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36,989,314 | 36,987,283 | 1 | 2 | 36,984,611 | train | <story><title>Polars: Company Formation Announcement</title><url>https://www.pola.rs/posts/company-announcement/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>infogulch</author><text>One of the interesting components of Polars that I&#x27;ve been watching is the use of the Apache Arrow memory format, which is a standard layout for data in memory that enables processing (querying, iterating, calculating, etc) in a language agnostic way, in particular without having to copy&#x2F;convert it into the local object format first. This enables cross-language data access by mmaping or transferring a single buffer, with zero [de]serialization overhead. Something genius and obvious in hindsight.<p>For some history, there has been a bit of contention between the official arrow-rs implementation and the arrow2 implementation created by the polars team which includes some extra features that they find important. I think the current status is that everyone agrees that having two crates that implement the same standard is not ideal, and they are working to port any necessary features to the arrow-rs crate and plan on eventually switching to it and deprecating arrow2, but it will take some time to get there.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;apache&#x2F;arrow-rs&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1176">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;apache&#x2F;arrow-rs&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1176</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jorgecarleitao&#x2F;arrow2&#x2F;pull&#x2F;1476">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jorgecarleitao&#x2F;arrow2&#x2F;pull&#x2F;1476</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Polars: Company Formation Announcement</title><url>https://www.pola.rs/posts/company-announcement/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>orlp</author><text>I just joined Polars as a fresh hire, I&#x27;m excited to help make it easier to use and faster :)</text></comment> |
29,455,889 | 29,455,978 | 1 | 2 | 29,455,730 | train | <story><title>Ubiquiti developer charged with extortion, causing 2020 “breach”</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/12/ubiquiti-developer-charged-with-extortion-causing-2020-breach/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lukeholder</author><text>The funny thing is that krebsonsecurity.com are the ones that published the false information in the first place.<p>Good summary of the whole saga by Crosstalk youtube channel which covers mostly Ubiquiti: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=paLm0tP5GbI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=paLm0tP5GbI</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ubiquiti developer charged with extortion, causing 2020 “breach”</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/12/ubiquiti-developer-charged-with-extortion-causing-2020-breach/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>LilBytes</author><text>For me a company of their size and, what I would expect, maturity, this new announcement does not satisfy me or provide me much assurance. Consequently I am still happy I have been recommending people against Ubiquiti since the original announcement from Krebs.<p>* Why was it so easy for a lead engineer to get access to a root AWS user without anyone else being notified? I.e. AWS GuardDuty provides FREE alerting for when an AWS root IAM account is logged in or used, this account should be under lock and key and when used, confirmed and audited by relevant persons or teams.<p>Start edit&#x2F;<p>* Furthermore on the root account being easily accessed, the root account in the companies I&#x27;ve worked at had MFA enabled, and the QR code is locked in a safe only accessible by two people agreeing it needs to be accessed in a break glass situation, where warranted.<p>&#x2F;End edit<p>* Why was he also able to delete critical CloudTrail logs and reduce their retention to 1 day? I.e. These logs should be in a S3 bucket or other environment where such changes cannot be made. Alternatively, they should be shipped to a redundant service that manages this risk to prevent data deletion<p>* Why did Ubiquti not announce they were compromised sooner? The hack started in early December, Ubiquiti noticed the compromise on Dec. 28. Ubiquiti told the market on January 11th. Is that a satisfactory turn around? Giving them some credit for the XMas break I&#x27;ll say this partially understandable.<p>All the AWS configuration I&#x27;m speaking of above, I would describe as Security 101.<p>Most of these settings can be set and managed from AWS Organisations for free, and backed up with alarming and alerts for Guard Duty trivially. That a company of Ubiquiti&#x27;s size and maturity had such basic risks not managed is still a concern.<p>I understand AWS Organisations can be difficult to set up for legacy AWS accounts, but even with that said, setting the alarms and monitoring up that would help manage the risk associated to the questions above is not difficult and should have been in place.<p>That Ubiqitui would only find relief ultimately from the developers poor OpSec rather than Ubiquiti&#x27;s own security policies and procedures provides a commending perspective of their internal security posture.</text></comment> |
3,714,574 | 3,714,600 | 1 | 3 | 3,714,269 | train | <story><title>This American Life Retracting "Mr. Daisey & The Apple Factory"</title><url>http://www.thisamericanlife.org/blog/2012/03/retracting-mr-daisey-and-the-apple-factory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jun8</author><text>From a naive viewpoint: Why is all this reporting about factory conditions focus on Apple, i.e. Foxconn? Is there proof that factories operated by Foxconn are worse than the typical Chinese factory? Or is Apple pushing them to Draconian measures, e.g. guards with guns, child workers, etc.?<p>How's this any different from any other Made in China electronics product?<p>EDIT: The replies are aligned with what I was thinking: If anything, Foxcon is above average in factory conditions. The major reason for the Apple focus is because of its high visibility.<p>I despise this easy targetism! I felt the same while watching <i>Supersize Me</i>, which focused on McDonalds, and some of Michael Moore's films. The basic premise may be correct, but selecting targets to ride on their name (McDonalds, Walmart, Apple) is an easy tactic and in fact puts off the critical thinking people who resist the manipulation (well, at least it puts me off). And what's more, in most of these cases the (more naive) audience is led to believe that the situation is <i>this specific company's fault</i>, leading to behavior like "Man, I'm never gonna eat another BigMac, will go to Burger King instead".</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>It's not. A generous interpretation: nobody thinks about the branding on their Samsung phone or their LG television, but people feel a personal connection to Apple's brand (or, alternatively, are hit over the head with it every day). So if you're optimizing your story for relevance to a US audience (a perfectly valid thing to do, if you stay within the bounds of the truth), you naturally focus in on Apple.</text></comment> | <story><title>This American Life Retracting "Mr. Daisey & The Apple Factory"</title><url>http://www.thisamericanlife.org/blog/2012/03/retracting-mr-daisey-and-the-apple-factory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jun8</author><text>From a naive viewpoint: Why is all this reporting about factory conditions focus on Apple, i.e. Foxconn? Is there proof that factories operated by Foxconn are worse than the typical Chinese factory? Or is Apple pushing them to Draconian measures, e.g. guards with guns, child workers, etc.?<p>How's this any different from any other Made in China electronics product?<p>EDIT: The replies are aligned with what I was thinking: If anything, Foxcon is above average in factory conditions. The major reason for the Apple focus is because of its high visibility.<p>I despise this easy targetism! I felt the same while watching <i>Supersize Me</i>, which focused on McDonalds, and some of Michael Moore's films. The basic premise may be correct, but selecting targets to ride on their name (McDonalds, Walmart, Apple) is an easy tactic and in fact puts off the critical thinking people who resist the manipulation (well, at least it puts me off). And what's more, in most of these cases the (more naive) audience is led to believe that the situation is <i>this specific company's fault</i>, leading to behavior like "Man, I'm never gonna eat another BigMac, will go to Burger King instead".</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frossie</author><text>I suspect it is a combination of two factors. First, Apple customers are considered (rightly or wrongly) to be affluent, and therefore the kind of people who can choose to boycott something for ethical reasons (as opposed to the people queueing for 6 hours on Black Friday to buy a TV, who are deemed to be purely price sensitive).<p>I suspect the other reason is simply the fact that Apple is a market leader (dominant in certain of its segments) and so as a journalist it makes sense to go after them, as your readers are likely to have heard of them or own one of its products. A lot more consumers have an iPod than a Dell computer.</text></comment> |
21,816,313 | 21,814,616 | 1 | 3 | 21,813,619 | train | <story><title>Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers of right to organize</title><url>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/security-engineer-says-google-fired-her-trying-notify-co-workers-n1103031</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>helen___keller</author><text>I agreed with this at first, but according to her medium post ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@ksspiers&#x2F;google-fires-another-worker-for-exercising-her-rights-and-protecting-coworkers-from-illegal-b86c41ef91b9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@ksspiers&#x2F;google-fires-another-worker-for...</a> )<p>&quot;Part of my job was to write browser notifications so that my coworkers can be automatically notified of employee guidelines and company policies while they surf the web&quot;<p>If this is true and her job is literally to create javascript notifications of company policy, then I think it&#x27;s entirely reasonable what she did considering it IS company policy (well, law really) that you have a right to organize.<p>Link to the popup: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;miro.medium.com&#x2F;max&#x2F;2000&#x2F;0*1BTVYLTvuHiJVvp_.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;miro.medium.com&#x2F;max&#x2F;2000&#x2F;0*1BTVYLTvuHiJVvp_.jpg</a></text></item><item><author>cj</author><text>&gt; Kathryn Spiers, who worked as a security engineer, updated an internal Chrome browser extension so that each time Google employees visited the website of IRI Consultants — the Troy, Michigan, firm that Google hired this year amid a groundswell of labor activism at the company — they would see a pop-up message that read: “Googlers have the right to participate in protected concerted activities.”<p>So basically, the Google employee added arbitrary javascript to an internal chrome extension used by Google employees that triggered a popup when employees visited a specific website.<p>And Google fires her with the reasoning:<p>&gt; “We dismissed an employee who abused privileged access to modify an internal security tool,” a Google spokeswoman said in a statement, adding that it was “a serious violation.”<p>I&#x27;m not at all opposed to Google employees organizing. But injecting javascript into an employer&#x27;s internal chrome extension does seem like something that warrants some type of action by Google in response...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scarmig</author><text>The extension is intended to inform Googlers of applications that are not approved for corp data, not just generic &quot;employee guidelines and company policies.&quot; This is so you don&#x27;t e.g. upload PII into a random unsecured S3 bucket.<p>Yes, it&#x27;s company policy, but this is more like running into a meeting and then interrupting it so you can start reciting NLRB policy than it is posting a flyer. Worse, it misappropriates a security tool in order to do that. And when it comes to intentional actions that violate or undermine security, Google, like most companies, takes a pretty hard line.<p>Disclosing that I&#x27;m a Googler, and speaking only on my own behalf, with no connection to anyone involved except the fact that the extension is running on my browser.</text></comment> | <story><title>Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers of right to organize</title><url>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/security-engineer-says-google-fired-her-trying-notify-co-workers-n1103031</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>helen___keller</author><text>I agreed with this at first, but according to her medium post ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@ksspiers&#x2F;google-fires-another-worker-for-exercising-her-rights-and-protecting-coworkers-from-illegal-b86c41ef91b9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@ksspiers&#x2F;google-fires-another-worker-for...</a> )<p>&quot;Part of my job was to write browser notifications so that my coworkers can be automatically notified of employee guidelines and company policies while they surf the web&quot;<p>If this is true and her job is literally to create javascript notifications of company policy, then I think it&#x27;s entirely reasonable what she did considering it IS company policy (well, law really) that you have a right to organize.<p>Link to the popup: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;miro.medium.com&#x2F;max&#x2F;2000&#x2F;0*1BTVYLTvuHiJVvp_.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;miro.medium.com&#x2F;max&#x2F;2000&#x2F;0*1BTVYLTvuHiJVvp_.jpg</a></text></item><item><author>cj</author><text>&gt; Kathryn Spiers, who worked as a security engineer, updated an internal Chrome browser extension so that each time Google employees visited the website of IRI Consultants — the Troy, Michigan, firm that Google hired this year amid a groundswell of labor activism at the company — they would see a pop-up message that read: “Googlers have the right to participate in protected concerted activities.”<p>So basically, the Google employee added arbitrary javascript to an internal chrome extension used by Google employees that triggered a popup when employees visited a specific website.<p>And Google fires her with the reasoning:<p>&gt; “We dismissed an employee who abused privileged access to modify an internal security tool,” a Google spokeswoman said in a statement, adding that it was “a serious violation.”<p>I&#x27;m not at all opposed to Google employees organizing. But injecting javascript into an employer&#x27;s internal chrome extension does seem like something that warrants some type of action by Google in response...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dqv</author><text>You&#x27;re right. It literally links to (what appears to be) an internal company document. go&#x2F;nlrbnotice</text></comment> |
3,906,599 | 3,906,165 | 1 | 2 | 3,905,881 | train | <story><title>Python Programming in your Browser: PythonAnywhere</title><url>http://www.pythonanywhere.com/?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gouranga</author><text>I'm not paying for something I can have anywhere I want already for nothing.<p>EDIT: To clear this up - installing python on your computer is cheaper, has better support, no limits, is far faster interactively and has really good support.<p>I know people are going to say "what about iOS/Android" but why the hell would you want to write anything on those devices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drx</author><text>&#62; I know people are going to say "what about iOS/Android" but why the hell would you want to write anything on those devices.<p>Writing on an iPad is very convenient. I would love to transfer as much work as I can on iPads (from laptops).<p>And replying to your child:<p>&#62; I was thinking the same thing. Seems like a niche idea that only people with money to burn and nothing better to do would buy into.<p>Money to burn, really? $10/month for people in an industry where earning $8000/month is the norm? If anything it might be too low.</text></comment> | <story><title>Python Programming in your Browser: PythonAnywhere</title><url>http://www.pythonanywhere.com/?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gouranga</author><text>I'm not paying for something I can have anywhere I want already for nothing.<p>EDIT: To clear this up - installing python on your computer is cheaper, has better support, no limits, is far faster interactively and has really good support.<p>I know people are going to say "what about iOS/Android" but why the hell would you want to write anything on those devices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vasco</author><text>I see the paid plans as a "support us" tier. You can do everything you want to mess around with the free plan.</text></comment> |
2,304,942 | 2,304,829 | 1 | 3 | 2,304,768 | train | <story><title>WebOS will be on 'every HP PC' shipping next year, says CEO</title><url>http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/09/webos-will-on-every-hp-pc-shipping-next-year-says-ceo/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raganwald</author><text>Ok, I know I need another coffee, so I apologise in advance for being the Grinch here, but...<p>This is pure CEO puffery. When will these guys get it? When will they start looking up to Steve Jobs instead of treating him like a guy who just happened to get lucky eight times (Apple II, Macintosh, Pixar, Macintosh again, iPod, iTMS, iPhone, App Store, iPad)?<p>Steve does not talk about what will ship on every Macintosh next year. He might talk about what will ship in the next sixty days if there is an SDK he is shipping to developers today. Steve does not talk about Apple investing in R&#38;D. Steve invests in R&#38;D.<p>Talking about the future is the action of a person interested in how he looks and sounds, rather than the actions of a person interested in how the company performs.<p>Steve ships. Leo had better spend less time with his PR people and more time with his engineers. I have nothing against shipping WebOS on every HP PC next year. But please, Leo, just fucking do it. Talk to your engineers, not to me.</text></comment> | <story><title>WebOS will be on 'every HP PC' shipping next year, says CEO</title><url>http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/09/webos-will-on-every-hp-pc-shipping-next-year-says-ceo/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cryptoz</author><text>I'll be blown away if HP is actually the first company to put their mobile os on a full desktop computer. I always imagined I would love running something like Android on a desktop; easy to use for everyone, no worries about viruses or software updates, nice modern UI design...really, it's a wonder that these machines don't work like that already.<p>I can't believe I'm rooting for HP on this one, but I sure hope this works and I hope it kicks ass.</text></comment> |
21,386,178 | 21,386,145 | 1 | 2 | 21,385,766 | train | <story><title>$15 minimum wage didn’t hurt NYC restaurants</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-15-minimum-wage-was-supposed-to-hurt-new-york-city-restaurants-but-both-revenue-and-employment-are-up-2019-10-28</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ensorceled</author><text>The comments on these types of articles always hurt my brain. Blaming minimum wage increases for McDonald&#x27;s, Walmart, pretty much everybody bringing in automated tellers for instance.<p>I&#x27;m always bemused by the arguments against minimum wages, they almost always boil down to &quot;My business can&#x27;t survive unless my employees are living in poverty.&quot; which, in reality for a lot of businesses, is &quot;I won&#x27;t be as profitable if I have to pay a living wage&quot;.<p>If people really believed this, there would be staged minimum wages: Walmart pays $25 minimum while small, struggling restaurants pay $15.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zaroth</author><text>Anyone arguing that businesses are “entitled” to cheap labor are arguing the case backwards.<p>Some jobs that certain humans perform are not worth very much money to an employer. If the state tells the employer they can’t pay someone that meager a sum, then they simply won’t hire a person to perform <i>just that job</i>. They will hire someone for more money to do that job plus something additional to make it worth hiring the person, or they will find a way to automate out or contract out that portion of the work.<p>Yes, if a business is not successful in managing around a government wage minimum then they will lose money. Companies are mismanaged all the time. But the general economic theory is based on rational actors, and at the macro level that is the effect that has been observed.</text></comment> | <story><title>$15 minimum wage didn’t hurt NYC restaurants</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-15-minimum-wage-was-supposed-to-hurt-new-york-city-restaurants-but-both-revenue-and-employment-are-up-2019-10-28</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ensorceled</author><text>The comments on these types of articles always hurt my brain. Blaming minimum wage increases for McDonald&#x27;s, Walmart, pretty much everybody bringing in automated tellers for instance.<p>I&#x27;m always bemused by the arguments against minimum wages, they almost always boil down to &quot;My business can&#x27;t survive unless my employees are living in poverty.&quot; which, in reality for a lot of businesses, is &quot;I won&#x27;t be as profitable if I have to pay a living wage&quot;.<p>If people really believed this, there would be staged minimum wages: Walmart pays $25 minimum while small, struggling restaurants pay $15.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sokoloff</author><text>When businesses won&#x27;t be as profitable as desired by the owners, they are less likely to be started or to choose to make that expansion.<p>If labor was plentiful and cost $1&#x2F;hr, we probably wouldn&#x27;t see nearly as many automated checkout stations or ordering kiosks. If low-skilled labor costs $100&#x2F;hr, you can bet there&#x27;s going to be a lot more automation in place.<p>It seems like most people can grasp the general slope of this demand curve, but seem to be unable (and I think in a lot of cases it&#x27;s rather <i>unwilling</i>) to reason about whether the curve has a fundamentally different slope&#x2F;shape in the $8-20&#x2F;hr range.</text></comment> |
26,918,707 | 26,918,581 | 1 | 3 | 26,916,383 | train | <story><title>4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/22/4chan-founder-chris-poole-moot-has-left-google.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pcbro141</author><text>In order list of threads from browsing &#x2F;pol&#x2F; for people who want to know how &#x27;diverse&#x27; it is without visiting:<p>- Anti-vax<p>- Anti-gay parents<p>- Goose<p>- Ben Shapiro praise thread with a dash of anti-semitism and a whole lot of &quot;i hope all ni**rs die&quot;<p>- Praising George Floyd mural vandalism<p>- Anti-transgender<p>- Praising white nationalism&#x2F;white ethnostate<p>- Praising &#x27;national rape day&#x27;<p>- Anti-Islam<p>- Anti-race mixing<p>- Illuminati<p>- Celebrating police shooting blacks<p>- British royals news<p>- Anti-mask, anti-Biden<p>- Silver<p>- Anti-liberal white women as betrayers of the white race<p>Keep in mind I just am reading the threads in order. This is not diverse <i>at all</i>. Maybe &#x27;diverse&#x27; in the sense that these white supremacists are posting from across North America and Europe. This is almost all far right white supremacist and misogynist talking points (strong overlap between the 2), almost surely disproportionately posted by young white men.</text></item><item><author>okareaman</author><text>I&#x27;ve spent a fair amount of time on 4chan&#x2F;pol&#x2F; for over a decade and my opinion is moot is a decent guy who sold it after he tried to reign in GamerGate and was loudly criticized on the site for it. I don&#x27;t think Google would have hired him if it weren&#x27;t for that redeeming quality.<p>I&#x27;m fascinated by 4chan because it is a kind of underground United Nations. It&#x27;s anonymous so people around the world can express themselves - even in a way I might find horrifying - and I can get an idea of concerns people have, though they might be concerns left unsaid im polite society.<p>It&#x27;s anonymous but your national flag is automatically assigned, and if you hide this or use a &quot;meme flag&#x27;
like a pirate flag, you will be criticized and ignored as a likely troll, trying a &quot;false flag&quot; operation.<p>4chan&#x2F;pol&#x2F; is interesting, I don&#x27;t know about the other boards since I don&#x27;t visit them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Anon1096</author><text>There&#x27;s plenty of other boards on 4chan where you can find people from all viewpoints posting. &#x2F;cgl&#x2F; is well known to be majority female, and posters on &#x2F;lit&#x2F; usually express center or left viewpoints. Even on &#x2F;pol&#x2F;, within a thread there will often be dissenters from the normal far-right average poster. Compared to other sites like Reddit where communities and posters with certain viewpoints are straight up banned, it&#x27;s a breath of fresh air.</text></comment> | <story><title>4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/22/4chan-founder-chris-poole-moot-has-left-google.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pcbro141</author><text>In order list of threads from browsing &#x2F;pol&#x2F; for people who want to know how &#x27;diverse&#x27; it is without visiting:<p>- Anti-vax<p>- Anti-gay parents<p>- Goose<p>- Ben Shapiro praise thread with a dash of anti-semitism and a whole lot of &quot;i hope all ni**rs die&quot;<p>- Praising George Floyd mural vandalism<p>- Anti-transgender<p>- Praising white nationalism&#x2F;white ethnostate<p>- Praising &#x27;national rape day&#x27;<p>- Anti-Islam<p>- Anti-race mixing<p>- Illuminati<p>- Celebrating police shooting blacks<p>- British royals news<p>- Anti-mask, anti-Biden<p>- Silver<p>- Anti-liberal white women as betrayers of the white race<p>Keep in mind I just am reading the threads in order. This is not diverse <i>at all</i>. Maybe &#x27;diverse&#x27; in the sense that these white supremacists are posting from across North America and Europe. This is almost all far right white supremacist and misogynist talking points (strong overlap between the 2), almost surely disproportionately posted by young white men.</text></item><item><author>okareaman</author><text>I&#x27;ve spent a fair amount of time on 4chan&#x2F;pol&#x2F; for over a decade and my opinion is moot is a decent guy who sold it after he tried to reign in GamerGate and was loudly criticized on the site for it. I don&#x27;t think Google would have hired him if it weren&#x27;t for that redeeming quality.<p>I&#x27;m fascinated by 4chan because it is a kind of underground United Nations. It&#x27;s anonymous so people around the world can express themselves - even in a way I might find horrifying - and I can get an idea of concerns people have, though they might be concerns left unsaid im polite society.<p>It&#x27;s anonymous but your national flag is automatically assigned, and if you hide this or use a &quot;meme flag&#x27;
like a pirate flag, you will be criticized and ignored as a likely troll, trying a &quot;false flag&quot; operation.<p>4chan&#x2F;pol&#x2F; is interesting, I don&#x27;t know about the other boards since I don&#x27;t visit them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vorpalhex</author><text>Subcultures have shibboleths. In the same way WallStreetBets wasn&#x27;t making fun of the mentally handicapped, it would be dangerous to take any chan at face value.<p>Shibboleths exist to exclude people outside the subculture stereotype - and a good way of doing that is to be offensive. Some subcultures desire to remain as subcultures.<p>Part of why shibboleths work is because we as a species tend to stop engaging rationally the moment we feel attacked - we switch to being defensive and actually entrench our own values further.<p>The 4chan shibboleth attacks everyone. No matter who you are or how you identify you&#x27;re going to be debased and mocked openly - that&#x27;s kind of the point.</text></comment> |
36,792,819 | 36,793,059 | 1 | 2 | 36,788,274 | train | <story><title>Children of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt</title><url>https://triblive.com/news/children-relatives-of-alumni-no-longer-have-admissions-edge-at-carnegie-mellon-pitt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>randyrand</author><text>I don&#x27;t think racial discrimination is the right term for discriminating based on things that <i>happen to</i> correlate with race.<p>Everything correlates with race. Height, disease, money, eye color, divorce, number of pokemon cards, you name it.<p>You may as well call it eye-color discrimination, height discrimination, pokemon card discrimination, etc, as well. It just makes no sense at that point.<p>So what exactly is the point of calling it racial discrimination then? Isn&#x27;t every single policy racist then?</text></item><item><author>elil17</author><text>But favoring legacy status in admissions is a form of racial discrimination because non-white people are much, much less likely to have legacy at elite institutions.</text></item><item><author>dionidium</author><text>&gt; <i>With the end of affirmative action, legacy status in admissions becomes much harder to justify.</i><p>I just don&#x27;t see this. In our society we believe it to be illegitimate to discriminate on the basis of race. We believe that to be a <i>special</i> kind of uniquely harmful prejudice, one that fractures the deepest structures of society, and that it therefore clears the very high bar required for limiting freedom of association. That is what is at issue in the case of affirmative action, the elimination of which was not a broad referendum on the right to form elite social clubs.</text></item><item><author>julienchastang</author><text>Good. With the end of affirmative action, legacy status in admissions becomes much harder to justify. [0] The number of kids entering elite universities via non-meritocratic avenues is incredible.<p>&gt; &quot;[The researchers] examined four kinds of nonracial preferences—for recruited athletes, and for children of Harvard graduates, financial donors and members of faculty and staff. The researchers found that more than 43% of white applicants admitted to Harvard between 2014-19 fell into one or more of these categories. Nearly three quarters of them would have been rejected if they had been subjected to the same standards as other white applicants.&quot;<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;end-college-legacy-preferences-harvard-sffa-racce-affirmative-action-13e90e30" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;end-college-legacy-preferences-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>digging</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t think racial discrimination is the right term for discriminating based on things that happen to correlate with race.<p>Fortunately for people of color, it is. You don&#x27;t have to <i>say</i> you&#x27;re discriminating based on race in order to be doing so, and the law acknowledges this. That is how gerrymandered district maps can get struck down on the basis of racial discrimination. We do actually get to look at reality when we are deciding if an act is racist.</text></comment> | <story><title>Children of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt</title><url>https://triblive.com/news/children-relatives-of-alumni-no-longer-have-admissions-edge-at-carnegie-mellon-pitt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>randyrand</author><text>I don&#x27;t think racial discrimination is the right term for discriminating based on things that <i>happen to</i> correlate with race.<p>Everything correlates with race. Height, disease, money, eye color, divorce, number of pokemon cards, you name it.<p>You may as well call it eye-color discrimination, height discrimination, pokemon card discrimination, etc, as well. It just makes no sense at that point.<p>So what exactly is the point of calling it racial discrimination then? Isn&#x27;t every single policy racist then?</text></item><item><author>elil17</author><text>But favoring legacy status in admissions is a form of racial discrimination because non-white people are much, much less likely to have legacy at elite institutions.</text></item><item><author>dionidium</author><text>&gt; <i>With the end of affirmative action, legacy status in admissions becomes much harder to justify.</i><p>I just don&#x27;t see this. In our society we believe it to be illegitimate to discriminate on the basis of race. We believe that to be a <i>special</i> kind of uniquely harmful prejudice, one that fractures the deepest structures of society, and that it therefore clears the very high bar required for limiting freedom of association. That is what is at issue in the case of affirmative action, the elimination of which was not a broad referendum on the right to form elite social clubs.</text></item><item><author>julienchastang</author><text>Good. With the end of affirmative action, legacy status in admissions becomes much harder to justify. [0] The number of kids entering elite universities via non-meritocratic avenues is incredible.<p>&gt; &quot;[The researchers] examined four kinds of nonracial preferences—for recruited athletes, and for children of Harvard graduates, financial donors and members of faculty and staff. The researchers found that more than 43% of white applicants admitted to Harvard between 2014-19 fell into one or more of these categories. Nearly three quarters of them would have been rejected if they had been subjected to the same standards as other white applicants.&quot;<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;end-college-legacy-preferences-harvard-sffa-racce-affirmative-action-13e90e30" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;end-college-legacy-preferences-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elil17</author><text>Legacy doesn&#x27;t just correlate with race - the fact that legacy admissions are so heavily skewed towards white people is because of past racial discrimination. It&#x27;s a grandfather clause of sorts (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Grandfather_clause#Origin" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Grandfather_clause#Origin</a>).</text></comment> |
1,741,540 | 1,741,499 | 1 | 2 | 1,741,260 | train | <story><title>Rumpetroll - a new Websockets/HTML5/CSS3/JS experiment</title><url>http://rumpetroll.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adamdecaf</author><text>I broke it. I was the "DROP TABLES" guy, and you'll want to sanitize the text before it goes into the db.<p>I typed<p><pre><code> "; DROP TABLE `users`;
</code></pre>
Which made every person stop moving, and then on page reload nothing happens. (So the `users` table is dropped.)<p>Sorry!! I didn't mean to break it, I wanted to test it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rumpetroll - a new Websockets/HTML5/CSS3/JS experiment</title><url>http://rumpetroll.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bradgessler</author><text>Where is the egg? There's nothing to fertilize.</text></comment> |
7,029,864 | 7,029,848 | 1 | 2 | 7,029,454 | train | <story><title>Software in 2014</title><url>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2014/01/01/Software-in-2014</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xd</author><text>He works on Go at Google. A skilled professional no doubt, could he not have made some valid points rather than simply calling PHP disgusting. It didn&#x27;t add anything to the conversation.<p>If you where in the pub and someone spent some time listing the virtues of the pint they where drinking, and then someone joined in the conversation and called it disgusting with no basis .. wouldn&#x27;t you find that to be odd behavior?</text></item><item><author>dmak</author><text>That comment didn&#x27;t even come across as elitist. There was no need to get personal.</text></item><item><author>xd</author><text>For someone that works on Go at Google I&#x27;m shocked by your very much subjective view of PHP. Elitist much?</text></item><item><author>enneff</author><text>So what? Part of the reason PHP is such a disgusting mess is because it is a raft of haphazardly accumulated features.</text></item><item><author>xd</author><text>&quot;It’s a pity some people still build important apps in PHP...&quot;<p>Getting real tired of seeing these baseless statements from so called software professionals.<p>Here is an off-the-top-of-my-head list of features of modern day PHP:<p>* yield<p>* event<p>* pthreads - yeap, real threads.<p>* closures (including support for $this)<p>* consistent hashing api<p>* &quot;finally&quot; added to try-catch<p>* empty() now supports expressions, rather than only
variables.<p>* array and string literal dereferencing<p>* foreach support for list() - foreach($array as list($var, $var))<p>* array_column<p>* traits<p>* short array syntax<p>* namespaces<p>* json manipulation is second to none.<p>* runkit - all kinds of danger here</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zxcdw</author><text>He <i>did</i> explain <i>why</i> PHP is disgusting mess.<p>And hell, the fact that people have that opinion stems from somewhere. And that is a fact we should all take a note of -- to build better tools. You see, PHP is <i>nothing</i> but a tool, and as a tool, it&#x27;s not very liked one due to it&#x27;s flaws. Solution? Abandon it! Build new, better tools instead of feeling threathened.<p>Le PHP sink and die it&#x27;s well deserved death and make way for better <i>tools</i>, because professionals shouldn&#x27;t feel attached to their tools, instead they should be critical towards them and look to find better ones.</text></comment> | <story><title>Software in 2014</title><url>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2014/01/01/Software-in-2014</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xd</author><text>He works on Go at Google. A skilled professional no doubt, could he not have made some valid points rather than simply calling PHP disgusting. It didn&#x27;t add anything to the conversation.<p>If you where in the pub and someone spent some time listing the virtues of the pint they where drinking, and then someone joined in the conversation and called it disgusting with no basis .. wouldn&#x27;t you find that to be odd behavior?</text></item><item><author>dmak</author><text>That comment didn&#x27;t even come across as elitist. There was no need to get personal.</text></item><item><author>xd</author><text>For someone that works on Go at Google I&#x27;m shocked by your very much subjective view of PHP. Elitist much?</text></item><item><author>enneff</author><text>So what? Part of the reason PHP is such a disgusting mess is because it is a raft of haphazardly accumulated features.</text></item><item><author>xd</author><text>&quot;It’s a pity some people still build important apps in PHP...&quot;<p>Getting real tired of seeing these baseless statements from so called software professionals.<p>Here is an off-the-top-of-my-head list of features of modern day PHP:<p>* yield<p>* event<p>* pthreads - yeap, real threads.<p>* closures (including support for $this)<p>* consistent hashing api<p>* &quot;finally&quot; added to try-catch<p>* empty() now supports expressions, rather than only
variables.<p>* array and string literal dereferencing<p>* foreach support for list() - foreach($array as list($var, $var))<p>* array_column<p>* traits<p>* short array syntax<p>* namespaces<p>* json manipulation is second to none.<p>* runkit - all kinds of danger here</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grey-area</author><text>He probably didn&#x27;t elaborate because he felt the basis for the view was clear - there are clearly areas of PHP which still need work. PHP is often frowned upon because the APIs are a mess of legacy cruft like addslashes, magic_quotes, mysql_escape_string, mysql_real_escape_string, mysqli_real_escape_string versus prepared statements. Efforts are being made to clean it up, but for a language to ever end up in a place with that sort of library functions is a pretty big red flag.</text></comment> |
