?) dislike Microsoft just that little bit extra for making Remote Desktop so damn good whilst progressively destroying the Windows experience.<p>I would like to try Xpra again, but I&#x27;ve got a growing list of &quot;I&#x27;d like to try that&#x27;s&quot; that even the top priorities only get small bites taken out of them per week &#x2F; month - and my current workflow is pretty good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmd</author><text>NoMachine absolutely does do remote applications. I use it for that every day. Instead of &quot;Create a new virtual desktop&quot;, choose &quot;Create a new custom session&quot; and under Application &quot;Run the following command&quot; (the program you want to run) and under Options &quot;Run the command in a floating window&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Xpra: Persistent Remote Applications for X11</title><url>https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BLKNSLVR</author><text>I tried Xpra for remote applications some four to five years ago when I migrated from Windows to Linux and needed a Remote Desktop (type) alternative.<p>I stuck with it for a while in advance of numerous other options, until I found NoMachine - which doesn&#x27;t do remote applications but does do full remote desktop and has the closest &#x27;feel&#x27; to being local-machine than anything other than Windows Remote Desktop.<p>I (ironically?) dislike Microsoft just that little bit extra for making Remote Desktop so damn good whilst progressively destroying the Windows experience.<p>I would like to try Xpra again, but I&#x27;ve got a growing list of &quot;I&#x27;d like to try that&#x27;s&quot; that even the top priorities only get small bites taken out of them per week &#x2F; month - and my current workflow is pretty good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yaantc</author><text>You may want to try x2go. It uses the older NX protocol version 3, while NoMachine is at version 4. It&#x27;s good enough for my use case, and support remote applications just fine: this is how I use it.</text></comment> |
28,304,807 | 28,304,319 | 1 | 2 | 28,300,797 | train | <story><title>OnlyFans drops planned porn ban</title><url>https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/onlyfans-drops-porn-ban-sexually-explicit-policy-1235048705/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ed25519FUUU</author><text>OF is probably similar to Etsy, where the 95th percentile make millions and the median income is $0.</text></item><item><author>treesknees</author><text>Bhad Bhabie (cash me outside meme girl) made over $1M in 6 hours and said she could retire right now from the amount of money she has made off OF. And she&#x27;s not doing &quot;porn&quot; or even posting fully nude photos.<p>There&#x27;s a big movement to gain a lot of followers on social media like TikTok and then redirect those followers to their $5&#x2F;month OnlyFans. There are a lot of people making a living or at least significantly boosting their income from this model, and they don&#x27;t have to leave the house to do it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.billboard.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;columns&#x2F;hip-hop&#x2F;9550662&#x2F;bhad-bhabie-earns-1-million-dollars-onlyfans" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.billboard.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;columns&#x2F;hip-hop&#x2F;9550662&#x2F;b...</a></text></item><item><author>whymauri</author><text>it&#x27;s pretty huge<p>COVID hit recently graduated Gen-Z incredibly hard. There&#x27;s huge groups that are&#x2F;were unemployed and then there&#x27;s huge groups who are sexually repressed due to quarantine. Across the whole world, too*. Many can easily make more than min wage, and in certain niches you probably don&#x27;t even have to be &#x27;conventionally beautiful&#x27; (sorry to use this term, but it&#x27;s important I think) to make a living or solid portion of a living on there.<p>For $$ per hour worked, why would they field low wage, menial jobs with a risk of COVID?<p>And if you price model right, you don&#x27;t need thousands of fans, just a couple really dedicated superfans&#x2F;whales.<p>* Consider the value of dollars&#x2F;euros&#x2F;pounds in poorer countries!</text></item><item><author>rootsudo</author><text>My biggest shock was how much &quot;PR&quot; was generated on Reddit, and how many sexworkers really do use the platform.<p>I knew it was a thing, I knew of the memes, but to see both sides in arms over a company vs branding, creating their own website and content - and vanity domain as well.<p>People really do just want a one click solution for creating adult content, and consuming adult content.<p>And the memes, I think they&#x27;re pretty toxic, 4chan, incel, reddit, twitter memes - I never knew there was that much angst.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munk-a</author><text>OF is significantly different from other social media in that the adult market has a lot of really weird market factors that make even new market participants able to access significant revenue. Most OF people aren&#x27;t making 10 million, but it&#x27;s better to compare OF to patreon where most small users are still pulling in a few hundred dollars a month at least - and that&#x27;s a pretty significant amount if you&#x27;ve graduated from school into a pandemic market.</text></comment> | <story><title>OnlyFans drops planned porn ban</title><url>https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/onlyfans-drops-porn-ban-sexually-explicit-policy-1235048705/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ed25519FUUU</author><text>OF is probably similar to Etsy, where the 95th percentile make millions and the median income is $0.</text></item><item><author>treesknees</author><text>Bhad Bhabie (cash me outside meme girl) made over $1M in 6 hours and said she could retire right now from the amount of money she has made off OF. And she&#x27;s not doing &quot;porn&quot; or even posting fully nude photos.<p>There&#x27;s a big movement to gain a lot of followers on social media like TikTok and then redirect those followers to their $5&#x2F;month OnlyFans. There are a lot of people making a living or at least significantly boosting their income from this model, and they don&#x27;t have to leave the house to do it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.billboard.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;columns&#x2F;hip-hop&#x2F;9550662&#x2F;bhad-bhabie-earns-1-million-dollars-onlyfans" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.billboard.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;columns&#x2F;hip-hop&#x2F;9550662&#x2F;b...</a></text></item><item><author>whymauri</author><text>it&#x27;s pretty huge<p>COVID hit recently graduated Gen-Z incredibly hard. There&#x27;s huge groups that are&#x2F;were unemployed and then there&#x27;s huge groups who are sexually repressed due to quarantine. Across the whole world, too*. Many can easily make more than min wage, and in certain niches you probably don&#x27;t even have to be &#x27;conventionally beautiful&#x27; (sorry to use this term, but it&#x27;s important I think) to make a living or solid portion of a living on there.<p>For $$ per hour worked, why would they field low wage, menial jobs with a risk of COVID?<p>And if you price model right, you don&#x27;t need thousands of fans, just a couple really dedicated superfans&#x2F;whales.<p>* Consider the value of dollars&#x2F;euros&#x2F;pounds in poorer countries!</text></item><item><author>rootsudo</author><text>My biggest shock was how much &quot;PR&quot; was generated on Reddit, and how many sexworkers really do use the platform.<p>I knew it was a thing, I knew of the memes, but to see both sides in arms over a company vs branding, creating their own website and content - and vanity domain as well.<p>People really do just want a one click solution for creating adult content, and consuming adult content.<p>And the memes, I think they&#x27;re pretty toxic, 4chan, incel, reddit, twitter memes - I never knew there was that much angst.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sohcahtoa82</author><text>Twitch is certainly that way as well.<p>The median viewer count is likely single digits.<p>Though I can say with considerable certainty that a lot of wannabe Twitch streamers think that being a streamer just means having people watch you play a game, which <i>may</i> be true for story-driven games that don&#x27;t get a lot of viewers, since it creates a more movie-like experience, and <i>may</i> be true for highly-competitive games where you can watch someone make amazing plays. But for the rest, you need to have the charisma and creativity to create entertaining commentary and audience interaction.<p>Nobody wants to watch an average Joe play World of Warcraft.</text></comment> |
20,133,401 | 20,133,395 | 1 | 3 | 20,133,003 | train | <story><title>I didn't get paid, so I open-sourced my client’s project</title><url>https://github.com/TrillCyborg/onefraction</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>burlesona</author><text>Yes, but this is increasingly common in online services. Reputable services like Wealthfront also work like this, requiring your bank login to work. The fact that Plaid has their entire business built around providing “bank logins as a service” speaks to that.<p>I don’t like it either, but I’m not sure how you could get archaic banks and low-tech consumers to adopt something better.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>This thing <i>wants the password for your bank account?</i> WTF? That&#x27;s way more than it needs. Enough info to authorize an ACH transfer, maybe. But the <i>login password for your bank account?</i> No way.<p>That voids Bank of America&#x27;s security guarantee.[1] If you provide info for an ACH transfer, and the other party abuses that info, it&#x27;s reversible. If you provide login info and the other party abuses that info, it&#x27;s not.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bankofamerica.com&#x2F;online-banking&#x2F;online-banking-security-guarantee&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bankofamerica.com&#x2F;online-banking&#x2F;online-banking-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>textfoo</author><text>I work at a bank that has a vendor that uses client credentials in order to html scrape their account pages. Most banks refuse to generate consumable methodologies for other financial services to use their data, so they go about it the hackiest way possible.</text></comment> | <story><title>I didn't get paid, so I open-sourced my client’s project</title><url>https://github.com/TrillCyborg/onefraction</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>burlesona</author><text>Yes, but this is increasingly common in online services. Reputable services like Wealthfront also work like this, requiring your bank login to work. The fact that Plaid has their entire business built around providing “bank logins as a service” speaks to that.<p>I don’t like it either, but I’m not sure how you could get archaic banks and low-tech consumers to adopt something better.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>This thing <i>wants the password for your bank account?</i> WTF? That&#x27;s way more than it needs. Enough info to authorize an ACH transfer, maybe. But the <i>login password for your bank account?</i> No way.<p>That voids Bank of America&#x27;s security guarantee.[1] If you provide info for an ACH transfer, and the other party abuses that info, it&#x27;s reversible. If you provide login info and the other party abuses that info, it&#x27;s not.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bankofamerica.com&#x2F;online-banking&#x2F;online-banking-security-guarantee&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bankofamerica.com&#x2F;online-banking&#x2F;online-banking-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m-p-3</author><text>Yeah, unless banks provide oAuth or APIs to get that information securely and easily revokable, I guess that&#x27;s the best we have.</text></comment> |
32,311,571 | 32,310,998 | 1 | 3 | 32,310,586 | train | <story><title>Japan, U.S. to launch R&D for 2-nm chip mass production</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/Japan-U.S.-to-launch-R-D-for-2-nm-chip-mass-production</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>11thEarlOfMar</author><text>In order for this to work, we need to understand why the US and Japan are behind Taiwan in this technology in the first place. For TSMC, as a foundry, their value is maximized by their ability to fabricate devices that semiconductor design companies cannot fabricate themselves.<p>Intel and Toshiba apparently don&#x27;t see cutting edge device scale as a differentiator and so far haven&#x27;t invested (enough) in matching TSMC in that arena.<p>There is very little chance, IMHO, that establishing and funding an independent organization to pursue 2nm will yield the desired results. Providing funding <i>tranched on a results basis</i> to existing firms stands a much better chance, provided that they are permitted to pursue 2 nm fabrication without sharing what they&#x27;ve learned, so they gain the benefit of the effort. If that were the approach, I don&#x27;t see why the US and Japan need to collaborate at all.<p>Seems more like narrative-supporting publicity than anything else. Ugh.</text></comment> | <story><title>Japan, U.S. to launch R&D for 2-nm chip mass production</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/Japan-U.S.-to-launch-R-D-for-2-nm-chip-mass-production</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>guardiangod</author><text>From my experience, no offense, when you pool together a bunch of also-ran teams together to catch up to the industry leader, you&#x27;d just get a larger also-ran team.<p>I also have reservations on whether the academia can surpass the speed of commercial R&amp;D teams on semiconductor tech. I will believe it when I see it.</text></comment> |
24,529,381 | 24,529,514 | 1 | 3 | 24,526,138 | train | <story><title>SARS-CoV-2 positivity rates associated with circulating Vitamin D levels</title><url>https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0239252</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>There is a long history of taking pills of vitamins and minerals not being as good as getting it the way we evolved for. We evolved to produce vitamin D by getting sunlight. We are NOT evolved from nocturnal animals. A vitamin D supplement might help, but a better idea is to take a walk in the park every day, while the sun is up.</text></item><item><author>shadowmore</author><text>I keep seeing data points like this, but does supplementing vitamin D work? Does it make sense to read things like this and conclude that taking a vitamin D supplement pill daily is a good idea?</text></item><item><author>macawfish</author><text>There is a whole body of research around the ways that vitamin D modulates inflammation, helps regulate calcium homeostasis and strengthens circadian rhythm. Here is some relevant research:<p>- vitamin D is directly involved in regulating the renin-angiotensin system, including ACE2 expression. ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3999581&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3999581&#x2F;</a> )<p>- vitamin D has been shown to have anti-inflammatory activity with respect to cytokines specifically involved in advanced COVID-19 cases ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC6164284&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC6164284&#x2F;</a> )<p>- vitamin D and magnesium insufficiency both cause hypocalcemia, which has been connected to COVID-19 severity: ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchsquare.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;rs-17575&#x2F;v1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchsquare.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;rs-17575&#x2F;v1</a> )<p>- magnesium and vitamin K2 also modulate calcium homeostasis ( you can look this one up yourself I need to get off this phone )<p>^^^ this is a snippet from a letter I sent to the local health department. I sure hope someone read it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bird_monster</author><text>Sure, and that&#x27;s great, but what about the scenarios in which I cannot walk to the park (during 600+ AQI wildfires, as an example), is the reason I&#x27;d like the data on supplementation.</text></comment> | <story><title>SARS-CoV-2 positivity rates associated with circulating Vitamin D levels</title><url>https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0239252</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>There is a long history of taking pills of vitamins and minerals not being as good as getting it the way we evolved for. We evolved to produce vitamin D by getting sunlight. We are NOT evolved from nocturnal animals. A vitamin D supplement might help, but a better idea is to take a walk in the park every day, while the sun is up.</text></item><item><author>shadowmore</author><text>I keep seeing data points like this, but does supplementing vitamin D work? Does it make sense to read things like this and conclude that taking a vitamin D supplement pill daily is a good idea?</text></item><item><author>macawfish</author><text>There is a whole body of research around the ways that vitamin D modulates inflammation, helps regulate calcium homeostasis and strengthens circadian rhythm. Here is some relevant research:<p>- vitamin D is directly involved in regulating the renin-angiotensin system, including ACE2 expression. ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3999581&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3999581&#x2F;</a> )<p>- vitamin D has been shown to have anti-inflammatory activity with respect to cytokines specifically involved in advanced COVID-19 cases ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC6164284&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC6164284&#x2F;</a> )<p>- vitamin D and magnesium insufficiency both cause hypocalcemia, which has been connected to COVID-19 severity: ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchsquare.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;rs-17575&#x2F;v1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchsquare.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;rs-17575&#x2F;v1</a> )<p>- magnesium and vitamin K2 also modulate calcium homeostasis ( you can look this one up yourself I need to get off this phone )<p>^^^ this is a snippet from a letter I sent to the local health department. I sure hope someone read it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheSpiceIsLife</author><text>Here in Tasmania, and given the tone of my skin, in order to get enough sun exposure to provide for my vitamin D requirements...<p>I will spend enough time in the sun to damage my skin and significantly increase the risk of melanoma.</text></comment> |
32,601,070 | 32,600,726 | 1 | 2 | 32,600,000 | train | <story><title>Chez Scheme</title><url>https://github.com/cisco/ChezScheme</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eatonphil</author><text>There are lots of cool papers Dybvig has published related to Chez Scheme that are relevant for anyone hacking on compilers. Specifically, destination-driven code generation is really neat.<p>My favorite is the slides on the development of Chez Scheme: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;icfp06.cs.uchicago.edu&#x2F;dybvig-talk.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;icfp06.cs.uchicago.edu&#x2F;dybvig-talk.pdf</a>.<p>A few other good ones:<p>* Destination Driven Code Generation: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legacy.cs.indiana.edu&#x2F;~dyb&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;ddcg.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legacy.cs.indiana.edu&#x2F;~dyb&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;ddcg.pdf</a><p>* The Development of Chez Scheme: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;citeseerx.ist.psu.edu&#x2F;viewdoc&#x2F;download?doi=10.1.1.72.4350&amp;rep=rep1&amp;type=pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;citeseerx.ist.psu.edu&#x2F;viewdoc&#x2F;download?doi=10.1.1.72...</a><p>Here&#x27;s a pretty full list: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;scientific-contributions&#x2F;R-Kent-Dybvig-3228079" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;scientific-contributions&#x2F;R-Kent...</a>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chez Scheme</title><url>https://github.com/cisco/ChezScheme</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jesushax</author><text>I learned about Chez when Racket started their rewrite from C to Chez. Made me think why they don&#x27;t just build Racket entirely in its self!</text></comment> |
14,548,542 | 14,548,418 | 1 | 2 | 14,547,765 | train | <story><title>Securing your API: a modern alternative to CSRF tokens</title><url>https://mixmax.com/blog/modern-csrf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ejcx</author><text>Why make an extremely complicated set up, with many edge cases, all to save yourself from a single token?<p><pre><code> - Privacy extensions often times block referrer headers.
- POST requests are usually necessary.
- Open redirects are common bugs, and getting your website to initiate one can be a problem.
- Disabling CORS also relies on you killing crossdomain.xml, which you might overlook.
</code></pre>
Instead you can just roll out CSRF tokens.<p>Having rolled them out myself many times. You probably want to use a library if you aren&#x27;t a cryptographer or security person:<p><pre><code> expiration_time_of_1_day || hmac_sha256( secret_key, { expiration_time_of_1_day, user_id })
</code></pre>
I&#x27;ve seen other people mention SameSite cookies, but we aren&#x27;t near a time when browsers all support them. Don&#x27;t get fancy preventing CSRF. It&#x27;s a stupid bug.</text></comment> | <story><title>Securing your API: a modern alternative to CSRF tokens</title><url>https://mixmax.com/blog/modern-csrf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arkadiyt</author><text>I used to prefer the origin&#x2F;referer approach to blocking CSRF because it can be done upstream of the application server (or in a middleware), transparent to developers who often get these things wrong.<p>However there&#x27;s been enough referer spoofing browser bugs lately that I&#x27;d rather have the extra safety (and complexity) of CSRF tokens. Just 3 months ago Edge had (another) referer spoofing bug:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brokenbrowser.com&#x2F;referer-spoofing-patch-bypass&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brokenbrowser.com&#x2F;referer-spoofing-patch-bypass&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
8,577,189 | 8,576,975 | 1 | 3 | 8,575,623 | train | <story><title>OpenBazaar is a decentralized Dark Net market that's 'untouchable' by police</title><url>http://www.dailydot.com/politics/openbazaar-is-next-after-silk-road-2-falls/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text>I see several comments questioning the <i>legitimate</i> value of a peer-to-peer marketplace. Some cannot see any use other than illegal commerce (drugs, porn, etc).<p>It is true that such illicit trades will take advantage of that network but is it really impossible to envision <i>legal</i> business as the major activity? Yes, cars can be used as getaway vehicles from bank robberies and also smash terrorist bombs into government buildings. However, cars also have tons of other legitimate uses.<p>Consider that ebay has about 200 million users.[1] Their fees have been going up every year and they are now at 10% (which does not include the separate insertion fees.)[2]<p>If one can sell a <i>legal</i> item such as a $50 book on ebay, why not sell it on a p2p marketplace and avoid paying $5 of that sale to ebay? If not OpenBazaar or similar p2p architecture, what alternatives do folks propose?<p>Do 200 million ebay users have <i>lawful</i> reasons to avoid paying ebay commission fees?<p>At this point, I believe low-volume selling is too dependent on proprietary platforms such as ebay or amazonmarketplace. As an analogy using email, I&#x27;m glad that SMTP won over closed systems such as CompuServe, AOL, and Western Union&#x27;s EasyLink. Even though SMTP email has many bad uses such as phishing, malware delivery, and spam, I&#x27;m still glad it won. The good uses outweigh the bad.<p>Can a more open platform for sellers <i>without the stigma of illegal activity</i> be realized?<p>[1]<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=ebay+&quot;200+million+users&quot;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=ebay+&quot;200+million+users&quot;</a><p>[2]<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=ebay+raises+fees+10%25" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=ebay+raises+fees+10%25</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krapp</author><text>&gt;Can a more open platform for sellers without the stigma of illegal activity be realized?<p>Probably not.<p>Cars weren&#x27;t invented to make bank robberies more difficult to stop. These networks were invented, to a degree which shouldn&#x27;t be dismissed when considering their acceptance by the mainstream, to make enforcing laws against trading in <i>anything</i> more difficult, if not impossible.<p>I think most people (not most people on HN, or in tech, but most people in general) would rather pay the extra few dollars than support the premise of a truly free market. While I would agree completely that there are perfectly legitimate uses for these networks, and there is nothing at all evil or malicious in the technology itself, I also think it would be disingenuous to state that their use in illegal activities is somehow orthogonal to their purpose.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenBazaar is a decentralized Dark Net market that's 'untouchable' by police</title><url>http://www.dailydot.com/politics/openbazaar-is-next-after-silk-road-2-falls/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text>I see several comments questioning the <i>legitimate</i> value of a peer-to-peer marketplace. Some cannot see any use other than illegal commerce (drugs, porn, etc).<p>It is true that such illicit trades will take advantage of that network but is it really impossible to envision <i>legal</i> business as the major activity? Yes, cars can be used as getaway vehicles from bank robberies and also smash terrorist bombs into government buildings. However, cars also have tons of other legitimate uses.<p>Consider that ebay has about 200 million users.[1] Their fees have been going up every year and they are now at 10% (which does not include the separate insertion fees.)[2]<p>If one can sell a <i>legal</i> item such as a $50 book on ebay, why not sell it on a p2p marketplace and avoid paying $5 of that sale to ebay? If not OpenBazaar or similar p2p architecture, what alternatives do folks propose?<p>Do 200 million ebay users have <i>lawful</i> reasons to avoid paying ebay commission fees?<p>At this point, I believe low-volume selling is too dependent on proprietary platforms such as ebay or amazonmarketplace. As an analogy using email, I&#x27;m glad that SMTP won over closed systems such as CompuServe, AOL, and Western Union&#x27;s EasyLink. Even though SMTP email has many bad uses such as phishing, malware delivery, and spam, I&#x27;m still glad it won. The good uses outweigh the bad.<p>Can a more open platform for sellers <i>without the stigma of illegal activity</i> be realized?<p>[1]<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=ebay+&quot;200+million+users&quot;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=ebay+&quot;200+million+users&quot;</a><p>[2]<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=ebay+raises+fees+10%25" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=ebay+raises+fees+10%25</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>doctorfoo</author><text>When OpenBazaar seems more mature I will definitely consider listing (my entirely legal) items on it first, at least to experiment. Lower fees + I&#x27;m happy with Bitcoin = Win.</text></comment> |
33,876,633 | 33,876,276 | 1 | 3 | 33,873,502 | train | <story><title>ChatGPT vs. a Cryptic Crossword</title><url>https://jameswillia.ms/posts/chatgpt-cryptics.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JacobiX</author><text>The problem with many of the tasks that people are trying is: the answers are already available on the internet for those very popular crosswords. For example a quick search for &quot;1 Chap recalled skill: something frequently repeated (6)&quot; returns hundreds of correct answers. It’s highly probable that it has already encountered the questions and answers for this crosswords in the training phase.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ehsankia</author><text>I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s always true. I do a lot of puzzle hunt, and I&#x27;ve been using GPT-3 for cryptics in the past week, and I&#x27;d say it gets it right around 20% of the time, which isn&#x27;t horrible but still impressive, and these are brand new cryptics that are definitely not found online. And the ones it gets wrong show that it partly understands the mechanics of cryptics.<p><pre><code> Solve these cryptic clues:
Wash part of Uncle Andrew (5)
Pain, hype, breaking down: a revelation (8)
Bad Romano is reddish-brown (6)
Eternally the Raven’s headless refrain (8)
Boxer Joe switched from Fahrenheit to Celsius to get more absurd (7)
Mill traps rock and roll heads, flipping bro, and first aid to get disco item (10)
Prestigious institution’s climbing plant (3)
Fin? Feet? Strange first tennis point (7)
Jordan? He destroyed a breakup letter (4 4)
Maine is yours truly (2)
ANSWERS:
ANDREW, EPIPHANY, BRUNET, NEVERMORE, ABSURDER, DISCO BALL, IVY, FORFEIT, DEVOURED IT, ME
</code></pre>
The real answers are:<p>CLEAN, EPIPHANY, MAROON, EVERMORE, CRAZIER, MIRROR BALL, IVY, FIFTEEN, DEAR JOHN, ME<p>So got 3, and pretty close for 2-3 others.</text></comment> | <story><title>ChatGPT vs. a Cryptic Crossword</title><url>https://jameswillia.ms/posts/chatgpt-cryptics.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JacobiX</author><text>The problem with many of the tasks that people are trying is: the answers are already available on the internet for those very popular crosswords. For example a quick search for &quot;1 Chap recalled skill: something frequently repeated (6)&quot; returns hundreds of correct answers. It’s highly probable that it has already encountered the questions and answers for this crosswords in the training phase.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>riffraff</author><text>fun fact: a common riddle for toddlers in Italy is &quot;what color was garibaldi&#x27;s white horse?&quot;.<p>This has hundreds of thousands of results in Google, but of course nobody bothers to actually give an answer, so ChatGPT does not know how to answer.</text></comment> |
27,366,853 | 27,366,953 | 1 | 3 | 27,366,050 | train | <story><title>G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than green energy</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/02/g7-nations-committing-billions-more-to-fossil-fuel-than-green-energy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cbmuser</author><text>“Green energy” needs fossile fuels such as natural gas as backup power plants.<p>If you want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions effectively, you must support nuclear power.<p>France went the nuclear path and their energy sector causes 50 million tons of CO2 per year.<p>Germany went the renewable path and their annual energy sector emissions are about 300 million tons of CO2.<p>They were a bit less in both countries due to Covid-19 causing shutdowns of industries.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KozmoNau7</author><text>&gt; &quot;Germany went the renewable path and their annual energy sector emissions are about 300 million tons of CO2.&quot;<p>Not really. They held on hard to gas and coal power. Of the latter, a disturbing amount is still based on lignite or brown coal, which is more accurately described as &quot;somewhat combustible dirt&quot;.<p>Germany is not nearly as dedicated to green energy as they would like the world to think. They shut down their nuclear sector due to fear, and primarily replaced it with more fossil energy.<p>I do agree that nuclear power is something we should be more positive towards, but that does not invalidate renewable energy sources.</text></comment> | <story><title>G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than green energy</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/02/g7-nations-committing-billions-more-to-fossil-fuel-than-green-energy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cbmuser</author><text>“Green energy” needs fossile fuels such as natural gas as backup power plants.<p>If you want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions effectively, you must support nuclear power.<p>France went the nuclear path and their energy sector causes 50 million tons of CO2 per year.<p>Germany went the renewable path and their annual energy sector emissions are about 300 million tons of CO2.<p>They were a bit less in both countries due to Covid-19 causing shutdowns of industries.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>j_wtf_all_taken</author><text>&gt; If you want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions effectively, you must support nuclear power.<p>Very strong statement but no evidence whatsoever.<p>Germany&#x27;s a bad example, we&#x27;re (that is: the government during the last 16 years) doing a lot to keep really old crappy coal power plants running and slow the transformation towards renewables. And still, 50% of the electricity is produced by renewables.</text></comment> |
