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12,641,560 | 12,640,130 | 1 | 3 | 12,637,166 | train | <story><title>Bill Gross warns financial markets have become 'a Vegas casino'</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-funds-janus-gross-idUSKCN12415V</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justinlardinois</author><text>&gt; Gross, who oversees the $1.5 billion Janus Global Unconstrained Bond Fund, recommended Bitcoin and gold for investors who are looking for places to preserve capital.<p>Because wild Bitcoin fluctuations are somehow <i>less</i> akin to gambling than the securities market?<p>Glad he also threw in some &quot;buy gold&quot; scaremongering too.<p>Does Janus benefit somehow from this kind of talk?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ddeck</author><text>That was a surprisingly sensational interpretation by Reuters of the original quote. Looking at the source, he didn&#x27;t recommend these assets. What was actually wrote was:<p><i>&quot;At some point investors — leery and indeed weary of receiving negative or near zero returns on their money, may at the margin desert the standard financial complex, for higher returning or better yet, less risky alternatives. Bitcoin and privately agreed upon block chain technologies amongst a small set of global banks, are just a few examples of attempts to stabilize the value of their current assets in future purchasing power terms. Gold would be another example — historic relic that it is. In any case, the current system is beginning to be challenged&quot;</i></text></comment> | <story><title>Bill Gross warns financial markets have become 'a Vegas casino'</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-funds-janus-gross-idUSKCN12415V</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justinlardinois</author><text>&gt; Gross, who oversees the $1.5 billion Janus Global Unconstrained Bond Fund, recommended Bitcoin and gold for investors who are looking for places to preserve capital.<p>Because wild Bitcoin fluctuations are somehow <i>less</i> akin to gambling than the securities market?<p>Glad he also threw in some &quot;buy gold&quot; scaremongering too.<p>Does Janus benefit somehow from this kind of talk?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duaneb</author><text>&gt; Glad he also threw in some &quot;buy gold&quot; scaremongering too.<p>I&#x27;ll bite; why is gold a bad investment? Does it not have low risk and stable value? Hell, these days it even has REAL value as a special metal.</text></comment> |
26,764,949 | 26,763,697 | 1 | 3 | 26,761,808 | train | <story><title>End of support for Firefox on Amazon devices</title><url>https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-support-firefox-amazon-devices</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>voxadam</author><text>Fire OS 7 is based on Android 9 with API level 28. So, yeah, it&#x27;s not exactly cutting edge.</text></item><item><author>wpietri</author><text>I&#x27;d love to hear the story behind this. Are Amazon devices drifting too far from Android to be easily supported?<p>I&#x27;m fine with Firefox dropping niche platforms and focusing resources on actual users. (Most stats don&#x27;t even cover the Amazon devices; the only mention I could find of Silk usage was 0.02% of traffic.) But it surprises me that Amazon&#x27;s devices are now far enough off from regular Android that there&#x27;s a support burden. Anybody here shipping apps for Fire who can explain?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>david_allison</author><text>API 28 is released in 2018, 2 versions behind the latest.<p>It&#x27;s a sad state of software development that we so quickly drop support for older hardware, it contributes massively to e-waste, although Android manufacturers shoulder a lot of the blame for not supporting OS upgrades.<p>Context: Put out a (hopefully) final release for API 16 last month. It&#x27;ll mean that 15,000 people can no longer update the app. From analytics, we still have users on Android 1.5 (API 3)</text></comment> | <story><title>End of support for Firefox on Amazon devices</title><url>https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-support-firefox-amazon-devices</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>voxadam</author><text>Fire OS 7 is based on Android 9 with API level 28. So, yeah, it&#x27;s not exactly cutting edge.</text></item><item><author>wpietri</author><text>I&#x27;d love to hear the story behind this. Are Amazon devices drifting too far from Android to be easily supported?<p>I&#x27;m fine with Firefox dropping niche platforms and focusing resources on actual users. (Most stats don&#x27;t even cover the Amazon devices; the only mention I could find of Silk usage was 0.02% of traffic.) But it surprises me that Amazon&#x27;s devices are now far enough off from regular Android that there&#x27;s a support burden. Anybody here shipping apps for Fire who can explain?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>osmarks</author><text>Two versions behind is actually better than the majority of Android phones in the wild.</text></comment> |
16,735,054 | 16,735,412 | 1 | 3 | 16,734,185 | train | <story><title>The End of Windows</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2018/the-end-of-windows/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asveikau</author><text>I still can&#x27;t wrap my head around everything that was wrongheaded about Windows 8, and I was working there for most of its dev cycle.<p>One wonders what would have happened if they just sort of let Windows be Windows. I.e. if they had continued iterating on core stuff but left UI and general philosophy resembling Win7&#x27;s trajectory and not tried to force people into WinRT&#x2F;UWP&#x2F;store.<p>Even though Win10 attempted corrective action it always struck me that it was still accepting the fundamental thesis of Win8. They still kept with the Orwellian redefinition of phrases like &quot;Windows app&quot; to mean very recent, immature and unproven technology. They were still talking about ARM devices that don&#x27;t let you do a straightforward recompile of old code. They were still pushing the Store as the only means to distribute software, where even Apple has not succeeded in changing people&#x27;s habits on the desktop.<p>I hope that with a weaker organization, people keeping the lights on for Windows will know to not shake things up too severely and ease up on pushing some of these silly ideas. I somehow doubt it. I&#x27;ve been hoping for that for... 7 years?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cptskippy</author><text>&gt; One wonders what would have happened if they just sort of let Windows be Windows. I.e. if they had continued iterating on core stuff but left UI and general philosophy resembling Win7&#x27;s trajectory and not tried to force people into WinRT&#x2F;UWP&#x2F;store.<p>With Windows 8 they tried to do too much too quickly and not well, however their motivations and intention were spot on in my opinion. Security has always been a pain point for Windows and it&#x27;s only been getting worse, the Store introduced a sandbox like that found on iOS and Android. ARM, iOS, and Android showed that modern hardware and software can produce power efficiencies that put x86 and Windows to shame. UWP introduced hardware independence and a modern development framework that would put Windows Apps on a level playing field with iOS and Android.<p>The problem was that Microsoft thought that merely by virtue of their existence, developers would adopt UWP&#x2F;Store despite the path forward being a huge pain in the ass. We see how that played out. With Windows 10 we&#x27;ve seen a course correction and a change in strategy. You can have traditional Applications sandboxed in the Store, and you can have UWP Apps outside the Store. Microsoft bought Xamarin and is folding it into UWP, the intent is to not just have hardware independence with UWP but also OS independence.</text></comment> | <story><title>The End of Windows</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2018/the-end-of-windows/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asveikau</author><text>I still can&#x27;t wrap my head around everything that was wrongheaded about Windows 8, and I was working there for most of its dev cycle.<p>One wonders what would have happened if they just sort of let Windows be Windows. I.e. if they had continued iterating on core stuff but left UI and general philosophy resembling Win7&#x27;s trajectory and not tried to force people into WinRT&#x2F;UWP&#x2F;store.<p>Even though Win10 attempted corrective action it always struck me that it was still accepting the fundamental thesis of Win8. They still kept with the Orwellian redefinition of phrases like &quot;Windows app&quot; to mean very recent, immature and unproven technology. They were still talking about ARM devices that don&#x27;t let you do a straightforward recompile of old code. They were still pushing the Store as the only means to distribute software, where even Apple has not succeeded in changing people&#x27;s habits on the desktop.<p>I hope that with a weaker organization, people keeping the lights on for Windows will know to not shake things up too severely and ease up on pushing some of these silly ideas. I somehow doubt it. I&#x27;ve been hoping for that for... 7 years?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonh</author><text>It would have helped if they hadn’t done everything they could possibly imagine to fragment windows as much as possible. Six SKUs of Windows desktop, then on top of those two entire desktop UI environments in desktop and Metro, then Windows on ARM, then shifting from one new development stack to another, then another. Then mandating store apps. This was foot shooting on full automatic, clip after clip. I switched to a Mac desktops in 2007 before Vista so I watched all of this with stunned bemusement and to be honest have little idea how it affected users and Devs reliant on the platform, except from reading the occasional article by Paul Thurrott.</text></comment> |
2,307,082 | 2,307,133 | 1 | 3 | 2,306,289 | train | <story><title>Xcode now costs US$ 4.99</title><url>http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id422352214</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>A1kmm</author><text>I'm an academic who develops Free / Open Source software and distributes libraries and binaries for the Windows, x86 and x86_64 Linux and Mac platforms along with the source. One important library generates C code based on a domain specific language, links a shared object and uses that; on Windows and Linux, we ship a cut back gcc and libtools to do that; libtools doesn't work on the Mac (at least last time I looked into it), so we asked Apple for permission to distribute their linker back in 2005, and they said no, so we have been telling Mac users to sign up for a developer account and install XCode (stupid since they had to download multiple gigabytes for a fairly small binary).<p>Even getting XCode for our own use to put on our Mac build server will be difficult now; $4.99 may be a token price, but any price in the academic world means that things have to get charged against a cost centre; policies mean it probably can't be charged as IT overhead (like Mac build servers and operating systems can) because it is specifically for development, so it needs to be justified as part of a grant. For things like that, the University will probably want Apple to go a months long process to become a designated approver (Apple hardware is not normally purchased direct from Apple), and to pay for things like that by purchase order - the administrative cost of which would be greatly more than $4.99.<p>The end result of all this is that Apple will probably not be a supported platform for our software any more, and users will be asked to use a virtual machine or move to a different platform if they want to use our software.<p>Apple is already one of the most difficult platforms to develop on, largely because of the way their linker and object loaders work; it is one of the few platforms (I think Irix is another) where objects to be opened with a dlopen like mechanism are in a different format to normal shared objects; making the barriers higher for academic users trying to develop multi-platform software will simply result in academic and other free software being less available on Mac; some academic users like being on Mac, but I expect that as it becomes progressively more of a disadvantage and Apple becomes more of a pariah, this will change.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jckarter</author><text>Every Mac still ships with Xcode on the OS install disc, as do the OS X upgrade discs. Let's wait until Lion comes out before assuming that won't be the case anymore.</text></comment> | <story><title>Xcode now costs US$ 4.99</title><url>http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id422352214</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>A1kmm</author><text>I'm an academic who develops Free / Open Source software and distributes libraries and binaries for the Windows, x86 and x86_64 Linux and Mac platforms along with the source. One important library generates C code based on a domain specific language, links a shared object and uses that; on Windows and Linux, we ship a cut back gcc and libtools to do that; libtools doesn't work on the Mac (at least last time I looked into it), so we asked Apple for permission to distribute their linker back in 2005, and they said no, so we have been telling Mac users to sign up for a developer account and install XCode (stupid since they had to download multiple gigabytes for a fairly small binary).<p>Even getting XCode for our own use to put on our Mac build server will be difficult now; $4.99 may be a token price, but any price in the academic world means that things have to get charged against a cost centre; policies mean it probably can't be charged as IT overhead (like Mac build servers and operating systems can) because it is specifically for development, so it needs to be justified as part of a grant. For things like that, the University will probably want Apple to go a months long process to become a designated approver (Apple hardware is not normally purchased direct from Apple), and to pay for things like that by purchase order - the administrative cost of which would be greatly more than $4.99.<p>The end result of all this is that Apple will probably not be a supported platform for our software any more, and users will be asked to use a virtual machine or move to a different platform if they want to use our software.<p>Apple is already one of the most difficult platforms to develop on, largely because of the way their linker and object loaders work; it is one of the few platforms (I think Irix is another) where objects to be opened with a dlopen like mechanism are in a different format to normal shared objects; making the barriers higher for academic users trying to develop multi-platform software will simply result in academic and other free software being less available on Mac; some academic users like being on Mac, but I expect that as it becomes progressively more of a disadvantage and Apple becomes more of a pariah, this will change.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmastrac</author><text>The GCC toolchain can link Mach-O binaries without using any code from Apple. Building GCC cross-compilers like this is a pain, but crosstools takes a bit of that away:<p><a href="http://www.kegel.com/crosstool/" rel="nofollow">http://www.kegel.com/crosstool/</a><p>Basically, you can generate your own binaries and ship them under the GPL. No Apple needed.<p>I'll ask for more info from someone I know who built an OSX cross-compiler under Linux.</text></comment> |
33,795,910 | 33,792,139 | 1 | 2 | 33,789,940 | train | <story><title>Tales of the M1 GPU</title><url>https://asahilinux.org/2022/11/tales-of-the-m1-gpu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mistletoe</author><text>I like your optimism, but it seems more like a Phillip K. Dick novel to me.<p>&gt;In 2021, society is driven by a virtual Internet, which has created a degenerate effect called &quot;nerve attenuation syndrome&quot; or NAS. Megacorporations control much of the world, intensifying the class hostility already created by NAS.<p>from Johnny Mnemonic<p>What can we do to make it more utopian?</text></item><item><author>dimator</author><text>watching a virtual persona stream their development of their M1 GPU drivers is one of the most cyberpunk things I&#x27;ve ever seen! it&#x27;s easy to forget that this world is looking closer and closer to those dreamed up by Gibson, Stephenson, etc. what a time to be alive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevingadd</author><text>It&#x27;s an interesting set of tradeoffs - vtubing has made it possible for people to be on-screen personalities who normally would not able to as easily because it can be very hard to overcome problems with your IRL appearance. That stuff <i>really</i> matters if you want to succeed on YouTube or Twitch. In comparison if you want to be a vtuber, there are relatively affordable ways to grab a stock model and customize it. You can also just commission a custom one from an artist and rigger - though I think the cost of that is sadly out of reach of an amateur it&#x27;s not as high as you might assume.<p>If you stream without a face camera at all it generally hurts your ability to grow an audience, and unfortunately our society is still pretty focused on appearance so if you don&#x27;t look great you&#x27;re going to potentially get a lot of toxicity in your chat. A vtuber avatar acts as an equalizer in this sense and also lets people express their personality and aesthetics visually in a way that might not otherwise be easy - they can pick eye and hair colors they think represent them without having to use colored contacts or hair dyes, etc.<p>A few different people I know found that having a vtuber avatar made it much easier for them to get into streaming regularly and it did grow their audience, so I&#x27;m happy to see the technology catch on and improve.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tales of the M1 GPU</title><url>https://asahilinux.org/2022/11/tales-of-the-m1-gpu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mistletoe</author><text>I like your optimism, but it seems more like a Phillip K. Dick novel to me.<p>&gt;In 2021, society is driven by a virtual Internet, which has created a degenerate effect called &quot;nerve attenuation syndrome&quot; or NAS. Megacorporations control much of the world, intensifying the class hostility already created by NAS.<p>from Johnny Mnemonic<p>What can we do to make it more utopian?</text></item><item><author>dimator</author><text>watching a virtual persona stream their development of their M1 GPU drivers is one of the most cyberpunk things I&#x27;ve ever seen! it&#x27;s easy to forget that this world is looking closer and closer to those dreamed up by Gibson, Stephenson, etc. what a time to be alive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattnewton</author><text>Small nit but I was confused, I think Johnny Mnemonic is Gibbson? And I had to look up NAS, I think that part of the movie not the book. I think we have another couple decades before androids and mood organs of Phillip K dick at least but I could be wrong. But parts of Gibbsonian cyberpunk is already here!</text></comment> |
29,440,694 | 29,440,457 | 1 | 2 | 29,440,225 | train | <story><title>FirefoxPWA: Progressive Web Apps for Firefox</title><url>https://github.com/filips123/FirefoxPWA</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>indymike</author><text>This tool is named deceptively. It makes it sound like Firefox has broken or missing support for PWAs. Firefox has great support for pwas. My team shipped our app as a pwa in May and it was easy to do and works 100% in both chrome and Firefox.<p>It appears this is more of a packager that tries to turn a website into a pwa and makes it install more like a native app. I may try it out, but the name is horrible and damaging to Firefox so I&#x27;ll probably not ship until that name is changed.</text></comment> | <story><title>FirefoxPWA: Progressive Web Apps for Firefox</title><url>https://github.com/filips123/FirefoxPWA</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blowski</author><text>We need to protest against how Apple cripples PWAs on iPhones. Sure some apps might be more efficient as native apps, but let me choose.</text></comment> |
5,188,024 | 5,187,832 | 1 | 3 | 5,187,585 | train | <story><title>Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a super-productive programmer (2011)</title><url>http://blog.smartbear.com/software-quality/bid/167059/Fabrice-Bellard-Portrait-of-a-Superproductive-Programmer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yorak</author><text>The question from previous discussion remains unanswered. How does he finance his production of top notch open source software? At least for me, the day to day churn of my day job leaves me too mentally exhausted to chase the crazy ideas I get from time to time, let alone finish them.<p>Imagine a world where hackers, artists and artisans could follow their passions and could chase crazy ideas without a risk of losing the roof on top of their heads and butter over their bread. How many Bellards, we as a humanity, would have running around flinging great code, solving great problems and giving away the fruits of their hard work?<p>I think we could afford it if we really wanted. If the world just accepted that because of automation fewer and fewer people are needed to work in production (food, items etc.) a huge untapped innovative potential is waiting to be unleashed. In playing Civilization this would be easy, just a click and your society has changed the emphasis of it's production to sciences and art. But how to do this in real life?<p>I guess I just have to wait and see if the government of Finland gets around and issues citizen’s income as propagated by the Green party. That would be a start and the consequences would be really interesting to see.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davedx</author><text>It's one of the main reasons I decided to become a freelancer. I've been at it for a few months and I can now pull in 5-6k euros for a month long project. This leaves me the option to either work the whole year if I can keep things pipelined and come out with a really nice income, or spend decent chunks of time on my own projects. I'm currently still figuring out the balance between those two. Just had a week off between projects, for example.<p>The only thing is, I actually work harder on my freelance projects and have less "idle time" than in permanent positions, so I am a bit more tired during projects.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a super-productive programmer (2011)</title><url>http://blog.smartbear.com/software-quality/bid/167059/Fabrice-Bellard-Portrait-of-a-Superproductive-Programmer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yorak</author><text>The question from previous discussion remains unanswered. How does he finance his production of top notch open source software? At least for me, the day to day churn of my day job leaves me too mentally exhausted to chase the crazy ideas I get from time to time, let alone finish them.<p>Imagine a world where hackers, artists and artisans could follow their passions and could chase crazy ideas without a risk of losing the roof on top of their heads and butter over their bread. How many Bellards, we as a humanity, would have running around flinging great code, solving great problems and giving away the fruits of their hard work?<p>I think we could afford it if we really wanted. If the world just accepted that because of automation fewer and fewer people are needed to work in production (food, items etc.) a huge untapped innovative potential is waiting to be unleashed. In playing Civilization this would be easy, just a click and your society has changed the emphasis of it's production to sciences and art. But how to do this in real life?<p>I guess I just have to wait and see if the government of Finland gets around and issues citizen’s income as propagated by the Green party. That would be a start and the consequences would be really interesting to see.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fijal</author><text>I'm essentially doing it. It's hard. You have to quit your job and organize income. For me it's a combination of open source donations and consulting with living in a relatively low income (and low cost) country, so consulting can pay for a lot more, if you do it on a global scale.</text></comment> |
3,360,366 | 3,359,712 | 1 | 2 | 3,358,738 | train | <story><title>An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress </title><url>http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/internet-inventors-warn-against-sopa-and-pipa</url><text>An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>snowmaker</author><text>I noticed Vint Cerf specified "signing as private citizen". Does anyone know why Google tied his hands?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>obtu</author><text>Because this one is the letter from internet engineers. Google had to enter the lobbying game, but the view point of individuals should be more important to a society than the “money as free speech” of corporations.</text></comment> | <story><title>An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress </title><url>http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/internet-inventors-warn-against-sopa-and-pipa</url><text>An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>snowmaker</author><text>I noticed Vint Cerf specified "signing as private citizen". Does anyone know why Google tied his hands?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moultano</author><text><a href="https://plus.google.com/104233435224873922474/posts/AsjeBDMbA2L" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/104233435224873922474/posts/AsjeBDMb...</a><p>I don't think they did (or would.)</text></comment> |
29,678,262 | 29,678,033 | 1 | 2 | 29,673,891 | train | <story><title>Webb flies Ariane 5: watch the launch live on 25 December</title><url>https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_flies_Ariane_5_watch_the_launch_live</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onphonenow</author><text>What I don&#x27;t understand is for $11 billion - can&#x27;t we do 3 $3B space telescopes that work reasonably well? Spread risk? More science?<p>Let&#x27;s say a Falcon 9 launch is $90M. Falcon heavy let&#x27;s say $200M.<p>So you take your 3x $3B. Put $200M&#x2F;instrument into launch, have $2.8B per telescope leftover.<p>There just seems to be something wrong that it costs THIS much to build a telescope.<p>That said, the Thirty Meter Telescope is also a sort of &quot;forever&quot; job, the delays have stretched on and on.<p>I wonder if you did something like bid out and paid just on performance instead of this forever cost reimbursement thing. Right now if you can get onto one of these mega projects, and can stretch it out with delays, it basically can cover your career (ie, 20 year projects).</text></item><item><author>wslack</author><text>I suggest the book &quot;Failure is not an option&quot; by Gene Kranz, an Apollo flight director (played by Ed Harris in Apollo 13). He describes how the primary work of flight controllers in all missions is risk management. You are constantly balancing mission needs, fuel needs, mass needs, temperature needs, and etc etc.<p>I don&#x27;t think that a raw metric of the number of SPOF is the right way to measure the risk of this spacecraft. It&#x27;s a fun term for PR purposes (and emphasizing the risk here) but the actual risk posture is more complex.<p>I imagine that in the course of developing this, they worked out a possible strategy without all of those SPOF - but doing so doesn&#x27;t eliminate the risk, and the impact to mission is likely massive.</text></item><item><author>dimtion</author><text>I do have a question about JWST that I wasn&#x27;t able to find a fine answer in other forums.<p>A lot of people and engineers are saying that the JWST is a marvel of engineering, with truly inovative technical solutions and a giant step up compared to Hubble Telescope. And it does seems like so!<p>However, I&#x27;m always baffled how everyone seems proud that the telescope has something like 200 SPOF during deployment, and if even one of them fails the whole mission could fail.<p>I know that each step has probably been throughoutly tested, and that the acceptable probability of failure of each one of those steps has been deemed acceptable. But I&#x27;m still surprised that people are proudly conflating excellent engineering with a design that has a large number of spofs.<p>In my domain this would be considered as a terrible design (aka &quot;hope is not a strategy&quot;), even given the constraints of mass and volume that such project incur: 200 hundred low probability events, chained, can get in the realm of possible.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine JSWT team doing &quot;bad engineering&quot;, so I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m missing a piece. Is it only PR that underline this aspect? Is JWST as brittle as the news want to make us think? Or are there technical reasons or acceptable failure modes that gives confidence that those steps are not as critical as the news let us people know?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sjburt</author><text>There are many people in NASA and around that have made similar arguments.<p>I think the real reason that they never have a lot of traction, sadly, is that if you propose 3, Congress will give you 2. And then when 2 are over budget, it will get trimmed to one. Better to propose one big mission and get it to the point where it can’t be cut easily.</text></comment> | <story><title>Webb flies Ariane 5: watch the launch live on 25 December</title><url>https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_flies_Ariane_5_watch_the_launch_live</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onphonenow</author><text>What I don&#x27;t understand is for $11 billion - can&#x27;t we do 3 $3B space telescopes that work reasonably well? Spread risk? More science?<p>Let&#x27;s say a Falcon 9 launch is $90M. Falcon heavy let&#x27;s say $200M.<p>So you take your 3x $3B. Put $200M&#x2F;instrument into launch, have $2.8B per telescope leftover.<p>There just seems to be something wrong that it costs THIS much to build a telescope.<p>That said, the Thirty Meter Telescope is also a sort of &quot;forever&quot; job, the delays have stretched on and on.<p>I wonder if you did something like bid out and paid just on performance instead of this forever cost reimbursement thing. Right now if you can get onto one of these mega projects, and can stretch it out with delays, it basically can cover your career (ie, 20 year projects).</text></item><item><author>wslack</author><text>I suggest the book &quot;Failure is not an option&quot; by Gene Kranz, an Apollo flight director (played by Ed Harris in Apollo 13). He describes how the primary work of flight controllers in all missions is risk management. You are constantly balancing mission needs, fuel needs, mass needs, temperature needs, and etc etc.<p>I don&#x27;t think that a raw metric of the number of SPOF is the right way to measure the risk of this spacecraft. It&#x27;s a fun term for PR purposes (and emphasizing the risk here) but the actual risk posture is more complex.<p>I imagine that in the course of developing this, they worked out a possible strategy without all of those SPOF - but doing so doesn&#x27;t eliminate the risk, and the impact to mission is likely massive.</text></item><item><author>dimtion</author><text>I do have a question about JWST that I wasn&#x27;t able to find a fine answer in other forums.<p>A lot of people and engineers are saying that the JWST is a marvel of engineering, with truly inovative technical solutions and a giant step up compared to Hubble Telescope. And it does seems like so!<p>However, I&#x27;m always baffled how everyone seems proud that the telescope has something like 200 SPOF during deployment, and if even one of them fails the whole mission could fail.<p>I know that each step has probably been throughoutly tested, and that the acceptable probability of failure of each one of those steps has been deemed acceptable. But I&#x27;m still surprised that people are proudly conflating excellent engineering with a design that has a large number of spofs.<p>In my domain this would be considered as a terrible design (aka &quot;hope is not a strategy&quot;), even given the constraints of mass and volume that such project incur: 200 hundred low probability events, chained, can get in the realm of possible.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine JSWT team doing &quot;bad engineering&quot;, so I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m missing a piece. Is it only PR that underline this aspect? Is JWST as brittle as the news want to make us think? Or are there technical reasons or acceptable failure modes that gives confidence that those steps are not as critical as the news let us people know?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>azalemeth</author><text>I&#x27;d bet that the vast majority of that cost isn&#x27;t going to be materials -- it&#x27;ll be staff time to design and optimise the telescope and make something that can work, including where necessary how to make new materials or processes to make that telescope. I&#x27;m not saying the actual hardware is cheap by any stretch of the imagination, but making three different telescopes isn&#x27;t a linear function of that budget. They&#x27;re literally pushing the envelope of what&#x27;s possible here. If something terrible happens to the rocket, lots of forms will be written and people will be sad but fundamentally I think they&#x27;ll build something a bit better on a few years and nail it. A bit like New Horizons (awesome Mars rover) vs Beagle 2 (awesome Mars rover that died on arrival to Mars).</text></comment> |
19,105,206 | 19,105,253 | 1 | 2 | 19,104,650 | train | <story><title>Python Developer Survey 2018 Results</title><url>https://www.jetbrains.com/research/python-developers-survey-2018/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TravelAndFood</author><text>7% of respondents do &quot;software testing &#x2F; writing automated tests&quot; as a hobby? Bravo to those hardy souls.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pc86</author><text>A healthy chunk of that is probably folks who work somewhere where you can&#x27;t&#x2F;don&#x27;t have time to write tests, and keep up with it on their own so they are current when job searching.</text></comment> | <story><title>Python Developer Survey 2018 Results</title><url>https://www.jetbrains.com/research/python-developers-survey-2018/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TravelAndFood</author><text>7% of respondents do &quot;software testing &#x2F; writing automated tests&quot; as a hobby? Bravo to those hardy souls.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dharmab</author><text>Seems like a great way to contribute to open source as a beginner to intermediate developer.</text></comment> |
2,133,888 | 2,133,687 | 1 | 2 | 2,133,304 | train | <story><title>Who is Mark Bao? Meet the 18-year old entrepreneur behind Threewords.me</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/01/23/who-is-mark-bao-meet-the-18-year-old-entrepreneur-behind-threewords-me/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>markbao</author><text>Thank you all so much for the awesome support. :) It's been a pretty insane roller coaster of a month, and I'm (unfortunately) starting college again in a few hours.<p>The interesting part of all this is that it's actually helping me develop my next step. Not in terms of startups, but in terms of life. In other words, is college something I'm sticking with long-term? Or is time of the essence and the need (and my parents' need) for a degree less vital?<p>Edit: also, how good is the startup community in NYC? I love the city, but not sure about the startup environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxawaytoolong</author><text>If you already are running a startup from your dorm, the main reason to stay in college is to meet women. Honestly, there is no easier venue, and the chance to have a captive audience of thousands of women looking for a boyfriend will never happen again in your life. You should be one of the most ballin' dudes at Bentley.<p>NYC is the second easiest place in the USA to meet women. It's not as easy as when you're in college. But it's about 100x better than Silicon Valley.<p>Relationships might seem unimportant when compared to your potential bazillion dollar website, but even the most autistic geeky weirdos want companions - see all of livejournal as evidence. I did startups in SV/SF for 10 years and could count the number of women I worked with on 2 hands. If you're working 12 hours a day, when are you going to meet the other women who aren't working at startups? At the bar, after work. But, you could go to any bar and there would be no women there, either. You end up condemning yourself to a life of near chastity hoping your startup sells so you can maybe attract a mate based on your bank account. That probably won't even work, there are loads of rich dudes in SF/SV who can't get a date.<p>The NYC startup scene is OK but kind of stupid.
There is a lot of dumb money. For example, GroupMe got $10M for a product that took 24 hours to build and has already been built by a dozen other companies over the years. The guys working on it are basically drunks and stoners and guys who follow jam bands around. (Check their twitter history, I'm not just being snide.) I actually think they are cool dudes but I'm just using them as an example that the bar for funding in NYC is way lower compared to SV. The nouveau startup wunderkinds in SF/SV are now all straight-laced type-a achievers who went to Philips Andover, Yale, Stanford, MIT, etc.<p>(This is actually really weird, cuz it's the opposite of the previous bubble where SV/SF was a bunch of bipolar freaks and dropouts with purple dreadlocks, and you needed to go to Choate and Princeton and wear a suit to get a job in NYC)<p>I spent about 2 years in NYC hanging out with startups and came to the conclusion that most of them are just "playing startup." The startups that make the most sense there are startups that target the NYC market first, like Gilt and Foursquare and media/blog empire things like Gawker, Tumblr, and DailyBeast. GroupMe works well in NYC, too, as the main activity is to go out at night and you can use it to sync up. So if your plan is to service the NYC market first and then see how it spreads from there, it's not a bad place to be and it should be trivial for you to get funding $$$.</text></comment> | <story><title>Who is Mark Bao? Meet the 18-year old entrepreneur behind Threewords.me</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/01/23/who-is-mark-bao-meet-the-18-year-old-entrepreneur-behind-threewords-me/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>markbao</author><text>Thank you all so much for the awesome support. :) It's been a pretty insane roller coaster of a month, and I'm (unfortunately) starting college again in a few hours.<p>The interesting part of all this is that it's actually helping me develop my next step. Not in terms of startups, but in terms of life. In other words, is college something I'm sticking with long-term? Or is time of the essence and the need (and my parents' need) for a degree less vital?<p>Edit: also, how good is the startup community in NYC? I love the city, but not sure about the startup environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hartror</author><text>There are many conflicting viewpoints on college especially on HN. I took the view that college was an opportunity that while not impossible to be taken at a later stage isn't easy to "go back to" later. College is what you make of it and assuming you've gotten into a half decent school for your vocation you can get a lot out of being embedded with a lot of like minded people for a few years.<p>College won't exclude you following your entrepreneurial dreams at the same time and you can leverage a lot from the experience.<p>Good luck!</text></comment> |
32,568,396 | 32,568,220 | 1 | 2 | 32,565,614 | train | <story><title>Class action against Oracle’s worldwide surveillance machine</title><url>https://www.iccl.ie/news/class-action-against-oracle/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AndrewKemendo</author><text>This is how we collectively got here: &quot;This product doesn&#x27;t work for me, I want something that does.&quot; We collectively asked for more product&#x2F;service diversity, more on-demand personalization and lower prices and we got it.<p>We need to accept that the attention&#x2F;surveillance economy is a natural outcome of high volume personalized markets. I did my undergraduate thesis on &quot;Nash equilibria to predict consumer decision making under uncertainty&quot; under Dr. Bruce Lister WELL before machine learning was even a core field of Computer Science.<p>People, individuals, you and me, demand increasing determinism from other stochastic humans so that we can better predict and manage our relationships with them. A corporation has the same instinct, so they are doing the reasonable thing and collecting data in order to predict the next state in the Markov Decision Process that is you.<p>Every major technology (and some non-technology) corporation either has built or is building a similar system to optimize you for their system. People have chosen by a HUGE MARGIN to join these systems because the non-hidden benefits outweigh the hidden risks. For the people that recognize the externalities some are pushing back (like these lawyers), but most people don&#x27;t even know this is happening and honestly don&#x27;t care because you get benefits from it.<p>The only thing shocking about this is that Larry said the quiet part out loud</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vesinisa</author><text>Your comment makes little sense to me on many levels, but I strongly object to your assertion that &quot;people have chosen by a HUGE MARGIN to join these systems&quot;. Oracle can not have possibly amassed consent from 5 billion individuals to mine data on them. People have certainly not opted-in for this kind of surveillance in exchange for &quot;product diversity&quot; or &quot;lower prices.&quot; These objectionable consumer surveillance databases are being amassed and maintained regardless of whether they actually benefit the people in them or not.</text></comment> | <story><title>Class action against Oracle’s worldwide surveillance machine</title><url>https://www.iccl.ie/news/class-action-against-oracle/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AndrewKemendo</author><text>This is how we collectively got here: &quot;This product doesn&#x27;t work for me, I want something that does.&quot; We collectively asked for more product&#x2F;service diversity, more on-demand personalization and lower prices and we got it.<p>We need to accept that the attention&#x2F;surveillance economy is a natural outcome of high volume personalized markets. I did my undergraduate thesis on &quot;Nash equilibria to predict consumer decision making under uncertainty&quot; under Dr. Bruce Lister WELL before machine learning was even a core field of Computer Science.<p>People, individuals, you and me, demand increasing determinism from other stochastic humans so that we can better predict and manage our relationships with them. A corporation has the same instinct, so they are doing the reasonable thing and collecting data in order to predict the next state in the Markov Decision Process that is you.<p>Every major technology (and some non-technology) corporation either has built or is building a similar system to optimize you for their system. People have chosen by a HUGE MARGIN to join these systems because the non-hidden benefits outweigh the hidden risks. For the people that recognize the externalities some are pushing back (like these lawyers), but most people don&#x27;t even know this is happening and honestly don&#x27;t care because you get benefits from it.<p>The only thing shocking about this is that Larry said the quiet part out loud</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JacobThreeThree</author><text>How can the customer demand anything with respect to surveillance if it&#x27;s not clear that it&#x27;s happening? Just because a certain advertising mechanism is more effective than others doesn&#x27;t mean that consumers are &quot;demanding&quot; that advertising mechanism, especially if the data collection part of it is obfuscated from the consumer.</text></comment> |
14,719,669 | 14,719,309 | 1 | 2 | 14,718,711 | train | <story><title>Comma.ai launches an $88 universal car interface called Panda</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/07/comma-ai-launches-an-88-universal-car-interface-called-panda/?ncid=mobilenavtrend</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>josephpmay</author><text>Hotz is quoted as saying in the article, &quot;there are only three real competitors: Waymo, Tesla and us.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s total bullshit. There are so many companies seriously working on autonomous vehicles, such as GM Cruise, Auroa Innovation, Drive.ai, Zoox, Nuro.ai, nuTonomy, Varden Labs, AImotive, Ford, and Nvidia<p>Edit, because George is on here: George, I want to like you, because I think your tech is really good (the street image segmentation from RGB images is seriously impressive- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commacoloring.herokuapp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commacoloring.herokuapp.com&#x2F;</a>) and I think your business model of offering cheap devices and free services to crowd-source data, along with the comma points to incentivize users could give you a big competitive advantage. But the hyperbole makes it difficult to take you seriously.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>This is the guy who was supposedly just a few weeks away from shipping a bolt-on smart cruise control module, then immediately canceled the entire thing when the NHTSA asked him some questions about its safety. He seems pretty sharp when it comes to technology, but I&#x27;m not sure if he&#x27;s prepared to make actual products sold to regular people.</text></comment> | <story><title>Comma.ai launches an $88 universal car interface called Panda</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/07/comma-ai-launches-an-88-universal-car-interface-called-panda/?ncid=mobilenavtrend</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>josephpmay</author><text>Hotz is quoted as saying in the article, &quot;there are only three real competitors: Waymo, Tesla and us.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s total bullshit. There are so many companies seriously working on autonomous vehicles, such as GM Cruise, Auroa Innovation, Drive.ai, Zoox, Nuro.ai, nuTonomy, Varden Labs, AImotive, Ford, and Nvidia<p>Edit, because George is on here: George, I want to like you, because I think your tech is really good (the street image segmentation from RGB images is seriously impressive- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commacoloring.herokuapp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commacoloring.herokuapp.com&#x2F;</a>) and I think your business model of offering cheap devices and free services to crowd-source data, along with the comma points to incentivize users could give you a big competitive advantage. But the hyperbole makes it difficult to take you seriously.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frebord</author><text>There is a TWIST episode with this guy on it, and he comes of as a massively arrogant prick. The dude who created the first iPhone jailbreak in his teens and got famous at it.</text></comment> |
33,012,270 | 33,012,377 | 1 | 2 | 33,010,912 | train | <story><title>Amazon deleted my Final Space digital purchases of season 1 and 2</title><url>https://twitter.com/PixelatedWah/status/1574924613456343041</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ubertaco</author><text>With apologies for linking to Facebook, the creator of Final Space (Olan Rogers) has posted publicly about the news he was given that Final Space was being removed from all platforms, with licenses not being renewed, and (if he&#x27;s to be believed, which...he&#x27;s been trustworthy in the past) that the show was basically produced for &quot;tax write-off&quot; purposes: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;olanrogersofficial&#x2F;posts&#x2F;pfbid02fuCC57SqRKjFZZX9dtMvBPewAS3ZKmMALqsiHwcoxdNWdrwwyGXnRhSYo3Sto7hil" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;olanrogersofficial&#x2F;posts&#x2F;pfbid02fuC...</a><p>Relevant bits:<p><pre><code> Five years of my life.