7,671,847 | 7,671,769 | 1 | 3 | 7,671,214 | train | <story><title>The greatest juggler alive quit to open a construction business</title><url>http://grantland.com/features/anthony-gatto-juggling-cirque-du-soleil-jason-fagone/?2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>clarky07</author><text>I&#x27;m not ashamed to admit I had to look up Donald Bradman. Cricket? That&#x27;s the analogy you went with? :-)</text></item><item><author>Schwolop</author><text>I used to run the world&#x27;s biggest juggling video repository (JuggleThis.net, now defunct) which itself was definitely responsible for a lot of the irritation Gatto found with the new generation of camera-happy juggling kids.<p>Certainly he was frustrated by newcomers filming 100 takes and showing just one (something I&#x27;m guilty of too!). But without being a juggler yourself it&#x27;s hard to express just how much better than everyone else he really was. If being able to do a trick with N balls is unit difficulty, adding N+2 balls is a factor of 10-100 harder. Being able to <i>perform</i> it is another 10-100 times again.<p>Gatto regularly performed things the next best jugglers could barely do at all. He was the Donald Bradman of juggling, and I&#x27;m very sad we now have to say &quot;was&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avalaunch</author><text>I had to look him up to, but once I found this, I understood why he went with Donald Bradman over Pele or Jordan or Ali.<p><a href="http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/the-most-remarkable-graph-in-the-history-of-sport/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;michaelnielsen.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-most-remarkable-graph-in-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The greatest juggler alive quit to open a construction business</title><url>http://grantland.com/features/anthony-gatto-juggling-cirque-du-soleil-jason-fagone/?2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>clarky07</author><text>I&#x27;m not ashamed to admit I had to look up Donald Bradman. Cricket? That&#x27;s the analogy you went with? :-)</text></item><item><author>Schwolop</author><text>I used to run the world&#x27;s biggest juggling video repository (JuggleThis.net, now defunct) which itself was definitely responsible for a lot of the irritation Gatto found with the new generation of camera-happy juggling kids.<p>Certainly he was frustrated by newcomers filming 100 takes and showing just one (something I&#x27;m guilty of too!). But without being a juggler yourself it&#x27;s hard to express just how much better than everyone else he really was. If being able to do a trick with N balls is unit difficulty, adding N+2 balls is a factor of 10-100 harder. Being able to <i>perform</i> it is another 10-100 times again.<p>Gatto regularly performed things the next best jugglers could barely do at all. He was the Donald Bradman of juggling, and I&#x27;m very sad we now have to say &quot;was&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Schwolop</author><text>In terms of &quot;sportsman who is so far ahead of his peers that it&#x27;s almost impossible to explain how&quot;, then yes, I think Bradman fits the bill!</text></comment> |
34,611,495 | 34,611,364 | 1 | 3 | 34,610,517 | train | <story><title>Pakistani gov degrades Wikipedia connections due to blasphemy</title><url>https://www.pta.gov.pk/en/media-center/single-media/wikipedia-services-degraded-over-unlawful-content-010223</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beardyw</author><text>I am trying to think why Wikipedia would care about this. They offer a free service - if you don&#x27;t want it that&#x27;s just disappointing.</text></item><item><author>flipbrad</author><text>&quot;Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has degraded Wikipedia services in the country on account of not blocking &#x2F; removing sacrilegious contents.<p>Wikipedia was approached for blocking &#x2F; removal of the said contents by issuing a notice under applicable law and court order(s). An opportunity of hearing was also provided, however, the platform neither complied by removing the blasphemous content nor appeared before the Authority.<p>Given the intentional failure on part of the platform to comply with the directions of PTA, the services of Wikipedia have been degraded for 48 hours with the direction to block &#x2F; remove the reported contents. In case of non-compliance by Wikipedia the platform will be blocked within Pakistan.<p>The restoration of the services of Wikipedia will be reconsidered subject to blocking &#x2F; removal of the reported unlawful contents. PTA is committed to ensuring a safe online experience for all Pakistani citizens according to local laws.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway09223</author><text>They don&#x27;t care. They know people can get around the blocks.<p>Wikipedia is more valuable with accurate content, even if some countries make it harder to access.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pakistani gov degrades Wikipedia connections due to blasphemy</title><url>https://www.pta.gov.pk/en/media-center/single-media/wikipedia-services-degraded-over-unlawful-content-010223</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beardyw</author><text>I am trying to think why Wikipedia would care about this. They offer a free service - if you don&#x27;t want it that&#x27;s just disappointing.</text></item><item><author>flipbrad</author><text>&quot;Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has degraded Wikipedia services in the country on account of not blocking &#x2F; removing sacrilegious contents.<p>Wikipedia was approached for blocking &#x2F; removal of the said contents by issuing a notice under applicable law and court order(s). An opportunity of hearing was also provided, however, the platform neither complied by removing the blasphemous content nor appeared before the Authority.<p>Given the intentional failure on part of the platform to comply with the directions of PTA, the services of Wikipedia have been degraded for 48 hours with the direction to block &#x2F; remove the reported contents. In case of non-compliance by Wikipedia the platform will be blocked within Pakistan.<p>The restoration of the services of Wikipedia will be reconsidered subject to blocking &#x2F; removal of the reported unlawful contents. PTA is committed to ensuring a safe online experience for all Pakistani citizens according to local laws.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kemayo</author><text>An ideological commitment to free knowledge, mostly. It&#x27;s upsetting to be cut off from people who could use it.</text></comment> |
23,651,587 | 23,651,671 | 1 | 3 | 23,648,217 | train | <story><title>Boston bans use of facial recognition technology</title><url>https://www.wbur.org/news/2020/06/23/boston-facial-recognition-ban</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mc32</author><text>Historically speaking, when the world was small towns and rural, “surveillance” was a fact of life. Everyone knew someone who knew someone else.<p>The big difference is that surveillance was localized and didn’t follow the person.<p>If someone did a crime or did something against local mores and got ostracized they could skip town and settle somewhere else to begin anew. Now, of course being the new person in a new place you were under scrutiny, but as long as you followed local practices your old peccadilloes or even crimes didn’t follow you.</text></item><item><author>throwaway0a5e</author><text>&gt;So much attention is always paid to accuracy when facial recognition comes up.<p>Because many people are ok with mass-survielince as long as long as it&#x27;s used fairly. The problem they see with this tech isn&#x27;t that it&#x27;s going to create the kind of world we don&#x27;t want to live in but that it unfairly targets minorities and&#x2F;or the poors more than other people. They don&#x27;t understand that it can never be fair because the institutions that run it can never be fair because there will always be out-groups because that&#x27;s how human nature works and they will get disproportionately screwed unless we limit the ability of the majority to screw them.</text></item><item><author>kbos87</author><text>So much attention is always paid to accuracy when facial recognition comes up. Even if it was 100% accurate, it’s a technology that makes mass surveillance too efficient. Prohibitions need to also extend to the private sector, with the exception of, say, facial recognition for personal use (eg FaceID.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brlewis</author><text>&gt; The big difference is that surveillance was localized and didn’t follow the person<p>That is <i>a</i> big difference. But <i>the</i> big difference is how one-sided the new surveillance is. In a small town, they knew everything about you, but you also knew everything about them.<p>Today, parking regulations in my town are enforced by cars that circle around scanning every license plate parked on every street. I could probably find out who has access to that data if it were a priority for me. But what&#x27;s stopping a private entity from doing the same thing? I&#x27;d never know it happened. Cell carriers selling my location data? I could easily have never known about this. Ad tracking companies having a record of most sites I visit? I don&#x27;t even know who they are other than a few major ones.</text></comment> | <story><title>Boston bans use of facial recognition technology</title><url>https://www.wbur.org/news/2020/06/23/boston-facial-recognition-ban</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mc32</author><text>Historically speaking, when the world was small towns and rural, “surveillance” was a fact of life. Everyone knew someone who knew someone else.<p>The big difference is that surveillance was localized and didn’t follow the person.<p>If someone did a crime or did something against local mores and got ostracized they could skip town and settle somewhere else to begin anew. Now, of course being the new person in a new place you were under scrutiny, but as long as you followed local practices your old peccadilloes or even crimes didn’t follow you.</text></item><item><author>throwaway0a5e</author><text>&gt;So much attention is always paid to accuracy when facial recognition comes up.<p>Because many people are ok with mass-survielince as long as long as it&#x27;s used fairly. The problem they see with this tech isn&#x27;t that it&#x27;s going to create the kind of world we don&#x27;t want to live in but that it unfairly targets minorities and&#x2F;or the poors more than other people. They don&#x27;t understand that it can never be fair because the institutions that run it can never be fair because there will always be out-groups because that&#x27;s how human nature works and they will get disproportionately screwed unless we limit the ability of the majority to screw them.</text></item><item><author>kbos87</author><text>So much attention is always paid to accuracy when facial recognition comes up. Even if it was 100% accurate, it’s a technology that makes mass surveillance too efficient. Prohibitions need to also extend to the private sector, with the exception of, say, facial recognition for personal use (eg FaceID.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deepakhj</author><text>I think it’s a big problem because many people do crime because they are poor or don’t have a solid family unit. Once they get into the system we don’t provide resources to rehab them but basically train them to become criminals. Or when they get out even if they satisfy what society asks of them, we make it really hard to recover with a felony on their record. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;16&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;felon-attorney-crime-yale-law.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;16&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;felon-attorney-c...</a></text></comment> |
35,495,511 | 35,494,430 | 1 | 2 | 35,492,591 | train | <story><title>Why human societies developed so little during 300k years</title><url>https://woodfromeden.substack.com/p/violent-enough-to-stand-still</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>retrac</author><text>The sheer number of people with free time and who are able to communicate long distances with others who share their interests (whether practical or frivolous) seems to often be left out of these discussions. <i>Right now</i> there are a billion people using electronic devices, engaged, productively or recreationally, with other human beings. The elite of Ancient Rome, the people literate, with some free time, measured in perhaps the tens or hundreds of thousands. So one hour of our collective mental wankery today is equivalent to tens of thousands of hours of it in Ancient Rome, assuming all other things were equal (which they are not).<p>In other words, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a coincidence things started changing rapidly after the invention of agriculture, when the human population started to steadily increase.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmoskal</author><text>I was really interested in seeing what&#x27;s the % of years of human live lived in different historical periods. I wrote a script [0] and it turns out [1], 90% of time was lived after the agricultural revolution (last 10k years) and 50% of time was lived in the last 1000 years. 10% of time was lived in my lifetime!<p>Now, when we talk about different measures of progress the number above understate the dominance of recent history. For most of human history average life expectancy was 10-12 years, so most of these years lived were as children. Also, ignoring the first 10% of hunter-gatherer years, most of the time most people were working in agriculture with very little surplus to do anything else.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;mmoskal&#x2F;b6d8d2c73ec4fe56df9714d8435a234e" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;mmoskal&#x2F;b6d8d2c73ec4fe56df9714d8435a...</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;mmoskal&#x2F;58e7c9ee4d716f91f1e7438660b7e715" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;mmoskal&#x2F;58e7c9ee4d716f91f1e7438660b7...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Why human societies developed so little during 300k years</title><url>https://woodfromeden.substack.com/p/violent-enough-to-stand-still</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>retrac</author><text>The sheer number of people with free time and who are able to communicate long distances with others who share their interests (whether practical or frivolous) seems to often be left out of these discussions. <i>Right now</i> there are a billion people using electronic devices, engaged, productively or recreationally, with other human beings. The elite of Ancient Rome, the people literate, with some free time, measured in perhaps the tens or hundreds of thousands. So one hour of our collective mental wankery today is equivalent to tens of thousands of hours of it in Ancient Rome, assuming all other things were equal (which they are not).<p>In other words, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a coincidence things started changing rapidly after the invention of agriculture, when the human population started to steadily increase.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dopidopHN</author><text>Agriculture took roughly 5000 years to be adopted.<p>I don’t think it can be qualified of fast.<p>Their was back and forth and things did not change rapidly for the better automagically.<p>For milenaries, hunter gathered were better fed than village dweller ( from bones structures and trash analysis)<p>Source : Grabber &amp; scott. Mostly “against the grain” and “debt, a history”</text></comment> |
10,007,636 | 10,006,188 | 1 | 2 | 10,005,709 | train | <story><title>After 20 years, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy thrives on the web</title><url>http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/july/online-encyclopedia-philosophy-073115.html?a=1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hackuser</author><text>It&#x27;s sad how rare authoritative, free resources are on the web. It&#x27;s cliche to say how incredible an opportunity the Internet presents to share the world&#x27;s knowledge, but the most valuable knowledge, the serious scholarship, is effectively withheld from the public. Imagine how some debates would change if more authoritative resources were easily accessible (I don&#x27;t want to exaggerate the value of &#x27;authority&#x27;, but it&#x27;s a much better starting point than Wikipedia) and cited with a link, such as in HN discussions. Partly as a result the Internet is mostly rumor and popular notions, not knowledge.<p>I&#x27;ve even turned to SEP for mathematical concepts (to the extent it covers math), for example, because there is no free authoritative resource in that field.</text></comment> | <story><title>After 20 years, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy thrives on the web</title><url>http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/july/online-encyclopedia-philosophy-073115.html?a=1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dvt</author><text>I love the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; even though I don&#x27;t use it as much as I did while I was in school, it&#x27;s still something I read on a semi-regular basis (especially when I need to look something up).<p>I&#x27;m personally a much bigger fan of curated&#x2F;academic encyclopedias like SEP as opposed to open encyclopedias (Wikipedia, etc.) so it&#x27;s good to see it thrive.</text></comment> |
20,281,845 | 20,281,569 | 1 | 2 | 20,280,920 | train | <story><title>Apple buys autonomous driving company Drive.ai</title><url>https://www.axios.com/apple-buy-driveai-753da17d-60fe-44f9-84ff-1d2d82cd0b81.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gumby</author><text>Apple pretty consistently pays bottom dollar for acquisitions, and typically does an acquihire which results in the former company&#x27;s product being deep sixed. So this looks like an autonomous driving skill acquisition, but for all we know the remaining team will be purposed to guessing where you are by dead-reckoning on your phone, or improving Photos&#x27; judgement or who knows.<p>In fact the only case I can remember when they <i>didn&#x27;t</i> do this was with the liquid metal company, and that one didn&#x27;t pan out. (there are presumably others but I don&#x27;t recall any off the top of my head.).<p>They have bought a few products, like iTunes, without buying the company.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple buys autonomous driving company Drive.ai</title><url>https://www.axios.com/apple-buy-driveai-753da17d-60fe-44f9-84ff-1d2d82cd0b81.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>&gt; Why it matters: The deal and hires confirm that Apple hasn&#x27;t given up its autonomous driving project.<p>I think the first sign was the near continuous sightings of Apple’s self driving cars in Cupertino. At one point i literally saw four of them at the intersection of Homestead and Wolfe (next to the spaceship), one going in each direction.</text></comment> |
27,771,325 | 27,771,593 | 1 | 2 | 27,770,414 | train | <story><title>US-Canada heatwave 'virtually impossible' without warming</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57751918</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgpl</author><text>I&#x27;ve been cranking up my AC and adding ice to my water to combat the heat but I recently read an article about sea-life [0] boiling to death in their natural habitats (oceans, seas) which made me realize that animals in the wild increasingly don&#x27;t have this option.<p>It made me really sad to think about the fact that we&#x27;ll probably see mass-extinction events (for animals, etc.) in the near future or at least within my lifetime because while we all &#x27;care&#x27; there&#x27;s no political will or consensus to combat climate change; it&#x27;s also not a one nation issue.<p>I&#x27;ve also been religiously recycling in my personal life but every now and then I read articles about even recycling from a lot of places ending up in landfills which really frustrates me as it takes away any agency I really have on this action.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.complex.com&#x2F;life&#x2F;bc-heat-wave-cooked-more-than-a-billion-seashore-animals-to-death" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.complex.com&#x2F;life&#x2F;bc-heat-wave-cooked-more-than-a...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>helen___keller</author><text>&gt; It made me really sad to think about the fact that we&#x27;ll probably see mass-extinction events (for animals, etc.) in the near future or at least within my lifetime<p>It&#x27;s generally agreed that we are already living within a mass extinction event[0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Anthropocene#Biodiversity" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Anthropocene#Biodiversity</a> &quot;Humankind has entered what is sometimes called the Earth&#x27;s sixth major extinction. Most experts agree that human activities have accelerated the rate of species extinction.The exact rate remains controversial – perhaps 100 to 1000 times the normal background rate of extinction&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>US-Canada heatwave 'virtually impossible' without warming</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57751918</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgpl</author><text>I&#x27;ve been cranking up my AC and adding ice to my water to combat the heat but I recently read an article about sea-life [0] boiling to death in their natural habitats (oceans, seas) which made me realize that animals in the wild increasingly don&#x27;t have this option.<p>It made me really sad to think about the fact that we&#x27;ll probably see mass-extinction events (for animals, etc.) in the near future or at least within my lifetime because while we all &#x27;care&#x27; there&#x27;s no political will or consensus to combat climate change; it&#x27;s also not a one nation issue.<p>I&#x27;ve also been religiously recycling in my personal life but every now and then I read articles about even recycling from a lot of places ending up in landfills which really frustrates me as it takes away any agency I really have on this action.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.complex.com&#x2F;life&#x2F;bc-heat-wave-cooked-more-than-a-billion-seashore-animals-to-death" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.complex.com&#x2F;life&#x2F;bc-heat-wave-cooked-more-than-a...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vsareto</author><text>&gt;I&#x27;ve also been religiously recycling in my personal life but every now and then I read articles about even recycling from a lot of places ending up in landfills which really frustrates me as it takes away any agency I really have on this action.<p>Recycle if you want, but don&#x27;t stress about it (especially religiously).<p>One, for the landfill reason you mentioned, and two, while it does feel good to &#x27;do something about it&#x27;, the scale of individuals recycling doesn&#x27;t make up for massive companies generating waste without recycling. If you want the agency back, you&#x27;ll likely have to get into politics, activism, and&#x2F;or join those companies and change them from the inside (note: incredibly difficult side quest)</text></comment> |
37,028,326 | 37,025,563 | 1 | 2 | 37,022,911 | train | <story><title>I went to 50 different dentists: almost all gave a different diagnosis (1997)</title><url>https://www.rd.com/article/how-honest-are-dentists/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ransom1538</author><text>&quot;The experts are great until they have a case that is unusual. &quot;<p>I was so pissed by this I created a way to find experts. People that actually studied the issue, have actual publish papers on the topic. What I found was no one cared. No one wanted &quot;experts&quot; - they want a specialist that is in their network and close.<p>Example of searching for mohs surgury.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opendoctor.io&#x2F;research&#x2F;?research_papers=mohs&amp;zip=32766&amp;search=search" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opendoctor.io&#x2F;research&#x2F;?research_papers=mohs&amp;zip...</a></text></item><item><author>basisword</author><text>&gt;&gt; I’m not a conspiracy nut. I believe in listening to experts (but ultimately making an informed decision). I believe in modern medicine. But that experience shook me and forever changed my trust in the dental industry.<p>Ask anybody who’s experienced a “chronic” illness about the “experts” and they’ll tell you a tale or two. The experts are great until they have a case that is unusual. The don’t have the time or knowledge to treat you properly. You get passed from “expert” to “expert” each time having your hopes dashed. You start feeling like a conspiracy nut chatting with other patients online sharing what’s anecdotally helped. After running into this issue more than once I’ve lost all blind trust in medical experts. I’ll verify what they tell me as best I can and get second opinions if necessary. In one case I was passed up the chain of experts until I finally found the right one myself after a year, and it still blows my mind that this wasn’t the first referral. The system is at the same time incredible and awful.</text></item><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>My son when 3 had a fall and a few teeth were bent. Went to our local dentist who mostly had a wait and see opinion. But then calls a day later and says they’ve decided they should just come out. Two top front teeth. Would have no top front teeth for years.<p>I went into engineer mode and while I acknowledged I didn’t have domain expertise, I asked questions and probed the whole situation. Very unsatisfactory, meandering answers.<p>This was a deeply distressing experience. For the first time ever I did the “call in a personal favour” thing and asked my dad to reach out a family friend, a former cosmetic dentist and former head of the province’s dental association for a second opinion.<p>He saw my son a few hours later and he was just <i>livid</i> about the diagnosis. That it was possible they’d have to come out but it’s impossible to know this for at least a few more weeks or more.<p>In a few months the teeth returned 100% to normal and firmed right up as the ligaments healed.<p>I’m not a conspiracy nut. I believe in listening to experts (but ultimately making an informed decision). I believe in modern medicine. But that experience shook me and forever changed my trust in the dental industry.<p>My feeling is that the nature of dentistry leaves a lot of room for subjectivity and COVID left a lot of dental chairs empty.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>susiecambria</author><text>I&#x27;ve often been struck dumb by the passive nature of so many people when facing health problems. My dad had multiple myeloma and was satisfied with local hosp. Nope. Made him go to Yale and the Dana Farber. He got the best care possible.<p>I struggled with back pain and told to go to a neurologist and informed my GP where I would and wouldn&#x27;t go. The doc I was referred to was a no-go since I know him personally and he&#x27;s a lying piece of shit in his personal life, I&#x27;m not trusting him with my back! Docs could NOT understand. &quot;But he&#x27;s so nice.&quot; Screw that.<p>Time and again, family and friends settle. I understand the insurance component, but even then, can you not find better?<p>And thank you for your work. It&#x27;s very cool.</text></comment> | <story><title>I went to 50 different dentists: almost all gave a different diagnosis (1997)</title><url>https://www.rd.com/article/how-honest-are-dentists/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ransom1538</author><text>&quot;The experts are great until they have a case that is unusual. &quot;<p>I was so pissed by this I created a way to find experts. People that actually studied the issue, have actual publish papers on the topic. What I found was no one cared. No one wanted &quot;experts&quot; - they want a specialist that is in their network and close.<p>Example of searching for mohs surgury.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opendoctor.io&#x2F;research&#x2F;?research_papers=mohs&amp;zip=32766&amp;search=search" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opendoctor.io&#x2F;research&#x2F;?research_papers=mohs&amp;zip...</a></text></item><item><author>basisword</author><text>&gt;&gt; I’m not a conspiracy nut. I believe in listening to experts (but ultimately making an informed decision). I believe in modern medicine. But that experience shook me and forever changed my trust in the dental industry.<p>Ask anybody who’s experienced a “chronic” illness about the “experts” and they’ll tell you a tale or two. The experts are great until they have a case that is unusual. The don’t have the time or knowledge to treat you properly. You get passed from “expert” to “expert” each time having your hopes dashed. You start feeling like a conspiracy nut chatting with other patients online sharing what’s anecdotally helped. After running into this issue more than once I’ve lost all blind trust in medical experts. I’ll verify what they tell me as best I can and get second opinions if necessary. In one case I was passed up the chain of experts until I finally found the right one myself after a year, and it still blows my mind that this wasn’t the first referral. The system is at the same time incredible and awful.</text></item><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>My son when 3 had a fall and a few teeth were bent. Went to our local dentist who mostly had a wait and see opinion. But then calls a day later and says they’ve decided they should just come out. Two top front teeth. Would have no top front teeth for years.<p>I went into engineer mode and while I acknowledged I didn’t have domain expertise, I asked questions and probed the whole situation. Very unsatisfactory, meandering answers.<p>This was a deeply distressing experience. For the first time ever I did the “call in a personal favour” thing and asked my dad to reach out a family friend, a former cosmetic dentist and former head of the province’s dental association for a second opinion.<p>He saw my son a few hours later and he was just <i>livid</i> about the diagnosis. That it was possible they’d have to come out but it’s impossible to know this for at least a few more weeks or more.<p>In a few months the teeth returned 100% to normal and firmed right up as the ligaments healed.<p>I’m not a conspiracy nut. I believe in listening to experts (but ultimately making an informed decision). I believe in modern medicine. But that experience shook me and forever changed my trust in the dental industry.<p>My feeling is that the nature of dentistry leaves a lot of room for subjectivity and COVID left a lot of dental chairs empty.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>basisword</author><text>Interesting service, thanks for sharing. I think most people are looking for their GP to be able to refer them to the correct specialist which seems fair. It shouldn’t be on the patient to try to find them. But good website nonetheless! (FYI it doesn’t display great on mobile Safari - content too wide so there is horizontal scrolling).</text></comment> |
18,453,122 | 18,453,322 | 1 | 3 | 18,451,179 | train | <story><title>Testosterone Treatment and Alleviation of Depressive Symptoms in Men</title><url>https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/2712976?widget=personalizedcontent&previousarticle=2712974</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawaytrt</author><text>(throw away because some employers know my actual)<p>I have been on TRT for several years as a result of a damaged pituitary from a tumor that was removed.
I have played with the dosages alongside my doctor, and definitely found that (to a certain extent) it really has an effect on my mood.<p>From personal experience, I don&#x27;t know if it would call it an anti-depressent, but it seems to stifle anxiety at the right doses.<p>Some people say it&#x27;s a &quot;confidence drug&quot; but my opinion is it performs more like an anti-anxiety drug.<p>I can have a terrible week of work with little sleep, bump my dose a bit and I calm down - as long as the dose is not high enough to put my estrogen (e2) levels out of whack.<p>Dosage and duration are extremely important. If you mess either up it can make you moody and full of anxiety.<p>Many doctors today are incredibly unskilled and uneducated regarding hormones. I know many doctors perscribe trt in one shot per two weeks, and even one shot per month. I had to go through four doctors to find my current who is a specialist and very well educated.<p>With a half life of about 6 days, test-c should be administered at MINIMUM weekly. Ideally bi-weekly. Dosage should be enough to get you in the 600-1000ng&#x2F;dl range.<p>You also need to carefully observe the hormones that coorelate closely with testosterone, like e2. If that goes to high (aka high converter) your mood will be worse.<p>Some people will also see a rise in hematocrit which thickens the blood and can be a risk factor for a number of things. I do not have this issue as my hematocrit is very stable on or off trt.<p>My blood pressure has actually dropped on TRT.<p>If you can do the balancing act it is overall very good.<p>-- Feel free to ask me anything about TRT and it&#x27;s effects on mood, hormones, etc. I will try to answer. I have been researching it for years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CompelTechnic</author><text>Do the mood-changing effects of the TRT medication have any resemblance to the mood-changing effects of exercise?<p>I often notice that in the days during&#x2F;following good exercise, I not only feel happier, but also more &quot;virile&quot; for lack of a better word, and also more aggressive. I partially attribute this to testosterone increasing.<p>Do you have any particular opinions on global trends in sperm count reduction?
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;sperm-count-dropping-in-western-world&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;sperm-count-dropp...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Testosterone Treatment and Alleviation of Depressive Symptoms in Men</title><url>https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/2712976?widget=personalizedcontent&previousarticle=2712974</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawaytrt</author><text>(throw away because some employers know my actual)<p>I have been on TRT for several years as a result of a damaged pituitary from a tumor that was removed.
I have played with the dosages alongside my doctor, and definitely found that (to a certain extent) it really has an effect on my mood.<p>From personal experience, I don&#x27;t know if it would call it an anti-depressent, but it seems to stifle anxiety at the right doses.<p>Some people say it&#x27;s a &quot;confidence drug&quot; but my opinion is it performs more like an anti-anxiety drug.<p>I can have a terrible week of work with little sleep, bump my dose a bit and I calm down - as long as the dose is not high enough to put my estrogen (e2) levels out of whack.<p>Dosage and duration are extremely important. If you mess either up it can make you moody and full of anxiety.<p>Many doctors today are incredibly unskilled and uneducated regarding hormones. I know many doctors perscribe trt in one shot per two weeks, and even one shot per month. I had to go through four doctors to find my current who is a specialist and very well educated.<p>With a half life of about 6 days, test-c should be administered at MINIMUM weekly. Ideally bi-weekly. Dosage should be enough to get you in the 600-1000ng&#x2F;dl range.<p>You also need to carefully observe the hormones that coorelate closely with testosterone, like e2. If that goes to high (aka high converter) your mood will be worse.<p>Some people will also see a rise in hematocrit which thickens the blood and can be a risk factor for a number of things. I do not have this issue as my hematocrit is very stable on or off trt.<p>My blood pressure has actually dropped on TRT.<p>If you can do the balancing act it is overall very good.<p>-- Feel free to ask me anything about TRT and it&#x27;s effects on mood, hormones, etc. I will try to answer. I have been researching it for years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Florin_Andrei</author><text>Aren&#x27;t there ways to also control the level of e2? I thought the conversion pathway is susceptible to various suppressors.</text></comment> |
8,237,540 | 8,237,547 | 1 | 2 | 8,237,020 | train | <story><title>Myths About Working as an Engineer at a Startup</title><url>http://karllhughes.com/2014/myths-working-engineer-startup/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>silverbax88</author><text>FTA:<p><i>“Rock star” engineers sometimes work at startups, but usually they work for big companies who can pay them twice the salary and have multiple indoor water polo pools and racquetball courts.</i><p>THIS is something the &#x27;startup world&#x27; and a lot of people on HN are not aware of. Really, really bad-ass programmers usually work for big corporations for good salaries. Not always, but usually. The reason I mention it is because there is a myth that startups are built with the latest, greatest tech by the brightest minds. Often this just isn&#x27;t true...many startups are hacked together by inexperienced programmers fresh out of college. Sometimes this works, but often it means that nobody on staff is really a master coder, nobody on staff has ever had to fend off Russian hackers attempting to take down your code at 3 am, nobody on staff has had to deal with thousands of users who wake up one morning, can&#x27;t log in and no money is coming into the company. These are the battles that most programmers learn in the trenches of big companies, fighting tough battles, fixing complex problems under fire. It&#x27;s not ideal, but I&#x27;m not sure if you can really become battle-hardened without going through <i>real</i> battles with real jobs on the line.<p>This is what happened at Twitter - when the government came after them because they were getting hacked too often, Twitter went out and hired &#x27;real&#x27; programmers and got things working. That&#x27;s something that gets missed a lot in the &#x27;startup story&#x27;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>macNchz</author><text>&gt;nobody on staff has ever had to fend off Russian hackers attempting to take down your code at 3 am, nobody on staff has had to deal with thousands of users who wake up one morning, can&#x27;t log in and no money is coming into the company. These are the battles that most programmers learn in the trenches of big companies, fighting tough battles, fixing complex problems under fire. It&#x27;s not ideal, but I&#x27;m not sure if you can really become battle-hardened without going through real battles with real jobs on the line.<p>You make an interesting point, though I&#x27;m not sure that learning these lessons has to happen at a <i>big</i> company. I&#x27;m currently an engineer at a startup, but I came here from a small company—a ~30 person digital agency—where we were dealing with a lot of what you mention quite regularly. Because we had so many applications in production for a diverse range of clients (some at fairly large scale), and a small team of developers, the sorts of challenges you mention came at us <i>much</i> faster than they appear to arrive for us at my current company, which is focused around one product.<p>The fact that the dev team at my agency was small meant that, when facing issues like this, we were flying by the seat of our pants, learning as we went along and jumping between roles, and learning was happening very quickly. I&#x27;ve come to realize, after having left, that the range of experience I had in the small-team agency environment was, I think, extremely valuable.</text></comment> | <story><title>Myths About Working as an Engineer at a Startup</title><url>http://karllhughes.com/2014/myths-working-engineer-startup/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>silverbax88</author><text>FTA:<p><i>“Rock star” engineers sometimes work at startups, but usually they work for big companies who can pay them twice the salary and have multiple indoor water polo pools and racquetball courts.</i><p>THIS is something the &#x27;startup world&#x27; and a lot of people on HN are not aware of. Really, really bad-ass programmers usually work for big corporations for good salaries. Not always, but usually. The reason I mention it is because there is a myth that startups are built with the latest, greatest tech by the brightest minds. Often this just isn&#x27;t true...many startups are hacked together by inexperienced programmers fresh out of college. Sometimes this works, but often it means that nobody on staff is really a master coder, nobody on staff has ever had to fend off Russian hackers attempting to take down your code at 3 am, nobody on staff has had to deal with thousands of users who wake up one morning, can&#x27;t log in and no money is coming into the company. These are the battles that most programmers learn in the trenches of big companies, fighting tough battles, fixing complex problems under fire. It&#x27;s not ideal, but I&#x27;m not sure if you can really become battle-hardened without going through <i>real</i> battles with real jobs on the line.<p>This is what happened at Twitter - when the government came after them because they were getting hacked too often, Twitter went out and hired &#x27;real&#x27; programmers and got things working. That&#x27;s something that gets missed a lot in the &#x27;startup story&#x27;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcphilip</author><text>Personal anecdote:<p>I&#x27;ve worked 5 years in 3 startups, 5 years in 2 large development teams, and my experience has shown that there are, percentage wise, better developers working in startups. This is in Austin, so it may not reflect the valley, but the absolute best programmers I&#x27;ve worked with are trying their hands at startups. There&#x27;s a sweet spot of people aged 28-35 that are really skilled developers that still have an appetite for risk that are working in startups.</text></comment> |