21,782,210 | 21,782,270 | 1 | 2 | 21,780,876 | train | <story><title>Google Culture War Escalates as Era of Transparency Wanes</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-13/google-culture-war-escalates-as-era-of-transparency-wanes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ididntdothis</author><text>“So instead of moving on, lots of frustrated employees burn out trying to change the company from within.”<p>I think the mindset of changing of something from within is actually a good one. “Moving on” is probably easier and pragmatic but as a society it’s better to change things instead of just tossing them aside and going to the next thing. I hope the same people will also be active in politics and try to change things.</text></item><item><author>fishnchips</author><text>I’m always surprised by the level of employee activism at Google. I mean, it’s a job. You don’t like it, or the company, then the default thing people do is leave. But based on my experience Google is different because they brainwash you into thinking that Google is the second coming of Christ and you don’t want to lose your front seat by just leaving. So instead of moving on, lots of frustrated employees burn out trying to change the company from within.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmix</author><text>Leaving while making it clear to your higher ups and coworkers that it&#x27;s due to the dying work culture is not leaving without anything.<p>Individual employees shouldn&#x27;t have to make personal sacrifices, especially for a megacorp, beyond what they contribute each day as an employee. Unless they are an executive or management and get paid (and mandated) sufficiently to do culture stuff.<p>There are people at Google who have this responsibility and are either failing, or possibly it&#x27;s not really that bad and the news is overhyping a bunch of highly vocal individuals&#x2F;small groups, while most Googlers are apolitical and happy with the group of people they work with. It&#x27;s always hard to tell but most companies aren&#x27;t getting multiple articles a year written about their culture.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Culture War Escalates as Era of Transparency Wanes</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-13/google-culture-war-escalates-as-era-of-transparency-wanes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ididntdothis</author><text>“So instead of moving on, lots of frustrated employees burn out trying to change the company from within.”<p>I think the mindset of changing of something from within is actually a good one. “Moving on” is probably easier and pragmatic but as a society it’s better to change things instead of just tossing them aside and going to the next thing. I hope the same people will also be active in politics and try to change things.</text></item><item><author>fishnchips</author><text>I’m always surprised by the level of employee activism at Google. I mean, it’s a job. You don’t like it, or the company, then the default thing people do is leave. But based on my experience Google is different because they brainwash you into thinking that Google is the second coming of Christ and you don’t want to lose your front seat by just leaving. So instead of moving on, lots of frustrated employees burn out trying to change the company from within.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shizcakes</author><text>I&#x27;m not convinced that burning out trying to change something that&#x27;s unchangeable is the right strategic way to fix things for anyone other than the company.<p>If enough people leave and go work on next-generation things because the previous-generation has run it&#x27;s course - that strikes me as having many parallels in nature.<p>Large companies don&#x27;t adapt quickly unless they have a true (ie, in-practice, not just in-speech) mandate to do so.<p>A leaf contributes to the health of the tree, but it doesn&#x27;t control where new branches grow.</text></comment> |
35,178,041 | 35,173,967 | 1 | 2 | 35,164,554 | train | <story><title>An Uber-like CDN</title><url>https://medium.com/@anton.lakhtikov/uber-like-model-to-disrupt-the-cdn-industry-8d870362f0f6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jsnell</author><text>There&#x27;s a bunch of really obvious objections to this idea around performance, privacy, economics, UX, and reliability. Impressively, the post did not manage to address any of them up front.<p>1. Performance. In terms of latency, this is adding an extra round-trip to each page request (to get the metadata). It&#x27;s also likely going to load different resources from different servers (hostname, IP) preventing connection reuse. I guess they can&#x27;t even start fetching data until the full page has loaded? And it feels like this scheme would make it much harder to reliably cache resources, since the browser will cache by URL while they&#x27;d struggle to make sure the URLs are stable across calls.<p>2. Privacy. Their threat model only addresses malicious peers changing content, not malicious peers trying to track users.<p>3. Economics. If running peer servers really was profitable, the company would do it themselves rather than outsource it. Given the &quot;where can you get a server&quot; section, it&#x27;s not even that they&#x27;re expecting this to just be running on spare capacity.<p>The problem with the setup is that incentives of the peers are badly misaligned with the network, the clients, and the end-user. A peer wants to maximize traffic; the clients and end-users want to minimize it. So a peer would be incentivized to set cache-control headers to prevent caching, to increase traffic. Likewise a peer would be incentivized to only keep copies of the most accessed resources, to be able to serve as high a proportion of the traffic as possible with a given disk budget, while all the other stakeholders would like each file to be available just N+1 times in each region.<p>4. UX. URLs will be really crappy compared to a proper CDN. Right-click copy a link to an image and send it to somebody? It&#x27;ll initially be to some super-dodgy URL, and stop working in a day or two as the CDN node starts caching different content. And AMP showed that people do actually care about URLs.<p>It&#x27;s pretty hard to take this seriously.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>x-complexity</author><text>&gt; 2. Privacy. Their threat model only addresses malicious peers changing content, not malicious peers trying to track users.<p>I&#x27;m narrowing the scope around &#x27;user tracking&#x27; specifically to 3rd parties, because 1st party user tracking is a requirement in order to perform some necessary functions (Providing accounts &amp; user sessions, for example).<p>In the current centralized CDN model (Cloudflare, AWS, Akamai, etc.), the 3rd party is made clear (those aforementioned companies), and their need to track users is documented on the provider&#x27;s ToS. Likewise, reputational damage is accrued to the providers in question.<p>In their proposed CDN model, there is no clear 3rd party, and so it must be defensively assumed that all of the data sent for requests is recorded at all times (The FBI Tor exit node problem). As a consequence, the minimal amount of request data can only be sent to these providers (IP address, content hash). Tor-like routing could be implemented to further disperse the requests from one IP address to multiple addresses, but now the monitoring problem&#x27;s increased to the routers as well, on top of the additional latency introduced for said privacy. Mandating said routing into the protocol would make such tracks useless, as the IP address collected will roughly appear as random noise in the optimistic case.<p><i>Personal opinion below</i><p>However, it is likely that no technical solution provided would resolutely satisfy the question being asked.</text></comment> | <story><title>An Uber-like CDN</title><url>https://medium.com/@anton.lakhtikov/uber-like-model-to-disrupt-the-cdn-industry-8d870362f0f6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jsnell</author><text>There&#x27;s a bunch of really obvious objections to this idea around performance, privacy, economics, UX, and reliability. Impressively, the post did not manage to address any of them up front.<p>1. Performance. In terms of latency, this is adding an extra round-trip to each page request (to get the metadata). It&#x27;s also likely going to load different resources from different servers (hostname, IP) preventing connection reuse. I guess they can&#x27;t even start fetching data until the full page has loaded? And it feels like this scheme would make it much harder to reliably cache resources, since the browser will cache by URL while they&#x27;d struggle to make sure the URLs are stable across calls.<p>2. Privacy. Their threat model only addresses malicious peers changing content, not malicious peers trying to track users.<p>3. Economics. If running peer servers really was profitable, the company would do it themselves rather than outsource it. Given the &quot;where can you get a server&quot; section, it&#x27;s not even that they&#x27;re expecting this to just be running on spare capacity.<p>The problem with the setup is that incentives of the peers are badly misaligned with the network, the clients, and the end-user. A peer wants to maximize traffic; the clients and end-users want to minimize it. So a peer would be incentivized to set cache-control headers to prevent caching, to increase traffic. Likewise a peer would be incentivized to only keep copies of the most accessed resources, to be able to serve as high a proportion of the traffic as possible with a given disk budget, while all the other stakeholders would like each file to be available just N+1 times in each region.<p>4. UX. URLs will be really crappy compared to a proper CDN. Right-click copy a link to an image and send it to somebody? It&#x27;ll initially be to some super-dodgy URL, and stop working in a day or two as the CDN node starts caching different content. And AMP showed that people do actually care about URLs.<p>It&#x27;s pretty hard to take this seriously.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mranton</author><text>&gt;1. Performance.<p>also please note:<p>if you have 1 image on the page - we have to do 2 requests (1 metadata, 1 download)<p>if you have 50 images on the page - we have to do 51 requests only (1 metadata for all images, 50 downloads)</text></comment> |
37,972,524 | 37,972,393 | 1 | 3 | 37,970,484 | train | <story><title>Canada has fewer entrepreneurs today than it did 20 years ago</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-entrepreneurs-shortage-solutions-1.7002171</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zaptheimpaler</author><text>This article itself is a great case study. The implicit structure of this article is that Lynn got fired and became an entrepreneur because he was <i>forced</i> into it. They never asked him anything about what it would take to get more entrepreneurs or make his life as an entrepreneur easier.<p>Instead they asked 4 professors of entrepreneurship &amp; govt. ministers who probably weren&#x27;t entrepreneurs. These people mentioned <i>twice</i> that one of the reasons for low entrepreneurship is because unemployment is too low and jobs pay too well... the whole push for this is coming from callous bureaucrats who&#x27;ve never been anywhere close to entrepreneurship who apparently believe its so bad that the only reason someone would do it is if they have no other options..<p>What a joke.. it&#x27;s hard to believe this level of stupidity , it might just be malice (a pretext to justify raising interest rates and increase unemployment)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>opportune</author><text>This is what happens in a world where “experts” are merely those with “certifications at the expert level” and not people with actual knowledge and experience.<p>That kind of world is an inevitable outcome of large bureaucracies and over-reliance on qualifications. You don’t just get idiocracy, you get Untruths and policies oriented around expanding the bureaucracy rather than addressing problems. See also: Lysenkoism in the USSR, EU’s model of funding startups through grants.<p>I honestly think this one of the things the US does way, way better than other developed countries. We pay a price in cronyism and corruption, but we actually let industry experts with real experience both advise on policy and take key government positions. We don’t pretend you need a PhD in X to be knowledgeable about X to nearly the same extent as Canada and the Eu.<p>You can’t just stick a midwit in a university for 10 years and expect them to be anything other than a midwit, and you can’t expert an organization that values compliance and internal politics more than performance and effectiveness to produce performant or effective leaders. You can’t bureaucracy your way into a free market either.</text></comment> | <story><title>Canada has fewer entrepreneurs today than it did 20 years ago</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-entrepreneurs-shortage-solutions-1.7002171</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zaptheimpaler</author><text>This article itself is a great case study. The implicit structure of this article is that Lynn got fired and became an entrepreneur because he was <i>forced</i> into it. They never asked him anything about what it would take to get more entrepreneurs or make his life as an entrepreneur easier.<p>Instead they asked 4 professors of entrepreneurship &amp; govt. ministers who probably weren&#x27;t entrepreneurs. These people mentioned <i>twice</i> that one of the reasons for low entrepreneurship is because unemployment is too low and jobs pay too well... the whole push for this is coming from callous bureaucrats who&#x27;ve never been anywhere close to entrepreneurship who apparently believe its so bad that the only reason someone would do it is if they have no other options..<p>What a joke.. it&#x27;s hard to believe this level of stupidity , it might just be malice (a pretext to justify raising interest rates and increase unemployment)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bbarnett</author><text><i>What a joke.. it&#x27;s hard to believe this level of stupidity , it might just be malice (a pretext to justify raising interest rates and increase unemployment)</i><p>The political branch of the government does not control interest rates, nor have any say in them. The Prime Minister cannot raise or lower interest rates.<p>This is the same in most western democracies, as such things cannot be left to political control.</text></comment> |
4,817,514 | 4,817,516 | 1 | 2 | 4,817,466 | train | <story><title>Google competitor DuckDuckGo says it's getting shut out</title><url>http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-rt-us-google-duckduckgobre8al00i-20121121,0,6650221.story</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Matt_Cutts</author><text>From the article:<p>"In an interview on Wednesday, [Gabriel] Weinberg said it is difficult to make his DuckDuckGo the default search site in Google's Chrome web browser, and that Google disadvantages his company in the Android mobile operating system as well. ....<p>"It's one-click to get onto Firefox and it's five steps on Chrome and people generally fail," he said.<p>The Google spokeswoman said popular search alternatives were offered on its Chrome browser in a dropdown menu, such as Yahoo and Microsoft's Bing, but any search engine could be easily added."</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noibl</author><text>Wait, 'one-click'?<p>In Firefox if I click the dropdown on the search field, then click 'Manage Search Engines' I get a dialog in which can be found a link to 'Get more search engines...'.<p>Clicking that opens an add-ons store tab with the 'Search Tools' filter applied, none of whose above-the-fold suggestions has anything to do with DDG. That's not one-click, it's a runaround.<p>In contrast, Chrome <i>automatically</i> adds search engines as you browse the web and lets you set any one of them as the default. It also has clearly labelled fields to let you create your own by copying the format of the ones listed. Getting to there takes 3 clicks and a scroll.<p>Two reasonable gripes: the existence of the free-edit fields is not immediately obvious upon clicking 'Manage search engines...' and neither is the fact that the domain name in the second column is an editable keyword.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google competitor DuckDuckGo says it's getting shut out</title><url>http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-rt-us-google-duckduckgobre8al00i-20121121,0,6650221.story</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Matt_Cutts</author><text>From the article:<p>"In an interview on Wednesday, [Gabriel] Weinberg said it is difficult to make his DuckDuckGo the default search site in Google's Chrome web browser, and that Google disadvantages his company in the Android mobile operating system as well. ....<p>"It's one-click to get onto Firefox and it's five steps on Chrome and people generally fail," he said.<p>The Google spokeswoman said popular search alternatives were offered on its Chrome browser in a dropdown menu, such as Yahoo and Microsoft's Bing, but any search engine could be easily added."</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rodion_89</author><text>I'm curious, how many clicks is it to replace Bing as the default in IE?<p>Isn't it impossible for DDG to become the default in Safari?<p>Not saying they're wrong to point it out, but rather that they should be consistent in pointing fingers if they do.</text></comment> |
41,644,902 | 41,643,818 | 1 | 2 | 41,643,573 | train | <story><title>No more blurry fonts in Linux (2023)</title><url>https://blog.aktsbot.in/no-more-blurry-fonts.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zokier</author><text>The problem with all these font rendering discussions is that we are missing some ultra-high quality (offline) reference rendering system to compare against. Not only does that make these discussions pretty unproductive (just subjective back and forth), but also practically that drives font designers to build fonts that look good on their preferred platform(s), rather than something that is built to look good on spec. This drives then feedback loop where other platforms then need to start emulating the major popular platforms with their flaws instead of aiming for the highest quality; for example this stem-darkening is almost certainly just inspired by macos but doesn&#x27;t really have justification outside that.</text></comment> | <story><title>No more blurry fonts in Linux (2023)</title><url>https://blog.aktsbot.in/no-more-blurry-fonts.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hyperhello</author><text>Why can’t I see the difference? Does this only work for older, standard resolution screens?</text></comment> |
9,602,851 | 9,602,797 | 1 | 2 | 9,600,015 | train | <story><title>Unhappy Birthday</title><url>http://www.unhappybirthday.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anigbrowl</author><text>Oh please, your position is very popular in this industry, as you acknowledge in your third line. I think <i>Happy Birthday</i> is very much out of copyright, but I don&#x27;t agree that &#x27;copyright is a legal fiction created by congress that exists solely to prop up industries.&#x27;<p>Example, I mentioned elsewhere that I&#x27;m working on producing a screenplay which involves the <i>Happy Birthday</i> song. I&#x27;m not enthused about having to budget for license fees for this. On the other hand, without copyright I would not be able to share the script with other people to get feedback or solicit their interest in making it into a film, because I would have no way to protect my interests as an author. From my point of view the screenplay represents about 4 months&#x27; worth of labor, and it will likely be 6 months&#x27; worth by the time it&#x27;s at a final draft. As director of the project, that total labor involved will rise to well over a year&#x27;s worth, more likely two. My ownership interest in the intellectual property is the only hope I have of making money off that investment later on should the film get made and prove popular.<p>If you don&#x27;t believe in copyright, what do you think is my economic incentive to create original work, or anyone else&#x27;s to commission&#x2F;purchase such work?</text></item><item><author>sneak</author><text>It&#x27;s unpopular in our industry, but I personally don&#x27;t believe in ownership of ideas or information.<p>When someone can tell me who owns the number 2, I will tell you who owns our cultural heritage of songs.<p>Remember: copyright is a legal fiction created by congress that exists solely to prop up industries. Most people don&#x27;t believe in it, as evidenced by the massive sharing of information on the internet condemned by it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>white-flame</author><text>The two natural states of &quot;intellectual property&quot; are public domain and trade secret. Everything else exists only because of legal systems creating new concepts.<p>My problem is that copyright is misapplied:<p><pre><code> &quot;To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times
to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and
Discoveries.&quot;
</code></pre>
To my understanding, congress has no authority to issue copyright legalities for things which do not advance science and the useful arts (practical industry, etc). Happy Birthday does not fall under either of those categories.<p>&quot;If you don&#x27;t believe in copyright, what do you think is my economic incentive to create original work, or anyone else&#x27;s to commission&#x2F;purchase such work?&quot;<p>Plenty of works are created without direct economic incentive associated with copying the work. Just look at non-commercial YouTubers or open source projects. Music, movies, etc, still come into being. Personally, I would trade the existence of higher-production media for more sane copyright laws.</text></comment> | <story><title>Unhappy Birthday</title><url>http://www.unhappybirthday.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anigbrowl</author><text>Oh please, your position is very popular in this industry, as you acknowledge in your third line. I think <i>Happy Birthday</i> is very much out of copyright, but I don&#x27;t agree that &#x27;copyright is a legal fiction created by congress that exists solely to prop up industries.&#x27;<p>Example, I mentioned elsewhere that I&#x27;m working on producing a screenplay which involves the <i>Happy Birthday</i> song. I&#x27;m not enthused about having to budget for license fees for this. On the other hand, without copyright I would not be able to share the script with other people to get feedback or solicit their interest in making it into a film, because I would have no way to protect my interests as an author. From my point of view the screenplay represents about 4 months&#x27; worth of labor, and it will likely be 6 months&#x27; worth by the time it&#x27;s at a final draft. As director of the project, that total labor involved will rise to well over a year&#x27;s worth, more likely two. My ownership interest in the intellectual property is the only hope I have of making money off that investment later on should the film get made and prove popular.<p>If you don&#x27;t believe in copyright, what do you think is my economic incentive to create original work, or anyone else&#x27;s to commission&#x2F;purchase such work?</text></item><item><author>sneak</author><text>It&#x27;s unpopular in our industry, but I personally don&#x27;t believe in ownership of ideas or information.<p>When someone can tell me who owns the number 2, I will tell you who owns our cultural heritage of songs.<p>Remember: copyright is a legal fiction created by congress that exists solely to prop up industries. Most people don&#x27;t believe in it, as evidenced by the massive sharing of information on the internet condemned by it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>copsarebastards</author><text>I don&#x27;t think copyright is a fiction (I&#x27;m not even sure what that means) but I&#x27;m pretty sure it <i>is</i> there to prop up industries, such as yours, that would be financially insolvent without it. sneak perhaps intended this with a negative connotation, but that connotation isn&#x27;t necessary. Copyright is there to prop up industries, but whether that&#x27;s a good or bad thing is still up for debate.<p>I agree with your argument within the economic context in which your work occurs, it&#x27;s the only thing that makes many works of art possible. But copyright is a bad thing because the economic context is bad.<p>If you had all the money you needed, would you stop producing screenplays? I can&#x27;t answer for you, but I know the answer for me: if I had all the money I needed, I wouldn&#x27;t stop writing code or performing music. I think the idea that people need economic incentives to do things, <i>especially</i> creative things, is bogus. People don&#x27;t need incentives to do things, they need their basic needs met so that they <i>can</i> do things. More often than not, the need to fulfill their basic needs gets in the way of people doing the things that they want, and which might prove the most beneficial. I&#x27;ve certainly written reams of useless code to pay the bills instead of open source work that I wanted to do to further humanity. And I&#x27;m sure you&#x27;ve spent time doing things to pay the bills when you could have been working on your screenplay.<p>Of course we don&#x27;t live in a world where people&#x27;s needs can simply be met without effort. But the time is coming when no human will have to lift a finger to survive. What incentive will exist then? The structures we have built around the need to earn our survival will prepare us poorly for the world that will be.<p>I see two futures: one where the robots and artificial intelligences that meet all our needs are owned by the people who bought them and the rest of us are beholden to them, and another where, in the absence of value derived by economic need, we derive value from our feelings, our experiences, our relationships, and our creations. Copyright lives in the former future: the future I want is the latter.</text></comment> |
34,729,779 | 34,730,177 | 1 | 3 | 34,729,226 | train | <story><title>Credit Suisse confirms 50% bonus cut, Zero for Exec, amid terrible results</title><url>https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2023/02/credit-suisse-bonuses</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thwayunion</author><text>Credit Suisse is in free-fall. Down 83% in fixed income sales and trading. Down 95% in equities sales and trading. Down by half in M&amp;A. On trial for cocaine dealing.<p>A bank losing all its income and going down in a criminal probe into a coke dealer. It&#x27;d be a good SNL skit if there weren&#x27;t so many lives on the line.<p>It&#x27;s amazing a bonus pool exists at all.</text></comment> | <story><title>Credit Suisse confirms 50% bonus cut, Zero for Exec, amid terrible results</title><url>https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2023/02/credit-suisse-bonuses</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rqtwteye</author><text>“ It has, however, increased salaries.”<p>These guys can’t lose. They either win or win big time even while running their company into the ground. Time for some government bailouts so they can go on a luxury retreat like AIG execs did in 2008.</text></comment> |
25,461,829 | 25,459,459 | 1 | 2 | 25,457,876 | train | <story><title>Airflow 2.0</title><url>http://airflow.apache.org/blog/airflow-two-point-oh-is-here/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aidenn0</author><text>I&#x27;d not heard of airflow before. Some of the other comments mention using it for ETL jobs. The webpage makes it sound like a generic job scheduler.<p>Jenkins is also a generic job scheduler, but it is primarily used for CI&#x2F;CD. It seems like there&#x27;s some overlap here though; I&#x27;m interested to hear other peoples thoughts on &quot;I have a bunch of jobs that need to be run; they aren&#x27;t necessarily ETL or CI&#x2F;CD; what tool is good for this, and how would I differentiate between them.&quot;<p>It seems that mostly people use whatever they have setup, so if someone already does CI&#x2F;CD through jenkins, they will add other unrelated jobs to jenkins just to avoid setting something else up. Any thoughts on if things are being left on the table here, as even generic tools can make you feel like you are &quot;swimming up stream&quot; if you are doing things that the rest of the community is not with them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Airflow 2.0</title><url>http://airflow.apache.org/blog/airflow-two-point-oh-is-here/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arthurcolle</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using Airflow for the past 6 months extensively in my projects and it is such a pleasure to use. I am excited to try out this release. Had a little trouble integrating Selenium and webDriver using BashOperators that run individual Python scripts and should probably switch to PythonOperators soon.</text></comment> |
21,970,991 | 21,970,664 | 1 | 2 | 21,969,997 | train | <story><title>New Cambridge Analytica Leaks</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/06/facebook-data-misuse-and-voter-manipulation-back-in-the-frame-with-latest-cambridge-analytica-leaks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cm2012</author><text>I&#x27;m a professional FB marketer and have managed both large budgets for private companies and also done political campaigns. I <i>guarantee</i> the trump campaign doesn&#x27;t use the low quality Cambridge Analytica scraped data in their targeting. They either use voter file records or lookalikes (like everyone else does). All CA data so released so far has been useless, untargeted stuff.<p>Think about where the data originally came from. People in 2015 downloaded an app, and the app scraped their friends lists. You know what&#x27;s better than targeting 87 mil loosely connected people? Using the FB algorithm, which targets 330m much, much more accurately and with more connections!</text></item><item><author>shadowgovt</author><text>Probably the most useful takeaway from CA&#x27;s approach is that it&#x27;s useful to realize how malleable opinions are of large swaths of &quot;independent&quot; voters. Ad experts and entertainment companies have known this for decades, but I get the sense the average American citizen still thinks of themselves as a free and independent thinker and not a product of their environment.<p>Problem is, even if they are a free and independent thinker, voting populations are large enough that the &quot;average is the outcome&quot; phenomenon comes into play, and voters are on average demonstrably vulnerable to coercion. Not enough to flip people&#x27;s opinions 180 degrees, but enough to, say, get a reality TV star elected over a politician with a checkered history (that has itself been subject to decades of effort and millions spent to make said history checkered).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SeanAppleby</author><text>My understanding is that the most significant nonconventional heuristic that Cambridge Analytica got from FB data and exploited was by using FB like data to approximate OCEAN personality scores for almost all voting Americans using this technique [1], and then targeting correlations between people&#x27;s big five ratings and their succeptibility to differnet types of marketing, such as targetingpeople high in neuroticism with emotionally charged ads, generally meant to instill fear. Am I off base?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aaai.org&#x2F;ocs&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;ICWSM&#x2F;ICWSM13&#x2F;paper&#x2F;view&#x2F;6179&#x2F;6311" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aaai.org&#x2F;ocs&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;ICWSM&#x2F;ICWSM13&#x2F;paper&#x2F;view&#x2F;...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>New Cambridge Analytica Leaks</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/06/facebook-data-misuse-and-voter-manipulation-back-in-the-frame-with-latest-cambridge-analytica-leaks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cm2012</author><text>I&#x27;m a professional FB marketer and have managed both large budgets for private companies and also done political campaigns. I <i>guarantee</i> the trump campaign doesn&#x27;t use the low quality Cambridge Analytica scraped data in their targeting. They either use voter file records or lookalikes (like everyone else does). All CA data so released so far has been useless, untargeted stuff.<p>Think about where the data originally came from. People in 2015 downloaded an app, and the app scraped their friends lists. You know what&#x27;s better than targeting 87 mil loosely connected people? Using the FB algorithm, which targets 330m much, much more accurately and with more connections!</text></item><item><author>shadowgovt</author><text>Probably the most useful takeaway from CA&#x27;s approach is that it&#x27;s useful to realize how malleable opinions are of large swaths of &quot;independent&quot; voters. Ad experts and entertainment companies have known this for decades, but I get the sense the average American citizen still thinks of themselves as a free and independent thinker and not a product of their environment.<p>Problem is, even if they are a free and independent thinker, voting populations are large enough that the &quot;average is the outcome&quot; phenomenon comes into play, and voters are on average demonstrably vulnerable to coercion. Not enough to flip people&#x27;s opinions 180 degrees, but enough to, say, get a reality TV star elected over a politician with a checkered history (that has itself been subject to decades of effort and millions spent to make said history checkered).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mumblemumble</author><text>Is FB making their raw data public, though?<p>There&#x27;s a strategy&#x2F;tactics divide to consider. Relying on FB&#x27;s targeting algorithms is tactical - that&#x27;ll give you great targeting once the time comes to execute your campaign.<p>But CA data, even if noisy, has been exfiltrated out from under privacy controls, so that you can get a much more direct look at it. That allows an analyst to get a more detailed sense of what social networks actually look like. I imagine that is more useful for figuring out what kinds of people you should be targeting in the first place, in order to maximize the leverage of your campaign.</text></comment> |
5,665,707 | 5,665,640 | 1 | 2 | 5,664,839 | train | <story><title>I Am a Bad Developer</title><url>http://eewz0z.pen.io</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dpiers</author><text>On Friday I had a remote interview where I was asked to search for the value closest to X in a sorted 2D array (columns and rows are both sorted in increasing order). I came up with a trivial solution to find a specific value, but got tripped up modifying it to find an unknown value that could be higher or lower than the target. I have not heard back from the company.<p>On Saturday/Sunday, I went to AngelHack SF and did a solo-project that ended up placing 2nd amongst +80 teams and netted me a $2500 credit from Firebase and an invitation to AngelHack's accelerator.<p>Am I a bad developer, too? Or is the hiring practice of reducing someone's technical competence to a handful of esoteric questions arbitrary and broken?<p>I am much more proud of the things I have built and the reputation I have with the other developers I have worked with than I am of my ability to find the longest common subsequence between two strings.<p>I'm guilty of asking these kinds of questions, too. The truth is it is incredibly hard to gauge a programmer's skills and figure out whether they fit into your team over the course of a half-hour interview, and nobody really has figured out a good way to do it. We're stuck with arbitrary questions that yield false negatives (and positives) simply because there isn't a better solution.<p>Edit: Aaannd in the course of writing this I received an offer letter and an email from someone at a16z asking about my AngelHack project, so I guess my job hunt is over. When it rains, it pours.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>redact207</author><text><i>Or is the hiring practice of reducing someone's technical competence to a handful of esoteric questions arbitrary and broken</i><p>The irony is whenever someone posts some esoteric "gotcha" programming trick here on HN, inevitably there'll be comments like "have to include this in our next interviews."<p>So what would you do differently? This is a genuine question after I came off 3 months of interviewing daily. I'm curious what does represent a good developer and how to decide this in 30 minutes over the phone? What's important?