Three seasons.
Blood, sweat, and tears...
....became a tax write-off for the network that owns Final Space.
Yup. That&#x27;s it. That&#x27;s why it&#x27;s disappeared everywhere in the USA. Five years of work vanished.
When the license is up internationally, Netflix will take it down, and then it will be gone forever. There are no more physical copies of S1 and S2, and no physical copies of Season 3 were ever made. Your memory of Final Space will be the only proof it ever existed.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cronix</author><text>&gt; Your memory of Final Space will be the only proof it ever existed.<p>And to those who know about bit torrent.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rarbg.to&#x2F;torrents.php?search=final+space&amp;category%5B%5D=18&amp;category%5B%5D=41&amp;category%5B%5D=49" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rarbg.to&#x2F;torrents.php?search=final+space&amp;category%5B...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon deleted my Final Space digital purchases of season 1 and 2</title><url>https://twitter.com/PixelatedWah/status/1574924613456343041</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ubertaco</author><text>With apologies for linking to Facebook, the creator of Final Space (Olan Rogers) has posted publicly about the news he was given that Final Space was being removed from all platforms, with licenses not being renewed, and (if he&#x27;s to be believed, which...he&#x27;s been trustworthy in the past) that the show was basically produced for &quot;tax write-off&quot; purposes: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;olanrogersofficial&#x2F;posts&#x2F;pfbid02fuCC57SqRKjFZZX9dtMvBPewAS3ZKmMALqsiHwcoxdNWdrwwyGXnRhSYo3Sto7hil" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;olanrogersofficial&#x2F;posts&#x2F;pfbid02fuC...</a><p>Relevant bits:<p><pre><code> Five years of my life.
Three seasons.
Blood, sweat, and tears...
....became a tax write-off for the network that owns Final Space.
Yup. That&#x27;s it. That&#x27;s why it&#x27;s disappeared everywhere in the USA. Five years of work vanished.
When the license is up internationally, Netflix will take it down, and then it will be gone forever. There are no more physical copies of S1 and S2, and no physical copies of Season 3 were ever made. Your memory of Final Space will be the only proof it ever existed.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>antonyt</author><text>His quote does not say that the show was produced for tax write-off purposes, it says that it&#x27;s disappearing from platforms because of tax write-off purposes.</text></comment> |
25,870,640 | 25,870,001 | 1 | 2 | 25,858,750 | train | <story><title>New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/16438/new-intel-ceo-making-waves-rehiring-retired-cpu-architects</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darth_avocado</author><text>I am 100% in the same boat. Had a recruiter reach out to me who wanted me to leave my more than comfortable six figure SV job to do cutting edge contract work in machine learning as a lead engineer for about $50&#x2F;hour. I was so amused I actually spent the time listening to their pitch and eventually told them that anything less than $200&#x2F;hour wouldn&#x27;t even cover my current pay + benefits. Let me know if you can do better. They hung up. Lol</text></item><item><author>UncleOxidant</author><text>I&#x27;ve been approached by headhunters for contract work at Intel. They want all kinds of machine learning knowledge &amp; experience and the pay is.... $45&#x2F;hr. I kid you not. I just sort of laugh and tell them that that&#x27;s about 1&#x2F;3 of market rate for that kind of thing.</text></item><item><author>lmilcin</author><text>I left Intel years ago to get almost 3x the salary as a software developer at... a bank.<p>At Intel engineers are paid supposedly similar rates at similar levels and similar locations. And given my level (two levels above Senior Developer) I estimate I was paid better than at least 90% engineers.<p>Where I worked in R&amp;D the doors were constantly revolving and many people admitted they wait to register enough of prestigious time at Intel on their CV to get hired at a much better rate for another company.<p>--<p>I don&#x27;t see these moves as encouraging, more like signs of complete and utter panic. You go to these moves when whatever you do isn&#x27;t working and you don&#x27;t have strategy to do something new so you try to default on what has worked in the past (this both for the choice of CEO as well as bringing retired people).<p>This doesn&#x27;t necessarily mean it is a wrong move (see Steve Jobs coming back to save Apple as a proof it doesn&#x27;t have to be bad) but I wouldn&#x27;t call it encouraging.<p>Rehiring retired people to me signals the new CEO has no trust in people that already are there. And that is usually bad news.<p>Add to it outsourcing <i>CORE</i> competency to competitor (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eenewseurope.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;intel-TSMC-5nm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eenewseurope.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;intel-TSMC-5nm</a>) and it seems that if there is a plan it is to keep the ship afloat for a little while longer.<p>Hopefully the ship is going to be afloat for as long is necessary to reshape the organization, but I think we haven&#x27;t yet seen any concrete moves to see what is the strategy.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>This is an encouraging move.<p>My secondhand understanding was that Intel was losing top talent due to pressure to pay closer to median industry compensation. Top engineers recognized they were underpaid and left the company.<p>I&#x27;ve been part of a similar downhill slide at a smaller company in the billion dollar revenue range. To be blunt, once the [mediocre] MBAs start realizing that the engineers are getting paid more than they are, the pressure to reduce engineering compensation is strong. Frankly, there are plenty of engineering candidates on the market who are happy with median compensation. Many of them are even great engineers and great employees.<p>However, being a top company in a winner-take-all market requires the top engineers. The only way to attract and retain them at scale is to offer high compensation. I&#x27;m hoping that&#x27;s part of what&#x27;s happening here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NotPavlovsDog</author><text>It&#x27;s one of the (dirty?) pleasures in the work-life, isn&#x27;t it?
I still treasure getting to the stage in my life when I could afford to stop saying what my salary expectation was outside of &quot;fair in relation to the market and my experience&quot;.<p>Recruiter H&#x2F;R: &quot;We need to hear your salary requirements to move forward with this position&quot;.<p>me: &quot;I would like to hear your offer&quot;.<p>Recruiter &#x2F; HR: &quot;We won&#x27;t be able to consider your candidacy without your salary expectations&quot;<p>Me: &quot;Then, despite my interest in this outstanding company, and the high value I believe I can contribute to it, I will be forced to go with the employers that make a salary offer first&quot;.<p>Best fuck I ever had.</text></comment> | <story><title>New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/16438/new-intel-ceo-making-waves-rehiring-retired-cpu-architects</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darth_avocado</author><text>I am 100% in the same boat. Had a recruiter reach out to me who wanted me to leave my more than comfortable six figure SV job to do cutting edge contract work in machine learning as a lead engineer for about $50&#x2F;hour. I was so amused I actually spent the time listening to their pitch and eventually told them that anything less than $200&#x2F;hour wouldn&#x27;t even cover my current pay + benefits. Let me know if you can do better. They hung up. Lol</text></item><item><author>UncleOxidant</author><text>I&#x27;ve been approached by headhunters for contract work at Intel. They want all kinds of machine learning knowledge &amp; experience and the pay is.... $45&#x2F;hr. I kid you not. I just sort of laugh and tell them that that&#x27;s about 1&#x2F;3 of market rate for that kind of thing.</text></item><item><author>lmilcin</author><text>I left Intel years ago to get almost 3x the salary as a software developer at... a bank.<p>At Intel engineers are paid supposedly similar rates at similar levels and similar locations. And given my level (two levels above Senior Developer) I estimate I was paid better than at least 90% engineers.<p>Where I worked in R&amp;D the doors were constantly revolving and many people admitted they wait to register enough of prestigious time at Intel on their CV to get hired at a much better rate for another company.<p>--<p>I don&#x27;t see these moves as encouraging, more like signs of complete and utter panic. You go to these moves when whatever you do isn&#x27;t working and you don&#x27;t have strategy to do something new so you try to default on what has worked in the past (this both for the choice of CEO as well as bringing retired people).<p>This doesn&#x27;t necessarily mean it is a wrong move (see Steve Jobs coming back to save Apple as a proof it doesn&#x27;t have to be bad) but I wouldn&#x27;t call it encouraging.<p>Rehiring retired people to me signals the new CEO has no trust in people that already are there. And that is usually bad news.<p>Add to it outsourcing <i>CORE</i> competency to competitor (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eenewseurope.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;intel-TSMC-5nm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eenewseurope.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;intel-TSMC-5nm</a>) and it seems that if there is a plan it is to keep the ship afloat for a little while longer.<p>Hopefully the ship is going to be afloat for as long is necessary to reshape the organization, but I think we haven&#x27;t yet seen any concrete moves to see what is the strategy.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>This is an encouraging move.<p>My secondhand understanding was that Intel was losing top talent due to pressure to pay closer to median industry compensation. Top engineers recognized they were underpaid and left the company.<p>I&#x27;ve been part of a similar downhill slide at a smaller company in the billion dollar revenue range. To be blunt, once the [mediocre] MBAs start realizing that the engineers are getting paid more than they are, the pressure to reduce engineering compensation is strong. Frankly, there are plenty of engineering candidates on the market who are happy with median compensation. Many of them are even great engineers and great employees.<p>However, being a top company in a winner-take-all market requires the top engineers. The only way to attract and retain them at scale is to offer high compensation. I&#x27;m hoping that&#x27;s part of what&#x27;s happening here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>headmelted</author><text>Good grief do I ever work in the wrong part of the world.<p>I’m well established in my career (and I don’t have SV costs of living to be fair) - but anywhere even in the galaxy of $200 an hour would be life-changing for me.</text></comment> |
38,148,200 | 38,148,356 | 1 | 2 | 38,147,606 | train | <story><title>Max is taking 4K away from its legacy ad-free subscribers</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/2/23943859/max-4k-hbo-max-ad-free-subscribers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mathieuh</author><text>Baffles me why all these streaming companies are shooting themselves in the foot. For about 18 months there was a golden age where it was easier to pay for things than to pirate. Now we’re in a situation where it’s even &#x2F;harder&#x2F; than it’s ever been.<p>People will pay for media if it’s easy and a good experience. The barrier to piracy is non-existent these days and you actually get a far better experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mdasen</author><text>It&#x27;s not that baffling. For a time, they were trying to grow their subscriber base and luring them in with low prices. Now that they have their subscriber base, they want to get back to the revenue they were getting before. Realistically, entertainment companies weren&#x27;t going to accept lower revenue than they previously had for their product. As the industry transitions from physical media and cable TV to streaming, they needed to get users over the hump of signing up.<p>It isn&#x27;t harder to pay than to pirate. It&#x27;s just getting more expensive. Max&#x27;s move to charge $4 extra for 4K doesn&#x27;t make it harder to pay. You say that people will pay for media if it&#x27;s easy and a good experience. C&#x27;mon, Max isn&#x27;t changing the ease or experience. They&#x27;re just changing the price.<p>We got used to paying less for entertainment and now we&#x27;re all annoyed that they&#x27;re trying to get us back to paying what we used to pay 20 years ago.<p>I&#x27;m not suggesting that cost isn&#x27;t an important factor. It is. But an argument many people made was &quot;I&#x27;d pay for it if they&#x27;d just make it available.&quot; Turns out, we don&#x27;t like the price. Tons of people with cable used to pay $15&#x2F;mo for HBO. Max has more content and is more convenient than what HBO offered 15-20 years ago.<p>It&#x27;s really not baffling and they aren&#x27;t making it harder. They want more money and we don&#x27;t want to pay as much. I&#x27;m not saying that it doesn&#x27;t make the price hikes garbage. It&#x27;s just not baffling: they want to get back the revenue they&#x27;re losing in declining physical media sales and declining cable TV subscription rates.</text></comment> | <story><title>Max is taking 4K away from its legacy ad-free subscribers</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/2/23943859/max-4k-hbo-max-ad-free-subscribers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mathieuh</author><text>Baffles me why all these streaming companies are shooting themselves in the foot. For about 18 months there was a golden age where it was easier to pay for things than to pirate. Now we’re in a situation where it’s even &#x2F;harder&#x2F; than it’s ever been.<p>People will pay for media if it’s easy and a good experience. The barrier to piracy is non-existent these days and you actually get a far better experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yieldcrv</author><text>&gt; The barrier to piracy is non-existent these days and you actually get a far better experience<p>I hadn’t used a torrent in a decade and revisited the concept due to this streaming service convulsion<p>I found that:<p>VPN to another country was a 1-click in a chrome extension I already had that for other reasons, and all the torrent sites remind you to enable it or install one thats just as simple<p>My TV was running a DLNA server on my network with a lot of storage space I never knew about. I had only connected it to the internet for an OTA update once, and never used any of the “Smart TV” stuff. But it also has USB ports.<p>It runs the latest video formats and can read subtitles packaged with them<p>The torrent downloaded directly to it at gigabit speed over my Wifi 6 network the ISP had already setup with their gear<p>The quality is far higher than what gets streamed over the internet. Something I was willing to overlook as long as the streaming services were more convenient.<p>I think a lot of people have similar infrastructure already right now, without needing to be an enthusiast in electronics or home entertainment<p>really is better at the moment</text></comment> |
27,233,523 | 27,232,963 | 1 | 3 | 27,231,471 | train | <story><title>Now your car is a cybersecurity risk, too</title><url>https://www.eetimes.com/now-your-car-is-a-cybersecurity-risk-too/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oblio</author><text>Hey, almost no one really wants smart TVs that phone home every minute, yet nobody makes modern dumb TVs anymore (or at least privacy respecting smart TVs).<p>It&#x27;s cartel behavior. Producers just silently agree to not do stuff that would disadvantage them on the long term.<p>Everybody keeps going on about &quot;yeah, but someone will undercut them, free market, bla bla&quot;, but it never happens in practice.</text></item><item><author>lifeisstillgood</author><text>I have an older car that missed Carplay by one year. I want to replace the rather crappy dashboard screen with poor touch sensitivity with a nice new carPlay dashboard so i can navigate and listen to my podcasts.<p>Last time I asked it was 1500 quid plus install from the dealer. I could probably get under a grand now.<p>If there existed a car with no entertainment system at all, and I just stuck a specially adjusted tablet in there, with industry standard connectors, everyone would be happy, and if anyone hacked my entertainment system they would not be close to the important stuff<p>Cars should be the mobile equivalent of a dumb TV screen. But no-one wants to make them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Loughla</author><text>It came up in the last thread about dumb tv&#x27;s - they exist. Wal-mart sells Sceptre tv&#x27;s. 4K resolution, dumb tv&#x27;s. And they&#x27;re super cheap; they&#x27;re actually cheaper than smart tv&#x27;s. I have no idea why people say they don&#x27;t exist. They&#x27;re just not popular.<p>Outside of HN, people do want smart features, from what I can tell, and don&#x27;t even consider that their TV is a privacy concern.</text></comment> | <story><title>Now your car is a cybersecurity risk, too</title><url>https://www.eetimes.com/now-your-car-is-a-cybersecurity-risk-too/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oblio</author><text>Hey, almost no one really wants smart TVs that phone home every minute, yet nobody makes modern dumb TVs anymore (or at least privacy respecting smart TVs).<p>It&#x27;s cartel behavior. Producers just silently agree to not do stuff that would disadvantage them on the long term.<p>Everybody keeps going on about &quot;yeah, but someone will undercut them, free market, bla bla&quot;, but it never happens in practice.</text></item><item><author>lifeisstillgood</author><text>I have an older car that missed Carplay by one year. I want to replace the rather crappy dashboard screen with poor touch sensitivity with a nice new carPlay dashboard so i can navigate and listen to my podcasts.<p>Last time I asked it was 1500 quid plus install from the dealer. I could probably get under a grand now.<p>If there existed a car with no entertainment system at all, and I just stuck a specially adjusted tablet in there, with industry standard connectors, everyone would be happy, and if anyone hacked my entertainment system they would not be close to the important stuff<p>Cars should be the mobile equivalent of a dumb TV screen. But no-one wants to make them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anshorei</author><text>An increasing amount of people I know don&#x27;t have a TV screen and show no interest in getting one. They just use computer screens to watch instead. Not that that&#x27;s better for privacy since they&#x27;ve at the same time been switching from physical discs to online data-harvesting services like Netflix. So they&#x27;re really just building DIY smart TV&#x27;s.</text></comment> |
37,749,898 | 37,748,113 | 1 | 3 | 37,740,483 | train | <story><title>Modos Paper Monitor (2022)</title><url>https://www.modos.tech/blog/modos-paper-monitor</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>screechingbagel</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Ds38T8wVuDg">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Ds38T8wVuDg</a>
woah, actually impressive scrolling and video demo</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>newswasboring</author><text>In the next demo they should try to play a game which implements dithering. This is the device Return of Obra Dinn was designed for :D.</text></comment> | <story><title>Modos Paper Monitor (2022)</title><url>https://www.modos.tech/blog/modos-paper-monitor</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>screechingbagel</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Ds38T8wVuDg">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Ds38T8wVuDg</a>
woah, actually impressive scrolling and video demo</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GorsyGentle</author><text>No joke, I did a double-take when I saw the video.</text></comment> |
9,916,215 | 9,911,965 | 1 | 2 | 9,911,461 | train | <story><title>How Instagram closed my account and gave it to a football celebrity</title><url>https://medium.com/@ainiesta/how-instagram-closed-my-account-and-gave-it-to-a-football-celebrity-625a6a770eb3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xenadu02</author><text>GitHub did the same thing to me. Changed my SSH keys and renamed my account. I used to have &quot;rbishop&quot;, now some other developer has it.<p>No notice, no communication, nothing.<p>When I contacted the person at GitHub who did it he refused to answer any questions or explain anything.<p>So watch out... If you have the same name as an employee&#x27;s drinking buddy, prepare to have your account removed without notice or explanation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rubiquity</author><text>Hey there. I&#x27;m the person that was awarded your account. GitHub has&#x2F;had a form and all I did was submit a request and it was given to me. They said they deemed you as inactive for a substantial period of time. I&#x27;m not saying this is right or wrong but I thought you would take solace in knowing your old username is in good hands.<p>Sincerely,<p>the other rbishop</text></comment> | <story><title>How Instagram closed my account and gave it to a football celebrity</title><url>https://medium.com/@ainiesta/how-instagram-closed-my-account-and-gave-it-to-a-football-celebrity-625a6a770eb3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xenadu02</author><text>GitHub did the same thing to me. Changed my SSH keys and renamed my account. I used to have &quot;rbishop&quot;, now some other developer has it.<p>No notice, no communication, nothing.<p>When I contacted the person at GitHub who did it he refused to answer any questions or explain anything.<p>So watch out... If you have the same name as an employee&#x27;s drinking buddy, prepare to have your account removed without notice or explanation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lsaferite</author><text>Was your account inactive by chance?<p>They have rules that after an account is inactive for a significant amount of time it is subject to removal.<p>I know this because I reclaimed a VERY inactive account. It had one repo that was forked years previously and never had any updates. And the user never contributed to any repos or anything. No activity of any type in years. So, I contacted GH support asking about the account and they removed the account and told me I could register it if I was fast.</text></comment> |
39,080,398 | 39,079,593 | 1 | 3 | 39,079,256 | train | <story><title>Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop</title><url>https://www.sharedrop.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmiller1</author><text>All of these &quot;alternatives to airdop&quot; don&#x27;t seem to actually do what airdrop does, which is create an ad-hoc wireless connection. Airdrop isn&#x27;t just a nice UI for sending files between people, it allows a wi-fi speed transfer between two devices that aren&#x27;t connected to an existing network of that speed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spieglt</author><text>Mine does! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;spieglt&#x2F;flyingcarpet">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;spieglt&#x2F;flyingcarpet</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop</title><url>https://www.sharedrop.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmiller1</author><text>All of these &quot;alternatives to airdop&quot; don&#x27;t seem to actually do what airdrop does, which is create an ad-hoc wireless connection. Airdrop isn&#x27;t just a nice UI for sending files between people, it allows a wi-fi speed transfer between two devices that aren&#x27;t connected to an existing network of that speed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>j1elo</author><text>Apple usually does excellent integrations between their devices. But I haven&#x27;t used AirDrop so I&#x27;m not familiar with how it works: in order to create an ad-hoc wireless connection, if the devices were already connected to some wifi access point, are they temporarily disconnected for the duration of the ad-hoc connection?<p>If not, I&#x27;d guess that Apple devices maybe come with 2 WiFi adapters inside?</text></comment> |
33,393,850 | 33,393,961 | 1 | 3 | 33,392,127 | train | <story><title>Mel's Hack – The Missing Bits</title><url>https://melsloop.com/docs/mels-hack-the-missing-bits</url><text>New article on Mel&#x27;s Loop project – an analysis of Mel Kaye&#x27;s hack for his blackjack game for the RPC-4000 computer.<p>&quot;This approach to coding is far from extinct. One often finds it in software teams, among some highly regarded – though less valued – members. If you&#x27;ve spent several years in the industry or in Computer Science academia, you surely know this subspecies: the developer that replaces a straightforward loop with a series of auto-resolving promises, capped by a cryptic reducer, then revels in their teammates&#x27; bewilderment at the sight of the new code. Hardly the personality that you&#x27;d select for a coding legend.&quot;
(ibid)</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>YeGoblynQueenne</author><text>Hey, thanks for the shout out. I laughed out loud at being called a &quot;Mel enthusiast&quot; but it&#x27;s totally true :)<p>&gt;&gt; Instead of running a test, Mel kept incrementing the value of the (A) field, as described in the story. This eventually led to an overflow of the entire register, provided the index register bit (X) was on – exactly as Nather remembered. Using 101 as the TBC opcode yields the following sequence:<p>&gt;&gt; The overflow would toggle the BCU on, causing the heretofore ineffective TBC to transfer control to the address in the (A) field, which was 0.<p>Wow. I kind of waved my hands at that solution, but you worked it out almost in full (short of actually coding it ... I guess there&#x27;s no emulator for the RPC-4000 around? Someone should go and write one seeing as the architecture is mostly in the manuals and all. Someone... else &gt;_&gt;). Good stuff!<p>Btw, if you&#x27;re looking for translations to more languages, there is a Greek one here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;greektrans.blogspot.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;06&#x2F;mel.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;greektrans.blogspot.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;06&#x2F;mel.html</a><p>Complete with Greek-language annotations.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mel's Hack – The Missing Bits</title><url>https://melsloop.com/docs/mels-hack-the-missing-bits</url><text>New article on Mel&#x27;s Loop project – an analysis of Mel Kaye&#x27;s hack for his blackjack game for the RPC-4000 computer.<p>&quot;This approach to coding is far from extinct. One often finds it in software teams, among some highly regarded – though less valued – members. If you&#x27;ve spent several years in the industry or in Computer Science academia, you surely know this subspecies: the developer that replaces a straightforward loop with a series of auto-resolving promises, capped by a cryptic reducer, then revels in their teammates&#x27; bewilderment at the sight of the new code. Hardly the personality that you&#x27;d select for a coding legend.&quot;
(ibid)</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kazinator</author><text>&gt; <i>Rather, it stems from the obvious lack of real value that the hack added to the program. It&#x27;s very unlikely that a standard loop would have degraded the program&#x27;s performance in any noticeable way. Mel&#x27;s testless loop was clearly a vain addition of complexity.</i><p>Firstly, there is a false premise here which is that the story is about a great programmer who worked hard to do nothing but add real value to a program. Obviously, this is not so.