4,903,861 | 4,903,516 | 1 | 2 | 4,902,960 | train | <story><title>Apple blocking SkyDrive from iOS store, wants cut of revenue</title><url>http://microsoft-news.com/apple-blocking-skydrive-from-ios-store-wants-cut-of-revenue/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fauigerzigerk</author><text>Potential consumer confusion has nothing to do with the size of Apple's cut or how it is structured.<p>Clearly, a 30% cut is fair for the average $1.5 purchase because it includes fees for payment processing and fixed cost per app.<p>But Apple will have to decide whether or not they want people to sell more expensive stuff on their platform. Taking a 30% cut on a $100 purchase is not economically viable and it is unnecessary if the goal is to avoid consumer confusion.<p>They could just charge 50 cents + 5%</text></item><item><author>drewcrawford</author><text>I think the problem is in how the question is framed. The App Store has always been revenue neutral [1]. It's not a profit center for Apple. It's not about "getting their cut". It's about having one billing statement to look at. It's about eliminating shady billing tactics a la gym memberships. It's about keeping your address out of some developer's mailing list.<p>You'd be surprised about the extent of this problem. I get e-mails all the time from people who are worried that they have a monthly payment for my app, for example. There are just an awful lot of people who don't "get" software at all and derive real value from simplified one-party billing.<p>So if you start from the premise that billing for iOS apps has to be brain-dead simple, we arrive at the present rule: any payment that looks like it happens on an iPhone must [2] run through IAP at whatever rate Apple can break even. If your payment collection process consists of people using their fingers on the screen of an iPhone, then it is potentially confusable with IAP by Grandpa and he might get mad at Apple; this is unacceptable. But monetizing your pizza ordering app by handing money to a pizza delivery guy who shows up at your house is not confusable, so it's A-OK.<p>Now, it's perfectly debatable whether or not consumer confusion is really that big of a problem, or a problem big enough to justify the negative externalities of solving it. But if it is, then the result follows: the solution is to run all the billing through a break-even single party. If you accept the premise, then the rule that is fairest and best and also solves the problem is the rule that we already have.<p>It's unfortunate that we live in a world where the economics of Dropbox, Skydrive, Amazon et al seemingly don't allow enough profit margin to pay Apple's overhead to process payments. But I'm not really sure who is to blame for that: the consumers, for being confused about billing; Apple, for trying to fix it for them; Skydrive etc. for not creating a two-tiered pricing structure to charge IAP customers at 30% more; or consumers again for being unwilling to pay an extra 30% for single-party billing.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple_app_store_runs_just_above_break_even" rel="nofollow">http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple_app_store_runs_...</a>
[2] there are some exceptions, I'm speaking broadly to make a point</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>So I'm very curious if anyone can help see a "intuitive fair line" better than I can (because I can't find one).<p>On the one hand, it makes perfect sense Apple wants 30% on apps. They run the store.<p>On the other hand, it seems like Amazon should be able to sell books, Dropbox should be able to sell space, etc., without paying 30% -- otherwise it's financially impossible.<p>But if you allow apps to sell content within without paying 30%, then all of a sudden all apps become free, selling "upgrading functionality" within, and the app store is no longer viable for Apple.<p>You can't even make a rule like "reselling 3rd party content is exempt from the fee", because apps will claim additional functionality as 3rd-party. You can't make a rule that "content accessible on other devices is exempt from the fee", because gamemakers will just make their in-game purchases accessible on the Android version too, or something.<p>Can anyone think of a clear, unambiguous rule that would allow things like Dropbox, Skydrive, Amazon, etc. to get around the 30% fee, but without allowing loopholes that would allow everyone to skirt it? I swear my brain thinks there's a distinction, but I can't figure out what it is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drewcrawford</author><text>&#62; Taking a 30% cut on a $100 purchase is not economically viable<p>The market for a $100 app isn't very large, and that price point is also a target for fraud / scams / accidental purchase complaints. This risk is offset by additional review scrutiny, but the cost for that additional scrutiny is amortized over a small number of potential customers.<p>The result of all this is that $100 purchases are expensive for Apple to run, and Apple as a rational actor should discourage them. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the whole $50+ market runs at a loss that is covered by the cheaper apps.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple blocking SkyDrive from iOS store, wants cut of revenue</title><url>http://microsoft-news.com/apple-blocking-skydrive-from-ios-store-wants-cut-of-revenue/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fauigerzigerk</author><text>Potential consumer confusion has nothing to do with the size of Apple's cut or how it is structured.<p>Clearly, a 30% cut is fair for the average $1.5 purchase because it includes fees for payment processing and fixed cost per app.<p>But Apple will have to decide whether or not they want people to sell more expensive stuff on their platform. Taking a 30% cut on a $100 purchase is not economically viable and it is unnecessary if the goal is to avoid consumer confusion.<p>They could just charge 50 cents + 5%</text></item><item><author>drewcrawford</author><text>I think the problem is in how the question is framed. The App Store has always been revenue neutral [1]. It's not a profit center for Apple. It's not about "getting their cut". It's about having one billing statement to look at. It's about eliminating shady billing tactics a la gym memberships. It's about keeping your address out of some developer's mailing list.<p>You'd be surprised about the extent of this problem. I get e-mails all the time from people who are worried that they have a monthly payment for my app, for example. There are just an awful lot of people who don't "get" software at all and derive real value from simplified one-party billing.<p>So if you start from the premise that billing for iOS apps has to be brain-dead simple, we arrive at the present rule: any payment that looks like it happens on an iPhone must [2] run through IAP at whatever rate Apple can break even. If your payment collection process consists of people using their fingers on the screen of an iPhone, then it is potentially confusable with IAP by Grandpa and he might get mad at Apple; this is unacceptable. But monetizing your pizza ordering app by handing money to a pizza delivery guy who shows up at your house is not confusable, so it's A-OK.<p>Now, it's perfectly debatable whether or not consumer confusion is really that big of a problem, or a problem big enough to justify the negative externalities of solving it. But if it is, then the result follows: the solution is to run all the billing through a break-even single party. If you accept the premise, then the rule that is fairest and best and also solves the problem is the rule that we already have.<p>It's unfortunate that we live in a world where the economics of Dropbox, Skydrive, Amazon et al seemingly don't allow enough profit margin to pay Apple's overhead to process payments. But I'm not really sure who is to blame for that: the consumers, for being confused about billing; Apple, for trying to fix it for them; Skydrive etc. for not creating a two-tiered pricing structure to charge IAP customers at 30% more; or consumers again for being unwilling to pay an extra 30% for single-party billing.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple_app_store_runs_just_above_break_even" rel="nofollow">http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple_app_store_runs_...</a>
[2] there are some exceptions, I'm speaking broadly to make a point</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>So I'm very curious if anyone can help see a "intuitive fair line" better than I can (because I can't find one).<p>On the one hand, it makes perfect sense Apple wants 30% on apps. They run the store.<p>On the other hand, it seems like Amazon should be able to sell books, Dropbox should be able to sell space, etc., without paying 30% -- otherwise it's financially impossible.<p>But if you allow apps to sell content within without paying 30%, then all of a sudden all apps become free, selling "upgrading functionality" within, and the app store is no longer viable for Apple.<p>You can't even make a rule like "reselling 3rd party content is exempt from the fee", because apps will claim additional functionality as 3rd-party. You can't make a rule that "content accessible on other devices is exempt from the fee", because gamemakers will just make their in-game purchases accessible on the Android version too, or something.<p>Can anyone think of a clear, unambiguous rule that would allow things like Dropbox, Skydrive, Amazon, etc. to get around the 30% fee, but without allowing loopholes that would allow everyone to skirt it? I swear my brain thinks there's a distinction, but I can't figure out what it is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jobenjo</author><text>That's a great solution, actually. Think of it more like a credit card processing fee.</text></comment> |
16,616,839 | 16,616,838 | 1 | 2 | 16,616,560 | train | <story><title>Two weeks before death, Hawking submitted a paper on parallel universes</title><url>https://www.sciencealert.com/stephen-hawking-submitted-a-paper-on-parallel-universes-just-before-he-died</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epaga</author><text>Something I&#x27;ve never understood and would greatly appreciate understanding: could someone ELI&quot;5&quot; how the concept of &quot;parallel universes&quot; will not always be a metaphysical instead of a scientific question?<p>If there are truly separate &quot;universes&quot;, then by definition wouldn&#x27;t it be the case that there would be no way to test (or falsify) whether they exist or not, so would the question of their existence not be in the realm of philosophy and metaphysics rather than the sciences? What am I missing (I assume it has to do with my understanding of the word &quot;universe&quot;)?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gizmo686</author><text>At this point, if we discovered something resembling the current conceptions of parallel universe, we would probably just re-define &quot;universe&quot; to refer to what we traditionally think of as a universe. In much the same way that we do not have any problem with talking about sub-atomic particles; even though that is sub-atomic is a concept that does not make any sense.<p>In this case, from the article, it sounds like there is only a very weak interaction. In fact, since it is only &quot;evidence&quot; left behind in background radiation, it is possible that there is no ongoing interaction, but rather some remaining artifact from when the universes did interact.</text></comment> | <story><title>Two weeks before death, Hawking submitted a paper on parallel universes</title><url>https://www.sciencealert.com/stephen-hawking-submitted-a-paper-on-parallel-universes-just-before-he-died</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epaga</author><text>Something I&#x27;ve never understood and would greatly appreciate understanding: could someone ELI&quot;5&quot; how the concept of &quot;parallel universes&quot; will not always be a metaphysical instead of a scientific question?<p>If there are truly separate &quot;universes&quot;, then by definition wouldn&#x27;t it be the case that there would be no way to test (or falsify) whether they exist or not, so would the question of their existence not be in the realm of philosophy and metaphysics rather than the sciences? What am I missing (I assume it has to do with my understanding of the word &quot;universe&quot;)?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hnarn</author><text>&gt;If there are truly separate &quot;universes&quot;, then by definition wouldn&#x27;t it be the case that there would be no way to test (or falsify) whether they exist or not<p>This literally contradicts what the first paragraph of the article. It says that this paper &quot;lays the theoretical groundwork for discovering a parallel universe&quot;. If you&#x27;ve discovered it, you&#x27;ve tested and proved that it exists.<p>Furthermore, the article states that it&#x27;s a &quot;mathematical paper which seeks proof of the &#x27;multiverse&#x27; theory&quot;. Assume for a second that there is <i>mathematical proof</i> of the multiverse theory. In order to disprove this, you now need to disprove the math.</text></comment> |
14,682,439 | 14,682,520 | 1 | 3 | 14,676,223 | train | <story><title>Apple and LaTeX</title><url>http://leancrew.com/all-this/2017/06/apple-and-latex/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oneplane</author><text>But what about LaTeX in any Microsoft software? As far as I know, they don&#x27;t even know how to say LaTeX over there...<p>I knew it was in the iWork suite (has been since 2009? not sure...), but having it and using it are two different things I guess ;-) It&#x27;s not supported in Grapher, however, so that&#x27;s somewhat strange (but also not totally unbelievable, one could argue that LaTeX is more of a markup language than anything else).</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple and LaTeX</title><url>http://leancrew.com/all-this/2017/06/apple-and-latex/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kuon</author><text>I&#x27;m a programmer and I noticed that this slide was looking ugly. But well, I write my documentation with pandoc&#x2F;latex and tikz so I guess I&#x27;m biased.</text></comment> |
14,896,975 | 14,896,784 | 1 | 3 | 14,896,367 | train | <story><title>Announcing the `http` crate</title><url>https://users.rust-lang.org/t/announcing-the-http-crate/12123</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>int_19h</author><text>It&#x27;s great to see this approach to core API design, and I wish other platforms adopted it. There are many advantages to having a rich ecosystem of third-party libraries, but composability becomes a problem when they define different types for the same concepts. This is the best of both worlds - you get multiple competing implementations of the interesting bits, but everything &quot;just works&quot; with any of them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Announcing the `http` crate</title><url>https://users.rust-lang.org/t/announcing-the-http-crate/12123</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>the_common_man</author><text>Would it not be better to call it http-types&#x2F;http-base&#x2F;http-common as this just provides common types and not the transport or security? Thanks and keep up the awesome work.</text></comment> |
34,261,113 | 34,261,147 | 1 | 3 | 34,260,283 | train | <story><title>Investors conclude that Tesla is a carmaker, not a tech firm</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2023/01/04/investors-conclude-that-tesla-is-a-carmaker-not-a-tech-firm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>msoad</author><text>I have a Tesla and I also hold a short position on TSLA. My Tesla is a great car. The best car that I&#x27;ve ever driven but I&#x27;m not sure if it has anything that other car manufacturers can&#x27;t replicate. I think Apple can make an even better car than Tesla if they build the hardware and software like their phones and computers.<p>The idea that Autopilot has some magic sauce that nobody else can replicate is laughable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wazoox</author><text>Actually after having tested a couple of other cars, for instance the Renault Megane, the BMW i4 and the Mercedes EQE have better enhanced drive assistance than Tesla. For instance:<p>* when in full-auto on a single lane road, when there&#x27;s an exit on the right the Tesla 3 almost always slightly swerve towards the exit before coming back in its lane. None of the Megane, the EQE or the BMW i4 do that.<p>* To overtake a slower vehicle, the Megane and i4 are better : simply push the left blinker, then the car switch lanes and accelerates BEFORE having entirely switched lane, like a human driver would do.<p>* The mapping and charge planning on the BMW and particularly the EQE&#x2F;EQS are arguably slightly superior now to Tesla (though Tesla is still a bit easier). Renault is very close, and Kia&#x2F;Hyundai isn&#x27;t far behind either.</text></comment> | <story><title>Investors conclude that Tesla is a carmaker, not a tech firm</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2023/01/04/investors-conclude-that-tesla-is-a-carmaker-not-a-tech-firm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>msoad</author><text>I have a Tesla and I also hold a short position on TSLA. My Tesla is a great car. The best car that I&#x27;ve ever driven but I&#x27;m not sure if it has anything that other car manufacturers can&#x27;t replicate. I think Apple can make an even better car than Tesla if they build the hardware and software like their phones and computers.<p>The idea that Autopilot has some magic sauce that nobody else can replicate is laughable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Octoth0rpe</author><text>&gt; I have a Tesla and I also hold a short position on TSLA. My Tesla is a great car.<p>This shouldn&#x27;t have to be a position that requires any kind of defense or explanation. There&#x27;s nothing contradictory about believing that:<p>1) A company makes a great product
2) The quality of that product and its total addressable market justifies the company&#x27;s value at $X
3) The market cap of that company is far, far higher than $X</text></comment> |
37,977,891 | 37,976,649 | 1 | 2 | 37,970,391 | train | <story><title>Dave Cutler on Windows [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi1Lq79mLeE</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justin66</author><text>YouTube recommendations have always been pretty awful, incentivizing people to avoid exploring videos on controversial topics once they learn that if they do so, they’ll be inundated with garbage on that topic.<p>The recent forcing of people (including me) to turn off their ad blockers was an eye opener. Holy crap, YouTube ads are hot garbage, and it’s embarrassing to think that any humans respond to them. YouTube has abandoned any pretense of offering a good user experience.<p>Worth digging around in the muck a little to watch something as great as this Dave Cutler interview, though.</text></item><item><author>mrweasel</author><text>The interviewer, Dave Plummer, is also is also an amazingly interesting person in his own right. I particularly enjoyed his retro-coding videos, such as <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=b0zxIfJJLAY">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=b0zxIfJJLAY</a><p>The videos are really interesting and his background muzak and RGB lighting puts me in a Christmas mood. He generally put Microsoft in a completely different light than I&#x27;m used to, he speaks warmly about his job, co-workers and Microsoft, while acknowledging much of the weirdness going on in Redmond.<p>Only problem is that watching is channel will trigger something in the YouTube algorithm and flood your feed with videos on ADHD. Presumably it has to do with his videos on autism and ADHD, but I feel like YouTube should be smart enough to notice that I didn&#x27;t watch to videos, only those on coding and Microsoft history.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jorvi</author><text>&gt; YouTube recommendations have always been pretty awful<p>This is what surprised me a lot. A friend of mine made me install TikTok (after me disparaging it a lot). I made an account for it with a dummy address, went off to the races, and after a couple of days I suddenly caught myself having been scrolling my feed for ~1h10m minutes without realizing it. I literally recoiled and dropped my phone, after which I uninstalled TikTok immediately.<p>YouTube has never had that kind of grip on my dopamine receptors. There are a great many (longform) edifying videos on there. And sure, there are interesting videos, and it is good at recommending a few adjacent videos to those. But the algorithm is not nearly as good as TikTok, I can recognize that immediately.<p>Aside from how horrifically good TikTok is at hooking your dopamine receptors, another thing I have to give it credit for is how egalitarian it is. YouTube is all about subscribers and network reach. On TikTok it’s the content that goes viral, not the creator.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dave Cutler on Windows [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi1Lq79mLeE</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justin66</author><text>YouTube recommendations have always been pretty awful, incentivizing people to avoid exploring videos on controversial topics once they learn that if they do so, they’ll be inundated with garbage on that topic.<p>The recent forcing of people (including me) to turn off their ad blockers was an eye opener. Holy crap, YouTube ads are hot garbage, and it’s embarrassing to think that any humans respond to them. YouTube has abandoned any pretense of offering a good user experience.<p>Worth digging around in the muck a little to watch something as great as this Dave Cutler interview, though.</text></item><item><author>mrweasel</author><text>The interviewer, Dave Plummer, is also is also an amazingly interesting person in his own right. I particularly enjoyed his retro-coding videos, such as <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=b0zxIfJJLAY">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=b0zxIfJJLAY</a><p>The videos are really interesting and his background muzak and RGB lighting puts me in a Christmas mood. He generally put Microsoft in a completely different light than I&#x27;m used to, he speaks warmly about his job, co-workers and Microsoft, while acknowledging much of the weirdness going on in Redmond.<p>Only problem is that watching is channel will trigger something in the YouTube algorithm and flood your feed with videos on ADHD. Presumably it has to do with his videos on autism and ADHD, but I feel like YouTube should be smart enough to notice that I didn&#x27;t watch to videos, only those on coding and Microsoft history.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>naikrovek</author><text>there is enough really great stuff on YouTube that I do not feel bad paying for YouTube Premium.<p>I never see an ad on YouTube and I use ublock origin everywhere.</text></comment> |
18,270,216 | 18,270,065 | 1 | 2 | 18,269,507 | train | <story><title>The Looming Danger of Non-Banks</title><url>https://www.axios.com/prudential-non-banks-future-financial-crises-f21319bf-7104-4109-9f11-a8d369110e0c.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chicken_littl2</author><text>Completely glosses over the fact that whatever subsidiary they run their life insurance and annuities out of is going to have to hold a statutory reserve for liabilities like this that would fall under their &quot;assets under management&quot;. It also glosses over the fact that they are state regulated by all states they run business out of, not just NJ. I&#x27;m sure they issue policies in NY, the NY insurance commissioner typically will oversee their valuation methods for stat reserves to make sure they meet industry standards. I would be <i>very</i> surprised if they took a loss on their life line of business that puts them out of business, statutory reserves are a very conservative valuation method, where you use NAIC prescribed mortality tables, so there&#x27;s no fudging around the numbers very much.<p>Long story short, this is really sensationalist back of napkin math from a reporter talking about a very regulated and complicated industry that they seem to know nothing about. No wonder is such garbage.<p>Edit:
Upon further reflection, this doesn&#x27;t even cover reinsurance that they might have that cover abnormal losses across individual, blocks of business, and across the entire company.<p>Even in the event they didn&#x27;t have the capital to pay off their life insurance liabilities due to loss, they would probably liquidate their inforce blocks of business by auctioning them off to other insurance companies to cover their remaining losses.<p>There&#x27;s just so much ignorance and sensationalism here, it&#x27;s hard to comprehend.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Looming Danger of Non-Banks</title><url>https://www.axios.com/prudential-non-banks-future-financial-crises-f21319bf-7104-4109-9f11-a8d369110e0c.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>peterburkimsher</author><text>The article is about Prudential life insurance being too big to fail, because their assets are worth $3.7 trillion = 20% of US GDP. The article also claims that &quot;unexpected mortality&quot; of 1.1% of its portfolio could bankrupt it. If a lot of people die suddenly, this could cause another economic crisis in the US.<p>How many deaths? Based on their acquisition of The Hartford $135 billion = 700,000 in force life insurance policies, each policy is worth $192,857. The article claims Prudential could be bankrupted by losses of $42 billion = 217,778 policies.<p>That&#x27;s a lot of deaths for peacetime. Flu only kills about 36,000 people in the US each year [1]. Terrorism killed only 3191 people in the US in between 2000 and 2016 [2]. However, it&#x27;s not a lot in a war. The Vietnam War claimed 1.3-4.2 million lives. [3]<p>Conclusion? Stop American politicians from trying to start a war. Please work for peace, even if it costs your job (c.f. Project Maven military AI at Google [4])<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Influenza#Epidemic_and_pandemic_spread" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Influenza#Epidemic_and_pandemi...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;grapher&#x2F;fatalities-from-terrorism?country=USA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;grapher&#x2F;fatalities-from-terrorism...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Vietnam_War" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Vietnam_War</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.engadget.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;05&#x2F;14&#x2F;google-project-maven-employee-protest&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.engadget.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;05&#x2F;14&#x2F;google-project-maven-emp...</a></text></comment> |
21,896,622 | 21,895,413 | 1 | 3 | 21,892,714 | train | <story><title>Apple News No Longer Supports RSS</title><url>https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/12/26/apple-news-no-longer-supports-rss/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>erikpukinskis</author><text>Apple&#x27;s hijacking of links, addresses, etc, is possibly their top abuse of power.<p>The other possible top abuse is the way they block you in your group messages if you switch from iPhone to Android.</text></item><item><author>simonw</author><text>The weirdest thing about this is that Apple News still hijacks links to Atom&#x2F;RSS feeds - so if you click on one of those links in Mobile Safari you&#x27;ll be bounced to the News app, which will then display an error.<p>Here&#x27;s a video I recorded of this behaviour: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;simonw&#x2F;status&#x2F;1210622908143415297" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;simonw&#x2F;status&#x2F;1210622908143415297</a><p>I think I&#x27;d rather they displayed a dump of ugly XML in the browser, just so I could copy and paste the URL into a feed reading app (I quite like Reeder for iOS and OSX these days).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saagarjha</author><text>I&#x27;m not even sure their engineers understand how annoying it is. They&#x27;ve implemented links in such a horrible way, and it&#x27;s gotten worse with time (for example, there is a feature where if you open a link and have the right associated app installed, it will open the link in the app. There used to be a way to force the link to open in Safari in case you didn&#x27;t want to open the app; it&#x27;d show up in the top right. The feature is gone now and it&#x27;s hidden in a very strange place that is unintuitive to find and difficult to perform–you need to long press on the link and open it from there, but this invariably happens after you&#x27;ve opened the link, it opens the app, and you go back to Safari to now open it there.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple News No Longer Supports RSS</title><url>https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/12/26/apple-news-no-longer-supports-rss/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>erikpukinskis</author><text>Apple&#x27;s hijacking of links, addresses, etc, is possibly their top abuse of power.<p>The other possible top abuse is the way they block you in your group messages if you switch from iPhone to Android.</text></item><item><author>simonw</author><text>The weirdest thing about this is that Apple News still hijacks links to Atom&#x2F;RSS feeds - so if you click on one of those links in Mobile Safari you&#x27;ll be bounced to the News app, which will then display an error.<p>Here&#x27;s a video I recorded of this behaviour: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;simonw&#x2F;status&#x2F;1210622908143415297" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;simonw&#x2F;status&#x2F;1210622908143415297</a><p>I think I&#x27;d rather they displayed a dump of ugly XML in the browser, just so I could copy and paste the URL into a feed reading app (I quite like Reeder for iOS and OSX these days).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ljm</author><text>I&#x27;m not convinced it&#x27;s an abuse of power; it&#x27;s a feature any developer can take advantage of. Your apps get their own protocol, so you can deep-link into one using a URI. But you can also register them to open certain contents natively.<p>I&#x27;m not sure how it works, maybe there&#x27;s some metadata in the HTML. You can see the same thing in action with the Jira app on Cataline now - any Jira link you click will load up and render in the native app.<p>That said, it&#x27;s definitely a problem when you&#x27;re redirecting these links to things you don&#x27;t actually support any more, without any way to opt out.</text></comment> |
4,213,057 | 4,213,023 | 1 | 3 | 4,212,653 | train | <story><title>The rotten heart of finance</title><url>http://www.economist.com/node/21558281?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/the_rotten_heart_of_finance</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>I read things like this and by fixing LIBOR they're treating a symptom rather than addressing the cause.<p>My belief--and many seem to disagree with me on this whenever I've brought it up before--is that we erred in allowing investment banks to incorporate.<p>IMHO investment banks need to act like law firms: as partnerships with <i>unlimited</i> liability. Currently there is no incentive to not pervert the system and manage risk because:<p>- no one is going to jail for criminal acts committed in these financial crises (eg loan documentation fraud and illegal foreclosings in the subprime fallout);<p>- there is no financial incentive to act responsibly because if you go bankrupt this year last year's bonus is already banked;<p>- central banks have been perverted into being welfare for investment bankers as a so-called "lender of last resort". Ostensibly they are ensuring the function of the financial system. In practice they are giving investment banks an unhealthy appetite for risk. Banks and funds need to be allowed to fail; and<p>- governments are complicit in this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>I agree with you. The partnership structure forces law firms to be run very conservatively, and prevents them from scaling to huge sizes, which has the advantage of limiting the amount of consolidation in the industry. I think for professions like banking, law, and accounting, these are good incentives.<p>I think it would also help to take more seriously the ethical responsibilities of bankers as fiduciaries' for peoples' money. A law firm cannot represent both sides of a merger, because that would involve a conflict of interest. So why can Goldman take positions where they stand to profit enormously if their clients lose money?</text></comment> | <story><title>The rotten heart of finance</title><url>http://www.economist.com/node/21558281?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/the_rotten_heart_of_finance</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>I read things like this and by fixing LIBOR they're treating a symptom rather than addressing the cause.<p>My belief--and many seem to disagree with me on this whenever I've brought it up before--is that we erred in allowing investment banks to incorporate.<p>IMHO investment banks need to act like law firms: as partnerships with <i>unlimited</i> liability. Currently there is no incentive to not pervert the system and manage risk because:<p>- no one is going to jail for criminal acts committed in these financial crises (eg loan documentation fraud and illegal foreclosings in the subprime fallout);<p>- there is no financial incentive to act responsibly because if you go bankrupt this year last year's bonus is already banked;<p>- central banks have been perverted into being welfare for investment bankers as a so-called "lender of last resort". Ostensibly they are ensuring the function of the financial system. In practice they are giving investment banks an unhealthy appetite for risk. Banks and funds need to be allowed to fail; and<p>- governments are complicit in this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>photon137</author><text>I agree with every single point you've made except for the third (ie about central banks). Central banks need to act as the "lender of last resort" - however, what needs to be fixed is the transmission mechanism - so that the emergency loans reach the economy when it needs it and not be used up by intermediary banks trying to shore up their capital reserves when they've blown them up playing roulette.<p>But I think, if points 1 &#38; 2 are addressed well enough, the transmission mechanism would work better and the banks would become what they ought to be - conduits for monetary policy and price discovery.<p>Point 4 - the reason Wall Street bankers get 10-100x the salary of a top-notch achiever in any other sector is because the government has created regulations which allow banks to have an oligopoly in this sector and pay its minions disproportionately high salaries - what saddens me is the same government which wants its best students to go into STEM ends up encouraging them to go into a non-productive profession.</text></comment> |
13,708,330 | 13,708,385 | 1 | 2 | 13,706,164 | train | <story><title>AMD Ryzen price and release date revealed</title><url>http://www.pcworld.com/article/3171161/components-processors/amds-ryzen-launches-march-2-outperforming-intels-core-i7-at-a-fraction-of-the-price.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Asooka</author><text>I&#x27;m a bit dubious. If they have such an amazing part why is it being sold for so cheap? Why not 80% of the price of the comparable Intel part? Selling it at 50% or even less raises some heavy alarm bells for me.</text></item><item><author>mrb</author><text>First (amateur) third-party benchmarks confirm a ~$350 Ryzen beats $1000 Intel processors in CPUMARK, 3DMark Fire Strike Physics, Cinebench: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chiphell.com&#x2F;thread-1706915-1-1.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chiphell.com&#x2F;thread-1706915-1-1.html</a><p>AMD had said for years their Zen goal was a 40% IPC gain over their previous microarchitecture, but they ended up with a 52% gain: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;11143&#x2F;amd-launch-ryzen-52-more-ipc-eight-cores-for-under-330-preorder-today-on-sale-march-2nd" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;11143&#x2F;amd-launch-ryzen-52-more...</a><p>Today&#x27;s launch event by AMD&#x27;s CEO:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1v44wWAOHn8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1v44wWAOHn8</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrb</author><text><i>&quot;Why not 80% of the price of the comparable Intel part?&quot;</i><p>1. Because Intel is about to significantly drop their prices in response to Ryzen.<p>2. Because AMD really wants to immediately hurt Intel&#x27;s revenues as badly as possible.<p>3. Because AMD has such an uphill battle to regain mind share that it really needs to release a product that makes people realize that AMD now has the superior perf&#x2F;$ product, <i>beyond any doubt</i>. If Ryzen was only priced 20% lower than Intel, many people&#x2F;OEMs&#x2F;etc would not be motivated enough to go AMD.</text></comment> | <story><title>AMD Ryzen price and release date revealed</title><url>http://www.pcworld.com/article/3171161/components-processors/amds-ryzen-launches-march-2-outperforming-intels-core-i7-at-a-fraction-of-the-price.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Asooka</author><text>I&#x27;m a bit dubious. If they have such an amazing part why is it being sold for so cheap? Why not 80% of the price of the comparable Intel part? Selling it at 50% or even less raises some heavy alarm bells for me.</text></item><item><author>mrb</author><text>First (amateur) third-party benchmarks confirm a ~$350 Ryzen beats $1000 Intel processors in CPUMARK, 3DMark Fire Strike Physics, Cinebench: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chiphell.com&#x2F;thread-1706915-1-1.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chiphell.com&#x2F;thread-1706915-1-1.html</a><p>AMD had said for years their Zen goal was a 40% IPC gain over their previous microarchitecture, but they ended up with a 52% gain: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;11143&#x2F;amd-launch-ryzen-52-more-ipc-eight-cores-for-under-330-preorder-today-on-sale-march-2nd" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;11143&#x2F;amd-launch-ryzen-52-more...</a><p>Today&#x27;s launch event by AMD&#x27;s CEO:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1v44wWAOHn8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1v44wWAOHn8</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amunicio</author><text>If history is of any reference (see the Hammer architecture), AMD needs to build a large ecosystem of EOMs and partners to be able to cover with enough SKUs all different segments of the market.<p>If they price their CPUs anywhere near Intel, even if they are marginally better, OEM and partners will be shy and slow in creating new lines of products. They will only modestly deep their toes on AMD waters.<p>Intel can hold the line for a couple of years by offering OEMs large rebates&#x2F;discounts for keeping volumes of sales in line with what they bought pre-Zen.<p>AMD has no choice but build market share and ecosystem by pricing way below Intel. Otherwise, history will repeat itself and they won&#x27;t be able to capitalize long term on the Zen architecture as happened with the Hammer architecture.</text></comment> |
6,312,648 | 6,312,465 | 1 | 2 | 6,312,100 | train | <story><title>What did the tech CEO say to the worker he wanted to automate?</title><url>http://www.marketplace.org/topics/wealth-poverty/what-did-tech-ceo-say-worker-he-wanted-automate#.Uh6EtAC_2Bw.facebook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamesaguilar</author><text>Yep. If your job could conceivably be done by an automaton, eventually it will be. Since we are just automatons, that means that every job could eventually be automated. Which is ok. I&#x27;d rather not have to work. But it&#x27;s also basically proof that someday we&#x27;ll need socialism because there will be no jobs at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_ak</author><text>Socialism is such a harsh word.<p>All it really needs is a welfare program for the general population that doesn&#x27;t punish those whose jobs have been automated.<p>A system how to solve that has been discussed in Germany by left-leaning parties. The idea is simple: give everyone a certain salary per month that allows them to rent a flat, buy groceries, and have a social life. Without the fear of losing their job, not being able to afford food or just becoming poor, people will do whatever they like: some will continue their job (which earns them extra pay, obviously), some will try out a business idea they have, some won&#x27;t work. Or that&#x27;s the idea, at least, with the assumption that people aren&#x27;t lazy by nature and thus must be punished if they neither work nor actively seek for jobs (i.e. the current unemployment benefit system in Germany), but instead would like to work, except working on the stuff they like working on.</text></comment> | <story><title>What did the tech CEO say to the worker he wanted to automate?</title><url>http://www.marketplace.org/topics/wealth-poverty/what-did-tech-ceo-say-worker-he-wanted-automate#.Uh6EtAC_2Bw.facebook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamesaguilar</author><text>Yep. If your job could conceivably be done by an automaton, eventually it will be. Since we are just automatons, that means that every job could eventually be automated. Which is ok. I&#x27;d rather not have to work. But it&#x27;s also basically proof that someday we&#x27;ll need socialism because there will be no jobs at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seiji</author><text>From 1994 (I welcome any earlier references too):<p><i>An easy change in the United States could be through the social security system. Social security was originally presented as a government-run pension fund that accumulated wages for retirement, but in practice it transfers income from workers to retirees. The system will probably be subsidized from general taxes in coming decades, when too few workers are available to support the retiring post World War II baby boom. Incremental expansion of such a subsidy would let money from robot industries, collected as corporate taxes, be returned to the general population as pension payments. By gradually lowering the retirement age towards birth, most of the population would eventually be supported. The money could be distributed under other names, but calling it a pension is meaningful symbolism: we are describing the long, comfortable retirement of the original-model human race.</i><p>from <a href="http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/general.articles/1995/RobotMind.talk.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.frc.ri.cmu.edu&#x2F;~hpm&#x2F;project.archive&#x2F;general.artic...</a></text></comment> |