- Past projects?
- Communication?
- Open source contributions?
- Ability to write code?
- Telling me how they'd Google a problem?
- How to break down problems?
- Some % combination of these?<p>My interviews are generally structured:
10 min: introduction to the role, expectations, motivations, try to start a conversation, get a feel for the candidate, nerves etc
15 min: technical questions:
- fundamentals on the job's tech stack (must provide code)
- turning a requirement into a design
- troubleshooting issues (db performance, web server issues)
5 min:
- wrap up, q&#38;a</text></comment> | <story><title>I Am a Bad Developer</title><url>http://eewz0z.pen.io</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dpiers</author><text>On Friday I had a remote interview where I was asked to search for the value closest to X in a sorted 2D array (columns and rows are both sorted in increasing order). I came up with a trivial solution to find a specific value, but got tripped up modifying it to find an unknown value that could be higher or lower than the target. I have not heard back from the company.<p>On Saturday/Sunday, I went to AngelHack SF and did a solo-project that ended up placing 2nd amongst +80 teams and netted me a $2500 credit from Firebase and an invitation to AngelHack's accelerator.<p>Am I a bad developer, too? Or is the hiring practice of reducing someone's technical competence to a handful of esoteric questions arbitrary and broken?<p>I am much more proud of the things I have built and the reputation I have with the other developers I have worked with than I am of my ability to find the longest common subsequence between two strings.<p>I'm guilty of asking these kinds of questions, too. The truth is it is incredibly hard to gauge a programmer's skills and figure out whether they fit into your team over the course of a half-hour interview, and nobody really has figured out a good way to do it. We're stuck with arbitrary questions that yield false negatives (and positives) simply because there isn't a better solution.<p>Edit: Aaannd in the course of writing this I received an offer letter and an email from someone at a16z asking about my AngelHack project, so I guess my job hunt is over. When it rains, it pours.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>barce</author><text>Ya, I've been the victim of "couldn't balance a B-Tree fast enough so you're not hired but you'll never see a B-Tree at work."<p>You mention that there isn't a better solution. IMHO, I disagree.<p>I think Github has figured out a way. They've been around 5 years and haven't fired anybody and nobody has quit.<p>Most firings are due to a job / job skill mismatch. At Github, they do a week long paid interview so both sides really know what they're getting into.<p>I don't work at Github, but am such a fan of their company.</text></comment> |
6,453,219 | 6,453,184 | 1 | 3 | 6,452,707 | train | <story><title>Google Recently Made A Silent Shift To A New Search Algorithm, “Hummingbird”</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/26/google-recently-made-a-silent-shift-to-a-new-search-algorithm-hummingbird/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>obilgic</author><text>I operate 2 websites that are exact clones of each others, the only difference is the domain. This algorithm change literally shifted %70 of the traffic from one of them to the other one, in a matter of hours.<p>Edit:<p><pre><code> * Links to the websites, I would say almost identical
* Same number of the pages are indexed by google, around ~5 million
* Domains are almost same, no keyword difference
* They both have same pagerank
* Domains are registered together
* Sites are hosted on different ips
* Total traffic sites get is around ~40k&#x2F;day unique
* By this change, total unique increased by %10</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rossjudson</author><text>Sounds like the algorithm noticed the duplication, and picked a &quot;winner&quot;. The new winner isn&#x27;t the same as the old one.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Recently Made A Silent Shift To A New Search Algorithm, “Hummingbird”</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/26/google-recently-made-a-silent-shift-to-a-new-search-algorithm-hummingbird/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>obilgic</author><text>I operate 2 websites that are exact clones of each others, the only difference is the domain. This algorithm change literally shifted %70 of the traffic from one of them to the other one, in a matter of hours.<p>Edit:<p><pre><code> * Links to the websites, I would say almost identical
* Same number of the pages are indexed by google, around ~5 million
* Domains are almost same, no keyword difference
* They both have same pagerank
* Domains are registered together
* Sites are hosted on different ips
* Total traffic sites get is around ~40k&#x2F;day unique
* By this change, total unique increased by %10</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kudos</author><text>I doubt the incoming links are also identical.</text></comment> |
20,001,518 | 20,001,488 | 1 | 2 | 20,001,026 | train | <story><title>NASA executive quits weeks after appointment to lead 2024 moon landing plan</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-exploration-nasa/nasa-executive-quits-weeks-after-being-named-to-lead-moon-initiative-idUSKCN1SU0A5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>georgeecollins</author><text>Or they just asked for (and presumably will get) an additional $15 B of subsidies for farmers to compensate for the trade war. Nothing against farmers, but if it is so easy to do that, why not fund NASA a bit?</text></item><item><author>ryder9</author><text>NASA requested $1.4B in increase<p>for comparison, Military budget increased from $586B in 2015 to $713B in 2019</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wallace_f</author><text>To be fair, the banks got over 400+ billion in TARP money plus over 4 <i>Trillion</i> in newly printed Fed Reserve dollars to buy literally &quot;toxic assets,&quot; synthetic mortgage-backed securities, and government debt purchased off their books to shore them up after they negligently destroyed themselves(1). Fundamental, necessary banking services which they are subsidized to perform are <i>not</i> rocket science, either. This was subsidizing risk-taking. This transfer of wealth to Wall St is <i>by far</i> the most egregious heist in the history of humanity.<p>1-<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brookings.edu&#x2F;blog&#x2F;up-front&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;18&#x2F;the-hutchins-center-explains-the-feds-balance-sheet&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brookings.edu&#x2F;blog&#x2F;up-front&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;18&#x2F;the-hutch...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>NASA executive quits weeks after appointment to lead 2024 moon landing plan</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-exploration-nasa/nasa-executive-quits-weeks-after-being-named-to-lead-moon-initiative-idUSKCN1SU0A5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>georgeecollins</author><text>Or they just asked for (and presumably will get) an additional $15 B of subsidies for farmers to compensate for the trade war. Nothing against farmers, but if it is so easy to do that, why not fund NASA a bit?</text></item><item><author>ryder9</author><text>NASA requested $1.4B in increase<p>for comparison, Military budget increased from $586B in 2015 to $713B in 2019</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>2Ccltvcm</author><text>America should reduce corn subsidies. Corn works its way into the American food ecosystem in many ways to the detriment of the Americans&#x27; health. It is highly inflammatory by itself and it is processed into compounds which also modulate inflammation in other ways. See high fructose corn syrup and its inflammatory pathways. Processed corn products are a multi pronged attack on Americans&#x27; health. End corn subsidies.</text></comment> |
35,102,397 | 35,100,905 | 1 | 2 | 35,094,574 | train | <story><title>Dutch police collecting demonstrators' personal data on a large scale</title><url>https://nltimes.nl/2023/03/10/police-collecting-demonstrators-personal-data-large-scale</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hahamaster</author><text>They never collect profiles of anyone who&#x27;s a law abiding, non-protesting citizen who always does what they&#x27;re told. Docile, compliant, obedient Dutch people are almost never profiled. Be docile, compliant and obedient and you will not have a problem with the police - it&#x27;s super simple.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajsnigrutin</author><text>Same can be said about the politicians... do what the people want, if you&#x27;re unsure, hold a referendum, and people won&#x27;t protest in the streets and you won&#x27;t need bodyguards to go outside.<p>On the other hand, on a venn diagram of what creates violence and (anti government) terrorism, they&#x27;re causing more and more overlap of ever larger circles.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dutch police collecting demonstrators' personal data on a large scale</title><url>https://nltimes.nl/2023/03/10/police-collecting-demonstrators-personal-data-large-scale</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hahamaster</author><text>They never collect profiles of anyone who&#x27;s a law abiding, non-protesting citizen who always does what they&#x27;re told. Docile, compliant, obedient Dutch people are almost never profiled. Be docile, compliant and obedient and you will not have a problem with the police - it&#x27;s super simple.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FooBarWidget</author><text>This is a strange characterization. &quot;Docile&quot; can also just mean &quot;follow rule of law&quot;. The latter suddenly doesn&#x27;t sound so odd.<p>If the police is violating the law then there&#x27;s no discussion and they need to be corrected. Otherwise, aren&#x27;t we supposed to follow the law? If we disagree with the law and want it changed, now <i>that</i> is a different process. But there&#x27;s no need to be disobedient for disobedience&#x27;s sake, or just for the sake of not appearing &quot;docile&quot;.<p>We Dutch are also good complainers so I don&#x27;t think we can be described as &quot;docile&quot;, even if &quot;just be normal and you&#x27;re already crazy enough&quot; is a local saying.</text></comment> |
39,915,648 | 39,911,813 | 1 | 3 | 39,902,205 | train | <story><title>Low Cost Robot Arm</title><url>https://github.com/AlexanderKoch-Koch/low_cost_robot</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xg15</author><text>&gt; <i>The hard part is repeatability. You need tight tolerances and each joint in the arm adds inaccuracy the further you get from the base. If the base has 1mm of wiggle, the 20cm arm has 4mm wiggle at the end, and the arm beyond it has even more.</i><p>Could this be solved by software instead of expensive hardware?<p>Some idea I had a while ago was to build an arm out of cheap, &quot;wobbly&quot; components for the large-scale movements, but then add some stages at the end that have a small movement range, but can be controlled very precisely.<p>Finally, add a way to track the deviation of the tool&#x27;s actual position from the desired position very precisely, maybe with a tool-mounted camera.<p>Then you could have a feedback loop in software which tracks the tool&#x27;s deviation from the desired position and uses the &quot;corrective&quot; stages at the end to counteract it.<p>I&#x27;m not sure if this would work, however.<p>(There is also the question how long the &quot;counteracting&quot; would take. It&#x27;s one thing to &quot;eventually&quot; arrive at the desired position at the end of the path - e.g. for pick-and-place - and another to stay below some maximum deviation for the entire path, e.g. for etching or welding.)</text></item><item><author>mtreis86</author><text>I started working on a similarly sized arm. I&#x27;ve got a use-case, long time friends with a glass blower. I was thinking of using it to make faceted glass pendants. They&#x27;ve got a faceting machine but it is manually operated.<p>The hard part is repeatability. You need tight tolerances and each joint in the arm adds inaccuracy the further you get from the base. If the base has 1mm of wiggle, the 20cm arm has 4mm wiggle at the end, and the arm beyond it has even more.<p>You also, for faceting purposes, need much finer resolution than an ungeared servo will have. Gearing it is tricky because you want backlash to keep the join tight, but not so much that it has high friction when moving. You don&#x27;t really want to use a worm gear because they&#x27;re both slow and overly rigid. So a cycloidal gear is the best bet for the gears in the arm. You also need real servos with some amount of feedback because grabbing at glass is sketchy at best.<p>I was estimating 1-2k build cost, bulk of that is in the gearboxes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brozaman</author><text>I&#x27;m a software engineer myself so I don&#x27;t know a lot about this, but there are a few patterns that are not far off of what you&#x27;re describing. For instance:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Input_shaping" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Input_shaping</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Proportional%E2%80%93integral%E2%80%93derivative_controller" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Proportional%E2%80%93integral%...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Low Cost Robot Arm</title><url>https://github.com/AlexanderKoch-Koch/low_cost_robot</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xg15</author><text>&gt; <i>The hard part is repeatability. You need tight tolerances and each joint in the arm adds inaccuracy the further you get from the base. If the base has 1mm of wiggle, the 20cm arm has 4mm wiggle at the end, and the arm beyond it has even more.</i><p>Could this be solved by software instead of expensive hardware?<p>Some idea I had a while ago was to build an arm out of cheap, &quot;wobbly&quot; components for the large-scale movements, but then add some stages at the end that have a small movement range, but can be controlled very precisely.<p>Finally, add a way to track the deviation of the tool&#x27;s actual position from the desired position very precisely, maybe with a tool-mounted camera.<p>Then you could have a feedback loop in software which tracks the tool&#x27;s deviation from the desired position and uses the &quot;corrective&quot; stages at the end to counteract it.<p>I&#x27;m not sure if this would work, however.<p>(There is also the question how long the &quot;counteracting&quot; would take. It&#x27;s one thing to &quot;eventually&quot; arrive at the desired position at the end of the path - e.g. for pick-and-place - and another to stay below some maximum deviation for the entire path, e.g. for etching or welding.)</text></item><item><author>mtreis86</author><text>I started working on a similarly sized arm. I&#x27;ve got a use-case, long time friends with a glass blower. I was thinking of using it to make faceted glass pendants. They&#x27;ve got a faceting machine but it is manually operated.<p>The hard part is repeatability. You need tight tolerances and each joint in the arm adds inaccuracy the further you get from the base. If the base has 1mm of wiggle, the 20cm arm has 4mm wiggle at the end, and the arm beyond it has even more.<p>You also, for faceting purposes, need much finer resolution than an ungeared servo will have. Gearing it is tricky because you want backlash to keep the join tight, but not so much that it has high friction when moving. You don&#x27;t really want to use a worm gear because they&#x27;re both slow and overly rigid. So a cycloidal gear is the best bet for the gears in the arm. You also need real servos with some amount of feedback because grabbing at glass is sketchy at best.<p>I was estimating 1-2k build cost, bulk of that is in the gearboxes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomp</author><text>&gt; Could this be solved by software instead of expensive hardware?<p>Yes.<p>Imagine a human putting a screw in a hole. You don&#x27;t follow the &quot;optimal&quot; trajectory, you adapt it on the fly, even do several quick trials to do it.<p>Humans do it with a combination of vision, touch and planning.<p>Each of these is currently still a <i>huge</i> problem for AI, nowhere <i>near</i> human level.</text></comment> |
10,042,572 | 10,040,659 | 1 | 3 | 10,039,202 | train | <story><title>“Stop reverse engineering our code”</title><url>https://blogs.oracle.com/maryanndavidson/entry/no_you_really_can_t</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kabdib</author><text>Wow. Really?<p>This single blog post is strong evidence for why you should never, ever buy an Oracle product, and if you are running anything written by them, why you should plan to migrate away.<p>Now, the culture of consultants in the Oracle sphere of influence is pretty toxic and money-grubbing. I can imagine companies being badgered into paying security weasels big bucks to analyze software with tools that cough up a zillion false positives, whereupon the weasel looks like a hero and is paid a bunch of cash, the customer panics and demands that Oracle fix a pile of non-existent vulns, and some department buried inside Oracle doesn&#x27;t know how to deal. Whereupon the weasel skates off to another company to run the same scam: rinse, repeat, and this blog post.<p>In which case Oracle should simply call it out: &quot;Please don&#x27;t send us crappy automated scanning tool reports from the shitty security weasel consultant you hired because those reports are useless, and the same weasels have been sending identical ones in, monthly, for <i>years</i>, and you are being ripped off.&quot; But Oracle never passes up the opportunity to express contempt for its customers, nor can it admit to being wrong.<p>Better to avoid that whole ecosystem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Natsu</author><text>This is hardly a first. Oracle stuffs a bad, misspelled little poem in their DB protocols, not for any technical reason, but purely to attempt to extend copyright protection by forcing people to violate their copyrights to be compatible with Oracle.<p>You can find a copy of it here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dacut.blogspot.com&#x2F;2008&#x2F;03&#x2F;oracle-poetry.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dacut.blogspot.com&#x2F;2008&#x2F;03&#x2F;oracle-poetry.html</a><p>Note the copyright statement on the mispelled, 3-line poem with no literary merit whatsoever (which happens to be longer than the poem itself):<p>&quot;The preceding key is copyrighted by Oracle Corporation.