The story makes it clear by including detail like <i>&#x27;&quot;Even the initializer is optimized&quot;, [Mel] said proudly&#x27;</i>, where is it clear that Mel understands that the initializer runs only once, but he optimized it anyway. Some of what Mel did added value, and some of it was just done for Mel&#x27;s own benefit of learning and self-actualization.<p>Secondly, it is not necessarily true that the testless loop isn&#x27;t an optimization. We cannot assume that Mel was always optimizing for time. He probably optimized for code size in cases when optimizing for speed wouldn&#x27;t make a difference.<p>If a program obeys the 80&#x2F;20 rule, where 80% of its time is in 20% of its code, then you can make the biggest speed improvementsin 20% of the code. But then what do you do with the 80% of the code that doesn&#x27;t execute often enough to make a difference? You can optimize that for <i>size</i> to end up with a small program that is still blazingly fast.<p>Size doesn&#x27;t follow any 80&#x2F;20 rule: 100% of the size of the program is evenly spread into 100% of the code. Shaving an instruction from <i>anywhere</i> makes it one instruction shorter, whether that instruction is in three levels of loop nesting, or initialization code that executes once.<p>Still, if the machine runs only one program, such as doing nothing else but providing that blackjack game, and if that program fits, there is no value in making it any smaller.</text></comment> |
37,422,719 | 37,422,228 | 1 | 3 | 37,421,993 | train | <story><title>25 Gbit/s at home, part 1</title><url>https://boredengineer.medium.com/25-gbit-s-at-home-part-1-98ff1013e32d</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tgtweak</author><text>Recently moved up to 3gbps bidirectional and had a hell of a time getting 3gbps even with 10gbps network card directly into the 10gbps port on the ISP-provided modem. In addition to this, there are very few services that will actually feed you data at 3gbps.<p>Steam - ~280MB&#x2F;s (2.2gbps)<p>Battle.net launcher - ~140MB&#x2F;s (1.1gbps)<p>25GB Torrent with 1000+ seeders - ~70MB&#x2F;s (~560mbps)<p>2GB iso from github - ~80MB&#x2F;s (~650mbps)<p>fast.com - 1.4gbps<p>speedtest.net - 2.7gbps (using ISPs endpoint 2ms away)<p>Using a download manager like IDM or jDownloader will help for http downloads, but most hosts will limit your speed even with 16 connections open. I&#x27;ve managed to see 2gbps moving data to&#x2F;from servers (scp) with softether configured to use 16 connections. The reality is with a single connection (majority of ssl transfers) you&#x27;ll be limited by the sending side in almost all cases.<p>Overall it seems that while you can get connected and run an iperf to your ISP or multi-connection speedtest to a server hosted by your ISP or peered with your ISP, you&#x27;ll be pretty much limited to &lt;1gbps speeds regardless of your home network throughput.<p>Knowing this I would have simply went multi-gig (2.5g) for all in-home networking and saved a good chunk of change on networking equipment.</text></comment> | <story><title>25 Gbit/s at home, part 1</title><url>https://boredengineer.medium.com/25-gbit-s-at-home-part-1-98ff1013e32d</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hinkley</author><text>What is the state of the art in leveraging your home network to have a presence (website or otherwise) on the internet?<p>Fiber just became available in our neighborhood recently and I&#x27;m about to have fewer people sharing our network, so the idea of being able to host my own files is becoming attractive again.<p>We are about to be due for this pendulum (centralized vs distributed) to swing back again and I like to be prepared.</text></comment> |
7,368,115 | 7,368,122 | 1 | 3 | 7,367,243 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?</title><text>How many people on hacker news are running successful<i></i> online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started?<p><i></i> Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>patio11</author><text>Even if you were to scope it just to software&#x2F;SaaS product companies, there&#x27;s minimally hundreds of these in the world and dozens of them have HN accounts. Most don&#x27;t post on threads like this, so I feel the need to pipe up and say &quot;This is quite doable, and done, much more than you might expect.&quot;<p>I run a small software company (two, technically). Products include Bingo Card Creator (<a href="http://www.bingocardcreator.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bingocardcreator.com</a>), Appointment Reminder (<a href="https://www.appointmentreminder.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.appointmentreminder.org</a>), and occasional offerings for training for other software companies. I used to do consulting, too, but quit to focus on products.<p>I&#x27;d describe it as &quot;modestly successful.&quot; It&#x27;s the sole financial support for my wife and I. I&#x27;m the only full-time employee of the business (for a very quirky understanding of the words &quot;full-time&quot;).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonkester</author><text>To underscore Patrick&#x27;s point about just how many of these businesses there really are, he&#x27;s one of the few folks I remember from the old Business of Software forums over at joelonsoftware.com that seem to have migrated over here.<p>That was a tiny little board where the owners of single player software businesses would get together to ask silly questions about how to update their shareware product&#x27;s PAD files. There were a few hundred of these businesses represented there just among the regular users.<p>Most of them fly under the radar since, having products that provide a comfortable living with relatively low workload and no need to follow the latest hot technology trends, there&#x27;s little reason your average Dot-Com-Thousandaire would ever stumble across a place like Hacker News.<p>Edit: forgot to plug S3stat (<a href="http://s3stat.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;s3stat.com</a>) and Twiddla (<a href="http://twiddla.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;twiddla.com</a>), my two main revenue generators, and FairTutor (<a href="http://fairtutor.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fairtutor.com</a>), hopefully the next one.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?</title><text>How many people on hacker news are running successful<i></i> online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started?<p><i></i> Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>patio11</author><text>Even if you were to scope it just to software&#x2F;SaaS product companies, there&#x27;s minimally hundreds of these in the world and dozens of them have HN accounts. Most don&#x27;t post on threads like this, so I feel the need to pipe up and say &quot;This is quite doable, and done, much more than you might expect.&quot;<p>I run a small software company (two, technically). Products include Bingo Card Creator (<a href="http://www.bingocardcreator.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bingocardcreator.com</a>), Appointment Reminder (<a href="https://www.appointmentreminder.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.appointmentreminder.org</a>), and occasional offerings for training for other software companies. I used to do consulting, too, but quit to focus on products.<p>I&#x27;d describe it as &quot;modestly successful.&quot; It&#x27;s the sole financial support for my wife and I. I&#x27;m the only full-time employee of the business (for a very quirky understanding of the words &quot;full-time&quot;).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kewball</author><text>Thanks patio11 and everyone else who has shared their story. I have been consulting for a few years and I plan on moving to a product based income. Built products in the past that have not been successful but hearing stories of others who have done it is motivation to keep trying.</text></comment> |
3,330,380 | 3,330,381 | 1 | 2 | 3,329,676 | train | <story><title>A single line to 3 cashiers is ~3x faster than a separate line for each cashier</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204770404577082933921432686.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rdtsc</author><text>Not trying to be condescending but doesn't it surprise anyone here that this is _not_ obvious? At least on this site, there are still people doubting or debating this.<p>So I am wondering why don't stores do this already. And I believe it is because of perceptions. They understand that time will be saved, however, they realize that most people will be scared by a long line.<p>One long line that moves fast will still appear terrible compared to a bunch of small lines that crawl. Because people don't look long enough to estimate the rate of movement. They see both lines as static (not moving).</text></item><item><author>pnathan</author><text>FYI: This is an example of the branch of mathematics called queueing theory.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queueing_theory" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queueing_theory</a><p>It's a fascinating study requiring a good knowledge of probability to use beyond the simplified models. It turns out from the math that throughput using a single queue is better than using multiple queues.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philwelch</author><text>It's another instance of "people are stupid". Yes, for any educated person it's obvious that one line is faster, that's the first thing about queueing theory, but most people don't know the first thing about queueing theory.<p>Other instances of "people are stupid" leading to poor design:<p>* Some cars come with a CVT (continuously variable transmission) rather than having to shift gears. The audible pitch of the engine just gradually goes up as the accelerator is depressed, rather than revving up and then shifting back down again. Since people were used to the gear-shifting behavior, they thought CVT's were underpowered, so they were actually redesigned to simulate the shifting behavior even though it was suboptimal.<p>* Coinstar machines are actually much, much faster than they appear. But people don't trust them if they don't take three times as long and make jangly coin sounds, so it just silently sorts the coins as fast as it can and plays a recording of jangly coin sounds, all the while delaying when it displays the final count onscreen.</text></comment> | <story><title>A single line to 3 cashiers is ~3x faster than a separate line for each cashier</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204770404577082933921432686.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rdtsc</author><text>Not trying to be condescending but doesn't it surprise anyone here that this is _not_ obvious? At least on this site, there are still people doubting or debating this.<p>So I am wondering why don't stores do this already. And I believe it is because of perceptions. They understand that time will be saved, however, they realize that most people will be scared by a long line.<p>One long line that moves fast will still appear terrible compared to a bunch of small lines that crawl. Because people don't look long enough to estimate the rate of movement. They see both lines as static (not moving).</text></item><item><author>pnathan</author><text>FYI: This is an example of the branch of mathematics called queueing theory.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queueing_theory" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queueing_theory</a><p>It's a fascinating study requiring a good knowledge of probability to use beyond the simplified models. It turns out from the math that throughput using a single queue is better than using multiple queues.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cheald</author><text>Fry's Electronics does the single line thing, and any time there is a line, I feel like I end up standing in it longer than I would at a grocery story. I suspect this is probably psychological, but letting me, as the shopper, pick the line I want to stand in puts me in charge of how long I wait. If I pick a bad line, it's my fault for picking the bad line. When there's just one line available, I don't get that choice.<p>Single-queue might be faster, the the psychology of customer satisfaction is much more complex than that.</text></comment> |
7,847,862 | 7,847,894 | 1 | 3 | 7,847,507 | train | <story><title>The Decline and Fall of IBM</title><url>http://www.cringely.com/2014/06/04/decline-fall-ibm/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheMagicHorsey</author><text>I haven&#x27;t read Cringely before. Is he a trustworthy reporter, or a sensationalist? I will buy his book if he&#x27;s a sober observer. I just hate these kind of books usually though, because they are often the product of sensationalists looking to make a quick buck.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smacktoward</author><text>His book &quot;Accidental Empires&quot; (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Empires-Silicon-Millions-Competition/dp/0887308554" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Accidental-Empires-Silicon-Millions-Co...</a>), and the PBS documentary miniseries that was based on it, &quot;Triumph of the Nerds&quot; (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Triumph-Nerds-Bob-Cringely/dp/B00006FXQO/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1401912503&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=triumph+of+the+nerds" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Triumph-Nerds-Bob-Cringely&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B00006FX...</a>), are both terrific, must-read&#x2F;see histories of the dawning and maturity of the age of personal computing. The doc is especially fascinating now because it was made in the window of time after Steve Jobs&#x27; failure at NeXT, but before his triumphant return to Apple -- so it provides a glimpse of him humbled and circumspect, which is a very different tone than that he took in nearly every other public appearance ever.<p>Cringely&#x27;s more recent work has been kind of hit or miss, though.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Decline and Fall of IBM</title><url>http://www.cringely.com/2014/06/04/decline-fall-ibm/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheMagicHorsey</author><text>I haven&#x27;t read Cringely before. Is he a trustworthy reporter, or a sensationalist? I will buy his book if he&#x27;s a sober observer. I just hate these kind of books usually though, because they are often the product of sensationalists looking to make a quick buck.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmsduran</author><text>It depends on who you ask. As a former IBM&#x27;er, I can attest that many of the employees I worked with turn to Cringely and the IBM Alliance [1] for IBM-related news and rumors.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.endicottalliance.org/jobcutsreports.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.endicottalliance.org&#x2F;jobcutsreports.php</a></text></comment> |
10,457,843 | 10,457,378 | 1 | 2 | 10,457,099 | train | <story><title>Prison Architect, a gaming crowdfunding success story</title><url>http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/10/prison_architect_s_crowdfunding_proves_the_kickstarter_model_for_video_games.single.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>the_af</author><text>A bit of an off-topic rant, but:<p>I think the author is wrong to dismiss Ian Bogost&#x27;s article as &quot;as an opportunity to ignore gameplay in order to pontificate on race and show off the Foucault they read in college&quot;. The author is probably unfamiliar with Bogost, and also misunderstands that Bogost&#x27;s article in The Atlantic about <i>Prison Architect</i> isn&#x27;t a game review. I found the analysis of the game and how it relates to cultural perceptions of imprisonment in America (and the world, really) very interesting.<p>It&#x27;s political and it&#x27;s about games-as-culture. It&#x27;s not a shopping recommendation, and I think this is what the author of TFA misunderstood.</text></comment> | <story><title>Prison Architect, a gaming crowdfunding success story</title><url>http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/10/prison_architect_s_crowdfunding_proves_the_kickstarter_model_for_video_games.single.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>19 million? For a game developed by just two guys (iirc) over the span of two years, that&#x27;s hitting the jackpot. I&#x27;m seeing several projects that make a lot of money for a little effort - DayZ comes to mind, an early access game that costs $35 and has sold millions of copies already, but still feels like a rather bad mod, with little development effort going into it (seemingly).<p>I&#x27;m still on the fence about Star Citizen; the demos they&#x27;ve shown so far are promising, but I&#x27;m going to wait until there&#x27;s an actual game.<p>In contrast, there&#x27;s Elite: Dangerous, which had a successful kickstarter at about 1.5 million, was built and released, and is still under active development, with few bugs to speak of (atm, experiences from retail version over half a year after first release)</text></comment> |
15,966,881 | 15,966,606 | 1 | 2 | 15,965,830 | train | <story><title>Buy, sell, send and receive Bitcoin Cash on Coinbase</title><url>https://blog.coinbase.com/buy-sell-send-and-receive-bitcoin-cash-on-coinbase-65f1b2c7214b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colinbartlett</author><text>So if I sell my newfound BCH today, which was birthed from thin air a few months ago, but originates from BTC I bought years ago, is it short term capital gains or long term?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ohhhlol</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitcoin.tax&#x2F;blog&#x2F;how-to-tax-bitcoin-cash-bch&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitcoin.tax&#x2F;blog&#x2F;how-to-tax-bitcoin-cash-bch&#x2F;</a><p>What if you had no interest in BCH but you owned 1,000 BTC. Do you suddenly have a $277,000 income tax bill?<p>Yes, as discussed by Tyson Cross, tax attorney at BitcoinTaxSolutions.com. Since you have accession to wealth then this is taxable income.</text></comment> | <story><title>Buy, sell, send and receive Bitcoin Cash on Coinbase</title><url>https://blog.coinbase.com/buy-sell-send-and-receive-bitcoin-cash-on-coinbase-65f1b2c7214b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colinbartlett</author><text>So if I sell my newfound BCH today, which was birthed from thin air a few months ago, but originates from BTC I bought years ago, is it short term capital gains or long term?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dahdum</author><text>Nobody knows what IRS says on the matter, but everyone I know of is treating it as a stock split with the holding period of original bitcoin . You do have to calculate an adjusted cost basis for the forked coins, at time of split (most common) or sale (sounds iffy).</text></comment> |
10,970,625 | 10,970,653 | 1 | 2 | 10,968,096 | train | <story><title>Deep Learning with Spark and TensorFlow</title><url>https://databricks.com/blog/2016/01/25/deep-learning-with-spark-and-tensorflow.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amelius</author><text>I have a question about neural networks.<p>Say, you are training a NN to recognize handwritten characters 0 and 1, and you have 1000 training images for each character (so 2000 images in total). All images are bitmaps with 0 for black and 1 for white.<p>Now, by accident, all the &quot;0&quot; training-images have an even number of black pixels, and all the &quot;1&quot; training-images have an odd number of black pixels.<p>How do you know that the NN really learns to recognize 0&#x27;s and 1&#x27;s, as opposed to recognizing whether the number of pixels in an image is even or odd?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mindcrime</author><text>I would say that if you&#x27;re using a single layer NN, the answer is &quot;you don&#x27;t really know&quot;. And that gets to a point about how we still don&#x27;t entirely understand <i>how</i> neural networks work, even when they do work.<p>If you were using a deep network though, and if the current theory is correct, it would be a slightly different story. The current thinking, as I understand it, is that with deep networks, each layer learns representations of certain features (say &quot;slashes&quot;, &quot;edges&quot;, &quot;right slanted lines&quot;, &quot;left slanted lines&quot;, etc.) and the progressively higher layers learn representations composed from those more primitive features. So if a deep net were recognizing your handwritten characters, you could probably reason that it isn&#x27;t <i>just</i> considering whether the number of black pixels is even or odd.<p>Now in reality this is a pretty contrived, and probably unlikely scenario. But it&#x27;s a valid question, because there&#x27;s a deeper point to all of this, which involves transference of learning. That is, how do you take the learning done by a neural network - trained to do one thing - and then leverage that learning in another application. We still don&#x27;t exactly know how to do that, and that&#x27;s in part because we don&#x27;t entirely understand the nature of the representations the networks build up. So a very good answer to your question would arguably help understand how to do transference, which would make NN&#x27;s even more useful.</text></comment> | <story><title>Deep Learning with Spark and TensorFlow</title><url>https://databricks.com/blog/2016/01/25/deep-learning-with-spark-and-tensorflow.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amelius</author><text>I have a question about neural networks.<p>Say, you are training a NN to recognize handwritten characters 0 and 1, and you have 1000 training images for each character (so 2000 images in total). All images are bitmaps with 0 for black and 1 for white.<p>Now, by accident, all the &quot;0&quot; training-images have an even number of black pixels, and all the &quot;1&quot; training-images have an odd number of black pixels.<p>How do you know that the NN really learns to recognize 0&#x27;s and 1&#x27;s, as opposed to recognizing whether the number of pixels in an image is even or odd?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>They famously do things like that all the time - instead of recognizing a tank in the woods, they notice all the tanks-in-woods pictures were taken on a sunny day; they train to recognize a sunny day.</text></comment> |
23,667,354 | 23,665,138 | 1 | 2 | 23,660,464 | train | <story><title>Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language</title><url>https://wren.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xscott</author><text>Wren seems like a really clean alternative to a language like Python, but it makes one mistake that really drives me nuts. In order to provide binary operators, you must implement a method on the left object. From the documentation [0]:<p>&gt; The left operand is the receiver, and the right operand gets passed to it. So a + b is semantically interpreted as “invoke the +(_) method on a, passing it b“.<p>This means that if you want to implement complex numbers, or matrices, or a bunch of other useful stuff, you&#x27;d have to be able to extend the type on the left (which you didn&#x27;t write). You really want to be able to do things like:<p><pre><code> var z = Complex.new(1.0, 2.0)
var result = 3.0 - z
var A = Matrix.ident(3, 3)
var scaled = 4.0*A
</code></pre>
Python hacks around this by having &quot;right&#x27; versions of these methods too. It&#x27;s kind of ugly - if the left object fails to support the operator method (__sub__ or __mul__) with the right type, the interpreter looks for a __rsub__ or __rmul__ operator on the right object to try. Ugly, but it works.<p>C++ works around this a much better way: You can either have the operator method on the left object, or have an overloaded operator function that isn&#x27;t tied to either object.<p>Rust puts the operators on the left object too, but in some cases you <i>can</i> add methods&#x2F;trait specializations to left classes. Unfortunately, Rust doesn&#x27;t let you do this with generics, but that&#x27;s a longer more complicated topic.<p>Maybe there&#x27;s some way Wren lets you tack on additional methods to the builtin Num class (monkey patching), but I couldn&#x27;t find it. I would love an elegant alternative to Python, but this is enough of an issue that it keeps me from using Wren.<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wren.io&#x2F;method-calls.html#operators" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wren.io&#x2F;method-calls.html#operators</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mst</author><text>The solution I&#x27;ve been playing with for $interp_thing (mostly in my head so far) is roughly the python version but with some type dispatch checking to pick the &quot;most specific&quot; of the two - which is easy when one is a subclass of the other but gets gribbly in more complicated cases. I <i>suspect</i> ultimately it&#x27;ll be a case of &quot;run a multimethod style selection algorithm for &#x27;most specific&#x27; and arbitrarily declare &#x27;LHS wins&#x27;&quot; but I&#x27;ve not got far enough to consider that remotely fully baked.<p>($interp_thing being a placeholder for something I&#x27;m experimenting with of late)</text></comment> | <story><title>Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language</title><url>https://wren.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xscott</author><text>Wren seems like a really clean alternative to a language like Python, but it makes one mistake that really drives me nuts. In order to provide binary operators, you must implement a method on the left object. From the documentation [0]:<p>&gt; The left operand is the receiver, and the right operand gets passed to it. So a + b is semantically interpreted as “invoke the +(_) method on a, passing it b“.<p>This means that if you want to implement complex numbers, or matrices, or a bunch of other useful stuff, you&#x27;d have to be able to extend the type on the left (which you didn&#x27;t write). You really want to be able to do things like:<p><pre><code> var z = Complex.new(1.0, 2.0)
var result = 3.0 - z
var A = Matrix.ident(3, 3)
var scaled = 4.0*A
</code></pre>
Python hacks around this by having &quot;right&#x27; versions of these methods too. It&#x27;s kind of ugly - if the left object fails to support the operator method (__sub__ or __mul__) with the right type, the interpreter looks for a __rsub__ or __rmul__ operator on the right object to try. Ugly, but it works.<p>C++ works around this a much better way: You can either have the operator method on the left object, or have an overloaded operator function that isn&#x27;t tied to either object.<p>Rust puts the operators on the left object too, but in some cases you <i>can</i> add methods&#x2F;trait specializations to left classes. Unfortunately, Rust doesn&#x27;t let you do this with generics, but that&#x27;s a longer more complicated topic.<p>Maybe there&#x27;s some way Wren lets you tack on additional methods to the builtin Num class (monkey patching), but I couldn&#x27;t find it. I would love an elegant alternative to Python, but this is enough of an issue that it keeps me from using Wren.<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wren.io&#x2F;method-calls.html#operators" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wren.io&#x2F;method-calls.html#operators</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>byroot</author><text>You also have the Ruby solution of calling a `coerce` [0] method on the right hand side.<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ruby&#x2F;ruby&#x2F;blob&#x2F;0703e014713ae92f4c8a2b31e385718dc2452eac&#x2F;lib&#x2F;matrix.rb#L1589-L1602" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ruby&#x2F;ruby&#x2F;blob&#x2F;0703e014713ae92f4c8a2b31e3...</a></text></comment> |
19,384,595 | 19,384,596 | 1 | 2 | 19,383,699 | train | <story><title>Death metal music inspires joy not violence</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47543875</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RickS</author><text>Great to see research coming to a conclusion I think most metalheads intuitively know.<p>I love walls of sound, I love intensity that feels like it takes a surplus of cognitive bandwidth (ADHD) and gives it a little bit of resistance to tug against, almost like those various rubber stress toys. I think most metal fans hear lyrical gruesomeness as something between fantasy and a cause for more empathy than anything else. And let&#x27;s be real, a lot of it is flat out unintelligible. It&#x27;s an aesthetic.<p>Most of the metalheads I know are absolute teddybears. I listen to some pretty heavy stuff (see links), but the other day I cried at a dog video, and recently had to turn off the police scanner at the mention of a particularly sad crime. Mosh pits look scary but there&#x27;s a shared ethical framework. Injuries happen, but they&#x27;re almost never due to malice. Somebody falls down, you pick em up. Bigger people stomp around keeping the peace and returning lost shoes, aha. It&#x27;s bounded, consensual violence – just like a martial art.<p>Exceptions exist – there are church burners and skinheads, but they tend to cluster in their own sects and you don&#x27;t get mixed up with them accidentally.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;E9z-Tipz5JQ?t=40" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;E9z-Tipz5JQ?t=40</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Y037ZIKckIY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Y037ZIKckIY</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;9YkSki1qbLA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;9YkSki1qbLA</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cyberferret</author><text>&gt; Most of the metalheads I know are absolute teddybears.<p>In my music hobby as a guitarist, I&#x27;ve been involved in heavy rock and classic blues bands, played in a classical guitar ensemble, and did some sessions in a jazz setting. More recently I&#x27;ve been guitar tech and roadie for my son who plays in a metal band.<p>By far, the nicest people I have come across have been in the metal scene. I&#x27;ve been invited around to try gear, and been offered the lend of more gear from heavy metal guitarists.<p>My former co-founder in my business is a fan of extreme Northern European metal, and she is one of the nicest people I&#x27;ve met.</text></comment> | <story><title>Death metal music inspires joy not violence</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47543875</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RickS</author><text>Great to see research coming to a conclusion I think most metalheads intuitively know.<p>I love walls of sound, I love intensity that feels like it takes a surplus of cognitive bandwidth (ADHD) and gives it a little bit of resistance to tug against, almost like those various rubber stress toys. I think most metal fans hear lyrical gruesomeness as something between fantasy and a cause for more empathy than anything else. And let&#x27;s be real, a lot of it is flat out unintelligible. It&#x27;s an aesthetic.<p>Most of the metalheads I know are absolute teddybears. I listen to some pretty heavy stuff (see links), but the other day I cried at a dog video, and recently had to turn off the police scanner at the mention of a particularly sad crime. Mosh pits look scary but there&#x27;s a shared ethical framework. Injuries happen, but they&#x27;re almost never due to malice. Somebody falls down, you pick em up. Bigger people stomp around keeping the peace and returning lost shoes, aha. It&#x27;s bounded, consensual violence – just like a martial art.<p>Exceptions exist – there are church burners and skinheads, but they tend to cluster in their own sects and you don&#x27;t get mixed up with them accidentally.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;E9z-Tipz5JQ?t=40" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;E9z-Tipz5JQ?t=40</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Y037ZIKckIY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Y037ZIKckIY</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;9YkSki1qbLA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;9YkSki1qbLA</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stcredzero</author><text><i>Most of the metalheads I know are absolute teddybears. I listen to some pretty heavy stuff (see links), but the other day I cried at a dog video, and recently had to turn off the police scanner at the mention of a particularly sad crime.</i><p>There&#x27;s a weird rule of opposites which can happen with music. I think people often take up art and music as a form of healing, so there&#x27;s some kind of reaction vector involved. Lots of people who take up Irish Trad are tortured souls or have &quot;thorny&quot; sides. Also, the corpus has a lot of happy sounding songs talking about truly horrible things.</text></comment> |
24,230,321 | 24,229,755 | 1 | 2 | 24,229,269 | train | <story><title>New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' research rejected by others</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.5146761/new-academic-journal-only-publishes-unsurprising-research-rejected-by-others-1.5146765</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kraetzin</author><text>Half of my PhD thesis is considered &quot;unpublishable&quot; because, after doing the work, my supervisors felt it&#x27;s actually &quot;unsurprising&quot; that it didn&#x27;t work out. We took methods that had been exploited to improve on previous results for over a decade to their logical extreme, and found that this method no longer leads to improvements. After doing the work it seems obvious. A paper on the subject would almost be considered uninteresting, and a high ranking journal would ignore it (which is why it&#x27;s considered &quot;unpublishable&quot;). However, nobody has published this information, and it would help others to not make the same mistake.<p>I wonder how many times similar &quot;mistakes&quot; have been made by PhD students across disciplines.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bumby</author><text>My experience: I proposed a thesis to an advisor who deemed it unlikely to work. He ran it by a colleague who came to the same conclusion. I went to a different major and pursued the same thesis and invited the previous faculty who initially turned it down to the defense because it was relevant to their field.<p>It was frustrating to hear them voice their opinions in the defense that they felt, “of course it world work.” After seeing the data, they took the exact opposite side claiming it was obvious to the point of being of limited publishing value.</text></comment> | <story><title>New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' research rejected by others</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.5146761/new-academic-journal-only-publishes-unsurprising-research-rejected-by-others-1.5146765</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kraetzin</author><text>Half of my PhD thesis is considered &quot;unpublishable&quot; because, after doing the work, my supervisors felt it&#x27;s actually &quot;unsurprising&quot; that it didn&#x27;t work out. We took methods that had been exploited to improve on previous results for over a decade to their logical extreme, and found that this method no longer leads to improvements. After doing the work it seems obvious. A paper on the subject would almost be considered uninteresting, and a high ranking journal would ignore it (which is why it&#x27;s considered &quot;unpublishable&quot;). However, nobody has published this information, and it would help others to not make the same mistake.<p>I wonder how many times similar &quot;mistakes&quot; have been made by PhD students across disciplines.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>owenshen24</author><text>That sucks to hear. Null results are important, as you say, if only to dissuade others from doing the same.<p>See also the &quot;file-drawer problem&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Publication_bias" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Publication_bias</a>). Also, with regards to the incentives in the field and the lack of null results, there&#x27;s always Ioannidis&#x27;s classic work (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.plos.org&#x2F;plosmedicine&#x2F;article?id=10.1371&#x2F;journal.pmed.0020124" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.plos.org&#x2F;plosmedicine&#x2F;article?id=10.1371&#x2F;jo...</a>).</text></comment> |
5,415,238 | 5,415,205 | 1 | 3 | 5,414,866 | train | <story><title>Sendgrid is down</title><url>http://support.sendgrid.com/entries/23417077-21-Mar-Website-Down-Refusing-Mail</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grey-area</author><text>I'm sad to see that HN is being used as a platform for this sort of demagogy, and sad that stories about this tawdry little tale are indiscriminately voted up above other stories which are far more interesting.<p>DDOS of a mailing service that lots of websites rely on because a completely unrelated company decided to fire someone is not an occasion for <i>lol</i> and <i>schadenfreude</i> as some posters here would have it. As a method of justice it has more in common with a lynch mob than a court of law - this isn't going to get the guy's job back, and it certainly isn't going to teach anyone a lesson, apart from that the internet is fickle, and monumentally stupid. But I very much doubt the people behind this attack are interested in justice or truly care about the man who lost his job, they're just doing it for the lolz and are punishing the internet at large over a silly little dispute at a tech conference.<p>Congratulations to the mob, I guess; it has shown its power, if not any sense of discrimination or proportionality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kybernetyk</author><text>Now you can argue as much as you want - but the (sad) truth is that mob mentality exists and we will have to deal with it for at least the next few centuries.<p>This should be a lesson for companies that hire highly confrontational people as their official community representatives.<p>Yes, in a perfect world there shouldn't be DDOS' and other attacks because of a tweet about an immature joke but it's not a perfect world and we should be very wary what personalities we hire to represent us.<p>As much as I don't like it - the "right" thing for sengrid would be to replace their 'developer evangelist' with someone who's less confrontational. Yes, it sucks. But as businesses we have to deal with reality.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sendgrid is down</title><url>http://support.sendgrid.com/entries/23417077-21-Mar-Website-Down-Refusing-Mail</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grey-area</author><text>I'm sad to see that HN is being used as a platform for this sort of demagogy, and sad that stories about this tawdry little tale are indiscriminately voted up above other stories which are far more interesting.<p>DDOS of a mailing service that lots of websites rely on because a completely unrelated company decided to fire someone is not an occasion for <i>lol</i> and <i>schadenfreude</i> as some posters here would have it. As a method of justice it has more in common with a lynch mob than a court of law - this isn't going to get the guy's job back, and it certainly isn't going to teach anyone a lesson, apart from that the internet is fickle, and monumentally stupid. But I very much doubt the people behind this attack are interested in justice or truly care about the man who lost his job, they're just doing it for the lolz and are punishing the internet at large over a silly little dispute at a tech conference.<p>Congratulations to the mob, I guess; it has shown its power, if not any sense of discrimination or proportionality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lewton</author><text>Sometimes something happens where posts on hacker news are part of the debacle[1] and it results in an influx of new users.
I don't want to sound like an old coot, but I'm a bit concerned about the type of user this thing has been attracting<p>[1] in this case, the guy who was called out for the jokes, posted in a comment on here that he was fired</text></comment> |
22,315,607 | 22,313,970 | 1 | 2 | 22,309,291 | train | <story><title>Why are we so bad at software engineering?</title><url>https://www.bitlog.com/2020/02/12/why-are-we-so-bad-at-software-engineering/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>harry8</author><text>You can&#x27;t discuss software in this context without discussing IBM global services, oracle, computer associates, accenture etc etc.<p>Shut them all down, watch the average quality of software improve dramatically, immediately.<p>Next have someone qualified on every single board of directors and have each board create an appropriate sub committee. The same way you have a qualified accountant and audit sub-comittee. Have someone with proper CS &amp; IT credentials and an IT oversight comittee. (Sure mostly the initial massive win is warding of the vampires mentioned in the previous paragraph but there is huge, huge value beyond that.)<p>Having ignorant people making the resource allocation decision is idiotic in the extreme and leads to overpriced, rubbish quality outcomes. Like deciding to use some garbage vote countinga app that doesn&#x27;t and can&#x27;t work - who did that? Can we just say they are utterly ignorant of the field they made important decisions concerning or do we need to get their name and demonstrate it.<p>Why are we so bad at software engineering? We are not! We just aren&#x27;t. We do amazing things. We can do it reliably. We can do it economically. Software is f*&amp;king awesome.<p>Why is there so much corruption in the decision making process leading to garbage quality overpriced, risky and idiotic software? Now that is a better question to ask.<p>Why is the idea of actually regulating foolhardy risk-taking startups (self-driving, privacy invading, turn-key facist state surveiling etc) so controversial? Because we can&#x27;t even make good decisions about CRUD development at a policy level in a fortune 500 company - forget a policy decsion at a government level, you know it&#x27;s going to be awful and redolent with regulatory capture.<p>We just need to grow up and stop blaming the geeks for the utter manure shoveled at us by ignorant jocks on golf courses determined to exclude anyone with actual understanding, insight and knowledge. And the manure shoveled by the actual geeks with a massive risk appetite and zero care for externalities beyond their startup making cash. Really. That&#x27;s it. That&#x27;s all.<p>Software is FINE. Decision making about software is SO bad, so awful, so hideous we try not to think about it lest it rots our minds with despair.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcranmer</author><text>I sense a fair amount of the No True Scotsman fallacy going on in your comment--you&#x27;re arguing that there&#x27;s no fundamental issue at software engineering, only evil management oppressing engineers from unleashing perfect software. But, I suspect that we are so bad at our jobs that we build broken stuff all the time and merely blame our users for not knowing that everything is broken. (Try putting a space in your home directory and see how much stuff breaks.)<p>Heartbleed should be the equivalent of the Kansas City Hyatt disaster for our profession. It is a failure mode that is so elementary, so obvious, so easily avoidable that its occurrence should be a sign of deep failure in <i>several</i> processes meant to avoid it, and it should be grounds to open an investigation into criminal negligence. And yet... OpenSSL had <i>no</i> process for catching this stuff. Very few software projects do--I suspect yours do not either.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why are we so bad at software engineering?</title><url>https://www.bitlog.com/2020/02/12/why-are-we-so-bad-at-software-engineering/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>harry8</author><text>You can&#x27;t discuss software in this context without discussing IBM global services, oracle, computer associates, accenture etc etc.<p>Shut them all down, watch the average quality of software improve dramatically, immediately.<p>Next have someone qualified on every single board of directors and have each board create an appropriate sub committee. The same way you have a qualified accountant and audit sub-comittee. Have someone with proper CS &amp; IT credentials and an IT oversight comittee. (Sure mostly the initial massive win is warding of the vampires mentioned in the previous paragraph but there is huge, huge value beyond that.)<p>Having ignorant people making the resource allocation decision is idiotic in the extreme and leads to overpriced, rubbish quality outcomes. Like deciding to use some garbage vote countinga app that doesn&#x27;t and can&#x27;t work - who did that? Can we just say they are utterly ignorant of the field they made important decisions concerning or do we need to get their name and demonstrate it.<p>Why are we so bad at software engineering? We are not! We just aren&#x27;t. We do amazing things. We can do it reliably. We can do it economically. Software is f*&amp;king awesome.<p>Why is there so much corruption in the decision making process leading to garbage quality overpriced, risky and idiotic software? Now that is a better question to ask.<p>Why is the idea of actually regulating foolhardy risk-taking startups (self-driving, privacy invading, turn-key facist state surveiling etc) so controversial? Because we can&#x27;t even make good decisions about CRUD development at a policy level in a fortune 500 company - forget a policy decsion at a government level, you know it&#x27;s going to be awful and redolent with regulatory capture.<p>We just need to grow up and stop blaming the geeks for the utter manure shoveled at us by ignorant jocks on golf courses determined to exclude anyone with actual understanding, insight and knowledge. And the manure shoveled by the actual geeks with a massive risk appetite and zero care for externalities beyond their startup making cash. Really. That&#x27;s it. That&#x27;s all.<p>Software is FINE. Decision making about software is SO bad, so awful, so hideous we try not to think about it lest it rots our minds with despair.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jussij</author><text>&gt; Decision making about software is SO bad, so awful, so hideous we try not to think about it lest it rots our minds with despair.<p>And to add the icing to your cake, more often than not there are no consequences for those making these bad decisions.</text></comment> |
26,283,665 | 26,283,611 | 1 | 2 | 26,282,742 | train | <story><title>Arrow v1.0: After 8 years, even better dates and times for Python</title><url>https://github.com/arrow-py/arrow</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kuschku</author><text>The only working datetime solution is JSR310.<p>It has separate types for<p>• LocalTime (milliseconds after midnight)<p>• LocalDate (julian day),<p>• LocalDateTime (julian day and milliseconds after midnight),<p>• Instant (nanoseconds since EPOCH),<p>• ZonedDateTime (which is a point in time with a timezone, and exposes both the localdatetime and the instant APIs)<p>All of these types have a reason to exist, and definitely shouldn&#x27;t be mixed together (like python does).<p>• If I program an alarm clock, I&#x27;ll want to use LocalTime. Even if DST starts&#x2F;ends, you still wanna get woken up at 8am.<p>• My birthday is a LocalDate. It usually has no time information, and usually isn&#x27;t depending on a timezone. An anniversary is the same.<p>• The moment when a loggable event happened is an Instant. The event doesn&#x27;t care about timezones, only the exact time it happened.<p>• A calendar event is a ZonedDateTime: the meeting will happen at 10am CET, regardless of which timezone I&#x27;m in at that point.<p>All these types describe different concepts, and they shouldn&#x27;t be mixed together. Every language should adopt JSR310. Yes, it&#x27;s relatively complicated, but it&#x27;s extremely precise and accurate.<p>And you can convert them all!<p>•LocalDate + LocalTime becomes LocalDateTime<p>• LocalDateTime.atZone(ZoneId or ZoneOffset) becomes ZonedDateTime<p>• Instant.atZone(ZoneId or ZoneOffset) becomes ZonedDateTime<p>• ZonedDateTime.toInstant() or ZonedDateTime.toLocalDateTime() exposes local datetime and instant.<p>• LocalDate can easilybe converted to JapaneseDate, HebrewDate, ArabicDate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dwohnitmok</author><text>JSR 310&#x27;s Instant class and notion of absolute time has always left me wondering whether any time library in any language attempts to handle relativity. Does anybody know of any?</text></comment> | <story><title>Arrow v1.0: After 8 years, even better dates and times for Python</title><url>https://github.com/arrow-py/arrow</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kuschku</author><text>The only working datetime solution is JSR310.<p>It has separate types for<p>• LocalTime (milliseconds after midnight)<p>• LocalDate (julian day),<p>• LocalDateTime (julian day and milliseconds after midnight),<p>• Instant (nanoseconds since EPOCH),<p>• ZonedDateTime (which is a point in time with a timezone, and exposes both the localdatetime and the instant APIs)<p>All of these types have a reason to exist, and definitely shouldn&#x27;t be mixed together (like python does).<p>• If I program an alarm clock, I&#x27;ll want to use LocalTime. Even if DST starts&#x2F;ends, you still wanna get woken up at 8am.<p>• My birthday is a LocalDate. It usually has no time information, and usually isn&#x27;t depending on a timezone. An anniversary is the same.<p>• The moment when a loggable event happened is an Instant. The event doesn&#x27;t care about timezones, only the exact time it happened.<p>• A calendar event is a ZonedDateTime: the meeting will happen at 10am CET, regardless of which timezone I&#x27;m in at that point.<p>All these types describe different concepts, and they shouldn&#x27;t be mixed together. Every language should adopt JSR310. Yes, it&#x27;s relatively complicated, but it&#x27;s extremely precise and accurate.<p>And you can convert them all!<p>•LocalDate + LocalTime becomes LocalDateTime<p>• LocalDateTime.atZone(ZoneId or ZoneOffset) becomes ZonedDateTime<p>• Instant.atZone(ZoneId or ZoneOffset) becomes ZonedDateTime<p>• ZonedDateTime.toInstant() or ZonedDateTime.toLocalDateTime() exposes local datetime and instant.<p>• LocalDate can easilybe converted to JapaneseDate, HebrewDate, ArabicDate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dthul</author><text>If I&#x27;m not mistaken &quot;chrono&quot;[1] behaves almost the same.