15,811,330 | 15,811,229 | 1 | 2 | 15,810,879 | train | <story><title>Seventh RISC-V Workshop: Day One</title><url>http://www.lowrisc.org/blog/2017/11/seventh-risc-v-workshop-day-one/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rwmj</author><text>For those not following RISC-V closely, 2018 promises to be an interesting year:<p>* 64 bit hardware will be available from SiFive. It&#x27;ll be low-ish end, 4 application cores, but it&#x27;ll run real Linux distros. SiFive are already shipping early hardware to various partners.<p>* Linux 4.15 will ship with RISC-V support. It&#x27;s available in RC releases now. (-rc1 was 3 days ago I think)<p>* glibc will ship RISC-V support. That&#x27;ll happen in February 2018. I think it&#x27;s not appreciated how important this is. It means there will be a stable ABI to develop against, and we won&#x27;t need to re-bootstrap Linux distros again.<p>* GCC and binutils have been upstream for a while.<p>* A lot of other projects have been holding off integrating RISC-V-related support and patches until RISC-V &quot;gets real&quot;, ie. it&#x27;s really available in the kernel, there&#x27;s hardware. These projects are unblocked.<p>* Fedora and Debian bootstrapping will kick off (again). [Disclaimer: I&#x27;m the Fedora&#x2F;RISC-V maintainer, but I&#x27;m also getting everything upstream and coordinating with Debian]<p>* There&#x27;ll be finalized specs for virtualization, no hardware though.<p>* There should be at least a solid draft of a spec for industrial&#x2F;server hardware. Of course no server-class hardware available for a while.</text></comment> | <story><title>Seventh RISC-V Workshop: Day One</title><url>http://www.lowrisc.org/blog/2017/11/seventh-risc-v-workshop-day-one/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jabl</author><text>And day two: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lowrisc.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;seventh-risc-v-workshop-day-two&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lowrisc.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;seventh-risc-v-workshop-...</a></text></comment> |
31,637,324 | 31,636,570 | 1 | 2 | 31,636,036 | train | <story><title>Dashy – A self-hosted homepage for your homelab</title><url>https://github.com/Lissy93/dashy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kayson</author><text>See also:<p>* homer - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bastienwirtz&#x2F;homer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bastienwirtz&#x2F;homer</a><p>* heimdall - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;linuxserver&#x2F;Heimdall" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;linuxserver&#x2F;Heimdall</a><p>* dashmachine - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rmountjoy92&#x2F;DashMachine" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rmountjoy92&#x2F;DashMachine</a><p>* flame - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pawelmalak&#x2F;flame" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pawelmalak&#x2F;flame</a><p>In a slightly different vein:<p>* netdata - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;netdata&#x2F;netdata" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;netdata&#x2F;netdata</a><p>* cockpit - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cockpit-project&#x2F;cockpit&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cockpit-project&#x2F;cockpit&#x2F;</a><p>And then of course there&#x27;s grafana which is definitely not for the feint of heart.<p>There are so many page-of-bookmarks style dashboards, but if I&#x27;m being honest, none of them are all that great. Of the above, I like heimdall the best for its cleanliness and simplicity, but its hardly customizable.<p>I think we&#x27;d be much better served by a really well thought-out framework for self-hosted&#x2F;homelab dashboards with excellent API documentation that has pluggable modules for things like authentication, data sources (e.g. docker, db, config file, service APIs), and the front end. This would allow people to easily build the dashboard with the features they want, and make it even easier for people to contribute a variety of &quot;themes&quot; for endless customization of how things are displayed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>3np</author><text>&gt; I think we&#x27;d be much better served by a really well thought-out framework for self-hosted&#x2F;homelab dashboards with excellent API documentation that has pluggable modules for things like authentication, data sources (e.g. docker, db, config file, service APIs), and the front end. This would allow people to easily build the dashboard with the features they want, and make it even easier for people to contribute a variety of &quot;themes&quot; for endless customization of how things are displayed.<p>I haven&#x27;t looked into it properly but I think this is a premise of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sandstorm.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sandstorm.io&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Dashy – A self-hosted homepage for your homelab</title><url>https://github.com/Lissy93/dashy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kayson</author><text>See also:<p>* homer - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bastienwirtz&#x2F;homer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bastienwirtz&#x2F;homer</a><p>* heimdall - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;linuxserver&#x2F;Heimdall" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;linuxserver&#x2F;Heimdall</a><p>* dashmachine - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rmountjoy92&#x2F;DashMachine" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rmountjoy92&#x2F;DashMachine</a><p>* flame - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pawelmalak&#x2F;flame" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pawelmalak&#x2F;flame</a><p>In a slightly different vein:<p>* netdata - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;netdata&#x2F;netdata" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;netdata&#x2F;netdata</a><p>* cockpit - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cockpit-project&#x2F;cockpit&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cockpit-project&#x2F;cockpit&#x2F;</a><p>And then of course there&#x27;s grafana which is definitely not for the feint of heart.<p>There are so many page-of-bookmarks style dashboards, but if I&#x27;m being honest, none of them are all that great. Of the above, I like heimdall the best for its cleanliness and simplicity, but its hardly customizable.<p>I think we&#x27;d be much better served by a really well thought-out framework for self-hosted&#x2F;homelab dashboards with excellent API documentation that has pluggable modules for things like authentication, data sources (e.g. docker, db, config file, service APIs), and the front end. This would allow people to easily build the dashboard with the features they want, and make it even easier for people to contribute a variety of &quot;themes&quot; for endless customization of how things are displayed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DrudgeCorporate</author><text>I personally use organizr and it works well for me. I was pulled toward it as it has the ability to block specific users access to specific Dockers&#x2F;links depending on their privileges i give.</text></comment> |
35,832,614 | 35,832,019 | 1 | 3 | 35,830,869 | train | <story><title>How Wolfenstein 3D shocked the world, 30 years later</title><url>https://www.howtogeek.com/802248/how-wolfenstein-3d-shocked-the-world-30-years-later/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nailer</author><text>I&#x27;d seen various Apogee games like Catacombs and Ken&#x27;s Labyrinth and Ultima Underworld (some might have been released after Wolf3D). Wolf3Dwas MUCH faster, and had AMAZING sound design if you had a sound card, but what shocked me was DOOM.<p>I was thinking recently about where exactly I was - in both physical space and in Doom 2.5 space - when Doom shocked me. And it&#x27;s to do with the very beginning of E1M1.<p>Player start in Doom&#x27;s E1M1 makes it look like Wolf 3D for just a moment. All the walls you can see are are right angles, there&#x27;s not much verticality: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;th.bing.com&#x2F;th&#x2F;id&#x2F;R.78eb767e50af435112fea3ffb5ac8aee" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;th.bing.com&#x2F;th&#x2F;id&#x2F;R.78eb767e50af435112fea3ffb5ac8aee</a><p>And then you turn left GO UP SOME STAIRS AND THERE&#x27;S A WINDOW.<p>Or right and there&#x27;s ANOTHER MASSIVE WINDOW AND IT LOOKS LIKE YOU CAN GO OUTSIDE. Then there&#x27;s computers and glowing nuclear waste.<p>Wold3D was a great Nazi-themed maze game, but it was Doom where you felt like you were in a place.<p>I hope Carmack sees this (and Romero too but I don&#x27;t think he&#x27;s on HN).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AndrewStephens</author><text>It is impossible to overstate just how astounding Doom was when it was released. I had heard people talking about Doom for a few weeks but didn&#x27;t know anyone with a fast enough PC to actually run it. Then I found that a friend of a friend with a 486DX had gotten a copy from somewhere so we all went around to see it.<p>Your description is exactly correct. I still remember the amazement when we realized that you could go up the stairs. Managing to find the secret doors and actually go outside elicited gasps.<p>I am not sure that Dooms level design has ever been beaten in terms of how elements are introduced to the player.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Wolfenstein 3D shocked the world, 30 years later</title><url>https://www.howtogeek.com/802248/how-wolfenstein-3d-shocked-the-world-30-years-later/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nailer</author><text>I&#x27;d seen various Apogee games like Catacombs and Ken&#x27;s Labyrinth and Ultima Underworld (some might have been released after Wolf3D). Wolf3Dwas MUCH faster, and had AMAZING sound design if you had a sound card, but what shocked me was DOOM.<p>I was thinking recently about where exactly I was - in both physical space and in Doom 2.5 space - when Doom shocked me. And it&#x27;s to do with the very beginning of E1M1.<p>Player start in Doom&#x27;s E1M1 makes it look like Wolf 3D for just a moment. All the walls you can see are are right angles, there&#x27;s not much verticality: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;th.bing.com&#x2F;th&#x2F;id&#x2F;R.78eb767e50af435112fea3ffb5ac8aee" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;th.bing.com&#x2F;th&#x2F;id&#x2F;R.78eb767e50af435112fea3ffb5ac8aee</a><p>And then you turn left GO UP SOME STAIRS AND THERE&#x27;S A WINDOW.<p>Or right and there&#x27;s ANOTHER MASSIVE WINDOW AND IT LOOKS LIKE YOU CAN GO OUTSIDE. Then there&#x27;s computers and glowing nuclear waste.<p>Wold3D was a great Nazi-themed maze game, but it was Doom where you felt like you were in a place.<p>I hope Carmack sees this (and Romero too but I don&#x27;t think he&#x27;s on HN).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thanatos519</author><text>I also remember exactly where I was, playing a leaked version with no sound. Even without sound it was amazing.<p>Once it was released, we played it in the dorm via IPX-over-parallel cable going between rooms via the windows.<p>What I most vividly remember is the first time I saw an elevator come down with a figure I had never seen before ... the space marine, the guy in the other room! Then I got a rocket in the face.</text></comment> |
41,488,517 | 41,488,521 | 1 | 3 | 41,488,116 | train | <story><title>America's best-paid CEOs have the worst-paid employees</title><url>https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/09/low-wage-100/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NickC25</author><text>I don&#x27;t know how we could through legislation mandate things like banning the US government from doing biz with companies that underpay their workers and enrich their C-Suite handsomely, but I support it.<p>With executive pay being over 500x what the average worker at the company makes, no wonder there&#x27;s effectively 2 Americas - our social contract has been broken. While Japan has its own issues, the social contract between low-wage and high-wage workers has been intact and there&#x27;s a reason they don&#x27;t have some of the issues that we do in terms of class disparity and the long-term ramifications of one class of already privileged individuals making astronomical amounts of money by screwing over everyone else.<p>We also need to ban buybacks, or tax them <i>REALLY</i> heavily - over 100%. Make it wildly unprofitable to do so. Or, I like this idea better: for every $10 million you spend on buybacks, you loose your right as a corporation or an officer of a corporation to lobby local, state, and federal governments in any way for a year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rpcope1</author><text>Buybacks shouldn&#x27;t have ever been made legal in the first place, as the fears that cause them to be regulated in the first place have really come to pass. I&#x27;m sure someone will right on queue chime in and talk about how buybacks are superior to dividends for a whole lot of reasons, the least abstract being that they&#x27;re ostensibly tax advantaged. I really believe we&#x27;d all be better off if they went back to being banned and equities go back to just issuing dividends (which I strongly believe is better and more intuitive for small time investors).<p>If nothing else, even though I&#x27;m sure a lot of wall street types will lose their mind, buybacks absolutely should not be tax advantaged in relation to dividends.</text></comment> | <story><title>America's best-paid CEOs have the worst-paid employees</title><url>https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/09/low-wage-100/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NickC25</author><text>I don&#x27;t know how we could through legislation mandate things like banning the US government from doing biz with companies that underpay their workers and enrich their C-Suite handsomely, but I support it.<p>With executive pay being over 500x what the average worker at the company makes, no wonder there&#x27;s effectively 2 Americas - our social contract has been broken. While Japan has its own issues, the social contract between low-wage and high-wage workers has been intact and there&#x27;s a reason they don&#x27;t have some of the issues that we do in terms of class disparity and the long-term ramifications of one class of already privileged individuals making astronomical amounts of money by screwing over everyone else.<p>We also need to ban buybacks, or tax them <i>REALLY</i> heavily - over 100%. Make it wildly unprofitable to do so. Or, I like this idea better: for every $10 million you spend on buybacks, you loose your right as a corporation or an officer of a corporation to lobby local, state, and federal governments in any way for a year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walthamstow</author><text>I like this, hit &#x27;em where it hurts, which for most corps is their ability to lobby the state</text></comment> |
35,952,147 | 35,950,082 | 1 | 3 | 35,948,742 | train | <story><title>Anthropic's 100k context is now available in the web UI</title><url>https://twitter.com/jlowin/status/1658117052425543682</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>celestialcheese</author><text>Claude 100k 1.3 blew me away.<p>Giving it a task of extracting a specific column of information, using just the table header column text, from a table inside a PDF, with text extracted using tesseract, no extra layers on top. (for those that haven&#x27;t tried extracting tables with OCR, it&#x27;s a non-trivial problem, and the output is a mess)<p>&gt; 40k tokens in context, it performed at extracting the data, at 100% accuracy.<p>Changing the prompt to target a different column from the same table, worked perfectly as well. Changing a character in the table in the OCR context to test if it was somehow hallucinating, also accurately extracted the new data.<p>One of those &quot;Jaw to the floor&quot; moments for me.<p>Did the same task in GPT-4 (just limiting the context window to just 8k tokens), and it worked, but at ~4x more expensive, and without being able to feed it the whole document.</text></comment> | <story><title>Anthropic's 100k context is now available in the web UI</title><url>https://twitter.com/jlowin/status/1658117052425543682</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>emptysongglass</author><text>Any magic tricks to gaining access apart from waiting for months? I&#x27;ve been using GPT-4 and love it but would really love to test that 100k context window with long running chatbots.</text></comment> |
2,716,301 | 2,716,379 | 1 | 3 | 2,715,792 | train | <story><title>Why Apple built Final Cut Pro X</title><url>http://sachin.posterous.com/why-apple-built-final-cut-pro-x</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>radley</author><text>My problem with the change in FCP is that it's following an unpleasant downgrade pattern on their platform. QT 7 was far more useful than QTX. 10.6 &#38; earlier Mail is far more robust than 10.7 will be. And it goes on.<p>Apple's really pushing a premium consumer biz model, leaving professionals in the uncomfortable position of not having a professional platform.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>podperson</author><text>I think that the response of pros to FCPX is understandable but also wrong. If FCPX were the first word processor, they're complaining that it doesn't come with liquid paper and two color ribbons.<p>The way in/out points and compound clips work in FCPX is simply ridiculously awesome -- it's kind of what After Effects tries to do with compound clips implemented in a realtime modeless manner.<p>Was Apple insensitive (e.g. by halting FC Studio sales the moment it released FCPX)? You bet. Did it bungle the PR? No question. Is FCPX a non-pro tool? Pro tools are tools pros use. I have no doubt some pros will use FCPX and some FCPX users will turn pro. Will a lot of FCP7 users cling to the old ways or switch to Premiere or Avid or whatever? Probably.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Apple built Final Cut Pro X</title><url>http://sachin.posterous.com/why-apple-built-final-cut-pro-x</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>radley</author><text>My problem with the change in FCP is that it's following an unpleasant downgrade pattern on their platform. QT 7 was far more useful than QTX. 10.6 &#38; earlier Mail is far more robust than 10.7 will be. And it goes on.<p>Apple's really pushing a premium consumer biz model, leaving professionals in the uncomfortable position of not having a professional platform.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ugh</author><text>What’s your problem with QTX and Mail? The new Mail is awesomely awesome (the old is rubbish in comparison) and QTX is a player like QT7 was. Not much to do wrong.</text></comment> |
32,833,033 | 32,832,763 | 1 | 2 | 32,827,209 | train | <story><title>Gödel, Escher, Bach: an in-depth explainer</title><url>https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/wwNnzaPnB5a48K86N/book-review-goedel-escher-bach-an-in-depth-explainer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adastra22</author><text>I’ve only ever seen examples like the one you give here, which seem like trite, trivial, and uninteresting middle-school level logical gotchas. Are there actually interesting properties which are true but can’t be proven? Or is it just a statement about self-referential recursive logic being unprovable?</text></item><item><author>mreid</author><text>It might be easiest to give a sense of what &quot;unprovable but true&quot; means by way of an imagined example.<p>Goldbach&#x27;s conjecture is that &quot;every even number bigger than 2 is the sum of exactly two prime numbers&quot;, so 4 = 2 + 2, 6 = 3 + 3, 8 = 5 + 3, etc.<p>For this statement to be *true* it just means that every even number there must exist two primes that add to that number. This is a statement about infinitely many integers.<p>A *proof* of Goldbach&#x27;s conjecture consists of a finite number of formal reasoning steps that start with some axioms and end up at the statement of the result.<p>To this day, it seems as though Goldbach&#x27;s conjecture is true. It holds for every number we&#x27;ve been able to test. However, no one has proved it is true or false yet (or proved that it is unprovable).<p>The proof of Gödel&#x27;s result&#x27;s involves very carefully formalizing what statements and proofs mean so that they can be encoded as statements about arithmetic. He then shows there is a statement with encoding G that says &quot;The statement with encoding G cannot be proved&quot; – if it is true, then it cannot be proved.<p>It&#x27;s kind of confusing at first, but there is an easier way to get an intuition why there might be true statements that cannot be proved. Think of each statement about the natural numbers as a subset where each number in the subset makes the statement true. There are uncountably many subsets of the natural numbers (by Cantor&#x27;s diagonalization argument). Proofs are finite chains of finite statements so there are only countably infinitely many of these. Therefore there must be subsets&#x2F;statements that are true that do not have a matching proof.<p>The approach that Gödel&#x27;s proof takes is not too different to the above argument – it is essentially a diagonalization argument – the complexity is in making the encoding of statements are numbers very precise.</text></item><item><author>red_trumpet</author><text>How can a statement that is unprovable be true?<p>I always had the impression that unprovable means you could add either the statement or its negation as an axiom, and both resulting systems are as consistent as the system you started with</text></item><item><author>jstanley</author><text>&gt; Gödel&#x27;s Incompleteness Theorem: any sufficiently rich formal system, together with an interpretation, has strings which are true but unprovable.<p>This is only half of it!<p>Gödel&#x27;s Incompleteness Theorem states that any sufficiently rich formal system, together with an interpretation, <i>either</i> has strings which are true but unprovable <i>or</i> has strings which are provable but untrue. Either is possible! In practice people prefer to have true things that can&#x27;t be proven rather than provable things that are untrue. But either is possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>memetomancer</author><text>Interesting take. You have casually dismissed the Goldbach Conjecture (perhaps the deepest centuries old problem in number theory) as &#x27;trite, trivial and uninteresting&#x27;... Suggesting that you are only minimally familiar with the issue... then toss about an inapplicable phrase &#x27;self-referential recursive logic&#x27; as if you are deeply immersed in such matters, perhaps even _much_ smarter than the thousands of mathematicians (including the likes of Euler) that have applied themselves to this problem. An odd contradiction!<p>I do believe this opinion places you very high on the &#x27;confidence&#x27; axis, but not especially far along the &#x27;competence&#x27; axis.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gödel, Escher, Bach: an in-depth explainer</title><url>https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/wwNnzaPnB5a48K86N/book-review-goedel-escher-bach-an-in-depth-explainer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adastra22</author><text>I’ve only ever seen examples like the one you give here, which seem like trite, trivial, and uninteresting middle-school level logical gotchas. Are there actually interesting properties which are true but can’t be proven? Or is it just a statement about self-referential recursive logic being unprovable?</text></item><item><author>mreid</author><text>It might be easiest to give a sense of what &quot;unprovable but true&quot; means by way of an imagined example.<p>Goldbach&#x27;s conjecture is that &quot;every even number bigger than 2 is the sum of exactly two prime numbers&quot;, so 4 = 2 + 2, 6 = 3 + 3, 8 = 5 + 3, etc.<p>For this statement to be *true* it just means that every even number there must exist two primes that add to that number. This is a statement about infinitely many integers.<p>A *proof* of Goldbach&#x27;s conjecture consists of a finite number of formal reasoning steps that start with some axioms and end up at the statement of the result.<p>To this day, it seems as though Goldbach&#x27;s conjecture is true. It holds for every number we&#x27;ve been able to test. However, no one has proved it is true or false yet (or proved that it is unprovable).<p>The proof of Gödel&#x27;s result&#x27;s involves very carefully formalizing what statements and proofs mean so that they can be encoded as statements about arithmetic. He then shows there is a statement with encoding G that says &quot;The statement with encoding G cannot be proved&quot; – if it is true, then it cannot be proved.<p>It&#x27;s kind of confusing at first, but there is an easier way to get an intuition why there might be true statements that cannot be proved. Think of each statement about the natural numbers as a subset where each number in the subset makes the statement true. There are uncountably many subsets of the natural numbers (by Cantor&#x27;s diagonalization argument). Proofs are finite chains of finite statements so there are only countably infinitely many of these. Therefore there must be subsets&#x2F;statements that are true that do not have a matching proof.<p>The approach that Gödel&#x27;s proof takes is not too different to the above argument – it is essentially a diagonalization argument – the complexity is in making the encoding of statements are numbers very precise.</text></item><item><author>red_trumpet</author><text>How can a statement that is unprovable be true?<p>I always had the impression that unprovable means you could add either the statement or its negation as an axiom, and both resulting systems are as consistent as the system you started with</text></item><item><author>jstanley</author><text>&gt; Gödel&#x27;s Incompleteness Theorem: any sufficiently rich formal system, together with an interpretation, has strings which are true but unprovable.<p>This is only half of it!<p>Gödel&#x27;s Incompleteness Theorem states that any sufficiently rich formal system, together with an interpretation, <i>either</i> has strings which are true but unprovable <i>or</i> has strings which are provable but untrue. Either is possible! In practice people prefer to have true things that can&#x27;t be proven rather than provable things that are untrue. But either is possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flebron</author><text>Well, most interesting properties about computer programs are, in general for all programs, undecidable (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rice%27s_theorem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rice%27s_theorem</a>). Undecidability is a closely related notion to unprovability (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Undecidable_problem#Relationship_with_G%C3%B6del&#x27;s_incompleteness_theorem)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Undecidable_problem#Relationsh...</a>.</text></comment> |
30,163,794 | 30,162,108 | 1 | 2 | 30,161,626 | train | <story><title>Fetch API has landed into Node.js</title><url>https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6ec225392675c92b102d3caad02ee3a157c9d1b7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thyrox</author><text>My biggest issue with node when I was working on it briefly was I couldn&#x27;t do the &#x27;import&#x27; statements like wepback. Are they supported too now?<p>I&#x27;m not a web developer so I had a very hard time understanding why there are so many different type of imports in JavaScript like require, import, umd, amd, etc and which one works in browser and which one works in node?<p>Also why do so many libraries have this strange 5 line header code for this umd, amd, business. Is that to make their packages work with nodejs?<p>Does anyone who knows enough JavaScript point me in the right direction about it. I find all this very confusing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m not a web developer so I had a very hard time understanding why there are so many different type of imports in JavaScript like require, import, umd, amd, etc and which one works in browser and which one works in node?<p>If I remember my history correctly, it&#x27;s because when Node first came out, there was no import system in JS, let alone a standardized one; there was no sense of scoping (everything global), nothing about dynamic or lazy loading of dependencies, no tree shaking &#x2F; removing unused code, and even going to the definition of something in an editor was difficult.<p>NodeJS adopted CommonJS (I don&#x27;t recall if they invented it), which is a module and dependency system based on require() and exports. It was only a few years later when the JS standards body settled on import; by then, the JS (dependency &#x2F; module management) world was already very divided.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fetch API has landed into Node.js</title><url>https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6ec225392675c92b102d3caad02ee3a157c9d1b7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thyrox</author><text>My biggest issue with node when I was working on it briefly was I couldn&#x27;t do the &#x27;import&#x27; statements like wepback. Are they supported too now?<p>I&#x27;m not a web developer so I had a very hard time understanding why there are so many different type of imports in JavaScript like require, import, umd, amd, etc and which one works in browser and which one works in node?<p>Also why do so many libraries have this strange 5 line header code for this umd, amd, business. Is that to make their packages work with nodejs?<p>Does anyone who knows enough JavaScript point me in the right direction about it. I find all this very confusing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inglor</author><text>Those have been supported for several years now :)<p>You need to tell Node to use the format by either naming your file `.mjs` or setting `&quot;type&quot;: &quot;module&quot;` in your `package.json` file.<p>&gt; Also why do so many libraries have this strange 5 line header code for this umd, amd, business. Is that to make their packages work with nodejs?<p>That&#x27;s just old for &quot;adapt the module system&quot; from the old days and libraries just didn&#x27;t bother updating.<p>I still use amd in my job at Microsoft though for some things so I guess it&#x27;s not useless :)</text></comment> |
37,007,715 | 37,006,815 | 1 | 3 | 37,006,224 | train | <story><title>Non-determinism in GPT-4 is caused by Sparse MoE</title><url>https://152334H.github.io/blog/non-determinism-in-gpt-4/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jiggawatts</author><text>Floating point inaccuracies are generally deterministic - running the same calculations twice ought to yield the same results, down to the bit.<p>You only get divergent results if there is some other source of state or entropy: not zeroing buffers correctly, race conditions, not setting rounding mode flags consistently, etc…<p>From the quality of the code I’ve seen being cobbled together in the AI&#x2F;ML ecosystem I would assume all three of those issues going on, and maybe more.</text></comment> | <story><title>Non-determinism in GPT-4 is caused by Sparse MoE</title><url>https://152334H.github.io/blog/non-determinism-in-gpt-4/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alpark3</author><text>_If_ 3.5 is a MoE model, doesn&#x27;t that give a lot of hope to open source movements? Once a good open source MoE model comes out, maybe even some type of variation of the decoder models available(I don&#x27;t know whether MoE models have to be trained from scratch), that implies a lot more can be done with a lot less.</text></comment> |
14,361,962 | 14,361,592 | 1 | 2 | 14,361,039 | train | <story><title>A Case of Stolen Source Code</title><url>https://panic.com/blog/stolen-source-code/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Sidnicious</author><text>&gt; …breeze right through an in-retrospect-sketchy authentication dialog…<p>I can&#x27;t blame them for this. A surprising number of apps ask for root (inc. Adobe installers and Chrome). As far as I know, it&#x27;s to make updates more reliable when an admin installs a program for a day-to-day user who can&#x27;t write to &#x2F;Applications and &#x2F;Library.<p>We&#x27;re long overdue for better sandboxing on desktop (outside of app stores).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kefka</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t matter that much, honestly.<p>I only do root for administration tasks. Filesystem stuff, hardware, server config. All the goodies are in my homedir. Exfiltration is easy as that. Running bad binaries is easy as running under my username.<p>In the end, there&#x27;s no protections of what my username can do to files owned by my user. And that&#x27;s why nasty tool that:<p><pre><code> 1. generates priv&#x2F;pub key using gpg
2. emails priv key elsewhere and deletes
3. crypts everything it can grab in ~
4. Pops up nasty message demanding money
</code></pre>
works so easily, and so well.<p>The only thing I know that can thwart attacks like this is Qubes, or a well setup SELinux.. But SELinux then impedes usage. (down the rabbit hole we go).<p>Edit: Honestly, I&#x27;m waiting for a Command and Control to be exclusively in Tor, email keys only through a Tor gateway, and also serve as a slave node to control and use. I could certainly see a &quot;If you agree to keep this application on here, we will give you your files back over the course of X duration&quot;.<p>There&#x27;s plenty more nefarious ways this all can be used to cause more damage, and &quot;reward&quot; the user with their files back, by being a slave node for more infection. IIRC, there was one of these malware tools that granted access to files if you screwed over your friends and they paid.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Case of Stolen Source Code</title><url>https://panic.com/blog/stolen-source-code/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Sidnicious</author><text>&gt; …breeze right through an in-retrospect-sketchy authentication dialog…<p>I can&#x27;t blame them for this. A surprising number of apps ask for root (inc. Adobe installers and Chrome). As far as I know, it&#x27;s to make updates more reliable when an admin installs a program for a day-to-day user who can&#x27;t write to &#x2F;Applications and &#x2F;Library.<p>We&#x27;re long overdue for better sandboxing on desktop (outside of app stores).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mstade</author><text>True story. The status quo unfortunately conditions people into &quot;just answer yes to the stupid questions&quot; which then renders everything from developer certs to elevation warnings moot. &quot;But you got a warning&quot; is little recourse for when your hard drive is encrypted by some ransomware. (I know I&#x27;m mixing current events here – cut a fella some slack!)</text></comment> |
5,957,490 | 5,957,401 | 1 | 2 | 5,956,958 | train | <story><title>DevDocs</title><url>http://devdocs.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johtso</author><text>If you&#x27;re on a mac you might want to check out Dash <a href="http://kapeli.com/dash" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kapeli.com&#x2F;dash</a><p>Very simliar goal, but offline and instant. After using it for a while it&#x27;s hard to imagine going back to reading documentation in a web-browser.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Osmium</author><text>Love Dash (and own a license), but there was sadly some controversy regarding their new icon and &quot;inspiration&quot; recently. Will try and find a link...<p>Edit: so the old Dash icon was a free icon from <a href="http://www.yootheme.com/icons/freebies" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.yootheme.com&#x2F;icons&#x2F;freebies</a> (the cat one). Recently this icon was replaced with a custom one, which makes sense, except the new Dash icon seems to be heavily &quot;inspired&quot; by somebody else&#x27;s work -- <a href="http://dribbble.com/shots/913643-Chrome-replacement-icon" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dribbble.com&#x2F;shots&#x2F;913643-Chrome-replacement-icon</a><p>See the comparison here: <a href="http://twitpic.com/ciu8a7" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitpic.com&#x2F;ciu8a7</a><p>Relevant tweets:<p>[Dash dev]<p><a href="https://twitter.com/kapeli/status/328037766166368256" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;kapeli&#x2F;status&#x2F;328037766166368256</a><p><a href="https://twitter.com/kapeli/status/328112260805451779" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;kapeli&#x2F;status&#x2F;328112260805451779</a><p>[Icon designer]<p><a href="https://twitter.com/wakaba_en/status/328075341618892800" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;wakaba_en&#x2F;status&#x2F;328075341618892800</a><p>Seems like the Dash dev disagrees with the icon author on where the line between &quot;inspiration&quot; and &quot;plagiarism&quot; lies. It doesn&#x27;t help that there&#x27;s a language barrier between the icon author and Dash developer.<p>Icon designer even proposed an alternative icon:<p><a href="http://dribbble.com/shots/1046492-Dash-app-replacement-icon" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dribbble.com&#x2F;shots&#x2F;1046492-Dash-app-replacement-icon</a><p>But sadly it seems like this issue hasn&#x27;t been rectified, but has just been forgotten about. I only found out about this after I&#x27;d bought a license; I&#x27;m posting this here in case someone else finds it relevant to their purchasing decisions.</text></comment> | <story><title>DevDocs</title><url>http://devdocs.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johtso</author><text>If you&#x27;re on a mac you might want to check out Dash <a href="http://kapeli.com/dash" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kapeli.com&#x2F;dash</a><p>Very simliar goal, but offline and instant. After using it for a while it&#x27;s hard to imagine going back to reading documentation in a web-browser.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AaronO</author><text>I built <a href="http://doks.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;doks.io</a><p>Which supports all the documentation Dash does. (The web UI is pretty simple, it was built in an evening).<p>But both the server side and the web UI are open source.<p>If you like Dash, you might like Doks</text></comment> |
25,107,964 | 25,107,879 | 1 | 2 | 25,107,556 | train | <story><title>RCEP, the world’s biggest trade agreement</title><url>https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/11/15/the-meaning-of-rcep-the-worlds-biggest-trade-agreement</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eunos</author><text>As a citizen of a SEA nation, really excited with the trade agreement.<p>However one thing that bug me is that a number of media&#x2F;opinion tend to characterize the deal as some kind of China nefarious plot even though the initiative came from South East Asia.<p>That also includes the discussion of some detail of the trade for example as explained in the article lack of focus on &quot;environmental , labour standards, and rules for state-owned enterprises.&quot;. Again those commonly regarded as a poison pill from Beijing, instead of considering that maybe nations in the South East Asia preferred it that way irrespective of what Beijing thinks.</text></comment> | <story><title>RCEP, the world’s biggest trade agreement</title><url>https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/11/15/the-meaning-of-rcep-the-worlds-biggest-trade-agreement</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cocoland2</author><text>There were several caveats in RCEP that were huge red flags domestically. For example , Diary &amp; associated products from NZ to India , Chinese goods getting re-routed through Vietnam (Manufacture a shoe in China , just label it in Vietnam and route to India) etc. that were a problem.