Dupl@ication of this key is not allowed without permission
from Oracl1e Corporation. Copyright 2003 Oracle Corporation.&quot;<p>The purpose of this is to abuse the copyright on the above &quot;poem&quot; in order to prevent people from implementing the Oracle DB protocols. I guess they hope that everyone is ignorant of Sega v. Accolade? Even that trick of theirs is copied from elsewhere:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sega_v._Accolade" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sega_v._Accolade</a><p>EDIT: Reading that deliberate misspelling makes me wonder if I could start &quot;Oracl1e Corporation&quot; and give people permission to violate this? Sure, it&#x27;d be a ridiculous cheat, but so is the sham copyright on their worthless poem.</text></comment> | <story><title>“Stop reverse engineering our code”</title><url>https://blogs.oracle.com/maryanndavidson/entry/no_you_really_can_t</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kabdib</author><text>Wow. Really?<p>This single blog post is strong evidence for why you should never, ever buy an Oracle product, and if you are running anything written by them, why you should plan to migrate away.<p>Now, the culture of consultants in the Oracle sphere of influence is pretty toxic and money-grubbing. I can imagine companies being badgered into paying security weasels big bucks to analyze software with tools that cough up a zillion false positives, whereupon the weasel looks like a hero and is paid a bunch of cash, the customer panics and demands that Oracle fix a pile of non-existent vulns, and some department buried inside Oracle doesn&#x27;t know how to deal. Whereupon the weasel skates off to another company to run the same scam: rinse, repeat, and this blog post.<p>In which case Oracle should simply call it out: &quot;Please don&#x27;t send us crappy automated scanning tool reports from the shitty security weasel consultant you hired because those reports are useless, and the same weasels have been sending identical ones in, monthly, for <i>years</i>, and you are being ripped off.&quot; But Oracle never passes up the opportunity to express contempt for its customers, nor can it admit to being wrong.<p>Better to avoid that whole ecosystem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rm_-rf_slash</author><text>I went to a prominent tech school that adopted an Oracle platform for student course management in my last few years. I won&#x27;t mince words: it was a piece of shit, and my school&#x27;s administrators ate shit by agreeing to a contract that forbid them from making any changes to Oracle&#x27;s broken system. Now I work in college administration and we have to deal with the very same pile of junk.<p>Someone once told me that Larry Ellison is the biggest asshole in Silicon Valley, and also the richest, so he must be doing something right. The same could be said for John D Rockefeller and Standard Oil. Is the world we have the world we want?</text></comment> |
19,544,091 | 19,542,850 | 1 | 3 | 19,540,562 | train | <story><title>Google blocks China ads that help bypass censorship</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/1091cf20-5209-11e9-b401-8d9ef1626294</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unicornmama</author><text>Somehow I think the Chinese people are better off with access to Google than without. It’s not like Google is actively developing next gen censorship and oppression technology by applying a url blacklist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AlexandrB</author><text>&gt; Somehow I think the Chinese people are better off with access to Google than without.<p>I think the Chinese people are better off without the Chinese government having access to Google. Google is at it&#x27;s core an advertising and surveillance company. Its true customers are not the users but the advertisers. Political advertising (AKA propaganda) would only get more powerful in China with Google as an outlet.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google blocks China ads that help bypass censorship</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/1091cf20-5209-11e9-b401-8d9ef1626294</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unicornmama</author><text>Somehow I think the Chinese people are better off with access to Google than without. It’s not like Google is actively developing next gen censorship and oppression technology by applying a url blacklist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anovikov</author><text>I guess Google would be better off building a technology that comprehensively defeats any attempts of censorship? That way Chinese users will also have google, but an unrestricted. Maybe by becoming openly hostile to China in the most direct sense, like recognizing Taiwan as the only China. Google has resources to do it.</text></comment> |
37,851,685 | 37,849,729 | 1 | 2 | 37,844,305 | train | <story><title>SQL reserved words – An empirical list</title><url>https://modern-sql.com/reserved-words-empirical-list</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SPBS</author><text>SQL&#x27;s most egregious reserved keyword is, in my opinion, &quot;user&quot;. Almost every application will have a users table. I gravitate towards singular table names these days [1], and SQL sitting its fat behind on the word &quot;user&quot; means I always have to defer to &quot;users&quot; just for the users table. There is almost no other keyword that I regularly run into conflict with other than &quot;user&quot;. I don&#x27;t even use the &quot;user&quot; keyword in any SQL queries, what a terrible trade off.<p>[1] I used to prefer plural names, but now I favor singular names because no naming headaches with the plural intricacies of the English language.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulddraper</author><text>SQL doesn&#x27;t say you can&#x27;t use than name. All that a reserved word means is that you need to quote it to disambiguate.<p><pre><code> CREATE TABLE &quot;user&quot; (
id int PRIMARY KEY,
name varchar(50) NOT NULL
);
</code></pre>
In fact, in this respect, SQL is much <i>better</i> than most languages with their `clazz` and `klass` and `func`.</text></comment> | <story><title>SQL reserved words – An empirical list</title><url>https://modern-sql.com/reserved-words-empirical-list</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SPBS</author><text>SQL&#x27;s most egregious reserved keyword is, in my opinion, &quot;user&quot;. Almost every application will have a users table. I gravitate towards singular table names these days [1], and SQL sitting its fat behind on the word &quot;user&quot; means I always have to defer to &quot;users&quot; just for the users table. There is almost no other keyword that I regularly run into conflict with other than &quot;user&quot;. I don&#x27;t even use the &quot;user&quot; keyword in any SQL queries, what a terrible trade off.<p>[1] I used to prefer plural names, but now I favor singular names because no naming headaches with the plural intricacies of the English language.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dpifke</author><text>Instead of picking a different name for your table, you can quote the table name in double quotes.<p>(&quot;user&quot; is what got me in the habit of doing this unconditionally, to the point where SQL with bare table&#x2F;column names looks weird to me now.)</text></comment> |
2,347,891 | 2,347,823 | 1 | 3 | 2,347,017 | train | <story><title>Don't yell at waitresses. You look like a jerk and it blows investments.</title><url>http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/03/20/dont-yell-at-waitresses-you-look-like-a-jerk-and-it-blows-investments/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alex3917</author><text>Who are all these people who chronically mistreat the waitstaff? I've been to restaurants with hundreds of different people and I've never seen anyone act abusively towards the servers.</text></item><item><author>newobj</author><text>It also blows hiring. I was eating lunch with the CTO on my interview loop, and he was pitching me hard on the company. He treated the waitress (who gave us perfect service) so poorly that I instantly knew I would never want to work for this guy. Thinking back to every profoundly bad manager I've ever had (not bad in terms of 'ends' but bad in terms of 'means'), they all correlated with crapping on anyone they encountered in the service sector.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dspillett</author><text>I know people who work in retail, and suck people exist. There are not a massive proportion of society buy even a bit of a percent is a lot of people overall. You would might that people out for a nice relaxing meal, or shopping in the middle of a holiday, would be pleasant to deal with: but you'd be wrong. I know a number of people in retail and I can tell you (through indirect experience) that the general public can be unrealistically demanding and completely unpleasant if their demands are not met, repeatedly, yesterday.<p>By way of an anecdotal example: I know someone whose father thinks there is nothing wrong with clicking his finders and yelling "BOY!" at a waiter to get their attention. Except in Italian places - there it would be "Luigi" rather "boy". I bet he consumes a lot of spit when he goes out for a meal...<p>For many reasons many people out there are dicks. I might well be one of them if I'm honest with myself, though not one of the worst by a long shot. And if you work in retail or catering you are likely to meet far more than your fair share of them. Remember: most workers in a shops or restaurants deal closely with far more members of the public in a day than most of us encounter closely enough to notice in a year.</text></comment> | <story><title>Don't yell at waitresses. You look like a jerk and it blows investments.</title><url>http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/03/20/dont-yell-at-waitresses-you-look-like-a-jerk-and-it-blows-investments/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alex3917</author><text>Who are all these people who chronically mistreat the waitstaff? I've been to restaurants with hundreds of different people and I've never seen anyone act abusively towards the servers.</text></item><item><author>newobj</author><text>It also blows hiring. I was eating lunch with the CTO on my interview loop, and he was pitching me hard on the company. He treated the waitress (who gave us perfect service) so poorly that I instantly knew I would never want to work for this guy. Thinking back to every profoundly bad manager I've ever had (not bad in terms of 'ends' but bad in terms of 'means'), they all correlated with crapping on anyone they encountered in the service sector.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noonespecial</author><text>Don't ever deliver Pizza. Its like COPS but with more yelling and less clothing.</text></comment> |
38,447,497 | 38,447,536 | 1 | 3 | 38,446,957 | train | <story><title>Nvidia's earnings are up 206% from last year as it continues riding the AI wave</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/nvidias-earnings-are-up-206-from-last-year-as-it-continues-riding-the-ai-wave/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>perryizgr8</author><text>Always perplexed me why nobody else kept up with Nvidia for the last decade in GPUs. Gaming has been a lucrative market. Why is there only Nvidia?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>packetlost</author><text>There&#x27;s not? Both AMD and Intel have GPUs that are competitive in certain market segments. AMD in particular is pretty much even in terms of rasterization performance on the high end. Intel is just new (again) to the game of discrete graphics.<p>Nvidia, on the other hand, invested tons and tons of money to make CUDA good over the last like 15 years, while AMD has not really put any serious effort into AI&#x2F;ML workloads. It&#x27;s <i>mostly</i> a software support problem, not a hardware problem to my understanding.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nvidia's earnings are up 206% from last year as it continues riding the AI wave</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/nvidias-earnings-are-up-206-from-last-year-as-it-continues-riding-the-ai-wave/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>perryizgr8</author><text>Always perplexed me why nobody else kept up with Nvidia for the last decade in GPUs. Gaming has been a lucrative market. Why is there only Nvidia?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>automatic6131</author><text>AMD&#x27;s Radeon group has, by any definition, kept up. In gaming, in the tier of cards that people actually buy, they trade blows with NVidia.<p>But making a GPU is hard. Making a good GPU is even harder. This becomes a chicken and egg problem. If NVidia&#x27;s hardware has quirks, and you&#x27;re a game developer, you optimize your game for Nvidia&#x27;s hardware. If someone else tries and builds a GPU, they discover that many, popular, games run like sh*t. Because of tens of years of strange workarounds to ship a game, drivers rewrite commands for specific games, game devs abuse the directx spec or do it wrong.<p>However, Nvidia set out 10-15 years ago to corner the professional general purpose GPU compute market with a software layer called CUDA. Software was written and optmised for CUDA, and not any other generic graphics library for reasons I don&#x27;t know (I&#x27;m not a graphics developer, just a gamer). So now Nvidia enjoys a moat in gpGPU (as it was called).</text></comment> |
39,291,618 | 39,289,811 | 1 | 2 | 39,288,039 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute</title><url>https://oneminutefocus.com</url><text>Staring at something for 30-90 seconds has been proven to improve &amp; boost mental focus on subsequent tasks (from Andrew Huberman - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;CrtR12PBKb0?t=3367" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;CrtR12PBKb0?t=3367</a>
).<p>So I made something simple you can look at (and simultaneously meditate) for 1 minute to improve focus for your next task :) Let me know if it works for you</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeffgreco</author><text>I was a young internet user at the turn of the century so kept waiting for a jump scare -_-</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throw310822</author><text>The first time I used a meditation app I could not stop laughing hysterically at the thought that the guy soothingly giving directions from the app might suddenly go BAAAAUAAARGH! just for the fun of it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute</title><url>https://oneminutefocus.com</url><text>Staring at something for 30-90 seconds has been proven to improve &amp; boost mental focus on subsequent tasks (from Andrew Huberman - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;CrtR12PBKb0?t=3367" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;CrtR12PBKb0?t=3367</a>
).<p>So I made something simple you can look at (and simultaneously meditate) for 1 minute to improve focus for your next task :) Let me know if it works for you</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeffgreco</author><text>I was a young internet user at the turn of the century so kept waiting for a jump scare -_-</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gigglesupstairs</author><text>The first time I encountered such a jump scare was someone presenting their animation done in Macromedia Director. Not kidding, it was really traumatic in nature at the time. And I just didn’t get the fun others supposedly felt for this kind of “fun”.</text></comment> |
2,407,195 | 2,406,842 | 1 | 3 | 2,406,328 | train | <story><title>A Call to All UI Designers: Do Not Play Skype’s Game</title><url>http://kaishinlab.com/no-to-skype-competition/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>larrik</author><text>Am I the only one who thinks there's way too much similarity between the the RIAA's "Save the artists" screeching, and the "design industry's" "Save the artists" screeching?<p>Your existing business model is disappearing, and your cartel isn't going to stop it. Sucks for you.<p>(BTW, my wife is a graphic designer, so make of that what you will)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>webwright</author><text>"Your existing business model is disappearing".<p>No, it's not. It's changing-- just like programming.<p>Non-consultative design is eminently outsource-able. Many many businesses can thrive with a "good enough" logo or site theme from 99Designs or PageForest... Just like most businesses can thrive with Drupal or WordPress for most of their needs (supported by a $15/hr offshore developer) instead of hiring a programmer.<p>If you're a designer or a developer, your best protection is being good at solving Hard Problems(tm) that are Core to the Business.<p>A Bed and Breakfast will never hire an expensive resource for their logo or contact form. But they WILL buy nice mattresses and sheets.<p>A startup will go to great lengths to buy a crappy used desk on Craigslist for pennies, but will generally NOT skimp on developers or product design if they can help it.<p>The days of getting paid $95/hr for making something pretty or simple form/database work are coming to an end. But the opportunity for designer/developers who can demonstrably help sales/revenue are EXPLODING.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Call to All UI Designers: Do Not Play Skype’s Game</title><url>http://kaishinlab.com/no-to-skype-competition/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>larrik</author><text>Am I the only one who thinks there's way too much similarity between the the RIAA's "Save the artists" screeching, and the "design industry's" "Save the artists" screeching?<p>Your existing business model is disappearing, and your cartel isn't going to stop it. Sucks for you.<p>(BTW, my wife is a graphic designer, so make of that what you will)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roc</author><text>Hopefully. Because at any level of abstraction below 'high orbit', the comparison completely fails.<p>The most important and glaring difference that your abstraction completely ignores, is that the RIAA's audience is governments and their goal is to see laws enacted that will have wide ranging impact on music and computing.<p>Designers' audience is would-be customers and other designers. Their goal is educating customers on the difference between a $100 logo and an identity package that costs orders of magnitude more, and educating other designers on the impact of trying to compete with the $100 logo on price.<p>Designers have no cartel. They have no legal/lobbying arm. They've never controlled distribution or access. They've never been multiply convicted of illegal vertical integration and horizontal collusion. They aren't trying to see your rights legislated away to protect the comfortable industry monopoly they have never had.</text></comment> |
27,483,801 | 27,482,678 | 1 | 2 | 27,479,712 | train | <story><title>'I was completely inside': Lobster diver swallowed by humpback whale</title><url>https://capecodtimes.com/story/news/2021/06/11/humpback-whale-catches-michael-packard-lobster-driver-mouth-proviencetown-cape-cod/7653838002/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iron_ball</author><text>Teela Brown from Ringworld. She was the result of a selective breeding program intended to create the luckiest human alive... but it turned out the _real_ lucky ones were all the &quot;failures&quot; who did _not_ get recruited for an impossibly dangerous mission.</text></item><item><author>aspaceman</author><text>I’ve liked the interpretation that high luck isn’t necessarily good. It just means highly improbable events happen to you more likely...</text></item><item><author>ukyrgf</author><text>He is saying his &quot;luck&quot; skill is maxed out, so he is +10 while others could be having a real -10 of it.</text></item><item><author>dylan604</author><text>He&#x27;s still alive, so it sounds like he&#x27;s got a little credit left on that account. The big creditor in the sky hasn&#x27;t declined his charges yet.<p>Remember this guy&#x27;s name. If you ever meet this guy and he asks if you want to go on a trip with him, I would advise politely declining. You should however, offer to buy him a beer to have him tell his stories.</text></item><item><author>ballarak</author><text>&quot;Ten years ago, while traveling in Costa Rica, he was a passenger in a small plane that crashed in the jungle, killing the pilot, co-pilot and a passenger. Packard sustained multiple serious injuries to his abdomen and upper body. The rescuers that found the remaining five passengers after two nights in the jungle said they wouldn’t have survived another night.&quot;<p>This guy&#x27;s luck is clearly maxed out. What a crazy pair of stories.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icebraining</author><text>That mirrors Orwell&#x27;s thought when he survived a shot in the neck during the Spanish civil war - everyone kept telling him how lucky he was, but he couldn&#x27;t help but think it would have been luckier to not have been shot at all!</text></comment> | <story><title>'I was completely inside': Lobster diver swallowed by humpback whale</title><url>https://capecodtimes.com/story/news/2021/06/11/humpback-whale-catches-michael-packard-lobster-driver-mouth-proviencetown-cape-cod/7653838002/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iron_ball</author><text>Teela Brown from Ringworld. She was the result of a selective breeding program intended to create the luckiest human alive... but it turned out the _real_ lucky ones were all the &quot;failures&quot; who did _not_ get recruited for an impossibly dangerous mission.</text></item><item><author>aspaceman</author><text>I’ve liked the interpretation that high luck isn’t necessarily good. It just means highly improbable events happen to you more likely...</text></item><item><author>ukyrgf</author><text>He is saying his &quot;luck&quot; skill is maxed out, so he is +10 while others could be having a real -10 of it.</text></item><item><author>dylan604</author><text>He&#x27;s still alive, so it sounds like he&#x27;s got a little credit left on that account. The big creditor in the sky hasn&#x27;t declined his charges yet.<p>Remember this guy&#x27;s name. If you ever meet this guy and he asks if you want to go on a trip with him, I would advise politely declining. You should however, offer to buy him a beer to have him tell his stories.</text></item><item><author>ballarak</author><text>&quot;Ten years ago, while traveling in Costa Rica, he was a passenger in a small plane that crashed in the jungle, killing the pilot, co-pilot and a passenger. Packard sustained multiple serious injuries to his abdomen and upper body. The rescuers that found the remaining five passengers after two nights in the jungle said they wouldn’t have survived another night.&quot;<p>This guy&#x27;s luck is clearly maxed out. What a crazy pair of stories.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zanni</author><text>As I recall (spoiler), that was speculation by one of the other characters after they crashed on Ringworld, later reversed because Teela met the love of her life <i>due to the crash</i>. The real take away was that Teela&#x27;s luck was in no way transferable to the rest of the party; it only looked out for Teela.</text></comment> |
16,062,712 | 16,061,519 | 1 | 2 | 16,060,658 | train | <story><title>Teens Aren’t Partying Anymore</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/why-teens-arent-partying-anymore/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>westmeal</author><text>I know, I know this is anecdotal &#x27;evidence&#x27;.<p>I happen to be 21 which fits me right in this generation and the main reason this occurs is due to parenting. My parents wouldn&#x27;t let me go _anywhere_ by myself until I was at least 17. By that time I was completely and utterly addicted to computing to just let go and &#x27;hang out&#x27;. As a matter in fact most of my friends are online rather than 4 real friends in real life. It seems like people in my age group had parents that would rather have their child stare at a screen than experience the world. Just my two cents.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ashark</author><text>If your parents had eliminated screens when you were very young (including theirs) save maybe one publicly-placed crappy terminal for wikipedia or looking up business hours or maps or learning you some programming or whatever, but loosened the reigns on hang-outs and travel, do you think you&#x27;d have still felt isolated because all your friends were still online most of the time?<p>Asking as a parent with three young kids who&#x27;s seeing practically no benefit to ubiquitous screens at this point, and lots of bad things about them, and trying to figure out how to navigate this brave new world while screwing these kids up as little as possible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Teens Aren’t Partying Anymore</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/why-teens-arent-partying-anymore/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>westmeal</author><text>I know, I know this is anecdotal &#x27;evidence&#x27;.<p>I happen to be 21 which fits me right in this generation and the main reason this occurs is due to parenting. My parents wouldn&#x27;t let me go _anywhere_ by myself until I was at least 17. By that time I was completely and utterly addicted to computing to just let go and &#x27;hang out&#x27;. As a matter in fact most of my friends are online rather than 4 real friends in real life. It seems like people in my age group had parents that would rather have their child stare at a screen than experience the world. Just my two cents.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>glitcher</author><text>I tend to agree with you. Although I also don&#x27;t have any hard evidence, it seems to me that growing up in the 80&#x27;s, there was far less parental supervision of kids then there is now. In the summertime during school break, even as early as elementary school probably 3rd grade, we would take off on our bikes and roam without any supervision. As long as we were home by sundown we wouldn&#x27;t be in any trouble.</text></comment> |
28,872,083 | 28,872,198 | 1 | 2 | 28,870,464 | train | <story><title>Tech compensation in 2021</title><url>https://jacobian.org/2021/oct/13/tech-salaries-2021/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway2016a</author><text>20 years experience, two books under my belt, and lead architect (with a CTO title) on several good sized projects and most I have ever gotten in $175k... every time I see an article like this, I think I am doing something &quot;very wrong&quot;<p>I live about 40 miles outside of Boston.<p>Edit: Looking at levels.fyi for Boston that actually puts me above the median[1]. Why the heck is Boston so low compared to other markets?<p>Edit 2: Boston, MA and Denver, CO on Levels.fyi are both a median $159k but due to cost of living, that $159k in Denver is the same as $211k in Boston. I.e. adjusted for the cost of living, Denver pays 25% better.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.levels.fyi&#x2F;Salaries&#x2F;Software-Engineer&#x2F;Greater-Boston-Area&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.levels.fyi&#x2F;Salaries&#x2F;Software-Engineer&#x2F;Greater-Bo...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eminence32</author><text>It seems like a lot of HN readers are continually playing the &quot;maximize salary&quot; game and use like articles like this one to figure out how well they&#x27;re doing. If you want to play that game, then good luck, have fun. I understand the desire.<p>But it&#x27;s not for everyone. Are you able to live comfortably on $175k per year? Do you enjoy what you do and the people that you work with? If so, I don&#x27;t think there should be any shame in staying where you are. Don&#x27;t feel like you have to chase every last dollar.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tech compensation in 2021</title><url>https://jacobian.org/2021/oct/13/tech-salaries-2021/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway2016a</author><text>20 years experience, two books under my belt, and lead architect (with a CTO title) on several good sized projects and most I have ever gotten in $175k... every time I see an article like this, I think I am doing something &quot;very wrong&quot;<p>I live about 40 miles outside of Boston.<p>Edit: Looking at levels.fyi for Boston that actually puts me above the median[1]. Why the heck is Boston so low compared to other markets?<p>Edit 2: Boston, MA and Denver, CO on Levels.fyi are both a median $159k but due to cost of living, that $159k in Denver is the same as $211k in Boston. I.e. adjusted for the cost of living, Denver pays 25% better.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.levels.fyi&#x2F;Salaries&#x2F;Software-Engineer&#x2F;Greater-Boston-Area&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.levels.fyi&#x2F;Salaries&#x2F;Software-Engineer&#x2F;Greater-Bo...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>diskzero</author><text>If you have a family that loves you, manageable stress levels and a purpose in life, I think you are doing a lot of things right. I am sure you are worth more! There are probably ways to increase your compensation and maintain your quality of life, but is it really worth it?</text></comment> |