It calls Local[Date|Time|DateTime] Naive[Date|Time|DateTime]. ZonedDateTime is just called DateTime. It doesn&#x27;t have a separate type for Instants but can convert (zoned) DateTimes to and from UNIX timestamps.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.rs&#x2F;chrono&#x2F;0.4.19&#x2F;chrono&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.rs&#x2F;chrono&#x2F;0.4.19&#x2F;chrono&#x2F;index.html</a><p>Edit: it seems like chrono&#x27;s design took lessons learned from other time libraries, including JSR-310, into account, so that explains why they are so similar.</text></comment> |
19,629,512 | 19,628,680 | 1 | 3 | 19,628,128 | train | <story><title>New human species found in Philippines</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47873072</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>amatecha</author><text>IMO might want to revise the title to something like &quot;Remains of previously-unknown human species found in Philippines&quot; -- I initially thought the headline was indicating some kind of super elusive secret species of humanoids was living in some hidden cave or something. :&#x27;D</text></comment> | <story><title>New human species found in Philippines</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47873072</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>Looks like this adds to the evidence that our ancestors left Africa in a diaspora much, much earlier than had previously been thought, especially as this is far from their original continent.</text></comment> |
827,770 | 827,605 | 1 | 2 | 827,529 | train | <story><title>JSNES: A Javascript NES emulator</title><url>http://benfirshman.com/projects/jsnes/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>daeken</author><text>Very neat, but it's a shame that interpretation is used. With the speed of current Javascript implementations, dynamic recompilation (block-based recompilation to JS functions, specifically) is insanely fast.<p>A while back, <a href="http://6502asm.com/" rel="nofollow">http://6502asm.com/</a> popped up with a web-based 6502 (chip used in the NES, Apple ][, and many others) emulator. I stumbled upon it and in a matter of hours, I patched it to become the first (to my knowledge) dynarec emulator in JS. You can see a live version here: <a href="http://ironbabel.googlepages.com/6502.html" rel="nofollow">http://ironbabel.googlepages.com/6502.html</a><p>This same technology could easily be applied to JSNES for considerable speedups.</text></comment> | <story><title>JSNES: A Javascript NES emulator</title><url>http://benfirshman.com/projects/jsnes/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>timdorr</author><text>I thought the Javascript CAPTCHA solver was insane. This takes the cake.<p>Next step, do like Cappuccino and "compile" the NES rom's back to native Javascript. At that point, I think my head might explode.</text></comment> |
37,288,022 | 37,288,195 | 1 | 2 | 37,287,522 | train | <story><title>In the '90s I survived summers in Egypt with no AC. How would it feel now?</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/08/27/1195966057/comic-in-the-90s-i-survived-summers-in-egypt-with-no-ac-how-would-it-feel-now</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dj_mc_merlin</author><text>Yep, creating draft to cool down is a big one. The problem becomes that if you do that at night, you&#x27;re going to have a million mosquitos invading your room. So it&#x27;s death by heat or mosquito.<p>(I chose mosquito since at least I can sleep with them buzzing around.)<p>edit: planning on getting insect screens soon. Thanks for comments pushing me to.</text></item><item><author>capableweb</author><text>&gt; What good alternatives are there to AC, however? The comic gives:<p>Create a natural flow by opening windows and doors, so at least you get a breeze. Cool lots of ice during the night and use it for cold drinks during the day. If you have any outdoor space, have a little temporary pool that is always in shadow.</text></item><item><author>dj_mc_merlin</author><text>Currently living with no AC in a very hot climate for the first time in a long time, and I&#x27;d forgotten how horrible it can be to not be able to escape the heat. During the day it&#x27;s hard to concentrate, and at night it&#x27;s hard to sleep.<p>What good alternatives are there to AC, however? The comic gives:<p>* Building buildings with less reflective materials.. there&#x27;s almost none here and it&#x27;s still damn hot. Obviously the concrete traps heat but I don&#x27;t really see us not using concrete anymore.<p>* Planting trees for shade. Plenty of trees here, doesn&#x27;t stop it from being hot as hell inside.<p>* A system for getting out of the way of a heat wave.. which from experience, no one would actually use. The biggest deaths from heat waves here happen since older people insist on going to stores etc. during the day, and predictably faint on the street and die. This is completely preventable already -- they&#x27;re not gonna use the system.<p>* Growing plants on top of buildings. Maybe this will help? I don&#x27;t know enough to say.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gretch</author><text>Perhaps also get some screens for windows. Very common in the US even in areas with low mosquitos</text></comment> | <story><title>In the '90s I survived summers in Egypt with no AC. How would it feel now?</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/08/27/1195966057/comic-in-the-90s-i-survived-summers-in-egypt-with-no-ac-how-would-it-feel-now</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dj_mc_merlin</author><text>Yep, creating draft to cool down is a big one. The problem becomes that if you do that at night, you&#x27;re going to have a million mosquitos invading your room. So it&#x27;s death by heat or mosquito.<p>(I chose mosquito since at least I can sleep with them buzzing around.)<p>edit: planning on getting insect screens soon. Thanks for comments pushing me to.</text></item><item><author>capableweb</author><text>&gt; What good alternatives are there to AC, however? The comic gives:<p>Create a natural flow by opening windows and doors, so at least you get a breeze. Cool lots of ice during the night and use it for cold drinks during the day. If you have any outdoor space, have a little temporary pool that is always in shadow.</text></item><item><author>dj_mc_merlin</author><text>Currently living with no AC in a very hot climate for the first time in a long time, and I&#x27;d forgotten how horrible it can be to not be able to escape the heat. During the day it&#x27;s hard to concentrate, and at night it&#x27;s hard to sleep.<p>What good alternatives are there to AC, however? The comic gives:<p>* Building buildings with less reflective materials.. there&#x27;s almost none here and it&#x27;s still damn hot. Obviously the concrete traps heat but I don&#x27;t really see us not using concrete anymore.<p>* Planting trees for shade. Plenty of trees here, doesn&#x27;t stop it from being hot as hell inside.<p>* A system for getting out of the way of a heat wave.. which from experience, no one would actually use. The biggest deaths from heat waves here happen since older people insist on going to stores etc. during the day, and predictably faint on the street and die. This is completely preventable already -- they&#x27;re not gonna use the system.<p>* Growing plants on top of buildings. Maybe this will help? I don&#x27;t know enough to say.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>code_duck</author><text>Several years ago I knew an epidemiologist who studied elephantiasis in Egypt. It is acquired by living in unscreened house and being bit by mosquitoes hundreds of times each night. Victims end up in truly awful situations like having to transport their testicles in a wheelbarrow. Completely serious.</text></comment> |
15,576,724 | 15,575,530 | 1 | 2 | 15,575,109 | train | <story><title>I Watched All of the Chrome Dev Summit 2017 Videos</title><url>https://redfin.engineering/i-watched-all-of-the-chrome-dev-summit-2017-videos-so-you-dont-have-to-9b62a593c3cb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kinlan</author><text>Organizer of Chrome Dev Summit here.<p>Please do keep sending feedback and thoughts through on how can keep improving.<p>In terms of session length, I can see that being an issue. We had strict union regulations, and a lot of content to get through and I took the decision for more but shorter length talks that we can expand with textual content after the event.<p>We also tried to keep the theme for day 1 to everything we&#x27;ve learnt in the last year, so what is the new minimum bar for web experiences, how to load them quickly and how we&#x27;ve done it in the real world with commerce and media experiences and wordpress and pwa.<p>On day 2 I wanted us to showcase where we think the web could be heading in the next year, specifically with more of a focus on developer experience (devtools etc, polymer, lit etc)<p>Not saying we hit all those goals, but I do feel pretty happy with the event as a whole.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xenadu02</author><text>&gt; We had strict union regulations<p>Can you clarify what this means?<p>In my experience it means paying for more audio, video, and venue staff because the existing folks have been on duty all day but the conference organizers don’t want to pay or can’t afford to pay for a) more people or b) overtime<p>I’ve done a bit of mix engineering and conference organizers are very myopic: why can’t I be as excited about their stuff as they are? They don’t think about what happens when this is your day job and if you don’t bring the hammer down you’ll end up working unpaid overtime every day of every week because every conference thinks they are the hottest most exciting shit since sliced bread.<p>One can assume Google is <i>able</i> to pay more but made the perfectly reasonable business decision not to. The mystery for me is why you’re blaming it on the union?<p>Perhaps the venue completely prohibits longer days but every rate sheet I’ve ever seen simply quotes higher prices if you exceed a “normal” conference day length.<p>(I’m genuinely curious here but also being slightly sensitive: there are certainly abusive unions - Philly conference centers come to mind where you have to pay master electricians to carry tables and chairs into the venue - but it is far more common for people to be cheap-asses &amp; blame the unions)</text></comment> | <story><title>I Watched All of the Chrome Dev Summit 2017 Videos</title><url>https://redfin.engineering/i-watched-all-of-the-chrome-dev-summit-2017-videos-so-you-dont-have-to-9b62a593c3cb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kinlan</author><text>Organizer of Chrome Dev Summit here.<p>Please do keep sending feedback and thoughts through on how can keep improving.<p>In terms of session length, I can see that being an issue. We had strict union regulations, and a lot of content to get through and I took the decision for more but shorter length talks that we can expand with textual content after the event.<p>We also tried to keep the theme for day 1 to everything we&#x27;ve learnt in the last year, so what is the new minimum bar for web experiences, how to load them quickly and how we&#x27;ve done it in the real world with commerce and media experiences and wordpress and pwa.<p>On day 2 I wanted us to showcase where we think the web could be heading in the next year, specifically with more of a focus on developer experience (devtools etc, polymer, lit etc)<p>Not saying we hit all those goals, but I do feel pretty happy with the event as a whole.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inglor</author><text>Hey, thanks for taking feedback!<p>As someone who was invited to attend - I really wished the talks were more low level and technical. I&#x27;d really enjoy talks about how things are implemented in Chrome, how the underlying APIs (for PWAs for example) work and so on.</text></comment> |
40,948,911 | 40,948,852 | 1 | 2 | 40,948,064 | train | <story><title>CISA broke into a US federal agency, and no one noticed for a full 5 months</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/12/cisa_broke_into_fed_agency/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmclnx</author><text>Nice they are doing their job and glad they exist.<p>But how to fix ? Most US Gov agencies are underfunded, it is either beef up security or provide services. Really a tough choice, and the outlook looks like they may lose even more funding.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Rinzler89</author><text><i>&gt;Most US Gov agencies are underfunded</i><p>Doesn&#x27;t the US outspend in terms of dollars almost every single developed country on the planet at absolutely everything, even in per capita statistics, from military, police to education and healthcare? How could it be underfunded?</text></comment> | <story><title>CISA broke into a US federal agency, and no one noticed for a full 5 months</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/12/cisa_broke_into_fed_agency/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmclnx</author><text>Nice they are doing their job and glad they exist.<p>But how to fix ? Most US Gov agencies are underfunded, it is either beef up security or provide services. Really a tough choice, and the outlook looks like they may lose even more funding.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akira2501</author><text>Lesson learned: The assessed organization had insufficient controls to prevent and detect malicious activity.<p>Lesson learned: The organization did not effectively or efficiently collect, retain, and analyze logs.<p>Lesson learned: Bureaucratic processes and decentralized teams hindered the organization’s network defenders.<p>Lesson learned: A “known-bad” detection approach hampered detection of alternate TTPs.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cisa.gov&#x2F;news-events&#x2F;cybersecurity-advisories&#x2F;aa24-193a" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cisa.gov&#x2F;news-events&#x2F;cybersecurity-advisories&#x2F;aa...</a></text></comment> |
16,903,114 | 16,902,913 | 1 | 2 | 16,902,216 | train | <story><title>Cryptonetworks and why tokens are fundamental</title><url>https://www.nickgrossman.is/2018/cryptonetworks-and-why-tokens-are-fundamental/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rajeck</author><text>I&#x27;m always happy to be convinced that someone has seen something I&#x27;ve missed in all of this hype about crypto, but when you say things like...<p>&#x27;imagine if you could fork Amazon and launch a direct competitor&#x27;<p>..you&#x27;ve lost me. Amazon is not a code base. It has over 500,000 employees who work hard to serve its customers. How do you fork that?<p>I would offer another, better example but I can&#x27;t think of one. Web 2.0 companies are so far ahead that web 3.0 is going to have to come up with something completely different to be commercially interesting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roymurdock</author><text>The author is arguing that decentralizing the control of compute power and compute-as-a-service is valuable and should be invested in.<p>It is valuable if we ever reach a point where say, AWS has a monopoly on all compute power, and starts making bad&#x2F;unfair&#x2F;predatory decisions that hurt customers.<p>Otherwise running decentralized payment networks to exchange compute power is much less efficient and much more costly than relying on purchasing services directly from a few competing (read: non-colluding) service providers using USD, GBP, EUR, credit cards, etc.<p>There&#x27;s really no need to decentralize compute-as-a-service. This person is getting paid to talk their book because their employer has placed a lot of bets in the cryptocurrency&#x2F;blockchain world and is trying to brainstorm ways to turn them into actual viable products and exit these investments.<p>Blockchains &#x2F; decentralized ledgers are almost always solutions looking for a problem. They solve the very niche issue of exchange between untrusted parties, with caveats, and with extra performance&#x2F;cost added to a centralized solution.<p>There&#x27;s currently no reason to implement a decentralized ledger solution for exchanging compute-as-a-service.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cryptonetworks and why tokens are fundamental</title><url>https://www.nickgrossman.is/2018/cryptonetworks-and-why-tokens-are-fundamental/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rajeck</author><text>I&#x27;m always happy to be convinced that someone has seen something I&#x27;ve missed in all of this hype about crypto, but when you say things like...<p>&#x27;imagine if you could fork Amazon and launch a direct competitor&#x27;<p>..you&#x27;ve lost me. Amazon is not a code base. It has over 500,000 employees who work hard to serve its customers. How do you fork that?<p>I would offer another, better example but I can&#x27;t think of one. Web 2.0 companies are so far ahead that web 3.0 is going to have to come up with something completely different to be commercially interesting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>Web 2.0 companies are so far ahead that web 3.0 is going to have to come up with something completely different to be commercially interesting</i><p>Web 1.0 (<i>e.g.</i> e-mail, http, <i>et cetera</i>) was more de-centralised than any token-based company I see today.</text></comment> |
5,956,953 | 5,956,852 | 1 | 2 | 5,955,771 | train | <story><title>The NSA Can't Tell the Difference Between an American and a Foreigner</title><url>http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/06/27/the_nsa_cant_tell_the_difference_between_an_american_and_a_foreigner?page=0,0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewljohnson</author><text>I haven&#x27;t become depressed, but I&#x27;ve become angry, and thoughtful. I often have new software ideas, and my more recent ideas have turned to ways to organize voters to democratically overthrow the corrupt incumbents.<p>Basically, I imagine a political party, defined by the software it runs on. The first incarnation of the software (website) focuses on organizing party members (users) to win elections, but it then gets iterated to include tools for distributed, direct democracy (i.e. the site will let the party members cast votes on what the elected leader votes on, but I also imagine most people proxy their power to others, which is a feature of the site).<p>The website first needs to get a few local leaders elected... city council, uncontested state positions, maybe a state senator if the v1.0 launch goes well. We need to both recruit people to run for office, then build the software to help them get elected, then build tools to allow transparent governance with direct oversite from the people.<p>It&#x27;s hard to imagine capturing national congressional seats or the presidency on the first go, but I think that applying iterative processes to the formation of a political party and its infrastructure is one possible way to overcome the existing machine.</text></item><item><author>ck2</author><text>Has anyone else become seriously depressed over all this?<p>I mean the TSA was one thing, they are still horrible but I never fly or take a bus or train, I just hate the idea of them existing.<p>But since the NSA exposure, I just feel seriously depressed about the state of who is running this country and the &quot;just try to stop us&quot; thug mentality. It&#x27;s a weight on my mind constantly this past month.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cturner</author><text>The Australian Democrats had a deliberate structure along those lines, although less revolutionary than what you&#x27;re proposing. They&#x27;d been a successful minor party for about thirty years, but imploded from in-fighting about ten years ago.<p>They&#x27;re a useful case-study for talking about ideas around direct democracy. See <a href="http://www.adelaide.edu.au/apsa/docs_papers/Others/Gauja.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adelaide.edu.au&#x2F;apsa&#x2F;docs_papers&#x2F;Others&#x2F;Gauja.pdf</a><p>The causes of the party&#x27;s decline is controversial. My take - that they ran into scaling problems when their parlimentary party grew large. Parts of their parliamentary party felt hamstrung by a membership who were free to take positions on issues that weren&#x27;t well-considered or practical. They needed to move quickly on issues, and the direct democracy process stalled them. The federal parliamentary party went rogue, and a large section of the membership felt betrayed. This killed the collaborative culture that was the heart of what they stood for, and the party collapsed in infighting.<p>I&#x27;m pretty frustrated with the way freedoms are being eroded in the west, but direct democracy is not a strong response to this. It&#x27;s complicated, ripe for gaming and diffuses responsibility - bad qualities. When it fails, people will look to a &quot;strong leader&quot; who &quot;gets things done&quot; to replace it. Danger.<p>Keep thinking though, because there will be better models out there. I suspect that if you could draft a new constitution, you could produce a free society with strong real democratic qualities using a structure similar to the old Icelandic Commonwealth - basically lots of statelets.<p>The major weakness of this kind of system is that it&#x27;s hard to fight big wars, even to defend yourself. That&#x27;s a reason that the awesome original Articles of Confederation were replaced with the current US system.</text></comment> | <story><title>The NSA Can't Tell the Difference Between an American and a Foreigner</title><url>http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/06/27/the_nsa_cant_tell_the_difference_between_an_american_and_a_foreigner?page=0,0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewljohnson</author><text>I haven&#x27;t become depressed, but I&#x27;ve become angry, and thoughtful. I often have new software ideas, and my more recent ideas have turned to ways to organize voters to democratically overthrow the corrupt incumbents.<p>Basically, I imagine a political party, defined by the software it runs on. The first incarnation of the software (website) focuses on organizing party members (users) to win elections, but it then gets iterated to include tools for distributed, direct democracy (i.e. the site will let the party members cast votes on what the elected leader votes on, but I also imagine most people proxy their power to others, which is a feature of the site).<p>The website first needs to get a few local leaders elected... city council, uncontested state positions, maybe a state senator if the v1.0 launch goes well. We need to both recruit people to run for office, then build the software to help them get elected, then build tools to allow transparent governance with direct oversite from the people.<p>It&#x27;s hard to imagine capturing national congressional seats or the presidency on the first go, but I think that applying iterative processes to the formation of a political party and its infrastructure is one possible way to overcome the existing machine.</text></item><item><author>ck2</author><text>Has anyone else become seriously depressed over all this?<p>I mean the TSA was one thing, they are still horrible but I never fly or take a bus or train, I just hate the idea of them existing.<p>But since the NSA exposure, I just feel seriously depressed about the state of who is running this country and the &quot;just try to stop us&quot; thug mentality. It&#x27;s a weight on my mind constantly this past month.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sliverstorm</author><text><i>Basically, I imagine a political party, defined by the software it runs on.</i><p>You realize you are essentially proposing that we switch from the Republican Party vs. the Democratic Party, to the Vim Party and the Emacs Party- right? We all know how vim vs. emacs debates go down.</text></comment> |
13,176,890 | 13,175,968 | 1 | 3 | 13,175,531 | train | <story><title>Uber’s self-driving cars start picking up passengers in San Francisco</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/14/ubers-self-driving-cars-start-picking-up-passengers-in-san-francisco/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bigtones</author><text>Actually these Uber Volvo self driving cars have been picking up passengers using UberX in San Francisco for weeks. They&#x27;re easy to spot because they have a huge lidar contraption on the roof and a lot of camera&#x27;s mounted on the roof, rear vision mirrors, and the rear tailgate of the vehicle. The depot they use is on Harrison and 3rd so you see a lot of them driving around the area just south of Market Street, which has a lot of traffic obstacles, construction, and pedestrians. They go very slow and stop often out of an abundance of caution, much to the consternation of impatient SF drivers behind them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber’s self-driving cars start picking up passengers in San Francisco</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/14/ubers-self-driving-cars-start-picking-up-passengers-in-san-francisco/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>autotune</author><text>How is this going to combat people who make a mess inside the vehicle after going 100 percent without human drivers&#x2F;test engineers? If it picks up a drunk person at 3 AM who then throws up inside the car, is it vomit-aware and knows it needs a cleaning before picking up the next passenger?</text></comment> |
34,559,886 | 34,558,268 | 1 | 2 | 34,556,688 | train | <story><title>Diff Models – A New Way to Edit Code</title><url>https://carper.ai/diff-models-a-new-way-to-edit-code/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>credit_guy</author><text>Take a look at the average faces of women across different countries [1]. They are all strikingly beautiful.<p>By averaging, a lot of imperfections get diluted away.<p>Like in Anna Karenina &quot;happy families are all alike, unhappy ones are each in its own way&quot;. The defects are idiosyncratic, the commonalities are good.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fstoppers.com&#x2F;portraits&#x2F;average-faces-women-around-world-2944" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fstoppers.com&#x2F;portraits&#x2F;average-faces-women-around-w...</a></text></item><item><author>pavlov</author><text>Somehow these GitHub-trained ML code assistants sadden me.<p>My idea of enjoyable high-quality programming isn’t to dip a spoon into an ocean of soup made of other people’s random design decisions and bugs accumulated over fifteen years, hoping to get a spoonful without hidden crunchy insect bits.<p>I know the soup is nutritious and healthy 98% of the time, and eating it saves so much time compared to preparing a filet mignon myself. But it’s still brown sludge.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kristopolous</author><text>That&#x27;s unrelated.<p>Multi-sourced accumulated unmaintained amateur software without clear provenance or ownership is more like creating a feature I&#x27;ll call &quot;insta-legacy&quot;: now you&#x27;re responsible for a bunch of code you didn&#x27;t write that by definition nobody you have access to understands.<p>This is absurd.<p>It&#x27;s not going to stop people from doing it. The industry is clinically insane.<p>It allows people who do bad work to do more of it quickly. Before they had to manually shovel garbage into projects but now they have a dumptruck.<p>You know what? It might be fine. Maybe we&#x27;re going to have a world of fast food programming where minimum wage coders pump out trash and there&#x27;s going to be Michelin star programmers where you go to for the real stuff.<p>If that&#x27;s the case, we&#x27;ll have to somehow educate the public on the difference so they don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s the same thing. McDonald&#x27;s and The French Laundry are both successful restaurants. That world is possible in programming as well.<p>It might already be like that. The cheap rates for shady contracting firms that do trash work are probably already using these things</text></comment> | <story><title>Diff Models – A New Way to Edit Code</title><url>https://carper.ai/diff-models-a-new-way-to-edit-code/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>credit_guy</author><text>Take a look at the average faces of women across different countries [1]. They are all strikingly beautiful.<p>By averaging, a lot of imperfections get diluted away.<p>Like in Anna Karenina &quot;happy families are all alike, unhappy ones are each in its own way&quot;. The defects are idiosyncratic, the commonalities are good.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fstoppers.com&#x2F;portraits&#x2F;average-faces-women-around-world-2944" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fstoppers.com&#x2F;portraits&#x2F;average-faces-women-around-w...</a></text></item><item><author>pavlov</author><text>Somehow these GitHub-trained ML code assistants sadden me.<p>My idea of enjoyable high-quality programming isn’t to dip a spoon into an ocean of soup made of other people’s random design decisions and bugs accumulated over fifteen years, hoping to get a spoonful without hidden crunchy insect bits.<p>I know the soup is nutritious and healthy 98% of the time, and eating it saves so much time compared to preparing a filet mignon myself. But it’s still brown sludge.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm</author><text>Failure is an extremely common and accepted thing in biological systems - your offspring may just die if you have incompatible genes.<p>Software on the other hand is a logical environment with clear, logical requirements. It ought to work, not just fall apart randomly.<p>There is no guarantee that sticking the average of one software into a completely different one will satisfy the logical requirements by any means whatsoever.</text></comment> |
17,260,297 | 17,259,847 | 1 | 3 | 17,258,701 | train | <story><title>Suicide rising across the US</title><url>https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/suicide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JacksonGariety</author><text>The dilemma is that leaving social media is increasingly tantamount to leaving society, which is the basis for what remains of politics. On the other hand, the &quot;politics&quot; that occurs on social media is increasingly nothing other than a popularity contest. It seems hopeless.</text></item><item><author>ams6110</author><text>&gt; the world feels like such a blur<p>Get off of social media and twitter.<p>Stop watching&#x2F;reading the news every day. If you want to keep up with current events, read a politically neutral monthly periodical.<p>I grew up in the 70&#x27;s and 80&#x27;s. Every generation looks back on its youth as &quot;the good old days&quot; but things really were much less stressful then and the main difference I see is that you were not connected to a firehose of real-time updates on everything.</text></item><item><author>adamnemecek</author><text>The accelerationism of the world is really taking it&#x27;s toll. I feel like the political and economical system is, idk, a result of over-application of certain tenets that might have been justified in the past but are increasingly less valid but certain forces are clinging to them because these tenets are all they have.<p>It&#x27;s not just the US, the world feels like such a blur. Very important and fucked up things are happening multiple times daily. Things that don&#x27;t affect me but a lot of times actually really do. Some thousand year old struggles seem to be getting kicked into the internet age and as a result the whole world is getting involved in local conflicts and is forced to take sides.<p>I legit feel as if some sort of new conception of government, nations, states, rights, is really needed. I don&#x27;t know what but I&#x27;m all ears.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jaredklewis</author><text>&gt; The dilemma is that leaving social media is increasingly tantamount to leaving society<p>Aside from my debilitating addiction to HN, I don&#x27;t use social media. I have a job, family, large circle of friends, and all the usual attachments to society. I vote and love to debate politics with pretty much anyone interested. How exactly would my attachment to society be improved by more social media? If HN went away tomorrow, would I no longer be a part of society?<p>I have found fruitful, enjoyable political discussion and social media to be more or less incompatible. Twitter and Facebook work great for the purpose of &quot;rallying the base.&quot; Tweeting or sharing the latest polemic showing all your friends how truly liberal or conservative you are doesn&#x27;t do much to bring in converts. But the political bases in the US are quickly approaching max rallied-ness. From here on out is the actually difficult tasks of changing hearts and minds, and that doesn&#x27;t happen on social media.<p>If you care about politics, the further you get from social media the better.</text></comment> | <story><title>Suicide rising across the US</title><url>https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/suicide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JacksonGariety</author><text>The dilemma is that leaving social media is increasingly tantamount to leaving society, which is the basis for what remains of politics. On the other hand, the &quot;politics&quot; that occurs on social media is increasingly nothing other than a popularity contest. It seems hopeless.</text></item><item><author>ams6110</author><text>&gt; the world feels like such a blur<p>Get off of social media and twitter.<p>Stop watching&#x2F;reading the news every day. If you want to keep up with current events, read a politically neutral monthly periodical.<p>I grew up in the 70&#x27;s and 80&#x27;s. Every generation looks back on its youth as &quot;the good old days&quot; but things really were much less stressful then and the main difference I see is that you were not connected to a firehose of real-time updates on everything.</text></item><item><author>adamnemecek</author><text>The accelerationism of the world is really taking it&#x27;s toll. I feel like the political and economical system is, idk, a result of over-application of certain tenets that might have been justified in the past but are increasingly less valid but certain forces are clinging to them because these tenets are all they have.<p>It&#x27;s not just the US, the world feels like such a blur. Very important and fucked up things are happening multiple times daily. Things that don&#x27;t affect me but a lot of times actually really do. Some thousand year old struggles seem to be getting kicked into the internet age and as a result the whole world is getting involved in local conflicts and is forced to take sides.<p>I legit feel as if some sort of new conception of government, nations, states, rights, is really needed. I don&#x27;t know what but I&#x27;m all ears.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>castlecrasher2</author><text>It&#x27;s a personal dilemma, not a societal one. My personal take of social media is similar to yours in that it&#x27;s a popularity contest and allows people to distract themselves from community, local, or family involvement and from self-improvement.</text></comment> |
27,387,184 | 27,386,898 | 1 | 2 | 27,385,572 | train | <story><title>“It's a truck full of traffic lights”</title><url>https://twitter.com/FSD_in_6m/status/1400207129479352323</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>etaioinshrdlu</author><text>As an ML engineer I&#x27;m a little bit baffled that Tesla has not solved this by now. It&#x27;s not like they lack data or ML knowledge.<p>It seems like they should have a million hard test cases that must pass in simulation before releasing a new model. The simulations should be harder and more extreme than anything encountered in real life.<p>I think the real problem is obvious. They&#x27;re trying to rush the work because Elon said so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kempbellt</author><text>I&#x27;m curious what the issue is here that seems unsolved? It&#x27;s unconventionally displaying what it is recognizing, but the car isn&#x27;t doing anything janky.<p>The car is properly recognizing traffic lights pretty darned well, considering the circumstance. It looks like it has a built in understanding that traffic lights are &quot;always&quot; stationary - hence, assigning them static locations on the 3D map - but it keeps having to update the model because the lights are actually moving.<p>This seems like a very non-obvious edge case that I wouldn&#x27;t expect an ML team to even consider as a possibility. Now they need to program into the ML model an understanding that traffic lights are <i>typically</i> stationary. Which seems even more difficult to me, from a technical perspective - you don&#x27;t want false negatives...<p>The car isn&#x27;t braking or making any strange maneuvers from what I can tell. I&#x27;m actually impressed that it&#x27;s handling it this well.</text></comment> | <story><title>“It's a truck full of traffic lights”</title><url>https://twitter.com/FSD_in_6m/status/1400207129479352323</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>etaioinshrdlu</author><text>As an ML engineer I&#x27;m a little bit baffled that Tesla has not solved this by now. It&#x27;s not like they lack data or ML knowledge.<p>It seems like they should have a million hard test cases that must pass in simulation before releasing a new model. The simulations should be harder and more extreme than anything encountered in real life.<p>I think the real problem is obvious. They&#x27;re trying to rush the work because Elon said so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>Years ago, a friend worked in the Autopilot group. It took them <i>a year</i> to procure servers to store the telemetry of the existing cars, and then weeks to have them setup.<p>They don&#x27;t work there anymore.<p>From their experience, I know one thing: I will never work for Elon Musk. He may be a great visionary and salesman, but he&#x27;s a <i>horrible</i> manager.</text></comment> |
40,938,733 | 40,938,469 | 1 | 3 | 40,932,948 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?</title><text>Please comment here if you&#x27;ve ever gotten hired through HN and what your experience was like.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>MichaelRo</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>mylastattempt</author><text>This is my first time hearing of &#x27;moral harassment&#x27;. Is that an actual phrase or is English not your native language? Reading the rest of your comment it seems the manager was just a bully, but please elaborate if that understanding is incorrect!</text></item><item><author>atum47</author><text>I was working for a big bank, facing moral harassment almost every day from a shitty manager. The thing with moral harassment is it don&#x27;t happen out of nothing, it is gradual. The manager was testing the waters, every day making the insult a bit harder than the day before. One day he actually cursed me in a meeting with 14 other people and I decided I had enough. Reported him to HR and quit. After that I was working on a game, that I was going to try to make a living out of. I was decided not to go back to work for a while. Then, on HN I saw those to topics - who wants to be hired and who is hiring. I selected 6 openings that seems interesting to me and send an email. 4 wrote me back. 3 gave me a coding challenge. 1 Hired me. Been working with them for almost 3 years now. Great company. Really nice people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atum47</author><text>&gt; They would be permanently traumatized by the level of aggression in other jobs<p>Started working when I was 15. First in a printing company, later on factory floor. Lots and lots of funny inappropriate jokes. Not even once insulted by a superior or a colleague.<p>&gt; privileged to be able to walk away<p>Some people will take abuse for money, I don&#x27;t.<p>&gt; delicate snowflakes<p>Bully me in an environment where it&#x27;s OK for me to punch you in the face and find out how much of a snowflake I really am</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?</title><text>Please comment here if you&#x27;ve ever gotten hired through HN and what your experience was like.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>MichaelRo</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>mylastattempt</author><text>This is my first time hearing of &#x27;moral harassment&#x27;. Is that an actual phrase or is English not your native language? Reading the rest of your comment it seems the manager was just a bully, but please elaborate if that understanding is incorrect!</text></item><item><author>atum47</author><text>I was working for a big bank, facing moral harassment almost every day from a shitty manager. The thing with moral harassment is it don&#x27;t happen out of nothing, it is gradual. The manager was testing the waters, every day making the insult a bit harder than the day before. One day he actually cursed me in a meeting with 14 other people and I decided I had enough. Reported him to HR and quit. After that I was working on a game, that I was going to try to make a living out of. I was decided not to go back to work for a while. Then, on HN I saw those to topics - who wants to be hired and who is hiring. I selected 6 openings that seems interesting to me and send an email. 4 wrote me back. 3 gave me a coding challenge. 1 Hired me. Been working with them for almost 3 years now. Great company. Really nice people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>water-your-self</author><text>You are paying for may labour, not my mental health. As soon as you think you can mistreat me I am walking. 10 times out of 10, no negotiations.<p>Taking away the value I produce is the consequence of your actions.</text></comment> |
18,952,083 | 18,952,088 | 1 | 2 | 18,950,807 | train | <story><title>Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO</title><url>http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/334702/Netflix_claims_Fortnite_is_now_a_bigger_competitor_than_HBO.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avar</author><text>If the cost is so tiny it doesn&#x27;t matter, why does Netflix have that annoying &quot;Are You Still Watching &#x27;&lt;showname&gt;&#x27;?&quot; pop-up that&#x27;s shown after a few episode have auto-played? It&#x27;s annoying when binging shows, and I always assumed it was a money-saving measure.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Also ex-Netflix, and no, that was not ideal. We worried about those folks because they were the ones most likely to quit and the least likely to tell others about the service.<p>The cost of actually delivering the video was so tiny it didn&#x27;t matter. To put it another way, you could watch for the entire month continuously and it would make no difference to the bottom line.<p>The videos were fixed cost licenses, not per view, so it didn&#x27;t matter who watched it or for how long. The actual cost of sending bits over the wire was trivial.</text></item><item><author>cpeterso</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t the ideal Netflix customer watch 0 hours (thus consuming none of the company&#x27;s resources) while still paying their monthly subscription? :) OTOH active viewers probably refer more friends and family to become new Netflix customers.</text></item><item><author>rsweeney21</author><text>Ex-Netflix here. When I was there we had two metrics we cared about: hours watched and retention. Whenever we introduced a new feature we carefully measured it&#x27;s impact on those two metrics. Ultimately, retention was the most important metric, but hours watched was a leading indicator for retention.<p>I always had a bit of a moral dilemma working at Netflix because my goal was to get people to spend more time watching Netflix, which I didn&#x27;t really think was good for humanity.<p>Either way, it was nice having very clear goals. Netflix was a great company to work for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stouset</author><text>It&#x27;s in case you&#x27;ve fallen asleep, so you don&#x27;t suddenly wake up to find you&#x27;ve &quot;watched&quot; three seasons of whatever show you were on. This is only displayed if there&#x27;s been no input on the remote for some number of hours.</text></comment> | <story><title>Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO</title><url>http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/334702/Netflix_claims_Fortnite_is_now_a_bigger_competitor_than_HBO.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avar</author><text>If the cost is so tiny it doesn&#x27;t matter, why does Netflix have that annoying &quot;Are You Still Watching &#x27;&lt;showname&gt;&#x27;?&quot; pop-up that&#x27;s shown after a few episode have auto-played? It&#x27;s annoying when binging shows, and I always assumed it was a money-saving measure.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Also ex-Netflix, and no, that was not ideal. We worried about those folks because they were the ones most likely to quit and the least likely to tell others about the service.<p>The cost of actually delivering the video was so tiny it didn&#x27;t matter. To put it another way, you could watch for the entire month continuously and it would make no difference to the bottom line.<p>The videos were fixed cost licenses, not per view, so it didn&#x27;t matter who watched it or for how long. The actual cost of sending bits over the wire was trivial.</text></item><item><author>cpeterso</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t the ideal Netflix customer watch 0 hours (thus consuming none of the company&#x27;s resources) while still paying their monthly subscription? :) OTOH active viewers probably refer more friends and family to become new Netflix customers.</text></item><item><author>rsweeney21</author><text>Ex-Netflix here. When I was there we had two metrics we cared about: hours watched and retention. Whenever we introduced a new feature we carefully measured it&#x27;s impact on those two metrics. Ultimately, retention was the most important metric, but hours watched was a leading indicator for retention.<p>I always had a bit of a moral dilemma working at Netflix because my goal was to get people to spend more time watching Netflix, which I didn&#x27;t really think was good for humanity.<p>Either way, it was nice having very clear goals. Netflix was a great company to work for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jemfinch</author><text>They have it so their watchtime metric is accurate, obviously.</text></comment> |