It is worrying that Chinese influence is grappling ASEAN economies , most times it is the worry that they won&#x27;t play fair with smaller trade partners. For once , a lot of people were happy in my state the agreement was not signed.</text></comment> |
9,733,715 | 9,733,472 | 1 | 3 | 9,731,903 | train | <story><title>My Position On The Disney Layoffs</title><url>https://plus.google.com/+KeithBarrett/posts/PWA6BXs7dbS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exelius</author><text>I believe the author is simply mistaken that H1-Bs are the problem. H1-Bs are limited enough that they can&#x27;t be responsible for the volume of outsourcing. They also carry salary parity requirements, and while H1-B holders rarely actually make market salary, the savings still aren&#x27;t enough to prompt a wave of outsourcing. There was a problem at one time with H1-Bs, but the H1-B lottery has become so competitive that it&#x27;s not a reliable option for companies to base a business model around anymore. The majority of H1-B recipients these days are foreign nationals who attended American universities, often with masters degrees. Those are the kinds of foreign nationals we want participating in the US economy.<p>The problem today are the L-1 visas, which are relatively unregulated. L-1 visas are for foreign nationals in a management capacity whose companies wish to transfer them to the US. These visas only require that the employer pay the employee&#x27;s living expenses, and the employee receives the normal salary they would make in their home country (!).<p>All of this is fine until you start to stretch the definition of &quot;management&quot;. Which many consulting companies (Tata, Infosys, Cognizant, etc) have started to do -- they can take a person from India who is paid ~$25,000&#x2F;yr (a good engineer&#x27;s salary in India), fly him to the US on an L-1 visa, and charge him out to the client at $100&#x2F;hr. An equivalent US-based contractor rate for the same position would be $125&#x2F;hr and have margins around 10-15%. But the offshoring firms can undercut US-based contractors by 25%, eat all the travel&#x2F;housing expenses, and STILL make well over 100% margins.<p>L-1s are actually the problem. There&#x27;s no salary parity requirement, there&#x27;s no requirement to look for US-based candidates of equivalent positions, just a requirement that the person is &quot;acting in a management capacity&quot; and has worked for the company for at least 1 year. It&#x27;s hard to prove that someone is not &quot;acting in a management capacity&quot; -- many of the companies outright lie on the visa applications. What&#x27;s worse, this type of dishonesty is considered fair game when dealing with corrupt bureaucracies in India or China. But L-1s are fueling the latest wave of offshoring: they allow companies to bring people to the US at offshore prices.</text></item><item><author>ThePhysicist</author><text>&quot;I&#x27;m sharing news about it because this experience has taught me the H-1b Visa program needs to change to protect others in the future.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s surprising to me that Disney was able to replace its local workforce by foreigners via H-1b visas, since I always thought that companies making use of this type of visa were required to prove that they would not be able to find an employee with the required qualifications in the US? Firing an employee to replace him with an H-1b holder seems to completely contradict this requirement.<p>Also, reading the visa requirements it seems that the company would be forced to pay an H-1b employee a salary which is equivalent to that payed to a &quot;normal&quot; employee performing the same function, so there does not seem to be a huge financial benefit in this either.<p>Can anyone explain this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djb_hackernews</author><text>&gt; The majority of H1-B recipients these days are foreign nationals who attended American universities, often with masters degrees. Those are the kinds of foreign nationals we want participating in the US economy.<p>most smart companies that use the H1-B visa program only hire those with masters degrees. This does 2 things:<p>- They can first bring them on as &quot;interns&quot; under the F1 visa, which can be extended quite a bit. They are paid peanuts while the firms weed out the absolute duds.<p>- This avoids the requirements on firms for extra reporting if a certain percentage of their staff are H1-B don&#x27;t have masters degrees.<p>This creates a nice little loophole where smaller colleges have massive massive STEM programs with an insane majority being foreign students. The students get their foot in the door to play the game and the colleges get paid.<p>Take UT Dallas for example: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ecs.utdallas.edu&#x2F;academics&#x2F;assessment-docs&#x2F;2014&#x2F;2014%20Fall%20ECS%20Enrollment.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ecs.utdallas.edu&#x2F;academics&#x2F;assessment-docs&#x2F;2014&#x2F;2014%...</a><p>The CS Masters program is bigger than the CS undergrad program, only 4% of graduating CS undergrads are international, where as 93% of FT CS Masters students are international. That should be odd to anyone.</text></comment> | <story><title>My Position On The Disney Layoffs</title><url>https://plus.google.com/+KeithBarrett/posts/PWA6BXs7dbS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exelius</author><text>I believe the author is simply mistaken that H1-Bs are the problem. H1-Bs are limited enough that they can&#x27;t be responsible for the volume of outsourcing. They also carry salary parity requirements, and while H1-B holders rarely actually make market salary, the savings still aren&#x27;t enough to prompt a wave of outsourcing. There was a problem at one time with H1-Bs, but the H1-B lottery has become so competitive that it&#x27;s not a reliable option for companies to base a business model around anymore. The majority of H1-B recipients these days are foreign nationals who attended American universities, often with masters degrees. Those are the kinds of foreign nationals we want participating in the US economy.<p>The problem today are the L-1 visas, which are relatively unregulated. L-1 visas are for foreign nationals in a management capacity whose companies wish to transfer them to the US. These visas only require that the employer pay the employee&#x27;s living expenses, and the employee receives the normal salary they would make in their home country (!).<p>All of this is fine until you start to stretch the definition of &quot;management&quot;. Which many consulting companies (Tata, Infosys, Cognizant, etc) have started to do -- they can take a person from India who is paid ~$25,000&#x2F;yr (a good engineer&#x27;s salary in India), fly him to the US on an L-1 visa, and charge him out to the client at $100&#x2F;hr. An equivalent US-based contractor rate for the same position would be $125&#x2F;hr and have margins around 10-15%. But the offshoring firms can undercut US-based contractors by 25%, eat all the travel&#x2F;housing expenses, and STILL make well over 100% margins.<p>L-1s are actually the problem. There&#x27;s no salary parity requirement, there&#x27;s no requirement to look for US-based candidates of equivalent positions, just a requirement that the person is &quot;acting in a management capacity&quot; and has worked for the company for at least 1 year. It&#x27;s hard to prove that someone is not &quot;acting in a management capacity&quot; -- many of the companies outright lie on the visa applications. What&#x27;s worse, this type of dishonesty is considered fair game when dealing with corrupt bureaucracies in India or China. But L-1s are fueling the latest wave of offshoring: they allow companies to bring people to the US at offshore prices.</text></item><item><author>ThePhysicist</author><text>&quot;I&#x27;m sharing news about it because this experience has taught me the H-1b Visa program needs to change to protect others in the future.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s surprising to me that Disney was able to replace its local workforce by foreigners via H-1b visas, since I always thought that companies making use of this type of visa were required to prove that they would not be able to find an employee with the required qualifications in the US? Firing an employee to replace him with an H-1b holder seems to completely contradict this requirement.<p>Also, reading the visa requirements it seems that the company would be forced to pay an H-1b employee a salary which is equivalent to that payed to a &quot;normal&quot; employee performing the same function, so there does not seem to be a huge financial benefit in this either.<p>Can anyone explain this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drzaiusapelord</author><text>&gt;They also carry salary parity requirements<p>This is easily gamed by creating &quot;new&quot; positions with trivially different responsibilities than the old positions you want to get rid of. Now you don&#x27;t have an established salary history to work with. That&#x27;s on top of having H1B&#x27;s by the shorthairs because its so difficult for them to switch jobs, thus the 60+ workweek the domestic workers rightfully balked at is achievable by cost-cutting managers.<p>That&#x27;s on top of what Disney did, which was just outsource an entire department to a provider, which side-steps all the paltry protections in the H1B program.<p>&gt;The majority of H1-B recipients these days are foreign nationals who attended American universities, often with masters degrees. Those are the kinds of foreign nationals we want participating in the US economy.<p>Frankly, in IT&#x2F;CS a lot of higher degrees are little more than adult daycare. If you can&#x27;t figure out how to code via a 4 year degree then another 2 ain&#x27;t helping you. Even if Disney got MS holders because their workforce needed MS&#x27;s for some weird reason, which sounds highly questionable to me, some nerds straight out of school aren&#x27;t going to do a good job running operations with zero professional experience and 10 hours of training from the previous guy. Its clear they did this not for better outcomes but for cost savings.<p>Its likely an H1B has an undergrad degree for a foreign university that&#x27;s little more than a diploma mill anyway.<p>Its hilarious that we bemoan the lack of people, especially women, in STEM, when many STEM jobs can be eliminated with the blessing of the federal government via whats essentially bought and paid-for legislation by large companies looking to cut IT costs. No wonder law school enrollments and finance higher ed degrees have been so high. The smart guys, and women in general apparently, know tech is a ripoff precisely because of shit like H1B&#x27;s stealing their jobs. Lets stop excusing the H1B program. Its designed to take American jobs from Americans and everyone knows it.</text></comment> |
29,422,457 | 29,422,873 | 1 | 2 | 29,417,309 | train | <story><title>Movie dialogue has gotten more difficult to understand</title><url>https://www.slashfilm.com/673162/heres-why-movie-dialogue-has-gotten-more-difficult-to-understand-and-three-ways-to-fix-it/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SkeuomorphicBee</author><text>I like how that quote actually reflects the hubris and disconnection to reality of the sound engineer. That is exactly &quot;how it was done&quot;, how he mixed it, the fact that it didn&#x27;t sound good in a real life matinee (as opposed to the ideal conditions of his sound lab) is a fact of life. That is the target he should be mixing for, for the real life matinees with imperfect equipment and acoustics (or for the even worse real life living rooms with crappy sound system and acoustics), but instead he mixes to sound perfect in his perfect lab. He is doing it wrong, optimizing for the wrong metrics, but he can&#x27;t fathom being wrong, so he will keep screwing up and people will keep not being able to understand movies. It is the sound engineer version of &quot;You&#x27;re holding it wrong&quot;.</text></item><item><author>jaywalk</author><text>I enjoyed this quote:<p>&quot;I was at a matinee with a lot of elderly people because I took my mom, and I&#x27;m like, &#x27;None of these people can hear what&#x27;s happening.&#x27; The manager, who was probably all of 22 years old, said, &#x27;Well, that&#x27;s how the film was done.&#x27; And I said, &#x27;No, I did the sound on the film. That&#x27;s not how it was done.&#x27;&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve been in a meeting where a third-party vendor was explaining how I was incorrect about how some particular functionality in an application worked, and I had to stop him and inform him that I was the one who <i>developed</i> that functionality and knew exactly how it worked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jbigelow76</author><text><i>I like how that quote actually reflects the hubris and disconnection to reality of the sound engineer. That is exactly &quot;how it was done&quot;, how he mixed it, the fact that it didn&#x27;t sound good in a real life matinee (as opposed to the ideal conditions of his sound lab) is a fact of life.</i><p>I&#x27;d be really surprised if sound engineers working in film never bother to listen to a cut of the movie in a theater. But then again the number of times I&#x27;ve seen &quot;you didn&#x27;t try compiling before committing did you?&quot; crop up in chat while discussing a broken build that maybe they don&#x27;t :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Movie dialogue has gotten more difficult to understand</title><url>https://www.slashfilm.com/673162/heres-why-movie-dialogue-has-gotten-more-difficult-to-understand-and-three-ways-to-fix-it/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SkeuomorphicBee</author><text>I like how that quote actually reflects the hubris and disconnection to reality of the sound engineer. That is exactly &quot;how it was done&quot;, how he mixed it, the fact that it didn&#x27;t sound good in a real life matinee (as opposed to the ideal conditions of his sound lab) is a fact of life. That is the target he should be mixing for, for the real life matinees with imperfect equipment and acoustics (or for the even worse real life living rooms with crappy sound system and acoustics), but instead he mixes to sound perfect in his perfect lab. He is doing it wrong, optimizing for the wrong metrics, but he can&#x27;t fathom being wrong, so he will keep screwing up and people will keep not being able to understand movies. It is the sound engineer version of &quot;You&#x27;re holding it wrong&quot;.</text></item><item><author>jaywalk</author><text>I enjoyed this quote:<p>&quot;I was at a matinee with a lot of elderly people because I took my mom, and I&#x27;m like, &#x27;None of these people can hear what&#x27;s happening.&#x27; The manager, who was probably all of 22 years old, said, &#x27;Well, that&#x27;s how the film was done.&#x27; And I said, &#x27;No, I did the sound on the film. That&#x27;s not how it was done.&#x27;&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve been in a meeting where a third-party vendor was explaining how I was incorrect about how some particular functionality in an application worked, and I had to stop him and inform him that I was the one who <i>developed</i> that functionality and knew exactly how it worked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vondur</author><text>Going off topic a bit, when I was in a hardcore band back in the early 90s, and we went into the studio to record, the engineer would give us rough mix downs of the music to go play in our car stereo as a quick check on it. In the recording studio with those high end studio monitors, it can make things sound far different then the more average sound system most people have access to.</text></comment> |
8,156,313 | 8,156,101 | 1 | 2 | 8,155,832 | train | <story><title>Getting It Done with Haskell</title><url>https://app.doxiq.com/d/rbczklzyvgczkfgh/Getting-it-Done-with-Haskell-pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raarts</author><text>I&#x27;ve been looking at learning Haskell for al the obvious reasons, but I&#x27;ve been put off by all the lengthy and detailed introductions to the syntax, and math oriented examples, that seem written by theoreticists.<p>What I would like (and in my opinion what Haskell needs to grow), is a more practical introduction, like doing a database conversion, or writing some network service. Syntax can be explained in passing. Does this exist?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kndyry</author><text>This was me as well. I had tried several resources and books (including LYAH) and while I had enjoyed them, they hadn&#x27;t seemed to &quot;stick.&quot; I can&#x27;t recall now where I saw Conrad Barski&#x27;s tutorial [0] mentioned, perhaps here on HN, but I found his approach much more personally suitable.<p>He steps the reader through writing a program that reads in and then divides an arbitrary park map into small, roughly equivalent picnic plots with colored SVG output along the way. The code takes center stage and is presented to the reader with the why and a good&#x2F;bad analysis afterward.<p>I&#x27;m not sure whether this is what you&#x27;re after, but at the very least it&#x27;s worth a glance.<p>[0] <a href="http://lisperati.com/haskell/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lisperati.com&#x2F;haskell&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Getting It Done with Haskell</title><url>https://app.doxiq.com/d/rbczklzyvgczkfgh/Getting-it-Done-with-Haskell-pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raarts</author><text>I&#x27;ve been looking at learning Haskell for al the obvious reasons, but I&#x27;ve been put off by all the lengthy and detailed introductions to the syntax, and math oriented examples, that seem written by theoreticists.<p>What I would like (and in my opinion what Haskell needs to grow), is a more practical introduction, like doing a database conversion, or writing some network service. Syntax can be explained in passing. Does this exist?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rybosome</author><text>I was pretty impressed with the content in &quot;Real World Haskell&quot;[0], it&#x27;s available online for free and for sale in print. I don&#x27;t remember all of the practical examples, but off the top of my head, they include wiring up a pcre library by using FFI into C and reading a barcode from an image. This talk claims that the book is out of date; that&#x27;s probably true, but I still found it to be valuable.<p>[0] <a href="http://book.realworldhaskell.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;book.realworldhaskell.org</a></text></comment> |
3,923,041 | 3,922,371 | 1 | 2 | 3,922,004 | train | <story><title>1859's "Great Auroral Storm"—the week the Sun touched the earth</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/05/1859s-great-auroral-stormthe-week-the-sun-touched-the-earth.ars</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fractallyte</author><text>Why so much emphasis on the negative aspects of aurorae? More constructive would be to devise ways of harnessing the solar wind. Just consider: no lossy conversion from one form of energy to another; solar wind is 'electricity'.<p>In the 1950s, SF writer Murray Leinster already had the idea of drawing energy from the ionosphere (for spacecraft 'landing grids').<p>Scientific American in 1974 had an Amateur Scientist article about electrostatic motors, which are powered by atmospheric electricity. (And how many times in history has a curiosity led on to something with rather more tangible benefits...? (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile)" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile)</a>)<p>And recent experiments with lasers demonstrate that it is possible to open up a channel of ionized air to direct lightning (<a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328584.200-lightning-directed-by-laser-beams.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328584.200-lightning...</a>).<p>All that free electricity above us, wasted on pretty colored lights... ;-)</text></comment> | <story><title>1859's "Great Auroral Storm"—the week the Sun touched the earth</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/05/1859s-great-auroral-stormthe-week-the-sun-touched-the-earth.ars</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spatten</author><text>Made me wonder how you could prepare for something like this. If you had warning, and a metal box, would throwing all of your electronics in there be good enough to save them?<p>I'm thinking computer, phone, stuff like that.<p>Either way, I'm guessing the internet would be down for quite a while. Not to mention what this would do to our electrical infrastructure.<p>Hmm. I wonder if the fields would strong enough to kill the computers in cars.<p>This might make for a good near-future apocalyptic scenario. It doesn't sound <i>too</i> scary, but then you start thinking of the possibilities.<p>Think I'll go make myself a tinfoil hat :D.</text></comment> |
18,241,827 | 18,241,190 | 1 | 2 | 18,238,965 | train | <story><title>The Student Loan Debt Crisis Is About to Get Worse</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-17/the-student-loan-debt-crisis-is-about-to-get-worse?srnd=premium</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>madeuptempacct</author><text>I can provide some examples for him as a self-educated dev:<p>* What is big O<p>* What is value type vs pointer&#x2F;reference<p>* How does the internet work<p>* Binary search trees, tries, graphs - u wut m8
(Thankfully, there&#x27;s this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;basecs&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;basecs&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01</a>)<p>* Basic cryptography, hashing, etc<p>* DNS, IPs, HTTP, etc<p>* TCP, UDP, etc (I still don&#x27;t know these)<p>* Stack, heap, queue, malloc (Again, very little exposure to this without learning a low level language.)<p>* How modern computers work<p>* Logic gates, clocks, memory, (actual) binary math<p>* Wifi basics (actual physical data transmission)<p>* Linux<p>I can go on and on and on, but these are things you don&#x27;t pick up at work unless you go out of your way to learn how they work.<p>Regarding the parent post - I have a very generous training budget. And guess where I will never spend it? At the best University in my state. I got a degree in something other than Comp Sci, and 95% of the classes were useless and way-too-drawn-out. So, you might not be as behind as you think.<p>A pretty-smart co-worker of mine with a Comp Sci degree said he didn&#x27;t figure out the point of object oriented programming until he got his first Java job.<p>This is only related to other comments in this thread, but I do feel that formal education is oversold, and particularly to people who are from poor families with no guidance trying to have a shot at life.</text></item><item><author>pc86</author><text>Could you provide some examples?</text></item><item><author>mental1896</author><text>I don&#x27;t have a degree and I&#x27;m 10+ years deep into my career. What has started to stand out for me in recent years is that there are holes in my experience that my college-educated peers don&#x27;t have to deal with. Granted I never had to deal with student loans so I guess there&#x27;s a tradeoff. But the problem with these education &quot;holes&quot; is that they hit you right out of left field when you least expect it.</text></item><item><author>orev</author><text>The main reasons to get a degree are:<p>-. To show you can complete a big, multi year project that’s full of doing stuff you don’t like<p>-. To get past HR screenings<p>-. If you ever want a chance to reach Executive level jobs, you need to have a degree, for the perception of nothing else.<p>This debate has been going on for a long time, despite this being presented as a recent thing, and it always comes down to those things. While the tech-minded here might want to see it from a strictly educational standpoint, these are human&#x2F;societal reasons that are quite important.</text></item><item><author>bradenb</author><text>I was discussing student loans and value of a college education with friends the other day. We were discussing whether or not I would recommend college to someone today. My conclusion is that TODAY I would still as long as that person has the means to do so without any loans.<p>But, then we started discussing whether I would push my children to go. My answer is that I hope I don&#x27;t need to. Even though I have some amount of college savings for my kids, I don&#x27;t think it will be enough to let them choose their school freely and I would much rather that money go towards starting them out in their career or family or whatever they choose.<p>My hope is that when it is time for them to start their adult life that there will either be enough cheap or free alternative forms of education or that the stigma of not having a degree will have lessened. Realistically, I don&#x27;t think the situation will have changed in that time.<p>My own experience is complicated because I took out loans--which I greatly regret--but also likely have my career to thank for it. I had a full-tuition scholarship to the school of my choice, but opted to go to another school my parents wanted me at; when I eventually transferred back to my original choice I had lost the scholarship. If I had to do it again today I would definitely start with a 2 year local college education and then work hard through the remaining years to finish debt-free.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>I have a CS degree, but I learned basically all of the above on my own. In some cases I <i>also</i> had a class later that taught it, but for most of the networking stuff it wasn&#x27;t even taught in school.<p>If you&#x27;re self-taught and worried about your CS fundamentals, there&#x27;s a really simple algorithm to get an education better than any CS student at roughly 1&#x2F;100th of the price:<p>1. Look up some famous university like Stanford or MIT.<p>2. Download the course syllabus for the course you&#x27;re interested in off their website. (Nowadays you can often get the full <i>course</i>, including all the lectures and handouts.)<p>3. Buy the textbook. When I was in school you could pull shenanigans like buying the European version of the textbook for 1&#x2F;4 the price or (if you live in a college town) buying the textbook, reading it, and returning it before courses are finalized, but these loopholes have probably been mostly closed. There&#x27;s now a thriving used-textbook market online that didn&#x27;t exist when I went to school, though.<p>4. Read the textbook. Do some of the exercises. Implement the algorithms.<p>Incidentally, this is largely what CS students do for homework. Most of them kinda gloss over it because it&#x27;s required, though, while if you&#x27;re doing this because you really love the material, you&#x27;ve got a big advantage.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Student Loan Debt Crisis Is About to Get Worse</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-17/the-student-loan-debt-crisis-is-about-to-get-worse?srnd=premium</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>madeuptempacct</author><text>I can provide some examples for him as a self-educated dev:<p>* What is big O<p>* What is value type vs pointer&#x2F;reference<p>* How does the internet work<p>* Binary search trees, tries, graphs - u wut m8
(Thankfully, there&#x27;s this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;basecs&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;basecs&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01</a>)<p>* Basic cryptography, hashing, etc<p>* DNS, IPs, HTTP, etc<p>* TCP, UDP, etc (I still don&#x27;t know these)<p>* Stack, heap, queue, malloc (Again, very little exposure to this without learning a low level language.)<p>* How modern computers work<p>* Logic gates, clocks, memory, (actual) binary math<p>* Wifi basics (actual physical data transmission)<p>* Linux<p>I can go on and on and on, but these are things you don&#x27;t pick up at work unless you go out of your way to learn how they work.<p>Regarding the parent post - I have a very generous training budget. And guess where I will never spend it? At the best University in my state. I got a degree in something other than Comp Sci, and 95% of the classes were useless and way-too-drawn-out. So, you might not be as behind as you think.<p>A pretty-smart co-worker of mine with a Comp Sci degree said he didn&#x27;t figure out the point of object oriented programming until he got his first Java job.<p>This is only related to other comments in this thread, but I do feel that formal education is oversold, and particularly to people who are from poor families with no guidance trying to have a shot at life.</text></item><item><author>pc86</author><text>Could you provide some examples?</text></item><item><author>mental1896</author><text>I don&#x27;t have a degree and I&#x27;m 10+ years deep into my career. What has started to stand out for me in recent years is that there are holes in my experience that my college-educated peers don&#x27;t have to deal with. Granted I never had to deal with student loans so I guess there&#x27;s a tradeoff. But the problem with these education &quot;holes&quot; is that they hit you right out of left field when you least expect it.</text></item><item><author>orev</author><text>The main reasons to get a degree are:<p>-. To show you can complete a big, multi year project that’s full of doing stuff you don’t like<p>-. To get past HR screenings<p>-. If you ever want a chance to reach Executive level jobs, you need to have a degree, for the perception of nothing else.<p>This debate has been going on for a long time, despite this being presented as a recent thing, and it always comes down to those things. While the tech-minded here might want to see it from a strictly educational standpoint, these are human&#x2F;societal reasons that are quite important.</text></item><item><author>bradenb</author><text>I was discussing student loans and value of a college education with friends the other day. We were discussing whether or not I would recommend college to someone today. My conclusion is that TODAY I would still as long as that person has the means to do so without any loans.<p>But, then we started discussing whether I would push my children to go. My answer is that I hope I don&#x27;t need to. Even though I have some amount of college savings for my kids, I don&#x27;t think it will be enough to let them choose their school freely and I would much rather that money go towards starting them out in their career or family or whatever they choose.<p>My hope is that when it is time for them to start their adult life that there will either be enough cheap or free alternative forms of education or that the stigma of not having a degree will have lessened. Realistically, I don&#x27;t think the situation will have changed in that time.<p>My own experience is complicated because I took out loans--which I greatly regret--but also likely have my career to thank for it. I had a full-tuition scholarship to the school of my choice, but opted to go to another school my parents wanted me at; when I eventually transferred back to my original choice I had lost the scholarship. If I had to do it again today I would definitely start with a 2 year local college education and then work hard through the remaining years to finish debt-free.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gregmac</author><text>I&#x27;ve interviewed people with degrees that don&#x27;t know about many of these questions. In fact I make it a point that if someone puts something like &quot;TCP&#x2F;IP&quot; or &quot;networking&quot; in the laundry-list of skills&#x2F;knowledge they have, I ask them a basic question about it -- and a depressingly large amount of time people can&#x27;t even explain the difference between TCP and UDP.<p>I&#x27;ve also worked with people who can explain what big-O is and yet they&#x27;ll write completely inefficient nested loops and N+1 SELECT queries, and then wonder why everything is slow in production even though it works great in dev.<p>Comp Sci can teach you theory and concepts, but as they say: there&#x27;s no substitute for experience.</text></comment> |
28,645,232 | 28,645,029 | 1 | 2 | 28,644,531 | train | <story><title>L.A. County sheriff’s unit accused of targeting political enemies, vocal critics</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-23/sheriff-alex-villanueva-secret-police</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danhak</author><text>Back in 2018 I got into a serious car accident. I was driving eastbound on Fountain Avenue when another car blew a red light and t-boned my Miata at full speed, crushing my entire driver&#x27;s side, causing my car to spin 540 degrees, take out a stop sign and land on the front lawn of a nearby apartment building.<p>I got out of my car, dazed amid a cloud of air bag dust and miraculously unscathed. I was wearing my seat belt and had my convertible top and windows all the way down. I otherwise would surely have ended up with a face full of glass.<p>The other driver -- about a block away -- also got out of their car. They took a glance at me, got back into their car and sped off. Their car had no plates.<p>I called 911 and Deputy Penate of the L.A. County Sheriff&#x27;s Department arrived on the scene. His attitude toward me was immediately hostile.<p>I was in a completely traumatized state and had just experienced the scariest moment of my life. As I was on the phone trying to arrange a tow, he approached me and said: &quot;Do you think we could hurry this up? I&#x27;d really like to have some dinner tonight.&quot;<p>A few minutes later as we were waiting for the tow truck, he got out of his patrol car and approached me again, making sniffing noises: &quot;Why do I smell marijuana right now, sir? If I search your car am I&#x27;m gonna find anything I&#x27;m not supposed to find?&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t smoke marijuana. There was no contraband in my car, which had been laying totaled on the side of the road with its top down for an hour.<p>I had just been the victim of a serious crime and here was this law enforcement officer, trying to turn me into a criminal instead of assisting me in any way.<p>That experience was a serious blow to my faith in law enforcement.</text></comment> | <story><title>L.A. County sheriff’s unit accused of targeting political enemies, vocal critics</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-23/sheriff-alex-villanueva-secret-police</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pcbro141</author><text>LA Sheriff&#x27;s also have a gang called &#x27;The Executioners&#x27; and several other gangs operating in the force.<p>Cops are held to a very low standard, especially for people who we place so much trust in. I would get fired for starting a gang at my job called &#x27;The Executioners&#x27;.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;americas&#x2F;police-gangs-la-sheriff-executioners-b1862105.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;americas&#x2F;police-gan...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lamag.com&#x2F;citythinkblog&#x2F;morning-brief-sheriffs-department-gangs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lamag.com&#x2F;citythinkblog&#x2F;morning-brief-sheriffs-d...</a></text></comment> |
11,133,658 | 11,132,956 | 1 | 3 | 11,132,736 | train | <story><title>301 redirects: a dangerous one way street (2012)</title><url>http://jacquesmattheij.com/301-redirects-a-dangerous-one-way-street</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_Codemonkeyism</author><text>The problem with 301 without cache headers is that some browsers cache this forever due to some interpretation what &#x27;permanent&#x27; means.<p>You often can&#x27;t use 302 because all your external links no longer work SEO magic for you with a 302. Google only transfers link juice with 301 [1].<p>If you make a mistake and misconfigure your server, you&#x27;re toast.<p>If a disgruntled employee 301 redirects your domain, you&#x27;re toast.<p>If a service provider misconfigures your domain, you&#x27;re toast.<p>If a hacker (from a competitor) 301 redirects your domain, you&#x27;re toast.<p>If you buy a domain that had a 301 on it, it&#x27;s worthless.<p>If you buy a domain that had 301s on it that point to phishing sites, you&#x27;re in trouble.<p>I always add cache headers to 301 redirects I use to at least prevent me from shooting myself with an arrow in my knee.<p>UPDATE:
[1] Google seems to have changed this recently. It also no longer considers http&#x2F;https different pages as it did in the past with the same content <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.searchenginejournal.com&#x2F;google-confirms-no-loss-in-link-authority-on-https-implementation&#x2F;147933&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.searchenginejournal.com&#x2F;google-confirms-no-loss-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zrm</author><text>Not only that, anybody with a WiFi Pineapple or any other MITM could 301 redirect anything you visit without HTTPS to their spam site.<p>It seems like browsers interpreting permanent as <i>forever</i> is some kind of a bug. Even if that&#x27;s literally what it says, that&#x27;s not what anybody wants. What great evil is being prevented by not having it expire and be refreshed after 45 days?</text></comment> | <story><title>301 redirects: a dangerous one way street (2012)</title><url>http://jacquesmattheij.com/301-redirects-a-dangerous-one-way-street</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_Codemonkeyism</author><text>The problem with 301 without cache headers is that some browsers cache this forever due to some interpretation what &#x27;permanent&#x27; means.<p>You often can&#x27;t use 302 because all your external links no longer work SEO magic for you with a 302. Google only transfers link juice with 301 [1].<p>If you make a mistake and misconfigure your server, you&#x27;re toast.<p>If a disgruntled employee 301 redirects your domain, you&#x27;re toast.<p>If a service provider misconfigures your domain, you&#x27;re toast.<p>If a hacker (from a competitor) 301 redirects your domain, you&#x27;re toast.<p>If you buy a domain that had a 301 on it, it&#x27;s worthless.<p>If you buy a domain that had 301s on it that point to phishing sites, you&#x27;re in trouble.<p>I always add cache headers to 301 redirects I use to at least prevent me from shooting myself with an arrow in my knee.<p>UPDATE:
[1] Google seems to have changed this recently. It also no longer considers http&#x2F;https different pages as it did in the past with the same content <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.searchenginejournal.com&#x2F;google-confirms-no-loss-in-link-authority-on-https-implementation&#x2F;147933&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.searchenginejournal.com&#x2F;google-confirms-no-loss-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghayes</author><text>It would be great if there were a service that allowed you to search non-cached controlled 301s a crawler had encountered.</text></comment> |
33,438,731 | 33,438,161 | 1 | 2 | 33,436,918 | train | <story><title>SpaceX is now building a Raptor engine a day, NASA says</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/11/spacex-is-now-building-a-raptor-engine-a-day-nasa-says/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MichaelZuo</author><text>It&#x27;s incredible how much more efficient SpaceX is compared to Aerojet Rocketdyne. One Raptor per day vs 4 RS-25s per year...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjkundert</author><text>At this point, unless a nation-state gets serious (and I have to believe at least China and Russia <i>are</i>), SpaceX is going to win. Their lead is just too great for anyone else to surmount.<p>This is bad, because a sole supplier of viable orbital rocketry is almost as bad as only nation-states having the capability.<p>Hopefully, someone steps up to the plate. My guess is that Russia and&#x2F;or China both have &quot;black&quot; programs to copy and replicate SpaceX&#x27;s technology...</text></comment> | <story><title>SpaceX is now building a Raptor engine a day, NASA says</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/11/spacex-is-now-building-a-raptor-engine-a-day-nasa-says/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MichaelZuo</author><text>It&#x27;s incredible how much more efficient SpaceX is compared to Aerojet Rocketdyne. One Raptor per day vs 4 RS-25s per year...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cnlevy</author><text>It&#x27;s more like 4 years for ONE RS-25 ...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;SpaceLaunchSystem&#x2F;comments&#x2F;pbk4am&#x2F;takes_445_years_to_build_a_rs25&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;SpaceLaunchSystem&#x2F;comments&#x2F;pbk4am&#x2F;t...</a></text></comment> |
36,049,562 | 36,049,055 | 1 | 3 | 36,046,830 | train | <story><title>The damage to lunar orbiting spacecraft caused by the ejecta of lunar landers</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.12234</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmontra</author><text>So, land as few times as possible to carry what&#x27;s needed to build a landing platform?<p>Conversely, blowing an engine nearly horizontal to the surface is going to shut off the Moon for a while. That&#x27;s a weapon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Delfwood</author><text>&gt; blowing an engine nearly horizontal to the surface<p>I doubt that objects put in &quot;orbit&quot; with a periapsis of almost zero (launched from the ground) would stay in flight for too long.</text></comment> | <story><title>The damage to lunar orbiting spacecraft caused by the ejecta of lunar landers</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.12234</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmontra</author><text>So, land as few times as possible to carry what&#x27;s needed to build a landing platform?<p>Conversely, blowing an engine nearly horizontal to the surface is going to shut off the Moon for a while. That&#x27;s a weapon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adastra22</author><text>Or add an atmosphere to the moon. Even a tenuous one would prevent this.</text></comment> |
11,405,917 | 11,405,803 | 1 | 2 | 11,404,770 | train | <story><title>The Trouble with CloudFlare</title><url>https://blog.torproject.org/blog/trouble-cloudflare</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scurvy</author><text>Maybe I&#x27;m a cranky, old-school network operator, but this is a very cut and dry problem. Tor runs a network that is rife with abuse and fraud. Tor needs to clean up and police its network. If it doesn&#x27;t, it will be put on blacklists and customers will take active measures to block traffic from it.<p>This is no different than a network or AS that is spammer friendly, botnet friendly, carder friendly, etc. All of those networks eventually end up on blacklists or Spamhaus lists and their efficacy goes down. Eventually, the network dies out and the criminals move somewhere else. Yes, it&#x27;s a game of whack-a-mole, but it&#x27;s proven to work well.<p>I know Tor doesn&#x27;t want to be in the network regulation business, but they need to be if they want their product to thrive. Otherwise, good bye Tor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danielrhodes</author><text>This is exactly what is wrong with this form of idealism. People create these things which remove accountability&#x2F;reputation, it works great for awhile and is lots of fun (just like a mask party), and then the leeches move in and use it for spam&#x2F;trolling&#x2F;illegal stuff. It&#x27;s usually the leeches who are the real long-term beneficiaries of these kinds of networks. However, the idealistic people who originally created it don&#x27;t want to admit that their experiment failed and they actually created something which is now serving the interests of something not so idealistic and perhaps even quite sinister.<p>Bitcoin has the same issue: there are lots of legit uses of it, but to make it a good widely used currency, a reputation system is going to emerge, and from there you&#x27;ve already erased half the benefits of using Bitcoin. However, in the mean time Bitcoin is used by a bunch of people purely interested in speculation or as a way of avoiding taxes&#x2F;money laundering laws&#x2F;etc. There are people, just like Tor, using it for legit reasons, but my bet it&#x27;s for mostly reasons nobody in the Bitcoin community likes to admit.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Trouble with CloudFlare</title><url>https://blog.torproject.org/blog/trouble-cloudflare</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scurvy</author><text>Maybe I&#x27;m a cranky, old-school network operator, but this is a very cut and dry problem. Tor runs a network that is rife with abuse and fraud. Tor needs to clean up and police its network. If it doesn&#x27;t, it will be put on blacklists and customers will take active measures to block traffic from it.<p>This is no different than a network or AS that is spammer friendly, botnet friendly, carder friendly, etc. All of those networks eventually end up on blacklists or Spamhaus lists and their efficacy goes down. Eventually, the network dies out and the criminals move somewhere else. Yes, it&#x27;s a game of whack-a-mole, but it&#x27;s proven to work well.<p>I know Tor doesn&#x27;t want to be in the network regulation business, but they need to be if they want their product to thrive. Otherwise, good bye Tor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnthonyMouse</author><text>The main point of Tor is that nobody knows where the traffic comes from. Realize you&#x27;re asking them to break their own service.<p>Your premise seems to be that you can&#x27;t be bothered to protect your networks so you want to put that responsibility on someone else. It&#x27;s called intermediary liability and it&#x27;s terrible because the intermediary has all the wrong incentives.<p>You demand that the intermediary eliminate malicious traffic but they suffer much less than individual users if they also eliminate non-malicious traffic, so they set up a system with a high rate of false positives and harm many honest people. YouTube does this with Content ID. Spam registries do this with innocent small mail servers. CloudFlare does this with Tor.<p>What you&#x27;re doing is called externalizing costs. It&#x27;s generally recognized as antisocial behavior. So if you&#x27;re going to claim benefits to yourself at the expense of other people, at least recognize that you&#x27;re doing it.</text></comment> |
34,400,570 | 34,400,554 | 1 | 2 | 34,400,024 | train | <story><title>The IAB loves tracking users but hates users tracking them</title><url>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/01/the-iab-loves-tracking-users-but-it-hates-users-tracking-them/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>niknetniko</author><text>Am I missing something here? I understand the &quot;The IAB loves tracking users.&quot; part of the title, but where is the part about &quot;But it hates users tracking them.&quot;? Based on the title, I would have expected an exception in their standard for themselves, or a story about how their own user tracking technology was used against them.<p>However, there is none of that. Just that the IAB does not want to make it easier for users to escape their tracking (which, given their purpose, is unfortunately entirely expected). What justifies &quot;But it hates users tracking them.&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>didymospl</author><text>The later part refers to the plus addressing, like &quot;[email protected]&quot;, which people use to so that &quot;If they later start receiving spam to that address, they know the service has leaked or sold their info.&quot;. Now the IAB requests that advertisers should normalise such addresses by dropping the part after the plus sign, and therefore effectively stopping users from &quot;tracking&quot; the advertisers.</text></comment> | <story><title>The IAB loves tracking users but hates users tracking them</title><url>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/01/the-iab-loves-tracking-users-but-it-hates-users-tracking-them/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>niknetniko</author><text>Am I missing something here? I understand the &quot;The IAB loves tracking users.&quot; part of the title, but where is the part about &quot;But it hates users tracking them.&quot;? Based on the title, I would have expected an exception in their standard for themselves, or a story about how their own user tracking technology was used against them.<p>However, there is none of that. Just that the IAB does not want to make it easier for users to escape their tracking (which, given their purpose, is unfortunately entirely expected). What justifies &quot;But it hates users tracking them.&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phkahler</author><text>&gt;&gt; What justifies &quot;But it hates users tracking them.&quot;?<p>Users can tell which site gave away their email address by using the variants discussed. It&#x27;s not tracking in the same sense, but it does allow tracking who respects privacy. It also allows throwing away junk mail where someone required an email address just to (for example) make a sale or use their wifi.</text></comment> |
7,425,740 | 7,425,568 | 1 | 2 | 7,425,368 | train | <story><title>Why Isn't the Fourth Amendment Classified as Top Secret?</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/03/why-isnt-the-fourth-amendment-classified-as-top-secret/284439/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DannyBee</author><text>I&#x27;ve read a lot of what Stewart Baker has written over the years in his various capacities, and i&#x27;ve just never been impressed with either his logic, or his arguments.<p>He really really doesn&#x27;t get it, and seems to not be able to follow the logic of his arguments through to their end result (often claiming that those end results just won&#x27;t happen, despite actual evidence to the contrary).<p>For example, he doesn&#x27;t see how (and has in the past denied) his idea of having secret overseers made of a special class of citizens may resultin a star chamber, despite <i>this actually happening multiple times in the past</i>.<p>He also doesn&#x27;t understand that his techniques are simply ineffective. Keeping surveillance and its limits secret has not stopped anything from happening. It&#x27;s just caused it to be abused along the way. The &quot;good terrorists&quot; (in the sense of being good at terrorism, not morality) were already taking literally every precaution anyway, because they have to assume the worst. This is true whether they know they are being surveilled or not.<p>For a small government conservative, he is one of the most paternalistic people i&#x27;ve seen in a long time when it comes to intelligence. For example, he was responsible for forcing everyone else to provide incoming passenger details to the US, then, on the side, repudiated most of the US obligations to protect the info.<p>He also strongly believes 9&#x2F;11 was an intelligence failure, but of &quot;the FBI was required to follow too many laws, and wasn&#x27;t allowed to use invasive modern technologies&quot; type.<p>See <a href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hearing6/witness_baker.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.9-11commission.gov&#x2F;hearings&#x2F;hearing6&#x2F;witness_bake...</a><p>(&quot;In my view, there were two problems – a problem with the tools our agencies were able to use and a problem with the rules they were required to follow.&quot;)</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Isn't the Fourth Amendment Classified as Top Secret?</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/03/why-isnt-the-fourth-amendment-classified-as-top-secret/284439/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisAntaki</author><text>&quot;Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the safest depository of the ultimate powers of government.&quot;<p>Thomas Jefferson</text></comment> |