1,170,525 | 1,170,563 | 1 | 2 | 1,170,322 | train | <story><title>The Black Damsel In Dating Distress: A Response to OkCupid's Conclusions</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/03/the-black-damsel-in-dating-distress/37085/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petercooper</author><text><i>That's because all the black men who don't want to date white women are on the African American Dating Network or Blacksinglesconnection. There simply is no real white corollary. Stormfront excluded, there aren't many "WhiteSingles" websites or "EliteIvory" dating sites. There is no Caucasian Dating Network, because the broader world is the Caucasian Dating Network. [..]</i><p>Disagree. The reason there are no popular white-focused dating sites is because they would be hounded or sued out of business! It's "racist" for white people to congregate on a race-dependent basis, but acceptable for people of other races. I guess it's our payback for our ancestors being idiots in the distant past.<p>That said, I think racial segregation is a "problem" (though it's not always "racist", per se). The existence of dating sites exclusively for certain races is the issue here.<p>We need to go one way or the other. We ignore race and discourage its use as a demographic tool, or we celebrate it and allow people to silo as they see fit. Our society seems to have mostly chosen to ignore race and consider it a non-issue, so "Blacksinglesconnection" or "EliteNoire" (Are you <i>shitting</i> me? This really exists?) should be as distasteful to our society as a hypothetical "Whitesinglesconnection" would be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jbooth</author><text>When your race makes up 13% of the larger population, the economics for a niche dating site will work out. At 75%, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Black Damsel In Dating Distress: A Response to OkCupid's Conclusions</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/03/the-black-damsel-in-dating-distress/37085/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petercooper</author><text><i>That's because all the black men who don't want to date white women are on the African American Dating Network or Blacksinglesconnection. There simply is no real white corollary. Stormfront excluded, there aren't many "WhiteSingles" websites or "EliteIvory" dating sites. There is no Caucasian Dating Network, because the broader world is the Caucasian Dating Network. [..]</i><p>Disagree. The reason there are no popular white-focused dating sites is because they would be hounded or sued out of business! It's "racist" for white people to congregate on a race-dependent basis, but acceptable for people of other races. I guess it's our payback for our ancestors being idiots in the distant past.<p>That said, I think racial segregation is a "problem" (though it's not always "racist", per se). The existence of dating sites exclusively for certain races is the issue here.<p>We need to go one way or the other. We ignore race and discourage its use as a demographic tool, or we celebrate it and allow people to silo as they see fit. Our society seems to have mostly chosen to ignore race and consider it a non-issue, so "Blacksinglesconnection" or "EliteNoire" (Are you <i>shitting</i> me? This really exists?) should be as distasteful to our society as a hypothetical "Whitesinglesconnection" would be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>henrikschroder</author><text>Why should it be hideous?<p>Let me try an analogy. Discrimination based on sexual orientation is illegal in a lot of places, and seen as equally bad as discrimination based on race.<p>But there are plenty of dating sites that are exclusively targeted to gay men or lesbian women. If you think that race segregating dating sites are bad, then what are dating sites that segregate on sexual orientation? Are they also bad?<p>But a gay dating site that didn't segregate on sexual orientation would be completely useless! And to the extent gay men are members of non-segregating dating sites, they will definitely filter out all the women and be filtered out by all the straight men, so in essence they would self-segregate.<p>We have anti-discrimination laws because race or gender or sexual orientation are irrelevant in some areas, such as the ability to perform a job. That's why it's illegal to deny a job applicant based on those attributes.<p>But when it comes to dating, those attributes are relevant! Incredibly relevant! Everyone has preferences when it comes to dating, and it not racist to only date people of one's own race. It is not sexist to only date people of one's preferred gender. It is not bad to want to date people that share your culture, your religion, your world view.<p>It is not bad or distasteful to have segregated dating sites.</text></comment> |
8,920,237 | 8,919,411 | 1 | 2 | 8,917,045 | train | <story><title>Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa</title><url>https://launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/why-explore-space-a-1970-letter-to-a-nun-in-africa/?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grondilu</author><text>One of my math teacher told me once a short story about Henri Poincaré arguing with a child about the use of mathematics. When the kid asked him what were maths used for, he answered : « and you, what are you used for? »<p>I don&#x27;t know if this story is true or not. I suspect it isn&#x27;t. But frankly I have the feeling there is more sincerity in this answer than in this long letter to a Nun in Africa.<p>If you spend some time on a spaceflight forum, you will read enthusiast posts about how cool it would be to see other words, to experience micro-gravity, or how interesting the science behind rocket engines is, but I rarely read about how space science will solve hunger, world peace and whatnot, and when I do it&#x27;s precisely as an answer to someone who brought this up, and in this case someone who does not work in aerospace.<p>When a Kid loves space and rockets, when he spends countless time reading science-fiction books, it&#x27;s because to him it&#x27;s fun, fascinating and exciting, not because it&#x27;s supposed to feed starving children. I doubt an adult rocket scientist or engineer is fundamentally different. Deep down he just doesn&#x27;t give a crap about starving children in Africa.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mturmon</author><text>&quot;When a Kid loves space and rockets, when he spends countless time reading science-fiction books, it&#x27;s because to him it&#x27;s fun, fascinating and exciting, not because it&#x27;s supposed to feed starving children. I doubt an adult rocket scientist or engineer is fundamentally different. Deep down he just doesn&#x27;t give a crap about starving children in Africa.&quot;<p>I appreciate your focus on measurable behaviors. But make no mistake, there are lots of people involved in space science because they want to improve people&#x27;s lives.<p>There are unique opportunities to measure climate change from space, for instance, and significant numbers of people in this area have literally devoted their professional careers to finding out what&#x27;s going on with climate change. They will tell you that straight out, and their decisions in other areas of their life mirror that outlook, so you can tell it&#x27;s not lip service.<p>The people who study planetary atmospheres can be motivated by similar considerations (hello, runaway greenhouse effect), also terrestrial weather (hurricane intensification, tornado genesis, etc.), space weather (solar flares, etc.), ecological forecasting, etc. Some folks are <i>drawn</i> to these areas because they matter in an obvious way.<p>You are correct that <i>some</i> space scientists&#x2F;engineers are motivated by pure curiosity, tenacity, novelty, etc. -- inward-looking things. But by no means all, and in some disciplines, it tilts rather the other way.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa</title><url>https://launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/why-explore-space-a-1970-letter-to-a-nun-in-africa/?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grondilu</author><text>One of my math teacher told me once a short story about Henri Poincaré arguing with a child about the use of mathematics. When the kid asked him what were maths used for, he answered : « and you, what are you used for? »<p>I don&#x27;t know if this story is true or not. I suspect it isn&#x27;t. But frankly I have the feeling there is more sincerity in this answer than in this long letter to a Nun in Africa.<p>If you spend some time on a spaceflight forum, you will read enthusiast posts about how cool it would be to see other words, to experience micro-gravity, or how interesting the science behind rocket engines is, but I rarely read about how space science will solve hunger, world peace and whatnot, and when I do it&#x27;s precisely as an answer to someone who brought this up, and in this case someone who does not work in aerospace.<p>When a Kid loves space and rockets, when he spends countless time reading science-fiction books, it&#x27;s because to him it&#x27;s fun, fascinating and exciting, not because it&#x27;s supposed to feed starving children. I doubt an adult rocket scientist or engineer is fundamentally different. Deep down he just doesn&#x27;t give a crap about starving children in Africa.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Pyxl101</author><text>&gt; When the kid asked him what were maths used for, he answered : « and you, what are you used for? »<p>I think there&#x27;s more than one way to read that statement. It seems overly cynical to interpret that anecdote as implying that children have no use (present or future); I think the implication is that while they may have no <i>present</i> use, they will have future use when they develop into adults.<p>Similarly, new branches of mathematics or space science might not be used for much today, but will develop into fields that have uses in the future. Just as humans must invest in rearing their children, so too must they invest in developing their science and math.<p>Not everyone is effective at solving every problem. I don&#x27;t know anything about agriculture or logistics or politics or many other fields that would be needed to begin to tackle hunger in other countries, or even my own country. I solve the problems that I know how to solve, and we all cooperate as a society. The technology developed in one field like robotics or global positioning makes other fields like agriculture more effective (automated farming machinery). It would be shortsighted to suggest that everyone put their field on hold and inefficiently try to tackle world hunger. A better question is &quot;do we have the right amount of people and resources dedicated to solving world hunger?&quot; which gets back to the budgetary and governance matters discussed in the letter.<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s true that a rocket scientist necessarily &quot;doesn&#x27;t give a crap about starving children in Africa&quot;. It&#x27;s probably more that he doesn&#x27;t know anything about the issue and has no expertise with which to solve the problem, and so he focuses on problems that he can solve, like launching satellites for weather, communication, GPS, which may in turn assist people in other countries with problems like food distribution. Without the rocket scientists, satellite equipment shuts down, and everyone in every field is worse off. We should trust to the natural equilibrium and distribution of human interest, balancing that with the government we&#x27;ve created, to make sure that problems get solved adequately -- we should not judge people for the field that they&#x27;ve chosen if it contributes to society.<p>Even fields like computer science, as applied to building Internet forums like this one, contribute in their own way by bringing people together and allowing them to have discussions like this.</text></comment> |
36,133,855 | 36,128,773 | 1 | 2 | 36,128,235 | train | <story><title>Albert Camus</title><url>https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/camus/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>a_petrov</author><text>I&#x27;ll share my strange story with The Stranger. 10 years ago I suffered from anxiety, lack of sleep and high blood pressure.<p>I&#x27;d been given small pink pills. Took them as prescribed. My condition didn&#x27;t really change.<p>Then I turned to reading. After a couple of other books, I found this list [1]. I read The Stranger. I&#x27;ve felt sudden ease of my anxiety, I was at peace.<p>Two weeks after The Stranger, I read Siddhartha. Soon, my sleep turned back to normal.<p>I&#x27;m not praising these books, neither I&#x27;m suggesting avoiding medical advice. I&#x27;m just still excited how reading can affect someone&#x27;s well-being.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Le_Monde%27s_100_Books_of_the_Century" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Le_Monde%27s_100_Books_of_the_...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Albert Camus</title><url>https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/camus/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zvmaz</author><text>The Algerian writer Kateb Yacine had interesting things to say about Camus [1]. As he says, it is true that in his novels, Algerians are almost non-existent, although the novels happen in colonial Algeria and he himself lived amongst them. Another brilliant Algerian writer, Mouloud Mammeri, had similar things to say about Camus [2]... These then colonized writers had different perspectives on Camus&#x27; outlook.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6WBHq-m5WHQ">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6WBHq-m5WHQ</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=7P1eA8NeUKU">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=7P1eA8NeUKU</a></text></comment> |
15,208,813 | 15,208,803 | 1 | 3 | 15,208,565 | train | <story><title>Chinese government is working on a timetable to end sales of fossil-fuel cars</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-09/china-to-ban-sale-of-fossil-fuel-cars-in-electric-vehicle-push</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brownbat</author><text>EVs in China produce two to five times the amount of smog as gas vehicles, because the supporting energy mix is so dirty.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;in-coal-powered-china-electric-car-surge-fuels-fear-of-worsening-smog&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;in-coal-powered-c...</a><p>Should be good long term, if China realizes other energy sourcing goals, just... EVs alone don&#x27;t fix everything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ecpottinger</author><text>Yet somehow this study leaves out how much China is adding solar and wind energy to it&#x27;s supply.<p>Infact China is closing down it&#x27;s worse coal plants.<p>See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Solar_power_in_China" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Solar_power_in_China</a>
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-40341833" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-40341833</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2017-07-19&#x2F;china-adds-about-24gw-of-solar-capacity-in-first-half-official" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2017-07-19&#x2F;china-add...</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wind_power_in_China" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wind_power_in_China</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;13&#x2F;china-and-us-lead-way-with-wind-power-installations-says-global-energy-report.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;13&#x2F;china-and-us-lead-way-with-w...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Chinese government is working on a timetable to end sales of fossil-fuel cars</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-09/china-to-ban-sale-of-fossil-fuel-cars-in-electric-vehicle-push</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brownbat</author><text>EVs in China produce two to five times the amount of smog as gas vehicles, because the supporting energy mix is so dirty.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;in-coal-powered-china-electric-car-surge-fuels-fear-of-worsening-smog&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;in-coal-powered-c...</a><p>Should be good long term, if China realizes other energy sourcing goals, just... EVs alone don&#x27;t fix everything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>melling</author><text>China has 20 nuclear plants under construction:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scmp.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;companies&#x2F;article&#x2F;2107354&#x2F;china-pips-us-race-start-worlds-most-advanced-nuclear-power-plant" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scmp.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;companies&#x2F;article&#x2F;2107354&#x2F;china...</a><p>The new AP1000s are almost done. Hopefully they get the costs under control so they can build 100 of them.
Bill Gates’ Terrapower is developing the next gen plants in China:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;jamesconca&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;02&#x2F;bill-gates-forges-nuclear-deal-with-china&#x2F;#ce496042c129" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;jamesconca&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;02&#x2F;bill-gate...</a></text></comment> |
9,550,194 | 9,549,988 | 1 | 2 | 9,549,181 | train | <story><title>B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/16/arts/music/b-b-king-blues-singer-dies-at-89.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Bahamut</author><text>That makes two of us - I missed being able to see Gary Moore live, and now B. B. King :( .</text></item><item><author>k-mcgrady</author><text>We talk a lot on HN about &#x27;doing what you love&#x27; This was a man who, against all odds, truly did that. For most of his life he was playing over 300 shows a year and even this year when he was ill he played over 100. Very sad he&#x27;s gone and I never had the opportunity to hear him sing live.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>72deluxe</author><text>I got to see Moore but missed King - my friend went to see him but didn&#x27;t tell me about the tour! Gutting.<p>Moore&#x27;s blues songs are a million times better than his rock era, IMHO. Some nasty-sounding guitar tone there.<p>Additionally, King did very well to keep playing the blues over such a long period of time. If you listen to the songs from the 80s you can hear that he had to adjust (slap bass &#x2F; boosted treble bass, round squishy synths and massive reverbs, horrible tom sounds) but he did well to carry on playing the blues through it and come back to a more traditional (normal!) sound afterwards.<p>Interestingly, he never played chords!</text></comment> | <story><title>B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/16/arts/music/b-b-king-blues-singer-dies-at-89.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Bahamut</author><text>That makes two of us - I missed being able to see Gary Moore live, and now B. B. King :( .</text></item><item><author>k-mcgrady</author><text>We talk a lot on HN about &#x27;doing what you love&#x27; This was a man who, against all odds, truly did that. For most of his life he was playing over 300 shows a year and even this year when he was ill he played over 100. Very sad he&#x27;s gone and I never had the opportunity to hear him sing live.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>declnz</author><text>I feel blessed to have been able to see both of them live, even just once, and even before I knew much about Gary Moore (he was supporting someone else), but was truly moved by Still Got the Blues live.<p>Of course you never appreciate this as much as you do once they&#x27;re gone. May they both rest in peace.</text></comment> |
27,246,092 | 27,246,272 | 1 | 3 | 27,244,147 | train | <story><title>How Iran Uses Bitcoin Mining to Evade Sanctions and “Export” Oil</title><url>https://www.elliptic.co/blog/how-iran-uses-bitcoin-mining-to-evade-sanctions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asddubs</author><text>political implications aside, it still seems so crazy that here we&#x27;re just burning 10 million barrels a year on doing nothing useful at all</text></item><item><author>gnfargbl</author><text>Prior to the re-imposition of US sanctions, Iran was producing around 1400 million barrels of oil per year and exporting around 800 [1]. The article says that Iranian Bitcoin mining is currently consuming the equivalent of around 10 million barrels per year.<p>At a consumption rate of ~1% of the potential exportable amount, this doesn&#x27;t seem like a particularly significant evasion of sanctions.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-middle-east-48119109" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-middle-east-48119109</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>logicchains</author><text>&gt;political implications aside, it still seems so crazy that here we&#x27;re just burning 10 million barrels a year on doing nothing useful at all<p>The Iranian people impoverished by sanctions would beg to differ (no pun intended).</text></comment> | <story><title>How Iran Uses Bitcoin Mining to Evade Sanctions and “Export” Oil</title><url>https://www.elliptic.co/blog/how-iran-uses-bitcoin-mining-to-evade-sanctions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asddubs</author><text>political implications aside, it still seems so crazy that here we&#x27;re just burning 10 million barrels a year on doing nothing useful at all</text></item><item><author>gnfargbl</author><text>Prior to the re-imposition of US sanctions, Iran was producing around 1400 million barrels of oil per year and exporting around 800 [1]. The article says that Iranian Bitcoin mining is currently consuming the equivalent of around 10 million barrels per year.<p>At a consumption rate of ~1% of the potential exportable amount, this doesn&#x27;t seem like a particularly significant evasion of sanctions.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-middle-east-48119109" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-middle-east-48119109</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>base698</author><text>Think about the barrels burned by the tanks and planes in the middle east. The proof of work for the petro dollar is the military.</text></comment> |
19,752,400 | 19,752,138 | 1 | 3 | 19,751,526 | train | <story><title>Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor: Open Source Devs</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/open-source-betrayed-industry-leaders-accuse-amazon-of-playing-a-rigged-game-with-aws-67177bc748b7?gi=356d74c0b36e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>capkutay</author><text>Step 1: Launch company to monetize open source hoping to get rich in IPO.<p>Step 2: Be shocked when Amazon uses your open licenses exactly how they&#x27;re allowed to<p>Step 3: Write angry letter about Amazon monetizing the project you were trying to monetize.<p>Open source isn&#x27;t meant to be a get-rich quick scheme for founders to generate cheap buzz off their &#x27;free&#x27; project. It&#x27;s literally designed to be forked and used in whatever way the user&#x2F;developer sees fit. You can&#x27;t just unrealistically hope that a large company won&#x27;t exploit it in whatever way they can.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>burtonator</author><text>What I find most sad is that most of the people on HN will rail against how evil Google is (or any other company) yet happily use their Open Source code and not complain that they&#x27;re benefiting from what they claim to despise.<p>It&#x27;s really a tragedy of the commons.<p>Users on average refuse to pay for software&#x2F;web apps directly so companies have to find other alternative ways to get funding and make money.<p>People complain about Facebook constantly and how they&#x27;re selling their data yet these users wouldn&#x27;t sign up to pay $2-3 per month for Facebook directly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor: Open Source Devs</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/open-source-betrayed-industry-leaders-accuse-amazon-of-playing-a-rigged-game-with-aws-67177bc748b7?gi=356d74c0b36e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>capkutay</author><text>Step 1: Launch company to monetize open source hoping to get rich in IPO.<p>Step 2: Be shocked when Amazon uses your open licenses exactly how they&#x27;re allowed to<p>Step 3: Write angry letter about Amazon monetizing the project you were trying to monetize.<p>Open source isn&#x27;t meant to be a get-rich quick scheme for founders to generate cheap buzz off their &#x27;free&#x27; project. It&#x27;s literally designed to be forked and used in whatever way the user&#x2F;developer sees fit. You can&#x27;t just unrealistically hope that a large company won&#x27;t exploit it in whatever way they can.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eanzenberg</author><text>Yes! You can&#x27;t have it both ways. You can&#x27;t have random people submit IP to your codebase and then own the monetization of the end result.</text></comment> |
37,210,259 | 37,210,192 | 1 | 2 | 37,205,731 | train | <story><title>We’re all just temporarily abled</title><url>https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/temporarily-abled/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zippergz</author><text>Is there any particular type or brand of earplugs you recommend, that are comfortable enough to wear for multiple hours and don&#x27;t make the music sound too muffled (while still reducing the volume to safe levels)?</text></item><item><author>Technotroll</author><text>Got Tinnitus from working as a concert photographer. It&#x27;s not so bad. I&#x27;ve learned to live with it. But yeah... It&#x27;s permanent. So, to not make it worse, I&#x27;ve bought protection that I carry with me when I go to loud clubs or concerts. I use it religiously. Highly recommended! Especially if you work in a bar or club, or in some capacity at concerts. Do it now, because Tinnitus doesn&#x27;t go away. Some of them are very discrete, but if you like making a splash there are ones that look quite stylish as well.</text></item><item><author>98Windows</author><text>I became disabled after a music festival last year. The music was too loud and something broke in my ear.<p>Now every sound hurts me, my voice is far too painful, going for a walk outside is too painful. Basically I can&#x27;t do anything but sit in a silent room and browse the internet.<p>Pain hyperacusis sucks. I wish I&#x27;d been more careful with my hearing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oalders</author><text>If you can see an audiologist, they should be able to get you custom molded ear plugs. You can buy filters for different sound levels, so that you can reduce the volume and still be able to hear enough to enjoy music at a concert etc. If they&#x27;re well made, you can probably wear them for a few hours without too much discomfort.<p>They&#x27;re more expensive than something that is off the shelf, but being able to choose the appropriate filter for the venue you&#x27;re in is really helpful. Also, the filters should give cut down the volume more evenly across the spectrum. If you get cheaper ear plugs, loud music may not be as enjoyable because certain frequencies may be more aggressively filtered than others.<p>I&#x27;m quite happy with mine. I can play with a loud band and still be able to hear enough of my own amp and everyone else to be able to play along, but my ears aren&#x27;t ringing at the end of the evening.</text></comment> | <story><title>We’re all just temporarily abled</title><url>https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/temporarily-abled/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zippergz</author><text>Is there any particular type or brand of earplugs you recommend, that are comfortable enough to wear for multiple hours and don&#x27;t make the music sound too muffled (while still reducing the volume to safe levels)?</text></item><item><author>Technotroll</author><text>Got Tinnitus from working as a concert photographer. It&#x27;s not so bad. I&#x27;ve learned to live with it. But yeah... It&#x27;s permanent. So, to not make it worse, I&#x27;ve bought protection that I carry with me when I go to loud clubs or concerts. I use it religiously. Highly recommended! Especially if you work in a bar or club, or in some capacity at concerts. Do it now, because Tinnitus doesn&#x27;t go away. Some of them are very discrete, but if you like making a splash there are ones that look quite stylish as well.</text></item><item><author>98Windows</author><text>I became disabled after a music festival last year. The music was too loud and something broke in my ear.<p>Now every sound hurts me, my voice is far too painful, going for a walk outside is too painful. Basically I can&#x27;t do anything but sit in a silent room and browse the internet.<p>Pain hyperacusis sucks. I wish I&#x27;d been more careful with my hearing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>digging</author><text>I&#x27;ve heard Loop is very good from friends but I don&#x27;t have any comparisons.</text></comment> |
36,412,099 | 36,412,238 | 1 | 3 | 36,410,547 | train | <story><title>Welcome Lemmy.world</title><url>https://blog.mastodon.world/welcome-lemmy-world</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eigenspace</author><text>I wish Lemmy&#x27;s default design was more of a copy of old.reddit.com. For me, that design was better than both HackerNews&#x27; design and way better than the current default look of Lemmy instances.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gerdesj</author><text>old.reddit.com looks rather dated to this 53 y&#x2F;o bloke. Very busy too. I don&#x27;t actually care because content is king and presentation is not but it would be nice if it looks good. Modern Reddit looks OK to me but I have recently deleted all comments I&#x27;ve ever made on Reddit and also my account. I will keep the mail alias alive for a while to see what shite turns up.<p>For me Reddit was a new and vaguely exciting thing once and I used it for around a decade and have now discarded it. I&#x27;ve dumped the Register too after around 20 years. I have no idea why I still have a &#x2F;. account! that&#x27;s next along with Facebook.<p>Back in the day I was asked to investigate this new fangled world wide web thing by an org with loads of cash and twiddling thumbs and I reported back it looked a lot like Gopher and WAIS but different. I might have also mentioned Teletext too.<p>I&#x27;m not an evangelist worth listening to but I&#x27;ve been here before. Just allow yourself to destroy accounts on systems that are no longer useful or productive anymore.<p>Move on.</text></comment> | <story><title>Welcome Lemmy.world</title><url>https://blog.mastodon.world/welcome-lemmy-world</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eigenspace</author><text>I wish Lemmy&#x27;s default design was more of a copy of old.reddit.com. For me, that design was better than both HackerNews&#x27; design and way better than the current default look of Lemmy instances.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>class4behavior</author><text>Well, there is this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;soundjester&#x2F;lemmy_monkey">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;soundjester&#x2F;lemmy_monkey</a></text></comment> |