38,128,706 | 38,128,805 | 1 | 2 | 38,125,771 | train | <story><title>M3 Macs: there's more to performance than counting cores</title><url>https://eclecticlight.co/2023/11/03/m3-macs-theres-more-to-performance-than-counting-cores/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cubefox</author><text>This seems to be a lot of effort to rationalize the surprisingly small performance increase from M2 to M3. Initially the assumption was that M2 to M3 would be a bigger step than M1 to M2, not a smaller one. Perhaps TSMC 3nm is showing the limits of scaling?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scrlk</author><text>It&#x27;s a mixture of several problems:<p>* TSMC N3B being a bit of a flop (yield issues, too expensive)<p>* Brain drain from Apple&#x27;s chip design teams over the last few years<p>* Tim Cook trying to push the average selling price up to keep revenue growth going in the face of sales declines (e.g. hobbling memory bandwidth, reducing the number of performance cores for M3 Pro)<p>I don&#x27;t expect there to be a M1 style generational leap for a long time, expect 2010s Intel style yearly performance gains from here on out.</text></comment> | <story><title>M3 Macs: there's more to performance than counting cores</title><url>https://eclecticlight.co/2023/11/03/m3-macs-theres-more-to-performance-than-counting-cores/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cubefox</author><text>This seems to be a lot of effort to rationalize the surprisingly small performance increase from M2 to M3. Initially the assumption was that M2 to M3 would be a bigger step than M1 to M2, not a smaller one. Perhaps TSMC 3nm is showing the limits of scaling?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>llm_nerd</author><text>Apple seems to be focusing on efficiency more than anything, and maybe a little more market segmentation where the lesser chips are less competitive with the bigger chips. The Pro offers fewer performance cores, trading them for efficiency cores. It has reduced memory bandwidth.<p>From a generational perspective, the M3 Max is offering the same level of performance as the M2 Ultra. That&#x27;s amazing as the m3 max is 12p&#x2F;4e vs 16p&#x2F;8e in the m2 Ultra. The M3 Ultra should be a substantial lift.</text></comment> |
21,242,462 | 21,242,387 | 1 | 2 | 21,241,749 | train | <story><title>Apple Is Sending URLs to Tencent?</title><url>https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1183391221861027841</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yorwba</author><text>This is really a &quot;damned if you do, damned if you don&#x27;t&quot; kind of situation.<p>They can either use Tencent&#x27;s Safe Browsing API as a drop-in replacement for Google&#x27;s API, relying on k-anonymity to leak as little information as possible. That leaves them open to accusations that they allow Tencent (or, for that matter, Google) to track the browsing history of Safari users.<p>Or they can essentially turn off Safe Browsing in China. (Google&#x27;s API is collateral damage of the Great Firewall.) That leaves their users unprotected against all kinds of malware and scams.<p>I think they made the right call here by protecting users against the most common threat (most people are not dissidents), while giving advanced users with a different threat model the opportunity to opt out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsync</author><text>&quot;Or they can essentially turn off Safe Browsing in China.&quot;<p>The OP as well as the associated blog post[1] as well as the Apple-provided fine-print language do not make it clear to me that this &quot;feature&quot; is exclusively enabled for Chinese users (or, perhaps Chinese IPs).<p>Could someone point to a source that confirms a US person, in the US, with a US-purchased iphone, would not have their browsing history transformed and sent away for analysis to tencent ?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cryptographyengineering.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;13&#x2F;dear-apple-safe-browsing-might-not-be-that-safe&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cryptographyengineering.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;13&#x2F;dear-app...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Is Sending URLs to Tencent?</title><url>https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1183391221861027841</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yorwba</author><text>This is really a &quot;damned if you do, damned if you don&#x27;t&quot; kind of situation.<p>They can either use Tencent&#x27;s Safe Browsing API as a drop-in replacement for Google&#x27;s API, relying on k-anonymity to leak as little information as possible. That leaves them open to accusations that they allow Tencent (or, for that matter, Google) to track the browsing history of Safari users.<p>Or they can essentially turn off Safe Browsing in China. (Google&#x27;s API is collateral damage of the Great Firewall.) That leaves their users unprotected against all kinds of malware and scams.<p>I think they made the right call here by protecting users against the most common threat (most people are not dissidents), while giving advanced users with a different threat model the opportunity to opt out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matthewdgreen</author><text>Alternatively, they could purchase the data from Tencent or another company, and operate their own version of the service. That may even be what they’re doing —- but we don’t know, since they launched the service with no details or publicity.</text></comment> |
28,940,804 | 28,940,706 | 1 | 2 | 28,940,087 | train | <story><title>Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the literature</title><url>https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2966</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>j0ba</author><text>Consensus is the currency of politics, not science. Before Einstein there was &gt; 99% consensus that Newtonian gravity was ultimate description of gravitational force.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wolverine876</author><text>&gt; Consensus is the currency of politics, not science.<p>What is that based on? Scientists use the concept, including in this scientific paper and many others.<p>&gt; Before Einstein there was &gt; 99% consensus that Newtonian gravity was ultimate description of gravitational force.<p>Certainly not: They knew there was a lot unknown about gravity; they just didn&#x27;t have the answers. And after Einstein, there was plenty scientists were aware was unknown, such as the mechanism for mass - the Higgs Boson wasn&#x27;t discovered until 2012. There&#x27;s a lot unknown now; no scientist will tell you that we have the ultimate description; for example, we can&#x27;t reconcile gravity yet with other fundamental forces.<p>Newton&#x27;s predictions are accurate to this day, except in the narrow circumstances described by Einstein.<p>And what does it have to do with climate change? If the predictions are as accurate as Newton, we aren&#x27;t going to get much more certain information. What alternative theory is a better bet?</text></comment> | <story><title>Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the literature</title><url>https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2966</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>j0ba</author><text>Consensus is the currency of politics, not science. Before Einstein there was &gt; 99% consensus that Newtonian gravity was ultimate description of gravitational force.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>godelski</author><text>Einstein writes hypothesis. Hypothesis gets submitted to peer review. Peer review passes and grows in acceptance. Peers challenge the idea and try to poke holes, better proving the hypothesis stands. Peers test implications of hypothesis. Eventually this becomes a theory and consensus is born. That&#x27;s science working in action. Science depends on consensus. Consensus doesn&#x27;t mean you&#x27;re right, but it does mean that no one can find a serious flaw.</text></comment> |
11,836,735 | 11,836,276 | 1 | 2 | 11,834,935 | train | <story><title>Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/06/03/facebook-is-disabling-messaging-in-its-mobile-web-app-to-push-people-to-messenger/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>galdosdi</author><text>This is kind of convenient; it gives me one more excuse not to use facebook. A few days ago I got the usual notification email that somebody had sent me a message on FB. Clicking is a low barrier so I clicked, curiously. Then I instead got the &quot;No, now you have to install Messenger app&quot; screen. That was enough of a barrier that I said &quot;oh forget it, who cares, anybody who knows me would know better than to send me an FB message anyway, if it matters they&#x27;ll get in touch via a &#x27;real&#x27; communications medium like email, text, or phone&quot;<p>So sending me an FB message is now a black hole and I&#x27;m fine with that. FB&#x27;s decision just pushed me and all other similar users (users that already are on the fringes of FB usage, using it only rarely) even further away.<p>I&#x27;m not sure if that&#x27;s a bad thing or good thing for them, since honestly I don&#x27;t know what FB could do alternately to win back people in my &quot;barely use FB&quot; demographic, and from comments here it does seem like people who actually use FB regularly did not share my reaction (&quot;screw it then&quot;) and instead felt forced to install the app and move on with their lives.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gcr</author><text>I see it the opposite way. Using Messenge could give you a great way to use facebook without subjecting yourself to the News Feed Giant Tentacled Monster.<p>Why not use Messenger without Facebook?<p>My reason not to use Facebook was because it trivializes friendships. With Facebook, I wouldn&#x27;t have to go out of my way to be &quot;friends&quot; with someone, so the relationship would be less meaningful. But Messenger doesn&#x27;t share that property --- you have to bother to click on someone&#x27;s name and you have to bother to think up a good message to send them. That means it&#x27;s no worse than any other IM client, with the strong advantage that your real-world friends already use it. You get to keep up with them in the way you want to, and they get to keep up with you in the way they want to.<p>Best of both worlds?</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/06/03/facebook-is-disabling-messaging-in-its-mobile-web-app-to-push-people-to-messenger/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>galdosdi</author><text>This is kind of convenient; it gives me one more excuse not to use facebook. A few days ago I got the usual notification email that somebody had sent me a message on FB. Clicking is a low barrier so I clicked, curiously. Then I instead got the &quot;No, now you have to install Messenger app&quot; screen. That was enough of a barrier that I said &quot;oh forget it, who cares, anybody who knows me would know better than to send me an FB message anyway, if it matters they&#x27;ll get in touch via a &#x27;real&#x27; communications medium like email, text, or phone&quot;<p>So sending me an FB message is now a black hole and I&#x27;m fine with that. FB&#x27;s decision just pushed me and all other similar users (users that already are on the fringes of FB usage, using it only rarely) even further away.<p>I&#x27;m not sure if that&#x27;s a bad thing or good thing for them, since honestly I don&#x27;t know what FB could do alternately to win back people in my &quot;barely use FB&quot; demographic, and from comments here it does seem like people who actually use FB regularly did not share my reaction (&quot;screw it then&quot;) and instead felt forced to install the app and move on with their lives.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rtpg</author><text>The counterpoint is that I know heavy FB users (myself included) who have opted to just install Messenger on their phones, essentially being able to get rid of FB on the phone, to limit distractions but keep the nice communication<p>While I kinda get removing it from the mobile app, I don&#x27;t really know what the rationale is for getting rid of mobile web chat though. It&#x27;s not like it&#x27;s disappearing from the desktop web app anytime soon, right?<p>right?</text></comment> |
41,123,025 | 41,122,739 | 1 | 3 | 41,120,201 | train | <story><title>Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon</title><url>https://fortune.com/2024/07/31/amazon-leadership-principles-questions-future-jeff-bezos-departure-andy-jassy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pc86</author><text>Software engineers having &quot;on call&quot; schedules <i>at all</i> is crazy to me. You shouldn&#x27;t be writing code at 3am to fix a bug after working all day just to turn around and work the next day as well.</text></item><item><author>ecshafer</author><text>&gt; The software engineering paradigms used within the company create brittle rube goldberg machines of events flowing everywhere in the company. Almost all of them are on maintenance mode, where the oncall burns out the engineers and prevents them from creating new products. There is no knowledge sharing between team members. Legacy team members guard their technical platform knowledge to solidify their place on the team.<p>I have never worked at Amazon. But I did work at a company that decided to implement microservices a la Amazon, even going so far as sharing Bezos&#x27; famous 2 pizza team memo. This effect essentially happened over night. As people spun up more and more microservices, things got more and more siloed, cross team collaboration was significantly more difficult, and things became an increasingly more complicated rube goldberg machine that just destroyed people with on call schedules.</text></item><item><author>codingwagie</author><text>I&#x27;m a long time Amazonian. The big problem is legacy employees run every part of the company. Almost any manager of managers has been at Amazon a long time, in that same job for a long time. There is no upward mobility at the company, unless you have been in some org 5+ years. In Alexa, the people running the core ML teams have been in Alexa since it started. Most people in decision making positions just got there first (10-15 years ago)<p>The software engineering paradigms used within the company create brittle rube goldberg machines of events flowing everywhere in the company. Almost all of them are on maintenance mode, where the oncall burns out the engineers and prevents them from creating new products. There is no knowledge sharing between team members. Legacy team members guard their technical platform knowledge to solidify their place on the team.<p>The engineers themselves are not students of computer science, but just crunch out tickets.<p>If Amazon wants to change they need to remove a significant amount of tenured employees, and actually promote young engineers into decision making positions.<p>AWS hasnt released an innovative product in a really long time</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>devbent</author><text>It works well of the company empowers engineers to write software that doesn&#x27;t break all the time.<p>At HBO Max every incident had a full writeup and then <i>real</i> solutions were put in place to make the service more stable.<p>My team had around 3 incidents in 2 years.<p>If the cultural expectation is that the on call buzzer will never go off, and that it going off is a Bad Thing, then on call itself isn&#x27;t a problem.<p>Or as I was fond of saying &quot;my number one design criteria (for software) is that everyone gets to sleep through the night.&quot;<p>The customers win (stable service) and the engineers win (sleep).</text></comment> | <story><title>Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon</title><url>https://fortune.com/2024/07/31/amazon-leadership-principles-questions-future-jeff-bezos-departure-andy-jassy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pc86</author><text>Software engineers having &quot;on call&quot; schedules <i>at all</i> is crazy to me. You shouldn&#x27;t be writing code at 3am to fix a bug after working all day just to turn around and work the next day as well.</text></item><item><author>ecshafer</author><text>&gt; The software engineering paradigms used within the company create brittle rube goldberg machines of events flowing everywhere in the company. Almost all of them are on maintenance mode, where the oncall burns out the engineers and prevents them from creating new products. There is no knowledge sharing between team members. Legacy team members guard their technical platform knowledge to solidify their place on the team.<p>I have never worked at Amazon. But I did work at a company that decided to implement microservices a la Amazon, even going so far as sharing Bezos&#x27; famous 2 pizza team memo. This effect essentially happened over night. As people spun up more and more microservices, things got more and more siloed, cross team collaboration was significantly more difficult, and things became an increasingly more complicated rube goldberg machine that just destroyed people with on call schedules.</text></item><item><author>codingwagie</author><text>I&#x27;m a long time Amazonian. The big problem is legacy employees run every part of the company. Almost any manager of managers has been at Amazon a long time, in that same job for a long time. There is no upward mobility at the company, unless you have been in some org 5+ years. In Alexa, the people running the core ML teams have been in Alexa since it started. Most people in decision making positions just got there first (10-15 years ago)<p>The software engineering paradigms used within the company create brittle rube goldberg machines of events flowing everywhere in the company. Almost all of them are on maintenance mode, where the oncall burns out the engineers and prevents them from creating new products. There is no knowledge sharing between team members. Legacy team members guard their technical platform knowledge to solidify their place on the team.<p>The engineers themselves are not students of computer science, but just crunch out tickets.<p>If Amazon wants to change they need to remove a significant amount of tenured employees, and actually promote young engineers into decision making positions.<p>AWS hasnt released an innovative product in a really long time</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crystal_revenge</author><text>Seriously! Working weekends in retail when I was young, one of the hallmarks of a &quot;real, professional job&quot; was not having to work nights&#x2F;weekends when your routine schedule is during the day. It was a major motivator to get through school and get skilled.<p>Now I see young engineers from top-tier school working &quot;on call&quot; without complaint. I&#x27;ve found ways to avoid such roles, but it always seemed ridiculous <i>and</i> completely unnecessary in a world where there are software engineers around the globe that could easily work full time support positions.</text></comment> |
29,019,392 | 29,012,473 | 1 | 3 | 29,008,910 | train | <story><title>Bitcoin is largely controlled by a small group of investors and miners</title><url>https://www.techspot.com/news/91937-bitcoin-largely-controlled-small-group-investors-miners-study.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qeternity</author><text>&gt; the problem is not missing regulation, the problem is the rich decide on regulation and this regulation helps keep them rich.<p>Ok - so the rich have decided on regulations which are not the ones that are best for everyone. So…missing regulations? By definition, if we have the wrong regulations, then we’re missing the correct ones.<p>Capital gains taxes are lower for a specific reason: the capital that was initially invested was already taxed. These laws benefit average people much more than they do the rich on a relative basis. Go model out a retirement portfolio that is taxed&#x2F;compounded at ordinary rates vs capital gains rates.<p>What people really want is higher capital gains for rich people which is fine, but you fundamentally misunderstand why they’re lower in the first place, which is double taxation.</text></item><item><author>blatchcorn</author><text>I am not who you are asking but I want to chime in: the problem is not missing regulation, the problem is the rich decide on regulation and this regulation helps keep them rich.<p>Specific examples: UK capital gains tax is lower than income taxes. This means if you are born in to a wealthy family and given a £1MM index fund, you will pay less yearly tax on your capital gains while chilling at home all day than someone with a £50K job working hard and contributing to society</text></item><item><author>qeternity</author><text>Please elaborate. Which regulations do you think are missing?</text></item><item><author>krageon</author><text>&gt; highly regulated<p>Regulated by them, so in practice not all that regulated</text></item><item><author>qeternity</author><text>Yes, we know who those 50 are, and the wealth they own is in highly regulated markets. We know what they own, how much they own, when they buy&#x2F;sell. We also dictate that they cannot trade on insider info and must generally play fair.<p>Say all you want about the efficacy of the above measures, they are absolutely not perfect. But it&#x27;s completely different to bitcoin where none of the above applies, and often the opposite occurs.</text></item><item><author>robocat</author><text>“The 50 richest Americans now hold almost as much wealth as half of the U.S.” - Bloomberg - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.vn&#x2F;25Bz4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.vn&#x2F;25Bz4</a><p>Is there any reason to think bitcoin is that much different from ownership ratios of other financial assets?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; Capital gains taxes are lower for a specific reason: the capital that was initially invested was already taxed.<p>That is not a sensible reason for capital gains (which apply only to gains) to be taxed lower, since the <i>gains</i> have not already been taxed.<p>It also doesn&#x27;t explain why the reduced rate (compared to “regular” income) applies to long-term gains, since the original capital was taxed regardless of whether the gain is long or short term.<p>The <i>best</i> fairness-grounded argument I’ve seen for reduced LTCG taxes is that, in a progressive annual income tax system treating gains earned over multiple years but realized at the end as single-year income at full tax rates overtaxes compared to what would have occurred if the income was spread out over the time it took to accumulate before realization, unless the recipient would already have been at the max marginal rate every year before the gains at issue were considered.<p>This is a valid point, but allowing free voluntary advance tax recognition of income and deferring tax recognition after realization for windfalls (say, spreading amounts above the middle actual realized income of the last three years over up to ten subsequent years) deals with that problem more comprehensively (not just for capital income) without <i>undertaxing</i> those who would be at the maximum marginal rate even without the particular long-term gain, or who are continuously rolling out long-term gains year after year repeatedly.<p>Favorable LTCG rates are a way to use a poor approximation of fairness for middle-class earners with occasional long-term gains to sneak in wildly favorable treatment forn the super-rich, instead of just treating income fairly all around.<p>(There&#x27;s also a trickle-down economics argument for low capital gains rates, that is <i>not</i> fairness-grounded: “we want to encourage the already rich to invest and make more money, because positive side effects of this will trickle-down on the lower socioeconomic classes”.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Bitcoin is largely controlled by a small group of investors and miners</title><url>https://www.techspot.com/news/91937-bitcoin-largely-controlled-small-group-investors-miners-study.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qeternity</author><text>&gt; the problem is not missing regulation, the problem is the rich decide on regulation and this regulation helps keep them rich.<p>Ok - so the rich have decided on regulations which are not the ones that are best for everyone. So…missing regulations? By definition, if we have the wrong regulations, then we’re missing the correct ones.<p>Capital gains taxes are lower for a specific reason: the capital that was initially invested was already taxed. These laws benefit average people much more than they do the rich on a relative basis. Go model out a retirement portfolio that is taxed&#x2F;compounded at ordinary rates vs capital gains rates.<p>What people really want is higher capital gains for rich people which is fine, but you fundamentally misunderstand why they’re lower in the first place, which is double taxation.</text></item><item><author>blatchcorn</author><text>I am not who you are asking but I want to chime in: the problem is not missing regulation, the problem is the rich decide on regulation and this regulation helps keep them rich.<p>Specific examples: UK capital gains tax is lower than income taxes. This means if you are born in to a wealthy family and given a £1MM index fund, you will pay less yearly tax on your capital gains while chilling at home all day than someone with a £50K job working hard and contributing to society</text></item><item><author>qeternity</author><text>Please elaborate. Which regulations do you think are missing?</text></item><item><author>krageon</author><text>&gt; highly regulated<p>Regulated by them, so in practice not all that regulated</text></item><item><author>qeternity</author><text>Yes, we know who those 50 are, and the wealth they own is in highly regulated markets. We know what they own, how much they own, when they buy&#x2F;sell. We also dictate that they cannot trade on insider info and must generally play fair.<p>Say all you want about the efficacy of the above measures, they are absolutely not perfect. But it&#x27;s completely different to bitcoin where none of the above applies, and often the opposite occurs.</text></item><item><author>robocat</author><text>“The 50 richest Americans now hold almost as much wealth as half of the U.S.” - Bloomberg - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.vn&#x2F;25Bz4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.vn&#x2F;25Bz4</a><p>Is there any reason to think bitcoin is that much different from ownership ratios of other financial assets?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coryfklein</author><text>I think we&#x27;re pretty far beyond &quot;double taxation&quot; at this point. I think my money gets taxed at least 3-5 times in the various stages it passes through my use.</text></comment> |
39,420,481 | 39,419,448 | 1 | 3 | 39,417,231 | train | <story><title>Python datetime pitfalls, and what libraries are (not) doing about it</title><url>https://dev.arie.bovenberg.net/blog/python-datetime-pitfalls/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>the__alchemist</author><text>I will state this briefly as a tangent. This article mentions third party libraries; the top are Arrow and Pendulum. These are a wellspring of subtle bugs due to a decision they made that I suspect is based off the Javascript library Moment: They conflate Dates, Times, and Datetimes, as a single type. If you are using their Arrow etc type to represent a Date or Time, the resulting code will be fragile, and fail in surprising ways. Additionally, if my function signature accepts a time or date, you have no way of validating the parameter, and can do things like ask for &quot;seconds&quot; on a date. The moment&#x2F;arrow&#x2F;pendulum community advocates that the concept of a date or time individually is meaningless; I disagree. It is application specific, and there are applications that call for any of the 3 variants.<p>Python&#x27;s builtin `datetime` library has flaws as pointed out in the article, but is safer than Arrow or Moment. I think Rust&#x27;s Chrono lib is the best datetime library I&#x27;ve seen, in terms of not surprising you with errors.</text></comment> | <story><title>Python datetime pitfalls, and what libraries are (not) doing about it</title><url>https://dev.arie.bovenberg.net/blog/python-datetime-pitfalls/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>guitarnick</author><text>The author provides this example to illustrate inconsistent handling of non-existent datetimes:<p><pre><code> # This time doesn&#x27;t exist on this date
d = datetime(2023, 3, 26, 2, 30, tzinfo=paris)
# No timestamp exists, so it just makes one up
t = d.timestamp()
datetime.fromtimestamp(t) == d # False
</code></pre>
Criticisms:<p>1) The example would fail just as well for any datetime with given tzinfo. Because fromtimestamp returns native datetimes.<p>2) The timestamp isn&#x27;t just &quot;made up&quot;. Its behaviour is clearly documented in PEP 495, as linked by the author [0]. In this case it consistently corresponds to datetime(2023, 3, 26, 3, 30, tzinfo=paris).<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;peps.python.org&#x2F;pep-0495&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;peps.python.org&#x2F;pep-0495&#x2F;</a><p>Finally if we disallow creating non-existent datetimes in the proposed library, how do we represent the 2am in &quot;clock changes forwards at 2am&quot;? Use 3am? There are tradeoffs.</text></comment> |
11,168,495 | 11,165,312 | 1 | 2 | 11,165,087 | train | <story><title>Fake girlfriend, revisited</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35585087</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>azinman2</author><text>I have a somewhat analogous experience that proves to me this could plausibly work.<p>A few years ago I was single and met a guy at &#x27;da club&#x27; who was visiting just for the weekend from .au. We hit it off and hung out while he was in SF until he flew home (to his husband, they were in an open relationship.. I know complicated). Note: This initial physical chemistry is the part that a &quot;service&quot; may never be able to replicate, and might be a necessary pre-condition for many.<p>But... for the next 6 months or so while I was stressed out, single, and building a startup, I got relief by texting him all the time. I called him my fake boyfriend at the time, even to my friends! I got a lot of the same support&#x2F;companionship I needed purely virtually that I&#x27;d normally get from a real relationship. And because he was married it could never get too &#x27;real,&#x27; but the role he played for me was real.<p>Many people go through hard times alone, and all the business&#x2F;friend&#x2F;family&#x2F;therapist networks in the world can&#x27;t replicate the role of a romantic partner. If the personality is real and is compatible, and the conversations have memory, then I think a synthetic partner is a beautiful thing for people who need it most.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fake girlfriend, revisited</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35585087</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>keithpeter</author><text>OA quote: <i>&quot;&quot;lower league English football&quot; wasn&#x27;t available&quot;</i><p>Possibly explains the recurring need for a fake one.<p>Serious contribution: bots faking it with other bots generating large numbers of apparently real social profiles. Not just gf&#x2F;bf whatever but other forms of relationship (fake boss asking for more work this weekend as a cover for...).<p>Ideal chaff for the surveillance society.</text></comment> |
27,052,042 | 27,052,209 | 1 | 2 | 27,050,072 | train | <story><title>TimescaleDB raises $40M</title><url>https://blog.timescale.com/blog/40-million-to-help-developers-measure-everything-that-matters/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Croftengea</author><text>TimescaleDB is a great product, but if you plan to go with them long term, there are few points to consider:<p>* They are still trying to figure out their monetization strategy. Initially, they betted on their on-premise Enterprise version, then abandoned it. Now they are pushing their cloud version.<p>* Even though most of their code licensed under Apache license, some code is under their proprietary license.<p>* I&#x27;m sure one can get some ideas about their development directions from their issue tracker and source code, but they don&#x27;t have any public product roadmap.<p>* Even though the product itself is technically very stable, the version compatibility leaves a lot to be desired. There are removed features and broken APIs from version to version.<p>* Their commercial support terms for on-premise instances don&#x27;t seem to be well defined, not publicly at least.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akulkarni</author><text>Timescale Co-founder here. Happy to address your concerns!<p>1. Monetization strategy<p>This funding round is actually a sign that our business model is working really well.<p>To quote Redpoint Ventures, who led this funding round:<p><pre><code> &quot;The [Timescale] team capitalized on their significant community momentum last year, with their cloud business being one of the fastest-growing database businesses we have seen in the past 20+ years.&quot; [0]
</code></pre>
2. Licensing<p>Most companies (including open-source companies) actually have both open-source and proprietary software, but the proprietary software is often hidden inside private repos. The difference with Timescale is that we have made the source code for our proprietary software available (on Github), even allowing users to modify it (eg &quot;right to repair), and made all of our software free (ie no paid software features). [1]<p>3. Public product roadmap<p>We aim to be transparent re: product roadmap via Github, blog posts, etc, but I appreciate the feedback that we could be more transparent. Thanks!<p>4. Version compatibility &#x2F; broken APIs<p>Could you say more? AFIAK the only time we &quot;broke&quot; (ie changed) some APIs is with TimescaleDB 2.0, and when we did so we explained why we did that (mostly to improve user experience based on feedback). We take this topic very seriously and even the decision to do so in 2.0 was not something we did lightly (and it was also made after a lot of discussion with users). More about this decision here in our docs: [2]<p>5. Commercial support for on-premise<p>We offer free support for on-premise instances via Slack (where you can often find our engineers, support team, CTO, and myself). [3] However, if you would like a higher level of support for on premise (e.g., commercial SLAs), please reach out to us directly (e.g., via the form on that same page). [3]<p>Hope this helps!<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;redpoint-ventures&#x2F;building-a-next-generation-database-our-investment-in-timescale-59e9a1d1d6f9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;redpoint-ventures&#x2F;building-a-next-generat...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.timescale.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;building-open-source-business-in-cloud-era-v2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.timescale.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;building-open-source-busines...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.timescale.com&#x2F;timescaledb&#x2F;latest&#x2F;overview&#x2F;release-notes&#x2F;changes-in-timescaledb-2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.timescale.com&#x2F;timescaledb&#x2F;latest&#x2F;overview&#x2F;relea...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timescale.com&#x2F;support" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timescale.com&#x2F;support</a></text></comment> | <story><title>TimescaleDB raises $40M</title><url>https://blog.timescale.com/blog/40-million-to-help-developers-measure-everything-that-matters/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Croftengea</author><text>TimescaleDB is a great product, but if you plan to go with them long term, there are few points to consider:<p>* They are still trying to figure out their monetization strategy. Initially, they betted on their on-premise Enterprise version, then abandoned it. Now they are pushing their cloud version.<p>* Even though most of their code licensed under Apache license, some code is under their proprietary license.<p>* I&#x27;m sure one can get some ideas about their development directions from their issue tracker and source code, but they don&#x27;t have any public product roadmap.<p>* Even though the product itself is technically very stable, the version compatibility leaves a lot to be desired. There are removed features and broken APIs from version to version.<p>* Their commercial support terms for on-premise instances don&#x27;t seem to be well defined, not publicly at least.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>3pt14159</author><text>For background, I haven&#x27;t used TimescaleDB before, but I&#x27;ve done some pretty advanced ORM work to vertically shard PG tables in Rails and I know PG pretty well, so I&#x27;m quite curious about TimescaleDB.<p>&gt; * Even though most of their code licensed under Apache license, some code is under their proprietary license.<p>I don&#x27;t really think this is a perfectly fair characterization. Their proprietary license is essentially &quot;don&#x27;t host a cloud database and charge for it&quot; to stop Amazon from building TimescaleDB right into RDS, or similar.<p>I think it&#x27;s a totally fair license without too much to worry about if they go out of business.<p>&gt; * Even though the product itself is technically very stable, the version compatibility leaves a lot to be desired. There are removed features and broken APIs from version to version.<p>This would be my biggest worry. Upgrading Postgres is already stressful enough, having to deal with broken APIs from version to version would leave me pretty upset, though I&#x27;ve not heard of anyone complain about this before, so I&#x27;m not sure how much of a problem this is in practice.</text></comment> |
39,099,874 | 39,099,225 | 1 | 2 | 39,097,314 | train | <story><title>Czech republic sets IPv4 end date</title><url>https://konecipv4.cz/en/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bdd8f1df777b</author><text>I grow up in China seeing news about the policy of IPv6 adoption every year, but the real adoption rate is still abysmal here.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>Conversion to IPv6 is an item in the 14th Five Year Plan (2021-2025) of the People&#x27;s Republic of China.[1]<p><i>&quot;We will accelerate the large-scale deployment of 5G networks, increase the user
penetration rate to 56%, and promote the upgrade of gigabit optical fiber networks.
We will build up technology reserves for the future deployment of 6G network
technology. We will expand backbone network interconnection nodes, set up a number
of new international communication gateways, and comprehensively promote the
commercial deployment of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6).&quot;</i><p>There is a migration schedule.[2][3] As of this month, there are supposed to be no new IPv4 services.
The goal is IPv6 only by 2030. Actual adoption in China is reportedly only 25-30%, though.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cset.georgetown.edu&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;t0284_14th_Five_Year_Plan_EN.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cset.georgetown.edu&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;t0284_14th_Fi...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.apnic.net&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;06&#x2F;100-by-2025-china-getting-serious-about-ipv6&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.apnic.net&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;06&#x2F;100-by-2025-china-getting-...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;04&#x2F;28&#x2F;china_ipv6_control_adoption&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;04&#x2F;28&#x2F;china_ipv6_control_ad...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ggm</author><text>It is visible in the APNIC Labs measurement at 30% and within different AS of China Mobile at 65% or better, it depends province by provice, and provider by provider.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stats.labs.apnic.net&#x2F;ipv6&#x2F;CN" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stats.labs.apnic.net&#x2F;ipv6&#x2F;CN</a><p>I don&#x27;t call this abysmal at all. It very possibly is higher, there are reasons why APNIC may undercount, but noting that APNIC and Akamai tend to agree on their numbers.<p>Google&#x27;s own numbers for China are far lower for reasons which do not affect the APNIC or Akamai data.</text></comment> | <story><title>Czech republic sets IPv4 end date</title><url>https://konecipv4.cz/en/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bdd8f1df777b</author><text>I grow up in China seeing news about the policy of IPv6 adoption every year, but the real adoption rate is still abysmal here.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>Conversion to IPv6 is an item in the 14th Five Year Plan (2021-2025) of the People&#x27;s Republic of China.[1]<p><i>&quot;We will accelerate the large-scale deployment of 5G networks, increase the user
penetration rate to 56%, and promote the upgrade of gigabit optical fiber networks.
We will build up technology reserves for the future deployment of 6G network
technology. We will expand backbone network interconnection nodes, set up a number
of new international communication gateways, and comprehensively promote the
commercial deployment of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6).&quot;</i><p>There is a migration schedule.[2][3] As of this month, there are supposed to be no new IPv4 services.