20,643,023 | 20,642,461 | 1 | 2 | 20,642,141 | train | <story><title>Old Paris Is No More</title><url>https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/old-paris-no-more/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zwaps</author><text>One difference between Haussmann and others is that his buildings turned out to create one of the most beautiful cities in the world.<p>In contrast, 20&#x27;s century urbanism projects - even on a smaller scale - are almost always considered a failure ex post. In Paris itself, walk yourself through the Les Olympiades area, from Tolbiac down to Porte d&#x27;Italie, if you like an impressive testament to that fact. Some other favorites in Europe to google are &quot;Berlin Marzahn&quot; and &quot;Hannover Ihme Zentrum&quot;. There are of course many more.<p>I wonder if there are contemporary developments that will, some day, be considered truly beautiful.</text></comment> | <story><title>Old Paris Is No More</title><url>https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/old-paris-no-more/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cm2187</author><text>Contrary to what the article says, Haussmann isn’t really a controversial figure in France and much of what makes Paris one of the most beautiful and visited cities in the world is thanks to the architecture he imposed, something that few, if any, modern urbanist can claim.</text></comment> |
7,273,435 | 7,273,428 | 1 | 3 | 7,273,037 | train | <story><title>The Rent Is Too Damn High: The Enormous Cost of Letting Finance Rule</title><url>https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/02/the-rent-is-too-damn-high-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>api</author><text>The rich are simply not smart enough to intelligently allocate their capital. Things like rent extraction schemes (formulaic investment patterns) and bubbles (indicative of simple herd behavior) dominate because they are easy, dumb ways to make more money off existing money. You don&#x27;t see big investments in new technology, science, infrastructure, or other complex and difficult areas because by and large the financiers do not <i>understand</i> these things. But they do understand finance itself, as well as big dumb markets like real estate.<p>These schemes are dumb because they contain the seeds of their own destruction. Rent extraction eventually kills the golden goose or provokes a populist revolt, while bubbles are basically casino gambling.<p>The libertarian anti-tax&#x2F;anti-government revolution was largely predicated on the idea that private capital would be so much smarter and more agile than state capital. What we&#x27;re seeing is that this isn&#x27;t the case. Private capital is every bit as stupid as the state; Goldman Sachs is not that different from a Soviet planning bureau.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>enoch_r</author><text>If the market is &quot;stupid&quot;, what testable results do we expect? Here&#x27;s one: smart people who figure out <i>better</i> ways to allocate money should be able to consistently beat the market performance.<p>Great--now let&#x27;s test that hypothesis! Studies have consistently shown there is very little or no autocorrelation between excess returns--that is, someone who beats the market in year n is essentially no more likely to beat the market in year n+1 than anyone else. This is very different than a field like programming or basketball, where someone who performs well one year will probably perform well the next year.<p>To me, this is absurdly good evidence that the market is not &quot;stupid,&quot; even when I think it is.<p>Worse, arguments like this don&#x27;t merely say that the market is stupid and <i>could be beaten</i>--they use the <i>author&#x27;s personal views</i> on the stupidity of particular market movements to make that claim. In other words, to accept this argument, I need to believe that you are one of the (maybe) few people on the planet who can consistently beat the market. I don&#x27;t believe that.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Rent Is Too Damn High: The Enormous Cost of Letting Finance Rule</title><url>https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/02/the-rent-is-too-damn-high-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>api</author><text>The rich are simply not smart enough to intelligently allocate their capital. Things like rent extraction schemes (formulaic investment patterns) and bubbles (indicative of simple herd behavior) dominate because they are easy, dumb ways to make more money off existing money. You don&#x27;t see big investments in new technology, science, infrastructure, or other complex and difficult areas because by and large the financiers do not <i>understand</i> these things. But they do understand finance itself, as well as big dumb markets like real estate.<p>These schemes are dumb because they contain the seeds of their own destruction. Rent extraction eventually kills the golden goose or provokes a populist revolt, while bubbles are basically casino gambling.<p>The libertarian anti-tax&#x2F;anti-government revolution was largely predicated on the idea that private capital would be so much smarter and more agile than state capital. What we&#x27;re seeing is that this isn&#x27;t the case. Private capital is every bit as stupid as the state; Goldman Sachs is not that different from a Soviet planning bureau.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>loceng</author><text>The &quot;rich&quot; were smart enough to find a way to be able to pool resources, or &quot;lucky&quot; enough to have been born into a situation. The problem is we need to be investing in everyone, equally, until they prove they can use resources better than others and then allot them more resources. The first trick is doing it in a way that is fair, and the second trick is doing this while in transition from the old systems.</text></comment> |
24,258,006 | 24,254,542 | 1 | 2 | 24,247,870 | train | <story><title>Data from Chernobyl and Fukushima provide answers about the risks of nuclear</title><url>https://medium.com/generation-atomic/for-the-first-time-world-learns-truth-about-risk-of-nuclear-6b7e97d435df</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>indymike</author><text>Perhaps because you have to have a Medium account to read the article? I&#x27;d love to read it, but I don&#x27;t love the idea of logging in to Medium to do so.</text></item><item><author>mcjiggerlog</author><text>Not sure I&#x27;ve seen a HN post before where so many people in the comments have clearly not read the article. Not even the summary of key points right at the top.<p>The piece is not anti-nuclear.<p>Also, risk is not binary. Finding out the true risk of something does not mean it&#x27;s high risk and therefore negative. You can assess the risk of something and conclude that the risk is low and generally overblown, which is the point of the article.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Melting_Harps</author><text>&gt; Perhaps because you have to have a Medium account to read the article?<p>I&#x27;m anti-Nuclear (On Earth), but would prefer most people read it before commenting on it. So, I archived it.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.vn&#x2F;OmALl" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.vn&#x2F;OmALl</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Data from Chernobyl and Fukushima provide answers about the risks of nuclear</title><url>https://medium.com/generation-atomic/for-the-first-time-world-learns-truth-about-risk-of-nuclear-6b7e97d435df</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>indymike</author><text>Perhaps because you have to have a Medium account to read the article? I&#x27;d love to read it, but I don&#x27;t love the idea of logging in to Medium to do so.</text></item><item><author>mcjiggerlog</author><text>Not sure I&#x27;ve seen a HN post before where so many people in the comments have clearly not read the article. Not even the summary of key points right at the top.<p>The piece is not anti-nuclear.<p>Also, risk is not binary. Finding out the true risk of something does not mean it&#x27;s high risk and therefore negative. You can assess the risk of something and conclude that the risk is low and generally overblown, which is the point of the article.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wozer</author><text>I can read it without an account. Maybe try incognito mode.</text></comment> |
18,848,998 | 18,844,772 | 1 | 2 | 18,837,481 | train | <story><title>Mapping and visualization</title><url>https://scottreinhard.com/Mapping-and-Visualization</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sbr464</author><text>A lot of data comes from NYC open data:<p>Massive collection of raw lidar, contour, GIS data:
ftp:&#x2F;&#x2F;ftp.gis.ny.gov<p>NYC Open Data (GIS related):
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;CityOfNewYork&#x2F;nyc-geo-metadata" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;CityOfNewYork&#x2F;nyc-geo-metadata</a><p>An example direct download link from the NYC data website:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.cityofnewyork.us&#x2F;browse?tags=dem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.cityofnewyork.us&#x2F;browse?tags=dem</a><p>More Lidar links
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gis.ny.gov&#x2F;elevation&#x2F;lidar-coverage.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gis.ny.gov&#x2F;elevation&#x2F;lidar-coverage.htm</a><p>From Cornell, Elevation example, (AWS s3 links):
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cugir.library.cornell.edu&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;cugir-008186?isotopics=6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cugir.library.cornell.edu&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;cugir-008186?isoto...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Mapping and visualization</title><url>https://scottreinhard.com/Mapping-and-Visualization</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ekingr</author><text>It would be interesting to know which tool &amp; dataset the author used to produce those visualisations. Any ideas?<p>I particularly enjoy the “old-school” 3D maps.</text></comment> |
9,807,911 | 9,807,159 | 1 | 2 | 9,806,820 | train | <story><title>Water Fluoridation May Not Prevent Cavities, Scientific Review Shows</title><url>http://www.newsweek.com/fluoridation-may-not-prevent-cavities-huge-study-shows-348251</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jessriedel</author><text>Just so everyone is clear: this review found that there is little evidence that water fluoridation has any benefits. It does not dispute that fluoride in toothpaste reduces tooth decay.<p>&gt; Studies that attest to the effectiveness of fluoridation were generally done before the widespread usage of fluoride-containing dental products like rinses and toothpastes in the 1970s and later, according to the recent Cochrane study. So while it may have once made sense to add fluoride to water, it no longer appears to be necessary or useful, Thiessen says.<p>&gt; It has also become clear in the last 15 years that fluoride primarily acts topically, according to the CDC. It reacts with the surface of the tooth enamel, making it more resistant to acids excreted by bacteria. Thus, there&#x27;s no good reason to swallow fluoride and subject every tissue of your body to it, Thiessen says.<p>&gt; Another 2009 review by the Cochrane group clearly shows that fluoride toothpaste prevents cavities.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scott_s</author><text>Unfortunately, it&#x27;s not accurate to say there is no evidence. There <i>is</i> evidence, it&#x27;s just old evidence. For some reason, Newsweek decided to focus on the fact that there is no evidence that fluoridation is helpful for <i>adults</i>, and that the evidence for children is almost all from before 1975. That is important since behaviors may have changed post-1975.<p>The &quot;Plain language summary&quot; from the authors - their words, so this is the authors of the study synthesizing their conclusions for a lay audience - is clear:<p><i>Data suggest that the introduction of water fluoridation resulted in a 35% reduction in decayed, missing or filled baby teeth and a 26% reduction in decayed, missing or filled permanent teeth. It also increased the percentage of children with no decay by 15%. Although these results indicate that water fluoridation is effective at reducing levels of tooth decay in children&#x27;s baby and permanent teeth, the applicability of the results to current lifestyles is unclear because the majority of the studies were conducted before fluoride toothpastes and the other preventative meaures were widely used in many communities around the world.<p>There was insufficient information available to find out whether the introduction of a water fluoridation programme changed existing differences in tooth decay across socioeconomic groups.<p>There was insufficient information available to understand the effect of stopping water fluoridation programmes on tooth decay.<p>No studies met the review’s inclusion criteria that investigated the effectiveness of water fluoridation for preventing tooth decay in adults, rather than children.</i><p>This is from <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;onlinelibrary.wiley.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1002&#x2F;14651858.CD010856.pub2&#x2F;abstract" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;onlinelibrary.wiley.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1002&#x2F;14651858.CD010856...</a>. Thanks to HN user giarc (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9807427" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9807427</a>) for pointing it out.</text></comment> | <story><title>Water Fluoridation May Not Prevent Cavities, Scientific Review Shows</title><url>http://www.newsweek.com/fluoridation-may-not-prevent-cavities-huge-study-shows-348251</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jessriedel</author><text>Just so everyone is clear: this review found that there is little evidence that water fluoridation has any benefits. It does not dispute that fluoride in toothpaste reduces tooth decay.<p>&gt; Studies that attest to the effectiveness of fluoridation were generally done before the widespread usage of fluoride-containing dental products like rinses and toothpastes in the 1970s and later, according to the recent Cochrane study. So while it may have once made sense to add fluoride to water, it no longer appears to be necessary or useful, Thiessen says.<p>&gt; It has also become clear in the last 15 years that fluoride primarily acts topically, according to the CDC. It reacts with the surface of the tooth enamel, making it more resistant to acids excreted by bacteria. Thus, there&#x27;s no good reason to swallow fluoride and subject every tissue of your body to it, Thiessen says.<p>&gt; Another 2009 review by the Cochrane group clearly shows that fluoride toothpaste prevents cavities.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeyouse</author><text>The theory I&#x27;ve encountered is that fluoridation previously had an impact on cavity-prevention before people were actually brushing their teeth with fluoridated toothpaste. Now that toothbrushing is much more common, the impact has waned.<p>Late edit;<p>Here&#x27;s a look at toothbrushing frequency in Europe by country from 1994 - 2010:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;VVBldAy.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;VVBldAy.jpg</a><p>Just imagine how much improvement you&#x27;d see from if the chart started in the 1940&#x27;s and 1950&#x27;s when many cities began fluoridating their water supplies. Not to mention that many early toothpastes were often ineffective at preventing cavities by primarily relying on baking soda and peroxide.<p>(Full brushing frequency study: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;eurpub.oxfordjournals.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;25&#x2F;suppl_2&#x2F;20" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;eurpub.oxfordjournals.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;25&#x2F;suppl_2&#x2F;20</a> )</text></comment> |
23,700,816 | 23,700,316 | 1 | 3 | 23,689,280 | train | <story><title>JavaScript for Impatient Programmers</title><url>https://exploringjs.com/impatient-js/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toyg</author><text>I don&#x27;t (think I) have much of a problem with JS syntax, generally speaking, but I&#x27;m often baffled by the surrounding ecosystem of build tools and &quot;helpers&quot;. There are a million tutorials, all doing things slightly differently without really explaining why, and stuff breaks so often...<p>Any recommendation for something covering that sort of thing (npm, yarn, webpack...) in a more structured and in-depth way than &quot;here&#x27;s how to make a todo list in 10 minutes with some magical command that may or may not still work 3 months later&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IshKebab</author><text>I agree. Even just finding out what the tools are is ridiculously hard. Here&#x27;s a list:<p>* NPM: Package &#x2F; dependency manager. Also has some basic support for running scripts.<p>* Yarn: Very similar alternative to NPM.<p>* Babel: Transpiles modern Javascript to &quot;old&quot; Javascript, in case you need to support IE9 but want to use async&#x2F;await or whatever. If you only support modern browsers you don&#x27;t need this.<p>* Webpack: <i>Originally</i> it was for &quot;bundling&quot; Javascript files. You don&#x27;t want to write all your code in a single file, but you often want to deliver it that way. Webpack reads the &#x27;import&#x27; statements of all your files, and them converts them into a single file with emulated modules. Also helps when you are targeting a browser that doesn&#x27;t support modules natively. However Webpack also comes with a load of &quot;loaders&quot; that can transform input files in various ways, e.g. allowing importing CSS files from Javascript, compiling Typescript, etc. So now it is kind of a big ugly build system.<p>* Node: The Javascript engine extracted from Chrome, plus a load of native APIs that let you do stuff you can&#x27;t do in the browser because of security (write files, make TCP connections, etc).<p>* Electron: Basically Chrome plus Node. You can set it up so that your web pages can access the Node APIs inside Chrome, but you can also have them talk to an actual Node process via IPC.</text></comment> | <story><title>JavaScript for Impatient Programmers</title><url>https://exploringjs.com/impatient-js/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toyg</author><text>I don&#x27;t (think I) have much of a problem with JS syntax, generally speaking, but I&#x27;m often baffled by the surrounding ecosystem of build tools and &quot;helpers&quot;. There are a million tutorials, all doing things slightly differently without really explaining why, and stuff breaks so often...<p>Any recommendation for something covering that sort of thing (npm, yarn, webpack...) in a more structured and in-depth way than &quot;here&#x27;s how to make a todo list in 10 minutes with some magical command that may or may not still work 3 months later&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m0ck</author><text>As a backend developer getting his foot into frontend I feel you. Configuring TSLint with Prettier and all the plugins was tiresome only to learn few months later it&#x27;s getting deprecated and you should move to ESlint. This article helped me bit, it explains &quot;what is what&quot; in modern JS ecosystem <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;the-node-js-collection&#x2F;modern-javascript-explained-for-dinosaurs-f695e9747b70" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;the-node-js-collection&#x2F;modern-javascript-...</a></text></comment> |
14,274,869 | 14,274,860 | 1 | 2 | 14,274,316 | train | <story><title>What does $100 Ether mean?</title><url>https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/what-does-ether-100-mean-bb58522f781e</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>djh_</author><text>The author talks about making Ethereum more humane and user-friendly, but jargon like &quot;The Internet of Agreements&quot; and &quot;Humanizing the Singularity&quot; makes me think he&#x27;s mostly interested in becoming a thought-leader through Branding™. Those terms and his bombastic language in general will not help bring Ethereum to the masses like he claims to want to do.<p>Also, the idea that Ethereum at $100 implies this amazing decentralized future is simply wrong, because that also implies that Ethereum at $1 didn&#x27;t mean anything. Instead his argument should center around the many different businesses, products and experiments being built on the platform.</text></comment> | <story><title>What does $100 Ether mean?</title><url>https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/what-does-ether-100-mean-bb58522f781e</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cjslep</author><text>They forgot the feature where if a smart contract doesn&#x27;t go the way they want it, they create a default-opt-in hard fork of the currency.<p>Sorry if I don&#x27;t trust the &quot;small group of legends&quot; more than the government.</text></comment> |
41,788,937 | 41,788,762 | 1 | 2 | 41,788,557 | train | <story><title>Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 24.10 Performance For Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/review/lunar-lake-windows-linux/5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tombert</author><text>I recently sold my Macbook, bought a Thinkpad, and am running NixOS full time, and I have to say that desktop Linux has gotten pretty excellent since the last time I ran it full-time.<p>I&#x27;m not sure if it&#x27;s thanks to Wayland, or just improvements to the kernel, or improvements to the desktop environment, or some combination of the three, but at this point I actually think that for the first time I might actually prefer Gnome over macOS.<p>I haven&#x27;t bothered with Windows since Windows 8, but it does make me happy that Linux holds its own performance-wise, even still. It doesn&#x27;t look like Linux is categorically better than Windows, but it looks like for the most part they&#x27;re comparable.</text></comment> | <story><title>Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 24.10 Performance For Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/review/lunar-lake-windows-linux/5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eknkc</author><text>So, this got me curious. Assuming a cpu heavy benchmark with no syscalls (calculate primes or something like that) I’d not really expect a major difference between OSs. I guess you have the scheduler possibly fucking things up and the memory management. Maybe?<p>What else could contribute to a raw cpu benchmark difference?</text></comment> |
31,619,123 | 31,617,580 | 1 | 2 | 31,611,389 | train | <story><title>“I think the vast majority of developers still debug using print() statements”</title><url>https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1532448988766650385</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sph</author><text>I used to debug frequently when I coded on Win32 GUIs 20 years ago and running the debugger was as simple as pressing F5 instead of F9. Nowadays, with a multitude of languages, setups and editors, I don&#x27;t even bother. Even setting up JS debugging under VSCode, which supposedly is a core feature, has always been an exercise in frustration every time I&#x27;ve tried it.<p>Rarely I run gdb when I&#x27;m debugging a particularly hairy C issue, but with any other language I don&#x27;t even bother and add prints everywhere. The JS &quot;debugger&quot; statement is pretty useful, but it&#x27;s still very awkward compared to the golden standard of Microsoft IDEs from two decades ago.<p>Don&#x27;t blame the users, blame the tooling, editor and language developers that never cared for delivering a good debugging experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akrymski</author><text>It&#x27;s hard to imagine that 20 years ago Delphi and Visual Basic had far superior IDEs and debugging experience running on my 100 MHz IBM PC with 512MB of RAM.<p>I&#x27;m not sure where the ecosystem went wrong, but it&#x27;s strangely related to the web.</text></comment> | <story><title>“I think the vast majority of developers still debug using print() statements”</title><url>https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1532448988766650385</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sph</author><text>I used to debug frequently when I coded on Win32 GUIs 20 years ago and running the debugger was as simple as pressing F5 instead of F9. Nowadays, with a multitude of languages, setups and editors, I don&#x27;t even bother. Even setting up JS debugging under VSCode, which supposedly is a core feature, has always been an exercise in frustration every time I&#x27;ve tried it.<p>Rarely I run gdb when I&#x27;m debugging a particularly hairy C issue, but with any other language I don&#x27;t even bother and add prints everywhere. The JS &quot;debugger&quot; statement is pretty useful, but it&#x27;s still very awkward compared to the golden standard of Microsoft IDEs from two decades ago.<p>Don&#x27;t blame the users, blame the tooling, editor and language developers that never cared for delivering a good debugging experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kristopolous</author><text>JavaScript&#x27;s remote debugging protocol is a total game changer. Highly recommend looking into it.<p>And yes you can use it on frontend stuff if you invoke your browser correctly<p>And yes you can use it to debug mobile through chrome&#x27;s inspect feature. And yes you can proxy that to use it in your editor of choice and yes GUD with emacs is supported<p>And yes the &quot;debugger&quot; keyword correctly triggers the breakpoint through this entire pipeline. It&#x27;s borderline magic</text></comment> |
21,100,950 | 21,100,776 | 1 | 2 | 21,100,321 | train | <story><title>Do we need to rethink what free software is?</title><url>https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/52907.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubbingalcohol</author><text>Whether software is used for ethical or unethical purposes has nothing to do with the license. There is no possible way to bake subjective ethical usage guidelines into a license and still end up with free software.<p>Trying to license &quot;good&quot; and &quot;evil&quot; boils down to the same slippery slope that the TOR Project dealt with when they had to reject requests to add censorship mechanisms. &quot;Can&#x27;t we just censor hate speech?&quot;<p>Software is a tool. How that tool is used is at the discretion of the user. If a developer is concerned that a project could be used for evil, then he or she should consider whether releasing the software publicly is a morally good choice in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xisukar</author><text>I couldn&#x27;t have written it better myself.<p>On a related note, the person behind the Hippocratic License (HL) which they define as &quot;a modified MIT license that specifically prohibits the use of open source software to harm others&quot; was recently asked by OSI [1] to modify the language in the original document since it might&#x27;ve led people to wrongly believe that the aforementioned license was Open Source Software and that software distributed under it was Open Source Software.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;hKA41" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;hKA41</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Do we need to rethink what free software is?</title><url>https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/52907.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubbingalcohol</author><text>Whether software is used for ethical or unethical purposes has nothing to do with the license. There is no possible way to bake subjective ethical usage guidelines into a license and still end up with free software.<p>Trying to license &quot;good&quot; and &quot;evil&quot; boils down to the same slippery slope that the TOR Project dealt with when they had to reject requests to add censorship mechanisms. &quot;Can&#x27;t we just censor hate speech?&quot;<p>Software is a tool. How that tool is used is at the discretion of the user. If a developer is concerned that a project could be used for evil, then he or she should consider whether releasing the software publicly is a morally good choice in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atoav</author><text>I am not sure about that. Of course enforcing your usage ideas will be next to impossible, but mentioning sth. can serve other purposes too (e.g. making a set of shared values visible to other developers).<p>So if you for example say that everybody except military, secret services and weapons manufacturers are allowed to use your software, that might not stop them from using it, but it makes other devs consider similar clauses and at one point it might be widespread enough to show some sort of effect (e.g. less people willing to work for the goons).</text></comment> |
21,235,440 | 21,234,768 | 1 | 2 | 21,233,025 | train | <story><title>What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple</title><url>https://blog.astropad.com/sherlocked-by-apple/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>This happened to me, in the early 1990s.<p>I spent months writing a very capable MIDI driver. In those days, writing a MIDI driver was a truly non-trivial exercise, as you had to have a MIDI adapter that fed back a 1MHz clock, which you would then program their UART to clock down.<p>That UART was also a pretty hairy bit of hardware. You had to program it with ASM, and the chip was set up so that a 16-bit address range corresponded to various control states. Setting control states for the chip meant a LOT of homework.<p>MIDI drivers basically were about as difficult as you could get, as you needed to step down an external clock, and set up things like ring buffers that were large enough to not trip over their own feet during an intense session.<p>Anyhoo, after a couple of months of working on the driver (and buying a DX-7 as a test bed), I was just about to announce it, when Apple came up with a package of OS utilities that included...a MIDI driver.<p>I don&#x27;t think that theirs was as good as mine, but that was beside the point.<p>I open-sourced the driver, but the OS community wasn&#x27;t particularly well-established back then, and I believe that it&#x27;s lost in the sands of time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>luftfield</author><text>So in other words embedded hardware programming hasn’t changed a bit.</text></comment> | <story><title>What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple</title><url>https://blog.astropad.com/sherlocked-by-apple/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>This happened to me, in the early 1990s.<p>I spent months writing a very capable MIDI driver. In those days, writing a MIDI driver was a truly non-trivial exercise, as you had to have a MIDI adapter that fed back a 1MHz clock, which you would then program their UART to clock down.<p>That UART was also a pretty hairy bit of hardware. You had to program it with ASM, and the chip was set up so that a 16-bit address range corresponded to various control states. Setting control states for the chip meant a LOT of homework.<p>MIDI drivers basically were about as difficult as you could get, as you needed to step down an external clock, and set up things like ring buffers that were large enough to not trip over their own feet during an intense session.<p>Anyhoo, after a couple of months of working on the driver (and buying a DX-7 as a test bed), I was just about to announce it, when Apple came up with a package of OS utilities that included...a MIDI driver.<p>I don&#x27;t think that theirs was as good as mine, but that was beside the point.<p>I open-sourced the driver, but the OS community wasn&#x27;t particularly well-established back then, and I believe that it&#x27;s lost in the sands of time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crtlaltdel</author><text>The linked article states that Apple actively researched their products.<p>Is this what happened with your MIDI driver?</text></comment> |
16,249,221 | 16,249,296 | 1 | 3 | 16,248,782 | train | <story><title>Tether has “dissolved” relationship with auditor Friedman LLP</title><url>https://twitter.com/coindesk/status/957381065190133767</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Lazare</author><text>Don&#x27;t worry guys, I&#x27;m sure Tether is a 100% legitimate operation that just happens to be conducting an ongoing research project to see how much like a scam they can appear. They&#x27;ve got the money, they&#x27;re just keeping it hidden! ...very hidden! They had to fire their auditors because they were about to find proof the money exists, and that would have ruined the research project!<p>More seriously, I&#x27;ve got to ask: Why does anyone trust them? Why <i>did</i> anyone trust them? They&#x27;ve never offered the slightest reason to think they&#x27;re anything else but a particularly lazy fraud.<p>Is this an &quot;emperor&#x27;s new clothes&quot; situation where everyone assumes everyone <i>else</i> has proof of Tether&#x27;s validity, and doesn&#x27;t want to look dumb by asking? Or a &quot;bigger fool&quot; situation where everyone believes Tether is a fraud, but thinks they can get out and leave someone else holding the bag when it bursts? Raw wishful thinking because a legit Tether would be so useful to the ecosystem that people have collectively decided to pretend it does exist? Or what?</text></comment> | <story><title>Tether has “dissolved” relationship with auditor Friedman LLP</title><url>https://twitter.com/coindesk/status/957381065190133767</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>conanbatt</author><text>What I truly don&#x27;t get from the tether is how its almost at parity on kraken (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kraken.com&#x2F;charts" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kraken.com&#x2F;charts</a>) You would expect a sizable discount going on for all the shennaningans.</text></comment> |
26,667,335 | 26,666,870 | 1 | 2 | 26,665,097 | train | <story><title>54% of San Francisco homes are in buildings that would be illegal to build today</title><url>https://sfzoning.deapthoughts.com/illegal_homes.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>Why? After the current bubble collapses, this will no longer be a problem.</text></item><item><author>pmiller2</author><text>Yeah, but let&#x27;s be clear though: the problem is bad zoning, not zoning itself. The fact that SF prohibits apartments in 76% of the city, according to the article (which, I&#x27;m assuming, excludes places like Golden Gate Park) is an abomination in itself. Literally just allow more apartment buildings, let buildings get built higher, and make a couple other tweaks for higher density housing, and zoning becomes a non-problem.<p>After that, all you have to deal with are the NIMBYs. Le sigh.</text></item><item><author>jdavis703</author><text>This article specifically addresses buildings that are only illegal because of zoning. They aren’t including buildings that are unsafe due to building regulations like firecodes, ADA, etc.</text></item><item><author>payne92</author><text>This is true in many, many places: as zoning, safety, access, and environmental rules evolve most older buildings become not buildable under current rules.<p>Our national housing stock is FULL of places with narrow winding stairs, lead paint, full flow toilets and shower heads, untempered glass, single pane windows, uninsulated walls or ceilings, ungrounded outlets, undersized plumbing, sketchy chimneys, springy floors, etc.<p>I&#x27;m surprised the number isn&#x27;t closer to 80-90%, especially with the recent energy efficiency rules.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sidlls</author><text>What collapse? In all but the most deplorable areas houses will have multiple offers within days of listing, starting even before any marketing effort. In many cases we&#x27;re talking cash over the asking price. This isn&#x27;t coming mainly&#x2F;only from the tech sector. The number of people with FAANG salaries simply isn&#x27;t sufficient to support the large number of multi-million dollar homes here. A lot of it is absentee (foreign) investors (for example, just under 20% of purchases in San Mateo as recently as 2019).<p>At best we might see a slight cooling in the rise in already absurd prices for property out here.</text></comment> | <story><title>54% of San Francisco homes are in buildings that would be illegal to build today</title><url>https://sfzoning.deapthoughts.com/illegal_homes.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>Why? After the current bubble collapses, this will no longer be a problem.</text></item><item><author>pmiller2</author><text>Yeah, but let&#x27;s be clear though: the problem is bad zoning, not zoning itself. The fact that SF prohibits apartments in 76% of the city, according to the article (which, I&#x27;m assuming, excludes places like Golden Gate Park) is an abomination in itself. Literally just allow more apartment buildings, let buildings get built higher, and make a couple other tweaks for higher density housing, and zoning becomes a non-problem.<p>After that, all you have to deal with are the NIMBYs. Le sigh.</text></item><item><author>jdavis703</author><text>This article specifically addresses buildings that are only illegal because of zoning. They aren’t including buildings that are unsafe due to building regulations like firecodes, ADA, etc.</text></item><item><author>payne92</author><text>This is true in many, many places: as zoning, safety, access, and environmental rules evolve most older buildings become not buildable under current rules.<p>Our national housing stock is FULL of places with narrow winding stairs, lead paint, full flow toilets and shower heads, untempered glass, single pane windows, uninsulated walls or ceilings, ungrounded outlets, undersized plumbing, sketchy chimneys, springy floors, etc.<p>I&#x27;m surprised the number isn&#x27;t closer to 80-90%, especially with the recent energy efficiency rules.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Analemma_</author><text>I&#x27;ve been reading about the &quot;imminent&quot; collapse of the SF housing bubble for essentially my entire adult life. Even the actual housing bubble implosion in &#x27;07 barely put a dent in it.</text></comment> |
5,979,173 | 5,979,223 | 1 | 2 | 5,978,981 | train | <story><title>Ubisoft hacked, account data compromised</title><url>https://support.ubi.com/en-US/FAQ.aspx?platformid=60&brandid=2030&productid=3888&faqid=kA030000000eYZ2CAM</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dclowd9901</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t care so much about this, except that I am often essentially required to give my data to Ubisoft (and other third party publishers) in order to buy&#x2F;play their games. EA, you&#x27;re no better.<p>Why are all these companies adamant about trying to bootstrap their own services. It&#x27;s maddening, and it <i>only</i> causes things like this to happen. Steam exists, and it&#x27;s amazing. Stop trying to do better -- you won&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zikes</author><text>Everything else being equal, Steam may well end up being similarly hacked in the future. The big difference with them is that they use 2FA, so even if your hashed password were stolen and cracked, they still would not be able to access your account.<p>Edit: I just went through Ubi&#x27;s password change process, they also restrict password lengths to 8 to 16 characters. Annoys the heck out of me when companies do this.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ubisoft hacked, account data compromised</title><url>https://support.ubi.com/en-US/FAQ.aspx?platformid=60&brandid=2030&productid=3888&faqid=kA030000000eYZ2CAM</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dclowd9901</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t care so much about this, except that I am often essentially required to give my data to Ubisoft (and other third party publishers) in order to buy&#x2F;play their games. EA, you&#x27;re no better.<p>Why are all these companies adamant about trying to bootstrap their own services. It&#x27;s maddening, and it <i>only</i> causes things like this to happen. Steam exists, and it&#x27;s amazing. Stop trying to do better -- you won&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FredFredrickson</author><text>I have mixed feelings about that. On the one hand, I fully agree - I hate having all kinds of junky game clients running on my computer when I <i>ought</i> to just be able to have one, Steam, which is obviously doing a decent job.<p>On the other hand, I think that competition will drive Steam to be better (or maybe, just maybe, result in something better than Steam), and so I don&#x27;t necessarily want the other companies to stop trying to compete entirely, either.</text></comment> |
38,435,982 | 38,435,759 | 1 | 2 | 38,434,713 | train | <story><title>Several piracy-related arrests spark fears of high-level crackdown</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/several-piracy-related-arrests-spark-fears-of-high-level-crackdown-231127/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zoogeny</author><text>Recently a friend of mine recommended me to watch the movie Heavenly Creatures. I went to justwatch.ca to see if it was streaming anywhere in Canada [1]. Not only was it not listed as streaming, it wasn&#x27;t even listed to purchase anywhere. I went to as many places as I could think to find it: Amazon, Apple, Netflix, even Cineplex online. I was not able to find it anywhere available in Canada to stream for any amount of money. I found an article online that corroborates this is true [2] and recommends using a VPN to access content in other regions.<p>It made me realize that we are very much at risk of losing our cultural memory. For this particular movie I could use a VPN I suppose, but I imagine that some movies&#x2F;music&#x2F;books will someday not be available in any region in any form.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justwatch.com&#x2F;ca&#x2F;movie&#x2F;heavenly-creatures" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justwatch.com&#x2F;ca&#x2F;movie&#x2F;heavenly-creatures</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.entoin.com&#x2F;entertainment&#x2F;heavenly-creatures-on-netflix" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.entoin.com&#x2F;entertainment&#x2F;heavenly-creatures-on-n...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Several piracy-related arrests spark fears of high-level crackdown</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/several-piracy-related-arrests-spark-fears-of-high-level-crackdown-231127/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gustavus</author><text>When my son was younger he liked Paw Patrol, so we bought several season of Paw Patrol, I now have a duaghter that is the same age and likes Paw Patrol. I pulled up my handy Youtube subscription, went into my bought movies and found out that the Paw Patrol season I had bought and paid for was no longer available because it was now only available on KidsToons+ or PreimerParenting or some other bull hockey like that.<p>I decided at that point if they can yank away media I had already paid for on a whim, we no long had a contract. Now I am working on buying myself a fine sailing ship, and unfurling the jolly roger to sail the high seas seeking booty and plunder and buried treasure.</text></comment> |
37,356,622 | 37,355,766 | 1 | 2 | 37,354,179 | train | <story><title>Linear algebra for programmers</title><url>https://coffeemug.github.io/spakhm.com/posts/01-lingalg-p1/linalg-p1.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thewataccount</author><text>Can anyone suggest a something that teaches Linear Algebra with a practical applications, especially for software engineering?<p>I can sorta kinda get the theory, but every demonstration involves moving an arrow around which is.... not something I need to do frequently. So I&#x27;m not sure how I actually apply linear algebra to solve actual problems.<p>I&#x27;m a software developer and I know it&#x27;s useful I just don&#x27;t get where to use it - and I&#x27;m struggling to actually understand the different operations, purpose of the dot product, etc. I have a decent base for basic stats and calc, both of which I can &quot;conceptually apply&quot; near daily for understanding how things work.<p>3Blue1Brown is helpful, but I just kinda go &quot;yeah I guess that looks right&quot; without knowing what to do with it.<p>EDIT: Thank you!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nextos</author><text>Boyd &amp; Vandenberghe&#x27;s new book: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.stanford.edu&#x2F;~boyd&#x2F;vmls" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.stanford.edu&#x2F;~boyd&#x2F;vmls</a><p>It has companion code in Julia and Python, and addresses many important applications, such as convex optimization where the authors&#x27; previous book is really famous.</text></comment> | <story><title>Linear algebra for programmers</title><url>https://coffeemug.github.io/spakhm.com/posts/01-lingalg-p1/linalg-p1.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thewataccount</author><text>Can anyone suggest a something that teaches Linear Algebra with a practical applications, especially for software engineering?<p>I can sorta kinda get the theory, but every demonstration involves moving an arrow around which is.... not something I need to do frequently. So I&#x27;m not sure how I actually apply linear algebra to solve actual problems.<p>I&#x27;m a software developer and I know it&#x27;s useful I just don&#x27;t get where to use it - and I&#x27;m struggling to actually understand the different operations, purpose of the dot product, etc. I have a decent base for basic stats and calc, both of which I can &quot;conceptually apply&quot; near daily for understanding how things work.<p>3Blue1Brown is helpful, but I just kinda go &quot;yeah I guess that looks right&quot; without knowing what to do with it.<p>EDIT: Thank you!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>One place to start might be a tutorial on principal component analysis, which will take you through some of the intuitions for applying SVD.<p>You can also go in the direction of cryptography; here&#x27;s, for instance, a really excellent LLL tutorial that builds on Graham-Schmidt: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kel.bz&#x2F;post&#x2F;lll&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kel.bz&#x2F;post&#x2F;lll&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
6,826,293 | 6,826,328 | 1 | 2 | 6,826,073 | train | <story><title>The humble USB cable is part of an electrical revolution</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/international/21588104-humble-usb-cable-part-electrical-revolution-it-will-make-power-supplies</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kabdib</author><text>It&#x27;s going to be interesting, from a security standpoint. One of the original cracks on the PS3 was via the USB stack. I&#x27;d not go plugging my computers or phones into jacks that I don&#x27;t necessarily control.<p>I can see a market for buffering devices that allow power through, and perhaps do power negotiation for you, but that do not allow data traffic. I believe these devices already exist. though I don&#x27;t know how sophisticated they are.</text></comment> | <story><title>The humble USB cable is part of an electrical revolution</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/international/21588104-humble-usb-cable-part-electrical-revolution-it-will-make-power-supplies</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Brakenshire</author><text>This is interesting as a contribution to the solar net metering debate. If you have a local low-voltage DC network, perhaps backed up by a UPS, you can charge the UPS battery using solar, and that means that solar electricity generated on-site automatically displaces grid electricity at the retail rate. That means that solar would only need to compete with the retail price of conventional electricity, and not the generation cost. And solar cost is already at or near parity with retail price in many parts of the world:<p>This is 2010: <a href="http://reneweconomy.com.au/2012/solar-pv-its-cheaper-than-you-think-58689/bnef-12" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;reneweconomy.com.au&#x2F;2012&#x2F;solar-pv-its-cheaper-than-yo...</a><p>And this is 2025: <a href="http://reneweconomy.com.au/2012/solar-pv-its-cheaper-than-you-think-58689/bnef-2025" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;reneweconomy.com.au&#x2F;2012&#x2F;solar-pv-its-cheaper-than-yo...</a><p>(Countries above the isobar have lower solar costs than the price of electricity from the grid)</text></comment> |
4,156,051 | 4,155,839 | 1 | 2 | 4,155,683 | train | <story><title>Petition to stop extradition of UK hacker</title><url>http://www.change.org/petitions/ukhomeoffice-stop-the-extradition-of-richard-o-dwyer-to-the-usa-saverichard</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smutticus</author><text>If I host content in the United States that is illegal in Iran does that mean I can be extradited to Iran to face charges?<p>I hope this kid fights this tooth and nail with good lawyers. He needs good representation as this case has potential to set very important precedents surrounding basic issues of sovereignty and jurisdictional precedence.<p>Is the US government going to argue that physical location is irrelevant on the internet? Does a crime committed on the internet happen simultaneously in every country? I'm really curious how the US government will present their arguments in this case. And equally curious how much the UK is willing to lose its right of sovereignty.</text></comment> | <story><title>Petition to stop extradition of UK hacker</title><url>http://www.change.org/petitions/ukhomeoffice-stop-the-extradition-of-richard-o-dwyer-to-the-usa-saverichard</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>duiker101</author><text>This is literally unbelievable. I was shocked when the US attacked Kim Dotcom, but you know... he is a big fish and anyway i hope he will be able to fight back. But this is gone too much further. They are trying to rule the world in this way. This people gained too much power. I am really frightened for our future.</text></comment> |
23,878,482 | 23,876,825 | 1 | 3 | 23,870,339 | train | <story><title>Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/carolineodonovan/coronavirus-schools-teachers-fear-for-their-lives</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>electriclove</author><text>I&#x27;m very pleased by the decision from the top in California today about keeping schools remote until things get better. The only complaint I have is how long it took to get there. Tons of people at hundreds&#x2F;thousands of school districts and private schools throughout the state have spent incredible effort debating and planning and so much effort could have been saved if the decision from the top was made earlier.</text></item><item><author>oramit</author><text>What we currently have going on right now is a complete collapse in confidence. So many commenters are debating the death rate, case counts, hospitalizations, etc, which is all besides the point.<p>Heres the thing: even if you believe people are being irrationally afraid, telling people they are stupid and should just suck it up isn&#x27;t going to get people to cooperate. Do you want to be smugly right, or do you want things to actually get better?