7,408,972 | 7,408,718 | 1 | 2 | 7,408,055 | train | <story><title>Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism and Intimidation Behind Her GitHub Exit</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/15/julie-ann-horvath-describes-sexism-and-intimidation-behind-her-github-exit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>harshreality</author><text>The article quotes JAH&#x27;s email as saying, <i>&quot;Two women, one of whom I work with and adore, and a friend of hers were hula hooping to some music. I didn’t have a problem with this. What I did have a problem with is the line of men sitting on one bench facing the hoopers and gawking at them. It looked like something out of a strip club. When I brought this up to male coworkers, they didn’t see a problem with it. But for me it felt unsafe and to be honest, really embarrassing. That was the moment I decided to finally leave GitHub.&quot;</i><p>Certain people are extremely sensitive to what they perceive as improper or demeaning interaction, even when it doesn&#x27;t directly involve them. JAH wasn&#x27;t willing to let those women deal with it themselves, and doesn&#x27;t mention even talking to them about it to see if <i>they</i> felt objectified. Instead, she talked to male coworkers, not specifically HR or a founder, about the wisdom of allowing women to hula hoop in the office? What&#x27;s <i>that</i> going to accomplish?<p>I understand her view that sexual undercurrents in an office makes things uncomfortable for some women, and I understand her wanting that toned down. But other women (including some feminists) have no problem with much stronger displays of sexuality, and feel it&#x27;s an affront to women to suppress that. Both sides can&#x27;t win.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>facepalm</author><text>I think it&#x27;s really a huge stretch to go from oogling of hula hoopers to &quot;feeling unsafe&quot;. What, after watching some women do hoola hoop men suddenly turn into rapists? That&#x27;s 100% in her head and sounds slightly crazy to me, to be honest. Not even going to strip clubs turns men into rapists on a regular basis...<p>I think that accusation is completely unwarranted (from the sounds of it).</text></comment> | <story><title>Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism and Intimidation Behind Her GitHub Exit</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/15/julie-ann-horvath-describes-sexism-and-intimidation-behind-her-github-exit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>harshreality</author><text>The article quotes JAH&#x27;s email as saying, <i>&quot;Two women, one of whom I work with and adore, and a friend of hers were hula hooping to some music. I didn’t have a problem with this. What I did have a problem with is the line of men sitting on one bench facing the hoopers and gawking at them. It looked like something out of a strip club. When I brought this up to male coworkers, they didn’t see a problem with it. But for me it felt unsafe and to be honest, really embarrassing. That was the moment I decided to finally leave GitHub.&quot;</i><p>Certain people are extremely sensitive to what they perceive as improper or demeaning interaction, even when it doesn&#x27;t directly involve them. JAH wasn&#x27;t willing to let those women deal with it themselves, and doesn&#x27;t mention even talking to them about it to see if <i>they</i> felt objectified. Instead, she talked to male coworkers, not specifically HR or a founder, about the wisdom of allowing women to hula hoop in the office? What&#x27;s <i>that</i> going to accomplish?<p>I understand her view that sexual undercurrents in an office makes things uncomfortable for some women, and I understand her wanting that toned down. But other women (including some feminists) have no problem with much stronger displays of sexuality, and feel it&#x27;s an affront to women to suppress that. Both sides can&#x27;t win.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unreal37</author><text>If someone were to hula-hoop to music in my office, male or female, I am pretty sure there would be a lot of people looking on. Not sure where the line of &quot;looking on&quot; and &quot;gawking&quot; is in that situation.</text></comment> |
21,171,356 | 21,170,462 | 1 | 2 | 21,167,871 | train | <story><title>Google, Xiaomi, and Huawei affected by zero-day flaw that unlocks root access</title><url>https://thenextweb.com/security/2019/10/04/google-xiaomi-and-huawei-devices-affected-by-zero-day-flaw-that-unlocks-root-access/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmix</author><text>The failures of the Linux core team to properly prioritize security is quite well known. A lot of people have poked the bear by trying to bring this up, also with specific real examples, and got a tongue lashing from the team and moved on to other things.<p>I&#x27;m amazed the GRSecurity people have managed to do it for so long. Even if merging their stuff mainline legitimately wasn&#x27;t practical, I&#x27;ve seen plenty of snark and dismissiveness from the Linux team towards them and others. And GRSEC does actively bring in CVEs into their kernel patches all the time and get paid via sponsors to do so.<p>I&#x27;m sure going through old CVEs is a great way to find &quot;zero days&quot; and&#x2F;or relapses after old patches. Or even just following the work GRSec does there&#x27;s probably plenty of stuff for a highly motivated company like NSO to exploit.</text></item><item><author>typical182</author><text>To me, the biggest part of this story is:<p>1. Over two years ago, this was apparently detected automatically by the syzkaller kernel fuzzer, and automatically reported on its public mailing list. [1]<p>2. Over a year and a half ago, it was apparently fixed in the upstream kernel. [2]<p>3. It was apparently never merged back to various &quot;stable&quot; kernels, leading to the recent CVE. [3]<p>So you might read that and think &quot;Ok, probably a rare mistake&quot;...<p>...but instead:<p>4. This is apparently a _super_ common sequence of events, with kernel vulnerabilities getting lost in the shuffle, or otherwise not backported to &quot;stable&quot; kernels for a variety of reasons like the patch no cleanly longer applies.<p>Dmitry Vyukov (original author of syzkaller fuzzer that found this 2 years ago) gave a very interesting talk on how frequently this happens a couple weeks ago at the Linux Maintainer&#x27;s Summit, along with some discussion of how to change kernel dev processes to try to dramatically improve things:<p>slides: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linuxplumbersconf.org&#x2F;event&#x2F;4&#x2F;contributions&#x2F;554&#x2F;attachments&#x2F;353&#x2F;584&#x2F;Reflections__Kernel_Summit_2019.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linuxplumbersconf.org&#x2F;event&#x2F;4&#x2F;contributions&#x2F;554&#x2F;atta...</a><p>video: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;a2Nv-KJyqPk?t=5239" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;a2Nv-KJyqPk?t=5239</a><p>---<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;dvyukov&#x2F;status&#x2F;1180195777680986113" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;dvyukov&#x2F;status&#x2F;1180195777680986113</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.kernel.org&#x2F;pub&#x2F;scm&#x2F;linux&#x2F;kernel&#x2F;git&#x2F;stable&#x2F;linux.git&#x2F;commit&#x2F;drivers&#x2F;android&#x2F;binder.c?h=linux-4.14.y&amp;id=7a3cee43e935b9d526ad07f20bf005ba7e74d05b" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.kernel.org&#x2F;pub&#x2F;scm&#x2F;linux&#x2F;kernel&#x2F;git&#x2F;stable&#x2F;linux...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;grsecurity&#x2F;status&#x2F;1180059539233804288" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;grsecurity&#x2F;status&#x2F;118005953923380...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dexen</author><text><i>&gt;The failures of the Linux core team to properly prioritize security</i><p>Why even post this, when it has nothing to do the with the case GP &amp; OP described? It&#x27;s misleading at best.<p>The failure here is in the way Google has set its Android development process. They keep a separate &quot;stable&quot; kernel, and manually select certain patches to backport to. In process they skip all kinds of patches - performance, features, and yes, security ones. Given that only selected patches are backported, the process is best described as <i>insecure by default</i>. It was Google&#x27;s decision to favor stable API over security here.<p>This is compounded by the fact other Android phone vendors are pretty slow at releasing OS upgrade - and tend to stop releasing them altogether shortly after the phone&#x27;s no longer manufactured.<p>The mainline kernel, as released by the <i>Linux core team</i> is up to date with security. Hold to account people that decided to skip patches as a matter of course, resulting in the <i>insecure by default</i> process.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google, Xiaomi, and Huawei affected by zero-day flaw that unlocks root access</title><url>https://thenextweb.com/security/2019/10/04/google-xiaomi-and-huawei-devices-affected-by-zero-day-flaw-that-unlocks-root-access/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmix</author><text>The failures of the Linux core team to properly prioritize security is quite well known. A lot of people have poked the bear by trying to bring this up, also with specific real examples, and got a tongue lashing from the team and moved on to other things.<p>I&#x27;m amazed the GRSecurity people have managed to do it for so long. Even if merging their stuff mainline legitimately wasn&#x27;t practical, I&#x27;ve seen plenty of snark and dismissiveness from the Linux team towards them and others. And GRSEC does actively bring in CVEs into their kernel patches all the time and get paid via sponsors to do so.<p>I&#x27;m sure going through old CVEs is a great way to find &quot;zero days&quot; and&#x2F;or relapses after old patches. Or even just following the work GRSec does there&#x27;s probably plenty of stuff for a highly motivated company like NSO to exploit.</text></item><item><author>typical182</author><text>To me, the biggest part of this story is:<p>1. Over two years ago, this was apparently detected automatically by the syzkaller kernel fuzzer, and automatically reported on its public mailing list. [1]<p>2. Over a year and a half ago, it was apparently fixed in the upstream kernel. [2]<p>3. It was apparently never merged back to various &quot;stable&quot; kernels, leading to the recent CVE. [3]<p>So you might read that and think &quot;Ok, probably a rare mistake&quot;...<p>...but instead:<p>4. This is apparently a _super_ common sequence of events, with kernel vulnerabilities getting lost in the shuffle, or otherwise not backported to &quot;stable&quot; kernels for a variety of reasons like the patch no cleanly longer applies.<p>Dmitry Vyukov (original author of syzkaller fuzzer that found this 2 years ago) gave a very interesting talk on how frequently this happens a couple weeks ago at the Linux Maintainer&#x27;s Summit, along with some discussion of how to change kernel dev processes to try to dramatically improve things:<p>slides: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linuxplumbersconf.org&#x2F;event&#x2F;4&#x2F;contributions&#x2F;554&#x2F;attachments&#x2F;353&#x2F;584&#x2F;Reflections__Kernel_Summit_2019.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linuxplumbersconf.org&#x2F;event&#x2F;4&#x2F;contributions&#x2F;554&#x2F;atta...</a><p>video: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;a2Nv-KJyqPk?t=5239" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;a2Nv-KJyqPk?t=5239</a><p>---<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;dvyukov&#x2F;status&#x2F;1180195777680986113" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;dvyukov&#x2F;status&#x2F;1180195777680986113</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.kernel.org&#x2F;pub&#x2F;scm&#x2F;linux&#x2F;kernel&#x2F;git&#x2F;stable&#x2F;linux.git&#x2F;commit&#x2F;drivers&#x2F;android&#x2F;binder.c?h=linux-4.14.y&amp;id=7a3cee43e935b9d526ad07f20bf005ba7e74d05b" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.kernel.org&#x2F;pub&#x2F;scm&#x2F;linux&#x2F;kernel&#x2F;git&#x2F;stable&#x2F;linux...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;grsecurity&#x2F;status&#x2F;1180059539233804288" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;grsecurity&#x2F;status&#x2F;118005953923380...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucb1e</author><text>&gt; failures of the Linux core team<p>But isn&#x27;t the issue that Android didn&#x27;t merge it? Linux patched it.</text></comment> |
37,339,239 | 37,339,440 | 1 | 3 | 37,333,404 | train | <story><title>UTM – Virtual Machines for iOS and macOS</title><url>https://github.com/utmapp/UTM</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vintagedave</author><text>I used this a couple of weeks ago to install Windows 11 ARM on macOS (Ventura on a new M2), looking to replace Fusion. It was disappointing:<p>* Integration tools like copy&#x2F;paste between VM and host, or file sharing, didn&#x27;t work<p>* Graphics constantly glitched, often going to a grey screen. There seemed no way to recover, and I had to force restart the VM<p>The drivers &#x2F; assistant tools have a 2012 date on them.<p>I&#x27;m aware it&#x27;s a free product and I have no right to expect anything (and I don&#x27;t; I went back to Fusion.) And perhaps the situation would improve if I or others financially supported the project, which seems a better response to issues :) Nevertheless I went in hoping I could replace the commercial VM solutions, which on Mac have required yearly updates that deliver almost no new value, with something open source -- and I can&#x27;t yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>donatj</author><text>Copy paste definitely works. I go back and forth all day. Did you install the SPICE tools?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.getutm.app&#x2F;guest-support&#x2F;windows&#x2F;#windows-xp-and-higher" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.getutm.app&#x2F;guest-support&#x2F;windows&#x2F;#windows-xp-an...</a><p>I&#x27;ve also not seen any graphical errors, I&#x27;m not trying to play games though. I just use it for basic desktop apps.</text></comment> | <story><title>UTM – Virtual Machines for iOS and macOS</title><url>https://github.com/utmapp/UTM</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vintagedave</author><text>I used this a couple of weeks ago to install Windows 11 ARM on macOS (Ventura on a new M2), looking to replace Fusion. It was disappointing:<p>* Integration tools like copy&#x2F;paste between VM and host, or file sharing, didn&#x27;t work<p>* Graphics constantly glitched, often going to a grey screen. There seemed no way to recover, and I had to force restart the VM<p>The drivers &#x2F; assistant tools have a 2012 date on them.<p>I&#x27;m aware it&#x27;s a free product and I have no right to expect anything (and I don&#x27;t; I went back to Fusion.) And perhaps the situation would improve if I or others financially supported the project, which seems a better response to issues :) Nevertheless I went in hoping I could replace the commercial VM solutions, which on Mac have required yearly updates that deliver almost no new value, with something open source -- and I can&#x27;t yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eppsilon</author><text>Do you have copy-paste and shared folders working in Fusion (with a Windows ARM VM)? Last I checked VMware Tools did not support those features yet.<p>Edit: The Fusion 2023 Tech Preview [1] installs the full VMware Tools and supports copy-paste.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;customerconnect.vmware.com&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;get-download?downloadGroup=FUS-TP2023" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;customerconnect.vmware.com&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;get-download?do...</a></text></comment> |
20,020,830 | 20,020,152 | 1 | 2 | 20,017,854 | train | <story><title>Scrum is fragile, not Agile</title><url>http://www.dennisweyland.net/blog/?p=43</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yibg</author><text>The best place I&#x27;ve worked at as a developer essentially had no process. It&#x27;s also the place I really saw the benefits of having good managers (or a project manager, but here the manager took this role).<p>Essentially the &quot;process&quot; was:<p>- Someone gets an idea to do something, e.g. PMs wants to add a feature.<p>- The manager (maybe with the help of a dev) figures out which teams need to be involved (e.g. dependencies).<p>- Get a very rough estimate from developer. Are we talking a few days, a few weeks or a few months?<p>- Manager, PM and other teams get together to figure out priorities, schedules and who&#x27;s likely to be working on it.<p>- Based on some discussions, areas of expertise etc, some number of devs gets assigned to work on this feature.<p>From here the devs know what they&#x27;re trying to accomplish, what the constraints are and who to go to for questions (PM, design etc). They also know who else from other teams they&#x27;re collaborating with and they just figure out amongst themselves how to get things done. They&#x27;ll keep their managers and the PM updated on progress and any blockers.<p>Every once in a while manager etc have to step in. For example if some big that was previous unknown came up, there is a big risk, priorities need to be adjusted etc. But for the most part things just worked really smoothly.<p>Sometimes we need to give estimates and really hit it (legal or security issues, big marketing launch etc), but for the most part we were trusted to be doing things as quickly and efficiently as possible. So none of the commits, sprints and burn down charts BS. It&#x27;s not hard to gauge develop&#x27;s productivity based on output anyways. If there was something slowing the team down, we communicated the need to the manager and PM, and we worked on fixing it.<p>So for me, if you have good competent people that communicate well, you don&#x27;t really need much process.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>world32</author><text>100% this. For a team of good developers this is by far the best model to get things done. SCRUM only serves to prevent a very bad team from doing even worse then they would do otherwise. However for a team of competent developers SCRUM is painfully stifling.</text></comment> | <story><title>Scrum is fragile, not Agile</title><url>http://www.dennisweyland.net/blog/?p=43</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yibg</author><text>The best place I&#x27;ve worked at as a developer essentially had no process. It&#x27;s also the place I really saw the benefits of having good managers (or a project manager, but here the manager took this role).<p>Essentially the &quot;process&quot; was:<p>- Someone gets an idea to do something, e.g. PMs wants to add a feature.<p>- The manager (maybe with the help of a dev) figures out which teams need to be involved (e.g. dependencies).<p>- Get a very rough estimate from developer. Are we talking a few days, a few weeks or a few months?<p>- Manager, PM and other teams get together to figure out priorities, schedules and who&#x27;s likely to be working on it.<p>- Based on some discussions, areas of expertise etc, some number of devs gets assigned to work on this feature.<p>From here the devs know what they&#x27;re trying to accomplish, what the constraints are and who to go to for questions (PM, design etc). They also know who else from other teams they&#x27;re collaborating with and they just figure out amongst themselves how to get things done. They&#x27;ll keep their managers and the PM updated on progress and any blockers.<p>Every once in a while manager etc have to step in. For example if some big that was previous unknown came up, there is a big risk, priorities need to be adjusted etc. But for the most part things just worked really smoothly.<p>Sometimes we need to give estimates and really hit it (legal or security issues, big marketing launch etc), but for the most part we were trusted to be doing things as quickly and efficiently as possible. So none of the commits, sprints and burn down charts BS. It&#x27;s not hard to gauge develop&#x27;s productivity based on output anyways. If there was something slowing the team down, we communicated the need to the manager and PM, and we worked on fixing it.<p>So for me, if you have good competent people that communicate well, you don&#x27;t really need much process.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jsiepkes</author><text>I think the above can simply be summarised as &quot;real managing and communication&quot;.<p>As opposed to trying to create a couple of metrics because you don&#x27;t really understand what people around you are doing.</text></comment> |
21,641,775 | 21,641,961 | 1 | 2 | 21,638,290 | train | <story><title>Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA</title><url>https://newatlas.com/science/psilocybin-major-depression-mdd-usona-breakthrough-therapy-fda/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonzemos</author><text>&gt; It was akin to 12 hour, mentally-clear cannabis high.<p>This is the best way to describe reasonable (small) doses of LSD. It&#x27;s like the purest sativa possible; as if somebody removed all of the earthiness and stoniness and then amplified the psychoactive.</text></item><item><author>WhompingWindows</author><text>Super placebo is a scientifically incorrect description. These drugs suppress activity of the default mode network of the brain, which is a sort of &quot;conductor&quot; of the brain, which chooses which &quot;instruments&quot; to prioritize and how to allocate the train of thought. All of the different parts of your mind are able to sing out more creatively and independently, forging new paths that they are not accustomed to taking -- this is why it&#x27;s great for mental illnesses like depression, anxiety, alcoholism, smoking -- it allows your mind an incredible flexibility.<p>In my personal experiences with psychedelics, these drugs remove mental heuristics, allowing the mind to think unimpeded by usual thought patterns, simply accepting raw data as it comes in. This was striking in sensory information, if you closed your eyes or just stared at something long enough, you observed incredibly different visual input, geometric patterns, greatly strengthened colors (a strawberry was INCREDIBLY beautiful, I almost felt bad eating such a beautiful entity). There was also an incredible inter-disciplinary thought process, I felt the musical, mathematical, computational, logical, natural, all these parts of my mind mixed together wonderfully.<p>LSD was much longer lasting, around 12 hours, whereas psilocybin was around 6 hours. Psilocybin enhanced my connection with nature, the flying bugs, a handful of berries, and the plants all around me caused an effusion of love and connection. Whereas with LSD, I felt an extremely powerful visual stimulation, the changing fall leaves were extremely vibrant and beautiful, it was akin to 12 hour, mentally-clear cannabis high. I didn&#x27;t experience any &quot;flashbacks&quot; per se, there was a positive glow in my mood and thoughts for around 5 days, and the day after LSD I still had lingering effects...I also wonder if I will evermore look at the surface of ponds and lakes differently, they have an incredible dynamism and vitality that I appreciated even more on first trip.<p>For anyone considering psychedelics, do it thoughtfully and methodically. Read the book mentioned in the parent, practice meditation, explore your mind, and really ensure your mindset (&quot;set&quot;) is positive and open. Further, plan to occupy a peaceful, quiet place, hopefully lacking too many strangers&#x2F;social interaction (&quot;setting&quot;). If set and setting are good, you&#x27;re in for a wonderful time.</text></item><item><author>brenden2</author><text>I&#x27;ve been reading a book called &quot;How to Change Your Mind&quot;[1] which contains a collection of history, anecdotes, trip reports, and some of the science behind these types of drugs. The book mostly discusses psilocybin and LSD, but it also touches on some of the other related drugs. If you&#x27;re curious and want to learn more, it&#x27;s worth a read.<p>The one thing I&#x27;ll say is that it seems like these drugs affect the brain in a way that&#x27;s more akin to a super-placebo, rather than being therapeutic on their own. In other words, you would need to use the drugs in combination with therapy to obtain good results.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;How_to_Change_Your_Mind" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;How_to_Change_Your_Mind</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lame-robot-hoax</author><text>Does it cause any of the anxiety that marijuana can when taken at a small dose? I mean the LSD.<p>Sometimes if I get too high I get a decent amount of anxiety. Always wanted to try LSD or Shrooms but worried something like that may happen. Generally it comes from me feeling a strange sensation in my body which leads to a slight bit of panic. Or if I get really high I just don’t feel there entirely.<p>Always thought about taking LSD or Shrooms with some CBD incase I get a bit of anxiety.</text></comment> | <story><title>Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA</title><url>https://newatlas.com/science/psilocybin-major-depression-mdd-usona-breakthrough-therapy-fda/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonzemos</author><text>&gt; It was akin to 12 hour, mentally-clear cannabis high.<p>This is the best way to describe reasonable (small) doses of LSD. It&#x27;s like the purest sativa possible; as if somebody removed all of the earthiness and stoniness and then amplified the psychoactive.</text></item><item><author>WhompingWindows</author><text>Super placebo is a scientifically incorrect description. These drugs suppress activity of the default mode network of the brain, which is a sort of &quot;conductor&quot; of the brain, which chooses which &quot;instruments&quot; to prioritize and how to allocate the train of thought. All of the different parts of your mind are able to sing out more creatively and independently, forging new paths that they are not accustomed to taking -- this is why it&#x27;s great for mental illnesses like depression, anxiety, alcoholism, smoking -- it allows your mind an incredible flexibility.<p>In my personal experiences with psychedelics, these drugs remove mental heuristics, allowing the mind to think unimpeded by usual thought patterns, simply accepting raw data as it comes in. This was striking in sensory information, if you closed your eyes or just stared at something long enough, you observed incredibly different visual input, geometric patterns, greatly strengthened colors (a strawberry was INCREDIBLY beautiful, I almost felt bad eating such a beautiful entity). There was also an incredible inter-disciplinary thought process, I felt the musical, mathematical, computational, logical, natural, all these parts of my mind mixed together wonderfully.<p>LSD was much longer lasting, around 12 hours, whereas psilocybin was around 6 hours. Psilocybin enhanced my connection with nature, the flying bugs, a handful of berries, and the plants all around me caused an effusion of love and connection. Whereas with LSD, I felt an extremely powerful visual stimulation, the changing fall leaves were extremely vibrant and beautiful, it was akin to 12 hour, mentally-clear cannabis high. I didn&#x27;t experience any &quot;flashbacks&quot; per se, there was a positive glow in my mood and thoughts for around 5 days, and the day after LSD I still had lingering effects...I also wonder if I will evermore look at the surface of ponds and lakes differently, they have an incredible dynamism and vitality that I appreciated even more on first trip.<p>For anyone considering psychedelics, do it thoughtfully and methodically. Read the book mentioned in the parent, practice meditation, explore your mind, and really ensure your mindset (&quot;set&quot;) is positive and open. Further, plan to occupy a peaceful, quiet place, hopefully lacking too many strangers&#x2F;social interaction (&quot;setting&quot;). If set and setting are good, you&#x27;re in for a wonderful time.</text></item><item><author>brenden2</author><text>I&#x27;ve been reading a book called &quot;How to Change Your Mind&quot;[1] which contains a collection of history, anecdotes, trip reports, and some of the science behind these types of drugs. The book mostly discusses psilocybin and LSD, but it also touches on some of the other related drugs. If you&#x27;re curious and want to learn more, it&#x27;s worth a read.<p>The one thing I&#x27;ll say is that it seems like these drugs affect the brain in a way that&#x27;s more akin to a super-placebo, rather than being therapeutic on their own. In other words, you would need to use the drugs in combination with therapy to obtain good results.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;How_to_Change_Your_Mind" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;How_to_Change_Your_Mind</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sharadov</author><text>I&#x27;ve experienced that with some strains of marijuana as well, a highly enhanced and clear perception of everything around me.</text></comment> |
25,812,536 | 25,812,632 | 1 | 2 | 25,811,696 | train | <story><title>We can do better than Signal</title><url>https://icyphox.sh/blog/signal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stavros</author><text>I&#x27;m a bit annoyed at &quot;we can do better than X&quot; when, you know what? Maybe we can&#x27;t.<p>Yes, it&#x27;s nice that you and I can install Element and deal with the finicky crypto handshake that for some reason always shows red for me because a friend opened the web UI and closed it before he completed the handshake and now we can never actually make that check go green, and it&#x27;s nice that Mastodon is distributed but mastodon.host went down one day with all my toots without a word from the administrator, and yeah I know I should have picked a better host (though if you could predict that mastodon.host will die why didn&#x27;t you tell me?), but my mom can&#x27;t.<p>Users value their convenience, and security and privacy are inconvenient. Hell, we <i>started</i> decentralized and over email and newsgroups and personal websites and blogs and it&#x27;s all Facebook Facebook Facebook now that the Eternal September came around.<p>If we could do better, we would have done better by now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tombert</author><text>I had a similar experience with Matrix&#x2F;Element. I was using the desktop app to chat with a friend, and while we were able to get some end-to-end encryption working, it was a huge pain the butt, and if two software engineers struggled this much to get the damn thing working, there&#x27;s no way in hell that I&#x27;m convincing my parents to use it.<p>To me, we have to accept the incremental wins where we can get them; getting my parents on Signal means that they&#x27;re <i>not</i> on WhatsApp.<p>I <i>am</i> a believer in federation, honestly, but the fact of the matter is that there&#x27;s a reason that XMPP hasn&#x27;t taken the world by storm, and people have gravitated towards centralized stuff: it&#x27;s just easier, and not everyone is a software engineer.<p>That said, I would love to be wrong about this....if we can make Matrix&#x2F;Element approachable by anyone, I would support that.</text></comment> | <story><title>We can do better than Signal</title><url>https://icyphox.sh/blog/signal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stavros</author><text>I&#x27;m a bit annoyed at &quot;we can do better than X&quot; when, you know what? Maybe we can&#x27;t.<p>Yes, it&#x27;s nice that you and I can install Element and deal with the finicky crypto handshake that for some reason always shows red for me because a friend opened the web UI and closed it before he completed the handshake and now we can never actually make that check go green, and it&#x27;s nice that Mastodon is distributed but mastodon.host went down one day with all my toots without a word from the administrator, and yeah I know I should have picked a better host (though if you could predict that mastodon.host will die why didn&#x27;t you tell me?), but my mom can&#x27;t.<p>Users value their convenience, and security and privacy are inconvenient. Hell, we <i>started</i> decentralized and over email and newsgroups and personal websites and blogs and it&#x27;s all Facebook Facebook Facebook now that the Eternal September came around.<p>If we could do better, we would have done better by now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alerighi</author><text>Nobody thinks about it but the most professionally used communication medium is the email, and part if not all of its success if not all its success is that is decentralized.<p>A company cannot afford to use a service that can be closed and loose all the communications. Centralized services are single point of failure, and in that regard Signal is no better than WhatsApp, because yes, in theory you can run your own server, but have you tried to do so?<p>It&#x27;s not practical or even endorsed by the Signal creators themself, since there is no way in the clients to make them connect to your server instead of the centralized one.<p>Another bad thing of Signal is the use of a phone number as the authentication method. A phone number is not something that preserves your privacy. Well in theory in countries where you can go into a shop and buy a SIM card cash yes, but in a lot of countries you have to give your ID. Another aspect in which email is just better.</text></comment> |