The goal is IPv6 only by 2030. Actual adoption in China is reportedly only 25-30%, though.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cset.georgetown.edu&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;t0284_14th_Five_Year_Plan_EN.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cset.georgetown.edu&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;t0284_14th_Fi...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.apnic.net&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;06&#x2F;100-by-2025-china-getting-serious-about-ipv6&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.apnic.net&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;06&#x2F;100-by-2025-china-getting-...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;04&#x2F;28&#x2F;china_ipv6_control_adoption&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;04&#x2F;28&#x2F;china_ipv6_control_ad...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nerdbert</author><text>Is everything NATted? With such a high population it seems hard to manage with limited IPv4 addresses.</text></comment> |
36,251,037 | 36,250,872 | 1 | 2 | 36,249,958 | train | <story><title>r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit's API changes</title><url>https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/141qwy8/programmer_humor_will_be_shutting_down/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DiabloD3</author><text>HN might as well just run the headline that Reddit is shutting down permanently. All the major subs are either temporarily or permanently shutting down in protest.<p>Do we have a federated Mastodon-esque system to replace Reddit yet? Its the only way to ensure the community survives at this point; Reddit leadership has already proven they only wish to harm both shareholders and the community at large under the guise of &quot;increasing shareholder value&quot; and shove their fiduciary duty under the bus.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>&gt; All the major subs are either temporarily or permanently shutting down in protest.<p>But I&#x27;d just add there is a pretty major difference between &quot;temporarily&quot; and &quot;permanently&quot;. Major kudos to r&#x2F;ProgrammerHumor and other subs that are doing it right - saying they will be shutting down indefinitely unless Reddit changes their stance.<p>Just saying you&#x27;re only going to shut down for a couple days is essentially theater - Reddit can certainly wait out some popular subs being down for a few days. More generally, that&#x27;s really the only way protests have a way of achieving their goals, by saying you&#x27;ll engage in some behavior (or boycott) <i>until your demands are met</i>, or at least met with some change. Anything that&#x27;s time limited is pretty much doomed to fail. For example, I&#x27;m not sure what the organizers of the recent Amazon &quot;walkout&quot; hoped to accomplish. That wasn&#x27;t a walkout, it was lunch.</text></comment> | <story><title>r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit's API changes</title><url>https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/141qwy8/programmer_humor_will_be_shutting_down/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DiabloD3</author><text>HN might as well just run the headline that Reddit is shutting down permanently. All the major subs are either temporarily or permanently shutting down in protest.<p>Do we have a federated Mastodon-esque system to replace Reddit yet? Its the only way to ensure the community survives at this point; Reddit leadership has already proven they only wish to harm both shareholders and the community at large under the guise of &quot;increasing shareholder value&quot; and shove their fiduciary duty under the bus.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DeepPhilosopher</author><text>&quot;Do we have a federated Mastodon-esque system to replace Reddit yet?&quot;
Yes. It&#x27;s called Lemmy. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;join-lemmy.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;join-lemmy.org</a> Just found out about it today.</text></comment> |
28,602,677 | 28,602,779 | 1 | 2 | 28,601,618 | train | <story><title>GitHub Actions: Ephemeral self-hosted runners and new webhooks for auto-scaling</title><url>https://github.blog/changelog/2021-09-20-github-actions-ephemeral-self-hosted-runners-new-webhooks-for-auto-scaling/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sascha_sl</author><text>This feature was delayed every month after May.<p>And yet it is still half baked. We prepared for this with internally shared docs and the branch built in private for a while, but still had to roll back yesterday because the scheduler reverted to putting jobs wherever it pleased (including on ephemeral runners that already have a job) and randomly cancels large sets of jobs too.<p>I have been of the opinion that investing into GH Actions at this stage is purely sunken cost (at my org), and I&#x27;m not moving until the team behind this thing ships something that doesn&#x27;t break half the time. These have been seriously frustrating months, because no amount of working around this messy code[1] made of 5 layers of MS style .NET (seriously, deleting a directory goes 5 layers deep in the call stack) will ever produce a stable product. They don&#x27;t even know their own code base that well, when they first attempted ephemeral runners with `--once` it turned out the thing they produced could never work (because the server-side scheduler loves pipelining jobs to machines and failing miserably when these disappear, job times out after 20 minute of waiting type)<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;actions&#x2F;runner" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;actions&#x2F;runner</a></text></comment> | <story><title>GitHub Actions: Ephemeral self-hosted runners and new webhooks for auto-scaling</title><url>https://github.blog/changelog/2021-09-20-github-actions-ephemeral-self-hosted-runners-new-webhooks-for-auto-scaling/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>e_proxus</author><text>I really wish the runner agent was written in something more portable than .NET. That choice feels like something purely political because they’re owned by Microsoft. I doubt and independent organization would have chosen it before other excellent choices such as Go, Rust etc.<p>Currently hosting the runner on e.g. FreeBSD or custom embedded systems is not supported (or even possible).</text></comment> |
12,153,517 | 12,153,235 | 1 | 3 | 12,152,984 | train | <story><title>The FarmBot Genesis Brings Precision Agriculture to Your Own Backyard</title><url>http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/farmbot-genesis-brings-precision-agriculture-your-own-backyard-180959603/?no-ist</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mabbo</author><text>&quot;All the food you need&quot; is a bit of a stretch for me. Maybe I&#x27;m mistaken. A human needs around 2000 kcals per day, or a little less than 100 joules&#x2F;second. Easy to remember: we use as much energy as a 100 watt incandescent light bulb.<p>Solar energy has a maximum output of 1120 W&#x2F;m2 at the surface of the earth. So theoretically, a square meter could support 10 people. But there are one or two efficiency losing steps that throw this all off.<p>There&#x27;s only light for half the day. Plants only are about 3-6% efficient at absorbing solar energy. The plants also are only taking up a fraction of the ground they&#x27;re using, let&#x27;s be liberal and say half. Then there&#x27;s the whole &#x27;how much of the energy the plant used was actually converted to edible calories&#x27; question, which is beyond my ability.<p>Multiplying that together, the best I can imagine is around 12 m^2 per human.<p>I&#x27;d love someone to show me a mistake in that logic, because I am super excited about things like this. I know I&#x27;m going to own one of these someday in the future.</text></comment> | <story><title>The FarmBot Genesis Brings Precision Agriculture to Your Own Backyard</title><url>http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/farmbot-genesis-brings-precision-agriculture-your-own-backyard-180959603/?no-ist</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikebelanger</author><text>Like 3d printing, I think this only solves problems for a small subset of the people who will buy this. In the case of 3d printing, industrial engineers could prototype things much faster, before ultimately sending it to a factory for large scale production. In the case of FarmBot, I can see some agriculture scientists working in greenhouses benefiting from automating the planting, testing and controlling of certain crops. Especially if precise timing and its documentation are needed.<p>But for the average consumer, this doesn&#x27;t seem particularly economical. Automation of this kind of thing only makes sense when you have a significantly larger field. I still think this is a great idea, but I think its reach is a bit overstated.</text></comment> |
10,106,945 | 10,107,000 | 1 | 3 | 10,106,130 | train | <story><title>A Ghost Ship Drifting Through International Waters</title><url>http://www.sobify.com/the-lyubov-orlova-a-russian-cruise-ship-drifting-through-international-waters/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stevewepay</author><text>Articles like this really strike home how huge this world is. I feel ignorant when my first thought is that we should be able to locate a cruise ship in the ocean, but I clearly underestimate how huge this world really is. It&#x27;s also hits home when entire planes like the Malaysian airline plane can disappear and literally no one knows what happened to it.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Ghost Ship Drifting Through International Waters</title><url>http://www.sobify.com/the-lyubov-orlova-a-russian-cruise-ship-drifting-through-international-waters/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>speeder</author><text>This made me remember of Battleship São Paulo<p>Battleship São Paulo was a ship that... sort of fought on WW1 (it started the war as active, but the British complained it had poor fire control, the ship was sent to US for refit, but the refitting ended after the war ended). And fought on WW2 (during WW2 the ship had problems with mobility, having a top speed of only 10km&#x2F;h, that was nowhere close of the original design speed, so it was decided to use it as stationary defensive platform in Brazil&#x27;s northeast, where a couple of U boats were attacking transport ships).<p>In 1951 it was sold to a british scrap company, the tug line broke mid-transport and the ship was lost very hard (as in: people have no idea where to look for it, they don&#x27;t even know the initial direction that the ship went after the tow line broke).</text></comment> |
17,120,272 | 17,119,909 | 1 | 2 | 17,117,007 | train | <story><title>Japan's secret spy agency</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2018/05/19/japan-dfs-surveillance-agency/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stareatgoats</author><text>Thanks to Snowden (who keeps on giving, even 5 years more or less to the day after his escape to Hong Kong), we can assume that Japan too conducts dragnet surveillance. It is the state of current affairs that it hardly raises more than a yawn.<p>Still an interesting article, since it reveals that the Japanese take their secrecy really, really seriously, and so we may not assume much of what they are up to, really.<p>The problem with secret government agencies is otherwise generally that they are notoriously difficult to reign in. They are governed by law, but are likely to develop their own agendas, and since lawmakers are kept in the dark they can end up meddling in policy, using all the means at their disposal.<p>Our ultimate line of defense against such, and only hope are the brave whistleblowers. Edward Snowden needs to be pardoned.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>&gt; Still an interesting article, since it reveals that the Japanese take their secrecy really, really seriously, and so we may not assume much of what they are up to, really.<p>Pretty much all SIGINT agencies do. Maybe 1 in 20 Canadians even knows that CSE exists or what it does. It keeps a pretty low profile, within the limitations that it can, considering that the gross figures for its budget are public and other public info available from outside of classification.<p>(For the Americans: CSE is the exact equivalent of the NSA, it&#x27;s been around for a long time and is one of the five eyes partners).</text></comment> | <story><title>Japan's secret spy agency</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2018/05/19/japan-dfs-surveillance-agency/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stareatgoats</author><text>Thanks to Snowden (who keeps on giving, even 5 years more or less to the day after his escape to Hong Kong), we can assume that Japan too conducts dragnet surveillance. It is the state of current affairs that it hardly raises more than a yawn.<p>Still an interesting article, since it reveals that the Japanese take their secrecy really, really seriously, and so we may not assume much of what they are up to, really.<p>The problem with secret government agencies is otherwise generally that they are notoriously difficult to reign in. They are governed by law, but are likely to develop their own agendas, and since lawmakers are kept in the dark they can end up meddling in policy, using all the means at their disposal.<p>Our ultimate line of defense against such, and only hope are the brave whistleblowers. Edward Snowden needs to be pardoned.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marricks</author><text>Are they governed by law? I&#x27;m starting to feel that no one follows the law, or spirit of it at least, unless they have to or can write the laws themselves.<p>Corporations write their own laws through lobbyists and circumvent it when they can. Top secret agents don&#x27;t really have anyone they are accountable to since they&#x27;re so top secrete there isn&#x27;t any public oversight.<p>For some reason the secret courts convened to check them (FISA) are just rubber stamp mills too because hey, those don&#x27;t really have any oversight either.<p>It really doesn&#x27;t seem like this stuff will get any better without a ton more oversight. It&#x27;ll be interesting to see if the Japanese people are more appalled by this and more willing to stand up.</text></comment> |
41,584,849 | 41,584,000 | 1 | 3 | 41,582,278 | train | <story><title>Senate Vote Tomorrow Could Give Helping Hand to Patent Trolls</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/senate-vote-tomorrow-could-give-helping-hand-patent-trolls</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AlbertCory</author><text>Former tech advisor to Google Patent Litigation here.<p>The Ex Parte Reexamination is a fundamental tool for fighting against patent trolls:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Reexamination" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Reexamination</a><p>They <i>can</i> also be used by big companies to steal IP from small inventors. However, this is not why the backers of this bill are trying to limit them.<p>When a troll buys up a patent from the early 2000&#x27;s, they hope to stretch its claims, with the help of a patent-friendly judge, to cover some modern technology. Naturally, it&#x27;s the FAANG and other big companies they really want, but first they build up a war chest by settling with smaller fish.<p>Filing an IPR is a cheaper way than going to trial for challenging these bogus patents, and believe me, nearly all software patents are bogus. I busted lots of them, including this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;microsoft-patent-may-block-google-maps-in-germany&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;microsoft-patent-may-block-goo...</a><p>If you go to trial, it&#x27;s some unsophisticated jurors who decide if the patent is valid. For a reexam, it&#x27;s PTO people, who at least know what the law is.<p>So that&#x27;s why trolls want to get rid of reexams: to force companies to negotiate with them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Senate Vote Tomorrow Could Give Helping Hand to Patent Trolls</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/senate-vote-tomorrow-could-give-helping-hand-patent-trolls</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hathawsh</author><text>Is there an online discussion about this happening somewhere? This sounds very important, but without some dissenting opinions, it&#x27;s hard to be sure what details are being glossed over.<p>On the EFF&#x27;s side, there&#x27;s this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;05&#x2F;11&#x2F;scheduling_paradigm&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;05&#x2F;11&#x2F;scheduling_paradigm&#x2F;</a><p>The opposing CSIS article posted by &quot;alwa&quot; in another comment also sounds very convincing. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.csis.org&#x2F;analysis&#x2F;new-efforts-promote-us-innovation-pera-and-prevail-act-context" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.csis.org&#x2F;analysis&#x2F;new-efforts-promote-us-innovat...</a><p>Where is the civil debate?</text></comment> |
36,274,567 | 36,271,275 | 1 | 3 | 36,270,597 | train | <story><title>New York City will charge drivers going downtown</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/10/business/congestion-pricing-new-york-city-transportation/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmclnx</author><text>When I saw London doing that, I expected cities in the US to start that. I am surprised it took so long.<p>I expected this because of the push of toll roads to make people use EZPASS. Depending upon the City, I think this makes sense.<p>But, in the US, I wonder if this will cause another mass migration of people out to the suburbs ? In the US, people are more addicted to their SUVs than heron addicts are to their drug.</text></item><item><author>cj</author><text>See also:<p>London congestion charge: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;London_congestion_charge" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;London_congestion_charge</a><p>Singapore Electronic Road Pricing: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Electronic_Road_Pricing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Electronic_Road_Pricing</a><p>Stockholm congestion tax: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stockholm_congestion_tax" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stockholm_congestion_tax</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattlondon</author><text>I worked on the technical implementation of one of the London Congestion Charge contracts many years ago.<p>It was a huuuuuuge loss for IBM to implement, but I think their position was &quot;we make a loss here, but then just need to do a search-and-replace for &quot;London&quot; to New York&#x2F;Paris&#x2F;Tokyo&#x2F;Los Angeles and profit!&quot; (I.e. no significant extra development). Suffice to say that didn&#x27;t happen - it was built with zero customisation in mind. I personally blame it on the <i>insistence</i> that SAP was to be used for processing payments etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>New York City will charge drivers going downtown</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/10/business/congestion-pricing-new-york-city-transportation/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmclnx</author><text>When I saw London doing that, I expected cities in the US to start that. I am surprised it took so long.<p>I expected this because of the push of toll roads to make people use EZPASS. Depending upon the City, I think this makes sense.<p>But, in the US, I wonder if this will cause another mass migration of people out to the suburbs ? In the US, people are more addicted to their SUVs than heron addicts are to their drug.</text></item><item><author>cj</author><text>See also:<p>London congestion charge: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;London_congestion_charge" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;London_congestion_charge</a><p>Singapore Electronic Road Pricing: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Electronic_Road_Pricing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Electronic_Road_Pricing</a><p>Stockholm congestion tax: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stockholm_congestion_tax" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stockholm_congestion_tax</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stefan_</author><text>Migration <i>to cities</i> is whats causing this. When it was just black people homes you had to bulldoze to build your freeway straight to downtown there was obviously no concern. Now that people living downtown are rich and powerful they are starting to wonder why a huge chunk of prime space is reserved for storage of suburbian commuter metal boxes.</text></comment> |
38,215,919 | 38,215,695 | 1 | 3 | 38,215,413 | train | <story><title>Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it</title><url>https://www.macworld.com/article/2130071/m3-macbook-pro-8gb-memory-too-little.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Osiris</author><text>When I started my current job they gave me an M1 Mac with 8GB because it’s what they had on hand.
I could barely run my IDE and a web browser. At least 1GB was for video memory, and it was swapping constantly.
I couldn’t run docker containers because of how much input lag I would get.
8GB is barely usable and shouldn’t even be an option for a Pro machine.<p>I used it for a week before switching to a personal desktop with 64GB.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>al_borland</author><text>Did the company have various agents and other things installed? My company installs so much garbage on systems that they can make anything suck. Any time I have issues, it has nothing to do with what I&#x27;m trying to do, and has everything to do with the monitoring&#x2F;management software. Windows, MacOS, more ram, less ram, doesn&#x27;t really matter. They&#x27;ve found ways to destroy every system ever deployed.<p>My M1 MacBook Pro has actually handled it the best. My old Intel MacBook Pro would constantly be ramping up the fans, at one point burning through the whole battery in less than an hour if I unplugged it. No such issues with the M1 so far. There are still issues, but mostly crashes, not performance issues, which is a first in nearly 18 years of various desktops and laptops at the company.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it</title><url>https://www.macworld.com/article/2130071/m3-macbook-pro-8gb-memory-too-little.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Osiris</author><text>When I started my current job they gave me an M1 Mac with 8GB because it’s what they had on hand.
I could barely run my IDE and a web browser. At least 1GB was for video memory, and it was swapping constantly.
I couldn’t run docker containers because of how much input lag I would get.
8GB is barely usable and shouldn’t even be an option for a Pro machine.<p>I used it for a week before switching to a personal desktop with 64GB.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ge96</author><text>What kind of comparison is that 8 to 64. 8 GB for windows also sucks as well or Linux (save with tiling manager), software just bloats over time.<p>Imo 8gb is not enough as baseline, today&#x27;s 8gb is 16.<p>I remember 4GB being good in 2015.</text></comment> |
14,976,948 | 14,976,901 | 1 | 2 | 14,974,447 | train | <story><title>269 people join class-action lawsuit against Google claiming age discrimination</title><url>https://www.bizjournals.com/bizwomen/news/latest-news/2017/08/nearly-300-have-joined-google-age-case.html?page=all</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lend000</author><text>If age alone isn&#x27;t a reliable factor in determining success, then why do most of the big Silicon Valley companies lean young? Shouldn&#x27;t economics sort them out if they really aren&#x27;t getting more bang for their buck with younger employees? Couldn&#x27;t I get way more done by gaming the market (and therefore <i>win</i>) if I only hired older employees who were rejected by Google solely for their age? I see lots of conspiracy theories here, but none answer that question.<p>It seems to me like young employees may have a few properties going for them (<i>on average</i>), that may be less true as they age:<p>-motivation&#x2F;drive&#x2F;desire to put in hours<p>-low cost<p>-flexibility<p>-creativity&#x2F;fresh ideas<p>-more likely to bond with other young employees, and participate in company culture (instead of having a family they need to spend time with).<p>To me, it basically means that for basic software engineering, at a certain point you actually do (on average) become less valuable as you age, <i>unless</i> you move up into system architecture, specialism&#x2F;subject matter expertise, or management.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsj_hn</author><text>This is the kind of argument you hear from free marketeers explaining that discrimination can never happen, because it&#x27;s irrational for firms to not hire certain groups who are talented. And yet it does happen, so there is something that the argument is missing, namely that firms aren&#x27;t perfect optimizers and there&#x27;s a lot of politics within a firm that is often unhealthy. Far from doing everything optimally, real life firms (and people) really struggle even to get the second or third best option right. They have blind spots, customs, narrow minded people in key positions, etc. There is some level of age discrimination in the valley, but I think most larger firms try to professionalize their HR to avoid that. However, there are biases within the population of fellow engineers and managers that may be at play.<p>Having said that, I am not going to assume that they are guilty just because of the lawsuit -- let the lawsuit play out.</text></comment> | <story><title>269 people join class-action lawsuit against Google claiming age discrimination</title><url>https://www.bizjournals.com/bizwomen/news/latest-news/2017/08/nearly-300-have-joined-google-age-case.html?page=all</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lend000</author><text>If age alone isn&#x27;t a reliable factor in determining success, then why do most of the big Silicon Valley companies lean young? Shouldn&#x27;t economics sort them out if they really aren&#x27;t getting more bang for their buck with younger employees? Couldn&#x27;t I get way more done by gaming the market (and therefore <i>win</i>) if I only hired older employees who were rejected by Google solely for their age? I see lots of conspiracy theories here, but none answer that question.<p>It seems to me like young employees may have a few properties going for them (<i>on average</i>), that may be less true as they age:<p>-motivation&#x2F;drive&#x2F;desire to put in hours<p>-low cost<p>-flexibility<p>-creativity&#x2F;fresh ideas<p>-more likely to bond with other young employees, and participate in company culture (instead of having a family they need to spend time with).<p>To me, it basically means that for basic software engineering, at a certain point you actually do (on average) become less valuable as you age, <i>unless</i> you move up into system architecture, specialism&#x2F;subject matter expertise, or management.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gaius</author><text><i>If age alone isn&#x27;t a reliable factor in determining success, then why do most of the big Silicon Valley companies lean young? Shouldn&#x27;t economics sort them out if they really aren&#x27;t getting more bang for their buck with younger employees?</i><p>Yes it does - young people are easier to exploit, you can make them work long hours and pay them in stock instead of cash, and if they burn out there&#x27;s another fresh crop next year. Remember that for every Google or Facebook, there are 1000 startups that went nowhere. They were full of young people too.<p>Other countries do this too, tho&#x27; to a much greater extent. Why do you think your running shoes and electronics are so cheap...? Is that the kind of economic success we really want?</text></comment> |
10,359,417 | 10,358,683 | 1 | 2 | 10,357,810 | train | <story><title>Free resources made by designers at Facebook</title><url>http://design.facebook.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Menge</author><text>The license on the IOS GUI:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;facebook.github.io&#x2F;design&#x2F;license.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;facebook.github.io&#x2F;design&#x2F;license.html</a><p>You can&#x27;t use any of this in an actual application. So, I make a mock up and show it to someone and then my finished work has to be different from the mock up to avoid copyright infringement? In that situation, I would say I have intentionally defrauded my customer(&#x2F;employer) and they should refuse to pay (or fire me) and win.<p>(More likely still, I use them anyway since a graphic artist has made the mock-up and I presume they created or correctly sourced the graphics.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Free resources made by designers at Facebook</title><url>http://design.facebook.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sandebert</author><text>Very minor note: The page for the hands is named handskit. In Swedish that would translate to handpoo. (Or perhaps handcrap.)<p>Got a small chuckle out of it, because poo.<p>That said: Nice share, will probably come in handy. (rimshot)</text></comment> |
7,936,512 | 7,935,860 | 1 | 2 | 7,933,576 | train | <story><title>Doom on ZPU</title><url>http://turbogrill.blogspot.com/2014/06/doom-on-zpu.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zurn</author><text>&gt; At 225 MHz an average 30.5 FPS with some rare 20-25 FPS are achieved when running &#x27;timedemo demo3&#x27;. Resolution is the default Doom, 320x200.<p>&gt; To reach the same performance on a PC something like a 486 @ 66MHz and a decent graphics card is needed.<p>Even accounting for the assembly optimizations, it sounds curious that the ZPU would do so much less work per cycle. Does anyone know why this might be?<p>PS. Doom 1 just used the standard VGA mode (13h), and the graphics card didn&#x27;t matter much.</text></comment> | <story><title>Doom on ZPU</title><url>http://turbogrill.blogspot.com/2014/06/doom-on-zpu.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>steveklabnik</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure what exactly it is about this kind of combination between old and new, but I always smile when some old classic thing runs on some new hardware. &quot;Linux on my toaster&quot; has some property that just really makes me smile.</text></comment> |
32,896,742 | 32,895,166 | 1 | 3 | 32,893,292 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What do you think when companies ask for gritty people?</title><text>When I see this I immediately think the work will be the kind of grind that requires lots of Grit to survive.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>Just to name names: “Flexport is hiring smart, gritty People who get stuff done” - [0] (Flexport is a YC company [1], and therefore they get to list job offers on Hacker News from time to time)<p>Honestly, I can think of two things.<p>1) They&#x27;re bad, looking for smart people to grind them down with 70-80 hour workweeks, with no end in sight, with the illusion of small stock grants that will be diluted a few more times before IPO.<p>2) They just needed a short title for the job posting (HN limits titles to 80 characters), and they tried to summarize the fact that they look for people who are motivated, willing to work hard. But it doesn&#x27;t say much about their attitude, their desire to exploit workers, vs simply trying to find good hires to add value to the company.<p>I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s #1 or #2, or a #3 that I can&#x27;t think of right now.<p>A wise prospect employee will do the homework to understand what&#x27;s the company culture, what&#x27;s the cap table situation, etc. There are plenty of resources to get a better sense of whether it&#x27;s a good idea to work for a company or not.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flexport.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;careers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flexport.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;careers&#x2F;</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ycombinator.com&#x2F;companies&#x2F;flexport" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ycombinator.com&#x2F;companies&#x2F;flexport</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>The guidelines we give to YC startups posting job ads explicitly ask founders not to use such language in titles. It&#x27;s embarrassing.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;jobguide.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;jobguide.html</a><p>I don&#x27;t think anyone is flouting these rules deliberately. It&#x27;s just hard to get people to behave differently than they&#x27;re used to. Founders gonna found.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What do you think when companies ask for gritty people?</title><text>When I see this I immediately think the work will be the kind of grind that requires lots of Grit to survive.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>Just to name names: “Flexport is hiring smart, gritty People who get stuff done” - [0] (Flexport is a YC company [1], and therefore they get to list job offers on Hacker News from time to time)<p>Honestly, I can think of two things.<p>1) They&#x27;re bad, looking for smart people to grind them down with 70-80 hour workweeks, with no end in sight, with the illusion of small stock grants that will be diluted a few more times before IPO.<p>2) They just needed a short title for the job posting (HN limits titles to 80 characters), and they tried to summarize the fact that they look for people who are motivated, willing to work hard. But it doesn&#x27;t say much about their attitude, their desire to exploit workers, vs simply trying to find good hires to add value to the company.<p>I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s #1 or #2, or a #3 that I can&#x27;t think of right now.<p>A wise prospect employee will do the homework to understand what&#x27;s the company culture, what&#x27;s the cap table situation, etc. There are plenty of resources to get a better sense of whether it&#x27;s a good idea to work for a company or not.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flexport.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;careers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flexport.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;careers&#x2F;</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ycombinator.com&#x2F;companies&#x2F;flexport" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ycombinator.com&#x2F;companies&#x2F;flexport</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raverbashing</author><text>Yeah I wonder how&#x27;s the turnover there if they keep reposting the same positions over and over<p>Asking for &quot;gritty people&quot;, sorry, I&#x27;m not sandpaper</text></comment> |
24,207,084 | 24,206,101 | 1 | 2 | 24,205,633 | train | <story><title>Zillow 2020 Urban-Suburban Market Report</title><url>https://www.zillow.com/research/2020-urb-suburb-market-report-27712/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>I believe this thread from a couple days ago was based on the same report: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24164128" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24164128</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Zillow 2020 Urban-Suburban Market Report</title><url>https://www.zillow.com/research/2020-urb-suburb-market-report-27712/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dmode</author><text>Just FYI, people have seen headline numbers in this Zillow report for SF market. But it is misleading. The overall housing market in Bay Area is actually stronger than pre-COVID [1] Even within SF, prices in condos are dropping but SFH are rising. So the narrative is people are moving from dense units to units with more space within the same MSAs. Which makes sense for me, as it allows people to WFH 2-3 days a week, and be in good school districts, while still commuting to office a few days<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfchronicle.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;networth&#x2F;article&#x2F;North-Bay-home-markets-sizzled-in-July-SF-showed-15490651.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfchronicle.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;networth&#x2F;article&#x2F;North-...</a></text></comment> |
26,186,466 | 26,185,950 | 1 | 3 | 26,185,690 | train | <story><title>Gleam 0.14 – Type-safe language for the Erlang VM</title><url>https://gleam.run/news/gleam-v0.14-released/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>If curious see also<p><i>Gleam: A statically typed language for the Erlang VM</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22902462" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22902462</a> - April 2020 (109 comments)<p><i>An interview with the creator of Gleam: an ML like language for the Erlang VM</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19547418" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19547418</a> - April 2019 (0 comments)</text></comment> | <story><title>Gleam 0.14 – Type-safe language for the Erlang VM</title><url>https://gleam.run/news/gleam-v0.14-released/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dnautics</author><text>it&#x27;s cool that gleam emits typespecs. After tooling around implementing type analysis in Elixir, I do have a personal take that dialyzer typespecs are broken, maybe we should convene a group in the erlef to coordinate towards improving the typesystem.</text></comment> |
29,655,517 | 29,655,386 | 1 | 3 | 29,653,925 | train | <story><title>South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as fast as it grew</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/22/south-africa-omicron-coronavirus-cases/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spookthesunset</author><text>If hospital capacity is such a concern, why has there been just about zero effort in spinning up some kind of capacity to deal with Covid? Wasn&#x27;t that the entire rationale of these lockdowns in the first place? To build capacity for covid?<p>Like, it&#x27;s been 2 years. We shouldn&#x27;t be doing any of these restrictions at all. We should be angry at our governments wasting 2 years of our non-refundable time on this earth while they did nothing. Blaming the public for hospital capacity at this point is absurd.</text></item><item><author>davidw</author><text>&gt; What exactly are they waiting on?<p>The thing that needs to not happen is filling up hospitals. People died where I live because they could not get access to &#x27;elective&#x27; surgery due to the medical system being slammed during the most recent Delta wave.<p>Once that&#x27;s not a factor, things will start getting more normal.</text></item><item><author>toolz</author><text>I can&#x27;t wait until public opinion seems to catch on to the fact that we will never eliminate covid. It blows my mind that we see 100% vaccinated universities going back to online-only learning. What exactly are they waiting on?</text></item><item><author>nostromo</author><text>I&#x27;m glad it&#x27;s more contagious than Delta, because Delta is much worse than Omicron.<p>Sure, I&#x27;d rather we didn&#x27;t have Covid at all, but that&#x27;s not been a realistic option for quite some time now.</text></item><item><author>cdrini</author><text>That chart is misleading; the rise&#x2F;spike in deaths is always delayed from the rise&#x2F;spike in cases.<p>It does seem like Omicron is less deadly than Delta. The big concern is that because it&#x27;s so significantly more contagious, that even though a smaller percentage of infected people will require ventilators, the absolute number will be high enough to overwhelm hospitals.<p>Sources: Dr. John Campbell, Dr. Larry Brilliant (WHO) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;YdVymGK3OzM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;YdVymGK3OzM</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ltXkJTSBeaE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ltXkJTSBeaE</a></text></item><item><author>nostromo</author><text>The panic surrounding Omicron is absurd.<p>Take a look at these two charts. Omicron cases spiked in SA. Deaths didn&#x27;t budge. At all.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;TgRmz4F.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;TgRmz4F.png</a> [1]<p>Omicron is a good thing, if your baseline is Delta. But I&#x27;m still waiting for the US media stop hyperventilating about it.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphics.reuters.com&#x2F;world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps&#x2F;countries-and-territories&#x2F;south-africa&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphics.reuters.com&#x2F;world-coronavirus-tracker-and-m...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>com2kid</author><text>&gt; If hospital capacity is such a concern, why has there been just about zero effort in spinning up some kind of capacity to deal with Covid?<p>The first wave of COVID killed a bunch of doctors and nurses, and burnt a lot more out.<p>Then Delta made a bunch more doctors and nurses quit, with wide reports right now that 20% of nurses are looking to up and leave their job. Talking to my friends who are nurses, they are short staffed, and have been for some time.<p>On top of that, the way the US does medical training for both nurses and doctors ensures we don&#x27;t have enough medical professionals during normal times. Nursing schools can&#x27;t find instructors (pay is too low) and hospitals are purposefully limiting the number of residency spots available to ensure prices for medical care stay high (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Residency_(medicine)#Financing_residency_programs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Residency_(medicine)#Financing...</a>)<p>So, you know, business as usual in the US.</text></comment> | <story><title>South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as fast as it grew</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/22/south-africa-omicron-coronavirus-cases/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spookthesunset</author><text>If hospital capacity is such a concern, why has there been just about zero effort in spinning up some kind of capacity to deal with Covid? Wasn&#x27;t that the entire rationale of these lockdowns in the first place? To build capacity for covid?<p>Like, it&#x27;s been 2 years. We shouldn&#x27;t be doing any of these restrictions at all. We should be angry at our governments wasting 2 years of our non-refundable time on this earth while they did nothing. Blaming the public for hospital capacity at this point is absurd.</text></item><item><author>davidw</author><text>&gt; What exactly are they waiting on?<p>The thing that needs to not happen is filling up hospitals. People died where I live because they could not get access to &#x27;elective&#x27; surgery due to the medical system being slammed during the most recent Delta wave.<p>Once that&#x27;s not a factor, things will start getting more normal.</text></item><item><author>toolz</author><text>I can&#x27;t wait until public opinion seems to catch on to the fact that we will never eliminate covid. It blows my mind that we see 100% vaccinated universities going back to online-only learning. What exactly are they waiting on?</text></item><item><author>nostromo</author><text>I&#x27;m glad it&#x27;s more contagious than Delta, because Delta is much worse than Omicron.<p>Sure, I&#x27;d rather we didn&#x27;t have Covid at all, but that&#x27;s not been a realistic option for quite some time now.</text></item><item><author>cdrini</author><text>That chart is misleading; the rise&#x2F;spike in deaths is always delayed from the rise&#x2F;spike in cases.<p>It does seem like Omicron is less deadly than Delta. The big concern is that because it&#x27;s so significantly more contagious, that even though a smaller percentage of infected people will require ventilators, the absolute number will be high enough to overwhelm hospitals.<p>Sources: Dr. John Campbell, Dr. Larry Brilliant (WHO) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;YdVymGK3OzM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;YdVymGK3OzM</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ltXkJTSBeaE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ltXkJTSBeaE</a></text></item><item><author>nostromo</author><text>The panic surrounding Omicron is absurd.<p>Take a look at these two charts. Omicron cases spiked in SA. Deaths didn&#x27;t budge. At all.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;TgRmz4F.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;TgRmz4F.png</a> [1]<p>Omicron is a good thing, if your baseline is Delta. But I&#x27;m still waiting for the US media stop hyperventilating about it.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphics.reuters.com&#x2F;world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps&#x2F;countries-and-territories&#x2F;south-africa&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphics.reuters.com&#x2F;world-coronavirus-tracker-and-m...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidw</author><text>A lot of it is finding the people, beyond the physical space. You can&#x27;t just &#x27;spin up&#x27; nurses like AWS instances. They&#x27;re in short supply right now, and many are feeling burned out. There&#x27;s a post going around about a doctor who got assaulted by deranged family members of a man who died. Don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s real, but a lot of people were saying they&#x27;ve experienced similar and are just done with it.</text></comment> |
10,625,124 | 10,624,906 | 1 | 2 | 10,624,595 | train | <story><title>Atari Vax Mail, Memos and Status Reports: 1982-1992 (2001)</title><url>http://www.jmargolin.com/vmail/vmail.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zipperhead</author><text>Almost 30 years ago:<p><pre><code> From: KIM::ALBAUGH &quot;Dr. Bizarro&quot; 30-JUN-1986 08:42:44.50
To: @SYS$MAIL:JUNK
CC:
Subj: Paranoid on Soapbox with Product Idea
The National Security Agency has proposed that ALL encryption be
done with devices designed by them, the internal workings of which will be
not be divulged. They apparently didn&#x27;t like the public debate on the last
voluntary standard (for which SOME details were published), centering on
whether it had been designed to allow them to easily read &quot;private&quot;
communications. If this doesn&#x27;t bother you, consider what your reaction would be
to the U.S. Postal service ( which already has a legal monopoly on carrying
mail) proposing that, for effiency, only it could provide envelopes and these
envelopes could only be sealed and opened by postal service employees.</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Atari Vax Mail, Memos and Status Reports: 1982-1992 (2001)</title><url>http://www.jmargolin.com/vmail/vmail.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lemevi</author><text>This is great:<p><pre><code> Due to a severe increase in demand, we are forced to state some
kind of policy on private archival backup tapes. Effective immediately,
anyone can have a backup done on a BYOT (bring your own tape) basis.
All of the above applies to floppies, as well as tape; floppies are
a little more convenient to store, but don&#x27;t hold as much. Rough figures
follow:
Tape (2400 ft, 8KB block size) = 40MB storage, or 80,000 disk blocks
(figure 75K blocks after backup adds its own overhead)
Floppies (single density, our default) = .25MB, or 500 disk blocks.
Floppies (double density, YOU MUST SPECIFY) = .5MB, or 1,000 disk
blocks. If you want double density, all of the floppies to be written on
must be pre-initialized before the backup starts. Therefore, you need to
KNOW beforehand just how many floppies are to be used.