People are scared, that&#x27;s just a fact, and they need to feel confident that action is being taken in their best interest. Telling people that only 1% of them will die so it&#x27;s all okay is telling people you don&#x27;t care about them - they notice, they&#x27;re not dumb.<p>We all know that this is an exceptional event and that there will be missteps. People will forgive mistakes and setbacks and take on more risk if they are confident that there is a plan - but so far there isn&#x27;t one. We&#x27;re almost six months into this and the messaging is still chaos. The lack of a national strategy is what is causing this pandemic to worsen. The rot really does start at the top.<p>The United States is currently choosing the worst possible combination of options. We locked down - causing enormous financial damage, but we didn&#x27;t follow through with the lockdown nationally to actually stomp the virus. So we get to have the deaths and have the financial damage as well. Yay us!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bleah1000</author><text>But he&#x27;s making the decision for all of California. If you look at the actual data, it appears that most of the cases are coming from southern california. Also, the real data to look at is death rate, and hospitalization rate. I don&#x27;t know about the death rate, but the hospitalization rate is definitely going up. However, nearly all of the patients are in southern california again. In fact, it&#x27;s LA that&#x27;s really the epicenter of death and hospitalization for california.<p>Here&#x27;s the hospitalization link I&#x27;m using, because there might be better data somewhere else.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;public.tableau.com&#x2F;views&#x2F;COVID-19HospitalsDashboard&#x2F;Hospitals?:embed=y&amp;:showVizHome=no" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;public.tableau.com&#x2F;views&#x2F;COVID-19HospitalsDashboard&#x2F;...</a><p>It&#x27;s easy to be consumed by the fear about this disease, and that the number of cases that are rising. But we have to be careful to make informed decisions, and not compromise student learning in the entire state due to rising cases in one part of the state.<p>One thing, is it looks a bit like the hospitalizations might be starting to slightly level off, but it&#x27;s hard to tell since it still could be trending upwards. At the very least, it doesn&#x27;t look like the cases are on any kind of exponential curve.</text></comment> | <story><title>Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/carolineodonovan/coronavirus-schools-teachers-fear-for-their-lives</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>electriclove</author><text>I&#x27;m very pleased by the decision from the top in California today about keeping schools remote until things get better. The only complaint I have is how long it took to get there. Tons of people at hundreds&#x2F;thousands of school districts and private schools throughout the state have spent incredible effort debating and planning and so much effort could have been saved if the decision from the top was made earlier.</text></item><item><author>oramit</author><text>What we currently have going on right now is a complete collapse in confidence. So many commenters are debating the death rate, case counts, hospitalizations, etc, which is all besides the point.<p>Heres the thing: even if you believe people are being irrationally afraid, telling people they are stupid and should just suck it up isn&#x27;t going to get people to cooperate. Do you want to be smugly right, or do you want things to actually get better?
People are scared, that&#x27;s just a fact, and they need to feel confident that action is being taken in their best interest. Telling people that only 1% of them will die so it&#x27;s all okay is telling people you don&#x27;t care about them - they notice, they&#x27;re not dumb.<p>We all know that this is an exceptional event and that there will be missteps. People will forgive mistakes and setbacks and take on more risk if they are confident that there is a plan - but so far there isn&#x27;t one. We&#x27;re almost six months into this and the messaging is still chaos. The lack of a national strategy is what is causing this pandemic to worsen. The rot really does start at the top.<p>The United States is currently choosing the worst possible combination of options. We locked down - causing enormous financial damage, but we didn&#x27;t follow through with the lockdown nationally to actually stomp the virus. So we get to have the deaths and have the financial damage as well. Yay us!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samatman</author><text>I share your pleasure in the decision, but staunchly disagree with you about the method used to reach it.<p>The correct decision was reached, in time (before the start of the school year) for it to make a difference.<p>Tons of people and thousands of schools vigorously debating is the democratic process. A decision handed down from &quot;the top&quot; is authoritarianism, and as we&#x27;ve seen repeatedly this year, authoritarian decisions are resisted even when they&#x27;re the right decision.<p>For something like masking, you can justify it with the urgency of the situation (even though I&#x27;m compelled to add that &quot;the top&quot; got this one <i>wrong</i> during the crucial months of February and March). For starting school in the fall, you can&#x27;t.</text></comment> |
28,070,312 | 28,067,601 | 1 | 3 | 28,063,764 | train | <story><title>Verilog2Factorio: Web Demo</title><url>https://redcrafter.github.io/verilog2factorio/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>unixhero</author><text>I&#x27;ve given Factorio a wide berth. It seems risky for me to sit down with this game. The strategic rpg&#x2F;simulator addict in me really wants to :).</text></comment> | <story><title>Verilog2Factorio: Web Demo</title><url>https://redcrafter.github.io/verilog2factorio/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pdq</author><text>Nice project. FYI, this is using the Yosys Verilog synthesizer for the real magic.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;YosysHQ&#x2F;yosys" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;YosysHQ&#x2F;yosys</a></text></comment> |
33,978,095 | 33,978,128 | 1 | 2 | 33,975,082 | train | <story><title>How to rebuild social media on top of RSS</title><url>https://tfos.co/p/rebuild-social-media/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imiric</author><text>What would be the benefit of this, really? Easier consumption, I suppose, but RSS is a read-only protocol, and allows no participation. Users would still depend on centralized services to publish content, and there&#x27;s little to no chance that these companies would interoperate using a standard protocol. Not only that, but why would a centralized service that depends on ads and promoted content allow you to use an open format to consume it? They _want_ to keep you on their platform as long as possible.<p>What decentralized protocols try to solve, and what the centralized web has failed us with, is data ownership. Users should have full control over the data they produce, and be free to migrate it to any other node without losing access to the service they&#x27;re interested in.<p>I think Nostr looks very promising in that sense: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nostr-protocol&#x2F;nostr" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nostr-protocol&#x2F;nostr</a><p>Mind you, I don&#x27;t think social media is worth reinventing. Connecting everyone on the planet is wrong on a societal level. But P2P services are a good fit for building smaller communities, which is a crucial missing component of the design of the WWW. I&#x27;m still hopeful that something built for the masses can take over the current mess we&#x27;re in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacobobryant</author><text>Easier consumption is pretty much it, yes. Specifically, it&#x27;d make it easier to stay engaged with publishers and communities even if they aren&#x27;t part of a centralized platform, which means that people who develop publishing and community apps will have an easier time growing their user base.<p>&gt; Users would still depend on centralized services to publish content, and there&#x27;s little to no chance that these companies would interoperate using a standard protocol.<p>All you need is a blog&#x2F;newsletter platform like substack, ghost, wordpress etc. They may not aggregate your social posts into another feed for you, but you can use a separate service to generate and host the feed, then link to it from your main site.<p>&gt; Users should have full control over the data they produce, and be free to migrate it to any other node without losing access to the service they&#x27;re interested in.<p>RSS and email do this pretty well I think!</text></comment> | <story><title>How to rebuild social media on top of RSS</title><url>https://tfos.co/p/rebuild-social-media/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imiric</author><text>What would be the benefit of this, really? Easier consumption, I suppose, but RSS is a read-only protocol, and allows no participation. Users would still depend on centralized services to publish content, and there&#x27;s little to no chance that these companies would interoperate using a standard protocol. Not only that, but why would a centralized service that depends on ads and promoted content allow you to use an open format to consume it? They _want_ to keep you on their platform as long as possible.<p>What decentralized protocols try to solve, and what the centralized web has failed us with, is data ownership. Users should have full control over the data they produce, and be free to migrate it to any other node without losing access to the service they&#x27;re interested in.<p>I think Nostr looks very promising in that sense: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nostr-protocol&#x2F;nostr" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nostr-protocol&#x2F;nostr</a><p>Mind you, I don&#x27;t think social media is worth reinventing. Connecting everyone on the planet is wrong on a societal level. But P2P services are a good fit for building smaller communities, which is a crucial missing component of the design of the WWW. I&#x27;m still hopeful that something built for the masses can take over the current mess we&#x27;re in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amelius</author><text>Benefit is that there is no third party that controls the feed.</text></comment> |
28,334,651 | 28,333,949 | 1 | 2 | 28,333,274 | train | <story><title>Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional</title><url>https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/08/28/why-san-franciscos-city-government-is-so-dysfunctional</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ecf</author><text>Are incarceration rates low because people behave or are they low because SF police don’t bother to arrest people?</text></item><item><author>LordDragonfang</author><text>&gt;One City Hall insider suggests that San Francisco overreacts to issues that are in the national news, and designs solutions to the country’s problems rather than its own. For example, when Mr Boudin ran on his platform of less punitive justice, San Francisco already had one of the lowest incarceration rates in the country. In 2019, 106 adults were in prison for every 100,000 people, one-fifth the rate in California and the nation. If the rest of the country behaved like San Francisco, the prison population would decline by 80%, says James Austin of the jfa Institute, a think-tank that evaluates criminal-justice policies.<p>This seems like a very reasonable hypothesis</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lubujackson</author><text>Low because they don&#x27;t arrest anyone. But that isn&#x27;t on the police - they don&#x27;t arrest anyone because the DA doesn&#x27;t prosecute anyone.<p>Property crime is sky high... if you happen to get caught breaking into a car the penalty is a warning. That is the policy. You have to break into many cars and be caught (which is hard to do) many times for any action.<p>Boudin has indefensibly ignored violent criminals, too. Like a woman being assaulted while trying to open the door to here condo, fully on video and there was no prosecution. Even a few cases of murder from repeat offenders who were let go repeatedly after violent assault.<p>If you live in SF, try the Citizen phone app for alerts near you. There is some crazy stuff happening all around the city. Lately, cars keep inexplicably flipping over on city streets.<p>The craziest update I&#x27;ve seen was an alert about man dressed like a clown wielding a sword-cane.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional</title><url>https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/08/28/why-san-franciscos-city-government-is-so-dysfunctional</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ecf</author><text>Are incarceration rates low because people behave or are they low because SF police don’t bother to arrest people?</text></item><item><author>LordDragonfang</author><text>&gt;One City Hall insider suggests that San Francisco overreacts to issues that are in the national news, and designs solutions to the country’s problems rather than its own. For example, when Mr Boudin ran on his platform of less punitive justice, San Francisco already had one of the lowest incarceration rates in the country. In 2019, 106 adults were in prison for every 100,000 people, one-fifth the rate in California and the nation. If the rest of the country behaved like San Francisco, the prison population would decline by 80%, says James Austin of the jfa Institute, a think-tank that evaluates criminal-justice policies.<p>This seems like a very reasonable hypothesis</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>space_fountain</author><text>I think that&#x27;s irrelevant to the point which is that in electing a candidate campaigning on criminal justice reform SFs voters are reacting more to national issues than local ones. SFs criminal justice system is already quite &quot;reformed&quot; and probably the issues that people are seeing aren&#x27;t primarily in SF</text></comment> |
11,891,910 | 11,891,062 | 1 | 3 | 11,890,733 | train | <story><title>Wild flower blooms again after 30,000 years on ice (2012)</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/wild-flower-blooms-again-after-30-000-years-on-ice-1.10069</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DigitalSea</author><text>Every day we inch one step closer to bringing back dinosaurs, thus making Jurassic Park a reality.</text></comment> | <story><title>Wild flower blooms again after 30,000 years on ice (2012)</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/wild-flower-blooms-again-after-30-000-years-on-ice-1.10069</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marcusgarvey</author><text>Nice to read about a new breakthrough in botany. The field doesn&#x27;t get much attention at all. Maybe now it will benefit from the popularity of Martian, the movie.</text></comment> |
26,938,570 | 26,938,545 | 1 | 2 | 26,938,453 | train | <story><title>Response from Greg Kroah-Hartman to University of Minnesota Researchers</title><url>https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tolbish</author><text>The submission title should be changed to something accurate like &quot;Response from Greg Kroah-Hartman to University of Minnesota Researchers&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Response from Greg Kroah-Hartman to University of Minnesota Researchers</title><url>https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>meepmorp</author><text>Leaving aside the fact that I don&#x27;t think he rejected their apology, accepting an apology doesn&#x27;t mean everything goes back to normal. It&#x27;s reasonable for there to be consequences even if the other party is legitimately sorry.</text></comment> |
31,790,061 | 31,790,153 | 1 | 2 | 31,765,983 | train | <story><title>Mosquito swatter gamer mod with kill counter, sound and rechargeable battery</title><url>https://www.instructables.com/Ultimate-Mosquito-Swatter-Mod-for-Gamer-Add-Kill-C/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bgentry</author><text>I always wanted to do this. I would wire it up with sounds from Unreal Tournament:<p>Double Kill<p>Mega Kill<p>ULTRA kill</text></comment> | <story><title>Mosquito swatter gamer mod with kill counter, sound and rechargeable battery</title><url>https://www.instructables.com/Ultimate-Mosquito-Swatter-Mod-for-Gamer-Add-Kill-C/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cgb223</author><text>I live in the south, where the mosquitos are brutal.<p>You could make a lot of money selling these...</text></comment> |
5,960,775 | 5,960,059 | 1 | 2 | 5,959,442 | train | <story><title>An open MySQL bug receives a real Birthday cake</title><url>http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=20786</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>famousactress</author><text>I think gittip is great, and I understand this is the opposite of their philosophy, but I want a well-used bounty program for these things.<p>I mentioned some Django bugs that are huge for us that were finally fixed in 1.6 in another thread [1]. I&#x27;d have personally pledged a couple hundred dollars to have them fixed, and probably could have gotten considerably more pledged from my company. Does this tool&#x2F;platform exist and I just don&#x27;t know about it?<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5958281" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=5958281</a><p>[Edit]<p>Thanks for the replies. Pledgie and bountysource look interesting and I suppose really close to what I was imagining, in spirit. Fundamentally, I&#x27;d like to see something well-executed help formalize the process behind what motivated Andrew&#x27;s awesome Django migrations kickstarter [2]. I really like the way that came together because it had the buy-in of the team, and there-by inspired confidence in potential backers.<p>[2] <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-migrations-for-django" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kickstarter.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;andrewgodwin&#x2F;schema-migr...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tonylampada</author><text><a href="http://freedomsponsors.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;freedomsponsors.org</a> is a crowdfunding platform for Open Source projects.<p>This is how it works:<p>1) Someone places a bounty for a problem (tipically an issue registered on an issue tracker)<p>2) More people might want to sponsor the same issue<p>3) A developer solves the issue<p>4) The sponsors verify the solution and pay the developer<p>The FreedomSponsors website itself is an open source web application, written in Django.
Funny fact - some of its own issues have been sponsored in the website.<p>The source code - along with instructions on how to run it - can be found on Github.
<a href="https://github.com/freedomsponsors/www.freedomsponsors.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;freedomsponsors&#x2F;www.freedomsponsors.org</a></text></comment> | <story><title>An open MySQL bug receives a real Birthday cake</title><url>http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=20786</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>famousactress</author><text>I think gittip is great, and I understand this is the opposite of their philosophy, but I want a well-used bounty program for these things.<p>I mentioned some Django bugs that are huge for us that were finally fixed in 1.6 in another thread [1]. I&#x27;d have personally pledged a couple hundred dollars to have them fixed, and probably could have gotten considerably more pledged from my company. Does this tool&#x2F;platform exist and I just don&#x27;t know about it?<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5958281" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=5958281</a><p>[Edit]<p>Thanks for the replies. Pledgie and bountysource look interesting and I suppose really close to what I was imagining, in spirit. Fundamentally, I&#x27;d like to see something well-executed help formalize the process behind what motivated Andrew&#x27;s awesome Django migrations kickstarter [2]. I really like the way that came together because it had the buy-in of the team, and there-by inspired confidence in potential backers.<p>[2] <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-migrations-for-django" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kickstarter.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;andrewgodwin&#x2F;schema-migr...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foobarbazqux</author><text>I&#x27;m not convinced Oracle (ORCL), listed on both the S&amp;P-500 and the NASDAQ-100, needs or will accept bug fixing donations, especially since MySQL is a competitor to their flagship Oracle DB and there was quite a lot of disgruntlement around the acquisition. Maybe if you gave money to MariaDB it would work.</text></comment> |
31,583,821 | 31,583,733 | 1 | 2 | 31,576,634 | train | <story><title>Show HN: I made React with a faster Virtual DOM</title><text>Hi! I made a React compatibility library for a Virtual DOM library (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aidenybai&#x2F;million" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aidenybai&#x2F;million</a>).<p>The idea is to have much faster rendering (a compiler optimizes virtual DOM beforehand) while ensuring the same developer experience React provides.<p>This is very, VERY early stage, so be prepared for weird bugs &#x2F; plugin incompatibility &#x2F; etc. If you have any suggestions, I&#x27;d be more than happy if you replied in a comment with it!<p>You can spin up the demo here &gt;&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackblitz.com&#x2F;github&#x2F;aidenybai&#x2F;million-react-compat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackblitz.com&#x2F;github&#x2F;aidenybai&#x2F;million-react-compat</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>a13n</author><text>Is React rendering performance really a pain point worth solving? I&#x27;ve never thought to myself &quot;man I wish React would render faster&quot;... It doesn&#x27;t seem like this is whatsoever a bottleneck for our application (~1k unique components).<p>I feel like the main pain point with React is that routing, bundling, SSR, state management, etc. have to be painfully stapled together, and this is what frameworks like Next.js solve for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brundolf</author><text>It&#x27;s not usually a problem, but if you&#x27;re making an app that shows really large amounts of data it can become a bottleneck (I&#x27;ve run into this personally). It also has less to do with number of unique components and more to do with the number of components on the screen at once, and the number that have to be (or end up) re-rendered on each update</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: I made React with a faster Virtual DOM</title><text>Hi! I made a React compatibility library for a Virtual DOM library (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aidenybai&#x2F;million" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aidenybai&#x2F;million</a>).<p>The idea is to have much faster rendering (a compiler optimizes virtual DOM beforehand) while ensuring the same developer experience React provides.<p>This is very, VERY early stage, so be prepared for weird bugs &#x2F; plugin incompatibility &#x2F; etc. If you have any suggestions, I&#x27;d be more than happy if you replied in a comment with it!<p>You can spin up the demo here &gt;&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackblitz.com&#x2F;github&#x2F;aidenybai&#x2F;million-react-compat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackblitz.com&#x2F;github&#x2F;aidenybai&#x2F;million-react-compat</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>a13n</author><text>Is React rendering performance really a pain point worth solving? I&#x27;ve never thought to myself &quot;man I wish React would render faster&quot;... It doesn&#x27;t seem like this is whatsoever a bottleneck for our application (~1k unique components).<p>I feel like the main pain point with React is that routing, bundling, SSR, state management, etc. have to be painfully stapled together, and this is what frameworks like Next.js solve for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aporetics</author><text>Well, let’s look at it from a different angle; not the angle of the user or the developer, but as a matter of computational work and the energy consumed by that work. In a single application or even the life of an application all it might be negligible. But when does it not become negligible? What if react adopted the change and every react app What about for every react app in use suddenly used a fraction less computational power each render?<p>And is it just a monetary cost?<p>Yes, if energy use is your primary concern there are easier ways to reduce it. But in the above context it seems clear that you should take your gains where you can get them.</text></comment> |
29,002,873 | 29,002,806 | 1 | 3 | 29,000,939 | train | <story><title>The Sequoia Fund: Patient capital for building enduring companies</title><url>https://medium.com/sequoia-capital/the-sequoia-fund-patient-capital-for-building-enduring-companies-9ed7bcd6c7da</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mbesto</author><text>The recent (circa ~15 years) stock market boom has driven this. Their LPs are sitting their wondering &quot;ya sure you got us a 100x return on investing in Facebook in 2006, but if you woulda kept your position when it IPO&#x27;d, it woulda been a 500x position&quot;.<p>The market is driving this decision - there really isn&#x27;t anything magical or bold about this.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Sequoia Fund: Patient capital for building enduring companies</title><url>https://medium.com/sequoia-capital/the-sequoia-fund-patient-capital-for-building-enduring-companies-9ed7bcd6c7da</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdli</author><text>With the amount of capital available, no question that many companies that would have IPO&#x27;d years ago are electing to stay private (hello, Stripe!).<p>The cynic in me says: this is great marketing, because the best Sequoia fund is the early stage fund (always oversubscribed) and now as an LP you can&#x27;t invest in just the early stage fund. (But the reality is I bet they forced early stage fund LPs to invest in their growth vehicles anyway, so there is no material change other than marketing. Which is very good.)</text></comment> |
22,480,669 | 22,478,485 | 1 | 2 | 22,476,985 | train | <story><title>Launch HN: Flowdash (YC W20) – Human-in-the-loop tooling for operations teams</title><text>Hi everyone!<p>We’re Nick &amp; Omar from Flowdash (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flowdash.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flowdash.com</a>). We help companies quickly build internal tools to track and execute human-in-the-loop workflows.<p>We’re built specifically for technology companies that have manual work behind the scenes. For example, a fintech that has a beautiful mobile-first experience for its end users, likely also has a risk team internally approving new accounts, or reviewing suspicious transactions for anomalies. These teams need tools to get their jobs done, but building those tools is time consuming and often means spending your limited engineering resources on internal tools when you’d much rather invest in building user-facing features.<p>What’s more, maintenance of these tools is an ongoing endeavor. As the company scales and the operations team identifies ways they can improve their workflow, they’re often bottlenecked on engineering availability, forcing the team to implement workarounds in the interim, such as working out of spreadsheets and Slack. These workarounds, while easy to implement, come with pitfalls such as tasks slipping through the cracks or data getting out-of-sync.<p>With Flowdash, we’re combining the best of both worlds. We want to enable the deep integration that comes from building custom software, while making it possible for operations teams to iterate and improve their workflow over time. We’re able to do this because we’re not trying to be a general-purpose low-code platform, but really focus on use cases where a team of humans works through a backlog of tasks.<p>Flowdash was inspired by our own experience. Omar and I were early engineers at Gusto and over the course of six years, built several internal tools to support our payments, risk, and payroll operations teams. We saw first-hand the benefits of equipping our ops teams with great tools, but also struggled to prioritize improvements to these tools against user-facing features.<p>We think of operations teams as unsung heroes. Their work is critical to the day-to-day operations of the company, yet few people externally know they exist. We want to give them better tools to get their work done.<p>Here’s how it works:<p>Flowdash’s core primitive is a Flow, which we define as a pipeline of work, where tasks move through a set of stages from creation to completion. Every Flow exposes an endpoint where developers can push new tasks with a single POST request. Users then claim tasks and move them along the pipeline. Additionally, actions can be customized in a number of ways, such as sending email, calling a third-party API, or talking back to your main application. Because stages and actions can be customized without code, the end-user can change how they work without requiring engineering intervention. From the developer perspective, you can think of it as a human-powered background job.<p>As a concrete example, let’s consider a fintech onboarding new clients. When a new client signs up, a task is automatically pushed to Flowdash. From there, a risk agent reviews the account and decides whether to Approve or Reject the client. In turn, that action issues a callback to the main application to complete onboarding. Here’s a 3-min video setting this up end-to-end: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flowdash.com&#x2F;demo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flowdash.com&#x2F;demo</a>.<p>We’re excited (and a little intimidated) to be on HN today, and would love to get your feedback. Have you had to build similar tools? What were some of the pain points or challenges? Thanks in advance!<p>Nick and Omar</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>erichocean</author><text>Good idea, works really well for companies with &quot;established&quot; operations.<p>However, the missing problem we&#x27;ve found (and are investing significant resources internally to fix) is that, in a lot of situations (especially in a startup), <i>you don&#x27;t actually know what you&#x27;re doing operationally</i> at a detailed enough level to have engineers write code for, or even humans to &quot;do&quot;. <i>You&#x27;re learning as you go</i>, but still need everything in the database as you do so you <i>can</i> automate thing sooner rather than later.<p>So, automation is still required. But not yet! You need a way for humans to do things, then automation, and back again...on a &quot;flow&quot; (to use your terminology) that is radically changing as you learn.<p>In our case, new business opportunities require creating and&#x2F;or updating tens of millions of rows in our Postgres database, but can start out very small as we learn—say, 5000 independent flows.<p>Oftentimes, we need to temporarily &quot;fix&quot; things that we&#x27;ve already done a lot of work on—again, with a mix of human and compute tasks, depending on what&#x27;s going on. Those fixes are temporary and we remove them once the data in Postgres is clean.<p>Another major area is, for lack of a better term, &quot;tech onboarding&quot;. There&#x27;s a lot of work that&#x27;s effectively one-off, needs to be done at scale, and yet each day it&#x27;s something different. (Imaging ramping up some service over four weeks—a literal situation we encounter regularly.) Being able to mix human and automation there is again critical, but really no tooling that I&#x27;m aware of exists to help with.<p>Anyway…congrats on the launch. I can definitely see it working for really well-defined operation systems that just need that extra touch of automation to reduce the busy work when humans are inserted into flows.</text></comment> | <story><title>Launch HN: Flowdash (YC W20) – Human-in-the-loop tooling for operations teams</title><text>Hi everyone!<p>We’re Nick &amp; Omar from Flowdash (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flowdash.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flowdash.com</a>). We help companies quickly build internal tools to track and execute human-in-the-loop workflows.<p>We’re built specifically for technology companies that have manual work behind the scenes. For example, a fintech that has a beautiful mobile-first experience for its end users, likely also has a risk team internally approving new accounts, or reviewing suspicious transactions for anomalies. These teams need tools to get their jobs done, but building those tools is time consuming and often means spending your limited engineering resources on internal tools when you’d much rather invest in building user-facing features.<p>What’s more, maintenance of these tools is an ongoing endeavor. As the company scales and the operations team identifies ways they can improve their workflow, they’re often bottlenecked on engineering availability, forcing the team to implement workarounds in the interim, such as working out of spreadsheets and Slack. These workarounds, while easy to implement, come with pitfalls such as tasks slipping through the cracks or data getting out-of-sync.<p>With Flowdash, we’re combining the best of both worlds. We want to enable the deep integration that comes from building custom software, while making it possible for operations teams to iterate and improve their workflow over time. We’re able to do this because we’re not trying to be a general-purpose low-code platform, but really focus on use cases where a team of humans works through a backlog of tasks.<p>Flowdash was inspired by our own experience. Omar and I were early engineers at Gusto and over the course of six years, built several internal tools to support our payments, risk, and payroll operations teams. We saw first-hand the benefits of equipping our ops teams with great tools, but also struggled to prioritize improvements to these tools against user-facing features.<p>We think of operations teams as unsung heroes. Their work is critical to the day-to-day operations of the company, yet few people externally know they exist. We want to give them better tools to get their work done.<p>Here’s how it works:<p>Flowdash’s core primitive is a Flow, which we define as a pipeline of work, where tasks move through a set of stages from creation to completion. Every Flow exposes an endpoint where developers can push new tasks with a single POST request. Users then claim tasks and move them along the pipeline. Additionally, actions can be customized in a number of ways, such as sending email, calling a third-party API, or talking back to your main application. Because stages and actions can be customized without code, the end-user can change how they work without requiring engineering intervention. From the developer perspective, you can think of it as a human-powered background job.<p>As a concrete example, let’s consider a fintech onboarding new clients. When a new client signs up, a task is automatically pushed to Flowdash. From there, a risk agent reviews the account and decides whether to Approve or Reject the client. In turn, that action issues a callback to the main application to complete onboarding. Here’s a 3-min video setting this up end-to-end: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flowdash.com&#x2F;demo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flowdash.com&#x2F;demo</a>.<p>We’re excited (and a little intimidated) to be on HN today, and would love to get your feedback. Have you had to build similar tools? What were some of the pain points or challenges? Thanks in advance!<p>Nick and Omar</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tomashertus</author><text>Congratulations on the launch. You are definitely tackling an interesting problem, but I will play a devil&#x27;s advocate here, because I&#x27;ve spent some time researching similar use-cases for dealing mainly with triage of security &amp; abuse incidents. From the demo, the application seems to be pretty basic, you accept an input and allow users to set actions, take actions, and move tasks through the tasks&#x27; life-cycle. You argue that your solution will lower the costs associated with the implementation and maintenance of such applications, but is that really the real added value of your solution for a customer?<p>In my experience, many teams have already established flows and homebrew solutions that are working &quot;just fine&quot;. With your solution in place, how do you convince these type of customers to migrate? Why they should spend time on integrating with your application that offers just fancy manual triage of tasks? You list numerous use-cases which I would say are mission critical (onboarding of customers, triage of risk transactions, etc.) and your solution doesn&#x27;t really help the operators (=humans) to resolve the problem faster. In my experience, the operators often times have to deal with so called &quot;alarm&#x2F;alert fatigue&quot;, how does your solution helps companies do more with less?</text></comment> |
29,894,119 | 29,894,008 | 1 | 2 | 29,882,389 | train | <story><title>Prices and wages in Medieval England (2014)</title><url>https://medium.com/@zavidovych/what-we-can-learn-by-looking-at-prices-and-wages-in-medieval-england-8dc207cfd20a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>etothepii</author><text>As I understand it the the strength of medieval beer was quite weak (barely intoxicating) and was trusted to be from clean water while regular water from the well might not be.<p>Perhaps this is a little like the way that many people who have ancestry &#x2F; family that come from places without clean water will routinely order a &quot;coke with no ice&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ch4s3</author><text>This sin&#x27;t really true. First, there was decent drinking water in most towns and villages in medieval Europe. Most towns had &quot;masters of conduit&quot; and water carriers dedicated to the task. Second, we have brewers journals dating back some 500 years in England and further back in Germany. Beer is made by mashing or steeping grain in hot water and rinsing it out to produce wort, fermentable sugary&#x2F;protein rich water. Historically this rinsing (sparging) would be done in 2 - 3 runnings with successively less sugar content in each. The 3rd running might produce small beer 1-3% ABV, but the first runnings could produce beer as strong as 10%, or more. sometimes the first and second runnings were combined and diluted. Much like today, beers of various strengths were available. Small beers were popular as a calorie rich energy drink for laborers, but they also had access to stronger drinks. One reason for making beer is the stable storage of surplus grain, and small beer has a very short shelf life.<p>Before mechanization farm work was in many ways less dangerous, with a few notable exceptions. To list only one example, you can easily drive a horse cart with a fairly strong buzz as it&#x27;s slow moving and the horse is largely self guided.</text></comment> | <story><title>Prices and wages in Medieval England (2014)</title><url>https://medium.com/@zavidovych/what-we-can-learn-by-looking-at-prices-and-wages-in-medieval-england-8dc207cfd20a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>etothepii</author><text>As I understand it the the strength of medieval beer was quite weak (barely intoxicating) and was trusted to be from clean water while regular water from the well might not be.<p>Perhaps this is a little like the way that many people who have ancestry &#x2F; family that come from places without clean water will routinely order a &quot;coke with no ice&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neaden</author><text>This is one of those things that has been really exaggerated. Medieval people were concerned with water quality and protecting wells, rivers, and other water sources from pollution&#x2F;poisoning. Beer isn&#x27;t really an efficient way to purify water either, the alcohol isn&#x27;t strong enough to ensure it won&#x27;t make you sick. Much like us though, medieval people didn&#x27;t really like drinking plain water much, as well as beer barley water and various herbal teas were very popular.</text></comment> |
29,457,591 | 29,457,497 | 1 | 3 | 29,456,115 | train | <story><title>Uutils: an attempt at writing cross-platform CLI utilities in Rust</title><url>https://github.com/uutils/coreutils</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradwood</author><text>Wtf is &quot;semi-done&quot;?<p>There is &quot;done&quot; and there is &quot;not done&quot;...</text></item><item><author>rocqua</author><text>Note that in the readme `cp` is listed as semi-done.</text></item><item><author>ridiculous_fish</author><text>Gave it a whirl with `cp`:<p><pre><code> &gt; .&#x2F;target&#x2F;debug&#x2F;cp &#x2F;dev&#x2F;null &#x2F;dev&#x2F;zero
thread &#x27;main&#x27; panicked at &#x27;called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: Os { code: 1, kind: PermissionDenied, message: &quot;Operation not permitted&quot; }&#x27;, src&#x2F;uu&#x2F;cp&#x2F;src&#x2F;cp.rs:1295:54
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Good advice is &quot;don&#x27;t panic.&quot; Trying `mv`:<p><pre><code> &gt; .&#x2F;target&#x2F;debug&#x2F;mv . .