38,370,314 | 38,370,315 | 1 | 2 | 38,368,760 | train | <story><title>FBI director admits they rarely have probable cause for using NSA collections</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/21/fbi-director-admits-agency-rarely-has-probable-cause-when-it-performs-backdoor-searches-of-nsa-collections/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>appleskeptic</author><text>This would be awful. Theft and bribery are already prosecuted aggressively. If anything, too much. It’s gotten to the point that high government officials can’t afford to <i>be</i> lobbied. Here they are, some of the most powerful people in the world, paid barely enough to live an hour drive away from DC, having to spend a fair bit of their personal income to go to lunch and dinner with leaders of private industry.<p>As for criminalizing “waste”, you start to get dangerously close to criminalizing politics itself. Then it just becomes about controlling DOJ and using it to go after your enemies (this is already too true).<p>The better thing to do would with regards to intelligence agency abuses would be to have more review of the decisions, mandatory discipline of rulebreakers, and prosecution of specific crimes committed for egregious cases. No need to generally criminalize every time a government official makes a bad judgment call.</text></item><item><author>underseacables</author><text>I could not think of something more that America needs. The government accountability office publishers reports all the time about government waste and malfeasance, but it is consistently, dare I say, pointedly, ignored. Having a separate independent agency, cast with investigating and prosecuting crime and criminals within the government itself would be amazing.<p>Same with congress.</text></item><item><author>CoastalCoder</author><text>I&#x27;m sure it would end badly, but sometimes I fantasize about the U.S. citizens having a LEO that actively investigates &#x2F; prosecutes government officials who violate the constitution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jpk</author><text>You seem to be arguing that we have a system where theft and bribery are <i>necessary</i> in some way, and therefore we shouldn&#x27;t prosecute it aggressively. Wouldn&#x27;t we rather reform the system such that it makes theft and bribery less attractive?</text></comment> | <story><title>FBI director admits they rarely have probable cause for using NSA collections</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/21/fbi-director-admits-agency-rarely-has-probable-cause-when-it-performs-backdoor-searches-of-nsa-collections/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>appleskeptic</author><text>This would be awful. Theft and bribery are already prosecuted aggressively. If anything, too much. It’s gotten to the point that high government officials can’t afford to <i>be</i> lobbied. Here they are, some of the most powerful people in the world, paid barely enough to live an hour drive away from DC, having to spend a fair bit of their personal income to go to lunch and dinner with leaders of private industry.<p>As for criminalizing “waste”, you start to get dangerously close to criminalizing politics itself. Then it just becomes about controlling DOJ and using it to go after your enemies (this is already too true).<p>The better thing to do would with regards to intelligence agency abuses would be to have more review of the decisions, mandatory discipline of rulebreakers, and prosecution of specific crimes committed for egregious cases. No need to generally criminalize every time a government official makes a bad judgment call.</text></item><item><author>underseacables</author><text>I could not think of something more that America needs. The government accountability office publishers reports all the time about government waste and malfeasance, but it is consistently, dare I say, pointedly, ignored. Having a separate independent agency, cast with investigating and prosecuting crime and criminals within the government itself would be amazing.<p>Same with congress.</text></item><item><author>CoastalCoder</author><text>I&#x27;m sure it would end badly, but sometimes I fantasize about the U.S. citizens having a LEO that actively investigates &#x2F; prosecutes government officials who violate the constitution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tehwebguy</author><text>&gt; It’s gotten to the point that high government officials can’t afford to be lobbied.<p>Good! But also, not true!</text></comment> |
19,417,251 | 19,417,156 | 1 | 3 | 19,416,740 | train | <story><title>How to Make $80k per Month on the Apple App Store (2017)</title><url>https://medium.com/@johnnylin/how-to-make-80-000-per-month-on-the-apple-app-store-bdb943862e88</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blunte</author><text>There is no way that Apple is not aware of the revenue analytics that would indicate these apps as financial outliers and not aware that these apps are scams.<p>Given the frequency with which we hear of legitimate apps being removed or rejected by Apple, one can&#x27;t even argue that Apple is just not paying enough attention.<p>I don&#x27;t say this often, but someone at Apple should be fired over this. This devalues the App Store in the long run, because it will teach Apple users not to trust their only source for apps; and that will lead them away from Apple products.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Make $80k per Month on the Apple App Store (2017)</title><url>https://medium.com/@johnnylin/how-to-make-80-000-per-month-on-the-apple-app-store-bdb943862e88</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>reverend_gonzo</author><text>More than likely, that app is used to either launder funds or get money out of stolen credit cards.</text></comment> |
15,056,801 | 15,054,804 | 1 | 2 | 15,053,917 | train | <story><title>Amazon data science interview questions</title><url>https://mldatageek.herokuapp.com/questions/tags:amazon/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>beebmam</author><text>As an interviewer, I don&#x27;t ask questions like these.<p>By a very large margin, for most of the time you are actively developing as a full time employee at a large tech company, you&#x27;re working on integrating systems, either through a build language or extending your software to use an already existing API.<p>What are the most useful skills for these tasks? Being able to communicate effectively, feeling comfortable asking questions, feeling comfortable admitting when you don&#x27;t understand something, and being kind and friendly with those you interact with.<p>Therefore, when interviewing new hires, I do not ask many technical questions beyond a general competency question.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon data science interview questions</title><url>https://mldatageek.herokuapp.com/questions/tags:amazon/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>prestonh</author><text>Can&#x27;t say I could answer all these questions, but I think they&#x27;re really great and motivate me to spend more time studying statistics. With the rise in data science and machine learning I&#x27;ve noticed a lot of resources devoted to teaching people how to create and train models for a given problem, but less resources on how to interpret those models and on statistical inference in general.</text></comment> |
10,009,915 | 10,009,877 | 1 | 2 | 10,009,569 | train | <story><title>In Zimbabwe, We Don’t Cry for Lions</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/opinion/in-zimbabwe-we-dont-cry-for-lions.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chipgap98</author><text>If people are hitting the paywall the gist of the article is that lions are dangerous animals. People living in rural village are terrorized by lions and it has a serious impact on their way of life. Zimbabweans have a lot of respect for wild animals but aren&#x27;t opposed to them being hunted. America once again stirred up a social media frenzy when they don&#x27;t understand the issue at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonknee</author><text>&gt; America once again stirred up a social media frenzy when they don&#x27;t understand the issue at all.<p>Except that America stirred up this issue only because it was done by a rich American. Zimbabwe aided by claiming it was an illegal poaching, arresting the guides and then asking America to arrest and extradite Walter Palmer.<p>Lions are scary when they aren&#x27;t in a national park and being monitored by research scientists, but that&#x27;s not what happened. This would be like a foreign tourist luring a wolf out of Yellowstone and then killing it outside of the park boundaries. It&#x27;s straight up illegal poaching.</text></comment> | <story><title>In Zimbabwe, We Don’t Cry for Lions</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/opinion/in-zimbabwe-we-dont-cry-for-lions.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chipgap98</author><text>If people are hitting the paywall the gist of the article is that lions are dangerous animals. People living in rural village are terrorized by lions and it has a serious impact on their way of life. Zimbabweans have a lot of respect for wild animals but aren&#x27;t opposed to them being hunted. America once again stirred up a social media frenzy when they don&#x27;t understand the issue at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>I take issue with the thought of conservation only being necessary for cute, cuddly animals. There are significant benefits of maintaining biodiversity in the various biomes.</text></comment> |
37,075,547 | 37,075,418 | 1 | 3 | 37,073,701 | train | <story><title>GPT Unicorn has drawn a unicorn</title><url>https://gpt-unicorn.adamkdean.co.uk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sigmoid10</author><text>It has become common knowledge that GPT4 (and also 3.5) have problems with deterministic outputs (even at T=0). So what we&#x27;re seeing here is just the effect of random sampling, not any actual change to the model itself. If you scroll down, you&#x27;ll see other close attempts by the exact same model that could already be counted as a win depending on who you ask.<p>Edit: This comment section is a super fascinating case study on the inherent flaws in human cognition. Especially when it comes to seeing patterns in random noise. The fact that some people believe that the model really has to have changed in the past few days is amazing, because if you&#x27;ve kept up with the GPT architecture and the way OpenAI does things (especially on the API), it is incredibly obvious that nothing has happened. But people who <i>want</i> to believe that something has happened will definitely also start to see something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>itsoktocry</author><text>&gt;<i>This comment section is a super fascinating case study on the inherent flaws in human cognition. Especially when it comes to seeing patterns in random noise. The fact that some people believe that the model really has to have changed in the past few days is amazing</i><p>You need only to look at the discourse around the Tesla FSD superusers to see this: they report a glitch at an intersection one day, then believe the next day it was &quot;fixed&quot; by the AI.</text></comment> | <story><title>GPT Unicorn has drawn a unicorn</title><url>https://gpt-unicorn.adamkdean.co.uk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sigmoid10</author><text>It has become common knowledge that GPT4 (and also 3.5) have problems with deterministic outputs (even at T=0). So what we&#x27;re seeing here is just the effect of random sampling, not any actual change to the model itself. If you scroll down, you&#x27;ll see other close attempts by the exact same model that could already be counted as a win depending on who you ask.<p>Edit: This comment section is a super fascinating case study on the inherent flaws in human cognition. Especially when it comes to seeing patterns in random noise. The fact that some people believe that the model really has to have changed in the past few days is amazing, because if you&#x27;ve kept up with the GPT architecture and the way OpenAI does things (especially on the API), it is incredibly obvious that nothing has happened. But people who <i>want</i> to believe that something has happened will definitely also start to see something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sheepscreek</author><text>Agree with this except for one data point. OpenAI does enhance&#x2F;tweak&#x2F;do something with the models at different levels. This can be determined by:<p>1. A change in the current model number (eg. gpt-3.5-turbo-0613)<p>2. On ChatGPT UI, the date at the bottom (eg. August 2023)<p>So it isn’t correct to say “it is incredibly obvious that nothing has happened”. Not that obvious to me.<p>A bit like how you can never tell for sure if Coca Cola has tweaked their formula, or McDonalds has changed the recipe for its signature sauce. Only in this case, the model number going up or the date becoming more recent leads credence to something having changed.</text></comment> |
28,568,525 | 28,567,863 | 1 | 2 | 28,566,376 | train | <story><title>Video of Tesla FSD almost hitting pedestrian receives DMCA takedown</title><url>https://twitter.com/russ1mitchell/status/1438609715026530326</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChicagoBoy11</author><text>I&#x27;ve made this argument here a few times and am always shot down, but I think its important to highlight that the airline industry has an extremely robust history of automation and HCI in critical transportation scenarios and it seems to me that all the lessons that we have learned have been chucked out the window with self-driving cars. Being able to effectively reason about what the automation is doing is such an important part of why these technologies have been so successful in flight, and examples like this illustrate how far off we are to something like that in cars. The issue of response time, too, is one we cant ignore, and it is certainly a far greater challenge in automobiles.<p>I don&#x27;t have answers, but it does seem to me like we are not placing a premium enough on structuring this tech to optimize driver supervision over the driving behavior. Granted, the whole point is to one day NOT HAVE to supervise it all, but at this rate we&#x27;re going to kill a lot of people until we get there.</text></item><item><author>ChrisKnott</author><text>Maximise the video and watch the left hand HUD pane from 0:10 to 0:11.<p>The dotted black line coming from the front of the car (which I am assuming is the intended route) quickly snaps from straight ahead, to a hair pin right, to a normal right turn.<p>Ignoring the fact that the right turn happened to be into a pedestrian crossing with people on it - what was the car even trying to do? The sat-nav shows it should have just continued forwards.<p>I am astounded that software capable of these outputs is allowed on the roads. When could crossing a junction then taking a hairpin right back across it, ever be the correct thing to do?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_moof</author><text>Hi, aerospace software engineer and flight instructor here. I think you get shot down because the problems just aren&#x27;t comparable. While I agree that there may be some philosophical transfer from aircraft automation, the environments are so radically different that it&#x27;s difficult to imagine any substantial technological transfer.<p>Aircraft operate in an extremely controlled environment that is almost embarrassingly simple from an automation perspective. Almost everything is a straight line and the algorithms are intro control theory stuff. Lateral nav gets no more complicated than the difference between a great circle and a rhumb line.<p>The collision avoidance systems are cooperative and punt altogether on anything that isn&#x27;t the ground or another transponder-equipped airplane. The software amounts to little more than &quot;extract reported altitude from transponder reply, if abs(other altitude - my altitude) &lt; threshold, warn pilot and&#x2F;or set vertical speed.&quot; It&#x27;s a very long way from a machine learning system that has to identify literally any object in a scene filled with potentially thousands of targets. There&#x27;s very little to worry about running into in the sky, and minimum safe altitudes are already mapped out for pretty much the entire world.<p>Any remaining risk is managed by centralized control and certification, which just isn&#x27;t going to happen for cars. We aren&#x27;t going to live in a world where every street has to be (the equivalent of) an FAA certified airport with controls to remove any uncertainty about what the vehicle will encounter when it gets there. Nor are we going to create a centralized traffic control system that provides guarantees you won&#x27;t collide with other vehicles on a predetermined route.<p>So it&#x27;s just a completely different world with completely different requirements. Are there things the aerospace world could teach other fields? Yeah, absolutely. Aerospace is pretty darn good at quality control. But the applications themselves are worlds apart.</text></comment> | <story><title>Video of Tesla FSD almost hitting pedestrian receives DMCA takedown</title><url>https://twitter.com/russ1mitchell/status/1438609715026530326</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChicagoBoy11</author><text>I&#x27;ve made this argument here a few times and am always shot down, but I think its important to highlight that the airline industry has an extremely robust history of automation and HCI in critical transportation scenarios and it seems to me that all the lessons that we have learned have been chucked out the window with self-driving cars. Being able to effectively reason about what the automation is doing is such an important part of why these technologies have been so successful in flight, and examples like this illustrate how far off we are to something like that in cars. The issue of response time, too, is one we cant ignore, and it is certainly a far greater challenge in automobiles.<p>I don&#x27;t have answers, but it does seem to me like we are not placing a premium enough on structuring this tech to optimize driver supervision over the driving behavior. Granted, the whole point is to one day NOT HAVE to supervise it all, but at this rate we&#x27;re going to kill a lot of people until we get there.</text></item><item><author>ChrisKnott</author><text>Maximise the video and watch the left hand HUD pane from 0:10 to 0:11.<p>The dotted black line coming from the front of the car (which I am assuming is the intended route) quickly snaps from straight ahead, to a hair pin right, to a normal right turn.<p>Ignoring the fact that the right turn happened to be into a pedestrian crossing with people on it - what was the car even trying to do? The sat-nav shows it should have just continued forwards.<p>I am astounded that software capable of these outputs is allowed on the roads. When could crossing a junction then taking a hairpin right back across it, ever be the correct thing to do?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rtkwe</author><text>Cars are vastly more complex to do navigation for than planes too so we need to be even more careful when making auto autos. Plane autopilots are basically dealing with just the physical mechanics of flying the plane which while complex are quite predictable and modellable. All of the obstacle avoidance and collision avoidance takes place outside of autopilots through ATC and the routes are known and for most purposes completely devoid of any obstacles.<p>Cars have a vastly harder job because they&#x27;re navigating through an environment that is orders of magnitude more complex because there are other moving objects to deal with.</text></comment> |
27,864,274 | 27,864,061 | 1 | 2 | 27,852,017 | train | <story><title>Jet Li rejected The Matrix as he didn’t want his kung fu moves recorded (2018)</title><url>https://www.scmp.com/abacus/culture/article/3028904/jet-li-says-he-rejected-matrix-because-he-didnt-want-his-kung-fu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>Imagine they if they told Keanu Reeves to records all the words of the dictionary and all his facial expressions and body postures and keep it as IP forever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>royjacobs</author><text>To be fair, the technology and storage available in the early 2000s would have been quite sufficient to store all of Reeves&#x27; facial expressions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jet Li rejected The Matrix as he didn’t want his kung fu moves recorded (2018)</title><url>https://www.scmp.com/abacus/culture/article/3028904/jet-li-says-he-rejected-matrix-because-he-didnt-want-his-kung-fu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>Imagine they if they told Keanu Reeves to records all the words of the dictionary and all his facial expressions and body postures and keep it as IP forever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unishark</author><text>In return for the 100+ million dollars he got out of it?<p>Li&#x27;s role would only have been in the sequels anyway, not the one good movie...<p>Seriously though, for such a deal if one gets a percentage as royalties perpetually too, then it may be a good arrangement. I think Li&#x27;s objections could have al been addressed as terms in the deal. Apparently what Li is saying is the terms offered were one-sided and he didn&#x27;t like them.</text></comment> |
15,555,632 | 15,555,741 | 1 | 2 | 15,552,042 | train | <story><title>Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)</title><url>https://slackhq.com/screen-sharing-in-slack-made-interactive-cf8816efaa01</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kjksf</author><text>People are so desperate to find viable business ideas. We discuss to death MVPs, fake landing pages, articles describing how to find and validate ideas and find first customers.<p>Yet, no one notices when business opportunity stares them in the face.<p>Go and duplicate screenhero. It&#x27;s not that hard (Screenhero was written by 4 devs and 1 designer). They did YC in winter 2013 and got acquired by Slack in Jan 20015, so it&#x27;s less than 2 years.<p>You have a validated product that many people love and are willing to pay for and enough of a &quot;outside of Slack&quot; market to sustain a small company.<p>On launch you&#x27;ll get free PR just by announcing &quot;Screenhero alternative&quot;.<p>And if you do a good job, it&#x27;s likely that Atlassian (or some other Slack competitor) will want to acquire you for a tidy sum.<p>Lot&#x27;s of the hard code has been written for you (libraries for stun firewall traversal, vp8 for the video codec). You need to write a simple backend for matching people and 2 desktop apps (mac and windows).<p>It&#x27;s not easy but it&#x27;s also not a problem that requires breaking new ground, just solid engineering.<p>What we get instead are pleas to Slack to not kill stand-alone Screenhero and bemoaning that someone didn&#x27;t write OSS (aka free) clone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zpr</author><text>You mean you could make a YouTube clone in a weekend? It&#x27;s easy to fall into this way of thinking. But hey, maybe you will build the next Screenhero, or TeamViewer. Or maybe you&#x27;ll end up as one of the thousands of other versions of this nobody has ever heard of. The idea is usually not the hard part.</text></comment> | <story><title>Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)</title><url>https://slackhq.com/screen-sharing-in-slack-made-interactive-cf8816efaa01</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kjksf</author><text>People are so desperate to find viable business ideas. We discuss to death MVPs, fake landing pages, articles describing how to find and validate ideas and find first customers.<p>Yet, no one notices when business opportunity stares them in the face.<p>Go and duplicate screenhero. It&#x27;s not that hard (Screenhero was written by 4 devs and 1 designer). They did YC in winter 2013 and got acquired by Slack in Jan 20015, so it&#x27;s less than 2 years.<p>You have a validated product that many people love and are willing to pay for and enough of a &quot;outside of Slack&quot; market to sustain a small company.<p>On launch you&#x27;ll get free PR just by announcing &quot;Screenhero alternative&quot;.<p>And if you do a good job, it&#x27;s likely that Atlassian (or some other Slack competitor) will want to acquire you for a tidy sum.<p>Lot&#x27;s of the hard code has been written for you (libraries for stun firewall traversal, vp8 for the video codec). You need to write a simple backend for matching people and 2 desktop apps (mac and windows).<p>It&#x27;s not easy but it&#x27;s also not a problem that requires breaking new ground, just solid engineering.<p>What we get instead are pleas to Slack to not kill stand-alone Screenhero and bemoaning that someone didn&#x27;t write OSS (aka free) clone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tlogan</author><text>Sadly this is not true. There are so many excellent applications and SaaS - but they die very fast.<p>If the company which builds an excellent solution does not get acquired they will learn the meaning of the word &quot;hell on earth&quot;: customer acquisition baby. Customer acquisition is not easy.<p>Of course, customer acquisition is easier if your product does not suck - but not so much.</text></comment> |
13,224,795 | 13,224,923 | 1 | 2 | 13,222,733 | train | <story><title>AdNauseam: Fight Back Against Advertising Networks and Privacy Abuse</title><url>https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sanswork</author><text>It&#x27;s not like the ads just appear while you&#x27;re sitting around doing nothing. You see the ads when you are receiving something with them. The ad companies are paying for your attention with the content you consume.</text></item><item><author>_m7bj</author><text>&gt;3. I dislike activism without clear objectives. I see no list of guidelines here or good behavior that companies could adopt to immediately place them on the side of the good guys.<p>The goal highly specific. It is to make Internet advertising artificially expensive, and it is to make harvested data about users inaccurate.<p>There are no &quot;good guys&quot; on the other side. People shouldn&#x27;t track me, that one&#x27;s obvious, but they also shouldn&#x27;t advertise at me, ever.<p>Human attention is extremely valuable, by far the most expensive commodity on the planet. If advertising companies want my attention so damn bad, they can pay me ~$65000 a year for it, same as my employer does. Otherwise, they can piss off.</text></item><item><author>WhitneyLand</author><text>I&#x27;m out on this.<p>1. They say it&#x27;s legally not click fraud. To me it sounds like regular fraud: &quot;deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right&quot;. I&#x27;m not concerned with breaking the law I just don&#x27;t want to act in the spirit of it.<p>2. This could hurt small startups that are very carefully managing an ad budget. They say the market will adjust, but until it does small startups take a hit. People we know.<p>3. I dislike activism without clear objectives. I see no list of guidelines here or good behavior that companies could adopt to immediately place them on the side of the good guys.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_m7bj</author><text>My attention is more valuable than that. It&#x27;s &#x2F;my&#x2F; attention, I get to set the price, and I don&#x27;t accept their offer. They&#x27;re welcome to block me from their websites, if they feel that&#x27;s not acceptable.</text></comment> | <story><title>AdNauseam: Fight Back Against Advertising Networks and Privacy Abuse</title><url>https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sanswork</author><text>It&#x27;s not like the ads just appear while you&#x27;re sitting around doing nothing. You see the ads when you are receiving something with them. The ad companies are paying for your attention with the content you consume.</text></item><item><author>_m7bj</author><text>&gt;3. I dislike activism without clear objectives. I see no list of guidelines here or good behavior that companies could adopt to immediately place them on the side of the good guys.<p>The goal highly specific. It is to make Internet advertising artificially expensive, and it is to make harvested data about users inaccurate.<p>There are no &quot;good guys&quot; on the other side. People shouldn&#x27;t track me, that one&#x27;s obvious, but they also shouldn&#x27;t advertise at me, ever.<p>Human attention is extremely valuable, by far the most expensive commodity on the planet. If advertising companies want my attention so damn bad, they can pay me ~$65000 a year for it, same as my employer does. Otherwise, they can piss off.</text></item><item><author>WhitneyLand</author><text>I&#x27;m out on this.<p>1. They say it&#x27;s legally not click fraud. To me it sounds like regular fraud: &quot;deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right&quot;. I&#x27;m not concerned with breaking the law I just don&#x27;t want to act in the spirit of it.<p>2. This could hurt small startups that are very carefully managing an ad budget. They say the market will adjust, but until it does small startups take a hit. People we know.<p>3. I dislike activism without clear objectives. I see no list of guidelines here or good behavior that companies could adopt to immediately place them on the side of the good guys.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>&gt; <i>It&#x27;s not like the ads just appear while you&#x27;re sitting around doing nothing.</i><p>Yeah, it&#x27;s <i>literally like that</i>. I open a random webpage, wait a few seconds, and here they are. I visit my aunt, and don&#x27;t even get to open the browser before BAM, ads everywhere!</text></comment> |