</code></pre>
It makes me think about our company&#x27;s 1MB web page download, as it would require 60ft of Atari tape storage. XD<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jmargolin.com&#x2F;vmail&#x2F;Vax83.txt" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jmargolin.com&#x2F;vmail&#x2F;Vax83.txt</a></text></comment> |
2,793,932 | 2,793,981 | 1 | 2 | 2,793,768 | train | <story><title>Urbanisation in Minecraft</title><url>http://crafthub.net/2011/07/22/urbanisation-in-minecraft/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>larrik</author><text>All I could think of while reading was the old "limited life experience + over-generalization = advice" even though there's no actual advice here.<p>But I mean, "The more intelligent of you reading this article have also probably noticed something similar to my various observations." WTF?<p>I don't see what this has to do with real-life urbanization, either. The architect built a city no one wanted, so they made suburbs. So what?</text></comment> | <story><title>Urbanisation in Minecraft</title><url>http://crafthub.net/2011/07/22/urbanisation-in-minecraft/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>codingthebeach</author><text>Nice tale of emergent behaviors in Minecraft. Still, I couldn't read this part without wincing:<p>"The more intelligent of you reading this article have also probably noticed something similar to my various observations."<p>Say "more observant", say "the astute reader will have probably noticed", or better yet say "more Minecraft-obsessed" but never say "more intelligent". If as a writer you're going to assume stupidity or laziness, you MUST assume it for yourself only. And adding the word "various" in that spot just makes it worse. Strunk and White to the rescue...</text></comment> |
30,562,336 | 30,562,515 | 1 | 2 | 30,557,205 | train | <story><title>Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/4/22961592/apple-april-11-return-office-corporate-pandemic-tim-cook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>birdyrooster</author><text>Can confirm, Google was really stingy with their RSUs compared to Apple, but the perks really aren&#x27;t that good with the exception of the food, which, when speaking to current Googlers, they say the food quality has fallen precipitously. Google at the time I worked there seemed to lean heavily on its reputation to reduce total comp.</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>I suspect we are going to see some turmoil in the tech hiring space with stock prices taking a beating in recent months. Large companies have gotten away with paying under market price for talent because employees have seen massive gains from stock appreciation over the last decade. If total comp starts going down year over year, suddenly the more traditional, no-frills system at places like Apple, Microsoft and Amazon isn&#x27;t going to look nearly as attractive, especially compared to companies one tier below that are already offering higher comp and more flexible work options.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattnewton</author><text>As someone who left Apple for Google, I can say that Apple was even more stingy for all but the most senior levels, where they were competitive. Their TC could come close to matching Google because the stock appreciation was greater with AAPL than GOOG, but the offer letters had lower salary and usually no performance based cash bonuses when I was there.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/4/22961592/apple-april-11-return-office-corporate-pandemic-tim-cook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>birdyrooster</author><text>Can confirm, Google was really stingy with their RSUs compared to Apple, but the perks really aren&#x27;t that good with the exception of the food, which, when speaking to current Googlers, they say the food quality has fallen precipitously. Google at the time I worked there seemed to lean heavily on its reputation to reduce total comp.</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>I suspect we are going to see some turmoil in the tech hiring space with stock prices taking a beating in recent months. Large companies have gotten away with paying under market price for talent because employees have seen massive gains from stock appreciation over the last decade. If total comp starts going down year over year, suddenly the more traditional, no-frills system at places like Apple, Microsoft and Amazon isn&#x27;t going to look nearly as attractive, especially compared to companies one tier below that are already offering higher comp and more flexible work options.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ericd</author><text>Apple’s cafe charges for food, and gives its interns very outdated machines. They’re much stingier than Google, or at least they were.</text></comment> |
13,538,578 | 13,538,159 | 1 | 2 | 13,537,515 | train | <story><title>Using Vim as a Python IDE</title><url>http://www.liuchengxu.org/posts/use-vim-as-a-python-ide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wry_discontent</author><text>Emacs comes configured with a command called &quot;send-region-to-shell&quot; that will take the current region and send it to a python interpreter. It makes for a great development experience that I haven&#x27;t seen replicated with other tools and I&#x27;m not sure why there&#x27;s not a bigger interest in it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fredsir</author><text>If I&#x27;m not mistaken, that&#x27;s one of the features of Tslime[1], which is a Vim plugin that allows Vim to communicate with Tmux.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jgdavey&#x2F;tslime.vim&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jgdavey&#x2F;tslime.vim&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Using Vim as a Python IDE</title><url>http://www.liuchengxu.org/posts/use-vim-as-a-python-ide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wry_discontent</author><text>Emacs comes configured with a command called &quot;send-region-to-shell&quot; that will take the current region and send it to a python interpreter. It makes for a great development experience that I haven&#x27;t seen replicated with other tools and I&#x27;m not sure why there&#x27;s not a bigger interest in it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gogoengie</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jpalardy&#x2F;vim-slime" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jpalardy&#x2F;vim-slime</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;epeli&#x2F;slimux" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;epeli&#x2F;slimux</a></text></comment> |
21,421,512 | 21,420,758 | 1 | 2 | 21,420,084 | train | <story><title>Python adopts a 12-month release cycle</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/803679/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raymondh</author><text>From my point of view, the Python release cycle presents several challenges in terms of two-way communication with users.<p>Ideally, we want people to download the beta releases and give feedback on their real world experience with new features while there is still time to make changes. (That is almost the entire point of a beta-release accompanied by a feature freeze).<p>Actual practice tends to fall short of the ideal for several reasons:<p>* Not many users download the beta and try out the features. On the bug tracker, we tend to get very little feedback on our beta releases.<p>* Some features land with little to no documentation (the walrus operator, for example). This makes it difficult for users to assess the feature.<p>* The PEP process is decisive. Once a PEP is approved, it is too late for developers to give feedback. The feature will happen regardless of user feedback.<p>* Downstream tooling needs time to update, so it is difficult to try out a beta when you can&#x27;t get your dependencies to run (MyPy, Black, requests, etc).</text></comment> | <story><title>Python adopts a 12-month release cycle</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/803679/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>3JPLW</author><text>I was curious how this changed from their previous process. It looks like they&#x27;ve historically averaged about once per 18 months for the past few releases.<p><pre><code> 3.4.0 — March 2014
3.5.0 — Sept. 2015
3.6.0 — Dec. 2016
3.7.0 — June 2018
3.8.0 — Oct. 2019
</code></pre>
I&#x27;m not familiar with their release process — were those &quot;scheduled&quot; releases, too, but just at 18 months (plus a little slop for release QA)? Or were they just ready when they were ready?</text></comment> |
23,932,361 | 23,928,271 | 1 | 3 | 23,926,699 | train | <story><title>Stacked images of the comet, photobombed by Starlink satellites</title><url>https://twitter.com/djulik/status/1286053695956881409</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>irthomasthomas</author><text>It&#x27;s trivial to erase these things from photos. The photographer no doubt knows this, but that isn&#x27;t the point.<p>It&#x27;s perfectly reasonable for scientists to want to capture accurate data on the space surrounding the main subject being imaged. Simply erasing the satellites from photos does not recover the data on the space behind. Any data from behind the satellites is lost forever. This photo keeps the satellites in order to visually demonstrate this problem.<p>Remember that astronomy today is often done on a single pixel of data. Starlink blocks multiple pixels, and even ruins entire exposures when they flare up. This will make astronomical research, like searching for exoplanets, far harder and more expensive than it is today. Space telescopes are, and will always be, orders of magnitude more expensive than ground telescopes to launch, maintain and operate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>If the images are stacked, doesn&#x27;t that mean that there&#x27;s plenty of images with the parts that are occluded in others not occluded?<p>I understand for any specific image, there&#x27;s going to be some lost background because of Starlink satellites, but that&#x27;s not what this is showing, this is showing something that&#x27;s not possible, right? Shifting all the satellites temporally so they appear together, <i>arbitrarily maximizing the problem beyond what is real</i> isn&#x27;t an accurate depiction of the problem, IMO.<p>Put another way, if you erase the Starlink satellites from the images <i>before</i> stacking them, you then get a fairly accurate representation of the sky without any Starlink satellites, and you still have the data behind them (from the other pictures where that portion of the sky was not occluded). You can also probably fix the intensity of anything occluded in a few of the pictures but not others through some math.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stacked images of the comet, photobombed by Starlink satellites</title><url>https://twitter.com/djulik/status/1286053695956881409</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>irthomasthomas</author><text>It&#x27;s trivial to erase these things from photos. The photographer no doubt knows this, but that isn&#x27;t the point.<p>It&#x27;s perfectly reasonable for scientists to want to capture accurate data on the space surrounding the main subject being imaged. Simply erasing the satellites from photos does not recover the data on the space behind. Any data from behind the satellites is lost forever. This photo keeps the satellites in order to visually demonstrate this problem.<p>Remember that astronomy today is often done on a single pixel of data. Starlink blocks multiple pixels, and even ruins entire exposures when they flare up. This will make astronomical research, like searching for exoplanets, far harder and more expensive than it is today. Space telescopes are, and will always be, orders of magnitude more expensive than ground telescopes to launch, maintain and operate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nsilvestri</author><text>Exposures are generally taken frequently enough that any that would be problematic for data can simply be dropped. The satellites aren&#x27;t permanently positioned in the sky. Geostationary satellites permanently lose any data behind them (although I haven&#x27;t heard of a geostationary satellite being positioned precisely problematically).</text></comment> |
30,406,000 | 30,404,467 | 1 | 2 | 30,404,104 | train | <story><title>Fengari – Lua for the Browser</title><url>https://fengari.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>I was pleasantly surprised it loaded so fast.<p>So I wanted to check the size of it.<p>I opened the firefox debugger, and it went blank O_o<p>Chrome was ok with it: it&#x27;s about 220kb, which is not bad at all for a whole runtime + stdlib. Python pyiodide (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pyodide.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pyodide.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;</a>) is several Mb.<p>220kb is still too much to pay upfront, since I usually want my webpages to be under 1Mb, and I can&#x27;t justify burning 1&#x2F;4 of the size budget.<p>As for the Firefox story, maybe it&#x27;s a good obfuscation trick :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Fengari – Lua for the Browser</title><url>https://fengari.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drekipus</author><text>After I found fennel-lang I thought &quot;all I need now is a browser that runs Lua&quot; and now here we are, I hope they work together well.<p>Thanks for this OP</text></comment> |
27,760,369 | 27,758,185 | 1 | 2 | 27,755,425 | train | <story><title>The humble water heater could be the savior of our energy infrastructure woes</title><url>https://www.salon.com/2021/07/04/the-humble-water-heater-could-be-the-savior-of-our-energy-infrastructure-woes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stdgy</author><text>Am I the only one that find this article incredibly confusing?<p>It starts off talking about wanting to move energy production to renewable sources. Great, I&#x27;m with you so far. A major issue with renewable energy (solar and wind) is that they&#x27;re variable, not constant. This results in uneven power. The wind doesn&#x27;t blow, it&#x27;s cloudy or it&#x27;s night time. So we need a way to convert this variable renewable energy into constant energy that&#x27;s accessible around the clock. An obvious solution to the problem is to convert the renewable energy into stored potential energy. This is what pumped hydroelectric dams are all about. Use the variable energy to pump a bunch of water up behind a dam, then release it when you need a more constant supply of energy.<p>Great, so we&#x27;ve got that much figured out. The world needs a way to convert renewable energy into constant energy.<p>And the solution to this problem is... the distribution of more efficient water heaters.<p><i>Wat</i><p>How do more efficient water heaters in any way, shape or form help solve the renewable variable rate energy to constant energy problem? I feel like I must be missing something obvious. Are we able to somehow store energy in heat-pump based water heaters and then extract that energy to run other items in our homes? When you store energy in a heat-pump based water heater does it not need to run at night when renewable energy sources are lowest?<p>Can anyone explain to me what the heck this article is talking about?<p>I feel like I&#x27;m missing the larger picture, but I don&#x27;t see how these two concepts (energy storage and appliance efficiency) are related.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluGill</author><text>&gt; How do more efficient water heaters in any way, shape or form help solve the renewable variable rate energy to constant energy problem? I feel like I must be missing something obvious<p>A large portion of our world energy use is to make heat. Thus if you can make the heat you need when there is plenty of renewable energy available, and then store it for use latter that is a large win. Sure we can&#x27;t turn that heat back into electricity (false, but they are not worth talking about), but since heat is the goal that doesn&#x27;t matter.<p>This is well understood. My parents have been on a off-peak water heating program since 1988 (in all those years they only ran out of hot water 5 times, and nobody was trying to save water). Based on that experience, just the hot water a family uses in a day is in the 300-800 liters range (go high - running out of hot water for the day sucks). Heating your house is a lot more though - 40000 liters is a low end estimate I&#x27;ve seen.<p>You won&#x27;t be cooking food, powering your car, or lighting your house this way, but it is still a cheap and useful way to store energy. It is also something we can do for the world using yesterday&#x27;s cheap technology.</text></comment> | <story><title>The humble water heater could be the savior of our energy infrastructure woes</title><url>https://www.salon.com/2021/07/04/the-humble-water-heater-could-be-the-savior-of-our-energy-infrastructure-woes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stdgy</author><text>Am I the only one that find this article incredibly confusing?<p>It starts off talking about wanting to move energy production to renewable sources. Great, I&#x27;m with you so far. A major issue with renewable energy (solar and wind) is that they&#x27;re variable, not constant. This results in uneven power. The wind doesn&#x27;t blow, it&#x27;s cloudy or it&#x27;s night time. So we need a way to convert this variable renewable energy into constant energy that&#x27;s accessible around the clock. An obvious solution to the problem is to convert the renewable energy into stored potential energy. This is what pumped hydroelectric dams are all about. Use the variable energy to pump a bunch of water up behind a dam, then release it when you need a more constant supply of energy.<p>Great, so we&#x27;ve got that much figured out. The world needs a way to convert renewable energy into constant energy.<p>And the solution to this problem is... the distribution of more efficient water heaters.<p><i>Wat</i><p>How do more efficient water heaters in any way, shape or form help solve the renewable variable rate energy to constant energy problem? I feel like I must be missing something obvious. Are we able to somehow store energy in heat-pump based water heaters and then extract that energy to run other items in our homes? When you store energy in a heat-pump based water heater does it not need to run at night when renewable energy sources are lowest?<p>Can anyone explain to me what the heck this article is talking about?<p>I feel like I&#x27;m missing the larger picture, but I don&#x27;t see how these two concepts (energy storage and appliance efficiency) are related.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>evandijk70</author><text>The idea was that you run the water heaters at a time when demand for electricity is low, and supply is high. The water will stay warm for quite some time and can be used later. For example - run the water heater at 3am during a windy night, so people can shower in the morning</text></comment> |
10,292,341 | 10,292,489 | 1 | 2 | 10,292,068 | train | <story><title>How a two-day sprint moved an agency twenty years forward</title><url>https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/09/09/how-a-two-day-spring-moved-an-agency-twenty-years-forward/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kzhahou</author><text>Does anyone see value in the huge emphasis on the &quot;sprint&quot; term? Advocates promote the word as a new way of working, but I see it as just adding confusion for the audience it&#x27;s trying to reach. That is, if I&#x27;m a person entrenched in government and want to learn about this new way people are working, and I see the word SPRINT everywhere, I might assume it&#x27;s some complex new idea. But it&#x27;s not -- it&#x27;s just a time period with goals. Those have existed forever.<p>The real win in this short project came from having a cross-functional team in the room, in a working session with a clear short-term goal. So just say that.</text></comment> | <story><title>How a two-day sprint moved an agency twenty years forward</title><url>https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/09/09/how-a-two-day-spring-moved-an-agency-twenty-years-forward/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_kst_</author><text>&quot;The handbook consists of four five-inch-thick binders containing printed and photocopied pages. These binders are replicated and distributed across numerous regional and local offices. The handbook also exists as online PDFs, where each chapter or subsection is published as its own PDF. With these two options, investigators don’t have an easy way to quickly access and search for much-needed information that helps them complete investigations, particularly when they’re working out in the field.&quot;<p>If I were working in that environment, I&#x27;d concatenate the multiple PDFs into one so I could search the entire set from any PDF reader. It&#x27;s probably not as convenient as a web interface with a more sophisticated search facility, but it solves <i>part</i> of the problem fairly quickly.<p>To concatenate multiple PDFs:<p><pre><code> gs -q -sPAPERSIZE=letter -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH - \
sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=ALL.pdf *.pdf
</code></pre>
Adjust the paper size and the order of the input files to taste.<p>(&quot;gs&quot; is the Ghostscript command.)</text></comment> |
12,229,747 | 12,229,265 | 1 | 2 | 12,228,957 | train | <story><title>Things I Won’t Work With: Peroxide Peroxides (2014)</title><url>http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2014/10/10/things_i_wont_work_with_peroxide_peroxides</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>I&#x27;m a big fan of <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org&#x2F;pipeline&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2010&#x2F;02&#x2F;23&#x2F;things_i_wont_work_with_dioxygen_difluoride" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org&#x2F;pipeline&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2010&#x2F;02&#x2F;23&#x2F;thi...</a>, if only for the call-out of a chemical supplier that claims to sell the stuff by the buttload.<p>Second favorite goes to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org&#x2F;pipeline&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2006&#x2F;05&#x2F;30&#x2F;things_i_wont_work_with_frisky_perchlorates" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org&#x2F;pipeline&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2006&#x2F;05&#x2F;30&#x2F;thi...</a>, if only for the phrase &quot;I’d like to shake the hand of whoever determined that property, assuming he has one left.&quot;</text></item><item><author>sampo</author><text>I think this is my favorite of the series: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org&#x2F;pipeline&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2008&#x2F;02&#x2F;26&#x2F;sand_wont_save_you_this_time" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org&#x2F;pipeline&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2008&#x2F;02&#x2F;26&#x2F;san...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flyinghamster</author><text>My favorite: &quot;I’d call for all the chemists who’ve ever worked with a hexanitro compound to raise their hands, but that might be assuming too much about the limb-to-chemist ratio.&quot;<p>from: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org&#x2F;pipeline&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2011&#x2F;11&#x2F;11&#x2F;things_i_wont_work_with_hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org&#x2F;pipeline&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2011&#x2F;11&#x2F;11&#x2F;thi...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Things I Won’t Work With: Peroxide Peroxides (2014)</title><url>http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2014/10/10/things_i_wont_work_with_peroxide_peroxides</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>I&#x27;m a big fan of <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org&#x2F;pipeline&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2010&#x2F;02&#x2F;23&#x2F;things_i_wont_work_with_dioxygen_difluoride" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org&#x2F;pipeline&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2010&#x2F;02&#x2F;23&#x2F;thi...</a>, if only for the call-out of a chemical supplier that claims to sell the stuff by the buttload.<p>Second favorite goes to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org&#x2F;pipeline&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2006&#x2F;05&#x2F;30&#x2F;things_i_wont_work_with_frisky_perchlorates" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org&#x2F;pipeline&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2006&#x2F;05&#x2F;30&#x2F;thi...</a>, if only for the phrase &quot;I’d like to shake the hand of whoever determined that property, assuming he has one left.&quot;</text></item><item><author>sampo</author><text>I think this is my favorite of the series: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org&#x2F;pipeline&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2008&#x2F;02&#x2F;26&#x2F;sand_wont_save_you_this_time" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org&#x2F;pipeline&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2008&#x2F;02&#x2F;26&#x2F;san...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yk</author><text>That one has my favorite chemistry quote:<p><pre><code> At seven hundred freaking degrees, fluorine starts to
dissociate into monoatomic radicals, thereby losing its
gentle and forgiving nature.</code></pre></text></comment> |
16,329,530 | 16,327,460 | 1 | 3 | 16,325,394 | train | <story><title>Tinc VPN: Secure Private Network Between Hosts</title><url>https://www.tinc-vpn.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anshargal</author><text>Another interesting alternative to tinc is ZeroTier ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zerotier.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zerotier.com&#x2F;</a> ). I am using it to remotely play Steam games over the Internet and it is surprisingly easy to set up. Probably due to existence of centralized hub.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tgtweak</author><text>One of my favorites.<p>Also softether is extremely underrated for what it can do.<p>Usually most VPN tunnels use 1 connection, softether can use 16... So for overseas where you tend to see slow single connection throughout, this can be a game changer. Also its backed by a great University.<p>Just putting these two out there.<p>Meshbird project (golang) is also very interesting but not production ready.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tinc VPN: Secure Private Network Between Hosts</title><url>https://www.tinc-vpn.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anshargal</author><text>Another interesting alternative to tinc is ZeroTier ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zerotier.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zerotier.com&#x2F;</a> ). I am using it to remotely play Steam games over the Internet and it is surprisingly easy to set up. Probably due to existence of centralized hub.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toephu2</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand your use-case. Is Steam banned in certain countries?<p>Also isn&#x27;t the added lag of a VPN not ideal for playing games?</text></comment> |
15,794,657 | 15,794,594 | 1 | 3 | 15,794,079 | train | <story><title>The world's most toxic value system (2001)</title><url>https://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/TOXICVAL.HTM</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>georgewsinger</author><text>&gt; Created 19 November 2001, Last Update 30 August 2011<p>Looks like this was created right after 9&#x2F;11. It&#x27;s understandable why he wrote this.<p>&gt; It&#x27;s considered bad form in many circles to criticize another culture&#x27;s values. In addition, the social science literature contains a number of rationalizations for the &quot;honor&quot; mentality. One is that every value system makes sense to the people that hold it. Another is that every value system exists for a reason. Well, of course. The problem is that you can make these assertions about any value system whatsoever. Rape and genocide and embezzlement also exist for a reason, and make sense to people who think a certain way. That doesn&#x27;t tell us whether the values are morally acceptable or even whether they are beneficial to those who adhere to them...So I regard it as trivially obvious that the &quot;honor&quot; mentality exists for a reason and makes perfect sense to the people that adhere to it. I don&#x27;t doubt it for a moment. I merely claim that these values debilitate the societies that hold them.<p>Something this author believes that most people (in our coastal bubbles) don&#x27;t: that some cultures are better than others. It&#x27;s astonishing how controversial this position is even 16 years later; however, I think when this article was written it was even more politically incorrect to say than it is now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryananderson</author><text>Something this author gets that most people (of all political stripes) don’t: whether a culture is “better” than another is not even a well-formed question.<p>We must ask “better at what?” We must define some criteria to measure, and speak in those terms, not in ill-defined terms like “just better”.<p>The author speaks mostly in terms of specific consequences of different value systems. This is not the same thing as declaring a culture (usually the speaker’s own) to be “better” in some ill-defined way.</text></comment> | <story><title>The world's most toxic value system (2001)</title><url>https://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/TOXICVAL.HTM</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>georgewsinger</author><text>&gt; Created 19 November 2001, Last Update 30 August 2011<p>Looks like this was created right after 9&#x2F;11. It&#x27;s understandable why he wrote this.<p>&gt; It&#x27;s considered bad form in many circles to criticize another culture&#x27;s values. In addition, the social science literature contains a number of rationalizations for the &quot;honor&quot; mentality. One is that every value system makes sense to the people that hold it. Another is that every value system exists for a reason. Well, of course. The problem is that you can make these assertions about any value system whatsoever. Rape and genocide and embezzlement also exist for a reason, and make sense to people who think a certain way. That doesn&#x27;t tell us whether the values are morally acceptable or even whether they are beneficial to those who adhere to them...So I regard it as trivially obvious that the &quot;honor&quot; mentality exists for a reason and makes perfect sense to the people that adhere to it. I don&#x27;t doubt it for a moment. I merely claim that these values debilitate the societies that hold them.<p>Something this author believes that most people (in our coastal bubbles) don&#x27;t: that some cultures are better than others. It&#x27;s astonishing how controversial this position is even 16 years later; however, I think when this article was written it was even more politically incorrect to say than it is now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eric-hu</author><text>&gt; Rape and genocide and embezzlement also exist for a reason, and make sense to people who think a certain way.<p>&gt; Something this author believes that most people (in our coastal bubbles) don&#x27;t: that some cultures are better than others.<p>I think you can ask people in coastal bubbles about the rape and genocide cultures of various wars and embezzlement subcultures of various corporations. My money is on them saying those cultures are inferior.</text></comment> |
32,218,598 | 32,218,128 | 1 | 2 | 32,215,048 | train | <story><title>Factor: A Practical Stack Language</title><url>https://factorcode.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bjoli</author><text>Be careful. Factor is a gateway to lower level stack based languages.<p>I saw Zed Shaw do a presentation using factor and decided to spend a weekend playing with it. It was the start of a two year journey that ended with me writing forth for microcontrollers. That was time I should have studied but was somehow always sidelined by other things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasone</author><text>Hah, you could have done worse. The double-dose introduction to stack-based programming via HP calculators and Adobe PostScript in the 90s led me to spend on the order of 3000 hours developing Onyx (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;canonware&#x2F;onyx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;canonware&#x2F;onyx</a>), which started off as a PostScript clone minus graphics, and ended up a thing of its own.<p>On the bright side, I learned a tremendous amount about lexing, interpreters, exceptions, tail-call optimization, data structures, garbage collection, etc., which opened up lots of possibilities in later projects. With the benefit of hard experience I would never recommend using a stack-based language for a large project, but as a learning tool it has some nice qualities.</text></comment> | <story><title>Factor: A Practical Stack Language</title><url>https://factorcode.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bjoli</author><text>Be careful. Factor is a gateway to lower level stack based languages.<p>I saw Zed Shaw do a presentation using factor and decided to spend a weekend playing with it. It was the start of a two year journey that ended with me writing forth for microcontrollers. That was time I should have studied but was somehow always sidelined by other things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adastra22</author><text>Oh the flip side, if you told that story in an interview I&#x27;d hire you on the spot.</text></comment> |
36,686,301 | 36,686,233 | 1 | 3 | 36,685,350 | train | <story><title>A petabyte of health insurance prices per month</title><url>https://blog.turquoise.health/a-petabyte-of-health-insurance-rates-a-month/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradgessler</author><text>Here&#x27;s the full list of codes for &quot;Bitten by ____, _____ encounter&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.icd10data.com&#x2F;ICD10CM&#x2F;Codes&#x2F;V00-Y99&#x2F;W50-W64&#x2F;W61-" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.icd10data.com&#x2F;ICD10CM&#x2F;Codes&#x2F;V00-Y99&#x2F;W50-W64&#x2F;W61-</a><p>The hierarchy looks like this:<p>W61.6 Contact with duck<p>= W61.61 Bitten by duck<p>== W61.61XA …… initial encounter<p>== W61.61XD …… subsequent encounter<p>== W61.61XS …… sequela<p>= W61.62 Struck by duck<p>== W61.62XA …… initial encounter<p>== W61.62XD …… subsequent encounter<p>== W61.62XS …… sequela<p>= W61.69 Other contact with duck<p>== W61.69XA …… initial encounter<p>== W61.69XD …… subsequent encounter<p>== W61.69XS …… sequela<p>There&#x27;s codings like this for parrots, macaws, chickens, turkey, etc.<p>Hell there&#x27;s an entire section for alligators and crocodiles at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.icd10data.com&#x2F;ICD10CM&#x2F;Codes&#x2F;V00-Y99&#x2F;W50-W64&#x2F;W58-" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.icd10data.com&#x2F;ICD10CM&#x2F;Codes&#x2F;V00-Y99&#x2F;W50-W64&#x2F;W58-</a> that includes crushing, bites, etc.</text></item><item><author>thomascgalvin</author><text>There are separate charge codes for <i>everything</i>, and all of those codes need to be reflected in the pricing data.<p>There&#x27;s a price to slap on a bandaid.<p>There&#x27;s a price to give someone a Tylenol.<p>Hell, W61.61XA is the medical code for &quot;Bitten by duck, initial encounter.&quot; Presumably, this means there&#x27;s also a code for &quot;Bitten by duck, again.&quot;<p>Medical billing is <i>broken</i>, and it&#x27;s no surprise that the amount of data is overwhelming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>&quot;I&#x27;d like to file a complaint. This is my fourth time being bitten by a duck not my second time. You have overcharged me!&quot;<p>This is possible in America today. Great job post ww2 employer coverage side effects!</text></comment> | <story><title>A petabyte of health insurance prices per month</title><url>https://blog.turquoise.health/a-petabyte-of-health-insurance-rates-a-month/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradgessler</author><text>Here&#x27;s the full list of codes for &quot;Bitten by ____, _____ encounter&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.icd10data.com&#x2F;ICD10CM&#x2F;Codes&#x2F;V00-Y99&#x2F;W50-W64&#x2F;W61-" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.icd10data.com&#x2F;ICD10CM&#x2F;Codes&#x2F;V00-Y99&#x2F;W50-W64&#x2F;W61-</a><p>The hierarchy looks like this:<p>W61.6 Contact with duck<p>= W61.61 Bitten by duck<p>== W61.61XA …… initial encounter<p>== W61.61XD …… subsequent encounter<p>== W61.61XS …… sequela<p>= W61.62 Struck by duck<p>== W61.62XA …… initial encounter<p>== W61.62XD …… subsequent encounter<p>== W61.62XS …… sequela<p>= W61.69 Other contact with duck<p>== W61.69XA …… initial encounter<p>== W61.69XD …… subsequent encounter<p>== W61.69XS …… sequela<p>There&#x27;s codings like this for parrots, macaws, chickens, turkey, etc.<p>Hell there&#x27;s an entire section for alligators and crocodiles at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.icd10data.com&#x2F;ICD10CM&#x2F;Codes&#x2F;V00-Y99&#x2F;W50-W64&#x2F;W58-" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.icd10data.com&#x2F;ICD10CM&#x2F;Codes&#x2F;V00-Y99&#x2F;W50-W64&#x2F;W58-</a> that includes crushing, bites, etc.</text></item><item><author>thomascgalvin</author><text>There are separate charge codes for <i>everything</i>, and all of those codes need to be reflected in the pricing data.<p>There&#x27;s a price to slap on a bandaid.<p>There&#x27;s a price to give someone a Tylenol.<p>Hell, W61.61XA is the medical code for &quot;Bitten by duck, initial encounter.&quot; Presumably, this means there&#x27;s also a code for &quot;Bitten by duck, again.&quot;<p>Medical billing is <i>broken</i>, and it&#x27;s no surprise that the amount of data is overwhelming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maweaver</author><text>But why? I could understand from a treatment perspective the type of animal mattering (but even then initial vs subsequent encounters?). From a billing perspective, wouldn&#x27;t it make sense to have animal bite exam fee, with possible additional charges for bandaging, stitches, rabies shot, etc based on doctor&#x27;s discretion?</text></comment> |
3,355,971 | 3,355,954 | 1 | 2 | 3,355,876 | train | <story><title>Google Awarded Driverless Vehicle Patent</title><url>http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,078,349.PN.&OS=PN/8,078,349&RS=PN/8,078,349</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Wilya</author><text>The patent is about reading a symbol on the ground that triggers the reading of a QR-code to get precise GPS location. Roughly.<p>Actually, the QR-code (or equivalent) is used to fetch "instructions for performing the autonomous vehicle instruction" (which could be anything).<p>And the QR-code can be replaced by a lot of things (radio signal, etc).</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Awarded Driverless Vehicle Patent</title><url>http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,078,349.PN.&OS=PN/8,078,349&RS=PN/8,078,349</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>peterknego</author><text>The abstract says:<p>"Disclosed are methods and devices for transitioning a mixed-mode autonomous vehicle from a human driven mode to an autonomously driven mode. Transitioning may include stopping a vehicle on a predefined landing strip and detecting a reference indicator. Based on the reference indicator, the vehicle may be able to know its exact position. Additionally, the vehicle may use the reference indictor to obtain an autonomous vehicle instruction via a URL. After the vehicle knows its precise location and has an autonomous vehicle instruction, it can operate in autonomous mode."<p>So it does not patent "driverless vehicle", but a particular method of transition from mixed-mode to driverless mode.</text></comment> |
11,608,657 | 11,608,403 | 1 | 2 | 11,607,056 | train | <story><title>Berlin Is Banning Most Vacation Apartment Rentals</title><url>http://www.citylab.com/housing/2016/04/airbnb-rentals-berlin-vacation-apartment-law/480381/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>doener</author><text>A free market price would not fix anything - every tiny bit of flatland is already used. What you are saying is basically: Only rich people should have the right to live in central districts. I disagree and so do most Berliners.</text></item><item><author>jvm</author><text>The dynamic is a little different than in most other cities. What&#x27;s really happening here is that cheap rent is a kind of entitlement in Berlin: rent controls extend <i>across</i> tenants so getting an apartment is really about persuading a landlord to take you rather than bidding at an appropriate price point. AirBnB gets around this by allowing rentals at arbitrary price points. This is true whether it&#x27;s an owner or a renter doing the leasing, which is very different from other markets in which it&#x27;s mostly a concern of renters abusing their leases.<p>&gt; &quot;The Berlin Senate’s ruling nonetheless reflects a general feeling across a city in which homes are getting harder to find: Berliners have had enough and they want their city back.&quot;<p>Translation: There is no pricing mechanism on rents in the city and it is becoming increasingly impossible to find an apartment.<p>While it&#x27;s certainly true that AirBnB essentially allows landlords to flout the law, it&#x27;s worth noting that the adverse effects of price ceilings on supply are the root cause of Berlin&#x27;s problems and this will not solve the underlying problem of rents being far from equilibrium.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zanny</author><text>Remove zoning restrictions, reduce barriers to development, and let density rise dramatically to meet demand.<p>Dozens of cities around the world are suffering from rejecting capitalism of property and the consequences will be the long run slow bleeding out to locations more accepting of economic reality.<p>Even in the most expensive places to live - Bay Area, central Tokyo, Venice, etc - if builders could build to their hearts content and see rapid high-rise housing development (first to meet the wealthy demand, and gradually to meet all other demand that turns a profit) you end up with affordable low income housing <i>and</i> extreme growth for the whole metro area, which means prosperity.<p>IE, rather than holding back development and costing yourself tremendous fiscal gains, you let those happen and tax the fuck out of them to make life better for all those displaced. Use tax money from more unfettered capitalism to improve the situation of the poor, rather than holding back markets for the sake of the poor, who are then also worse off.</text></comment> | <story><title>Berlin Is Banning Most Vacation Apartment Rentals</title><url>http://www.citylab.com/housing/2016/04/airbnb-rentals-berlin-vacation-apartment-law/480381/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>doener</author><text>A free market price would not fix anything - every tiny bit of flatland is already used. What you are saying is basically: Only rich people should have the right to live in central districts. I disagree and so do most Berliners.</text></item><item><author>jvm</author><text>The dynamic is a little different than in most other cities. What&#x27;s really happening here is that cheap rent is a kind of entitlement in Berlin: rent controls extend <i>across</i> tenants so getting an apartment is really about persuading a landlord to take you rather than bidding at an appropriate price point. AirBnB gets around this by allowing rentals at arbitrary price points. This is true whether it&#x27;s an owner or a renter doing the leasing, which is very different from other markets in which it&#x27;s mostly a concern of renters abusing their leases.<p>&gt; &quot;The Berlin Senate’s ruling nonetheless reflects a general feeling across a city in which homes are getting harder to find: Berliners have had enough and they want their city back.&quot;<p>Translation: There is no pricing mechanism on rents in the city and it is becoming increasingly impossible to find an apartment.<p>While it&#x27;s certainly true that AirBnB essentially allows landlords to flout the law, it&#x27;s worth noting that the adverse effects of price ceilings on supply are the root cause of Berlin&#x27;s problems and this will not solve the underlying problem of rents being far from equilibrium.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>d_t_w</author><text>What mechanism do you use to choose who can live in a central district, if not the ability to pay market rent?<p>Right to live where you are born? That adversely affects anyone not born in a central district.</text></comment> |