.&#x2F;target&#x2F;debug&#x2F;mv: cannot stat &#x27;.&#x27;: No such file or directory
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oof<p>Anyways the point is that there&#x27;s lots of legitimate institutional knowledge baked into coreutils and a naive RiiR effort will re-introduce previously fixed bugs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smcl</author><text>I imagine &quot;semi-done&quot; means &quot;works enough that it can be dogfooded by the devs and tried out by the curious among us, but does not exactly mirror behaviour of GNU cp in terms of corner cases and error output&quot;.<p>I think we need to be more flexible than classifying things as done&#x2F;not-done. Even GNU coreutils has open issues[0] - is it &quot;done&quot; or &quot;not done&quot;?<p>[0] = <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;debbugs.gnu.org&#x2F;cgi&#x2F;pkgreport.cgi?pkg=coreutils" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;debbugs.gnu.org&#x2F;cgi&#x2F;pkgreport.cgi?pkg=coreutils</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Uutils: an attempt at writing cross-platform CLI utilities in Rust</title><url>https://github.com/uutils/coreutils</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradwood</author><text>Wtf is &quot;semi-done&quot;?<p>There is &quot;done&quot; and there is &quot;not done&quot;...</text></item><item><author>rocqua</author><text>Note that in the readme `cp` is listed as semi-done.</text></item><item><author>ridiculous_fish</author><text>Gave it a whirl with `cp`:<p><pre><code> &gt; .&#x2F;target&#x2F;debug&#x2F;cp &#x2F;dev&#x2F;null &#x2F;dev&#x2F;zero
thread &#x27;main&#x27; panicked at &#x27;called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: Os { code: 1, kind: PermissionDenied, message: &quot;Operation not permitted&quot; }&#x27;, src&#x2F;uu&#x2F;cp&#x2F;src&#x2F;cp.rs:1295:54
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Good advice is &quot;don&#x27;t panic.&quot; Trying `mv`:<p><pre><code> &gt; .&#x2F;target&#x2F;debug&#x2F;mv . .
.&#x2F;target&#x2F;debug&#x2F;mv: cannot stat &#x27;.&#x27;: No such file or directory
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oof<p>Anyways the point is that there&#x27;s lots of legitimate institutional knowledge baked into coreutils and a naive RiiR effort will re-introduce previously fixed bugs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baq</author><text>if you believe that, there is not a single piece of done software in the world, besides perhaps tex.</text></comment> |
11,826,670 | 11,826,727 | 1 | 2 | 11,826,031 | train | <story><title>Apple cloud services outage</title><url>https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akulbe</author><text>Maybe I&#x27;m crazy, but it seems <i>too</i> coincidental that multiple services<p>(Amazon, Facebook, Apple... that I know of, so far)<p>have been affected, <i>on the same day</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zalmoxes</author><text>It&#x27;s related to Akamai DNS.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple cloud services outage</title><url>https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akulbe</author><text>Maybe I&#x27;m crazy, but it seems <i>too</i> coincidental that multiple services<p>(Amazon, Facebook, Apple... that I know of, so far)<p>have been affected, <i>on the same day</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geerlingguy</author><text>Charter (ISP) was also out for over an hour—first time this year it was a complete outage and not just a DNS issue.</text></comment> |
32,388,118 | 32,387,949 | 1 | 3 | 32,386,762 | train | <story><title>Achieving an open-source implementation of Apple Code Signing and notarization</title><url>https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2022/08/08/achieving-a-completely-open-source-implementation-of-apple-code-signing-and-notarization/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ridiculous_fish</author><text>I think Apple&#x27;s official code signing tool is also open source? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Apple-FOSS-Mirror&#x2F;security_systemkeychain&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;codesign.cpp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Apple-FOSS-Mirror&#x2F;security_systemkeychain...</a><p>xar is another tool for codesigning Mac installer packages, which runs on Linux. I&#x27;ve used it successfully in the past.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;users.wfu.edu&#x2F;cottrell&#x2F;productsign&#x2F;productsign_linux.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;users.wfu.edu&#x2F;cottrell&#x2F;productsign&#x2F;productsign_linux...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Achieving an open-source implementation of Apple Code Signing and notarization</title><url>https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2022/08/08/achieving-a-completely-open-source-implementation-of-apple-code-signing-and-notarization/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Sytten</author><text>The only thing left to solve is to actually build cross platform. You can do with rust cross but you have to build your own docker images on macos first since apple licensing prohibits redistribution of binaries. It would save us so much money in github CI minutes.</text></comment> |
34,664,078 | 34,664,181 | 1 | 2 | 34,663,175 | train | <story><title>Gen Z Netiquettes</title><url>https://manyonepercents.substack.com/p/productive-online-communication-gen-z</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>flumpcakes</author><text>&gt; 9. Capitalizing the first letter in a sentence will reveal where you are<p>This one really surprises me, if someone contacted me without bothering to type a proper sentence I would just think they&#x27;re an idiot. Everyone I know <i>always</i> starts a sentence with a capital letter, no matter the platform. They all know how to use the shift key.<p>This isn&#x27;t even gate keeping, people use slang all the time, it is basic English. News, books, articles, tutorials, emails, teams, share point... Everything I read every day has proper capitalization.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>csydas</author><text>I think you&#x27;re being overly harsh on this when it comes to informal communication.<p>As others pointed out, capitalization is similar to white space, punctuation, and other tools that English has when it comes to informal communication.<p>Especially online, you can invoke a lot of imagery and thoughts and emotions by simply playing with the rules of English in a live-chat setting. Try to imagine in a chat the following sentence with different stylizations:<p>&quot;The Customer is always right, so we need to work to correct this&quot;<p>&quot;thE CUsTomer iS aLWays RIght, So WE neEd To WoRK To cOrrECT thiS&quot;<p>&quot;the customer is always right, so we need to work to correct this :))))&quot;<p>The first is quite formal and it&#x27;s direct; perhaps it could be understood as sarcasm if someone knows you well, but it could also be taken at face value and quite seriously, or it could be taken as a throw-away statement.<p>The second indicates a mocking tone and maybe even resentment, taking the time to mimic a meme and also to purposefully make the sentence silly looking.<p>The third introduces the sarcastic smiley (I disagree with the article&#x27;s interpretation, as I&#x27;ve always seen :))) to more represent desperation or exasperation)<p>With traditional rules of English, tone is difficult to convey with a single sentence and it&#x27;s built with the surrounding text as a point of consideration to understand how to interpret a statement; with chat, this is far more difficult to communicate the emotion&#x2F;intention as chats can be very fast and disconnected, and it&#x27;s hard to follow the attitude and mood of a person to understand their intended messaging.<p>You could try to divorce the message from the emotions, which might lead to expediting some discussions, but it also leaves a lot of room for incorrect&#x2F;wrong interpretations. Even if you divorce yourself from such concerns and try to be above it, your conversation partners might not approach it the same way.<p>The evolution of chat might be bastardizing the classic rules of English, but it&#x27;s quite expressive and personally has made many conversations and relationships much easier with fewer misunderstandings.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gen Z Netiquettes</title><url>https://manyonepercents.substack.com/p/productive-online-communication-gen-z</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>flumpcakes</author><text>&gt; 9. Capitalizing the first letter in a sentence will reveal where you are<p>This one really surprises me, if someone contacted me without bothering to type a proper sentence I would just think they&#x27;re an idiot. Everyone I know <i>always</i> starts a sentence with a capital letter, no matter the platform. They all know how to use the shift key.<p>This isn&#x27;t even gate keeping, people use slang all the time, it is basic English. News, books, articles, tutorials, emails, teams, share point... Everything I read every day has proper capitalization.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skupig</author><text>This seems like a very effective way to dismiss people that don&#x27;t share your background. Also, not speaking basic English does not make one an idiot, there are actually quite a few other languages in the world.</text></comment> |
6,063,569 | 6,063,572 | 1 | 3 | 6,062,876 | train | <story><title>Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed on Stack Overflow</title><url>http://www.notconstructive.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neya</author><text>I don&#x27;t know who you are. But if you are the creator of this site, you have my respect from the bottom of my heart.<p>Stackoverflow was wonderful when it was started the way it was. The moderated content was extremely useful. But later, they decided to screw everything up by doing some stupid things like assigning too much power to moderators.<p>I always used to assume SO was more like the real world democracy; if something isn&#x27;t right, you could fix it yourself being an ordinary citizen. However, on SO, that&#x27;s not the case anymore. There is a moderator on top of the users who decides what&#x27;s right and what&#x27;s wrong. And he goes into a &#x27;rage mode ON&#x27; by flagging genuinely useful questions as &#x27;inappropriate&#x27; or &#x27;not suitable for SO&#x27;, as he pleases.<p>How can you challenge his decision? God knows. I&#x27;ve searched round the site to report moderators. Good luck with reporting some rogue moderator. I like the fact that you can flag something offensive easily, but I don&#x27;t like the fact that it&#x27;s not as easy for the reverse.<p>Forget the moderators. Let&#x27;s say you want to ask something about security with sessions in PHP. Good luck finding answers on SO. Your question will be migrated to some weird subdomain.stakcoverflow.com for which you need a separate account to maintain and collect your badges from scratch, again.<p>That&#x27;s why I knew there would be a day when someone would start something like this. Nonconstructive nails it for me. And hopefully for other disappointed SO fans too.<p>Thanks for creating this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rmrfrmrf</author><text>I apologize in advance for sounding like an elitist prick, but in my mind, community-driven sites like StackOverflow, Reddit, Wikipedia, are prone to the noise of do-nothing armchair experts (especially in this economy with the unemployment rate) who have nothing better to do than stir philosophical debates over nothing.<p>As a person with a job who actually needs answers rather than reading through pages upon pages of discourse that goes absolutely nowhere, I appreciate StackOverflow&#x27;s approach to moderation. StackOverflow is a place for specific questions and specific answers, not subjective nonsense questions like &quot;how secure are sessions in PHP?&quot; that, on this &quot;Not Constructive&quot; website, I imagine will be flooded with answers ranging from &quot;PHP SUXXX LOL GO PYTHON&quot; to &quot;In my opinion, sessions are inherently broken blah blah blah&quot;. While the moderators may be able to mitigate these issues a little bit, the problem isn&#x27;t so much with the answers as the <i>question itself</i>, which has no &quot;correct&quot; answer.<p>So, while I can see why people with a lot of free time might want to go to NotConstructive as a diversion, I foresee this site as little more than an informational black hole of back-and-forth BS.</text></comment> | <story><title>Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed on Stack Overflow</title><url>http://www.notconstructive.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neya</author><text>I don&#x27;t know who you are. But if you are the creator of this site, you have my respect from the bottom of my heart.<p>Stackoverflow was wonderful when it was started the way it was. The moderated content was extremely useful. But later, they decided to screw everything up by doing some stupid things like assigning too much power to moderators.<p>I always used to assume SO was more like the real world democracy; if something isn&#x27;t right, you could fix it yourself being an ordinary citizen. However, on SO, that&#x27;s not the case anymore. There is a moderator on top of the users who decides what&#x27;s right and what&#x27;s wrong. And he goes into a &#x27;rage mode ON&#x27; by flagging genuinely useful questions as &#x27;inappropriate&#x27; or &#x27;not suitable for SO&#x27;, as he pleases.<p>How can you challenge his decision? God knows. I&#x27;ve searched round the site to report moderators. Good luck with reporting some rogue moderator. I like the fact that you can flag something offensive easily, but I don&#x27;t like the fact that it&#x27;s not as easy for the reverse.<p>Forget the moderators. Let&#x27;s say you want to ask something about security with sessions in PHP. Good luck finding answers on SO. Your question will be migrated to some weird subdomain.stakcoverflow.com for which you need a separate account to maintain and collect your badges from scratch, again.<p>That&#x27;s why I knew there would be a day when someone would start something like this. Nonconstructive nails it for me. And hopefully for other disappointed SO fans too.<p>Thanks for creating this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cruise02</author><text>Most of what you say here is just nonsense.<p>1. In the vast majority of cases, if you see something not right on Stack Overflow you can fix it yourself. Anyone at all, regardless of reputation, can suggest an edit to any post.<p>2. You can challenge moderator decisions on Meta Stack Overflow, which is linked at the top of every single page on the site. (Or, if you have enough reputation, you can just vote counter to most moderator decisions directly on the site. It is democratic.)<p>3. There are over 1,600 questions about security with sessions in PHP on Stack Overflow. <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=[php]+security+sessions+is%3Aquestion" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;search?q=[php]+security+sessions+is...</a></text></comment> |
12,004,275 | 12,004,148 | 1 | 2 | 12,003,657 | train | <story><title>Ōryōki Web Browser</title><url>http://oryoki.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wz1000</author><text>For anyone interested, here are some web browsers that are actually minimalist and not just reskins of chromium:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;surf.suckless.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;surf.suckless.org&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fanglingsu.github.io&#x2F;vimb&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fanglingsu.github.io&#x2F;vimb&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uzbl.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uzbl.org&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aplaice</author><text>For anyone interested, here are some web browsers that are actually lightweight (if not html5-compliant) and not webkit-based:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dillo.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dillo.org&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.netsurf-browser.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.netsurf-browser.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ōryōki Web Browser</title><url>http://oryoki.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wz1000</author><text>For anyone interested, here are some web browsers that are actually minimalist and not just reskins of chromium:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;surf.suckless.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;surf.suckless.org&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fanglingsu.github.io&#x2F;vimb&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fanglingsu.github.io&#x2F;vimb&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uzbl.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uzbl.org&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vertex-four</author><text>All of those are WebKit-based, which was Chromium&#x27;s rendering engine until recently. The rest of Chromium is primarily UI and network code, along with their sandboxing system and extensions - WebKit&#x27;s &quot;ports&quot; have their own implementation of said network code tying into the framework that they&#x27;re porting to (GTK+ or Qt, usually), and all three browsers you list use the WebKitGTK+ port.<p>uzbl, the one I&#x27;ve used the most, primarily consists of a pile of code to map callbacks to a protocol on stdin&#x2F;stdout, and a handful of example scripts to communicate over that protocol - it&#x27;s certainly no more &quot;from scratch&quot; or smaller than any other WebKit-based browser.<p>I expect that the other two similarly focus on UI code rather than pointlessly fiddling with WebKitGTK+&#x27;s internals - how are they not just skins (albeit of WebKitGTK+, not Chromium) as well?</text></comment> |
17,667,384 | 17,654,738 | 1 | 2 | 17,654,479 | train | <story><title>How we scaled Nginx</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-scaled-nginx-and-saved-the-world-54-years-every-day/?ref</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>enitihas</author><text>Non blocking disk I&#x2F;O is one thing where NT is really ahead of all <i>nix OSes. Unlike say network IO where we have all sorts of platforms(go, node) which allow you to scale by doing async IO, there aren&#x27;t much options for disk I&#x2F;O, primarily because of lack of </i>nix options.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>khc</author><text>Author of the post (and the engineer who did the work) here.<p>There are ways to do non-blocking disk I&#x2F;O in *nix (aio&#x2F;io_submit in linux) but all of which requires you to have an open file descriptor first. Does NT allow you to open a file in an async fashion?</text></comment> | <story><title>How we scaled Nginx</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-scaled-nginx-and-saved-the-world-54-years-every-day/?ref</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>enitihas</author><text>Non blocking disk I&#x2F;O is one thing where NT is really ahead of all <i>nix OSes. Unlike say network IO where we have all sorts of platforms(go, node) which allow you to scale by doing async IO, there aren&#x27;t much options for disk I&#x2F;O, primarily because of lack of </i>nix options.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zzzcpan</author><text>If you mean IOCP API that requires you to hold memory hostage for it, then no, NT sucks at it. The idea behind that API only works well if there is no switch between kernel space and user space. Otherwise you can emulate that awful API with threads on unix-like systems, it will perform the same.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong though, caching&#x2F;file serving in nginx was always very hacky. And blowing latency by blocking on filesystem and yet relying on vfs cache underneath is just one side effect of that.</text></comment> |
41,018,359 | 41,018,265 | 1 | 2 | 41,016,104 | train | <story><title>1989 Networking: NetWare 386</title><url>http://www.os2museum.com/wp/1989-networking-netware-386/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>flomo</author><text>Yep, Netware ran entirely in Ring 0. In linux terminology it was a kernel with no user space, and NLMs were kernel modules. Very fast for file serving, but any application could crash the system. Stability was largely a result of lots of updates. NT had userspace, protected memory, etc, and a GUI for setting up TCP&#x2F;IP.</text></item><item><author>Angostura</author><text>In addition, from what I vaguely recall, one of the big selling point of NT LAN Manager was the ability to deploy network server applications on the server.<p>Novell responded with Netware Loadable Modules, but they weren’t as versatile and needed specialised knowledge&#x2F;tools.</text></item><item><author>mccrory</author><text>MCNE&#x2F;MCSE here from the mid-90’s, agree it was obvious that Netware would likely fade. Windows NT 3.51 (even though it wasn’t as good at the time), was more user friendly and had the Windows interface, compatibility, etc etc
However, it NT wasn’t remotely as stable as Netware at that time either.
Then we got to watch as Novell slowly went insane competing and buying WordPerfect and doing all sorts of other crazy moves.
I still wish that Novell had taken all of its money and bought VMware when they were just working on GSX&#x2F;ESX (now vSphere). This would have changed the trajectory of both Novell and the market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freeopinion</author><text>Netware existed and thrived before NT LAN Manager. NT LAN Manager seemed like the one MS product that couldn&#x27;t make inroads against established competition. It simply wasn&#x27;t as good as Netware.<p>The way I remember it NLMs were pretty stable. Anything on Windows was not stable, userspace or otherwise. Netware&#x27;s TUI was just as good as NT&#x27;s GUI for what it needed to do. It wasn&#x27;t a liability. Netware&#x27;s superior directory service was more important.<p>Netware&#x27;s demise was the transition from IPX to TCIP&#x2F;IP and the explosion of the WWW. And from my perspective it wasn&#x27;t really NT that knocked Netware down. It was Linux and Solaris. Novell kinda saw that coming and tried to figure out a future with SuSE. They just never got the combination of their directory server with Linux right in time. Microsoft stumbled around for some years, but they got their directory services figured out before Novell got their OS story straight in the new world.</text></comment> | <story><title>1989 Networking: NetWare 386</title><url>http://www.os2museum.com/wp/1989-networking-netware-386/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>flomo</author><text>Yep, Netware ran entirely in Ring 0. In linux terminology it was a kernel with no user space, and NLMs were kernel modules. Very fast for file serving, but any application could crash the system. Stability was largely a result of lots of updates. NT had userspace, protected memory, etc, and a GUI for setting up TCP&#x2F;IP.</text></item><item><author>Angostura</author><text>In addition, from what I vaguely recall, one of the big selling point of NT LAN Manager was the ability to deploy network server applications on the server.<p>Novell responded with Netware Loadable Modules, but they weren’t as versatile and needed specialised knowledge&#x2F;tools.</text></item><item><author>mccrory</author><text>MCNE&#x2F;MCSE here from the mid-90’s, agree it was obvious that Netware would likely fade. Windows NT 3.51 (even though it wasn’t as good at the time), was more user friendly and had the Windows interface, compatibility, etc etc
However, it NT wasn’t remotely as stable as Netware at that time either.
Then we got to watch as Novell slowly went insane competing and buying WordPerfect and doing all sorts of other crazy moves.
I still wish that Novell had taken all of its money and bought VMware when they were just working on GSX&#x2F;ESX (now vSphere). This would have changed the trajectory of both Novell and the market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>surfingdino</author><text>&gt; NT had userspace, protected memory, etc, and a GUI for setting up TCP&#x2F;IP.<p>That&#x27;s because Microsoft hired Dave Cutler who previously worked on VMS and knew what he was doing. Microsoft even had their own Unix, but didn&#x27;t know what to do with it.</text></comment> |
8,494,565 | 8,493,497 | 1 | 2 | 8,493,179 | train | <story><title>How Wizards of the Coast distributed equity as a startup</title><url>http://www.peteradkison.com/blog-entry-3-wizards-of-the-coast-equity-distributions-part-2/?2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alexose</author><text>The next generation of startups is going to have to address some employee equity problems, I think. This notion that early hires are going to share a small piece of the 10% employee pool needs to stop.<p>Being employee #1 of a startup can be one of the worst positions a young developer can ask for. Long hours, high stress, low job security, and for what? 0.5% of a company that, if it survives, will most likely dilute its shares?<p>A startup could really set itself apart by advertising more progressive structure-- One where shares in the company aren&#x27;t treated like a lottery ticket, but an actual piece of value that is worth growing. Too bad VCs don&#x27;t see it that way.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Wizards of the Coast distributed equity as a startup</title><url>http://www.peteradkison.com/blog-entry-3-wizards-of-the-coast-equity-distributions-part-2/?2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GeneralMayhem</author><text>This is a great story, and I&#x27;m glad it worked out for them, but it&#x27;s important to keep in mind that it&#x27;s only one data point. This is exactly the sort of &quot;I&#x27;ll pay you in equity, and once my great idea makes it big you&#x27;ll be rich!&quot; approach that HN usually hates, because 99% of the time said payout never comes.</text></comment> |
14,744,064 | 14,744,083 | 1 | 2 | 14,743,092 | train | <story><title>Kaspersky Lab Has Been Working with Russian Intelligence</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-11/kaspersky-lab-has-been-working-with-russian-intelligence</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gtirloni</author><text>The article seems a bit hyperbolic to me. Expecting a major Russian cybersecurity company not to have any business with its own government is a bit naive. Not all government business is spying and unlawful activities.<p>From what Bloomberg is sharing with us (I couldn&#x27;t find those emails), Kaspersky is developing a software solution with defensive and offensive capabilities as well as providing consultancy services to the FSB in hunting down criminals (Bloomberg says Kaspersky is &quot;banging down doors&quot;).</text></comment> | <story><title>Kaspersky Lab Has Been Working with Russian Intelligence</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-11/kaspersky-lab-has-been-working-with-russian-intelligence</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marcusjt</author><text>Whatever next? Have American AV companies been &quot;Working with American Intelligence&quot;? That would be just as shocking... ;)</text></comment> |
29,577,693 | 29,577,726 | 1 | 2 | 29,577,056 | train | <story><title>Russian court accidentally confirmed Russian military presence in Ukraine</title><url>https://www.znak.com/2021-12-16/rostovskiy_sud_opublikoval_prigovor_s_podtverzhdeniem_prisutstviya_voennyh_rf_v_donbasse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmacd</author><text>I think we in the west need something like a &#x27;doctrine of the foregone conclusion&#x27;.<p>Often things are very obvious, even notorious, but because we do not want to face the eventuality, we do things like negotiate or perseverate our denials all while the situation escalates.<p>If NATO and the west are ready and willing to defend Ukraine (I suspect we are not), in which case a significant increase in our own presence would have made sense much earlier.<p>If we are not willing, then the Ukrainians really should be told that and given an opportunity to negotiate or find their own way.<p>I&#x27;m not sure that Cold War style standoffs via obscurity work the way they used to, there is just too much information available. The job is not to hide information or turn a blind eye to it, but rather to create as much or more activity and information as the opposing side.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rich_sasha</author><text>I suspect Ukraine was told quite clearly what they can expect, and as you say, it comes short of NATO boots on the ground, or wings in the sky.<p>I&#x27;d say no one ever really <i>wants</i> to defend an ally, it&#x27;s more of a pros-and-cons balance. For smaller countries, solidarity within NATO is building goodwill capital for when they need help (e.g. with allies following US into Afghanistan). For large countries, this is part of their empire-building: showing allies you support them makes them more favourably disposed to you. All-around, even for the US, it raises the bar for anyone contemplating an attack on a NATO member.<p>Ukraine is a colleague but not an ally, so these don&#x27;t really apply as much.<p>That said, the West wants an independent, pro-western Ukraine (just not enough to fight a direct war with Russia over), and seems unusually resolute, so I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if some truly punitive actions were to be taken. Exclusion from SWIFT was one proposal, interfering with Russian energy exports would be catastrophic for Russia. The latter is very difficult for Europe in winter, but who knows; the US could open the tap with their gas, also if the whole thing gets delayed by a few months, it could be a very different perspective.</text></comment> | <story><title>Russian court accidentally confirmed Russian military presence in Ukraine</title><url>https://www.znak.com/2021-12-16/rostovskiy_sud_opublikoval_prigovor_s_podtverzhdeniem_prisutstviya_voennyh_rf_v_donbasse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmacd</author><text>I think we in the west need something like a &#x27;doctrine of the foregone conclusion&#x27;.<p>Often things are very obvious, even notorious, but because we do not want to face the eventuality, we do things like negotiate or perseverate our denials all while the situation escalates.<p>If NATO and the west are ready and willing to defend Ukraine (I suspect we are not), in which case a significant increase in our own presence would have made sense much earlier.<p>If we are not willing, then the Ukrainians really should be told that and given an opportunity to negotiate or find their own way.<p>I&#x27;m not sure that Cold War style standoffs via obscurity work the way they used to, there is just too much information available. The job is not to hide information or turn a blind eye to it, but rather to create as much or more activity and information as the opposing side.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>3pt14159</author><text>The west will not protect Ukraine for two giant reasons.<p>1. Russia has gas over Germany.<p>2. Amassing troops on Russia&#x27;s boarder without an alliance with Ukraine is politically challenging.<p>3. America is sick of war and doesn&#x27;t have a good looking balance sheet.<p>4. China is the new meta. Taiwan is tough enough.<p>5. Joining Nato is a process starts with have a certain level of democratic freedom and market economy that Ukraine is in the process of attaining. If we defend them right now, then it undermines the reforms we want them to make before joining. Once they&#x27;re in, they&#x27;re our problem.<p>6. Covid and knock-on effects is still the focus.<p>Doesn&#x27;t mean I love it, but it&#x27;s the reality. Personally I&#x27;d do things differently, but I don&#x27;t exactly have presidential intelligence reports now do I?</text></comment> |
12,176,986 | 12,177,056 | 1 | 2 | 12,176,837 | train | <story><title>How the United Arab Emirates Intelligence Tried to Hire Me to Spy on Its People</title><url>https://www.evilsocket.net/2016/07/27/How-The-United-Arab-Emirates-Intelligence-Tried-to-Hire-me-to-Spy-on-its-People/#.V5kvSWj9f78.hackernews</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>erlehmann_</author><text>It is not mentioned in the article, but the UAE is a country with sharia law: Flogging is a punishment for criminal offences such as adultery, premarital sex and alcohol consumption, while apostasy and homosexuality are crimes punishable by death. Amputation and crucification are legal punishments. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Human_rights_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Human_rights_in_the_United_Ara...</a><p>I wonder if the author is afraid of retribution (e.g. abduction, “disappearance”).</text></comment> | <story><title>How the United Arab Emirates Intelligence Tried to Hire Me to Spy on Its People</title><url>https://www.evilsocket.net/2016/07/27/How-The-United-Arab-Emirates-Intelligence-Tried-to-Hire-me-to-Spy-on-its-People/#.V5kvSWj9f78.hackernews</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hackaflocka</author><text>Little known fact:<p>Most top intelligence officials from Western countries retire to form &quot;security analysis and consulting&quot; firms.<p>Rudy Giuliani has such a firm. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.giulianisecurity.com&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;us&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.giulianisecurity.com&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;us&#x2F;</a><p>His former Police Chief has one. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thekerikgroup.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thekerikgroup.com&#x2F;</a><p>Most former U.S. Secretaries of Homeland Security have one (each). Look up <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chertoffgroup.com&#x2F;team.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chertoffgroup.com&#x2F;team.php</a><p>Ever wondered what exactly they do? They help wealthy dictators and despots in other countries monitor their populations, and crush dissent.</text></comment> |
12,129,847 | 12,128,303 | 1 | 3 | 12,126,284 | train | <story><title>When a crow dies, the other crows investigate the cause of death (2015)</title><url>http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/10/151003-animals-science-crows-birds-culture-brains/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SiVal</author><text>A VERY timely article for me. About a month ago here in Silicon Valley, I noticed that a crow had been violently torn apart and the pieces scattered all over my backyard lawn. I assume the killer was a raccoon--another improbably intelligent animal. How those fat, little ninjas do what they do is beyond me, but one had apparently caught a crow. A few hours after I noticed the carnage, I grabbed a paper grocery bag and some rubber gloves and went outside to collect the crow parts.<p>As soon as I touched the first piece (a large, black, detached wing), a dozen crows appeared out of nowhere flying in tight circles over my head (about the height of the roof of my 2-story house) and shrieking. They must have been standing watch for hours waiting to see what would happen. Within a minute or so, their numbers had doubled, swarming like bees and screeching. They went so berserk that I thought for sure they would swoop down and peck at me like Alfred Hitchcock&#x27;s &quot;The Birds&quot;, but they didn&#x27;t. They stayed up there and screeched the whole time I was cleaning up (maybe ten minutes).<p>I took the bag over to the recycling bin on the side of the house. Property is expensive, so the houses are close together leaving only a narrow slit of sky above me. The crows followed me and flew back and forth right above the gap, still screeching at me. <i>I</i> hadn&#x27;t killed the bird, but they were acting like an angry mob blaming the wrong guy.<p>I was already aware of the studies showing that crows recognize individual people and can bear grudges for years. I was afraid that&#x27;s what I was going to end up with, but after that event, they never bothered me again, and I see crows around my house frequently. Maybe they DID know that I wasn&#x27;t the killer, but they had some other agenda. From my perspective, they (and raccoons) are essentially alien intelligences living among us that I always underestimate and still don&#x27;t understand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>resolaibohp</author><text>You are right, they are very interesting in their displays of intelligence. One time when I was hunting, there were a group of crows near my camp site. They would come down and investigate where I was staying looking for any scraps of food. As soon as my gun was visible they would all fly several hundred yards away and observe me from a safe distance. Once I put my gun away they would all return back to my camp site to look around.<p>It was very clear they knew exactly what the gun was, and knew to stay clear of it when they saw it. I never thought about crows the same after that.</text></comment> | <story><title>When a crow dies, the other crows investigate the cause of death (2015)</title><url>http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/10/151003-animals-science-crows-birds-culture-brains/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SiVal</author><text>A VERY timely article for me. About a month ago here in Silicon Valley, I noticed that a crow had been violently torn apart and the pieces scattered all over my backyard lawn. I assume the killer was a raccoon--another improbably intelligent animal. How those fat, little ninjas do what they do is beyond me, but one had apparently caught a crow. A few hours after I noticed the carnage, I grabbed a paper grocery bag and some rubber gloves and went outside to collect the crow parts.<p>As soon as I touched the first piece (a large, black, detached wing), a dozen crows appeared out of nowhere flying in tight circles over my head (about the height of the roof of my 2-story house) and shrieking. They must have been standing watch for hours waiting to see what would happen. Within a minute or so, their numbers had doubled, swarming like bees and screeching. They went so berserk that I thought for sure they would swoop down and peck at me like Alfred Hitchcock&#x27;s &quot;The Birds&quot;, but they didn&#x27;t. They stayed up there and screeched the whole time I was cleaning up (maybe ten minutes).<p>I took the bag over to the recycling bin on the side of the house. Property is expensive, so the houses are close together leaving only a narrow slit of sky above me. The crows followed me and flew back and forth right above the gap, still screeching at me. <i>I</i> hadn&#x27;t killed the bird, but they were acting like an angry mob blaming the wrong guy.<p>I was already aware of the studies showing that crows recognize individual people and can bear grudges for years. I was afraid that&#x27;s what I was going to end up with, but after that event, they never bothered me again, and I see crows around my house frequently. Maybe they DID know that I wasn&#x27;t the killer, but they had some other agenda. From my perspective, they (and raccoons) are essentially alien intelligences living among us that I always underestimate and still don&#x27;t understand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Unklejoe</author><text>[They stayed up there and screeched the whole time I was cleaning up (maybe ten minutes).]<p>I probably would have went inside and left the remains to nature. I commend your bravery. It seems like a squad of crows could do some real damage to a person.<p>Also, I can confirm that raccoons are very intelligent. They&#x27;re basically like dogs but with more &quot;street smarts&quot;. I learned this after trying to get one to leave my attic.<p>Also, a side note about Raccoons: be sure not to expose yourself to their droppings (for example, if one is living in your attic, don&#x27;t go and clean up their droppings without proper protection). They can apparently contain some airborne parasite which can kill you in days if inhaled.</text></comment> |
38,797,560 | 38,797,585 | 1 | 3 | 38,795,308 | train | <story><title>Mozilla 2023 annual report: CEO pay skyrockets, Firefox market share nosedives</title><url>https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5053290/mozilla-2023-annual-report-ceo-pay-skyrockets-while-firefox-marketshare-nosedives</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrazomor</author><text>&gt; a large part of the modern internet users are mobile-only, and the amount of people who use anything but what Google tells them to (or Apple allows them to) is vanishingly small.<p>I&#x27;m a Chrome user. Both on desktop and mobile because of the built in syncing.<p>If I were able to switch to Firefox mobile (Android), I would. But the rendering is often broken or awkwardly different on Firefox mobile. I thought this is a thing of the past...</text></item><item><author>Semaphor</author><text>I posted some stats from our website a few weeks ago [0], GA was heavily undercounting FF compared to our server-side stats based on UAs.<p>One other thing to remember, is to check the falling of desktop usage, because a large part of the modern internet users are mobile-only, and the amount of people who use anything but what Google tells them to (or Apple allows them to) is vanishingly small.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38533109">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38533109</a></text></item><item><author>woodruffw</author><text>In a previous thread (these &quot;Mozilla is dead&quot; threads appear perennially) someone pointed out that Firefox&#x27;s apparent marketshare drop is potentially indistinguishable from their deployment of privacy-improving features, including stubbing out Google Analytics when &quot;Enhanced Tracking Protection&quot; is enabled.<p>I&#x27;m a Firefox user, so I have a vested interest in Mozilla&#x27;s long term health and financial viability. But &quot;marketshare nosedives&quot; appears to be primarily an editorialization to fit the post&#x27;s larger narrative.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>miah_</author><text>Firefox on android also has syncing, you can open up the &#x27;share&#x27; and send pages directly to your various firefox browsers. It will sync passwords etc. I haven&#x27;t had any rendering issues and have been using FFM-Nightly for years now.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mozilla 2023 annual report: CEO pay skyrockets, Firefox market share nosedives</title><url>https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5053290/mozilla-2023-annual-report-ceo-pay-skyrockets-while-firefox-marketshare-nosedives</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrazomor</author><text>&gt; a large part of the modern internet users are mobile-only, and the amount of people who use anything but what Google tells them to (or Apple allows them to) is vanishingly small.<p>I&#x27;m a Chrome user. Both on desktop and mobile because of the built in syncing.<p>If I were able to switch to Firefox mobile (Android), I would. But the rendering is often broken or awkwardly different on Firefox mobile. I thought this is a thing of the past...</text></item><item><author>Semaphor</author><text>I posted some stats from our website a few weeks ago [0], GA was heavily undercounting FF compared to our server-side stats based on UAs.<p>One other thing to remember, is to check the falling of desktop usage, because a large part of the modern internet users are mobile-only, and the amount of people who use anything but what Google tells them to (or Apple allows them to) is vanishingly small.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38533109">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38533109</a></text></item><item><author>woodruffw</author><text>In a previous thread (these &quot;Mozilla is dead&quot; threads appear perennially) someone pointed out that Firefox&#x27;s apparent marketshare drop is potentially indistinguishable from their deployment of privacy-improving features, including stubbing out Google Analytics when &quot;Enhanced Tracking Protection&quot; is enabled.<p>I&#x27;m a Firefox user, so I have a vested interest in Mozilla&#x27;s long term health and financial viability. But &quot;marketshare nosedives&quot; appears to be primarily an editorialization to fit the post&#x27;s larger narrative.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Semaphor</author><text>I exclusively use FF, with Chrome on Android and Desktop only being there for cross browser testing, I never have rendering issues, only issues brought by extensions (mainly uBlock Origin), or FF’s tracking protection, both of which can be disabled.</text></comment> |
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