2,724,083 | 2,723,833 | 1 | 2 | 2,723,675 | train | <story><title>Thorium nuclear reactors: a possible solution of the energy crisis? (video)</title><url>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LeM-Dyuk6g</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rmason</author><text>I've studied this for years and haven't found any credible reason why we couldn't do this today.<p>But there are a lot of forces allied against Thorium in both the government, energy companies and the current nuclear industry.<p>Senator Hatch (R) Utah with support from Harry Reid (D) Nevada has introduced a bill annually for five years to fund $200 million to research to commercialize Thorium power. Yet every year the bill never even gets voted on.<p><a href="http://hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=releases&#38;ContentRecord_id=25d9273f-1b78-be3e-e03d-75506902df40&#38;ContentType_id=7e038728-1b18-46f4-bfa9-f4148be94d19" rel="nofollow">http://hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=releases&#38;Cont...</a><p>What is stopping Google itself from funding this I don't know? Our country should make this a major initiative similar to the race to the moon and get us off coal, oil and gas.</text></comment> | <story><title>Thorium nuclear reactors: a possible solution of the energy crisis? (video)</title><url>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LeM-Dyuk6g</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Create</author><text>This is project pursued by many[1]. The main hurdles are:<p>1. political [2], which Kirk mentions (it is no coincidence, that the pellets that the rods contain are as standard as the NATO bullet) -- the industry and power has a very different interest<p>2. technical: Kirk always mentions, that the fuel is not solid. It is liquid. The latter means, that you do have higher concerns about corrosiveness, hence (useful) reactor lifetime...<p>Also, the issue of scale, which tends to lie between 1. and 2. Uranium "won", because you got the real stuff with it (weapons as in actual projection of power, or the capability of threat to project power) and because you could make it work on a massive scale (current reactors are an order of magnitude larger than any LFTR design, and capitalism is based on the leverage of and concentration of power).<p>[1] <a href="http://energyfromthorium.com/" rel="nofollow">http://energyfromthorium.com/</a><p><a href="http://www.thorenergy.no/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thorenergy.no/</a><p><a href="http://thoriumenergy.com.au/" rel="nofollow">http://thoriumenergy.com.au/</a><p>... besides China, India, France and (even) Czechs.<p>[2] <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/03/a_is_for_atom.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/03/a_is_for_atom....</a> -&#62; see Seaborg interview part</text></comment> |
23,908,105 | 23,907,967 | 1 | 2 | 23,904,313 | train | <story><title>An exploration of why Python doesn't require a 'main' function</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/WhyNoMainFunction</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pansa2</author><text>One benefit of using a main function in Python is performance. If you’re doing significant computation at the top-level, it’ll probably run faster if moved into a function.<p>I believe this comes from the fact that local-variable lookup is faster than global-variable lookup - because the former is lookup-by-index and the latter is lookup-by-name.<p>The same is true in Julia: “Any code that is performance critical or being benchmarked should be inside a function.” [0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.julialang.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;v1&#x2F;manual&#x2F;performance-tips&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.julialang.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;v1&#x2F;manual&#x2F;performance-tips&#x2F;ind...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>An exploration of why Python doesn't require a 'main' function</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/WhyNoMainFunction</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jeffreyrogers</author><text>I always saw Python and similar languages (Perl, Ruby, PHP maybe) as attempts at replacements for complicated shell scripts, so it never seemed odd to me that there was no main function, since a shell script has no main either. It just starts executing at the top.<p>Edit: Just saw that ktpsns and I made pretty much the same comment. I&#x27;ll add that when I learned C I found the idea of a main function so confusing at first. I wanted to know why it had to be called main and not whatever else I wanted it to be. On the plus side, it led to me exploring how compilers and linkers work, which made me understand hardware a lot better.</text></comment> |
8,445,668 | 8,445,518 | 1 | 2 | 8,445,377 | train | <story><title>Dallas health worker who tested positive for Ebola wore ‘full’ protective gear</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/10/12/dallas-health-care-worker-who-treated-thomas-eric-duncan-has-tested-positive-for-ebola/?hpid=z1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kyro</author><text>More people should understand that hospitals are messy. Really messy. From wiping vomit to feces to rolling over patients to changing chucks to wiping down monitor cables to handling bottles of saline that you may inadvertently leave out in the open for others to touch to not disposing spare gauze that may be contaminated to forgetting to wipe down your stethoscope to tearing your gown off as you rush to see another patient, etc etc etc. There are any number of people going in and out of a patient&#x27;s room, performing a wide array of tasks, handling an even wider array of objects. Add to that the often hurried nature of hospitals and you get an environment prone to breaches of protocol.<p>I say this not to incite panic, but to provide insight that many might not have. It is more likely that during the thousands of interactions that this patient saw, the messiness led to a breach, instead of the virus infecting via a vector we&#x27;ve not yet realized.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dallas health worker who tested positive for Ebola wore ‘full’ protective gear</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/10/12/dallas-health-care-worker-who-treated-thomas-eric-duncan-has-tested-positive-for-ebola/?hpid=z1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JshWright</author><text>PPE is hard... Every time you take it off is an opportunity for infection. It&#x27;s very easy to get complacent and not be as careful as you should be (yes, even when dealing with something like Ebola). When you&#x27;re donning and doffing dozens of times a day, mistakes happen. It&#x27;s very likely she wasn&#x27;t the only one to be exposed, but hopefully she&#x27;s the only one that was infected.</text></comment> |
37,905,040 | 37,905,108 | 1 | 2 | 37,901,488 | train | <story><title>LinkedIn laying off nearly 700, mostly from core engineering teams</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/16/microsoft-owned-linkedin-lays-off-nearly-700-read-the-memo-here.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>It’s difficult to see unions as anything but a failed model. What they advocate for, workers’ rights, is noble. But the divisiveness they employ makes them a political distraction. We need workers’ rights in law for everyone. Not just those who are in a union.</text></item><item><author>AndrewKemendo</author><text>Don’t you know?<p>We 10x engineers are so special that we are waving off offer after offer and that will never end.<p>Not only will that never end, but luckily I’m so perfect that I’ll never experience a disability or need any accommodation that I can’t just code or build myself.<p>I mean even then, certainly you had a good enough exit at your first company (like anyone good) that you could basically retire whenever.<p>I mean, you know it boils down to this: just be a better software engineer and you’ll never have to NEED a union. The only people that need unions probably suck at algorithms and think Kubernetes is too hard.<p>Live in emacs or starve is my motto</text></item><item><author>coldpie</author><text>Good news for those 700: because we don&#x27;t have tech worker unions, they are able to individually bargain the terms of their layoff!<p>...right?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>addicted</author><text>1. It’s pretty much only in the US that there are union workers and non union workers in the same field. If you haven’t already guessed, this is entirely a ploy by corporations, and the US govt to weaken unions by creating differences where none exist.<p>2. Unions rarely, if ever, negotiate rights only for their own workers. The massive union protests prior to COVID asking for minimum wage increases didn’t ask for minimum wage increases only for union workers. They asked for federal and in some cases statewide increases in minimum wage which would affect all workers.<p>3. A lot of the research shows that higher union salaries also translate into higher non-union salaries, so union efforts also very directly help non union workers.</text></comment> | <story><title>LinkedIn laying off nearly 700, mostly from core engineering teams</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/16/microsoft-owned-linkedin-lays-off-nearly-700-read-the-memo-here.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>It’s difficult to see unions as anything but a failed model. What they advocate for, workers’ rights, is noble. But the divisiveness they employ makes them a political distraction. We need workers’ rights in law for everyone. Not just those who are in a union.</text></item><item><author>AndrewKemendo</author><text>Don’t you know?<p>We 10x engineers are so special that we are waving off offer after offer and that will never end.<p>Not only will that never end, but luckily I’m so perfect that I’ll never experience a disability or need any accommodation that I can’t just code or build myself.<p>I mean even then, certainly you had a good enough exit at your first company (like anyone good) that you could basically retire whenever.<p>I mean, you know it boils down to this: just be a better software engineer and you’ll never have to NEED a union. The only people that need unions probably suck at algorithms and think Kubernetes is too hard.<p>Live in emacs or starve is my motto</text></item><item><author>coldpie</author><text>Good news for those 700: because we don&#x27;t have tech worker unions, they are able to individually bargain the terms of their layoff!<p>...right?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nerdbert</author><text>The only divisiveness I see (after many years in many different union shops) is planted by corporate flaks in an attempt to divide and conquer the other side of the negotiating table.</text></comment> |
33,137,559 | 33,137,018 | 1 | 3 | 33,124,631 | train | <story><title>Cassandra at Apple: 1000s of Clusters, 300k Nodes, 100 PB</title><url>https://twitter.com/erickramirezau/status/1578063811495477248</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tpmx</author><text>300k Cassandra nodes seems a bit over the top even for a company with as many active devices as Apple.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;1&#x2F;28&#x2F;22906071&#x2F;apple-1-8-billion-active-devices-stats" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;1&#x2F;28&#x2F;22906071&#x2F;apple-1-8-billio...</a><p>1.8B active devices &#x2F; 300k nodes = (just) 6k devices per Cassandra node</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>psaux</author><text>Worked there, managed a lot of the teams. An agent is considered a node. So you could have X nodes per server if that clears items up. Even agent per X jbod. The teams are very smart on blast radius and sharding. When I left I had exabytes of data under my mgmt and happy to chat if anyone wants to DM. Folks often forget how many users and services Apple has.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cassandra at Apple: 1000s of Clusters, 300k Nodes, 100 PB</title><url>https://twitter.com/erickramirezau/status/1578063811495477248</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tpmx</author><text>300k Cassandra nodes seems a bit over the top even for a company with as many active devices as Apple.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;1&#x2F;28&#x2F;22906071&#x2F;apple-1-8-billion-active-devices-stats" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;1&#x2F;28&#x2F;22906071&#x2F;apple-1-8-billio...</a><p>1.8B active devices &#x2F; 300k nodes = (just) 6k devices per Cassandra node</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WookieRushing</author><text>I was also surprised by this. 300K nodes for a distributed DB is kind of crazy. I’ve worked with similar systems but they stored much more than 100 PB with 10x less nodes<p>Apple is using less than one TB per server…<p>But when you see the 1000s of clusters it starts to make sense. They probably have a Cassandra cluster as their default storage for any use case and each one probably requires at least 3 nodes. They’re keeping the blast radius small of any issue while being super redundant. It probably grew organically instead of any central capacity management</text></comment> |
24,830,156 | 24,828,205 | 1 | 2 | 24,826,873 | train | <story><title>Python For Feature Film</title><url>https://www.gfx.dev/python-for-feature-film</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>packetlost</author><text>There isn&#x27;t much that competes with FAANG in terms of compensation, but what <i>is</i> the compensation like for that industry? I have a personal interest in film making and photography in addition to being a (quantum) systems programmer, so this could be a potential career move for me in the future.</text></item><item><author>aprdm</author><text>For people who don’t enjoy doing CRUD and want to play with massive infrastructures, systems level programming and everything in between VFX can be pretty fun!
If people are looking for FAANG level compensation then look the other way.<p>Thanks for writing this !</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thewebcount</author><text>FWIW, I worked for a FAANG company writing VFX software for a while. There are frequently openings if you&#x27;re interested. We made FAANG wages (and other compensation), as you can imagine. We hired a lot from the nearby studios in LA – Dreamworks (who perpetually seemed to be a month away from or a month past a layoff), Sony, and some of the smaller effects houses. We even had a few former game programmers who did lots of graphics work. People from the film studios indicated that the conditions at the studios were suboptimal compared to working at a FAANG company, though compensation didn&#x27;t seem too much worse.</text></comment> | <story><title>Python For Feature Film</title><url>https://www.gfx.dev/python-for-feature-film</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>packetlost</author><text>There isn&#x27;t much that competes with FAANG in terms of compensation, but what <i>is</i> the compensation like for that industry? I have a personal interest in film making and photography in addition to being a (quantum) systems programmer, so this could be a potential career move for me in the future.</text></item><item><author>aprdm</author><text>For people who don’t enjoy doing CRUD and want to play with massive infrastructures, systems level programming and everything in between VFX can be pretty fun!
If people are looking for FAANG level compensation then look the other way.<p>Thanks for writing this !</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dagmx</author><text>The pay I would say is competitive for programming jobs in the respective areas as long as you&#x27;re not comparing to the top tier companies. Even then, base pay isn&#x27;t so far off, but you don&#x27;t get equity.<p>In Vancouver for example, a programming job in the film industry and outside it will net you 90-150k on the high end, and film pays equally well in that area.<p>In LA, you have a lot of FAANG companies entering the film industry too with FAANG wages. Netflix in particular is bonkers high.</text></comment> |
27,112,306 | 27,112,288 | 1 | 3 | 27,086,861 | train | <story><title>It’s not a ‘labor shortage,’ it’s a reassessment of work</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/05/07/jobs-report-labor-shortage-analysis/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>medium_burrito</author><text>The article doesn&#x27;t say it of course, but the big question is what happens when the government keeps the dole, at least past midterm elections?<p>There&#x27;s tremendous automation happening right now, and it&#x27;ll accelerate, to the point where if the government waits 2 years, a good portion of those jobs likely won&#x27;t exist, and the government will never be able to get rid of the dole.<p>It&#x27;s kind of like quantitative easing infinity, except for the poors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hardwaresofton</author><text>Well we’ve had QE and tax cuts for the rich for a good long while now, pendulum swinging the other way feels warranted.<p>You know what’s crazy? The solution is very simple. Pay workers more. The minimum wage is not a living wage. Heavily fine companies that attempt to run models that cannot support paying a living wage. The uninformed think that this will stop innovation, but it will only slow it, and that’s OK. Innovation is fueled by need or greed, and the VCs who complain about mandated high wages will indeed be greedy enough to fund the next batch of companies, because even if your returns go from 1000x to 100x (when you win), the returns still beat a lot of other investment vehicles.</text></comment> | <story><title>It’s not a ‘labor shortage,’ it’s a reassessment of work</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/05/07/jobs-report-labor-shortage-analysis/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>medium_burrito</author><text>The article doesn&#x27;t say it of course, but the big question is what happens when the government keeps the dole, at least past midterm elections?<p>There&#x27;s tremendous automation happening right now, and it&#x27;ll accelerate, to the point where if the government waits 2 years, a good portion of those jobs likely won&#x27;t exist, and the government will never be able to get rid of the dole.<p>It&#x27;s kind of like quantitative easing infinity, except for the poors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BuyMyBitcoins</author><text>The United States is already at the point where a senatorial candidate campaigned on ‘vote for me and you’ll get that $2,000 check’. You can Google Raphael Warnock’s exact phrasing on the campaign ad but that was basically the pitch in the GA runoffs.<p>The dole is here to stay.</text></comment> |
6,669,167 | 6,669,066 | 1 | 2 | 6,668,217 | train | <story><title>6TB helium-filled hard drives bump capacity, decrease power use</title><url>http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9243751/6TB_helium_filled_hard_drives_take_flight_bump_capacity_50_</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>todayiamme</author><text>I would like to understand why they are using helium at all instead of a several other plausible alternatives. The article offers the following rationale for using helium in this capacity;<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;At one-seventh the density of air, helium produces less drag on the moving components of a drive - the spinning disk platters and actuator arms -- which translates into less friction and lower operating temperatures.&lt;&lt;&lt;<p>This appears to be a slight misunderstanding as the density of any gas is variable and we have found that it is directly proportional to the unit weight of the substance, the pressure and inversely proportional to temperature. It is not fixed. They could have easily achieved the result in multiple ways. For instance, to reduce density it might have been easier to simply reduce pressure and then create a hermetically sealed chamber with a reasonably inert gas with low atomic or molecular mass such as nitrogen. This should have saved them a lot of trouble as helium is actually pretty hard to contain. An alternative nitrogen based solution would also have been good enough for a long enough period of time and it could have been achieved in a much less expensive manner. (they say in the article that successfully trapping helium for a long enough period of time required a decade of research. This is a relatively solved problem for gases such as nitrogen)<p>I am sure that the people at Western Digital can see something that I don&#x27;t - I&#x27;m just curious as to what that insight is. What makes helium worth all of the trouble?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lagged2Death</author><text><i>... to reduce density it might have been easier to simply reduce pressure and then create a hermetically sealed chamber...</i><p>Disk heads &quot;fly&quot; above the surface of the disk on a cushion of gas that&#x27;s pulled under the head by the spinning disk. If there isn&#x27;t enough gas pressure inside the disk enclosure, this method of locating the heads won&#x27;t work. Wikipedia actually says:<p><i>If the air density is too low, then there is not enough lift for the flying head, so the head gets too close to the disk, and there is a risk of head crashes and data loss. Specially manufactured sealed and pressurized disks are needed for reliable high-altitude operation, above about 3,000 m (9,800 ft).</i><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive#Integrity_and_failure" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hard_disk_drive#Integrity_and_f...</a><p>Atmospheric pressure on the top and bottom faces of a 3.5&quot; drive case (~22 square inches) is in the neighborhood of 300 pounds each, and there&#x27;s still more on the front, back, and sides. A square box of thin aluminum is probably not a great starting point for building a pressure vessel. If the box is filled with a gas at close to atmospheric pressure, you don&#x27;t have to worry about it.<p>Helium&#x27;s specific heat is five times that of air, so it probably offers better heat conduction than air at 1&#x2F;7th atmospheric pressure would.</text></comment> | <story><title>6TB helium-filled hard drives bump capacity, decrease power use</title><url>http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9243751/6TB_helium_filled_hard_drives_take_flight_bump_capacity_50_</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>todayiamme</author><text>I would like to understand why they are using helium at all instead of a several other plausible alternatives. The article offers the following rationale for using helium in this capacity;<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;At one-seventh the density of air, helium produces less drag on the moving components of a drive - the spinning disk platters and actuator arms -- which translates into less friction and lower operating temperatures.&lt;&lt;&lt;<p>This appears to be a slight misunderstanding as the density of any gas is variable and we have found that it is directly proportional to the unit weight of the substance, the pressure and inversely proportional to temperature. It is not fixed. They could have easily achieved the result in multiple ways. For instance, to reduce density it might have been easier to simply reduce pressure and then create a hermetically sealed chamber with a reasonably inert gas with low atomic or molecular mass such as nitrogen. This should have saved them a lot of trouble as helium is actually pretty hard to contain. An alternative nitrogen based solution would also have been good enough for a long enough period of time and it could have been achieved in a much less expensive manner. (they say in the article that successfully trapping helium for a long enough period of time required a decade of research. This is a relatively solved problem for gases such as nitrogen)<p>I am sure that the people at Western Digital can see something that I don&#x27;t - I&#x27;m just curious as to what that insight is. What makes helium worth all of the trouble?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tryp</author><text>The density of helium is less than 1&#x2F;7 of the density of nitrogen, which is a good approximation for air.<p>Two ways that this is helpful come to mind:<p>1. Aerodynamic effects like drag and vorticity are largely governed by the Reynolds Number, which holding all else constant, varies linearly with density. Changing the density of the fluid can drastically change the aerodynamic situation. See
<a href="http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/airplane/dragsphere.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.grc.nasa.gov&#x2F;WWW&#x2F;k-12&#x2F;airplane&#x2F;dragsphere.html</a> for an interesting and accessible example.<p>2. &quot;Flow-induced vibration&quot; is caused by the swirling gases crashing like stormy seas, making platters vibrate and heads flutter. Switching to helium cuts the momentum in these turbulent flows to a seventh of what they would be with air.</text></comment> |
13,354,552 | 13,353,545 | 1 | 2 | 13,352,041 | train | <story><title>Building Better Interfaces with SVG (2015)</title><url>http://slides.com/sarasoueidan/building-better-interfaces-with-svg#/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kirse</author><text><i>all the super-annoying gimmicky animations (rippling text inputs, wiggly text, excessively stretch-and-squashing motion)</i><p>I like to call this trend &quot;Flanders Computing&quot; -- where developers and designers increasingly create obnoxiously friendly websites and apps that treat you as if they&#x27;re your diddly-doodly buddy-ol-pal.<p>A recent Windows 10 install told me &quot;We&#x27;re happy you&#x27;re here!&quot; Who exactly is &quot;we&quot; and why are they trying to be all buddy-buddy so soon? I assume the market research told them that this was the best start screen, but good grief is all the wiggly-wobbly buddy-ol-pal stuff so friggin annoying. It&#x27;s like forced intimacy that can&#x27;t be reciprocated, which feels weird.</text></item><item><author>tbabb</author><text>I have no horse in the SVG vs. CSS race, but: Web designers, please, do not think that all the super-annoying gimmicky animations (rippling text inputs, wiggly text, excessively stretch-and-squashing motion) are a positive for user experience.<p>It might be fine for showing technical flexibility, but they do not add to interaction; they are distracting, slow down responsiveness, and worse, are non-standard and unexpected. I hope this kind of stuff doesn&#x27;t catch on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>endgame</author><text>Similarly, when I sign into slack at work, I am presented with silly little messages from my &quot;friends at slack&quot;. Why is the empty set writing me messages? The people who work on slack are probably nice, but I don&#x27;t use the &quot;friend&quot; label on people who I&#x27;ve never met.</text></comment> | <story><title>Building Better Interfaces with SVG (2015)</title><url>http://slides.com/sarasoueidan/building-better-interfaces-with-svg#/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kirse</author><text><i>all the super-annoying gimmicky animations (rippling text inputs, wiggly text, excessively stretch-and-squashing motion)</i><p>I like to call this trend &quot;Flanders Computing&quot; -- where developers and designers increasingly create obnoxiously friendly websites and apps that treat you as if they&#x27;re your diddly-doodly buddy-ol-pal.<p>A recent Windows 10 install told me &quot;We&#x27;re happy you&#x27;re here!&quot; Who exactly is &quot;we&quot; and why are they trying to be all buddy-buddy so soon? I assume the market research told them that this was the best start screen, but good grief is all the wiggly-wobbly buddy-ol-pal stuff so friggin annoying. It&#x27;s like forced intimacy that can&#x27;t be reciprocated, which feels weird.</text></item><item><author>tbabb</author><text>I have no horse in the SVG vs. CSS race, but: Web designers, please, do not think that all the super-annoying gimmicky animations (rippling text inputs, wiggly text, excessively stretch-and-squashing motion) are a positive for user experience.<p>It might be fine for showing technical flexibility, but they do not add to interaction; they are distracting, slow down responsiveness, and worse, are non-standard and unexpected. I hope this kind of stuff doesn&#x27;t catch on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andai</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;webcomicname.tumblr.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;154211839894" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;webcomicname.tumblr.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;154211839894</a></text></comment> |
24,038,087 | 24,037,725 | 1 | 2 | 24,032,717 | train | <story><title>Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac</title><url>https://www.howtogeek.com/682300/why-i-still-use-an-old-powerpc-mac-in-2020/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RalfWausE</author><text>Why not use old(er) Systems when they fulfill your needs? A computer is a tool, such as a typewriter, printing press, paintbrush or hammer. Would anyone argue about the age of a typewriter or hammer if its in good working condition?<p>In fact, i am using an Atari 520ST as my main computer since my laptop died a while ago. It started as an experiment, but now &quot;it just works&quot;. I got network connectivity, email and (limited) internet access through a &quot;Netusbee&quot; adapter, and easy modern media access through a gotek floppy emulator.<p>Perhaps i am just crazy, but it simply works!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dwild</author><text>A computer is more than a tool, it&#x27;s multiple tools. No one argue about using an older typewriter, if it still does the job, but if you were to require 1000 copies, well that typewriter will seems a bit outdated and you may need a tool provided by a newer typewriter (like a digital one connected to an external printer).<p>Buying that adapter and floppy emulator cost more than a whole used computer. I guarantee you, if you just do what that Atari 520ST can do, it will &quot;just works&quot; too ;).<p>I can&#x27;t guarantee anything about any others tools that a computer provide, like Teams, but lets be honest, if someone that do everything he needs on an Atari 520ST were to use theses tools, it seems like it wouldn&#x27;t be by choice.<p>By the way, using older tools is certainly not a controversial opinion on here, you will find plenty that still works using terminals, vi, etc...</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac</title><url>https://www.howtogeek.com/682300/why-i-still-use-an-old-powerpc-mac-in-2020/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RalfWausE</author><text>Why not use old(er) Systems when they fulfill your needs? A computer is a tool, such as a typewriter, printing press, paintbrush or hammer. Would anyone argue about the age of a typewriter or hammer if its in good working condition?<p>In fact, i am using an Atari 520ST as my main computer since my laptop died a while ago. It started as an experiment, but now &quot;it just works&quot;. I got network connectivity, email and (limited) internet access through a &quot;Netusbee&quot; adapter, and easy modern media access through a gotek floppy emulator.<p>Perhaps i am just crazy, but it simply works!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ricksharp</author><text>Nice - whatever maximizes your productivity is the right tool.<p>I went the opposite route: I basically built a gaming rig so I could get really good auto-complete in vscode.<p>Couldn&#x27;t be happier... and I have a &#x27;free&#x27; light show. :-)</text></comment> |
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