30,109,976 | 30,109,919 | 1 | 3 | 30,108,998 | train | <story><title>I won the local election, but my township ignored the results and state law</title><url>https://twitter.com/gaughen/status/1486834885964832770</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thr0wawayf00</author><text>Local politics is also absurdly boring which, I would argue, is why nobody pays attention. It&#x27;s such an inconvenience to participate in the local political process because we&#x27;re so used to the theatre that is Federal politics. I mean honestly, can we all name the members of our city council, our mayor, etc.?<p>Our culture is so addicted to stimulation that we just don&#x27;t want to spend time on something as boring and banal as a city council meeting.</text></item><item><author>MattGaiser</author><text>Local politics is absurdly corrupt in many cases as nobody pays attention.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CrazyCatDog</author><text>With all due respect—I have something which will blow your mind!<p>The city of Santa Monica broadcasts city council meetings. And both the items being adjudicated and the members from the public stepping up to the mic, are every bit as colorful as the brightest Hollywood blockbusters. I listened for years after leaving LA… KCRW Thursday evenings, grab some popcorn and enjoy!!</text></comment> | <story><title>I won the local election, but my township ignored the results and state law</title><url>https://twitter.com/gaughen/status/1486834885964832770</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thr0wawayf00</author><text>Local politics is also absurdly boring which, I would argue, is why nobody pays attention. It&#x27;s such an inconvenience to participate in the local political process because we&#x27;re so used to the theatre that is Federal politics. I mean honestly, can we all name the members of our city council, our mayor, etc.?<p>Our culture is so addicted to stimulation that we just don&#x27;t want to spend time on something as boring and banal as a city council meeting.</text></item><item><author>MattGaiser</author><text>Local politics is absurdly corrupt in many cases as nobody pays attention.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>e4e78a06</author><text>That&#x27;s because local politics is dedicated mostly to establishing inane bureaucratic blockers for policies that would benefit everyone except the existing homeowners in the city.<p>My city council recently spent until 1am debating zoning regulations for California&#x27;s new ADU law instead of doing the sane thing and just letting people build ADUs.</text></comment> |
5,298,741 | 5,298,194 | 1 | 3 | 5,297,888 | train | <story><title>Scientists Uncover Invisible Motion in Video</title><url>http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/scientists-uncover-invisible-motion-in-video/#.US8ic6HeXQo.hackernews</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>reginaldo</author><text>Last June, when this first came up, I commented:<p><i>I was thinking about the implications of using this technique to analyze e.g. political speeches and try to catch people lying on the act. Your application (winning on card games) seems very interesting too</i><p>Now, with the Google glass getting closer to being a real thing in the market, the possibilities are endless (for the good and for the bad). Unfortunately, my mind is kind of twisted and I think about the bad first. Must be a side effect of all the security issues I'm researching.<p>For instance:<p># Google glass + Eulerian magnification + facial expression recognition = Instant "Lie to Me"-like[1] microexpressions expert.<p># Google glass + Eulerian magnification + TSA agent: "picking" suspects by the way their pulse react as they get closer to the agent using the "apparatus". Of course, the real criminals would just take some kind of drug to avoid being detected...<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_to_Me" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_to_Me</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Scientists Uncover Invisible Motion in Video</title><url>http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/scientists-uncover-invisible-motion-in-video/#.US8ic6HeXQo.hackernews</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>archivator</author><text>The paper from last year's SIGGRAPH - <a href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/papers/vidmag.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/papers/vidmag.pdf</a></text></comment> |
10,277,485 | 10,277,441 | 1 | 2 | 10,276,914 | train | <story><title>Rejuvenating the Microsoft C/C++ Compiler</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2015/09/25/rejuvenating-the-microsoft-c-c-compiler.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>exDM69</author><text>This is <i>excellent</i> news. MSVC is a big pain in the ass for me, as I tend to write C code (not ++ usually) and Microsoft&#x27;s C compiler is the one with the worst support for language level features (out of widely used compilers). E.g. having to move variables to beginning of block (c89 style) is just miserable. A popular option is to compile C code as C++ inside an &quot;extern C&quot; block to stop name mangling, but this isn&#x27;t too clean either.<p>I&#x27;d also like to have compatibility of some language extension features, such as built-in functions and attributes. In particular, CPU-agnostic intrinsics for common instructions like atomics, popcount or count leading zeros as well SIMD arithmetic would be great.<p>My favorite C language extension is SIMD vector arithmetic with infix operators. You can get really pretty and portable (!) vector math code written in Clang and GCC using vector extensions, but again, it&#x27;s not available in MSVC.<p>For most of my current projects, I have no intent of supporting the (current) Microsoft C compiler. It&#x27;s not worth the effort.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rejuvenating the Microsoft C/C++ Compiler</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2015/09/25/rejuvenating-the-microsoft-c-c-compiler.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simfoo</author><text>I hope Microsoft never decides to ditch their compiler and use something existing like Clang. I may have had headaches due to Microsoft incompatibilities before, but having a real alternative (or even three, MinGW still works fine) is great.<p>That said I applaud their decision to fix their compiler architecture problems!</text></comment> |
11,780,616 | 11,780,310 | 1 | 2 | 11,779,537 | train | <story><title>A Sensible Fix For TSA Security Lines</title><url>http://www.askthepilot.com/tsa-summer-meltdown/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dionidium</author><text>So, I was definitely once one of those people arguing for lax airline security on the basis that fear of terrorism is irrational and resources would be better spent on <i>actual</i>, mundane, every-day threats (like automobile safety).<p>But I think you&#x27;re actually right about this; my original argument ignored human psychology to an extent that makes it nonsensical. <i>Actual</i> threats are important, but so are <i>perceived</i> threats. It&#x27;s not entirely irrational to protect against the things we fear the most, even if those aren&#x27;t actually the most likely things to kill us.<p>This also comes up a lot in arguments about city living. I know a lot of people for whom urban living is frightening to an extent that is not supportable by crime statistics. But so what? If they were to move to the city, they&#x27;d be constantly afraid. <i>That matters.</i> Rational or not, their perception greatly impacts their quality of life. And if you want those people to move back from the suburbs, then you need to address their concerns.<p>There is a <i>reason</i>, after all, that airplanes are such an attractive target for those who&#x27;d like to cause <i>terror</i>.</text></item><item><author>rhino369</author><text>&gt;so the worst thing someone could do is blow up a plane, and if all you want to do is blow up a hundred people or so, you don&#x27;t need to be on a plane to do it.<p>There is a reason we had security on airplanes before 9&#x2F;11. We aren&#x27;t willing to accept this risk.<p>Plus airplanes are a carnage and terror multiplier. A bomb that could take down a plane would do less damage on the ground. And people are irrationally fearful of flying. One 737 blown up every 3 months would still make flying less risky than driving, but it would send the airline industry into a tailspin and TSA would come back stronger than ever.</text></item><item><author>darawk</author><text>The sensible fix for long TSA lines is to eliminate the TSA and stop engaging in this silly security theater. It is demonstrably the case that the TSA security procedures are so porous that they can&#x27;t stop regular people from <i>accidentally</i> bringing weapons on board that they forgot about. The idea that they have prevented any terrorist attacks is ludicrous, yet they have imposed an enormous cost on air travel.<p>Eliminate the TSA and replace them with nothing. Cockpit doors are now reinforced, so the worst thing someone could do is blow up a plane, and if all you want to do is blow up a hundred people or so, you don&#x27;t need to be on a plane to do it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darawk</author><text>This represents a pretty fundamental reasoning error, I think that a lot of people make - and your argument about city living is the perfect manifestation of it.<p>While some people do stop living in cities out of fear, obviously most people do not, because otherwise they would not be cities. You could argue that the government needs to come in in a very heavy-handed way and say in order to assuage the fear of the minority, we must pat down everyone that lives in the city hourly and check for weapons. But we don&#x27;t do that, because it is irrational and unnecessary, and people will take the amount of risk that they feel is comfortable. We trust people to figure that out for themselves.<p>With airplanes, before the doors were reinforced, the planes could be used as a weapon against people who weren&#x27;t even flying. That represents an externality. That is a place for the government to come in and say &quot;this is too dangerous to <i>others</i> who cannot protect themselves against this weapon by voting with their wallet&quot;. The people who are on the plane, however, can choose to pay a premium to fly on an airline with more stringent security procedures. If people care enough, they will do that. If they don&#x27;t, they won&#x27;t, and they should be allowed to make that determination for themselves.<p>If I don&#x27;t see terrorism on my flights as a risk, I shouldn&#x27;t have to socialize those who do. And alternatively, if I <i>do</i> see terrorism as a risk, I damn sure want better security procedures than what the TSA has on offer, and if there were a private market for better secured planes, I don&#x27;t doubt for a second that it would be substantially safer than what the TSA is able to provide.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Sensible Fix For TSA Security Lines</title><url>http://www.askthepilot.com/tsa-summer-meltdown/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dionidium</author><text>So, I was definitely once one of those people arguing for lax airline security on the basis that fear of terrorism is irrational and resources would be better spent on <i>actual</i>, mundane, every-day threats (like automobile safety).<p>But I think you&#x27;re actually right about this; my original argument ignored human psychology to an extent that makes it nonsensical. <i>Actual</i> threats are important, but so are <i>perceived</i> threats. It&#x27;s not entirely irrational to protect against the things we fear the most, even if those aren&#x27;t actually the most likely things to kill us.<p>This also comes up a lot in arguments about city living. I know a lot of people for whom urban living is frightening to an extent that is not supportable by crime statistics. But so what? If they were to move to the city, they&#x27;d be constantly afraid. <i>That matters.</i> Rational or not, their perception greatly impacts their quality of life. And if you want those people to move back from the suburbs, then you need to address their concerns.<p>There is a <i>reason</i>, after all, that airplanes are such an attractive target for those who&#x27;d like to cause <i>terror</i>.</text></item><item><author>rhino369</author><text>&gt;so the worst thing someone could do is blow up a plane, and if all you want to do is blow up a hundred people or so, you don&#x27;t need to be on a plane to do it.<p>There is a reason we had security on airplanes before 9&#x2F;11. We aren&#x27;t willing to accept this risk.<p>Plus airplanes are a carnage and terror multiplier. A bomb that could take down a plane would do less damage on the ground. And people are irrationally fearful of flying. One 737 blown up every 3 months would still make flying less risky than driving, but it would send the airline industry into a tailspin and TSA would come back stronger than ever.</text></item><item><author>darawk</author><text>The sensible fix for long TSA lines is to eliminate the TSA and stop engaging in this silly security theater. It is demonstrably the case that the TSA security procedures are so porous that they can&#x27;t stop regular people from <i>accidentally</i> bringing weapons on board that they forgot about. The idea that they have prevented any terrorist attacks is ludicrous, yet they have imposed an enormous cost on air travel.<p>Eliminate the TSA and replace them with nothing. Cockpit doors are now reinforced, so the worst thing someone could do is blow up a plane, and if all you want to do is blow up a hundred people or so, you don&#x27;t need to be on a plane to do it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smokeyj</author><text>&gt; Actual threats are important, but so are perceived threats<p>Like the airplane that was downed because a passenger felt threatened by a math professor solving equations? I&#x27;m sorry but catering to ignorance is not the way forward. We have real problems as a society, let&#x27;s not solve imaginary ones.</text></comment> |
26,474,828 | 26,474,445 | 1 | 2 | 26,469,738 | train | <story><title>It’s time to stop using SMS for security</title><url>https://lucky225.medium.com/its-time-to-stop-using-sms-for-anything-203c41361c80</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quicklime</author><text>I probably hate it for different reasons from others on HN, but I move countries (and change numbers) and travel a lot, and SMS just isn&#x27;t a reliable way to reach me. On top of that, attempting to log in to a website from a foreign country is often itself a trigger for 2FA, and exactly the moment when I&#x27;m not reachable by SMS.<p>This has bitten me a few times, sometimes in desperate situations. Like when I&#x27;ve needed to log in to Airbnb to message a host, transfer some cash from my bank account, access my frequent flyer account, etc. Far too many sites don&#x27;t provide 2FA over email, or through an app like Google Authenticator - they can <i>only</i> do it over SMS.<p>Yeah, I know I could set up roaming. But it&#x27;s an easy thing to forget, since I change phone numbers every couple of years (for both personal and work phones). And it&#x27;s not always cheap.<p>It&#x27;s also just a huge pain to have to go through and change every account I have, any time I change numbers. A lot of accounts that I only use occasionally are configured with one of my many old phone numbers, which don&#x27;t work anymore. This usually involves a call to tech support to fix it.</text></item><item><author>slovette</author><text>So, I work in telecom and dabble a bit in software.<p>I don’t understand the hatred for SMS 2FA on HN. Can someone explain to me why SMS is such a bad method comparative to other solutions where the practical user adoption is near impossible at scale?<p>At some point, software is going to need to bend to the way people work. When does that happen instead of obsessing over ubiquitous “zero trust”.<p>I’d love a parable of how using SMS as part of a layered security verification is somehow unacceptably vulnerable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrismorgan</author><text>I’m an Australian that was in India for the last year (just arrived back, up to day 2 of my 14 day quarantine). Anything that has needed to verify me through SMS (e.g. filing my Australian tax return via myGov, paying for things with my credit card if they used the fancy security thing, like most airlines do and Amazon apparently does, and logging into one or two things) has required me to contact my parents to turn on and check the old phone I left with them, because roaming for a year is expensive and otherwise pointless (I barely use a phone), but transferring my number to a prepaid Amaysim SIM let me keep it alive and mine for the year for $10.<p>Actually, the myGov thing was a real piece of work. They offer secret questions as a second factor that you can opt to use instead of SMS codes (and yes, secret questions are stupid), but when I did that, <i>it silently unlinked my Australian Tax Office account</i>. I tried to link it up again (a bit of a pain in its own right), and it told me that ATO has decided that it won’t let you link it up if you use secret questions as the second factor technique. Seriously. So I had to switch back. Oh yeah, they do also have a third option, an app of their own that can generate codes (<i>not</i> TOTP), but that app had something like 2 stars on Google Play Store, with many reviews saying it didn’t work at all, so I didn’t even bother trying that.<p>When I’m in Australia with my phone handy, SMS verification seems not too bad, but when out of the country and not roaming, it may vary between very inconvenient and completely debilitating.</text></comment> | <story><title>It’s time to stop using SMS for security</title><url>https://lucky225.medium.com/its-time-to-stop-using-sms-for-anything-203c41361c80</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quicklime</author><text>I probably hate it for different reasons from others on HN, but I move countries (and change numbers) and travel a lot, and SMS just isn&#x27;t a reliable way to reach me. On top of that, attempting to log in to a website from a foreign country is often itself a trigger for 2FA, and exactly the moment when I&#x27;m not reachable by SMS.<p>This has bitten me a few times, sometimes in desperate situations. Like when I&#x27;ve needed to log in to Airbnb to message a host, transfer some cash from my bank account, access my frequent flyer account, etc. Far too many sites don&#x27;t provide 2FA over email, or through an app like Google Authenticator - they can <i>only</i> do it over SMS.<p>Yeah, I know I could set up roaming. But it&#x27;s an easy thing to forget, since I change phone numbers every couple of years (for both personal and work phones). And it&#x27;s not always cheap.<p>It&#x27;s also just a huge pain to have to go through and change every account I have, any time I change numbers. A lot of accounts that I only use occasionally are configured with one of my many old phone numbers, which don&#x27;t work anymore. This usually involves a call to tech support to fix it.</text></item><item><author>slovette</author><text>So, I work in telecom and dabble a bit in software.<p>I don’t understand the hatred for SMS 2FA on HN. Can someone explain to me why SMS is such a bad method comparative to other solutions where the practical user adoption is near impossible at scale?<p>At some point, software is going to need to bend to the way people work. When does that happen instead of obsessing over ubiquitous “zero trust”.<p>I’d love a parable of how using SMS as part of a layered security verification is somehow unacceptably vulnerable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RileyJames</author><text>Absolutely this. I currently have a document from my bank, that they emailed me. Which I’m suppose to print, write all my personal info on, plus a copy of my passport and FAX to them!!<p>All because I want to change my phone number, and I’m overseas.<p>Which I only need to change (or even have associated with my account at all) because they refuse to offer any other 2FA option.</text></comment> |
24,696,539 | 24,691,284 | 1 | 2 | 24,688,416 | train | <story><title>Tesla hacker reveals what driver-facing camera is looking for</title><url>https://electrek.co/2020/10/04/tesla-hacker-driver-facing-camera-looking-for/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fudged71</author><text>Tesla has a history of using remote diagnostics to snitch on drivers instead of allowing investigators to do their job.<p>It’s a valid concern that your car manufacturer will use the interior cameras to blame a crime on you.<p>These automatic tagging features also bring to question the bias in algorithms. What does this mean for drivers with disabilities? Is it possible that a safe driver with ADHD or Turrets etc might be flagged as inattentive during an autopilot crash and therefore at fault?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ficklepickle</author><text>This is a legit concern. There are many edge cases with humans.<p>I worked at a pizza place in high school. There was a delivery driver with cerebral paulsy who was constantly being accused of being drunk. Sometimes customers just called the cops on him. It was sad, he was a super nice young guy already on a short clock and he had to deal with that all the time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla hacker reveals what driver-facing camera is looking for</title><url>https://electrek.co/2020/10/04/tesla-hacker-driver-facing-camera-looking-for/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fudged71</author><text>Tesla has a history of using remote diagnostics to snitch on drivers instead of allowing investigators to do their job.<p>It’s a valid concern that your car manufacturer will use the interior cameras to blame a crime on you.<p>These automatic tagging features also bring to question the bias in algorithms. What does this mean for drivers with disabilities? Is it possible that a safe driver with ADHD or Turrets etc might be flagged as inattentive during an autopilot crash and therefore at fault?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gravitas</author><text>&gt; <i>What does this mean for drivers with disabilities?</i><p>You mention ADHD and Turrets; a leg-disabled person (e.g. paralyzed waste down) can still drive just fine, special hand-operated equipment is installed to a car to allow the hands to take over for the foot pedals.<p>By design this driver may be looking down frequently at their controls (let&#x27;s assume not everyone is a pro driver yet and knows them by heart) which could easily be misconstrued as looking down at a mobile phone, placing immediate bias against them on video before the facts of hand-controls are revealed in court.</text></comment> |
3,190,548 | 3,189,896 | 1 | 2 | 3,188,684 | train | <story><title>Happy Birthday Vim, The Venerable Text Editor Turns 20</title><url>http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/11/happy-birthday-vim-the-venerable-text-editor-turns-20/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>toyg</author><text>Tim O'Reilly makes a good point here: <a href="https://plus.google.com/107033731246200681024/posts/aZSZCsAcHbH" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/107033731246200681024/posts/aZSZCsAc...</a> :<p><i>"It isn't really Vim's 20th birthday. It's a lot closer to its 35th!" Because of course, vim is really just an extended and improved version of the venerable vi, the first screen-oriented editor for Unix.<p>While the article starts out with a history of vi, it somehow treats it as if it were a grandparent, rather than the template for what remains. The core design of vim reflects the design insights of Bill Joy, not those of Bram Moolenaar, who refined and updated them."</i></text></comment> | <story><title>Happy Birthday Vim, The Venerable Text Editor Turns 20</title><url>http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/11/happy-birthday-vim-the-venerable-text-editor-turns-20/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>statictype</author><text>Vim has the kind of user lock-in mechanism that big corporations can only dream of: modal editing.<p>Once you get sold on modal text editing it becomes very difficult to accept or use any other editor that doesn't do it (which is pretty much every other text editor out there). Sublime, Textmate, e - all great editors. Don't feel like using any of them after 10 years of Vim.</text></comment> |
36,094,077 | 36,093,332 | 1 | 3 | 36,090,755 | train | <story><title>Dolphin on Steam Indefinitely Postponed</title><url>https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2023/05/27/dolphin-steam-indefinitely-postponed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wtallis</author><text>&gt; In general, I&#x27;m not sure what the idea of putting Dolphin on Steam was supposed to gain. First, I have a hard time conceiving why I&#x27;d even want to manage it from Steam,<p>In case you haven&#x27;t heard of it, Valve sells the Steam Deck: a handheld gaming console with Steam as its primary UI. Under the hood, it&#x27;s a low-power AMD x86 system running Linux (specifically, Valve&#x27;s SteamOS distro). So having Dolphin on Steam would be the optimal way to make Dolphin available to Steam Deck users, just like having Dolphin available on the Google Play Store is the optimal way to make Dolphin available to Android users even though side-loading is an option.</text></item><item><author>chungy</author><text>In general, I&#x27;m not sure what the idea of putting Dolphin on Steam was supposed to gain. First, I have a hard time conceiving why I&#x27;d even want to manage it from Steam, but aside from that, it seems like it&#x27;ll only attract attention from people wanting &quot;free games&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s sad too, since the Wii is a console that makes it extraordinarily simple to dump your own game discs and use the emulator in a completely legal fashion.</text></item><item><author>endisneigh</author><text>Given how many YouTubers brazenly use dolphin on steam decks and say you can get free games, I’m surprised it didn’t happen sooner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philistine</author><text>I would bet good money that this is exactly why a DMCA was sent; someone at Nintendo was shown a Steam Deck, which is a big Switch competitor, loading Dolphin and playing Gamecube games for free with better performance than what Nintendo themselves deign to provide us.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dolphin on Steam Indefinitely Postponed</title><url>https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2023/05/27/dolphin-steam-indefinitely-postponed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wtallis</author><text>&gt; In general, I&#x27;m not sure what the idea of putting Dolphin on Steam was supposed to gain. First, I have a hard time conceiving why I&#x27;d even want to manage it from Steam,<p>In case you haven&#x27;t heard of it, Valve sells the Steam Deck: a handheld gaming console with Steam as its primary UI. Under the hood, it&#x27;s a low-power AMD x86 system running Linux (specifically, Valve&#x27;s SteamOS distro). So having Dolphin on Steam would be the optimal way to make Dolphin available to Steam Deck users, just like having Dolphin available on the Google Play Store is the optimal way to make Dolphin available to Android users even though side-loading is an option.</text></item><item><author>chungy</author><text>In general, I&#x27;m not sure what the idea of putting Dolphin on Steam was supposed to gain. First, I have a hard time conceiving why I&#x27;d even want to manage it from Steam, but aside from that, it seems like it&#x27;ll only attract attention from people wanting &quot;free games&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s sad too, since the Wii is a console that makes it extraordinarily simple to dump your own game discs and use the emulator in a completely legal fashion.</text></item><item><author>endisneigh</author><text>Given how many YouTubers brazenly use dolphin on steam decks and say you can get free games, I’m surprised it didn’t happen sooner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>extrememacaroni</author><text>It&#x27;s not like having dolphin on steam will give you access to free gamecube and wii games. You will still have to get them yourself and&#x2F;or any bioses that may be required, I dunno.<p>Which means a bit of hacking, which means you should already be capable enough to install emudeck on your steam deck. Which is vastly superior to any single emulator on steam itself.</text></comment> |
38,660,723 | 38,659,699 | 1 | 2 | 38,657,577 | train | <story><title>Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/suspects-can-refuse-to-provide-phone-passcodes-to-police-court-rules/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snickerbockers</author><text>Has there ever been a court case related to encrypted data or secret codes without a computer being involved? If the cops get a warrant to tap a phone line and they hear me speaking with an associate using some sort of coded language (as spies and criminals often do on TV) can i be compelled to explain to them what all the little codewords actually mean?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hutzlibu</author><text>&quot;can i be compelled to explain to them what all the little codewords actually mean&quot;<p>I would like to think not, as usually you cannot be made to compell against yourself. The famous right to silence.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Right_to_silence" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Right_to_silence</a><p>Which was the base of this court case (and I think it is troublesome, that it had to be debated at all)<p>&quot;One of the major issues in the law of digital evidence investigations is how the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination applies to unlocking phones&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/suspects-can-refuse-to-provide-phone-passcodes-to-police-court-rules/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snickerbockers</author><text>Has there ever been a court case related to encrypted data or secret codes without a computer being involved? If the cops get a warrant to tap a phone line and they hear me speaking with an associate using some sort of coded language (as spies and criminals often do on TV) can i be compelled to explain to them what all the little codewords actually mean?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yencabulator</author><text>Cryptography predates computers, so the only real question is has it shown up in <i>public</i> court records or not. I&#x27;d expect plenty of history in treason charges against caught spies, but whether the records are public or not is a different question.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Book_cipher" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Book_cipher</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Codebook" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Codebook</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Poem_code" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Poem_code</a></text></comment> |
13,313,903 | 13,313,779 | 1 | 3 | 13,312,720 | train | <story><title>Kaspersky: SSL interception differentiates certificates with a 32bit hash</title><url>https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=978</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nxc18</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand how these antivirus vendors are still in business. Even when they do have marginally better detection rates than the built in solution, the licensing, annoying popups, system slowdown, and security-defeating &#x27;features&#x27; make them a losing proposition.<p>Pre-bundled and even purchased AV is so dramatically deleterious to PC performance that MS should kill it as public service. It gives the entire ecosystem a bad reputation and nowadays is completely unnecessary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WorldMaker</author><text>That&#x27;s part of why I keep pointing new PC buyers to the &quot;Signature Edition&quot; program [1] where Microsoft does forbid pre-bundled AV on PCs sold through that program (at Microsoft Stores and participating Best Buys and other stores if you know to ask).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoftstore.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;msusa&#x2F;en_US&#x2F;cat&#x2F;categoryID.69916600" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoftstore.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;msusa&#x2F;en_US&#x2F;cat&#x2F;categor...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Kaspersky: SSL interception differentiates certificates with a 32bit hash</title><url>https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=978</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nxc18</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand how these antivirus vendors are still in business. Even when they do have marginally better detection rates than the built in solution, the licensing, annoying popups, system slowdown, and security-defeating &#x27;features&#x27; make them a losing proposition.<p>Pre-bundled and even purchased AV is so dramatically deleterious to PC performance that MS should kill it as public service. It gives the entire ecosystem a bad reputation and nowadays is completely unnecessary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nadya</author><text>Antivirus are just another attack vector - and due to their often escalated privileges running on a machine, they are a <i>very attractive attack vector</i>.<p>Not to mention the pitiful detection rate (&lt;50%~ for nearly any antivirus software) makes them nearly useless: once you&#x27;re pwned, you&#x27;re pwned.</text></comment> |
9,402,311 | 9,402,348 | 1 | 3 | 9,402,093 | train | <story><title>BuzzFeed Says Posts Were Deleted Because of Advertising Pressure</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/20/business/media/buzzfeed-says-posts-were-deleted-because-of-advertising-pressure.html?partner=socialflow&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kyllo</author><text><i>I work in the online advertising space.</i><p><i>They also use AdBlock to basically steal content</i><p>The whole problem with your industry is that you are still operating under the mistaken belief that &quot;impressions&quot; drive purchasing behavior. As if having some image forcibly burnt into my brain will influence my subconscious desires enough to cause me to make a purchase sometime later. This idea is and has always been pure snake oil. I don&#x27;t want to see your ads, and I&#x27;m not going to click on them or buy what they are selling anyway. If anything I&#x27;m <i>less</i> likely to buy a product after I see it in a banner ad because they are annoying and I don&#x27;t buy products that annoy me. You have no business telling me that it&#x27;s &quot;stealing&quot; when I configure my browser client not to show me ads that I don&#x27;t want to see. The implication is offensive. Do you think that running a spam e-mail filter is &quot;basically stealing&quot; too?</text></item><item><author>manigandham</author><text>I work in the online advertising space. Unwilling is probably an understatement.<p>Although &quot;people&quot; shell out tons of money on casual&#x2F;social Facebook games and such, they are incredibly price sensitive to content like news or videos. They also use AdBlock to basically steal content without letting publishers recoup the production costs and other investments.<p>I&#x27;ve spoken to and worked with several major publisher networks over the years that have tried various solutions with subscriptions but every attempt has led to a massive backlash or drop in traffic as users would rather go elsewhere then pay to read. Just look at how much negative feelings there are towards paywalls or any site that requires membership.<p>There have been trials already by Google to solve for this but the original idea with Google Wallet [1] failed and they&#x27;re now trying out the Contributor program [2] but still having trouble.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.digitaltrends.com&#x2F;web&#x2F;google-launches-micropayments-for-web-content&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.digitaltrends.com&#x2F;web&#x2F;google-launches-micropaymen...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;contributor&#x2F;welcome&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;contributor&#x2F;welcome&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>wtallis</author><text>People <i>aren&#x27;t</i> paying for content. But extrapolating that to say that they&#x27;re <i>unwilling</i> to pay for content is a bit of a stretch, given the unwillingness of content producers to offer ad-free access at a fair market price, and the lack of an easy payments system to process such small transactions.</text></item><item><author>vonklaus</author><text>Well, if people would fucking pay for content, these conflicts wouldn&#x27;t happen. However, people have largely decided not to pay for content. I personally don&#x27;t pay for content very often, I also don&#x27;t expect unbiased journalism from buzzfeed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>manigandham</author><text>You&#x27;re conflating a lot of issues.<p>1) Spam is not the same, you didnt ask for it so you are rightly refusing and actively blocking it.<p>2) Content is not free. Someone had to create it, and they can either charge you directly or let you see it for free by also showing you ads. When you block those ads but still read the content, you&#x27;re stealing the access&#x2F;time&#x2F;production&#x2F;value of that content without letting the publisher recoup any of their investment or make any profit.<p>3) I&#x27;m not really sure where this anger comes from. Advertising is such a big and growing industry because it works. This is not some evil conspiracy nor are all the companies full of idiots. You will find regular people much like yourself working at all of the advertising agencies, networks and publishers.<p>Impressions do work. It&#x27;s not a &quot;belief&quot;, it&#x27;s a fact. Think of it like an empty road with a billboard and a store at the next exit. You can have a blank billboard and see how many people stop at the store. Then put up an ad and measure again. That delta is a significant and measurable difference and with digital advertising, it can be tracked to a very specific level to prove it works. There are also many different types and formats of ads which work in different stages of the sales conversion funnel. YOU might not think it works, but that&#x27;s not what the massive amount of data and results show every day.</text></comment> | <story><title>BuzzFeed Says Posts Were Deleted Because of Advertising Pressure</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/20/business/media/buzzfeed-says-posts-were-deleted-because-of-advertising-pressure.html?partner=socialflow&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kyllo</author><text><i>I work in the online advertising space.</i><p><i>They also use AdBlock to basically steal content</i><p>The whole problem with your industry is that you are still operating under the mistaken belief that &quot;impressions&quot; drive purchasing behavior. As if having some image forcibly burnt into my brain will influence my subconscious desires enough to cause me to make a purchase sometime later. This idea is and has always been pure snake oil. I don&#x27;t want to see your ads, and I&#x27;m not going to click on them or buy what they are selling anyway. If anything I&#x27;m <i>less</i> likely to buy a product after I see it in a banner ad because they are annoying and I don&#x27;t buy products that annoy me. You have no business telling me that it&#x27;s &quot;stealing&quot; when I configure my browser client not to show me ads that I don&#x27;t want to see. The implication is offensive. Do you think that running a spam e-mail filter is &quot;basically stealing&quot; too?</text></item><item><author>manigandham</author><text>I work in the online advertising space. Unwilling is probably an understatement.<p>Although &quot;people&quot; shell out tons of money on casual&#x2F;social Facebook games and such, they are incredibly price sensitive to content like news or videos. They also use AdBlock to basically steal content without letting publishers recoup the production costs and other investments.<p>I&#x27;ve spoken to and worked with several major publisher networks over the years that have tried various solutions with subscriptions but every attempt has led to a massive backlash or drop in traffic as users would rather go elsewhere then pay to read. Just look at how much negative feelings there are towards paywalls or any site that requires membership.<p>There have been trials already by Google to solve for this but the original idea with Google Wallet [1] failed and they&#x27;re now trying out the Contributor program [2] but still having trouble.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.digitaltrends.com&#x2F;web&#x2F;google-launches-micropayments-for-web-content&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.digitaltrends.com&#x2F;web&#x2F;google-launches-micropaymen...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;contributor&#x2F;welcome&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;contributor&#x2F;welcome&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>wtallis</author><text>People <i>aren&#x27;t</i> paying for content. But extrapolating that to say that they&#x27;re <i>unwilling</i> to pay for content is a bit of a stretch, given the unwillingness of content producers to offer ad-free access at a fair market price, and the lack of an easy payments system to process such small transactions.</text></item><item><author>vonklaus</author><text>Well, if people would fucking pay for content, these conflicts wouldn&#x27;t happen. However, people have largely decided not to pay for content. I personally don&#x27;t pay for content very often, I also don&#x27;t expect unbiased journalism from buzzfeed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawaymsft</author><text>The idea that banner ads which, when clicked, can be traced to a specific purchases is snake oil? That telling someone about a service doesn&#x27;t increase purchase intent?</text></comment> |
27,319,162 | 27,319,441 | 1 | 2 | 27,303,347 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Redact – Automated deletion for your content on social networks</title><url>https://redact.dev/?hn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aboringusername</author><text>If there are any Redact devs here:<p>Please add a feature to &#x27;edit&#x27; messages with random data rather than redact. This has the advantage of not only updating the &#x27;live&#x27; database but also if it&#x27;s backed up in the future they&#x27;ll only have the garbage data and not what you actually said.<p>Being able to overwrite history (where possible) is extremely valuable that reddit&#x2F;discord let you do.<p>Additionally, there should be a &#x27;spoofer&#x27; mode, that randomly makes comments, uploads multi GB files full of random data and adds noise to further enhance privacy.<p>I take great joy in &quot;abusing&quot; text areas and file upload boxes on the internet - it makes it significantly harder to track a subject in any way when you are making 1000 comments a day, uploading 10,000 photos you found randomly online and are joining 50 different channels ;)<p>To be honest I should probably make a script to do that, especially on HN...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slg</author><text>Maybe I am alone on this, but it seems pretty unethical and selfish to &quot;abuse&quot; these systems and intentionally upload large amounts of garbage data in order to improve your own personal privacy. It is the equivalent of polluting. Feel free to overwrite and delete your comments to protect privacy, but users uploading &quot;multi GB files full of random data&quot; is putting a real burden on other people and is going to lead to a worse service for everyone.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Redact – Automated deletion for your content on social networks</title><url>https://redact.dev/?hn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aboringusername</author><text>If there are any Redact devs here:<p>Please add a feature to &#x27;edit&#x27; messages with random data rather than redact. This has the advantage of not only updating the &#x27;live&#x27; database but also if it&#x27;s backed up in the future they&#x27;ll only have the garbage data and not what you actually said.<p>Being able to overwrite history (where possible) is extremely valuable that reddit&#x2F;discord let you do.<p>Additionally, there should be a &#x27;spoofer&#x27; mode, that randomly makes comments, uploads multi GB files full of random data and adds noise to further enhance privacy.<p>I take great joy in &quot;abusing&quot; text areas and file upload boxes on the internet - it makes it significantly harder to track a subject in any way when you are making 1000 comments a day, uploading 10,000 photos you found randomly online and are joining 50 different channels ;)<p>To be honest I should probably make a script to do that, especially on HN...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwkeep</author><text>Are they actually overwriting history though? Or are they just adding another record, and hiding the previous version(s)?</text></comment> |
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